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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 7 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 170 299 882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.22% 13.19% 37.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.48% 17.03% 39.25%
Number of salaries quoted 119 165 684
10th Percentile £41,074 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £46,250 £50,011
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.84% +13.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £87,500 £92,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year +9.46% -7.15% +11.82%

All Process and 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 1,362 1,756 2,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 89.90% 77.46% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 748 1,059 1,637
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £51,498 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.76% -1.91% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 -2 131 £65,000 +12.14% 97
Bradford +4 18 £72,500 +31.82% 22
Wakefield +3 2 £54,500 +9.00% 4
Halifax +4 1 - -
Huddersfield -2 1 £37,500 -28.57% 4
Pontefract - 1 £65,000 -
Sowerby Bridge - 1 - -
Todmorden - 1 - - 1
Agile
Yorkshire

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (8.82%) Confluence
2 4 (2.35%) Apache
2 4 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) CMS
4 2 (1.18%) Drupal
4 2 (1.18%) EPiServer
4 2 (1.18%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.59%) FileNet
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.59%) Primavera
2 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.82%) Azure
2 48 (28.24%) AWS
3 19 (11.18%) GCP
4 15 (8.82%) SaaS
5 12 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (7.06%) GitHub
6 11 (6.47%) Serverless
7 10 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.94%) dbt
10 4 (2.35%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.76%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.35%) DNS
2 3 (1.76%) VPN
3 2 (1.18%) AMQP
3 2 (1.18%) Firewall
4 1 (0.59%) BGP
4 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (4.71%) Power BI
2 7 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.53%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.94%) MySQL
4 5 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.18%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.18%) Metadata
7 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.18%) Tableau
8 1 (0.59%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 21 (12.35%) JIRA
2 13 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.06%) Git
4 10 (5.88%) GitLab
5 4 (2.35%) Selenium
6 3 (1.76%) Postman
7 2 (1.18%) Grunt
7 2 (1.18%) gulp
7 2 (1.18%) Storybook
7 2 (1.18%) webpack
8 1 (0.59%) Appium
8 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.59%) JMeter
8 1 (0.59%) JUnit
8 1 (0.59%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.59%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.35%) Finance
3 24 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.88%) Legal
5 9 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.71%) Banking
6 8 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.71%) Law
7 6 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.53%) Marketing
8 5 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.94%) Retail
9 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.59%) Advertising
11 1 (0.59%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.59%) Electronics
11 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (22.94%) Senior
2 24 (14.12%) Developer
3 19 (11.18%) Lead
4 15 (8.82%) Analyst
4 15 (8.82%) Architect
5 12 (7.06%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.29%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.29%) Software Developer
8 8 (4.71%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.71%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.12%) Consultant
10 6 (3.53%) User Researcher
11 5 (2.94%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (2.94%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.94%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.59%) React
2 16 (9.41%) REST
3 15 (8.82%) .NET
4 14 (8.24%) CSS
5 13 (7.65%) RESTful
6 12 (7.06%) HTML
7 11 (6.47%) Node.js
8 10 (5.88%) SOAP
9 9 (5.29%) GraphQL
10 6 (3.53%) ASP.NET
10 6 (3.53%) Redux
11 5 (2.94%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.94%) React Native
11 5 (2.94%) Spring
11 5 (2.94%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.94%) Web Services
12 4 (2.35%) Celery
12 4 (2.35%) Flask
12 4 (2.35%) Laravel
12 4 (2.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.65%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.53%) NHS
5 5 (2.94%) CMDB
5 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.18%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.94%) Linux
2 3 (1.76%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Android
3 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.82%) CI/CD
1 49 (28.82%) DevOps
2 38 (22.35%) Mentoring
3 36 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (17.06%) Scrum
5 29 (17.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (15.88%) Software Engineering
8 21 (12.35%) Analytics
8 21 (12.35%) Coaching
8 21 (12.35%) Project Management
9 20 (11.76%) PRINCE2
9 20 (11.76%) Waterfall
10 18 (10.59%) Project Delivery
11 17 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 15 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (8.82%) ITIL
12 15 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
13 14 (8.24%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.41%) JavaScript
2 29 (17.06%) SQL
3 24 (14.12%) Python
4 18 (10.59%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.24%) C#
5 14 (8.24%) Java
6 5 (2.94%) Go
6 5 (2.94%) PHP
6 5 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.35%) Bash
8 3 (1.76%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.18%) ABAP
9 2 (1.18%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) COBOL
9 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.18%) Scala
9 2 (1.18%) SOQL
10 1 (0.59%) Bicep
10 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.82%) Degree
3 14 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.71%) ACCA
5 5 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (2.35%) CCAB
6 4 (2.35%) CIMA
6 4 (2.35%) CIPFA
6 4 (2.35%) ICAEW
7 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) APMG
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.59%) PMP
8 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.53%) QA
2 4 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.35%) GAAP
2 4 (2.35%) GDPR
2 4 (2.35%) IFRS
3 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.18%) PMO
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 1 (0.59%) P3O
System Software
1 16 (9.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.18%) Squid
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (12.35%) Terraform
2 17 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.12%) Ansible
3 7 (4.12%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.94%) Grafana
5 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.59%) Automic
6 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.71%) Databricks
2 8 (4.71%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.94%) Oracle
5 4 (2.35%) SAP
6 3 (1.76%) iManage
6 3 (1.76%) Intapp
6 3 (1.76%) New Relic
7 2 (1.18%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.18%) CyberSource
7 2 (1.18%) Google
7 2 (1.18%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.18%) Splunk
8 1 (0.59%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.59%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.59%) ESRI
8 1 (0.59%) IBM
8 1 (0.59%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.59%) VMware