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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 431 365 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.77% 16.82% 20.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.93% 17.57% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 287 240 864
10th Percentile £42,246 £39,889 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,684 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +13.32% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,614 2,077 4,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.57% 95.71% 84.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,256 1,201 3,563
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,040 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.27% +9.09% -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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -2 337 £63,076 -9.89% 120
South Yorkshire -19 58 £55,000 -15.38% 25
North Yorkshire -11 18 £64,000 +11.30% 13
East Yorkshire -19 12 £46,250 -7.50% 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 10 (2.32%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.93%) Apache
3 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.93%) Confluence
4 3 (0.70%) JBoss
4 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.46%) Sketch
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.25%) SAP ERP
2 7 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 160 (37.12%) AWS
2 95 (22.04%) Azure
3 91 (21.11%) Serverless
4 62 (14.39%) Amazon S3
5 57 (13.23%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (12.06%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (11.14%) AWS Step Functions
8 47 (10.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (9.05%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (8.35%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (8.35%) Apigee
10 36 (8.35%) SaaS
11 34 (7.89%) GitHub
12 20 (4.64%) GCP
13 17 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (3.25%) Power Platform
15 13 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.55%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.58%) Broadband
2 5 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (0.46%) HTTP
3 2 (0.46%) SSL
4 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (13.46%) DynamoDB
2 33 (7.66%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.50%) NoSQL
4 26 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (4.18%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.48%) MySQL
7 12 (2.78%) Metadata
8 9 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.09%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.86%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.16%) Power BI
12 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.70%) Big Data
13 3 (0.70%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (12.30%) GitLab
2 52 (12.06%) Jenkins
3 38 (8.82%) Git
4 37 (8.58%) Cypress.io
5 36 (8.35%) Maven
5 36 (8.35%) SonarQube
6 16 (3.71%) JIRA
7 8 (1.86%) Selenium
8 5 (1.16%) PHPUnit
9 4 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.70%) JUnit
11 2 (0.46%) Postman
12 1 (0.23%) Gatling
12 1 (0.23%) JMeter
12 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 115 (26.68%) Social Skills
2 76 (17.63%) Finance
3 63 (14.62%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.05%) Games
6 19 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.41%) Retail
7 13 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.78%) Marketing
9 8 (1.86%) Local Government
10 6 (1.39%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.39%) Law
10 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.16%) Electronics
12 4 (0.93%) Advertising
12 4 (0.93%) Fire and Rescue
12 4 (0.93%) Legal
12 4 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 121 (28.07%) Developer
2 97 (22.51%) Senior
3 66 (15.31%) Lead
4 40 (9.28%) Java Developer
5 34 (7.89%) Analyst
6 29 (6.73%) Business Analyst
7 28 (6.50%) Software Engineer
8 26 (6.03%) Senior Manager
9 23 (5.34%) Development Manager
10 22 (5.10%) Python Developer
10 22 (5.10%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.18%) Software Manager
13 17 (3.94%) Delivery Manager
13 17 (3.94%) Software Development Manager
14 15 (3.48%) AWS Developer
14 15 (3.48%) Technical Leader
15 14 (3.25%) .NET Development Manager
15 14 (3.25%) Architect
15 14 (3.25%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (16.01%) React
2 49 (11.37%) AngularJS
3 48 (11.14%) Spring Boot
4 39 (9.05%) .NET
5 36 (8.35%) Gherkin
5 36 (8.35%) Jest
6 33 (7.66%) Vue
7 32 (7.42%) CSS
7 32 (7.42%) HTML
8 30 (6.96%) Node.js
9 27 (6.26%) REST
10 22 (5.10%) Flask
11 21 (4.87%) GraphQL
12 20 (4.64%) RESTful
13 19 (4.41%) Spring
14 18 (4.18%) .NET Core
14 18 (4.18%) ASP.NET
15 16 (3.71%) Django
16 15 (3.48%) FastAPI
17 14 (3.25%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.51%) Mobile App
2 31 (7.19%) Cloud Native
3 27 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 25 (5.80%) Data Structures
5 23 (5.34%) Onboarding
6 20 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (4.41%) Social Media
8 16 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.32%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.62%) NHS
12 6 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.16%) Analogue Electronics
13 5 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.35%) Android
2 23 (5.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (37.82%) CI/CD
2 143 (33.18%) Mentoring
3 107 (24.83%) DevOps
4 97 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 80 (18.56%) Coaching
7 66 (15.31%) Software Engineering
8 65 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (14.39%) SDLC
10 61 (14.15%) Project Management
11 58 (13.46%) Decision-Making
12 54 (12.53%) Microservices
13 53 (12.30%) AI
14 51 (11.83%) Roadmaps
15 47 (10.90%) Observability
16 46 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 46 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (9.74%) Design Patterns
17 42 (9.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 42 (9.74%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 86 (19.95%) Java
2 78 (18.10%) JavaScript
3 66 (15.31%) SQL
4 64 (14.85%) TypeScript
5 46 (10.67%) Python
6 39 (9.05%) C#
7 35 (8.12%) Bash
7 35 (8.12%) Groovy
8 16 (3.71%) Kotlin
8 16 (3.71%) PHP
9 6 (1.39%) C++
9 6 (1.39%) VBA
10 5 (1.16%) C
10 5 (1.16%) Embedded C
10 5 (1.16%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.70%) Go
12 2 (0.46%) COBOL
12 2 (0.46%) R
13 1 (0.23%) ABAP
13 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (10.90%) AWS Certification
2 30 (6.96%) Degree
3 23 (5.34%) ITIL Certification
4 22 (5.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 20 (4.64%) AWS Certified Developer
6 14 (3.25%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.25%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.39%) IIBA
8 6 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.16%) PMP
10 3 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.70%) CBAP
11 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.23%) CIPD
12 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.44%) Accessibility
2 25 (5.80%) QA
3 19 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.09%) GDPR
5 7 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.16%) GRC
6 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.70%) PMO
9 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.46%) NIST
9 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.46%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 89 (20.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (13.46%) Terraform
2 36 (8.35%) HP Fortify
3 19 (4.41%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.32%) Ansible
5 6 (1.39%) Grafana
5 6 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (8.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.57%) SAP
3 8 (1.86%) Google
4 7 (1.62%) Databricks
5 6 (1.39%) Adobe
6 4 (0.93%) Hotjar
6 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.70%) Pega
7 3 (0.70%) WSO2
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle
8 2 (0.46%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.23%) Apple
9 1 (0.23%) Facebook
9 1 (0.23%) Informatica
9 1 (0.23%) New Relic
9 1 (0.23%) Nintex
9 1 (0.23%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.23%) Sony
9 1 (0.23%) Yahoo!