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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 337 482 844
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 10.11% 14.80% 27.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.54% 16.50% 30.20%
Number of salaries quoted 231 218 726
10th Percentile £41,074 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,110 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,100 £60,125
Median % change year-on-year +9.46% -5.03% -2.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,625 £91,934
England median annual salary £65,500 £67,500 £65,601
% change year-on-year -2.96% +2.89% -2.81%

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 2,687 2,922 2,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 80.59% 89.71% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,556 1,157 2,190
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,800
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,000 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%
75th Percentile £69,125 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -4 271 £65,000 +18.18% 86
South Yorkshire -19 38 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North Yorkshire -9 16 £60,000 +7.14% 9
East Yorkshire -13 12 £55,000 +7.32% 10
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 (2.97%) Confluence
1 10 (2.97%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.78%) Apache
4 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.19%) CMS
5 2 (0.59%) Drupal
5 2 (0.59%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.30%) FileNet
6 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.59%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.56%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 132 (39.17%) AWS
2 96 (28.49%) Azure
3 59 (17.51%) Serverless
4 43 (12.76%) Amazon S3
4 43 (12.76%) SaaS
5 32 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (8.61%) GitHub
8 28 (8.31%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (8.01%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (7.12%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (6.53%) GCP
12 18 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (4.15%) Amazon ECR
14 14 (4.15%) Apigee
15 12 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.26%) Amazon EventBridge
17 7 (2.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.78%) DNS
2 3 (0.89%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) AMQP
3 2 (0.59%) 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 39 (11.57%) DynamoDB
2 34 (10.09%) SQL Server
3 26 (7.72%) NoSQL
4 24 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.86%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.26%) Metadata
8 8 (2.37%) MySQL
9 7 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.19%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.19%) Looker
11 4 (1.19%) Power BI
11 4 (1.19%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.89%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.89%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (10.39%) Git
2 30 (8.90%) GitLab
2 30 (8.90%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.45%) Cypress.io
4 14 (4.15%) JIRA
4 14 (4.15%) Maven
4 14 (4.15%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.89%) Selenium
6 2 (0.59%) Grunt
6 2 (0.59%) gulp
6 2 (0.59%) Storybook
6 2 (0.59%) webpack
7 1 (0.30%) Appium
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Postman
7 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 119 (35.31%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.21%) Finance
3 40 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (3.86%) Marketing
6 13 (3.86%) Retail
7 12 (3.56%) Law
8 11 (3.26%) Legal
9 7 (2.08%) Advertising
10 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.48%) Banking
11 5 (1.48%) Electronics
11 5 (1.48%) Local Government
12 4 (1.19%) Military
12 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 76 (22.55%) Developer
2 62 (18.40%) Senior
3 45 (13.35%) Lead
4 24 (7.12%) Analyst
5 20 (5.93%) Architect
5 20 (5.93%) Development Manager
5 20 (5.93%) Java Developer
6 19 (5.64%) Business Analyst
7 18 (5.34%) Software Manager
8 17 (5.04%) Software Development Manager
9 16 (4.75%) Python Developer
10 15 (4.45%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.15%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.86%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.56%) .NET Development Manager
13 12 (3.56%) Consultant
13 12 (3.56%) Project Manager
14 11 (3.26%) .NET Developer
14 11 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (18.69%) React
2 51 (15.13%) .NET
3 36 (10.68%) CSS
4 32 (9.50%) Node.js
5 31 (9.20%) HTML
6 30 (8.90%) Spring Boot
7 29 (8.61%) REST
8 25 (7.42%) AngularJS
9 23 (6.82%) ASP.NET
9 23 (6.82%) Spring
10 20 (5.93%) RESTful
11 18 (5.34%) Django
11 18 (5.34%) FastAPI
11 18 (5.34%) Flask
12 16 (4.75%) .NET Core
12 16 (4.75%) Vue
13 14 (4.15%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (4.15%) Blazor
13 14 (4.15%) Gherkin
13 14 (4.15%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.93%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.78%) NHS
6 5 (1.48%) Analogue Electronics
6 5 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.48%) Social Media
7 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.89%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.89%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.59%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.59%) Linux
1 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (32.94%) CI/CD
2 101 (29.97%) DevOps
3 95 (28.19%) Mentoring
4 85 (25.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 78 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (18.99%) Software Engineering
6 64 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (15.73%) SDLC
8 51 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (14.84%) Coaching
10 48 (14.24%) Microservices
11 46 (13.65%) Scrum
12 38 (11.28%) Waterfall
13 36 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (9.50%) Project Management
15 31 (9.20%) Project Delivery
16 29 (8.61%) Data Modelling
16 29 (8.61%) Decision-Making
17 27 (8.01%) Full-Stack Development
17 27 (8.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (19.88%) SQL
2 61 (18.10%) JavaScript
3 44 (13.06%) Java
3 44 (13.06%) Python
4 41 (12.17%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.68%) C#
6 16 (4.75%) Bash
7 13 (3.86%) Groovy
8 11 (3.26%) PHP
9 8 (2.37%) C++
10 5 (1.48%) C
10 5 (1.48%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.48%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.89%) ABAP
11 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.89%) Scala
12 2 (0.59%) COBOL
12 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.59%) R
13 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (8.01%) Degree
2 25 (7.42%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.04%) Security Cleared
4 16 (4.75%) AWS Certified Developer
4 16 (4.75%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.19%) ACCA
7 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.59%) IIBA
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.72%) QA
2 13 (3.86%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.67%) GDPR
4 7 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.78%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.19%) GAAP
6 4 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (1.19%) IFRS
7 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.59%) GRC
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) NIST
7 2 (0.59%) P3O
7 2 (0.59%) PMO
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 71 (21.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.48%) Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 60 (17.80%) Terraform
2 27 (8.01%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.15%) Ansible
3 14 (4.15%) HP Fortify
4 10 (2.97%) Grafana
4 10 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.12%) SAP
3 13 (3.86%) Databricks
4 6 (1.78%) Google
5 5 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.19%) Oracle
7 3 (0.89%) Pega
7 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.89%) WSO2
8 2 (0.59%) Adobe
8 2 (0.59%) IBM
8 2 (0.59%) New Relic
8 2 (0.59%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.30%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.30%) ESRI
9 1 (0.30%) Sage
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.30%) TOWER Software