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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile 279 170 299
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.60% 11.22% 13.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 12.48% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 197 119 165
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,074 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +13.64% -15.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £92,953 £85,250 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,100
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.46% -7.15%

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 2,942 1,362 1,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.55% 89.90% 77.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 748 1,059
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £83,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,498
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.76% -1.91%

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 September 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 September 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 -6 245 £65,000 - 176
Bradford -12 14 £75,000 +3.45% 21
Wakefield -3 10 £57,500 +5.50% 8
Elland - 4 £32,500 -
Huddersfield -9 3 £51,500 +37.33% 3
Brighouse - 1 £42,500 -
Wetherby - 1 £35,000 -
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 6 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.79%) CMS
2 5 (1.79%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) WordPress
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Trello
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.08%) Shopify
3 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 93 (33.33%) AWS
2 74 (26.52%) Azure
3 39 (13.98%) Serverless
4 33 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (10.39%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (6.81%) GitHub
9 18 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (6.09%) GCP
11 14 (5.02%) Amazon ECR
12 13 (4.66%) Apigee
13 12 (4.30%) SaaS
14 11 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) Internet
1 4 (1.43%) Network Security
2 3 (1.08%) DNS
3 2 (0.72%) CTI
3 2 (0.72%) HTTP
3 2 (0.72%) Profibus
3 2 (0.72%) VoIP
3 2 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.45%) DynamoDB
2 15 (5.38%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.02%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.58%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.23%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.79%) MySQL
9 4 (1.43%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.08%) Metadata
10 3 (1.08%) Power BI
10 3 (1.08%) Redis
10 3 (1.08%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.08%) Tableau
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.72%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 32 (11.47%) GitLab
2 30 (10.75%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.32%) JIRA
4 22 (7.89%) Cypress.io
5 16 (5.73%) SonarQube
6 15 (5.38%) Git
7 14 (5.02%) Maven
8 7 (2.51%) JMeter
9 5 (1.79%) Postman
9 5 (1.79%) Selenium
10 4 (1.43%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.08%) Appium
11 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.72%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 46 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.49%) Finance
4 16 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.23%) Advertising
6 9 (3.23%) Banking
7 5 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Marketing
8 4 (1.43%) Agriculture
8 4 (1.43%) Automotive
8 4 (1.43%) Back Office
8 4 (1.43%) Legal
8 4 (1.43%) Retail
9 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.72%) Publishing
10 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (28.67%) Senior
2 77 (27.60%) Developer
3 41 (14.70%) Lead
4 40 (14.34%) Analyst
5 34 (12.19%) Business Analyst
6 25 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 25 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 24 (8.60%) Java Developer
8 18 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 16 (5.73%) Python Developer
10 14 (5.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.66%) .NET Developer
11 13 (4.66%) Architect
12 12 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.94%) Senior Manager
14 10 (3.58%) Data Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (3.58%) Senior Business Analyst
15 9 (3.23%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.26%) AngularJS
2 35 (12.54%) React
3 33 (11.83%) .NET
4 26 (9.32%) Node.js
5 22 (7.89%) Spring Boot
5 22 (7.89%) Terraform
6 19 (6.81%) RESTful
7 18 (6.45%) Gherkin
8 17 (6.09%) ASP.NET
8 17 (6.09%) Vue
9 16 (5.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (5.73%) CSS
10 15 (5.38%) HTML
10 15 (5.38%) Jest
10 15 (5.38%) REST
11 13 (4.66%) .NET Core
12 12 (4.30%) Playwright
13 11 (3.94%) Spring
14 10 (3.58%) Entity Framework
14 10 (3.58%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.81%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.58%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.87%) NHS
5 7 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.51%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.15%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.43%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.43%) Media Streaming
8 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.08%) PKI
9 3 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.66%) Linux
2 8 (2.87%) Unix
2 8 (2.87%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (28.67%) CI/CD
2 76 (27.24%) Mentoring
3 71 (25.45%) DevOps
4 68 (24.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (19.00%) Coaching
7 50 (17.92%) Scrum
8 46 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (14.70%) Software Engineering
11 40 (14.34%) SDLC
12 37 (13.26%) Test Automation
13 34 (12.19%) AI
14 33 (11.83%) Acceptance Criteria
14 33 (11.83%) Microservices
15 30 (10.75%) Kanban
15 30 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (10.39%) Decision-Making
17 28 (10.04%) Roadmaps
18 27 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.22%) SQL
2 54 (19.35%) Java
3 52 (18.64%) JavaScript
4 48 (17.20%) TypeScript
5 47 (16.85%) Python
6 45 (16.13%) C#
7 19 (6.81%) Groovy
8 16 (5.73%) Bash
9 8 (2.87%) PHP
10 7 (2.51%) Scala
11 6 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.08%) C++
12 3 (1.08%) Ruby
13 2 (0.72%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.36%) Bicep
14 1 (0.36%) Go
14 1 (0.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.53%) Degree
3 18 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.02%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (3.94%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.15%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.79%) PMP
9 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.43%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.72%) APMP
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.72%) CAPM
10 2 (0.72%) PgMP
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.36%) CSPO
11 1 (0.36%) IIBA
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.39%) QA
2 20 (7.17%) Data Quality
3 17 (6.09%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.79%) WCAG
5 4 (1.43%) PMO
6 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.72%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (11.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.66%) HP Fortify
3 7 (2.51%) Ansible
4 3 (1.08%) Argo
4 3 (1.08%) Packer
5 2 (0.72%) Kibana
5 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.02%) SAP
3 7 (2.51%) Databricks
3 7 (2.51%) Oracle
4 5 (1.79%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.79%) Google
4 5 (1.79%) IBM
4 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.79%) TOWER Software
5 3 (1.08%) Adobe
5 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.72%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.72%) Avaya
6 2 (0.72%) Cisco
6 2 (0.72%) Foundry
6 2 (0.72%) Genesys
6 2 (0.72%) Informatica
6 2 (0.72%) Pega
6 2 (0.72%) Siemens
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir