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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 210 286 756
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 13.13% 15.63% 37.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.95% 19.47% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 159 140 612
10th Percentile £41,074 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,433 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,965 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -14.13% +12.50%
75th Percentile £79,375 £74,164 £82,797
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £92,443
Yorkshire median annual salary £61,250 £57,560 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.41% -11.45% +8.33%

All Process and 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 1,405 1,469 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.81% 80.27% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 866 775 1,415
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,050
25th Percentile £37,588 £41,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +2.40%
75th Percentile £73,500 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -4 168 £62,500 +5.52% 68
Bradford +4 28 £72,500 +31.82% 11
Halifax +3 1 - - 3
Huddersfield -1 1 £37,500 -26.47% 3
Wakefield -8 1 £67,500 +98.53% 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 11 (5.24%) Confluence
2 6 (2.86%) Apache
2 6 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.43%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Drupal
4 2 (0.95%) EPiServer
4 2 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.48%) FileNet
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.95%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.95%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.62%) AWS
2 56 (26.67%) Azure
3 26 (12.38%) Serverless
4 24 (11.43%) SaaS
5 20 (9.52%) GitHub
6 17 (8.10%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.62%) GCP
8 13 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
11 9 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.86%) dbt
15 5 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
15 5 (2.38%) Power Platform
16 3 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) AMQP
1 2 (0.95%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) BGP
2 1 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 9 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.81%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.43%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.43%) MySQL
10 3 (1.43%) Power BI
11 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.95%) Metadata
11 2 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.95%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (8.10%) Git
2 13 (6.19%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.19%) JIRA
3 10 (4.76%) GitLab
4 3 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.95%) Grunt
5 2 (0.95%) gulp
5 2 (0.95%) Maven
5 2 (0.95%) Selenium
5 2 (0.95%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.95%) Storybook
5 2 (0.95%) webpack
6 1 (0.48%) Appium
6 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.48%) Postman
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 75 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.52%) Finance
3 29 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.19%) Retail
6 12 (5.71%) Legal
6 12 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.29%) Marketing
8 6 (2.86%) Law
9 5 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Banking
10 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.48%) Games
13 1 (0.48%) Local Government
13 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (20.95%) Senior
2 42 (20.00%) Developer
3 23 (10.95%) Lead
4 18 (8.57%) Analyst
5 15 (7.14%) Development Manager
6 13 (6.19%) Python Developer
7 12 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.76%) Software Development Manager
9 10 (4.76%) Software Manager
10 9 (4.29%) Architect
10 9 (4.29%) Consultant
10 9 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.29%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.81%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.81%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (3.81%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.52%) React
2 29 (13.81%) .NET
3 24 (11.43%) CSS
4 22 (10.48%) HTML
5 20 (9.52%) Node.js
6 18 (8.57%) REST
7 16 (7.62%) Django
7 16 (7.62%) FastAPI
7 16 (7.62%) Flask
8 15 (7.14%) RESTful
9 13 (6.19%) Vue
10 11 (5.24%) Spring
10 11 (5.24%) Spring Boot
11 10 (4.76%) ASP.NET
11 10 (4.76%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.81%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.81%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (3.81%) Blazor
13 5 (2.38%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.86%) NHS
5 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.90%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.43%) Social Media
9 2 (0.95%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.48%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.48%) PMI
10 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.95%) Linux
1 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.95%) CI/CD
2 60 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 58 (27.62%) DevOps
4 57 (27.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (22.38%) Software Engineering
7 39 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (17.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (14.76%) Coaching
10 29 (13.81%) Scrum
11 28 (13.33%) Project Management
11 28 (13.33%) SDLC
12 27 (12.86%) Microservices
13 24 (11.43%) Decision-Making
13 24 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (10.48%) Project Delivery
14 22 (10.48%) Waterfall
15 21 (10.00%) PRINCE2
16 18 (8.57%) Design Patterns
17 17 (8.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.95%) JavaScript
2 43 (20.48%) SQL
3 38 (18.10%) Python
4 23 (10.95%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.00%) C#
6 19 (9.05%) Java
7 5 (2.38%) Bash
7 5 (2.38%) PHP
8 4 (1.90%) COBOL
8 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.43%) ABAP
10 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.95%) R
10 2 (0.95%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (7.62%) Degree
2 14 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.90%) ACCA
8 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.29%) QA
2 6 (2.86%) GDPR
3 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.90%) GAAP
3 4 (1.90%) IFRS
3 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.43%) PMO
5 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.95%) P3O
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (18.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 44 (20.95%) Terraform
2 18 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.29%) Ansible
4 6 (2.86%) Grafana
4 6 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.95%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.67%) SAP
3 9 (4.29%) Databricks
4 5 (2.38%) Oracle
5 3 (1.43%) iManage
5 3 (1.43%) Intapp
5 3 (1.43%) Pega
5 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.43%) WSO2
6 2 (0.95%) New Relic
6 2 (0.95%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.48%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.48%) ESRI
7 1 (0.48%) Google
7 1 (0.48%) IBM
7 1 (0.48%) Sage
7 1 (0.48%) TOWER Software