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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 236 278 756
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 14.29% 16.59% 37.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.19% 20.13% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 171 140 619
10th Percentile £41,074 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,250 £46,250 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,100 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.84% -15.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,846 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £92,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 1,458 1,381 1,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.31% 82.40% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 863 734 1,423
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 -3 191 £64,000 +9.47% 80
Bradford +2 31 £72,500 +31.82% 16
Huddersfield -1 2 £46,250 -9.31% 4
Halifax +1 1 - - 2
Wakefield -7 1 £67,500 +98.53% 11
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 11 (4.66%) Confluence
2 7 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.54%) Apache
3 6 (2.54%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.85%) CMS
5 2 (0.85%) Drupal
5 2 (0.85%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.85%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.42%) FileNet
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.27%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (41.10%) AWS
2 64 (27.12%) Azure
3 39 (16.53%) Serverless
4 29 (12.29%) Amazon S3
4 29 (12.29%) SaaS
5 23 (9.75%) GitHub
6 22 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (8.05%) AWS Step Functions
8 18 (7.63%) GCP
9 16 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (5.93%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.39%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (3.39%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (3.39%) Apigee
14 7 (2.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) AMQP
1 2 (0.85%) DNS
1 2 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) BGP
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.75%) DynamoDB
3 18 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.66%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.81%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.12%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.69%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.27%) Metadata
10 3 (1.27%) MySQL
10 3 (1.27%) Power BI
10 3 (1.27%) Tableau
11 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (10.59%) Git
2 22 (9.32%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.63%) GitLab
4 13 (5.51%) JIRA
5 9 (3.81%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.39%) Maven
6 8 (3.39%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.85%) Grunt
8 2 (0.85%) gulp
8 2 (0.85%) Storybook
8 2 (0.85%) webpack
9 1 (0.42%) Appium
9 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.42%) JUnit
9 1 (0.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 82 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.22%) Finance
3 33 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (5.51%) Retail
7 11 (4.66%) Legal
7 11 (4.66%) Marketing
8 6 (2.54%) Law
9 5 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Advertising
10 4 (1.69%) Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.42%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Local Government
13 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (20.34%) Senior
2 47 (19.92%) Developer
3 32 (13.56%) Lead
4 20 (8.47%) Development Manager
5 16 (6.78%) Analyst
6 15 (6.36%) Software Development Manager
6 15 (6.36%) Software Manager
7 13 (5.51%) Python Developer
8 12 (5.08%) Business Analyst
8 12 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) Architect
9 11 (4.66%) Consultant
9 11 (4.66%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.66%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) .NET Development Manager
11 9 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.39%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.39%) Lead Developer
12 8 (3.39%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (19.92%) React
2 38 (16.10%) .NET
3 25 (10.59%) CSS
4 23 (9.75%) HTML
4 23 (9.75%) Node.js
5 21 (8.90%) REST
6 20 (8.47%) Spring Boot
7 17 (7.20%) RESTful
7 17 (7.20%) Spring
8 16 (6.78%) AngularJS
8 16 (6.78%) Django
8 16 (6.78%) FastAPI
8 16 (6.78%) Flask
9 15 (6.36%) ASP.NET
10 13 (5.51%) Vue
11 11 (4.66%) .NET Core
11 11 (4.66%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (4.66%) Blazor
12 10 (4.24%) GraphQL
13 9 (3.81%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.81%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.54%) NHS
6 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.69%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.69%) Social Media
7 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.85%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.85%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.42%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Linux
1 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (33.90%) CI/CD
2 71 (30.08%) DevOps
3 67 (28.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 67 (28.39%) Mentoring
4 56 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (22.88%) Software Engineering
6 43 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (15.68%) Microservices
9 36 (15.25%) Scrum
9 36 (15.25%) SDLC
10 35 (14.83%) Coaching
11 30 (12.71%) Project Management
12 26 (11.02%) Project Delivery
13 25 (10.59%) Decision-Making
13 25 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (9.75%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (9.75%) Waterfall
15 21 (8.90%) Performance Optimisation
16 20 (8.47%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.76%) JavaScript
1 49 (20.76%) SQL
2 39 (16.53%) Python
3 29 (12.29%) TypeScript
4 28 (11.86%) Java
5 27 (11.44%) C#
6 10 (4.24%) Bash
7 7 (2.97%) Groovy
8 5 (2.12%) PHP
9 4 (1.69%) COBOL
10 3 (1.27%) ABAP
10 3 (1.27%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.85%) R
11 2 (0.85%) Scala
12 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.42%) Go
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (7.20%) Degree
2 14 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.51%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.08%) AWS Certified Developer
4 12 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (1.69%) ACCA
7 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) QA
2 8 (3.39%) GDPR
3 6 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.54%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.69%) GAAP
5 4 (1.69%) IFRS
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.85%) GRC
6 2 (0.85%) NIST
6 2 (0.85%) P3O
6 2 (0.85%) PMO
6 2 (0.85%) SLA
6 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (22.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Squid
Systems Management
1 49 (20.76%) Terraform
2 22 (9.32%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.24%) Ansible
4 8 (3.39%) HP Fortify
5 7 (2.97%) Grafana
5 7 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.36%) SAP
3 9 (3.81%) Databricks
4 4 (1.69%) Oracle
5 3 (1.27%) Pega
5 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.27%) WSO2
6 2 (0.85%) Adobe
6 2 (0.85%) Google
6 2 (0.85%) New Relic
6 2 (0.85%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.42%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.42%) ESRI
7 1 (0.42%) IBM
7 1 (0.42%) iManage
7 1 (0.42%) Intapp
7 1 (0.42%) Sage
7 1 (0.42%) TOWER Software