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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Agile 434 278 606
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.81% 8.41% 11.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 9.67% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 324 206 341
10th Percentile £41,125 £37,500 £40,988
25th Percentile £48,170 £49,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,223 £62,500 £56,700
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +10.23% -5.50%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.09% -0.37%

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 4,994 2,875 3,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.85% 86.99% 78.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,685 1,456 2,207
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -3 281 £63,788 +2.06% 189
South Yorkshire -9 89 £55,000 -21.43% 54
North Yorkshire +2 23 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East Yorkshire +4 21 £48,750 -11.36% 6
Humberside - 1 - - 5
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 11 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.30%) Confluence
3 6 (1.38%) CMS
4 3 (0.69%) Apache
4 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.46%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.92%) Trello
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.69%) Shopify
3 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 130 (29.95%) Azure
2 114 (26.27%) AWS
3 46 (10.60%) Serverless
4 42 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (5.76%) GCP
7 23 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (5.07%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (3.92%) GitHub
10 17 (3.92%) SaaS
11 15 (3.46%) Azure AI
12 13 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.00%) Amazon ECR
12 13 (3.00%) Apigee
13 12 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (2.76%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.38%) Broadband
2 4 (0.92%) ATM
2 4 (0.92%) CTI
2 4 (0.92%) Internet
2 4 (0.92%) VoIP
3 3 (0.69%) HTTP
3 3 (0.69%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.46%) Profibus
4 2 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.76%) MongoDB
2 24 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (3.92%) DynamoDB
3 17 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.53%) MySQL
7 9 (2.07%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.15%) Metadata
9 5 (1.15%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.92%) Power BI
11 3 (0.69%) Big Data
11 3 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.69%) Redis
11 3 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (10.37%) JIRA
2 31 (7.14%) GitLab
3 28 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.22%) Git
5 18 (4.15%) Cypress.io
6 16 (3.69%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.23%) Maven
8 5 (1.15%) Selenium
8 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.23%) Gatling
12 1 (0.23%) JUnit
12 1 (0.23%) PHPUnit
12 1 (0.23%) Postman
12 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 102 (23.50%) Public Sector
2 100 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 84 (19.35%) Finance
4 62 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.30%) Retail
9 9 (2.07%) Advertising
9 9 (2.07%) Banking
9 9 (2.07%) Legal
10 8 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.61%) Marketing
12 6 (1.38%) Games
12 6 (1.38%) Local Government
13 5 (1.15%) Agriculture
13 5 (1.15%) Automotive
13 5 (1.15%) Back Office
13 5 (1.15%) Law
13 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (26.04%) Senior
2 109 (25.12%) Developer
3 76 (17.51%) Analyst
4 68 (15.67%) Business Analyst
5 56 (12.90%) Lead
6 38 (8.76%) Software Engineer
7 31 (7.14%) .NET Developer
8 26 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (5.53%) Java Developer
10 23 (5.30%) Product Manager
11 21 (4.84%) Architect
12 20 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.61%) Senior Developer
13 17 (3.92%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.92%) Senior Manager
14 16 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (3.69%) Senior Business Analyst
15 15 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.46%) Technical Architect
16 14 (3.23%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.52%) .NET
2 51 (11.75%) React
3 46 (10.60%) AngularJS
4 37 (8.53%) RESTful
5 35 (8.06%) ASP.NET
6 33 (7.60%) .NET Core
6 33 (7.60%) ASP.NET Core
7 32 (7.37%) Node.js
8 29 (6.68%) Vue
9 28 (6.45%) Terraform
10 27 (6.22%) CSS
11 22 (5.07%) HTML
12 21 (4.84%) Spring Boot
13 18 (4.15%) Blazor
14 17 (3.92%) Entity Framework
14 17 (3.92%) REST
15 15 (3.46%) Jest
15 15 (3.46%) ML.NET
16 13 (3.00%) ASP.NET Web API
16 13 (3.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.68%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.38%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.00%) NHS
6 11 (2.53%) Social Media
7 10 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.61%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.61%) PMI
11 6 (1.38%) Blog
12 5 (1.15%) BBC
12 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.92%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.92%) IVR
13 4 (0.92%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.38%) Linux
2 17 (3.92%) Windows
3 14 (3.23%) Unix
4 10 (2.30%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (27.65%) CI/CD
2 119 (27.42%) Mentoring
3 111 (25.58%) DevOps
4 103 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 93 (21.43%) Coaching
6 79 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (17.28%) Scrum
8 68 (15.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 63 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 61 (14.06%) Software Engineering
11 58 (13.36%) AI
12 47 (10.83%) Decision-Making
12 47 (10.83%) Microservices
12 47 (10.83%) Roadmaps
12 47 (10.83%) SDLC
12 47 (10.83%) Test Automation
12 47 (10.83%) User Experience
12 47 (10.83%) Waterfall
13 44 (10.14%) Acceptance Criteria
14 40 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 85 (19.59%) SQL
2 84 (19.35%) C#
3 74 (17.05%) Java
3 74 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 56 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 52 (11.98%) Python
6 19 (4.38%) Groovy
7 16 (3.69%) Bash
8 14 (3.23%) PHP
9 11 (2.53%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.61%) Scala
11 6 (1.38%) C++
11 6 (1.38%) Ruby
12 3 (0.69%) COBOL
12 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.46%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (8.53%) Degree
2 23 (5.30%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.46%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.53%) PMP
7 6 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.92%) CBAP
8 4 (0.92%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (0.92%) IIBA
9 3 (0.69%) APMP
9 3 (0.69%) CAPM
9 3 (0.69%) PgMP
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.23%) CSPO
11 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.06%) QA
2 29 (6.68%) Data Quality
3 28 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.61%) PMO
5 6 (1.38%) GRC
5 6 (1.38%) WCAG
6 3 (0.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.46%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (8.76%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.00%) HP Fortify
3 7 (1.61%) Ansible
3 7 (1.61%) Argo
4 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.69%) Packer
5 2 (0.46%) Kibana
5 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 73 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.61%) Google
3 15 (3.46%) SAP
4 8 (1.84%) Databricks
5 7 (1.61%) Oracle
5 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.38%) Adobe
6 6 (1.38%) TOWER Software
7 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.15%) Apple
7 5 (1.15%) Facebook
7 5 (1.15%) IBM
7 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.15%) Sony
7 5 (1.15%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.92%) Avaya
8 4 (0.92%) Cisco
8 4 (0.92%) Genesys
8 4 (0.92%) Pega
8 4 (0.92%) VocaLink