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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 11 1
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing Agile 310 500 955
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.97% 13.27% 31.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.44% 15.59% 33.61%
Number of salaries quoted 235 226 759
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,260 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,500 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.07%

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 2,970 3,208 2,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.96% 85.16% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 1,345 2,170
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,200 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £69,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £81,250 £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 8 December 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 8 December 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 -4 236 £65,000 +13.84% 121
South Yorkshire -15 41 £57,500 -4.17% 42
North Yorkshire -11 20 £60,000 -4.00% 17
East Yorkshire -11 12 £55,000 +7.32% 20
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 (3.87%) Confluence
2 7 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.94%) Apache
3 6 (1.94%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.29%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) Drupal
5 2 (0.65%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.32%) FileNet
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.65%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.97%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.65%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (33.55%) AWS
2 84 (27.10%) Azure
3 45 (14.52%) SaaS
4 40 (12.90%) Serverless
5 29 (9.35%) Amazon S3
6 26 (8.39%) GitHub
7 22 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (6.13%) AWS Step Functions
9 18 (5.81%) GCP
10 17 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.58%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.58%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (2.58%) Apigee
16 7 (2.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.29%) DNS
2 3 (0.97%) Firewall
3 2 (0.65%) AMQP
3 2 (0.65%) Network Security
4 1 (0.32%) BGP
4 1 (0.32%) LAN
4 1 (0.32%) MPLS
4 1 (0.32%) SSL
4 1 (0.32%) VoIP
4 1 (0.32%) WAN
4 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.42%) DynamoDB
3 18 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.19%) Data Lake
6 13 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.23%) MySQL
8 7 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.29%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.29%) Looker
10 4 (1.29%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.29%) Power BI
11 3 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.97%) Metadata
11 3 (0.97%) Tableau
12 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.65%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (8.71%) Git
2 22 (7.10%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.13%) GitLab
3 19 (6.13%) JIRA
4 9 (2.90%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.58%) Maven
5 8 (2.58%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.97%) Selenium
7 2 (0.65%) Grunt
7 2 (0.65%) gulp
7 2 (0.65%) Storybook
7 2 (0.65%) webpack
8 1 (0.32%) Appium
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) JUnit
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
General
1 110 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.03%) Finance
3 35 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.16%) Law
6 15 (4.84%) Marketing
6 15 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.52%) Retail
8 12 (3.87%) Legal
9 7 (2.26%) Advertising
10 5 (1.61%) Banking
10 5 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.61%) Local Government
10 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.29%) Electronics
11 4 (1.29%) Military
11 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (19.68%) Developer
2 57 (18.39%) Senior
3 40 (12.90%) Lead
4 21 (6.77%) Analyst
5 20 (6.45%) Development Manager
6 17 (5.48%) Software Manager
7 16 (5.16%) Software Engineer
8 15 (4.84%) Architect
8 15 (4.84%) Business Analyst
8 15 (4.84%) Software Development Manager
9 14 (4.52%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.52%) Project Manager
10 13 (4.19%) Python Developer
11 12 (3.87%) Consultant
12 11 (3.55%) Java Developer
12 11 (3.55%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.23%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.23%) .NET Development Manager
13 10 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.10%) .NET
2 51 (16.45%) React
3 37 (11.94%) CSS
4 32 (10.32%) HTML
5 29 (9.35%) Node.js
6 23 (7.42%) ASP.NET
6 23 (7.42%) REST
7 20 (6.45%) Spring Boot
8 19 (6.13%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.81%) RESTful
10 17 (5.48%) Spring
11 16 (5.16%) Django
11 16 (5.16%) FastAPI
11 16 (5.16%) Flask
12 14 (4.52%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.19%) Vue
14 11 (3.55%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (3.55%) Blazor
14 11 (3.55%) GraphQL
15 9 (2.90%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.32%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.03%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.94%) NHS
6 5 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.61%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.61%) Social Media
6 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.29%) Analogue Electronics
7 4 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.29%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.97%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.65%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.65%) Linux
1 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.06%) CI/CD
1 87 (28.06%) Mentoring
2 85 (27.42%) DevOps
3 78 (25.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 70 (22.58%) Software Engineering
5 68 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (15.48%) SDLC
6 48 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (15.16%) Coaching
8 44 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (13.87%) Scrum
10 40 (12.90%) Project Management
11 39 (12.58%) Microservices
12 37 (11.94%) Project Delivery
13 32 (10.32%) Decision-Making
13 32 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 31 (10.00%) Waterfall
15 28 (9.03%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (9.03%) Roadmaps
16 24 (7.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (21.61%) SQL
2 57 (18.39%) JavaScript
3 43 (13.87%) Python
4 39 (12.58%) C#
5 36 (11.61%) TypeScript
6 33 (10.65%) Java
7 13 (4.19%) PHP
8 10 (3.23%) Bash
9 8 (2.58%) C++
10 7 (2.26%) Groovy
11 4 (1.29%) C
11 4 (1.29%) COBOL
11 4 (1.29%) Embedded C
11 4 (1.29%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.97%) ABAP
13 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.65%) R
13 2 (0.65%) Scala
14 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 24 (7.74%) Degree
2 16 (5.16%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.19%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.87%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (1.29%) ACCA
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.45%) QA
2 9 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.90%) GDPR
3 7 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.29%) GAAP
6 4 (1.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (1.29%) IFRS
7 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.65%) GRC
7 2 (0.65%) NCSC
7 2 (0.65%) NIST
7 2 (0.65%) P3O
7 2 (0.65%) PMO
7 2 (0.65%) SLA
7 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 52 (16.77%) Docker
2 4 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.29%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) Squid
3 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 50 (16.13%) Terraform
2 22 (7.10%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.23%) Ansible
4 8 (2.58%) HP Fortify
5 7 (2.26%) Grafana
5 7 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (7.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.84%) SAP
3 13 (4.19%) Databricks
4 6 (1.94%) Google
5 5 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.29%) Oracle
7 3 (0.97%) IBM
7 3 (0.97%) Pega
7 3 (0.97%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.97%) WSO2
8 2 (0.65%) Adobe
8 2 (0.65%) New Relic
8 2 (0.65%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.32%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.32%) Dell
9 1 (0.32%) ESRI
9 1 (0.32%) iManage
9 1 (0.32%) Intapp
9 1 (0.32%) Sage
9 1 (0.32%) TOWER Software