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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 11 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 330 481 873
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.43% 13.74% 31.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.19% 15.58% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 245 215 711
10th Percentile £39,150 £42,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,740 £50,086
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £84,850 £91,934
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500

All Process and 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 2,948 3,088 2,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.28% 88.20% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,578 1,219 2,062
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 16 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -4 255 £65,000 +14.84% 85
South Yorkshire -18 43 £55,000 -5.93% 24
North Yorkshire -12 19 £60,000 -4.00% 10
East Yorkshire -11 12 £55,000 +7.32% 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 12 (3.64%) Confluence
2 8 (2.42%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.82%) Apache
5 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.21%) CMS
6 2 (0.61%) Drupal
6 2 (0.61%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.30%) FileNet
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.61%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.82%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.61%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (36.36%) AWS
2 94 (28.48%) Azure
3 52 (15.76%) Serverless
4 47 (14.24%) SaaS
5 36 (10.91%) Amazon S3
6 28 (8.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (8.48%) GitHub
7 27 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (7.58%) AWS Step Functions
9 24 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (6.67%) GCP
11 20 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
14 12 (3.64%) Apigee
14 12 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) DNS
2 3 (0.91%) Firewall
3 2 (0.61%) AMQP
3 2 (0.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) LAN
4 1 (0.30%) MPLS
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) VoIP
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
4 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.79%) DynamoDB
3 22 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.94%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (3.64%) MySQL
8 7 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.21%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.21%) Looker
10 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.21%) Power BI
10 4 (1.21%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.91%) Metadata
11 3 (0.91%) Tableau
12 2 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 33 (10.00%) Git
2 28 (8.48%) Jenkins
3 26 (7.88%) GitLab
4 19 (5.76%) JIRA
5 13 (3.94%) Cypress.io
6 12 (3.64%) Maven
6 12 (3.64%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.91%) Selenium
8 2 (0.61%) Grunt
8 2 (0.61%) gulp
8 2 (0.61%) Storybook
8 2 (0.61%) webpack
9 1 (0.30%) Appium
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) JUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 114 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.48%) Finance
3 35 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.85%) Law
6 15 (4.55%) Marketing
6 15 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.24%) Retail
8 12 (3.64%) Legal
9 7 (2.12%) Advertising
10 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.52%) Banking
11 5 (1.52%) Electronics
11 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.52%) Local Government
12 4 (1.21%) Military
12 4 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (21.82%) Developer
2 57 (17.27%) Senior
3 44 (13.33%) Lead
4 24 (7.27%) Analyst
5 21 (6.36%) Development Manager
6 18 (5.45%) Software Manager
7 17 (5.15%) Business Analyst
8 16 (4.85%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.85%) Software Development Manager
8 16 (4.85%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.55%) Architect
9 15 (4.55%) Python Developer
10 14 (4.24%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.94%) Project Manager
12 12 (3.64%) Consultant
12 12 (3.64%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.33%) .NET Developer
13 11 (3.33%) .NET Development Manager
14 10 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (18.18%) React
2 54 (16.36%) .NET
3 39 (11.82%) CSS
4 34 (10.30%) HTML
5 32 (9.70%) Node.js
6 28 (8.48%) REST
7 26 (7.88%) Spring Boot
8 23 (6.97%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.97%) ASP.NET
9 20 (6.06%) RESTful
9 20 (6.06%) Spring
10 18 (5.45%) Django
10 18 (5.45%) FastAPI
10 18 (5.45%) Flask
11 15 (4.55%) .NET Core
11 15 (4.55%) Vue
12 13 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (3.94%) Blazor
12 13 (3.94%) Jest
13 12 (3.64%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.88%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.52%) Analogue Electronics
6 5 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.52%) NHS
6 5 (1.52%) Social Media
6 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.21%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.21%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.61%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.61%) Linux
1 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 95 (28.79%) DevOps
2 95 (28.79%) Mentoring
3 82 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (21.21%) Software Engineering
6 53 (16.06%) SDLC
7 51 (15.45%) Coaching
8 50 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (14.55%) Scrum
11 46 (13.94%) Microservices
12 39 (11.82%) Project Management
13 37 (11.21%) Project Delivery
14 33 (10.00%) Waterfall
15 32 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (9.39%) Decision-Making
16 31 (9.39%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (8.79%) Roadmaps
18 24 (7.27%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 68 (20.61%) SQL
2 63 (19.09%) JavaScript
3 45 (13.64%) Python
4 43 (13.03%) TypeScript
5 39 (11.82%) C#
5 39 (11.82%) Java
6 15 (4.55%) PHP
7 14 (4.24%) Bash
8 11 (3.33%) Groovy
9 9 (2.73%) C++
10 5 (1.52%) C
10 5 (1.52%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.52%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.21%) COBOL
11 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.91%) ABAP
13 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.61%) R
13 2 (0.61%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 24 (7.27%) Degree
2 18 (5.45%) AWS Certification
3 15 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.24%) AWS Certified Developer
4 14 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.21%) ACCA
7 4 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.67%) QA
2 11 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.73%) GDPR
4 7 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.21%) GAAP
7 4 (1.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (1.21%) IFRS
8 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.61%) GRC
8 2 (0.61%) NCSC
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) P3O
8 2 (0.61%) PMO
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
8 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 63 (19.09%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.52%) Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) Squid
3 1 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 58 (17.58%) Terraform
2 25 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.64%) Ansible
3 12 (3.64%) HP Fortify
4 8 (2.42%) Grafana
4 8 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.45%) SAP
3 13 (3.94%) Databricks
4 6 (1.82%) Google
5 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.21%) Oracle
7 3 (0.91%) IBM
7 3 (0.91%) Pega
7 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.91%) WSO2
8 2 (0.61%) Adobe
8 2 (0.61%) New Relic
8 2 (0.61%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.30%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.30%) Dell
9 1 (0.30%) ESRI
9 1 (0.30%) iManage
9 1 (0.30%) Intapp
9 1 (0.30%) Sage
9 1 (0.30%) TOWER Software