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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -8
Permanent jobs citing Agile 451 304 652
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.11% 8.79% 12.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 9.97% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 323 222 408
10th Percentile £40,550 £36,250 £39,591
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,298 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,987 £78,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -3.70%

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 4,912 3,050 4,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.57% 88.15% 78.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,571 1,523 2,494
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,800 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,722 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.00% -8.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 21 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 21 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 -4 289 £62,500 - 87
South Yorkshire -11 88 £55,000 -21.43% 22
North Yorkshire +9 28 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East Yorkshire 0 22 £50,000 -14.89% 2
Humberside - 1 - - 2
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 (2.22%) Confluence
2 9 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.55%) CMS
4 3 (0.67%) Apache
4 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.89%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.89%) Trello
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.67%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 124 (27.49%) Azure
2 104 (23.06%) AWS
3 44 (9.76%) Serverless
4 41 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (5.10%) Amazon S3
8 22 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (4.43%) GCP
10 19 (4.21%) GitHub
11 18 (3.99%) AWS Step Functions
12 16 (3.55%) SaaS
13 15 (3.33%) Azure AI
14 14 (3.10%) Amazon ECR
14 14 (3.10%) Apigee
15 13 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (2.88%) Power Platform
16 9 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.66%) Broadband
2 4 (0.89%) ATM
2 4 (0.89%) CTI
2 4 (0.89%) Internet
2 4 (0.89%) VoIP
3 3 (0.67%) HTTP
4 2 (0.44%) DNS
4 2 (0.44%) Network Security
4 2 (0.44%) Profibus
4 2 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.65%) MongoDB
2 24 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (3.99%) DynamoDB
4 17 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.10%) MySQL
6 13 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.00%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.89%) Big Data
10 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.89%) Power BI
11 3 (0.67%) Metadata
11 3 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.67%) Redis
11 3 (0.67%) Tableau
12 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (10.20%) JIRA
2 33 (7.32%) GitLab
3 30 (6.65%) Jenkins
4 29 (6.43%) Git
5 18 (3.99%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.77%) SonarQube
7 15 (3.33%) Maven
8 5 (1.11%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.89%) PHPUnit
9 4 (0.89%) Selenium
10 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.22%) Gatling
12 1 (0.22%) JMeter
12 1 (0.22%) JUnit
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
12 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.73%) Public Sector
3 88 (19.51%) Finance
4 60 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.66%) Games
7 17 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.22%) Retail
10 9 (2.00%) Advertising
10 9 (2.00%) Banking
11 8 (1.77%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.77%) Legal
11 8 (1.77%) Local Government
12 7 (1.55%) Marketing
13 5 (1.11%) Agriculture
13 5 (1.11%) Automotive
13 5 (1.11%) Back Office
13 5 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 117 (25.94%) Developer
2 108 (23.95%) Senior
3 79 (17.52%) Analyst
4 70 (15.52%) Business Analyst
5 62 (13.75%) Lead
6 39 (8.65%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.87%) .NET Developer
8 26 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (5.54%) Java Developer
10 24 (5.32%) Product Manager
11 21 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 20 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.99%) Python Developer
14 17 (3.77%) Senior Manager
15 16 (3.55%) Architect
15 16 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (3.55%) Senior Business Analyst
16 15 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (3.33%) Technical Leader
17 14 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (12.42%) .NET
2 51 (11.31%) React
3 47 (10.42%) AngularJS
4 36 (7.98%) RESTful
5 35 (7.76%) ASP.NET
6 33 (7.32%) .NET Core
6 33 (7.32%) ASP.NET Core
6 33 (7.32%) Vue
7 30 (6.65%) Node.js
8 28 (6.21%) Terraform
9 25 (5.54%) CSS
10 22 (4.88%) Spring Boot
11 20 (4.43%) HTML
12 18 (3.99%) Blazor
13 17 (3.77%) Entity Framework
14 16 (3.55%) Jest
14 16 (3.55%) REST
15 15 (3.33%) ML.NET
16 14 (3.10%) Gherkin
17 13 (2.88%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.76%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.77%) Social Media
5 16 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.33%) NHS
7 14 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.66%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.55%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.55%) PMI
12 6 (1.33%) Blog
13 5 (1.11%) BBC
13 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.11%) Life Science
14 4 (0.89%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.89%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.54%) Android
2 17 (3.77%) Linux
3 16 (3.55%) Windows
4 12 (2.66%) Unix
5 9 (2.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (28.16%) CI/CD
2 116 (25.72%) Mentoring
3 107 (23.73%) DevOps
4 98 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 85 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (17.96%) Coaching
7 73 (16.19%) AI
8 72 (15.96%) Scrum
9 64 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 63 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
11 60 (13.30%) Software Engineering
12 56 (12.42%) Roadmaps
13 50 (11.09%) Decision-Making
14 48 (10.64%) Waterfall
15 47 (10.42%) Microservices
15 47 (10.42%) SDLC
15 47 (10.42%) Test Automation
15 47 (10.42%) User Experience
16 44 (9.76%) Acceptance Criteria
16 44 (9.76%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (17.74%) C#
1 80 (17.74%) SQL
2 79 (17.52%) Java
3 74 (16.41%) JavaScript
4 55 (12.20%) Python
5 54 (11.97%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.43%) Groovy
7 18 (3.99%) PHP
8 17 (3.77%) Bash
8 17 (3.77%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.55%) Scala
10 6 (1.33%) Ruby
11 3 (0.67%) COBOL
11 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.44%) Go
12 2 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (8.65%) Degree
2 24 (5.32%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.10%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.66%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.44%) PMP
8 6 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.89%) CBAP
9 4 (0.89%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (0.89%) IIBA
10 3 (0.67%) APMP
10 3 (0.67%) CAPM
10 3 (0.67%) PgMP
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.76%) Accessibility
2 34 (7.54%) QA
3 22 (4.88%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.55%) PMO
5 5 (1.11%) GRC
6 4 (0.89%) WCAG
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.44%) IEC 61131
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (8.87%) Docker
2 4 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.10%) HP Fortify
3 7 (1.55%) Ansible
3 7 (1.55%) Argo
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.67%) Packer
5 2 (0.44%) Kibana
5 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 71 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.77%) Google
3 15 (3.33%) SAP
4 8 (1.77%) Databricks
5 7 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.33%) TOWER Software
7 5 (1.11%) Adobe
7 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.11%) Apple
7 5 (1.11%) Facebook
7 5 (1.11%) IBM
7 5 (1.11%) Oracle
7 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.11%) Sony
7 5 (1.11%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.89%) Avaya
8 4 (0.89%) Cisco
8 4 (0.89%) Genesys
8 4 (0.89%) Pega
8 4 (0.89%) VocaLink