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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 338 255 565
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 12.84% 23.10% 20.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.40% 24.17% 23.44%
Number of salaries quoted 205 159 441
10th Percentile £43,476 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £54,250 £46,740 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +16.67% -4.51%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,764 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £91,934
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 1,943 1,055 2,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 73.79% 95.56% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 677 1,853
10th Percentile £29,300 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,750 £39,750
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £84,964
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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -2 295 £64,038 -5.13% 99
Bradford -12 15 £72,500 - 5
Elland - 5 £32,500 - 2
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -8 2 £42,500 -33.33% 4
Huddersfield -9 2 £53,250 -7.39% 6
Pudsey - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 - 1
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Halifax -1 1 - - 1
Pontefract - 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 10 (2.96%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.18%) Apache
3 4 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.89%) Confluence
4 3 (0.89%) JBoss
4 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.59%) Sketch
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (4.14%) SAP ERP
2 7 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (44.08%) AWS
2 90 (26.63%) Serverless
3 76 (22.49%) Azure
4 62 (18.34%) Amazon S3
5 57 (16.86%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (14.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 47 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (10.65%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (10.65%) Apigee
11 30 (8.88%) SaaS
12 29 (8.58%) GitHub
13 18 (5.33%) GCP
14 14 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.25%) Amazon EventBridge
16 11 (3.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.76%) Broadband
2 2 (0.59%) DNS
2 2 (0.59%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.16%) DynamoDB
2 32 (9.47%) SQL Server
3 23 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.51%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.66%) Metadata
7 8 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.07%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.48%) MySQL
11 4 (1.18%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.18%) Power BI
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.89%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.89%) Tableau
13 2 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 51 (15.09%) GitLab
3 37 (10.95%) Cypress.io
4 36 (10.65%) Maven
4 36 (10.65%) SonarQube
5 30 (8.88%) Git
6 8 (2.37%) JIRA
6 8 (2.37%) Selenium
7 4 (1.18%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.89%) JUnit
9 2 (0.59%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) Gatling
10 1 (0.30%) JMeter
10 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.68%) Finance
3 42 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (10.36%) Games
6 17 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.85%) Retail
8 11 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.96%) Marketing
10 6 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.18%) Advertising
12 3 (0.89%) Banking
12 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.89%) Legal
13 2 (0.59%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.59%) Automotive
13 2 (0.59%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.30%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.30%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 106 (31.36%) Developer
2 72 (21.30%) Senior
3 57 (16.86%) Lead
4 40 (11.83%) Java Developer
5 24 (7.10%) Analyst
6 23 (6.80%) Python Developer
7 22 (6.51%) Development Manager
8 20 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 20 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (5.62%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.33%) Software Manager
11 17 (5.03%) Senior Developer
11 17 (5.03%) Software Development Manager
12 16 (4.73%) Technical Leader
13 15 (4.44%) AWS Developer
13 15 (4.44%) Senior Manager
14 14 (4.14%) .NET Development Manager
15 12 (3.55%) .NET Developer
15 12 (3.55%) Engineering Manager
15 12 (3.55%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (19.82%) React
2 48 (14.20%) Spring Boot
3 47 (13.91%) AngularJS
4 36 (10.65%) Gherkin
4 36 (10.65%) Jest
5 35 (10.36%) .NET
6 28 (8.28%) Node.js
6 28 (8.28%) Vue
7 26 (7.69%) REST
8 25 (7.40%) HTML
9 24 (7.10%) CSS
10 20 (5.92%) Flask
11 19 (5.62%) GraphQL
11 19 (5.62%) Spring
12 16 (4.73%) Django
12 16 (4.73%) RESTful
13 15 (4.44%) .NET Core
13 15 (4.44%) ASP.NET
13 15 (4.44%) FastAPI
14 13 (3.85%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.76%) Mobile App
2 28 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.40%) Data Structures
4 21 (6.21%) Onboarding
5 19 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.62%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.73%) Social Media
7 14 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (2.07%) NHS
11 5 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.18%) PKI
13 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.59%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.47%) Android
2 21 (6.21%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (45.27%) CI/CD
2 115 (34.02%) Mentoring
3 98 (28.99%) DevOps
4 86 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (22.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (17.46%) SDLC
7 54 (15.98%) Software Engineering
8 53 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (14.20%) Coaching
10 45 (13.31%) AI
10 45 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (13.31%) Project Management
11 44 (13.02%) Microservices
12 41 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (12.13%) Observability
13 40 (11.83%) Decision-Making
14 39 (11.54%) Roadmaps
15 37 (10.95%) Design Patterns
16 35 (10.36%) Scrum
16 35 (10.36%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 80 (23.67%) Java
2 63 (18.64%) JavaScript
3 62 (18.34%) TypeScript
4 53 (15.68%) SQL
5 41 (12.13%) Python
6 35 (10.36%) Bash
6 35 (10.36%) Groovy
7 34 (10.06%) C#
8 14 (4.14%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.07%) PHP
10 4 (1.18%) Go
10 4 (1.18%) VBA
11 2 (0.59%) COBOL
11 2 (0.59%) R
12 1 (0.30%) ABAP
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (13.91%) AWS Certification
2 23 (6.80%) ITIL Certification
3 22 (6.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 21 (6.21%) Degree
5 20 (5.92%) AWS Certified Developer
6 14 (4.14%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.14%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.78%) IIBA
8 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.89%) CBAP
8 3 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.59%) PMP
10 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.30%) CIPD
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.17%) Accessibility
2 26 (7.69%) QA
3 18 (5.33%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.37%) GDPR
5 7 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.89%) PMO
8 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.59%) GRC
8 2 (0.59%) NIST
8 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) P3O
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (25.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (16.57%) Terraform
2 36 (10.65%) HP Fortify
3 19 (5.62%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.96%) Ansible
5 6 (1.78%) Grafana
5 6 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (7.10%) Microsoft
1 24 (7.10%) SAP
2 5 (1.48%) Databricks
3 4 (1.18%) Google
4 3 (0.89%) Pega
4 3 (0.89%) WSO2
5 2 (0.59%) Adobe
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle
5 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.59%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.30%) Informatica
6 1 (0.30%) New Relic
6 1 (0.30%) Nintex