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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 343 468 856
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 10.01% 15.07% 25.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 16.61% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 236 204 738
10th Percentile £41,074 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,985 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,904 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.40% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,164 £76,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -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 2,669 2,817 2,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.86% 90.72% 89.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 1,090 2,330
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,991 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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 16 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 16 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 -4 277 £65,000 +8.33% 91
South Yorkshire -13 40 £55,000 -12.00% 33
North Yorkshire -10 14 £60,000 +7.14% 27
East Yorkshire -13 12 £55,000 +7.32% 15
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 (2.92%) Confluence
1 10 (2.92%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.04%) Apache
4 5 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.17%) CMS
6 2 (0.58%) Drupal
6 2 (0.58%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.29%) FileNet
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.58%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.08%) SAP ERP
2 9 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (39.07%) AWS
2 94 (27.41%) Azure
3 62 (18.08%) Serverless
4 46 (13.41%) Amazon S3
5 44 (12.83%) SaaS
6 35 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (9.04%) AWS Step Functions
9 30 (8.75%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (8.45%) GitHub
11 27 (7.87%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (6.41%) GCP
13 18 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (4.96%) Amazon ECR
14 17 (4.96%) Apigee
15 16 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.21%) Amazon EventBridge
18 10 (2.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) DNS
2 3 (0.87%) Firewall
3 2 (0.58%) AMQP
3 2 (0.58%) Network Security
3 2 (0.58%) SSL
4 1 (0.29%) BGP
4 1 (0.29%) LAN
4 1 (0.29%) MPLS
4 1 (0.29%) VoIP
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
4 1 (0.29%) WAN
4 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.24%) DynamoDB
2 36 (10.50%) SQL Server
3 24 (7.00%) NoSQL
4 22 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.83%) Relational Database
6 14 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.08%) Metadata
7 8 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.04%) MySQL
9 5 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (1.46%) Power BI
10 4 (1.17%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.17%) Looker
10 4 (1.17%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.17%) Tableau
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (9.62%) Git
2 31 (9.04%) GitLab
2 31 (9.04%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.25%) Cypress.io
4 17 (4.96%) Maven
4 17 (4.96%) SonarQube
5 14 (4.08%) JIRA
6 3 (0.87%) Selenium
7 2 (0.58%) Grunt
7 2 (0.58%) gulp
7 2 (0.58%) Storybook
7 2 (0.58%) webpack
8 1 (0.29%) Appium
8 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) Postman
8 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
General
1 117 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.62%) Finance
3 41 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (3.79%) Retail
7 12 (3.50%) Marketing
8 11 (3.21%) Law
9 10 (2.92%) Legal
10 7 (2.04%) Advertising
11 5 (1.46%) Banking
11 5 (1.46%) Electronics
11 5 (1.46%) Local Government
11 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.17%) Military
12 4 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 76 (22.16%) Developer
2 73 (21.28%) Senior
3 43 (12.54%) Lead
4 25 (7.29%) Analyst
5 23 (6.71%) Java Developer
6 22 (6.41%) Development Manager
7 21 (6.12%) Architect
8 20 (5.83%) Business Analyst
9 19 (5.54%) Software Development Manager
9 19 (5.54%) Software Manager
10 16 (4.66%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.66%) Python Developer
11 15 (4.37%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.08%) .NET Development Manager
12 14 (4.08%) Senior Manager
13 13 (3.79%) Consultant
13 13 (3.79%) Project Manager
14 12 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
15 11 (3.21%) .NET Developer
15 11 (3.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.78%) React
2 49 (14.29%) .NET
3 33 (9.62%) CSS
3 33 (9.62%) Spring Boot
4 32 (9.33%) Node.js
5 29 (8.45%) REST
6 28 (8.16%) HTML
7 26 (7.58%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.71%) Spring
9 22 (6.41%) ASP.NET
10 17 (4.96%) Gherkin
10 17 (4.96%) Jest
10 17 (4.96%) RESTful
11 16 (4.66%) .NET Core
11 16 (4.66%) Django
11 16 (4.66%) FastAPI
11 16 (4.66%) Flask
12 15 (4.37%) Vue
13 14 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (4.08%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.83%) Data Structures
3 20 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (1.75%) NHS
4 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.46%) Analogue Electronics
5 5 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.46%) Social Media
6 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.58%) Linux
1 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (32.36%) CI/CD
2 104 (30.32%) DevOps
3 98 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 87 (25.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (19.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 63 (18.37%) Software Engineering
8 58 (16.91%) SDLC
9 57 (16.62%) Coaching
10 48 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 45 (13.12%) Microservices
11 45 (13.12%) Scrum
12 38 (11.08%) Waterfall
13 36 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (10.20%) Project Management
15 33 (9.62%) Project Delivery
16 31 (9.04%) Data Modelling
17 30 (8.75%) Decision-Making
18 27 (7.87%) Process Improvement
19 26 (7.58%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.95%) SQL
2 58 (16.91%) JavaScript
3 48 (13.99%) Java
4 42 (12.24%) Python
4 42 (12.24%) TypeScript
5 35 (10.20%) C#
6 19 (5.54%) Bash
7 16 (4.66%) Groovy
8 9 (2.62%) PHP
9 8 (2.33%) C++
10 5 (1.46%) C
10 5 (1.46%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.46%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.87%) ABAP
11 3 (0.87%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.87%) Scala
11 3 (0.87%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) COBOL
12 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (8.16%) AWS Certification
2 27 (7.87%) Degree
3 16 (4.66%) AWS Certified Developer
3 16 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.37%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 4 (1.17%) ACCA
10 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.58%) IIBA
11 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.87%) QA
2 14 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.62%) GDPR
5 7 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.17%) GAAP
7 4 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (1.17%) IFRS
8 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) NCSC
8 2 (0.58%) NIST
8 2 (0.58%) P3O
8 2 (0.58%) PMO
8 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 70 (20.41%) Docker
2 5 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.46%) Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 57 (16.62%) Terraform
2 23 (6.71%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.96%) HP Fortify
4 12 (3.50%) Ansible
5 8 (2.33%) Grafana
5 8 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.58%) SAP
3 12 (3.50%) Databricks
4 10 (2.92%) Google
5 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.17%) Oracle
7 3 (0.87%) Pega
7 3 (0.87%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.87%) WSO2
8 2 (0.58%) Adobe
8 2 (0.58%) IBM
8 2 (0.58%) New Relic
8 2 (0.58%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.29%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.29%) ESRI
9 1 (0.29%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.29%) TOWER Software