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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 22 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Agile 422 259 581
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.53% 7.83% 11.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 9.03% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 309 188 292
10th Percentile £40,700 £39,925 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £82,734
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 5,108 2,869 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.98% 86.76% 79.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 1,419 1,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,010 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,367 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £79,475
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 16 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 16 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 -3 274 £64,750 +3.60% 282
South Yorkshire -11 87 £55,000 -22.81% 86
East Yorkshire -5 21 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North Yorkshire -1 20 £51,250 -14.58% 34
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 10 (2.37%) Confluence
1 10 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.42%) CMS
3 3 (0.71%) Apache
3 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.71%) IIS
4 2 (0.47%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) JBoss
5 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.95%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.95%) Trello
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.71%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.24%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 126 (29.86%) Azure
2 121 (28.67%) AWS
3 52 (12.32%) Serverless
4 43 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (6.87%) Amazon S3
7 25 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (5.92%) GCP
8 22 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (5.21%) GitHub
9 19 (4.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 18 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (3.79%) SaaS
12 15 (3.55%) Azure AI
12 15 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.32%) Amazon ECR
13 14 (3.32%) Apigee
13 14 (3.32%) Power Platform
14 12 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.95%) ATM
1 4 (0.95%) CTI
1 4 (0.95%) Internet
1 4 (0.95%) VoIP
2 3 (0.71%) Network Security
3 2 (0.47%) DNS
3 2 (0.47%) HTTP
3 2 (0.47%) Profibus
3 2 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.53%) MongoDB
2 23 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (4.50%) DynamoDB
4 17 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.13%) MySQL
8 7 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.66%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.42%) Power BI
10 5 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.18%) Metadata
10 5 (1.18%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.71%) Redis
12 3 (0.71%) Tableau
13 2 (0.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 45 (10.66%) JIRA
2 36 (8.53%) GitLab
3 32 (7.58%) Jenkins
4 25 (5.92%) Git
5 23 (5.45%) Cypress.io
6 17 (4.03%) SonarQube
7 15 (3.55%) Maven
8 6 (1.42%) JMeter
9 5 (1.18%) Postman
9 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.95%) Selenium
11 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.24%) Appium
12 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.24%) Ranorex
12 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (24.41%) Public Sector
2 101 (23.93%) Social Skills
3 77 (18.25%) Finance
4 65 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.61%) Legal
8 11 (2.61%) Retail
9 10 (2.37%) Banking
10 9 (2.13%) Advertising
11 7 (1.66%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.42%) Local Government
12 6 (1.42%) Marketing
13 5 (1.18%) Back Office
13 5 (1.18%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.95%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.95%) Automotive
14 4 (0.95%) Digital Economy
14 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (26.07%) Senior
2 103 (24.41%) Developer
3 72 (17.06%) Analyst
4 63 (14.93%) Business Analyst
5 54 (12.80%) Lead
6 36 (8.53%) Software Engineer
7 30 (7.11%) .NET Developer
8 26 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (5.92%) Java Developer
10 23 (5.45%) Architect
10 23 (5.45%) Product Manager
11 21 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.74%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.03%) Senior Manager
13 17 (4.03%) Technical Architect
14 16 (3.79%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.32%) Data Engineer
15 14 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (3.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.93%) .NET
2 48 (11.37%) React
3 45 (10.66%) AngularJS
4 39 (9.24%) RESTful
5 34 (8.06%) ASP.NET
6 33 (7.82%) Node.js
7 32 (7.58%) .NET Core
7 32 (7.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 30 (7.11%) Terraform
9 25 (5.92%) CSS
10 24 (5.69%) Vue
11 23 (5.45%) Spring Boot
12 20 (4.74%) HTML
13 19 (4.50%) Gherkin
13 19 (4.50%) REST
14 18 (4.27%) Blazor
15 16 (3.79%) Entity Framework
15 16 (3.79%) Jest
16 15 (3.55%) ML.NET
17 12 (2.84%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.58%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.69%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.08%) NHS
4 12 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 8 (1.90%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.66%) PMI
7 6 (1.42%) Blog
8 5 (1.18%) BBC
8 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.18%) Social Media
9 4 (0.95%) e-Learning
9 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.74%) Linux
2 17 (4.03%) Windows
3 14 (3.32%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.73%) CI/CD
2 115 (27.25%) Mentoring
3 114 (27.01%) DevOps
4 103 (24.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (22.27%) Coaching
6 77 (18.25%) Scrum
7 74 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (15.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 63 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 60 (14.22%) Software Engineering
11 55 (13.03%) AI
12 52 (12.32%) Test Automation
13 49 (11.61%) Roadmaps
13 49 (11.61%) SDLC
14 48 (11.37%) Microservices
15 44 (10.43%) Acceptance Criteria
15 44 (10.43%) Decision-Making
15 44 (10.43%) User Experience
16 41 (9.72%) Waterfall
17 39 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 88 (20.85%) SQL
2 81 (19.19%) C#
3 75 (17.77%) JavaScript
4 69 (16.35%) Java
5 61 (14.45%) TypeScript
6 53 (12.56%) Python
7 20 (4.74%) Groovy
8 17 (4.03%) Bash
9 12 (2.84%) PHP
10 7 (1.66%) Scala
11 6 (1.42%) C++
11 6 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.42%) Ruby
12 3 (0.71%) COBOL
12 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.47%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (7.58%) Degree
2 27 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.55%) AWS Certification
5 13 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.13%) PMP
9 6 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.71%) APMP
11 3 (0.71%) CAPM
11 3 (0.71%) PgMP
12 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.24%) ACCA
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.24%) CIMA
13 1 (0.24%) CSPO
13 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.00%) QA
2 26 (6.16%) Accessibility
2 26 (6.16%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.66%) PMO
4 6 (1.42%) WCAG
5 4 (0.95%) GRC
6 3 (0.71%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.47%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (9.24%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.32%) HP Fortify
3 8 (1.90%) Ansible
4 7 (1.66%) Argo
5 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.71%) Packer
6 2 (0.47%) Kibana
6 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 75 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.74%) Google
3 15 (3.55%) SAP
4 8 (1.90%) Databricks
5 7 (1.66%) Oracle
6 5 (1.18%) Adobe
6 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.18%) Apple
6 5 (1.18%) Facebook
6 5 (1.18%) IBM
6 5 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.18%) Sony
6 5 (1.18%) TOWER Software
6 5 (1.18%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.95%) Avaya
7 4 (0.95%) Cisco
7 4 (0.95%) Genesys
7 4 (0.95%) Pega
7 4 (0.95%) VocaLink