People Management Job Trends in West Yorkshire

People Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring People Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 90 78
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 +123
Permanent jobs citing People Management 27 13 67
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.48% 0.87% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.99% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 27 10 25
10th Percentile £51,250 £70,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £84,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £100,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +73.91% -4.56%
75th Percentile £76,250 - £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 - £77,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £87,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -22.86% +52.17% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

People Management 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 1,496 1,311 1,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 82.24% 87.52% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 875 659 1,381
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,028 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% -3.64% -
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% - -4.34%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing People Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

People Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

People Management
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing People Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing People Management

People Management
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for People Management in West Yorkshire

People Management
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 People Management within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 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 +1 26 £66,250 -33.75% 4
Bradford - 1 £57,500 -
People Management
Yorkshire

People Management
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 3 (11.11%) Apache
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) SaaS
3 5 (18.52%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (11.11%) dbt
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 3 (11.11%) Data Vault
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
1 8 (29.63%) Financial Institution
2 7 (25.93%) Legal
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Senior
2 8 (29.63%) Senior Software Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Development Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Leader
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Strategy Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Software Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Micronaut
1 5 (18.52%) Spring
1 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
2 3 (11.11%) Pandas
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Coaching
2 9 (33.33%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 8 (29.63%) Fintech
3 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
4 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (25.93%) Performance Management
4 7 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
5 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
5 5 (18.52%) SOA
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) Kanban
6 4 (14.81%) Project Management
6 4 (14.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Databricks
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft