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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 363 455 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.99% 18.30% 22.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.74% 19.76% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 243 210 864
10th Percentile £42,428 £42,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £63,749
% change year-on-year -5.80% +8.24% -5.56%

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 3,091 2,303 3,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 76.57% 92.64% 86.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,854 1,042 3,121
10th Percentile £28,075 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,800 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,945 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,950 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -5 288 £65,924 -2.34% 81
South Yorkshire -16 49 £55,000 -15.38% 33
East Yorkshire -14 12 £50,000 - 8
North Yorkshire -15 10 £64,000 +13.78% 16
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 (2.75%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.20%) Confluence
3 7 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.65%) Apache
5 5 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.55%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.28%) FileNet
7 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) Sketch
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (3.86%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.55%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 144 (39.67%) AWS
2 88 (24.24%) Azure
3 72 (19.83%) Serverless
4 54 (14.88%) Amazon S3
5 44 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
6 43 (11.85%) SaaS
7 39 (10.74%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 38 (10.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 32 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
10 28 (7.71%) GitHub
11 25 (6.89%) Amazon ECR
11 25 (6.89%) Apigee
12 18 (4.96%) GCP
13 17 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.31%) Power Platform
16 11 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
16 11 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.41%) Broadband
2 5 (1.38%) DNS
3 2 (0.55%) Firewall
3 2 (0.55%) Network Security
3 2 (0.55%) SSL
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.77%) DynamoDB
2 33 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 26 (7.16%) NoSQL
4 25 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.31%) Data Lake
6 12 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.31%) Metadata
6 12 (3.31%) MySQL
7 7 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.38%) Power BI
8 5 (1.38%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.10%) Tableau
10 3 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.83%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.83%) Looker
10 3 (0.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (10.47%) GitLab
2 37 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.54%) Git
4 25 (6.89%) Cypress.io
4 25 (6.89%) Maven
4 25 (6.89%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.48%) JIRA
6 3 (0.83%) Selenium
7 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) JUnit
8 1 (0.28%) PHPUnit
General
1 109 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.25%) Finance
3 52 (14.33%) Public Sector
4 37 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.96%) Games
6 14 (3.86%) Retail
7 13 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.31%) Marketing
9 6 (1.65%) Advertising
9 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.65%) Legal
10 5 (1.38%) Electronics
10 5 (1.38%) Law
10 5 (1.38%) Local Government
10 5 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.10%) Military
11 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.55%) Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (23.42%) Developer
2 80 (22.04%) Senior
3 52 (14.33%) Lead
4 29 (7.99%) Java Developer
5 23 (6.34%) Analyst
5 23 (6.34%) Development Manager
6 21 (5.79%) Senior Manager
7 20 (5.51%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.23%) Business Analyst
8 19 (5.23%) Software Manager
9 18 (4.96%) Software Development Manager
10 17 (4.68%) Architect
10 17 (4.68%) Python Developer
11 15 (4.13%) Project Manager
12 14 (3.86%) .NET Development Manager
12 14 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.58%) AWS Developer
13 13 (3.58%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.58%) Senior Developer
14 11 (3.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.08%) React
2 43 (11.85%) .NET
3 37 (10.19%) Spring Boot
4 33 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 32 (8.82%) Node.js
5 32 (8.82%) REST
6 28 (7.71%) CSS
7 27 (7.44%) HTML
8 25 (6.89%) Gherkin
8 25 (6.89%) Jest
9 19 (5.23%) Spring
10 18 (4.96%) ASP.NET
10 18 (4.96%) RESTful
11 16 (4.41%) .NET Core
11 16 (4.41%) Flask
11 16 (4.41%) Vue
12 15 (4.13%) Django
12 15 (4.13%) FastAPI
13 13 (3.58%) Blazor
14 11 (3.03%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.79%) Data Structures
3 21 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.96%) Mobile App
5 15 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.93%) Social Media
9 6 (1.65%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.38%) Analogue Electronics
10 5 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.38%) NHS
10 5 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.13%) Android
2 14 (3.86%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.55%) Linux
3 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (35.81%) Mentoring
2 126 (34.71%) CI/CD
3 98 (27.00%) DevOps
4 87 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 76 (20.94%) Coaching
6 75 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (17.91%) Software Engineering
8 63 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (15.70%) SDLC
10 51 (14.05%) Microservices
11 49 (13.50%) Project Management
12 45 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 39 (10.74%) Scrum
14 38 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (10.19%) Decision-Making
16 35 (9.64%) Roadmaps
16 35 (9.64%) Waterfall
17 34 (9.37%) Project Delivery
18 32 (8.82%) Full-Stack Development
19 28 (7.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 63 (17.36%) SQL
2 56 (15.43%) Java
2 56 (15.43%) JavaScript
3 50 (13.77%) TypeScript
4 39 (10.74%) Python
5 32 (8.82%) C#
6 27 (7.44%) Bash
7 24 (6.61%) Groovy
8 10 (2.75%) PHP
9 7 (1.93%) C++
10 6 (1.65%) VBA
11 5 (1.38%) C
11 5 (1.38%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.38%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.83%) ABAP
12 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.55%) COBOL
13 2 (0.55%) Go
13 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (9.92%) AWS Certification
2 20 (5.51%) Degree
3 18 (4.96%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (3.86%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (3.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.93%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.93%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.83%) IIBA
8 3 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.55%) PMP
9 2 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.71%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.89%) QA
3 14 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.48%) GDPR
5 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.83%) PMO
9 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.55%) GRC
9 2 (0.55%) NCSC
9 2 (0.55%) NIST
9 2 (0.55%) P3O
9 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.55%) WCAG
10 1 (0.28%) COBIT
System Software
1 73 (20.11%) Docker
2 5 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.38%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 57 (15.70%) Terraform
2 25 (6.89%) HP Fortify
3 19 (5.23%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.75%) Ansible
5 6 (1.65%) Grafana
5 6 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.16%) SAP
3 10 (2.75%) Databricks
4 9 (2.48%) Google
5 7 (1.93%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.10%) Adobe
8 3 (0.83%) Oracle
8 3 (0.83%) Pega
8 3 (0.83%) WSO2
9 2 (0.55%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.55%) New Relic
9 2 (0.55%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.28%) ESRI
10 1 (0.28%) IBM
10 1 (0.28%) Sitecore