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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 442 348 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.65% 15.68% 19.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.90% 16.53% 23.44%
Number of salaries quoted 294 237 862
10th Percentile £42,123 £39,556 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,367 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +14.50% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,668 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +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 3,715 2,105 4,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.71% 94.86% 84.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,234 3,633
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,348
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 4 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 4 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 -1 346 £63,076 -9.89% 120
South Yorkshire -17 60 £55,000 -15.38% 25
North Yorkshire -15 18 £64,500 +17.27% 13
East Yorkshire -16 12 £46,250 -7.50% 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 10 (2.26%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.90%) Apache
3 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.68%) Confluence
4 3 (0.68%) JBoss
4 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.45%) Sketch
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.17%) SAP ERP
2 7 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 162 (36.65%) AWS
2 96 (21.72%) Serverless
3 95 (21.49%) Azure
4 64 (14.48%) Amazon S3
5 62 (14.03%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (12.22%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (10.86%) AWS Step Functions
8 47 (10.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (8.14%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (8.14%) Apigee
11 35 (7.92%) SaaS
12 34 (7.69%) GitHub
13 19 (4.30%) GCP
14 17 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (3.17%) Power Platform
16 13 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.49%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.37%) Broadband
2 4 (0.90%) DNS
3 2 (0.45%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) SSL
4 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.90%) DynamoDB
2 33 (7.47%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.33%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.52%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.62%) MySQL
7 12 (2.71%) Metadata
8 9 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.13%) Power BI
11 5 (1.13%) Tableau
12 4 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.90%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.68%) Big Data
13 3 (0.68%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 56 (12.67%) GitLab
3 44 (9.95%) Git
4 39 (8.82%) SonarQube
5 37 (8.37%) Cypress.io
6 36 (8.14%) Maven
7 22 (4.98%) JIRA
8 8 (1.81%) Selenium
9 7 (1.58%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.13%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.68%) JUnit
12 2 (0.45%) Postman
13 1 (0.23%) Gatling
13 1 (0.23%) JMeter
13 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 120 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.65%) Finance
3 65 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 45 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (8.82%) Games
6 19 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.85%) Retail
8 13 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.49%) Marketing
10 6 (1.36%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.36%) Local Government
10 6 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.13%) Electronics
11 5 (1.13%) Law
11 5 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.90%) Advertising
13 3 (0.68%) Banking
13 3 (0.68%) Legal
13 3 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 128 (28.96%) Developer
2 96 (21.72%) Senior
3 69 (15.61%) Lead
4 45 (10.18%) Java Developer
5 37 (8.37%) Analyst
6 29 (6.56%) Business Analyst
7 28 (6.33%) Software Engineer
8 26 (5.88%) Senior Manager
9 23 (5.20%) Python Developer
9 23 (5.20%) Senior Developer
10 21 (4.75%) Development Manager
11 20 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
13 17 (3.85%) Software Manager
14 16 (3.62%) Software Development Manager
14 16 (3.62%) Technical Leader
15 15 (3.39%) AWS Developer
16 14 (3.17%) .NET Development Manager
16 14 (3.17%) Architect
16 14 (3.17%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (15.61%) React
2 51 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 50 (11.31%) Spring Boot
4 39 (8.82%) .NET
5 36 (8.14%) Gherkin
5 36 (8.14%) Jest
6 34 (7.69%) Vue
7 33 (7.47%) CSS
7 33 (7.47%) HTML
8 30 (6.79%) REST
9 28 (6.33%) Node.js
10 23 (5.20%) Flask
10 23 (5.20%) RESTful
11 21 (4.75%) Spring
12 19 (4.30%) GraphQL
13 18 (4.07%) .NET Core
13 18 (4.07%) ASP.NET
14 16 (3.62%) Django
15 15 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (3.39%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.28%) Mobile App
2 31 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 28 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 25 (5.66%) Data Structures
4 25 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (5.20%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.07%) Social Media
7 17 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.58%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.58%) NHS
11 6 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.13%) Analogue Electronics
12 5 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.90%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.14%) Android
2 23 (5.20%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.68%) Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (37.56%) CI/CD
2 138 (31.22%) Mentoring
3 111 (25.11%) DevOps
4 99 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 99 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (17.87%) Coaching
6 70 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 63 (14.25%) Decision-Making
8 62 (14.03%) Software Engineering
9 61 (13.80%) Project Management
9 61 (13.80%) SDLC
10 58 (13.12%) Microservices
11 53 (11.99%) AI
12 51 (11.54%) Roadmaps
13 48 (10.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 47 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 46 (10.41%) Observability
16 45 (10.18%) Waterfall
17 44 (9.95%) Design Patterns
18 43 (9.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.04%) Java
2 77 (17.42%) JavaScript
3 69 (15.61%) SQL
4 62 (14.03%) TypeScript
5 50 (11.31%) Python
6 40 (9.05%) C#
7 38 (8.60%) Groovy
8 35 (7.92%) Bash
9 17 (3.85%) PHP
10 16 (3.62%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.36%) C++
11 6 (1.36%) VBA
12 5 (1.13%) C
12 5 (1.13%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.13%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.90%) Go
14 2 (0.45%) COBOL
14 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.45%) R
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (10.63%) AWS Certification
2 31 (7.01%) Degree
3 23 (5.20%) ITIL Certification
4 22 (4.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 20 (4.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 19 (4.30%) Security Cleared
7 18 (4.07%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.81%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.36%) IIBA
9 6 (1.36%) PMP
10 4 (0.90%) CBAP
11 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.23%) CIPD
13 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.41%) Accessibility
2 28 (6.33%) QA
3 21 (4.75%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.58%) GDPR
5 6 (1.36%) GRC
5 6 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.68%) PMO
8 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) P3O
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (20.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.13%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (13.80%) Terraform
2 36 (8.14%) HP Fortify
3 24 (5.43%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.39%) Ansible
5 6 (1.36%) Grafana
5 6 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.68%) Packer
7 2 (0.45%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.66%) SAP
3 7 (1.58%) Databricks
3 7 (1.58%) Google
4 6 (1.36%) Adobe
5 5 (1.13%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.13%) IBM
5 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.90%) Hotjar
6 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle
7 3 (0.68%) Pega
7 3 (0.68%) WSO2
8 2 (0.45%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.23%) Apple
9 1 (0.23%) Facebook
9 1 (0.23%) Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Informatica
9 1 (0.23%) Sony
9 1 (0.23%) Yahoo!