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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 253 272 695
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 14.75% 16.97% 36.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.16% 19.87% 38.08%
Number of salaries quoted 178 136 580
10th Percentile £42,009 £41,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,496 £45,331 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,600 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% -13.39% +4.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,375 £93,750 £96,279
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.73% +5.00%

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 1,474 1,369 1,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.95% 85.40% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 871 680 1,364
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,625 £30,038
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,028 £55,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% -2.34% +2.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,967 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -2.33%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 -3 208 £65,000 +11.66% 107
Bradford 0 31 £72,500 +31.82% 48
Huddersfield -5 2 £46,250 -9.31% 2
Halifax +1 1 - - 4
Wakefield -8 1 £67,500 +98.53% 25
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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 8 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.37%) Apache
5 4 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.79%) CMS
6 2 (0.79%) Drupal
6 2 (0.79%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.79%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.40%) FileNet
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.79%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.37%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 111 (43.87%) AWS
2 71 (28.06%) Azure
3 51 (20.16%) Serverless
4 36 (14.23%) Amazon S3
5 32 (12.65%) SaaS
6 28 (11.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (9.88%) AWS Step Functions
8 25 (9.88%) GitHub
9 24 (9.49%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (7.91%) Amazon SQS
10 20 (7.91%) GCP
11 15 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.74%) Amazon ECR
13 12 (4.74%) Apigee
13 12 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (3.95%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (2.77%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) DNS
2 2 (0.79%) AMQP
2 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.40%) BGP
3 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.46%) DynamoDB
2 28 (11.07%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.72%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.14%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.56%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (1.98%) MySQL
9 4 (1.58%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.58%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.19%) Metadata
10 3 (1.19%) Power BI
10 3 (1.19%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.19%) Tableau
11 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (11.86%) Git
2 28 (11.07%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.09%) GitLab
4 13 (5.14%) Cypress.io
4 13 (5.14%) JIRA
5 12 (4.74%) Maven
5 12 (4.74%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.19%) Selenium
7 2 (0.79%) Grunt
7 2 (0.79%) gulp
7 2 (0.79%) Storybook
7 2 (0.79%) webpack
8 1 (0.40%) Appium
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.40%) JUnit
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
General
1 85 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.00%) Finance
3 33 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (5.14%) Retail
7 11 (4.35%) Legal
7 11 (4.35%) Marketing
8 6 (2.37%) Law
9 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.58%) Advertising
10 4 (1.58%) Banking
11 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.40%) Games
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (23.32%) Developer
2 48 (18.97%) Senior
3 33 (13.04%) Lead
4 21 (8.30%) Development Manager
5 18 (7.11%) Analyst
6 16 (6.32%) Java Developer
6 16 (6.32%) Software Development Manager
6 16 (6.32%) Software Manager
7 15 (5.93%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.14%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.74%) Data Engineer
10 11 (4.35%) .NET Development Manager
10 11 (4.35%) Architect
10 11 (4.35%) Consultant
10 11 (4.35%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.95%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.95%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.56%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.13%) React
2 40 (15.81%) .NET
3 27 (10.67%) CSS
4 26 (10.28%) Node.js
4 26 (10.28%) REST
4 26 (10.28%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.88%) HTML
6 20 (7.91%) AngularJS
6 20 (7.91%) Spring
7 19 (7.51%) RESTful
8 18 (7.11%) Django
8 18 (7.11%) FastAPI
8 18 (7.11%) Flask
9 16 (6.32%) ASP.NET
10 15 (5.93%) Vue
11 13 (5.14%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (5.14%) Blazor
11 13 (5.14%) Jest
12 12 (4.74%) .NET Core
12 12 (4.74%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.98%) NHS
6 4 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.58%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.58%) Social Media
6 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.79%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.40%) PMI
9 1 (0.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.79%) Linux
1 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 80 (31.62%) DevOps
3 73 (28.85%) Mentoring
4 70 (27.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 47 (18.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (17.39%) Microservices
9 41 (16.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (15.81%) Scrum
10 40 (15.81%) SDLC
11 37 (14.62%) Coaching
12 29 (11.46%) Project Management
13 26 (10.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (9.88%) Decision-Making
14 25 (9.88%) Project Delivery
14 25 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (9.88%) Waterfall
15 21 (8.30%) Design Patterns
15 21 (8.30%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.74%) JavaScript
2 51 (20.16%) SQL
3 41 (16.21%) Python
4 36 (14.23%) TypeScript
5 34 (13.44%) Java
6 27 (10.67%) C#
7 14 (5.53%) Bash
8 11 (4.35%) Groovy
9 7 (2.77%) PHP
10 4 (1.58%) COBOL
11 3 (1.19%) ABAP
11 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.79%) R
12 2 (0.79%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.40%) Go
13 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (7.11%) AWS Certification
2 17 (6.72%) Degree
3 14 (5.53%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (5.14%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.74%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.58%) ACCA
7 4 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.32%) QA
2 8 (3.16%) GDPR
3 7 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.58%) GAAP
6 4 (1.58%) IFRS
7 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) NIST
7 2 (0.79%) P3O
7 2 (0.79%) PMO
7 2 (0.79%) SLA
7 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (24.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (21.74%) Terraform
2 24 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.74%) HP Fortify
4 11 (4.35%) Ansible
5 7 (2.77%) Grafana
5 7 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.11%) SAP
3 9 (3.56%) Databricks
4 4 (1.58%) Oracle
5 3 (1.19%) Pega
5 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.19%) WSO2
6 2 (0.79%) Adobe
6 2 (0.79%) Google
6 2 (0.79%) New Relic
6 2 (0.79%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.40%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.40%) ESRI
7 1 (0.40%) IBM
7 1 (0.40%) iManage
7 1 (0.40%) Intapp
7 1 (0.40%) Sage
7 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software