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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 463 323 947
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.77% 10.02% 15.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 10.95% 18.94%
Number of salaries quoted 341 224 697
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,625 £40,988
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £97,528 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.02%

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 4,631 2,951 5,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.67% 91.50% 79.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,290 1,379 3,716
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,092 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -6 310 £62,500 -13.18% 88
South Yorkshire -16 88 £55,750 -20.36% 47
North Yorkshire +3 26 £59,500 -0.83% 13
East Yorkshire -10 21 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Humberside - 1 - - 4
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 6 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.08%) Confluence
3 3 (0.65%) Apache
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.65%) CMS
3 3 (0.65%) JBoss
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.08%) Trello
5 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.43%) Sketch
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.43%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 117 (25.27%) AWS
2 115 (24.84%) Azure
3 52 (11.23%) Serverless
4 40 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
5 35 (7.56%) Amazon S3
6 32 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (6.05%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
9 27 (5.83%) Apigee
10 24 (5.18%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (4.54%) GCP
12 20 (4.32%) Power Platform
13 19 (4.10%) SaaS
14 16 (3.46%) GitHub
15 14 (3.02%) Azure AI
16 12 (2.59%) PowerApps
17 10 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.99%) Broadband
2 4 (0.86%) HTTP
3 3 (0.65%) Internet
3 3 (0.65%) VPN
4 2 (0.43%) CTI
4 2 (0.43%) DNS
4 2 (0.43%) VoIP
5 1 (0.22%) Profibus
5 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.86%) MongoDB
2 28 (6.05%) DynamoDB
3 22 (4.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (4.32%) MySQL
5 18 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.59%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.16%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.94%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.51%) Power BI
12 5 (1.08%) Big Data
12 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.08%) Metadata
12 5 (1.08%) Tableau
13 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 2 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 49 (10.58%) GitLab
2 46 (9.94%) Jenkins
3 43 (9.29%) JIRA
4 31 (6.70%) Cypress.io
5 30 (6.48%) SonarQube
6 28 (6.05%) Maven
7 27 (5.83%) Git
8 6 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.30%) Selenium
9 5 (1.08%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.65%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.43%) JUnit
11 2 (0.43%) Postman
12 1 (0.22%) Gatling
12 1 (0.22%) JMeter
12 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (20.52%) Public Sector
2 90 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 82 (17.71%) Finance
4 43 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.99%) Games
6 27 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.81%) Retail
10 7 (1.51%) Marketing
11 6 (1.30%) Automotive
11 6 (1.30%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.30%) Law
12 5 (1.08%) Agriculture
12 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.86%) Advertising
13 4 (0.86%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
14 3 (0.65%) Local Government
14 3 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 128 (27.65%) Developer
2 115 (24.84%) Senior
3 67 (14.47%) Lead
4 63 (13.61%) Analyst
5 57 (12.31%) Business Analyst
6 37 (7.99%) Java Developer
7 36 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 31 (6.70%) Senior Manager
9 26 (5.62%) .NET Developer
10 25 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.54%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.32%) Python Developer
13 19 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.10%) Product Manager
14 16 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
15 15 (3.24%) Engineering Manager
16 14 (3.02%) Technical Leader
17 13 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
17 13 (2.81%) Senior Business Analyst
18 12 (2.59%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (11.45%) React
2 52 (11.23%) AngularJS
3 41 (8.86%) .NET
4 35 (7.56%) RESTful
5 34 (7.34%) Vue
6 32 (6.91%) Spring Boot
7 29 (6.26%) ASP.NET
8 28 (6.05%) ASP.NET Core
8 28 (6.05%) Jest
8 28 (6.05%) Node.js
9 27 (5.83%) Gherkin
10 24 (5.18%) .NET Core
11 20 (4.32%) REST
12 18 (3.89%) CSS
13 17 (3.67%) HTML
14 16 (3.46%) GraphQL
15 14 (3.02%) Flask
15 14 (3.02%) ML.NET
16 13 (2.81%) Android SDK
16 13 (2.81%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.94%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.70%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.40%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.10%) Social Media
5 18 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.24%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.94%) NHS
11 8 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.73%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.30%) Life Science
14 5 (1.08%) BBC
14 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
15 4 (0.86%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.64%) Android
2 23 (4.97%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.46%) Linux
4 12 (2.59%) Windows
5 11 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (31.32%) Mentoring
2 139 (30.02%) CI/CD
3 105 (22.68%) DevOps
4 98 (21.17%) Coaching
5 88 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 77 (16.63%) AI
7 75 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (14.69%) Roadmaps
9 65 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 63 (13.61%) Project Management
11 62 (13.39%) Decision-Making
12 60 (12.96%) Scrum
13 57 (12.31%) Software Engineering
13 57 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 52 (11.23%) SDLC
15 45 (9.72%) Microservices
15 45 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (9.72%) Test Automation
16 44 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 40 (8.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 91 (19.65%) Java
2 79 (17.06%) JavaScript
3 72 (15.55%) SQL
4 65 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 64 (13.82%) C#
6 54 (11.66%) Python
7 33 (7.13%) Groovy
8 30 (6.48%) Bash
9 19 (4.10%) PHP
10 16 (3.46%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.30%) VBA
12 5 (1.08%) Scala
13 3 (0.65%) Go
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.43%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Ruby
14 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (9.29%) Degree
2 28 (6.05%) AWS Certification
3 22 (4.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (4.75%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (4.10%) Security Cleared
5 16 (3.46%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.38%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.16%) PMP
9 6 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.08%) IIBA
11 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.86%) CBAP
12 3 (0.65%) APMP
12 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.65%) CAPM
12 3 (0.65%) PgMP
13 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.15%) Accessibility
2 27 (5.83%) QA
3 20 (4.32%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.73%) PMO
5 5 (1.08%) GRC
6 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.43%) GDPR
6 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (10.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (6.05%) Terraform
2 27 (5.83%) HP Fortify
3 17 (3.67%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.51%) Ansible
4 7 (1.51%) Argo
5 3 (0.65%) Packer
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.10%) Google
3 13 (2.81%) SAP
4 9 (1.94%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.30%) TOWER Software
6 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.08%) Apple
6 5 (1.08%) Databricks
6 5 (1.08%) Facebook
6 5 (1.08%) IBM
6 5 (1.08%) Sony
6 5 (1.08%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.86%) Adobe
7 4 (0.86%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.86%) Pega
8 2 (0.43%) Avaya
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco
8 2 (0.43%) Genesys
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle