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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 273 267 653
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 14.89% 18.23% 32.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.33% 20.76% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 176 131 555
10th Percentile £44,972 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,700 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +14.64% -13.24% +4.56%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,193 £84,056
90th Percentile £94,317 £93,778 £96,539
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.56% -2.63%

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 1,489 1,286 1,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 81.23% 87.78% 92.23%
Number of salaries quoted 869 639 1,384
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,177 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -5.30% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -2 235 £65,000 +12.14% 77
Bradford -1 26 £67,500 +25.58% 11
Halifax -1 1 - -
Huddersfield -7 1 £55,000 -4.35%
Wakefield -8 1 £67,500 +98.53% 12
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 (3.66%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.30%) Confluence
3 7 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.20%) Apache
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Drupal
6 2 (0.73%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.73%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.37%) FileNet
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (4.76%) SAP ERP
2 9 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (46.89%) AWS
2 80 (29.30%) Azure
3 58 (21.25%) Serverless
4 43 (15.75%) Amazon S3
5 33 (12.09%) SaaS
6 32 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (10.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (9.89%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (9.52%) GitHub
11 24 (8.79%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (8.06%) GCP
13 16 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
15 14 (5.13%) Apigee
16 12 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (4.03%) Amazon EventBridge
18 7 (2.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) DNS
2 2 (0.73%) AMQP
2 2 (0.73%) Firewall
3 1 (0.37%) BGP
3 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 31 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 25 (9.16%) NoSQL
4 24 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.66%) Metadata
7 9 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.47%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.10%) Power BI
11 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.10%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.10%) Tableau
12 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 32 (11.72%) Git
2 30 (10.99%) Jenkins
3 28 (10.26%) GitLab
4 15 (5.49%) Cypress.io
5 14 (5.13%) Maven
5 14 (5.13%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.66%) JIRA
7 3 (1.10%) Selenium
8 2 (0.73%) Grunt
8 2 (0.73%) gulp
8 2 (0.73%) Storybook
8 2 (0.73%) webpack
9 1 (0.37%) Appium
9 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.37%) JUnit
9 1 (0.37%) Postman
9 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
General
1 98 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.02%) Finance
3 39 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.40%) Retail
7 10 (3.66%) Legal
8 9 (3.30%) Marketing
9 4 (1.47%) Advertising
9 4 (1.47%) Banking
10 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Law
11 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (24.54%) Developer
2 55 (20.15%) Senior
3 38 (13.92%) Lead
4 21 (7.69%) Development Manager
5 20 (7.33%) Java Developer
6 18 (6.59%) Analyst
6 18 (6.59%) Software Development Manager
6 18 (6.59%) Software Manager
7 16 (5.86%) Architect
7 16 (5.86%) Python Developer
8 15 (5.49%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.76%) .NET Development Manager
10 12 (4.40%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) .NET Developer
11 11 (4.03%) Consultant
11 11 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.03%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.66%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.98%) React
2 42 (15.38%) .NET
3 30 (10.99%) Spring Boot
4 27 (9.89%) Node.js
4 27 (9.89%) REST
5 25 (9.16%) CSS
6 23 (8.42%) HTML
6 23 (8.42%) Spring
7 22 (8.06%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.96%) RESTful
9 18 (6.59%) Django
9 18 (6.59%) FastAPI
9 18 (6.59%) Flask
10 17 (6.23%) ASP.NET
11 16 (5.86%) Vue
12 14 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (5.13%) Blazor
12 14 (5.13%) Gherkin
12 14 (5.13%) Jest
13 13 (4.76%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.33%) Data Structures
4 16 (5.86%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.20%) NHS
6 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.47%) Social Media
7 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.73%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.73%) Graphic Design
8 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.37%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.73%) Linux
1 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (38.83%) CI/CD
2 91 (33.33%) DevOps
3 77 (28.21%) Mentoring
4 76 (27.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (20.15%) Software Engineering
8 50 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (17.22%) Microservices
10 44 (16.12%) SDLC
11 41 (15.02%) Scrum
12 35 (12.82%) Coaching
13 32 (11.72%) Waterfall
14 28 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (9.16%) Data Modelling
15 25 (9.16%) Decision-Making
15 25 (9.16%) Project Management
16 24 (8.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (8.79%) Performance Optimisation
16 24 (8.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.78%) JavaScript
2 53 (19.41%) SQL
3 42 (15.38%) Python
4 40 (14.65%) Java
5 35 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 29 (10.62%) C#
7 16 (5.86%) Bash
8 13 (4.76%) Groovy
9 4 (1.47%) PHP
10 3 (1.10%) ABAP
10 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.10%) Scala
11 2 (0.73%) COBOL
11 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.73%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.37%) Go
12 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (9.16%) AWS Certification
2 21 (7.69%) Degree
3 16 (5.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 15 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.47%) ACCA
7 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.73%) IIBA
8 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.06%) QA
2 12 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.93%) GDPR
4 6 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.47%) GAAP
6 4 (1.47%) IFRS
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.73%) GRC
7 2 (0.73%) NIST
7 2 (0.73%) P3O
7 2 (0.73%) PMO
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (26.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Squid
Systems Management
1 58 (21.25%) Terraform
2 27 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.13%) Ansible
3 14 (5.13%) HP Fortify
4 10 (3.66%) Grafana
4 10 (3.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (9.16%) SAP
2 22 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.30%) Databricks
4 4 (1.47%) Oracle
5 3 (1.10%) Pega
5 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.10%) WSO2
6 2 (0.73%) Adobe
6 2 (0.73%) Google
6 2 (0.73%) New Relic
6 2 (0.73%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.37%) ESRI
7 1 (0.37%) IBM
7 1 (0.37%) Sage
7 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software