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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 296 199 319
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.24% 12.92% 13.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.63% 14.17% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 201 135 205
10th Percentile £38,984 £41,145 £39,234
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,437 £79,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £93,634 £91,934 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 2,785 1,404 1,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 68.08% 91.17% 78.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,125 793 1,271
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £51,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -8.12%

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 19 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 19 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 -8 255 £64,500 +3.20% 121
Bradford -12 13 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Wakefield -2 9 £57,500 +5.50% 4
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 3 £51,500 +37.33% 2
Ossett - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Pontefract +4 1 - - 1
Halifax -4 1 - - 1
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 -
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 6 (2.03%) CMS
1 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.69%) Confluence
3 3 (1.01%) IIS
4 2 (0.68%) JBoss
4 2 (0.68%) WordPress
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.01%) Trello
4 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.35%) Shopify
3 1 (0.34%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 77 (26.01%) AWS
2 71 (23.99%) Azure
3 35 (11.82%) Serverless
4 29 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
5 24 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.42%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
9 16 (5.41%) Apigee
10 14 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.73%) GCP
10 14 (4.73%) GitHub
11 10 (3.38%) SaaS
12 8 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.74%) Broadband
2 4 (1.35%) HTTP
2 4 (1.35%) Internet
3 2 (0.68%) CTI
3 2 (0.68%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) Network Security
3 2 (0.68%) Profibus
3 2 (0.68%) VoIP
3 2 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.42%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.07%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.05%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.04%) BigQuery
6 8 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.69%) MySQL
10 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.01%) Redis
10 3 (1.01%) Tableau
11 2 (0.68%) Big Data
11 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.68%) Metadata
11 2 (0.68%) Power BI
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 32 (10.81%) GitLab
1 32 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.11%) JIRA
3 20 (6.76%) Cypress.io
4 19 (6.42%) SonarQube
5 17 (5.74%) Git
5 17 (5.74%) Maven
6 6 (2.03%) Selenium
7 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.68%) JUnit
9 2 (0.68%) Postman
10 1 (0.34%) Gatling
10 1 (0.34%) JMeter
10 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.24%) Finance
3 48 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 41 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (5.74%) Games
7 13 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.04%) Advertising
9 6 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.03%) Retail
10 5 (1.69%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.69%) Automotive
10 5 (1.69%) Banking
10 5 (1.69%) Marketing
11 4 (1.35%) Back Office
12 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.68%) Legal
13 2 (0.68%) Publishing
13 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (31.76%) Developer
2 74 (25.00%) Senior
3 50 (16.89%) Lead
4 43 (14.53%) Analyst
5 38 (12.84%) Business Analyst
6 27 (9.12%) Java Developer
7 26 (8.78%) Full-Stack Developer
8 22 (7.43%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.42%) Python Developer
10 17 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.73%) .NET Developer
11 14 (4.73%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (4.73%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (4.05%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.72%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 11 (3.72%) Senior Manager
14 10 (3.38%) Technical Leader
15 9 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
16 8 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.85%) AngularJS
2 40 (13.51%) React
3 28 (9.46%) .NET
4 24 (8.11%) Node.js
5 23 (7.77%) Spring Boot
5 23 (7.77%) Vue
6 19 (6.42%) CSS
7 18 (6.08%) ASP.NET
7 18 (6.08%) HTML
7 18 (6.08%) Jest
8 17 (5.74%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (5.41%) Gherkin
10 15 (5.07%) RESTful
11 14 (4.73%) .NET Core
12 13 (4.39%) REST
13 11 (3.72%) Entity Framework
13 11 (3.72%) Flask
13 11 (3.72%) GraphQL
14 10 (3.38%) Android SDK
15 9 (3.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.77%) Mobile App
2 19 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.72%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.72%) NHS
6 10 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.38%) Social Media
7 9 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.69%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.35%) Learning Management System
10 4 (1.35%) Media Streaming
11 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.01%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.74%) Android
2 11 (3.72%) Linux
3 7 (2.36%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.36%) Windows
4 6 (2.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.39%) CI/CD
2 81 (27.36%) Mentoring
3 67 (22.64%) DevOps
4 65 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (15.88%) AI
7 45 (15.20%) Coaching
8 44 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (14.53%) Scrum
10 41 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (12.84%) SDLC
12 37 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 36 (12.16%) Roadmaps
14 33 (11.15%) Acceptance Criteria
14 33 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (10.81%) Waterfall
16 31 (10.47%) Decision-Making
17 29 (9.80%) Test Automation
18 28 (9.46%) Microservices
19 27 (9.12%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.62%) Java
2 54 (18.24%) SQL
3 52 (17.57%) JavaScript
4 47 (15.88%) C#
5 46 (15.54%) Python
6 45 (15.20%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.43%) Groovy
8 18 (6.08%) Bash
9 15 (5.07%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.72%) PHP
11 7 (2.36%) Scala
12 3 (1.01%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Bicep
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) R
14 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (8.78%) Degree
2 18 (6.08%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.07%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.03%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.69%) PMP
9 4 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.35%) CBAP
9 4 (1.35%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.35%) IIBA
10 2 (0.68%) APMP
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.68%) CAPM
10 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.68%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.45%) QA
2 23 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.35%) PMO
4 4 (1.35%) WCAG
5 2 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) IEC 61131
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (11.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (6.76%) Terraform
2 16 (5.41%) HP Fortify
3 14 (4.73%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.03%) Ansible
5 3 (1.01%) Argo
5 3 (1.01%) Packer
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
6 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.39%) SAP
3 6 (2.03%) Databricks
3 6 (2.03%) TOWER Software
4 5 (1.69%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.69%) IBM
4 5 (1.69%) Oracle
4 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.01%) Google
5 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.68%) Adobe
6 2 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.68%) Avaya
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco
6 2 (0.68%) Foundry
6 2 (0.68%) Genesys
6 2 (0.68%) Pega
6 2 (0.68%) Siemens
7 1 (0.34%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.34%) Palantir