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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 476 344 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.39% 12.96% 18.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.70% 13.72% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 324 234 806
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £40,988
25th Percentile £49,938 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £75,579
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 4,447 2,507 4,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.06% 94.43% 82.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 1,274 3,728
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,083 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 21 May 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 May 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 -1 350 £63,076 -6.55% 66
South Yorkshire -20 72 £57,946 -15.71% 39
North Yorkshire -10 23 £64,000 +8.94% 10
East Yorkshire -16 15 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Humberside - 1 - - 6
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 7 (1.47%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) Apache
4 3 (0.63%) JBoss
5 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.42%) Sketch
3 2 (0.42%) Trello
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.52%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (31.30%) AWS
2 111 (23.32%) Azure
3 78 (16.39%) Serverless
4 59 (12.39%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (12.18%) Amazon S3
6 53 (11.13%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (9.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (7.77%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (7.77%) Apigee
9 36 (7.56%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (6.09%) SaaS
11 25 (5.25%) GCP
12 20 (4.20%) GitHub
13 18 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (3.78%) Power Platform
14 14 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.52%) PowerApps
16 9 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.68%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.77%) Broadband
2 4 (0.84%) DNS
3 2 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.92%) DynamoDB
2 31 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (6.30%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.25%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.83%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.41%) MySQL
7 16 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.52%) Metadata
9 11 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.89%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.47%) Power BI
13 6 (1.26%) Tableau
14 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.84%) Big Data
15 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
16 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
17 2 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 66 (13.87%) GitLab
2 58 (12.18%) Jenkins
3 40 (8.40%) SonarQube
4 39 (8.19%) Cypress.io
5 38 (7.98%) Maven
6 36 (7.56%) Git
7 28 (5.88%) JIRA
8 8 (1.68%) Selenium
9 7 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.05%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.63%) JUnit
12 2 (0.42%) Postman
12 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.21%) Gatling
13 1 (0.21%) JMeter
13 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 106 (22.27%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.44%) Public Sector
3 80 (16.81%) Finance
4 49 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (7.98%) Games
6 24 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.31%) Retail
9 9 (1.89%) Marketing
10 7 (1.47%) Law
11 6 (1.26%) Automotive
11 6 (1.26%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.05%) Agriculture
13 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.63%) Electronics
14 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
14 3 (0.63%) Local Government
14 3 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 132 (27.73%) Developer
2 111 (23.32%) Senior
3 84 (17.65%) Lead
4 59 (12.39%) Analyst
5 51 (10.71%) Business Analyst
6 44 (9.24%) Java Developer
7 33 (6.93%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.09%) Senior Manager
9 24 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (4.62%) Python Developer
12 18 (3.78%) Architect
12 18 (3.78%) Technical Leader
13 16 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.36%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.15%) .NET Developer
14 15 (3.15%) Engineering Manager
15 13 (2.73%) Product Manager
15 13 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 55 (11.55%) React
3 47 (9.87%) Spring Boot
4 38 (7.98%) Jest
5 37 (7.77%) Gherkin
6 33 (6.93%) .NET
7 31 (6.51%) Node.js
7 31 (6.51%) Vue
8 26 (5.46%) RESTful
9 25 (5.25%) REST
10 22 (4.62%) CSS
10 22 (4.62%) HTML
11 19 (3.99%) ASP.NET
12 18 (3.78%) GraphQL
13 17 (3.57%) Flask
13 17 (3.57%) Spring
14 16 (3.36%) .NET Core
14 16 (3.36%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (2.73%) Android SDK
16 12 (2.52%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.82%) Mobile App
2 28 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.46%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.83%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.57%) Social Media
6 16 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.47%) NHS
9 6 (1.26%) Life Science
10 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.84%) PKI
11 4 (0.84%) PMI
11 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.56%) Android
2 23 (4.83%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.10%) Linux
4 8 (1.68%) Windows
5 7 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (33.82%) CI/CD
2 154 (32.35%) Mentoring
3 110 (23.11%) DevOps
4 97 (20.38%) Coaching
5 95 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 64 (13.45%) Decision-Making
9 63 (13.24%) Roadmaps
10 61 (12.82%) AI
11 59 (12.39%) Microservices
11 59 (12.39%) SDLC
11 59 (12.39%) Software Engineering
12 57 (11.97%) Project Management
13 54 (11.34%) Scrum
14 52 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 47 (9.87%) Waterfall
16 45 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
17 43 (9.03%) Observability
18 41 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 107 (22.48%) Java
2 76 (15.97%) JavaScript
3 70 (14.71%) SQL
4 69 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 54 (11.34%) Python
6 48 (10.08%) C#
7 40 (8.40%) Groovy
8 39 (8.19%) Bash
9 20 (4.20%) PHP
10 16 (3.36%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.26%) VBA
12 4 (0.84%) C++
12 4 (0.84%) Go
12 4 (0.84%) Scala
13 3 (0.63%) C
13 3 (0.63%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.63%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (9.45%) AWS Certification
2 40 (8.40%) Degree
3 23 (4.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (4.83%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (3.78%) Security Cleared
5 17 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.36%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.31%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.10%) PMP
9 7 (1.47%) IIBA
10 6 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.84%) CBAP
12 3 (0.63%) APMP
12 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.63%) CAPM
12 3 (0.63%) PgMP
13 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.08%) Accessibility
2 35 (7.35%) QA
3 25 (5.25%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.47%) GRC
5 6 (1.26%) GDPR
5 6 (1.26%) PMO
6 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (15.13%) Docker
2 3 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (9.03%) Terraform
2 37 (7.77%) HP Fortify
3 21 (4.41%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.31%) Ansible
5 7 (1.47%) Argo
6 4 (0.84%) Grafana
6 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.63%) Packer
8 2 (0.42%) Kibana
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.20%) SAP
3 10 (2.10%) Google
4 8 (1.68%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.26%) Adobe
5 6 (1.26%) Databricks
6 5 (1.05%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.05%) IBM
6 5 (1.05%) TOWER Software
7 4 (0.84%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.42%) Apple
8 2 (0.42%) Facebook
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle
8 2 (0.42%) Sony
8 2 (0.42%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.21%) Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) New Relic
9 1 (0.21%) Nintex
9 1 (0.21%) Palantir