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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 347 236 506
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 10.03% 17.44% 17.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.41% 18.28% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 211 155 382
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,340
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,231 £47,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £67,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +13.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,842 £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 2,408 1,291 2,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.64% 95.42% 84.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 705 1,868
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,999
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -5.46%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £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 20 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 20 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 -3 311 £65,288 -2.56% 78
Bradford -10 8 £65,000 -10.34% 7
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -7 4 £52,000 -9.57% 1
Wakefield -8 3 £50,000 +5.26% 4
Ossett - 3 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - - 2
Pudsey - 2 - -
Pontefract -2 1 - -
Halifax -4 1 - - 1
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - - 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 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.86%) Apache
3 3 (0.86%) JBoss
3 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Sketch
2 2 (0.58%) Trello
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.46%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (36.60%) AWS
2 78 (22.48%) Azure
3 77 (22.19%) Serverless
4 59 (17.00%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (16.71%) Amazon S3
6 52 (14.99%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (12.97%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (10.66%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (10.66%) Apigee
9 35 (10.09%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (6.34%) GCP
10 22 (6.34%) SaaS
11 17 (4.90%) GitHub
12 14 (4.03%) Power Platform
13 13 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.31%) PowerApps
17 7 (2.02%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.51%) 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 (14.99%) DynamoDB
2 21 (6.05%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.59%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.59%) Metadata
7 8 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.02%) MySQL
9 6 (1.73%) Tableau
10 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.44%) Power BI
11 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.15%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 59 (17.00%) GitLab
2 57 (16.43%) Jenkins
3 40 (11.53%) SonarQube
4 39 (11.24%) Cypress.io
5 38 (10.95%) Maven
6 26 (7.49%) Git
7 14 (4.03%) JIRA
8 8 (2.31%) Selenium
9 7 (2.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.86%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.86%) JUnit
11 2 (0.58%) Postman
12 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.29%) Gatling
12 1 (0.29%) JMeter
12 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (25.65%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.27%) Finance
3 47 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 40 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.80%) Games
6 21 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.02%) Marketing
9 6 (1.73%) Retail
10 5 (1.44%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.44%) Automotive
10 5 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Advertising
12 2 (0.58%) Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.29%) Law
13 1 (0.29%) Legal
13 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 109 (31.41%) Developer
2 76 (21.90%) Senior
3 68 (19.60%) Lead
4 44 (12.68%) Java Developer
5 34 (9.80%) Analyst
6 27 (7.78%) Business Analyst
7 23 (6.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (6.05%) Python Developer
8 21 (6.05%) Software Engineer
9 17 (4.90%) Senior Developer
9 17 (4.90%) Technical Leader
10 16 (4.61%) Senior Manager
11 14 (4.03%) Engineering Manager
11 14 (4.03%) Software Developer
12 13 (3.75%) AWS Developer
12 13 (3.75%) Software Manager
13 12 (3.46%) Architect
13 12 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (3.46%) Development Manager
13 12 (3.46%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.56%) AngularJS
2 51 (14.70%) React
3 47 (13.54%) Spring Boot
4 38 (10.95%) Jest
5 37 (10.66%) Gherkin
6 27 (7.78%) .NET
7 24 (6.92%) Node.js
8 23 (6.63%) REST
8 23 (6.63%) Vue
9 17 (4.90%) Spring
10 16 (4.61%) GraphQL
10 16 (4.61%) HTML
11 15 (4.32%) ASP.NET
11 15 (4.32%) CSS
12 14 (4.03%) RESTful
13 13 (3.75%) Flask
14 12 (3.46%) .NET Core
14 12 (3.46%) ASP.NET Core
14 12 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (3.17%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.51%) Mobile App
2 23 (6.63%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.76%) Product Ownership
5 19 (5.48%) Data Structures
6 16 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.75%) Social Media
9 12 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.02%) NHS
11 5 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.15%) Educational Technology
12 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.15%) Media Streaming
12 4 (1.15%) PKI
13 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.22%) Android
2 21 (6.05%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.73%) Linux
4 4 (1.15%) Windows
5 3 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (40.06%) CI/CD
2 112 (32.28%) Mentoring
3 91 (26.22%) DevOps
4 80 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (16.43%) SDLC
6 57 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 50 (14.41%) AI
7 50 (14.41%) Coaching
8 44 (12.68%) Roadmaps
9 43 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 41 (11.82%) Software Engineering
11 40 (11.53%) Microservices
12 39 (11.24%) Decision-Making
12 39 (11.24%) Project Management
13 38 (10.95%) Observability
13 38 (10.95%) Scrum
14 36 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (10.09%) Waterfall
16 31 (8.93%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 91 (26.22%) Java
2 63 (18.16%) TypeScript
3 52 (14.99%) JavaScript
3 52 (14.99%) SQL
4 44 (12.68%) Python
5 40 (11.53%) Groovy
6 38 (10.95%) Bash
6 38 (10.95%) C#
7 14 (4.03%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.88%) PHP
9 4 (1.15%) Go
9 4 (1.15%) Scala
9 4 (1.15%) VBA
10 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.29%) Perl
11 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (12.97%) AWS Certification
2 25 (7.20%) Degree
3 23 (6.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (6.63%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (5.19%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.90%) SC Cleared
6 16 (4.61%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.02%) IIBA
9 5 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.15%) CBAP
10 4 (1.15%) PMP
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.58%) APMP
12 2 (0.58%) CAPM
12 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.58%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.51%) Accessibility
1 33 (9.51%) QA
2 24 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.73%) GDPR
4 5 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.44%) PMO
5 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.58%) GRC
7 2 (0.58%) NIST
7 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (19.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (10.66%) HP Fortify
1 37 (10.66%) Terraform
2 19 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.17%) Ansible
4 4 (1.15%) Grafana
4 4 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.86%) Argo
5 3 (0.86%) Packer
6 2 (0.58%) Kibana
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.19%) SAP
3 6 (1.73%) Databricks
4 5 (1.44%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.44%) Google
4 5 (1.44%) IBM
4 5 (1.44%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.44%) TOWER Software
5 2 (0.58%) Adobe
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle
6 1 (0.29%) Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) Informatica
6 1 (0.29%) New Relic
6 1 (0.29%) Nintex
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir