Agile Job Trends in Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Agile skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 371 429 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.85% 17.58% 22.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.57% 18.73% 25.73%
Number of salaries quoted 244 202 866
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,345
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -3.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,749
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.81% -5.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,206 2,291 3,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 76.46% 93.89% 86.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,922 1,024 3,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,125 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,833
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,575 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Agile
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Agile.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Agile

Agile
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agile in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 February 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
West Yorkshire -6 297 £67,174 -0.48% 68
South Yorkshire -16 45 £55,000 -15.38% 28
North Yorkshire -14 11 £64,000 +11.30% 16
East Yorkshire -14 11 £45,000 -10.00% 8
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 10 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.89%) Confluence
3 6 (1.62%) Apache
4 5 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) CMS
5 2 (0.54%) JBoss
5 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.27%) FileNet
6 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Sketch
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.77%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (39.89%) AWS
2 86 (23.18%) Azure
3 77 (20.75%) Serverless
4 56 (15.09%) Amazon S3
5 48 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
6 43 (11.59%) Amazon ECS
7 41 (11.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 41 (11.05%) AWS Step Functions
8 38 (10.24%) SaaS
9 34 (9.16%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (7.82%) GitHub
11 28 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
11 28 (7.55%) Apigee
12 19 (5.12%) GCP
13 17 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.50%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.96%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.20%) Broadband
2 5 (1.35%) DNS
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
3 2 (0.54%) Network Security
3 2 (0.54%) SSL
4 1 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.02%) DynamoDB
2 31 (8.36%) SQL Server
3 26 (7.01%) NoSQL
4 25 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.39%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.23%) Metadata
7 11 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.70%) MySQL
9 7 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.35%) Power BI
11 4 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.08%) Tableau
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.81%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.81%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 43 (11.59%) GitLab
2 42 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.89%) Git
4 28 (7.55%) Cypress.io
4 28 (7.55%) Maven
4 28 (7.55%) SonarQube
5 10 (2.70%) JIRA
6 5 (1.35%) Selenium
7 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.54%) JUnit
9 1 (0.27%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 110 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.17%) Finance
3 53 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 38 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.74%) Games
6 17 (4.58%) Retail
7 13 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.23%) Marketing
9 9 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.62%) Local Government
11 6 (1.62%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.35%) Advertising
12 5 (1.35%) Electronics
12 5 (1.35%) Law
12 5 (1.35%) Legal
13 4 (1.08%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.08%) Military
13 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 93 (25.07%) Developer
2 80 (21.56%) Senior
3 52 (14.02%) Lead
4 33 (8.89%) Java Developer
5 24 (6.47%) Analyst
6 23 (6.20%) Development Manager
7 20 (5.39%) Business Analyst
7 20 (5.39%) Senior Manager
7 20 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.12%) Software Manager
9 18 (4.85%) Python Developer
9 18 (4.85%) Software Development Manager
10 17 (4.58%) Architect
11 15 (4.04%) Project Manager
11 15 (4.04%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.77%) .NET Development Manager
12 14 (3.77%) AWS Developer
12 14 (3.77%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.98%) React
2 40 (10.78%) .NET
2 40 (10.78%) Spring Boot
3 36 (9.70%) AngularJS
4 32 (8.63%) Node.js
5 31 (8.36%) REST
6 28 (7.55%) Gherkin
6 28 (7.55%) HTML
6 28 (7.55%) Jest
7 27 (7.28%) CSS
8 19 (5.12%) Spring
9 18 (4.85%) RESTful
10 17 (4.58%) Vue
11 16 (4.31%) .NET Core
11 16 (4.31%) ASP.NET
11 16 (4.31%) Flask
11 16 (4.31%) GraphQL
12 15 (4.04%) Django
12 15 (4.04%) FastAPI
13 13 (3.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.01%) Mobile App
3 22 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.66%) Data Structures
5 20 (5.39%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.04%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.50%) Social Media
8 11 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.43%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.62%) NHS
12 5 (1.35%) Analogue Electronics
12 5 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.93%) Android
2 15 (4.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (36.93%) CI/CD
2 127 (34.23%) Mentoring
3 102 (27.49%) DevOps
4 87 (23.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 82 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (20.22%) Coaching
7 65 (17.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 63 (16.98%) Software Engineering
9 56 (15.09%) SDLC
10 52 (14.02%) Microservices
11 51 (13.75%) Project Management
12 44 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (10.78%) Decision-Making
13 40 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 39 (10.51%) Roadmaps
15 38 (10.24%) Scrum
16 35 (9.43%) Observability
16 35 (9.43%) Waterfall
17 34 (9.16%) AI
17 34 (9.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (17.25%) Java
2 59 (15.90%) SQL
3 58 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 52 (14.02%) TypeScript
5 39 (10.51%) Python
6 30 (8.09%) C#
7 29 (7.82%) Bash
8 27 (7.28%) Groovy
9 9 (2.43%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.43%) PHP
10 6 (1.62%) VBA
11 5 (1.35%) C
11 5 (1.35%) C++
11 5 (1.35%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.35%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.81%) ABAP
13 2 (0.54%) COBOL
13 2 (0.54%) Go
13 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (10.51%) AWS Certification
2 22 (5.93%) Degree
3 19 (5.12%) AWS Certified Developer
4 16 (4.31%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (4.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.16%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.16%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.81%) IIBA
8 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.54%) PMP
9 2 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) CIPD
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.36%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.74%) QA
3 13 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.43%) GDPR
5 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.81%) PMO
8 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.54%) NCSC
8 2 (0.54%) NIST
8 2 (0.54%) P3O
8 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.54%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 76 (20.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.35%) Firmware
3 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 56 (15.09%) Terraform
2 28 (7.55%) HP Fortify
3 19 (5.12%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.70%) Ansible
5 6 (1.62%) Grafana
5 6 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Kibana
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (8.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.01%) SAP
3 8 (2.16%) Databricks
3 8 (2.16%) Google
4 5 (1.35%) Adobe
4 5 (1.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.81%) Hotjar
5 3 (0.81%) Oracle
5 3 (0.81%) Pega
5 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.81%) WSO2
6 2 (0.54%) New Relic
7 1 (0.27%) IBM
7 1 (0.27%) Informatica
7 1 (0.27%) Nexthink
7 1 (0.27%) Nintex
7 1 (0.27%) Sitecore