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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Agile 344 217 490
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 9.67% 15.93% 16.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.94% 16.73% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 212 139 361
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,688 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £70,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +20.76% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,732
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.59% -3.78%

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 2,468 1,297 2,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.40% 95.23% 83.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,758 671 1,858
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,443 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £84,974
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%

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 29 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 29 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 -3 309 £65,000 -3.70% 29
Bradford -11 9 £56,398 -22.21% 9
Elland - 7 £32,500 -
Huddersfield - 4 £52,000 - 1
Wakefield -5 3 £50,000 -21.57% 3
Ossett - 3 - -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Dewsbury - 2 - -
Pudsey - 2 - -
Pontefract +1 1 - -
Halifax -4 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 5 (1.45%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.87%) Apache
2 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.87%) JBoss
3 2 (0.58%) Confluence
3 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.87%) Trello
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.58%) Sketch
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.20%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (34.59%) AWS
2 78 (22.67%) Azure
3 67 (19.48%) Serverless
4 52 (15.12%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (13.95%) Amazon S3
6 46 (13.37%) Amazon ECS
7 38 (11.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (10.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 32 (9.30%) Amazon ECR
9 32 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
9 32 (9.30%) Apigee
10 21 (6.10%) GCP
11 20 (5.81%) SaaS
12 15 (4.36%) GitHub
13 14 (4.07%) Power Platform
14 12 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.59%) Broadband
2 4 (1.16%) HTTP
3 2 (0.58%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) SSL
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.79%) DynamoDB
2 18 (5.23%) NoSQL
3 17 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.91%) MySQL
6 9 (2.62%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.62%) Metadata
6 9 (2.62%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.45%) Power BI
8 5 (1.45%) Tableau
9 4 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.16%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.58%) Big Data
12 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 54 (15.70%) GitLab
2 51 (14.83%) Jenkins
3 36 (10.47%) Cypress.io
4 35 (10.17%) SonarQube
5 33 (9.59%) Maven
6 23 (6.69%) Git
7 18 (5.23%) JIRA
8 6 (1.74%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.74%) Selenium
9 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.58%) JUnit
10 2 (0.58%) Postman
11 1 (0.29%) Gatling
11 1 (0.29%) JMeter
11 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.99%) Finance
3 50 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 39 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.88%) Games
6 22 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.74%) Retail
9 5 (1.45%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.45%) Automotive
9 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.45%) Marketing
10 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.87%) Advertising
11 3 (0.87%) Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.58%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.29%) Back Office
13 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 107 (31.10%) Developer
2 77 (22.38%) Senior
3 64 (18.60%) Lead
4 42 (12.21%) Java Developer
5 37 (10.76%) Analyst
6 30 (8.72%) Business Analyst
7 23 (6.69%) Python Developer
8 21 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (5.81%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.23%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.94%) Senior Manager
12 14 (4.07%) Engineering Manager
13 13 (3.78%) Software Developer
13 13 (3.78%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.49%) AWS Developer
14 12 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (3.49%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 11 (3.20%) Architect
15 11 (3.20%) Data Engineer
15 11 (3.20%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.24%) React
2 47 (13.66%) AngularJS
3 40 (11.63%) Spring Boot
4 33 (9.59%) Jest
5 32 (9.30%) Gherkin
6 24 (6.98%) REST
7 23 (6.69%) Node.js
7 23 (6.69%) Vue
8 20 (5.81%) .NET
9 16 (4.65%) GraphQL
10 14 (4.07%) CSS
10 14 (4.07%) Flask
10 14 (4.07%) HTML
10 14 (4.07%) RESTful
11 12 (3.49%) Spring
12 11 (3.20%) Android SDK
13 10 (2.91%) ASP.NET
13 10 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (2.62%) .NET Core
14 9 (2.62%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.59%) Mobile App
2 22 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.81%) Data Structures
3 20 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.23%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.49%) Social Media
7 8 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.33%) NHS
8 6 (1.74%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.16%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.16%) Media Streaming
10 4 (1.16%) PKI
11 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.30%) Android
2 21 (6.10%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.74%) Linux
4 4 (1.16%) Windows
5 3 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.08%) CI/CD
2 114 (33.14%) Mentoring
3 84 (24.42%) DevOps
4 77 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 57 (16.57%) SDLC
6 57 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (15.41%) AI
8 52 (15.12%) Coaching
9 48 (13.95%) Roadmaps
10 40 (11.63%) Project Management
10 40 (11.63%) Scrum
11 39 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (11.05%) Software Engineering
13 37 (10.76%) Decision-Making
13 37 (10.76%) Observability
14 35 (10.17%) Microservices
14 35 (10.17%) Waterfall
15 31 (9.01%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 85 (24.71%) Java
2 62 (18.02%) TypeScript
3 52 (15.12%) JavaScript
4 49 (14.24%) Python
4 49 (14.24%) SQL
5 36 (10.47%) Groovy
6 34 (9.88%) Bash
6 34 (9.88%) C#
7 14 (4.07%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.91%) PHP
9 5 (1.45%) Scala
10 4 (1.16%) Go
10 4 (1.16%) VBA
11 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.58%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) Bicep
12 1 (0.29%) Perl
12 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (11.34%) AWS Certification
2 30 (8.72%) Degree
3 23 (6.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (6.69%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (5.23%) Security Cleared
5 17 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.91%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (2.03%) IIBA
9 5 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.16%) CBAP
10 4 (1.16%) PMP
11 3 (0.87%) 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 (9.59%) Accessibility
2 32 (9.30%) QA
3 26 (7.56%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.45%) PMO
5 3 (0.87%) GDPR
5 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (17.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (9.88%) Terraform
2 32 (9.30%) HP Fortify
3 17 (4.94%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.91%) Ansible
5 3 (0.87%) Argo
5 3 (0.87%) Grafana
5 3 (0.87%) Packer
5 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.58%) Kibana
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.52%) SAP
3 7 (2.03%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.74%) Databricks
4 6 (1.74%) TOWER Software
5 5 (1.45%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.45%) IBM
6 4 (1.16%) Google
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle
7 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.29%) Foundry
8 1 (0.29%) Informatica
8 1 (0.29%) Nintex
8 1 (0.29%) Palantir