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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 11 1
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 304 527 958
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.90% 13.02% 31.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 15.57% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 233 231 758
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,231 £42,874
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,867 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,560 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -7.90% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,002 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +2.43%

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 2,916 3,385 2,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.41% 83.60% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,575 1,422 2,177
10th Percentile £26,350 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.04%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -2 229 £62,904 +8.52% 69
South Yorkshire -16 42 £56,250 -6.25% 14
North Yorkshire -18 20 £60,000 -4.00% 8
East Yorkshire -12 11 £55,000 +7.32% 11
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 (3.95%) Confluence
2 7 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.97%) Apache
4 5 (1.64%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Drupal
6 2 (0.66%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.33%) FileNet
7 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.99%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.66%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.99%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.66%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 96 (31.58%) AWS
2 85 (27.96%) Azure
3 42 (13.82%) SaaS
4 35 (11.51%) Serverless
5 25 (8.22%) Amazon S3
5 25 (8.22%) GitHub
6 19 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (5.92%) GCP
8 16 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 16 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (2.30%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (2.30%) dbt
13 7 (2.30%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.97%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) DNS
1 3 (0.99%) Firewall
2 2 (0.66%) AMQP
2 2 (0.66%) Network Security
3 1 (0.33%) BGP
3 1 (0.33%) LAN
3 1 (0.33%) MPLS
3 1 (0.33%) SSL
3 1 (0.33%) VoIP
3 1 (0.33%) WAN
3 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 20 (6.58%) DynamoDB
3 16 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.61%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.28%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.62%) MySQL
7 7 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (1.64%) Power BI
9 4 (1.32%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.32%) Looker
9 4 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.99%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.99%) Metadata
10 3 (0.99%) Tableau
11 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (7.89%) Git
2 19 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.25%) JIRA
3 16 (5.26%) GitLab
4 7 (2.30%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.97%) Maven
5 6 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.99%) Selenium
7 2 (0.66%) Grunt
7 2 (0.66%) gulp
7 2 (0.66%) Storybook
7 2 (0.66%) webpack
8 1 (0.33%) Appium
8 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.33%) JUnit
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
8 1 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 110 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.07%) Finance
3 34 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.58%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.93%) Law
5 15 (4.93%) Marketing
5 15 (4.93%) Retail
6 13 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.95%) Legal
8 7 (2.30%) Advertising
9 5 (1.64%) Banking
9 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.64%) Local Government
10 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.32%) Military
10 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Electronics
12 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (20.72%) Developer
2 57 (18.75%) Senior
3 37 (12.17%) Lead
4 22 (7.24%) Analyst
5 16 (5.26%) Development Manager
5 16 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 14 (4.61%) Architect
6 14 (4.61%) Business Analyst
6 14 (4.61%) Data Engineer
6 14 (4.61%) Project Manager
6 14 (4.61%) Python Developer
7 13 (4.28%) Software Manager
8 11 (3.62%) Consultant
8 11 (3.62%) Software Developer
8 11 (3.62%) Software Development Manager
9 10 (3.29%) Java Developer
9 10 (3.29%) Product Manager
9 10 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (2.96%) .NET Developer
10 9 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (16.45%) .NET
1 50 (16.45%) React
2 39 (12.83%) CSS
3 32 (10.53%) HTML
4 28 (9.21%) Node.js
5 24 (7.89%) ASP.NET
6 22 (7.24%) REST
7 17 (5.59%) AngularJS
7 17 (5.59%) RESTful
7 17 (5.59%) Spring Boot
8 16 (5.26%) Django
8 16 (5.26%) FastAPI
8 16 (5.26%) Flask
9 15 (4.93%) Spring
10 13 (4.28%) .NET Core
10 13 (4.28%) Vue
11 11 (3.62%) GraphQL
12 10 (3.29%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (3.29%) Blazor
13 8 (2.63%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.54%) Product Ownership
3 22 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.97%) NHS
5 6 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.64%) Social Media
7 4 (1.32%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.32%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.99%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Linux
1 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (27.96%) CI/CD
2 84 (27.63%) Mentoring
3 83 (27.30%) DevOps
4 75 (24.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (22.37%) Software Engineering
6 48 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 45 (14.80%) Coaching
8 43 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (14.14%) SDLC
9 41 (13.49%) Scrum
10 38 (12.50%) Project Management
11 35 (11.51%) Microservices
12 34 (11.18%) Decision-Making
12 34 (11.18%) Project Delivery
13 32 (10.53%) Waterfall
14 31 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (9.21%) Roadmaps
16 25 (8.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 23 (7.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (22.04%) SQL
2 55 (18.09%) JavaScript
3 44 (14.47%) Python
4 37 (12.17%) C#
5 34 (11.18%) TypeScript
6 32 (10.53%) Java
7 15 (4.93%) PHP
8 9 (2.96%) C++
9 8 (2.63%) Bash
10 5 (1.64%) Groovy
11 4 (1.32%) COBOL
11 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.99%) ABAP
12 3 (0.99%) C
12 3 (0.99%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.99%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.66%) R
13 2 (0.66%) Scala
14 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 26 (8.55%) Degree
2 16 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.61%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.62%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.32%) ACCA
8 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.92%) QA
2 10 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.63%) GDPR
4 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.32%) GAAP
5 4 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 4 (1.32%) IFRS
6 3 (0.99%) PMO
7 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.66%) NCSC
7 2 (0.66%) P3O
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) COBIT
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (0.99%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Squid
3 1 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 48 (15.79%) Terraform
2 21 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.29%) Ansible
4 7 (2.30%) Grafana
4 7 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.97%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (7.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.93%) SAP
3 13 (4.28%) Databricks
4 6 (1.97%) Google
5 5 (1.64%) Oracle
5 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.99%) IBM
6 3 (0.99%) Pega
6 3 (0.99%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.99%) WSO2
7 2 (0.66%) Adobe
7 2 (0.66%) iManage
7 2 (0.66%) Intapp
7 2 (0.66%) New Relic
7 2 (0.66%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.33%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.33%) Dell
8 1 (0.33%) ESRI
8 1 (0.33%) Sage
8 1 (0.33%) TOWER Software