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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 358 252 566
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 12.47% 22.24% 20.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.02% 23.42% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 217 164 434
10th Percentile £42,976 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +17.54% -4.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,388 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £89,041
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 2,104 1,076 2,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 73.28% 94.97% 86.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,434 691 1,882
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,000
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 £69,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -2 317 £65,000 -3.70% 99
Bradford -12 13 £72,500 - 5
Elland - 7 £32,500 - 2
Huddersfield -5 3 £51,500 -10.43% 6
Ossett - 3 - -
Wakefield -8 2 £42,500 -33.33% 4
Pudsey - 2 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 - 1
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Halifax 0 1 - - 1
Pontefract -5 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 (2.79%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.12%) Apache
3 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.84%) Confluence
4 3 (0.84%) JBoss
4 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) Sketch
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.91%) SAP ERP
2 6 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (42.18%) AWS
2 95 (26.54%) Serverless
3 81 (22.63%) Azure
4 64 (17.88%) Amazon S3
5 62 (17.32%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (15.08%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (13.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (13.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 39 (10.89%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (10.06%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (10.06%) Apigee
10 30 (8.38%) SaaS
11 29 (8.10%) GitHub
12 18 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (4.75%) GCP
14 15 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.35%) Power Platform
17 11 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.07%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.22%) Broadband
2 2 (0.56%) DNS
2 2 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (15.92%) DynamoDB
2 32 (8.94%) SQL Server
3 24 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.19%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.51%) Metadata
7 8 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.40%) MySQL
10 5 (1.40%) Tableau
11 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.12%) Power BI
12 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (15.92%) Jenkins
2 56 (15.64%) GitLab
3 39 (10.89%) SonarQube
4 37 (10.34%) Cypress.io
5 36 (10.06%) Maven
6 35 (9.78%) Git
7 14 (3.91%) JIRA
8 8 (2.23%) Selenium
9 7 (1.96%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.84%) JUnit
11 2 (0.56%) Postman
12 1 (0.28%) Gatling
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 105 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.20%) Finance
3 46 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 41 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.50%) Games
6 19 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.07%) Retail
8 10 (2.79%) Marketing
8 10 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (0.84%) Agriculture
11 3 (0.84%) Automotive
11 3 (0.84%) Banking
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 116 (32.40%) Developer
2 75 (20.95%) Senior
3 61 (17.04%) Lead
4 45 (12.57%) Java Developer
5 27 (7.54%) Analyst
6 26 (7.26%) Python Developer
7 23 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (5.59%) Business Analyst
8 20 (5.59%) Development Manager
8 20 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.03%) Senior Developer
9 18 (5.03%) Software Manager
10 16 (4.47%) Senior Manager
10 16 (4.47%) Software Development Manager
10 16 (4.47%) Technical Leader
11 15 (4.19%) AWS Developer
12 14 (3.91%) .NET Development Manager
13 13 (3.63%) Engineering Manager
14 12 (3.35%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.35%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (18.99%) React
2 51 (14.25%) AngularJS
3 50 (13.97%) Spring Boot
4 36 (10.06%) Gherkin
4 36 (10.06%) Jest
5 35 (9.78%) .NET
6 30 (8.38%) Vue
7 29 (8.10%) REST
8 27 (7.54%) Node.js
9 25 (6.98%) HTML
10 24 (6.70%) CSS
11 23 (6.42%) Flask
12 21 (5.87%) Spring
13 17 (4.75%) GraphQL
13 17 (4.75%) RESTful
14 16 (4.47%) Django
15 15 (4.19%) .NET Core
15 15 (4.19%) ASP.NET
15 15 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (4.19%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.22%) Mobile App
2 29 (8.10%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.26%) Data Structures
4 23 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.87%) Onboarding
6 19 (5.31%) Product Ownership
7 15 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.91%) Social Media
9 11 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.96%) NHS
11 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.40%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.12%) PKI
13 3 (0.84%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.84%) Media Streaming
14 2 (0.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.94%) Android
2 21 (5.87%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.12%) Linux
4 2 (0.56%) Windows
5 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (43.85%) CI/CD
2 115 (32.12%) Mentoring
3 103 (28.77%) DevOps
4 89 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (23.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (16.76%) SDLC
7 57 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (14.53%) Software Engineering
9 49 (13.69%) Coaching
10 48 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (13.41%) Microservices
11 44 (12.29%) AI
11 44 (12.29%) Project Management
12 43 (12.01%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (11.73%) Decision-Making
14 41 (11.45%) Observability
14 41 (11.45%) Roadmaps
15 39 (10.89%) Waterfall
16 38 (10.61%) Design Patterns
17 37 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 86 (24.02%) Java
2 64 (17.88%) JavaScript
3 62 (17.32%) TypeScript
4 60 (16.76%) SQL
5 47 (13.13%) Python
6 38 (10.61%) Groovy
7 37 (10.34%) C#
8 35 (9.78%) Bash
9 14 (3.91%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.23%) PHP
11 4 (1.12%) Go
11 4 (1.12%) VBA
12 2 (0.56%) COBOL
12 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.56%) R
13 1 (0.28%) ABAP
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (13.13%) AWS Certification
2 22 (6.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (6.15%) Degree
2 22 (6.15%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (5.59%) AWS Certified Developer
4 19 (5.31%) Security Cleared
5 18 (5.03%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.96%) IIBA
7 6 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.12%) CBAP
9 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.56%) PMP
11 1 (0.28%) CIPD
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.22%) Accessibility
2 28 (7.82%) QA
3 21 (5.87%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.96%) GDPR
5 6 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.84%) PMO
8 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) NIST
8 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) P3O
9 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (24.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (17.04%) Terraform
2 36 (10.06%) HP Fortify
3 25 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 16 (4.47%) Ansible
5 6 (1.68%) Grafana
5 6 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.84%) Packer
7 2 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.28%) Argo
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.15%) SAP
3 7 (1.96%) Databricks
4 5 (1.40%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.40%) IBM
5 4 (1.12%) Google
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle
6 3 (0.84%) Pega
6 3 (0.84%) TOWER Software
6 3 (0.84%) WSO2
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe
7 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) Informatica
8 1 (0.28%) New Relic
8 1 (0.28%) Nintex
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir