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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 453 357 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.11% 15.62% 19.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 16.51% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 303 250 855
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £75,772
90th Percentile £92,250 £98,474 £84,964
England median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +12.00% -7.41%

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 4,022 2,162 4,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.04% 94.62% 84.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,542 1,247 3,696
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,900 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,963 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,042 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £87,790 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -1 351 £63,076 -6.55% 101
South Yorkshire -18 62 £55,000 -16.98% 33
North Yorkshire -10 20 £64,500 +12.17% 11
East Yorkshire -21 11 £46,250 -7.50% 14
Humberside - 1 - - 12
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 7 (1.55%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.88%) Apache
3 4 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.66%) Confluence
4 3 (0.66%) JBoss
5 2 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Sketch
5 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.09%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (33.77%) AWS
2 98 (21.63%) Azure
3 89 (19.65%) Serverless
4 64 (14.13%) Amazon S3
5 62 (13.69%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (11.26%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (10.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (10.60%) AWS Step Functions
8 39 (8.61%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (7.95%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (7.95%) Apigee
10 34 (7.51%) SaaS
11 31 (6.84%) GitHub
12 20 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (4.19%) GCP
14 16 (3.53%) Power Platform
15 15 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.43%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.17%) Broadband
2 4 (0.88%) DNS
3 2 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.22%) SSL
4 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.58%) DynamoDB
2 34 (7.51%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.18%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.53%) MySQL
7 12 (2.65%) Metadata
8 11 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.32%) Power BI
12 5 (1.10%) Tableau
13 4 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.88%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.66%) Big Data
14 3 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.66%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.44%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 59 (13.02%) GitLab
2 54 (11.92%) Jenkins
3 40 (8.83%) Git
4 39 (8.61%) SonarQube
5 37 (8.17%) Cypress.io
6 36 (7.95%) Maven
7 24 (5.30%) JIRA
8 8 (1.77%) Selenium
9 7 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.10%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.66%) JUnit
12 2 (0.44%) Postman
13 1 (0.22%) Gatling
13 1 (0.22%) JMeter
13 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.54%) Finance
3 64 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 45 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.39%) Games
6 21 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.09%) Retail
8 12 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.43%) Marketing
10 6 (1.32%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Automotive
11 5 (1.10%) Electronics
11 5 (1.10%) Law
11 5 (1.10%) Local Government
12 4 (0.88%) Advertising
12 4 (0.88%) Agriculture
12 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 128 (28.26%) Developer
2 103 (22.74%) Senior
3 73 (16.11%) Lead
4 41 (9.05%) Java Developer
5 40 (8.83%) Analyst
6 32 (7.06%) Business Analyst
7 30 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.40%) Senior Manager
9 22 (4.86%) Python Developer
10 21 (4.64%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (4.19%) Development Manager
13 18 (3.97%) Software Manager
14 16 (3.53%) Technical Leader
15 15 (3.31%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 15 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
15 15 (3.31%) Software Developer
15 15 (3.31%) Software Development Manager
16 14 (3.09%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (14.57%) React
2 51 (11.26%) AngularJS
3 46 (10.15%) Spring Boot
4 40 (8.83%) .NET
5 36 (7.95%) Gherkin
5 36 (7.95%) Jest
6 34 (7.51%) Vue
7 31 (6.84%) CSS
7 31 (6.84%) HTML
8 27 (5.96%) Node.js
8 27 (5.96%) REST
9 22 (4.86%) Flask
9 22 (4.86%) RESTful
10 19 (4.19%) ASP.NET
10 19 (4.19%) GraphQL
11 18 (3.97%) .NET Core
12 17 (3.75%) Spring
13 14 (3.09%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (3.09%) Blazor
14 13 (2.87%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.05%) Mobile App
2 33 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.30%) Data Structures
5 23 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.75%) Social Media
8 14 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.55%) NHS
11 5 (1.10%) Analogue Electronics
11 5 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.95%) Android
2 23 (5.08%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.10%) Linux
4 3 (0.66%) Windows
5 2 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (35.98%) CI/CD
2 138 (30.46%) Mentoring
3 113 (24.94%) DevOps
4 100 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 98 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (17.66%) Coaching
7 74 (16.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 64 (14.13%) SDLC
8 64 (14.13%) Software Engineering
9 62 (13.69%) Decision-Making
10 61 (13.47%) Project Management
11 55 (12.14%) Microservices
12 53 (11.70%) Roadmaps
13 52 (11.48%) AI
14 49 (10.82%) Waterfall
15 46 (10.15%) Observability
16 45 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 45 (9.93%) Scrum
17 44 (9.71%) Infrastructure as Code
18 42 (9.27%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 90 (19.87%) Java
2 76 (16.78%) JavaScript
3 70 (15.45%) SQL
4 65 (14.35%) TypeScript
5 48 (10.60%) Python
6 46 (10.15%) C#
7 38 (8.39%) Groovy
8 35 (7.73%) Bash
9 19 (4.19%) PHP
10 16 (3.53%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.32%) C++
11 6 (1.32%) VBA
12 5 (1.10%) C
12 5 (1.10%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.10%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.88%) Go
14 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.22%) COBOL
15 1 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (10.38%) AWS Certification
2 35 (7.73%) Degree
3 22 (4.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (4.86%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (4.42%) AWS Certified Developer
5 19 (4.19%) Security Cleared
6 18 (3.97%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.77%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.55%) IIBA
8 7 (1.55%) PMP
9 4 (0.88%) CBAP
10 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CIPD
12 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.15%) Accessibility
2 28 (6.18%) QA
3 22 (4.86%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.55%) GDPR
4 7 (1.55%) GRC
5 6 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.66%) PMO
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
8 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) P3O
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (18.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (12.58%) Terraform
2 36 (7.95%) HP Fortify
3 21 (4.64%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.87%) Ansible
5 6 (1.32%) Grafana
5 6 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.66%) Packer
7 2 (0.44%) Argo
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.86%) SAP
3 7 (1.55%) Databricks
3 7 (1.55%) Google
4 6 (1.32%) Adobe
5 5 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.10%) IBM
5 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.88%) Hotjar
6 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle
7 3 (0.66%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.22%) Apple
8 1 (0.22%) Facebook
8 1 (0.22%) Informatica
8 1 (0.22%) New Relic
8 1 (0.22%) Nintex
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir
8 1 (0.22%) Sony
8 1 (0.22%) Yahoo!