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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Agile 288 198 317
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.95% 12.94% 12.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 14.31% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 203 135 200
10th Percentile £39,687 £42,700 £39,664
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,709 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £62,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +12.11% -14.32%
75th Percentile £76,837 £78,125 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,634 £91,934 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%

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 2,830 1,384 1,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.26% 90.46% 78.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,182 790 1,260
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £74,985 £70,834 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -4.76%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -9 249 £65,000 +2.58% 165
Bradford -13 13 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Wakefield -3 9 £57,500 +5.50% 5
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 +37.33% 3
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Halifax -5 1 - - 1
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 -
Ossett - 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 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.08%) CMS
3 5 (1.74%) Confluence
4 3 (1.04%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) WordPress
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.69%) Trello
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.04%) Shopify
4 1 (0.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.43%) AWS
2 76 (26.39%) Azure
3 33 (11.46%) Serverless
4 27 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (7.64%) Amazon S3
6 21 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
6 21 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (5.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (5.56%) GCP
10 14 (4.86%) GitHub
11 13 (4.51%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (4.51%) Apigee
12 12 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (3.82%) SaaS
14 9 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.47%) Broadband
2 4 (1.39%) Internet
3 3 (1.04%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) CTI
4 2 (0.69%) DNS
4 2 (0.69%) Network Security
4 2 (0.69%) Profibus
4 2 (0.69%) VoIP
4 2 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.90%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.13%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.74%) MySQL
9 3 (1.04%) Metadata
9 3 (1.04%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.04%) Redis
9 3 (1.04%) Tableau
10 2 (0.69%) Big Data
10 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.69%) Power BI
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (9.38%) GitLab
1 27 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.99%) JIRA
3 18 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 16 (5.56%) Git
4 16 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 14 (4.86%) Maven
6 5 (1.74%) Selenium
7 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.35%) Gatling
10 1 (0.35%) JMeter
10 1 (0.35%) JUnit
10 1 (0.35%) Postman
10 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.75%) Finance
3 52 (18.06%) Public Sector
4 41 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.47%) Games
8 9 (3.13%) Advertising
9 6 (2.08%) Banking
9 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.74%) Automotive
10 5 (1.74%) Marketing
11 4 (1.39%) Back Office
11 4 (1.39%) Retail
12 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.04%) Legal
12 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.69%) Publishing
13 2 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 87 (30.21%) Developer
2 77 (26.74%) Senior
3 48 (16.67%) Lead
4 42 (14.58%) Analyst
5 37 (12.85%) Business Analyst
6 26 (9.03%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 22 (7.64%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 18 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.86%) .NET Developer
11 13 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.51%) Senior Business Analyst
12 11 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.82%) Senior Manager
12 11 (3.82%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.47%) Architect
13 10 (3.47%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 9 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
15 8 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.89%) React
2 39 (13.54%) AngularJS
3 31 (10.76%) .NET
4 25 (8.68%) Node.js
5 22 (7.64%) Vue
6 21 (7.29%) Spring Boot
7 19 (6.60%) Terraform
8 18 (6.25%) ASP.NET
8 18 (6.25%) CSS
9 17 (5.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (5.90%) HTML
10 16 (5.56%) RESTful
11 15 (5.21%) Jest
12 14 (4.86%) .NET Core
12 14 (4.86%) REST
13 13 (4.51%) Gherkin
14 11 (3.82%) Entity Framework
14 11 (3.82%) Flask
15 10 (3.47%) Spring
16 8 (2.78%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.82%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.47%) NHS
6 9 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.08%) Social Media
10 5 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.74%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.39%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.39%) Media Streaming
12 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.04%) PKI
12 3 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.17%) Linux
2 10 (3.47%) Android
3 8 (2.78%) Windows
4 7 (2.43%) Unix
5 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (28.82%) Mentoring
2 82 (28.47%) CI/CD
3 68 (23.61%) DevOps
4 62 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (17.01%) Coaching
7 46 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (14.93%) Scrum
9 42 (14.58%) AI
10 40 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (13.19%) Software Engineering
12 37 (12.85%) SDLC
13 34 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (11.46%) Waterfall
15 32 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
16 31 (10.76%) Decision-Making
16 31 (10.76%) Roadmaps
17 30 (10.42%) Microservices
17 30 (10.42%) Test Automation
18 27 (9.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.14%) Java
2 56 (19.44%) SQL
3 51 (17.71%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.36%) C#
5 46 (15.97%) TypeScript
6 45 (15.63%) Python
7 19 (6.60%) Groovy
8 15 (5.21%) Bash
9 11 (3.82%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.47%) PHP
11 7 (2.43%) Scala
12 3 (1.04%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) Go
13 2 (0.69%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.35%) Bicep
14 1 (0.35%) C++
14 1 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.35%) R
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (8.33%) Degree
2 17 (5.90%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.51%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.08%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.74%) PMP
9 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.39%) CBAP
9 4 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.39%) IIBA
10 2 (0.69%) APMP
10 2 (0.69%) CAPM
10 2 (0.69%) PgMP
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.03%) QA
2 23 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 22 (7.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.74%) WCAG
5 4 (1.39%) PMO
6 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.69%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.51%) HP Fortify
3 6 (2.08%) Ansible
4 3 (1.04%) Argo
4 3 (1.04%) Packer
5 2 (0.69%) Kibana
5 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.51%) SAP
3 6 (2.08%) Databricks
3 6 (2.08%) Oracle
3 6 (2.08%) TOWER Software
4 5 (1.74%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.74%) IBM
4 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.39%) Google
6 3 (1.04%) Adobe
6 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.69%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.69%) Avaya
7 2 (0.69%) Cisco
7 2 (0.69%) Foundry
7 2 (0.69%) Genesys
7 2 (0.69%) Pega
7 2 (0.69%) Siemens
8 1 (0.35%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud