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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 263 174 285
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.25% 10.98% 13.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 12.06% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 184 121 144
10th Percentile £41,625 £41,074 £41,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £47,433
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.82% -11.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,435
90th Percentile £90,888 £85,000 £87,868
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,530
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.64% -7.95%

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 2,936 1,443 1,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.76% 91.04% 77.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,234 740 935
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -5 233 £65,000 +1.56% 246
Bradford -10 14 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Wakefield -1 10 £57,500 +5.50% 14
Huddersfield -9 2 £41,750 +11.33% 1
Elland - 2 £32,500 -
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 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.90%) CMS
2 5 (1.90%) Confluence
3 3 (1.14%) IIS
3 3 (1.14%) nginx
4 2 (0.76%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.76%) Trello
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.14%) Shopify
3 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.32%) AWS
2 72 (27.38%) Azure
3 29 (11.03%) Serverless
4 24 (9.13%) Amazon S3
5 23 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (6.46%) GCP
9 17 (6.46%) GitHub
10 16 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (4.94%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (4.94%) SaaS
12 11 (4.18%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.04%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.90%) Network Security
2 4 (1.52%) DNS
2 4 (1.52%) Internet
3 3 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.76%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.76%) CTI
4 2 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.76%) Firewall
4 2 (0.76%) HTTP
4 2 (0.76%) Profibus
4 2 (0.76%) VoIP
4 2 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.70%) MongoDB
1 15 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.94%) DynamoDB
3 11 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.04%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.90%) MySQL
9 4 (1.52%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.14%) Metadata
10 3 (1.14%) Power BI
10 3 (1.14%) Redis
10 3 (1.14%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.76%) Big Data
11 2 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (10.65%) GitLab
2 22 (8.37%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.37%) JIRA
3 17 (6.46%) Cypress.io
4 11 (4.18%) Git
5 9 (3.42%) Maven
6 8 (3.04%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.66%) JMeter
8 5 (1.90%) Postman
9 4 (1.52%) Selenium
10 3 (1.14%) Appium
10 3 (1.14%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.76%) Ranorex
12 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.19%) Public Sector
3 45 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (15.97%) Finance
5 15 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.42%) Advertising
7 9 (3.42%) Banking
8 5 (1.90%) Marketing
9 4 (1.52%) Back Office
9 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Legal
9 4 (1.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.14%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.14%) Automotive
10 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Publishing
11 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 76 (28.90%) Senior
2 64 (24.33%) Developer
3 42 (15.97%) Lead
4 36 (13.69%) Analyst
5 32 (12.17%) Business Analyst
6 25 (9.51%) Software Engineer
7 20 (7.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (6.46%) Java Developer
9 16 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (6.08%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.94%) Architect
10 13 (4.94%) Python Developer
10 13 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.42%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.42%) Senior Manager
12 9 (3.42%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.42%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (3.04%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.55%) .NET
2 30 (11.41%) React
3 28 (10.65%) Node.js
4 27 (10.27%) AngularJS
5 18 (6.84%) Terraform
6 17 (6.46%) Spring Boot
7 16 (6.08%) ASP.NET
7 16 (6.08%) RESTful
8 15 (5.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (4.94%) CSS
9 13 (4.94%) Gherkin
10 12 (4.56%) .NET Core
10 12 (4.56%) HTML
10 12 (4.56%) Playwright
11 11 (4.18%) REST
11 11 (4.18%) Spring
12 10 (3.80%) Jest
12 10 (3.80%) Vue
13 9 (3.42%) Entity Framework
14 8 (3.04%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.60%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.66%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.66%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.28%) Driving Licence
4 6 (2.28%) NHS
5 5 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.52%) Learning Management System
6 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.52%) Media Streaming
6 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.14%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.14%) PMI
8 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.18%) Linux
2 9 (3.42%) Unix
3 8 (3.04%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.52%) CI/CD
2 70 (26.62%) Mentoring
3 67 (25.48%) DevOps
4 66 (25.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (20.15%) Coaching
7 48 (18.25%) Scrum
8 45 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (15.97%) Software Engineering
10 41 (15.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (13.69%) SDLC
12 34 (12.93%) AI
12 34 (12.93%) Test Automation
13 32 (12.17%) Microservices
14 31 (11.79%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (10.65%) Acceptance Criteria
16 27 (10.27%) Kanban
16 27 (10.27%) Roadmaps
17 24 (9.13%) Waterfall
18 23 (8.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.77%) SQL
2 45 (17.11%) JavaScript
3 43 (16.35%) Java
4 41 (15.59%) C#
5 40 (15.21%) Python
5 40 (15.21%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.94%) Bash
7 11 (4.18%) Groovy
8 8 (3.04%) PHP
9 7 (2.66%) Scala
10 6 (2.28%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.14%) C++
11 3 (1.14%) Ruby
12 2 (0.76%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.76%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) R
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (6.84%) Degree
1 18 (6.84%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.42%) AWS Certification
3 9 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (2.66%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.28%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.90%) PMP
7 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.52%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.76%) APMP
8 2 (0.76%) CAPM
8 2 (0.76%) PgMP
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) CBAP
9 1 (0.38%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.51%) QA
2 17 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.32%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.90%) WCAG
5 4 (1.52%) PMO
6 2 (0.76%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 23 (8.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.04%) HP Fortify
3 4 (1.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.14%) Argo
4 3 (1.14%) Grafana
4 3 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.94%) SAP
3 8 (3.04%) Databricks
4 5 (1.90%) Google
4 5 (1.90%) Oracle
4 5 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.52%) TOWER Software
6 3 (1.14%) Adobe
6 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.76%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.76%) Avaya
7 2 (0.76%) Cisco
7 2 (0.76%) F5
7 2 (0.76%) Foundry
7 2 (0.76%) Genesys
7 2 (0.76%) Informatica
7 2 (0.76%) Pega
7 2 (0.76%) Siemens
8 1 (0.38%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.38%) Palantir