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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 25 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 -11
Permanent jobs citing Agile 402 257 530
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.34% 7.69% 11.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.90% 8.78% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 290 184 230
10th Percentile £42,450 £39,825 £43,625
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,530
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.64% -11.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,333 £83,750 £86,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 5,086 2,928 3,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.52% 87.59% 79.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,776 1,387 1,565
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -2 255 £65,000 +0.78% 201
South Yorkshire -5 89 £56,250 -19.64% 84
North Yorkshire +6 20 £50,000 -16.67% 31
East Yorkshire +7 19 £48,750 -11.36% 6
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 (2.99%) Confluence
2 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.24%) CMS
4 3 (0.75%) Apache
4 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.75%) IIS
4 3 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) WordPress
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.00%) Trello
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.75%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 121 (30.10%) Azure
2 116 (28.86%) AWS
3 42 (10.45%) Serverless
4 40 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (6.22%) GCP
7 24 (5.97%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (5.47%) GitHub
9 18 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (3.48%) Azure AI
11 14 (3.48%) SaaS
12 13 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (3.23%) Power Platform
13 12 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (2.74%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.24%) Network Security
2 4 (1.00%) ATM
2 4 (1.00%) CTI
2 4 (1.00%) DNS
2 4 (1.00%) Internet
2 4 (1.00%) VoIP
3 3 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.50%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.50%) Firewall
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
4 2 (0.50%) Profibus
4 2 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.46%) MongoDB
2 25 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.24%) MySQL
9 8 (1.99%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.74%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.49%) Power BI
12 5 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.24%) Metadata
12 5 (1.24%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.75%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.75%) Redis
14 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (9.70%) JIRA
2 30 (7.46%) GitLab
3 24 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.22%) Git
5 17 (4.23%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.24%) Maven
7 8 (1.99%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.74%) JMeter
9 5 (1.24%) Postman
9 5 (1.24%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.00%) Selenium
11 3 (0.75%) Appium
11 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.50%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 110 (27.36%) Public Sector
2 90 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 66 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (15.92%) Finance
5 16 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (3.23%) Banking
7 12 (2.99%) Legal
8 10 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.49%) Retail
9 9 (2.24%) Advertising
10 7 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.49%) Local Government
12 5 (1.24%) Back Office
12 5 (1.24%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.00%) Digital Economy
13 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (25.62%) Senior
2 86 (21.39%) Developer
3 63 (15.67%) Analyst
4 62 (15.42%) Lead
5 55 (13.68%) Business Analyst
6 38 (9.45%) Software Engineer
7 30 (7.46%) .NET Developer
8 24 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.72%) Architect
10 20 (4.98%) Delivery Manager
11 18 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.48%) Product Manager
11 18 (4.48%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.23%) Technical Architect
13 16 (3.98%) Java Developer
13 16 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.23%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.23%) Senior Manager
14 13 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (15.92%) .NET
2 41 (10.20%) React
3 36 (8.96%) RESTful
4 33 (8.21%) AngularJS
4 33 (8.21%) ASP.NET
4 33 (8.21%) Node.js
5 31 (7.71%) .NET Core
5 31 (7.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 26 (6.47%) Terraform
7 20 (4.98%) CSS
8 19 (4.73%) Blazor
9 17 (4.23%) Spring Boot
10 16 (3.98%) HTML
10 16 (3.98%) REST
11 15 (3.73%) Entity Framework
12 14 (3.48%) ML.NET
12 14 (3.48%) Vue
13 13 (3.23%) Gherkin
14 12 (2.99%) Playwright
15 11 (2.74%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.72%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.48%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.74%) NHS
5 10 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.99%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.74%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.49%) Blog
8 6 (1.49%) PMI
8 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.00%) BBC
10 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.00%) iPhone
10 4 (1.00%) Learning Management System
10 4 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.23%) Linux
2 15 (3.73%) Windows
3 14 (3.48%) Unix
4 5 (1.24%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.35%) CI/CD
2 111 (27.61%) Mentoring
3 109 (27.11%) DevOps
4 103 (25.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (23.38%) Coaching
6 74 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (17.16%) Scrum
8 64 (15.92%) Software Engineering
9 62 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 58 (14.43%) Test Automation
11 57 (14.18%) AI
12 48 (11.94%) Microservices
13 44 (10.95%) Roadmaps
13 44 (10.95%) SDLC
14 43 (10.70%) Technical Leadership
15 41 (10.20%) Analytics
16 37 (9.20%) Project Delivery
17 36 (8.96%) Acceptance Criteria
18 33 (8.21%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 76 (18.91%) SQL
2 72 (17.91%) C#
3 63 (15.67%) JavaScript
4 55 (13.68%) Java
5 50 (12.44%) TypeScript
6 48 (11.94%) Python
7 14 (3.48%) Bash
8 11 (2.74%) Groovy
9 8 (1.99%) PHP
10 7 (1.74%) Scala
11 6 (1.49%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.49%) Ruby
12 5 (1.24%) C++
13 3 (0.75%) COBOL
13 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.50%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.50%) Bicep
14 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.50%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 25 (6.22%) Security Cleared
2 22 (5.47%) Degree
2 22 (5.47%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.24%) AWS Certification
3 9 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.24%) PMI Certification
4 7 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (1.49%) PMP
6 5 (1.24%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (0.75%) APMP
7 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.75%) CAPM
7 3 (0.75%) PgMP
8 1 (0.25%) ACCA
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.25%) CIMA
8 1 (0.25%) CSPO
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.96%) QA
2 24 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.99%) PMO
5 6 (1.49%) WCAG
6 3 (0.75%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.50%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 30 (7.46%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.99%) HP Fortify
3 5 (1.24%) Ansible
3 5 (1.24%) Argo
4 3 (0.75%) Grafana
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 74 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.73%) Google
3 14 (3.48%) SAP
4 9 (2.24%) Databricks
5 5 (1.24%) Adobe
5 5 (1.24%) Oracle
5 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.00%) Apple
6 4 (1.00%) Avaya
6 4 (1.00%) Cisco
6 4 (1.00%) Facebook
6 4 (1.00%) Genesys
6 4 (1.00%) Pega
6 4 (1.00%) Sony
6 4 (1.00%) TOWER Software
6 4 (1.00%) VocaLink
6 4 (1.00%) Yahoo!
7 3 (0.75%) HP
7 3 (0.75%) Informatica
7 3 (0.75%) Salesforce