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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Agile 436 297 635
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.83% 8.79% 12.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.75% 10.07% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 326 223 369
10th Percentile £41,375 £37,500 £40,988
25th Percentile £48,289 £48,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +10.62% -5.83%
75th Percentile £74,987 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.93% -3.02%

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 4,985 2,949 4,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.64% 87.30% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,683 1,520 2,312
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,850 £80,000 £78,675
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 1 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 1 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 £64,500 +3.20% 184
South Yorkshire -6 89 £55,000 -21.43% 54
North Yorkshire +4 25 £55,000 -8.33% 17
East Yorkshire -2 21 £48,750 -11.36% 5
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 11 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.29%) 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 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.06%) 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 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 133 (30.50%) Azure
2 112 (25.69%) AWS
3 44 (10.09%) Serverless
4 42 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (5.73%) GCP
7 23 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (5.05%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (4.13%) GitHub
10 18 (4.13%) SaaS
11 17 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (3.44%) Azure AI
13 14 (3.21%) Power Platform
14 13 (2.98%) Amazon ECR
14 13 (2.98%) Apigee
14 13 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (2.29%) 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
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.46%) Network Security
4 2 (0.46%) Profibus
4 2 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.94%) MongoDB
2 24 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (3.90%) DynamoDB
3 17 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.75%) MySQL
7 10 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.06%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.15%) Metadata
11 4 (0.92%) Big Data
11 4 (0.92%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.92%) Power BI
12 3 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.69%) Redis
12 3 (0.69%) Tableau
13 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (10.55%) JIRA
2 31 (7.11%) GitLab
3 28 (6.42%) Git
3 28 (6.42%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.13%) Cypress.io
5 16 (3.67%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.21%) Maven
7 5 (1.15%) Selenium
7 5 (1.15%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.46%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.46%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.23%) Gatling
11 1 (0.23%) JMeter
11 1 (0.23%) Postman
11 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 99 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 97 (22.25%) Public Sector
3 87 (19.95%) Finance
4 61 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.29%) Retail
9 9 (2.06%) Advertising
9 9 (2.06%) Banking
9 9 (2.06%) Legal
10 8 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.61%) Local Government
11 7 (1.61%) Marketing
12 6 (1.38%) Games
13 5 (1.15%) Automotive
13 5 (1.15%) Back Office
13 5 (1.15%) Law
13 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 115 (26.38%) Senior
2 112 (25.69%) Developer
3 76 (17.43%) Analyst
4 68 (15.60%) Business Analyst
5 56 (12.84%) Lead
6 39 (8.94%) Software Engineer
7 31 (7.11%) .NET Developer
8 26 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (5.50%) Java Developer
9 24 (5.50%) Product Manager
10 21 (4.82%) Architect
10 21 (4.82%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (3.90%) Python Developer
12 17 (3.90%) Senior Manager
13 16 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (3.67%) Senior Business Analyst
13 16 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (3.44%) Technical Architect
15 13 (2.98%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.76%) .NET
2 51 (11.70%) React
3 46 (10.55%) AngularJS
4 37 (8.49%) RESTful
5 35 (8.03%) ASP.NET
6 33 (7.57%) .NET Core
6 33 (7.57%) ASP.NET Core
7 32 (7.34%) Node.js
8 30 (6.88%) Vue
9 28 (6.42%) Terraform
10 27 (6.19%) CSS
11 22 (5.05%) HTML
12 21 (4.82%) Spring Boot
13 18 (4.13%) Blazor
14 17 (3.90%) Entity Framework
14 17 (3.90%) REST
15 15 (3.44%) Jest
15 15 (3.44%) ML.NET
16 13 (2.98%) ASP.NET Web API
16 13 (2.98%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.88%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.36%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.21%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.98%) NHS
6 11 (2.52%) Social Media
7 10 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.61%) Driving Licence
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%) Life Science
13 4 (0.92%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.92%) IVR
13 4 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.36%) Linux
2 17 (3.90%) Windows
3 14 (3.21%) Unix
4 10 (2.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (27.06%) CI/CD
2 117 (26.83%) Mentoring
3 111 (25.46%) DevOps
4 102 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 90 (20.64%) Coaching
6 80 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (17.20%) Scrum
8 66 (15.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 62 (14.22%) Software Engineering
9 62 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 60 (13.76%) AI
11 49 (11.24%) Waterfall
12 48 (11.01%) Microservices
12 48 (11.01%) Roadmaps
13 47 (10.78%) SDLC
13 47 (10.78%) Test Automation
13 47 (10.78%) User Experience
14 45 (10.32%) Decision-Making
15 44 (10.09%) Acceptance Criteria
16 40 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (19.04%) C#
1 83 (19.04%) SQL
2 75 (17.20%) JavaScript
3 71 (16.28%) Java
4 57 (13.07%) TypeScript
5 53 (12.16%) Python
6 19 (4.36%) Groovy
7 16 (3.67%) Bash
7 16 (3.67%) PHP
8 11 (2.52%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.61%) Scala
10 6 (1.38%) Ruby
11 3 (0.69%) C++
11 3 (0.69%) COBOL
11 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.46%) Bicep
12 2 (0.46%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (8.72%) Degree
2 23 (5.28%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.44%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.52%) 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 Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.03%) QA
2 28 (6.42%) Accessibility
3 26 (5.96%) Data Quality
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 39 (8.94%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.98%) 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 75 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.59%) Google
3 15 (3.44%) SAP
4 8 (1.83%) 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