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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 16 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 451 327 971
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.66% 10.81% 15.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.85% 11.70% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 326 227 722
10th Percentile £42,000 £38,334 £40,988
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,365 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,375 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,997 £84,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £98,474 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.38%

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 4,579 2,796 5,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.65% 92.40% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,236 1,313 3,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -6 311 £62,500 -13.18% 60
South Yorkshire -15 78 £56,500 -19.29% 29
North Yorkshire -1 25 £64,000 +6.67% 12
East Yorkshire -14 19 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Humberside - 1 - - 7
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 6 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.89%) Confluence
3 3 (0.67%) Apache
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.67%) CMS
3 3 (0.67%) JBoss
4 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.89%) Trello
5 2 (0.44%) Sketch
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.89%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.44%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 117 (25.94%) AWS
2 109 (24.17%) Azure
3 51 (11.31%) Serverless
4 40 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (7.98%) Amazon ECS
5 36 (7.98%) Amazon S3
6 30 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (6.21%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (5.99%) Amazon ECR
8 27 (5.99%) Apigee
9 26 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (5.54%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (4.66%) GCP
12 19 (4.21%) Power Platform
12 19 (4.21%) SaaS
13 14 (3.10%) GitHub
14 12 (2.66%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.44%) Azure AI
16 10 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.20%) Broadband
2 4 (0.89%) HTTP
3 2 (0.44%) Internet
3 2 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.22%) DNS
4 1 (0.22%) Profibus
4 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.98%) MongoDB
2 32 (7.10%) DynamoDB
3 20 (4.43%) MySQL
4 19 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (3.99%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.66%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.22%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.00%) Metadata
10 7 (1.55%) Power BI
11 5 (1.11%) Big Data
11 5 (1.11%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.11%) Tableau
12 3 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (11.09%) GitLab
2 45 (9.98%) Jenkins
3 39 (8.65%) JIRA
4 31 (6.87%) Cypress.io
5 30 (6.65%) SonarQube
6 28 (6.21%) Maven
7 27 (5.99%) Git
8 6 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.33%) Selenium
9 5 (1.11%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.44%) JUnit
11 2 (0.44%) Postman
12 1 (0.22%) Gatling
12 1 (0.22%) JMeter
12 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (19.51%) Public Sector
1 88 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.96%) Finance
3 47 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.20%) Games
5 27 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.44%) Retail
9 7 (1.55%) Marketing
10 6 (1.33%) Automotive
10 6 (1.33%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.33%) Law
11 5 (1.11%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.89%) Advertising
12 4 (0.89%) Tech for Good
13 3 (0.67%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (0.67%) Local Government
13 3 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 125 (27.72%) Developer
2 113 (25.06%) Senior
3 67 (14.86%) Lead
4 62 (13.75%) Analyst
5 56 (12.42%) Business Analyst
6 38 (8.43%) Java Developer
7 35 (7.76%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.65%) Senior Manager
9 25 (5.54%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (4.88%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.66%) .NET Developer
12 20 (4.43%) Python Developer
13 15 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
13 15 (3.33%) Product Manager
14 13 (2.88%) Architect
14 13 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (2.88%) Senior Business Analyst
14 13 (2.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.09%) AngularJS
1 50 (11.09%) React
2 35 (7.76%) .NET
3 33 (7.32%) Spring Boot
4 32 (7.10%) Vue
5 31 (6.87%) RESTful
6 28 (6.21%) Jest
6 28 (6.21%) Node.js
7 27 (5.99%) Gherkin
8 24 (5.32%) ASP.NET
9 23 (5.10%) ASP.NET Core
10 21 (4.66%) REST
11 20 (4.43%) .NET Core
12 18 (3.99%) CSS
13 17 (3.77%) HTML
14 16 (3.55%) GraphQL
15 14 (3.10%) Flask
16 13 (2.88%) Android SDK
17 11 (2.44%) ML.NET
18 10 (2.22%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.98%) Mobile App
2 30 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.54%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.99%) Social Media
5 16 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.77%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.55%) NHS
10 6 (1.33%) Life Science
11 5 (1.11%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.89%) Media Streaming
12 4 (0.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.65%) Android
2 23 (5.10%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.88%) Linux
4 10 (2.22%) Windows
5 9 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.26%) Mentoring
2 135 (29.93%) CI/CD
3 98 (21.73%) DevOps
4 93 (20.62%) Coaching
5 83 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 77 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (15.74%) AI
8 62 (13.75%) Decision-Making
8 62 (13.75%) Project Management
8 62 (13.75%) Roadmaps
8 62 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (13.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 57 (12.64%) Scrum
10 57 (12.64%) Software Engineering
11 54 (11.97%) SDLC
12 45 (9.98%) Microservices
12 45 (9.98%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 41 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 38 (8.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 92 (20.40%) Java
2 76 (16.85%) JavaScript
3 68 (15.08%) SQL
4 63 (13.97%) TypeScript
5 58 (12.86%) C#
6 52 (11.53%) Python
7 32 (7.10%) Groovy
8 30 (6.65%) Bash
9 19 (4.21%) PHP
10 16 (3.55%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.33%) VBA
12 5 (1.11%) Scala
13 3 (0.67%) Go
13 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.44%) Ruby
14 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 44 (9.76%) Degree
2 29 (6.43%) AWS Certification
3 22 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (4.21%) Security Cleared
5 17 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.44%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.22%) PMP
9 6 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.11%) IIBA
11 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.89%) CBAP
12 3 (0.67%) APMP
12 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.67%) CAPM
12 3 (0.67%) PgMP
13 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.98%) Accessibility
2 28 (6.21%) QA
3 24 (5.32%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.55%) PMO
5 5 (1.11%) GRC
6 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.44%) GDPR
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (5.99%) HP Fortify
1 27 (5.99%) Terraform
2 15 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.55%) Ansible
3 7 (1.55%) Argo
4 3 (0.67%) Packer
5 2 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.55%) Google
3 15 (3.33%) SAP
4 9 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.33%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.33%) TOWER Software
6 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.11%) Databricks
6 5 (1.11%) IBM
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe
7 4 (0.89%) Apple
7 4 (0.89%) Facebook
7 4 (0.89%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.89%) Sony
7 4 (0.89%) Yahoo!
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle
8 2 (0.44%) Pega
9 1 (0.22%) Foundry
9 1 (0.22%) Nintex
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir