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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 22 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 -7
Permanent jobs citing Agile 465 306 717
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.52% 8.66% 13.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.70% 9.70% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 338 225 474
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £40,988
25th Percentile £46,966 £47,231 £46,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,985 £80,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £92,274 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -0.76%

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 4,795 3,155 4,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.25% 89.33% 78.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,448 1,526 2,743
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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 August 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 August 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 -5 302 £62,500 -3.85% 130
South Yorkshire -10 91 £55,000 -21.43% 33
North Yorkshire +24 33 £55,000 -12.00% 12
East Yorkshire -2 21 £50,000 +5.26% 11
Humberside - 1 - - 7
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 (1.51%) CMS
1 7 (1.51%) Confluence
2 6 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.65%) Apache
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.65%) IIS
3 3 (0.65%) JBoss
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.43%) WordPress
5 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.08%) Trello
5 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.43%) Sketch
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.86%) Shopify
3 1 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 130 (27.96%) Azure
2 114 (24.52%) AWS
3 48 (10.32%) Serverless
4 41 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (5.81%) Amazon S3
8 26 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (4.73%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (4.52%) Amazon ECR
10 21 (4.52%) Apigee
11 20 (4.30%) GCP
12 17 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (3.66%) GitHub
12 17 (3.66%) SaaS
13 15 (3.23%) Azure AI
13 15 (3.23%) Power Platform
14 13 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (1.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.45%) Broadband
2 4 (0.86%) ATM
2 4 (0.86%) CTI
2 4 (0.86%) HTTP
2 4 (0.86%) Internet
2 4 (0.86%) VoIP
3 2 (0.43%) DNS
3 2 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.22%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.46%) MongoDB
2 24 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 22 (4.73%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.09%) MySQL
5 17 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.15%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.51%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.08%) Big Data
11 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.08%) Power BI
12 4 (0.86%) Tableau
13 3 (0.65%) Metadata
13 3 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.65%) Redis
14 2 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 46 (9.89%) JIRA
2 43 (9.25%) GitLab
3 39 (8.39%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.45%) Git
5 25 (5.38%) Cypress.io
6 24 (5.16%) SonarQube
7 22 (4.73%) Maven
8 6 (1.29%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.29%) Selenium
9 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.86%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.65%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.43%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.43%) JUnit
12 2 (0.43%) Postman
13 1 (0.22%) Gatling
13 1 (0.22%) JMeter
13 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.14%) Finance
2 89 (19.14%) Public Sector
3 56 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.45%) Games
6 18 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.80%) Retail
9 9 (1.94%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.29%) Advertising
10 6 (1.29%) Automotive
10 6 (1.29%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.29%) Marketing
11 5 (1.08%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.08%) Law
11 5 (1.08%) Local Government
11 5 (1.08%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.86%) Legal
12 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 129 (27.74%) Developer
2 110 (23.66%) Senior
3 69 (14.84%) Analyst
4 63 (13.55%) Lead
5 61 (13.12%) Business Analyst
6 41 (8.82%) Software Engineer
7 30 (6.45%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.24%) .NET Developer
9 28 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (4.95%) Product Manager
11 22 (4.73%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.30%) Python Developer
12 20 (4.30%) Senior Manager
13 17 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (3.44%) Technical Leader
15 15 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (2.80%) Engineering Manager
16 13 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.47%) React
2 52 (11.18%) .NET
3 50 (10.75%) AngularJS
4 39 (8.39%) RESTful
5 35 (7.53%) Vue
6 34 (7.31%) ASP.NET
7 33 (7.10%) ASP.NET Core
8 32 (6.88%) Node.js
9 29 (6.24%) .NET Core
10 26 (5.59%) Spring Boot
11 23 (4.95%) CSS
11 23 (4.95%) Jest
12 21 (4.52%) Gherkin
12 21 (4.52%) HTML
13 18 (3.87%) REST
14 16 (3.44%) Blazor
14 16 (3.44%) Entity Framework
15 15 (3.23%) GraphQL
15 15 (3.23%) ML.NET
16 14 (3.01%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.60%) Mobile App
2 35 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.09%) Social Media
4 18 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.58%) NHS
8 10 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.29%) Life Science
11 6 (1.29%) PMI
12 5 (1.08%) BBC
13 4 (0.86%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.86%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.86%) IVR
13 4 (0.86%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.10%) Android
2 17 (3.66%) Linux
3 16 (3.44%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.44%) Windows
4 12 (2.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (29.46%) CI/CD
2 129 (27.74%) Mentoring
3 108 (23.23%) DevOps
4 97 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (18.92%) Coaching
6 85 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (16.99%) AI
8 72 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 72 (15.48%) Scrum
9 67 (14.41%) Roadmaps
10 64 (13.76%) Software Engineering
11 63 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (12.04%) Decision-Making
13 53 (11.40%) Project Management
14 50 (10.75%) Microservices
15 49 (10.54%) Test Automation
16 48 (10.32%) User Experience
17 47 (10.11%) SDLC
18 45 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 44 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 86 (18.49%) Java
2 83 (17.85%) JavaScript
3 80 (17.20%) SQL
4 76 (16.34%) C#
5 61 (13.12%) TypeScript
6 57 (12.26%) Python
7 27 (5.81%) Groovy
8 24 (5.16%) Bash
9 20 (4.30%) PHP
10 17 (3.66%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.29%) Scala
12 4 (0.86%) Ruby
13 3 (0.65%) COBOL
13 3 (0.65%) Go
13 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.65%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.43%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (9.25%) Degree
2 22 (4.73%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.52%) AWS Certification
4 19 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 16 (3.44%) ITIL Certification
5 16 (3.44%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.80%) PMP
7 12 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.86%) CBAP
9 4 (0.86%) IIBA
10 3 (0.65%) APMP
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.65%) CAPM
10 3 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.65%) PgMP
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 31 (6.67%) QA
3 22 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.51%) PMO
5 5 (1.08%) GRC
6 4 (0.86%) WCAG
7 3 (0.65%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.43%) GDPR
8 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 44 (9.46%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (6.24%) Terraform
2 21 (4.52%) HP Fortify
3 19 (4.09%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.51%) Ansible
4 7 (1.51%) Argo
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.65%) Packer
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 67 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.23%) Google
3 14 (3.01%) SAP
4 9 (1.94%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.51%) Databricks
6 6 (1.29%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.29%) TOWER Software
7 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.08%) Apple
7 5 (1.08%) Facebook
7 5 (1.08%) IBM
7 5 (1.08%) Oracle
7 5 (1.08%) Sony
7 5 (1.08%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.86%) Adobe
8 4 (0.86%) Avaya
8 4 (0.86%) Cisco
8 4 (0.86%) Genesys
8 4 (0.86%) Pega
8 4 (0.86%) VocaLink