Agile Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 356 251 569
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 11.87% 22.13% 19.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.37% 23.35% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 218 164 433
10th Percentile £42,473 £42,500 £41,429
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £67,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +13.34% -4.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,934 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -3.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 1,075 2,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 72.55% 94.80% 86.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,482 680 1,897
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £84,401
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Agile relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Agile job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Agile
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -2 315 £65,000 -3.70% 85
Bradford -17 13 £72,500 - 6
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 -10.43% 5
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -8 2 £42,500 -33.33% 1
Pudsey - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Halifax -1 1 - - 1
Pontefract -4 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Agile
Yorkshire

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.97%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.12%) Apache
3 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.84%) Confluence
4 3 (0.84%) JBoss
4 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) Sketch
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.93%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (39.89%) AWS
2 88 (24.72%) Serverless
3 79 (22.19%) Azure
4 63 (17.70%) Amazon S3
5 62 (17.42%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (14.33%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (13.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 39 (10.96%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (10.11%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (10.11%) Apigee
10 28 (7.87%) SaaS
11 26 (7.30%) GitHub
12 18 (5.06%) GCP
13 15 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.37%) Power Platform
17 11 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.27%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) DNS
2 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.73%) DynamoDB
2 32 (8.99%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.18%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.53%) Metadata
7 8 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.40%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.40%) MySQL
10 5 (1.40%) Tableau
11 4 (1.12%) Power BI
12 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 56 (15.73%) GitLab
2 54 (15.17%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.96%) SonarQube
4 37 (10.39%) Cypress.io
5 36 (10.11%) Maven
6 31 (8.71%) Git
7 14 (3.93%) JIRA
8 8 (2.25%) Selenium
9 7 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.84%) JUnit
11 2 (0.56%) Postman
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 109 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.01%) Finance
3 44 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.55%) Games
6 19 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (2.81%) Retail
8 9 (2.53%) Marketing
9 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.12%) Advertising
10 4 (1.12%) Agriculture
10 4 (1.12%) Automotive
11 3 (0.84%) Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 110 (30.90%) Developer
2 75 (21.07%) Senior
3 64 (17.98%) Lead
4 41 (11.52%) Java Developer
5 29 (8.15%) Analyst
6 22 (6.18%) Business Analyst
6 22 (6.18%) Python Developer
7 21 (5.90%) Software Engineer
8 20 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (5.06%) Development Manager
9 18 (5.06%) Senior Manager
9 18 (5.06%) Software Manager
10 17 (4.78%) Technical Leader
11 16 (4.49%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.21%) Software Development Manager
13 14 (3.93%) .NET Development Manager
13 14 (3.93%) AWS Developer
13 14 (3.93%) Engineering Manager
14 13 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (17.70%) React
2 49 (13.76%) AngularJS
3 46 (12.92%) Spring Boot
4 36 (10.11%) Gherkin
4 36 (10.11%) Jest
5 35 (9.83%) .NET
6 28 (7.87%) Vue
7 25 (7.02%) REST
8 23 (6.46%) Node.js
9 22 (6.18%) HTML
10 21 (5.90%) CSS
11 19 (5.34%) Flask
12 17 (4.78%) GraphQL
12 17 (4.78%) RESTful
12 17 (4.78%) Spring
13 16 (4.49%) ASP.NET
14 15 (4.21%) .NET Core
15 13 (3.65%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (3.65%) Blazor
16 12 (3.37%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.27%) Mobile App
2 30 (8.43%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.46%) Data Structures
4 21 (5.90%) Onboarding
5 20 (5.62%) Product Ownership
6 18 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.93%) Social Media
9 11 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.97%) NHS
11 6 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.40%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.12%) PKI
14 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.84%) Media Streaming
15 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.99%) Android
2 21 (5.90%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.12%) Linux
4 2 (0.56%) Windows
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (42.42%) CI/CD
2 111 (31.18%) Mentoring
3 100 (28.09%) DevOps
4 87 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (17.13%) SDLC
7 59 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (14.61%) Software Engineering
9 47 (13.20%) Coaching
10 44 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 43 (12.08%) AI
11 43 (12.08%) Microservices
11 43 (12.08%) Project Management
11 43 (12.08%) Roadmaps
12 42 (11.80%) Decision-Making
13 41 (11.52%) Observability
14 39 (10.96%) Waterfall
15 38 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 36 (10.11%) Scrum
17 33 (9.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 83 (23.31%) Java
2 62 (17.42%) TypeScript
3 58 (16.29%) JavaScript
3 58 (16.29%) SQL
4 43 (12.08%) Python
5 39 (10.96%) C#
6 38 (10.67%) Groovy
7 35 (9.83%) Bash
8 14 (3.93%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.53%) PHP
10 4 (1.12%) Go
10 4 (1.12%) VBA
11 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.56%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) ABAP
12 1 (0.28%) COBOL
12 1 (0.28%) Perl
12 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (13.20%) AWS Certification
2 23 (6.46%) Degree
3 22 (6.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (6.18%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (5.62%) AWS Certified Developer
5 19 (5.34%) Security Cleared
6 18 (5.06%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.97%) IIBA
8 6 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.12%) CBAP
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.56%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) CIPD
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.27%) Accessibility
2 29 (8.15%) QA
3 22 (6.18%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.97%) GDPR
5 6 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.12%) PMO
7 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) NIST
8 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) P3O
9 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (22.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (14.89%) Terraform
2 36 (10.11%) HP Fortify
3 21 (5.90%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.65%) Ansible
5 6 (1.69%) Grafana
5 6 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.84%) Packer
7 2 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.28%) Argo
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.90%) SAP
3 6 (1.69%) Databricks
4 5 (1.40%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.40%) IBM
5 4 (1.12%) Google
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle
6 3 (0.84%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe
7 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Informatica
8 1 (0.28%) New Relic
8 1 (0.28%) Nintex
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir