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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 346 232 516
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 10.40% 18.82% 18.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.89% 19.78% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 211 155 394
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £50,903 £47,231 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +13.34% -4.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
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 2,324 1,173 2,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.87% 95.13% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 693 1,869
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -3 308 £66,212 -1.91% 74
Bradford -15 9 £65,000 -10.34% 5
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -8 4 £52,000 -9.57% 1
Wakefield -7 3 £50,000 -21.57% 4
Ossett - 3 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Pudsey - 2 - -
Pontefract -1 1 - -
Halifax -3 1 - - 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 7 (2.02%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) Apache
3 3 (0.87%) JBoss
3 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Sketch
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (3.76%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (36.71%) AWS
2 77 (22.25%) Azure
2 77 (22.25%) Serverless
3 59 (17.05%) AWS Lambda
4 58 (16.76%) Amazon S3
5 52 (15.03%) Amazon ECS
6 45 (13.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (13.01%) AWS Step Functions
7 37 (10.69%) Amazon ECR
7 37 (10.69%) Apigee
8 35 (10.12%) Amazon SQS
9 24 (6.94%) SaaS
10 20 (5.78%) GCP
11 16 (4.62%) GitHub
12 14 (4.05%) Power Platform
13 13 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.31%) PowerApps
17 7 (2.02%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.54%) Broadband
2 2 (0.58%) DNS
2 2 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) SSL
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (15.03%) DynamoDB
2 22 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 19 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.60%) Metadata
7 7 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.73%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.73%) MySQL
8 6 (1.73%) Tableau
9 5 (1.45%) Power BI
10 4 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.16%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 60 (17.34%) GitLab
2 57 (16.47%) Jenkins
3 40 (11.56%) SonarQube
4 39 (11.27%) Cypress.io
5 38 (10.98%) Maven
6 27 (7.80%) Git
7 14 (4.05%) JIRA
8 8 (2.31%) Selenium
9 7 (2.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.87%) JUnit
11 2 (0.58%) Postman
12 1 (0.29%) Gatling
12 1 (0.29%) JMeter
12 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (25.72%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.32%) Finance
3 47 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 38 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.83%) Games
6 20 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.31%) Marketing
8 8 (2.31%) Retail
9 5 (1.45%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.45%) Automotive
9 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Advertising
10 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.58%) Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 109 (31.50%) Developer
2 75 (21.68%) Senior
3 66 (19.08%) Lead
4 45 (13.01%) Java Developer
5 31 (8.96%) Analyst
6 24 (6.94%) Business Analyst
7 23 (6.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (5.78%) Python Developer
9 19 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.91%) Technical Leader
12 16 (4.62%) Senior Manager
13 15 (4.34%) Development Manager
13 15 (4.34%) Software Manager
14 14 (4.05%) Engineering Manager
14 14 (4.05%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.76%) AWS Developer
16 12 (3.47%) .NET Development Manager
16 12 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (3.47%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.61%) AngularJS
2 50 (14.45%) React
3 48 (13.87%) Spring Boot
4 38 (10.98%) Jest
5 37 (10.69%) Gherkin
6 28 (8.09%) .NET
7 23 (6.65%) Node.js
7 23 (6.65%) REST
7 23 (6.65%) Vue
8 18 (5.20%) Spring
9 16 (4.62%) GraphQL
10 15 (4.34%) HTML
11 14 (4.05%) ASP.NET
11 14 (4.05%) CSS
12 13 (3.76%) Flask
12 13 (3.76%) RESTful
13 12 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (3.18%) .NET Core
14 11 (3.18%) Android SDK
14 11 (3.18%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.54%) Mobile App
2 24 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.07%) Onboarding
3 21 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.20%) Data Structures
5 17 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.76%) Social Media
8 11 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.02%) NHS
10 6 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.16%) Media Streaming
12 4 (1.16%) PKI
13 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.25%) Android
2 21 (6.07%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.73%) Linux
4 4 (1.16%) Windows
5 3 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (40.75%) CI/CD
2 108 (31.21%) Mentoring
3 93 (26.88%) DevOps
4 79 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (17.05%) SDLC
7 58 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (14.16%) AI
9 48 (13.87%) Coaching
10 42 (12.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (12.14%) Roadmaps
11 41 (11.85%) Software Engineering
12 40 (11.56%) Decision-Making
12 40 (11.56%) Project Management
13 39 (11.27%) Microservices
13 39 (11.27%) Observability
14 38 (10.98%) Scrum
15 35 (10.12%) Waterfall
16 34 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (9.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.72%) Java
2 63 (18.21%) TypeScript
3 50 (14.45%) JavaScript
3 50 (14.45%) SQL
4 41 (11.85%) Python
5 40 (11.56%) Groovy
6 39 (11.27%) C#
7 38 (10.98%) Bash
8 14 (4.05%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.89%) PHP
10 4 (1.16%) Go
10 4 (1.16%) VBA
11 3 (0.87%) Scala
12 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) COBOL
13 1 (0.29%) Perl
13 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (13.01%) AWS Certification
2 25 (7.23%) Degree
3 23 (6.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (6.65%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 18 (5.20%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.02%) IIBA
9 4 (1.16%) CBAP
9 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.87%) PMP
11 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) CAPM
12 1 (0.29%) CIPD
12 1 (0.29%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.54%) QA
2 32 (9.25%) Accessibility
3 23 (6.65%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.73%) GDPR
5 5 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.16%) PMO
7 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) NIST
8 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (20.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (10.98%) Terraform
2 37 (10.69%) HP Fortify
3 21 (6.07%) Kubernetes
4 12 (3.47%) Ansible
5 5 (1.45%) Grafana
5 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.87%) Argo
6 3 (0.87%) Packer
7 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.78%) SAP
3 5 (1.45%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.45%) Google
3 5 (1.45%) IBM
3 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.16%) Databricks
4 4 (1.16%) TOWER Software
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle
6 2 (0.58%) Adobe
7 1 (0.29%) Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) Informatica
7 1 (0.29%) New Relic
7 1 (0.29%) Nintex
7 1 (0.29%) Palantir