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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Agile 456 328 999
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.76% 11.15% 15.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.01% 12.05% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 325 225 746
10th Percentile £42,000 £39,334 £40,988
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £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% -6.02%

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 4,557 2,721 5,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.57% 92.46% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,207 1,293 3,888
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £37,000
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 21 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 21 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 -6 316 £62,500 -13.18% 56
South Yorkshire -16 77 £56,825 -18.82% 30
North Yorkshire 0 26 £64,000 +6.67% 10
East Yorkshire -14 19 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Humberside - 1 - - 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 6 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.88%) Confluence
3 3 (0.66%) Apache
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.66%) JBoss
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.88%) Trello
5 2 (0.44%) Sketch
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.32%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (26.75%) AWS
2 111 (24.34%) Azure
3 52 (11.40%) Serverless
4 41 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 36 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (6.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (5.92%) Amazon ECR
9 27 (5.92%) Apigee
10 25 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
10 25 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (4.61%) GCP
12 19 (4.17%) Power Platform
12 19 (4.17%) SaaS
13 14 (3.07%) GitHub
14 12 (2.63%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.41%) Azure AI
16 9 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.11%) Broadband
2 4 (0.88%) 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 (7.89%) MongoDB
2 35 (7.68%) DynamoDB
3 22 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.39%) MySQL
5 19 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.85%) Metadata
8 12 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.41%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.97%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.54%) Power BI
13 5 (1.10%) Big Data
13 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.10%) Tableau
14 3 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 51 (11.18%) GitLab
2 45 (9.87%) Jenkins
3 39 (8.55%) JIRA
4 31 (6.80%) Cypress.io
5 30 (6.58%) SonarQube
6 28 (6.14%) Maven
7 26 (5.70%) Git
8 6 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.32%) Selenium
9 5 (1.10%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.44%) JUnit
11 2 (0.44%) Postman
11 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.22%) Gatling
12 1 (0.22%) JMeter
12 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 91 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 88 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 80 (17.54%) Finance
4 49 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.33%) Games
6 26 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.63%) Retail
10 7 (1.54%) Marketing
11 6 (1.32%) Automotive
11 6 (1.32%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.32%) Law
12 5 (1.10%) Agriculture
12 5 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.88%) Advertising
13 4 (0.88%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
14 3 (0.66%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 125 (27.41%) Developer
2 114 (25.00%) Senior
3 67 (14.69%) Lead
4 63 (13.82%) Analyst
5 56 (12.28%) Business Analyst
6 38 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 35 (7.68%) Software Engineer
8 30 (6.58%) Senior Manager
9 24 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (5.04%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.61%) .NET Developer
12 20 (4.39%) Python Developer
13 16 (3.51%) Architect
13 16 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
14 15 (3.29%) Engineering Manager
15 14 (3.07%) Product Manager
16 13 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (2.85%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (2.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.96%) AngularJS
2 49 (10.75%) React
3 34 (7.46%) .NET
4 33 (7.24%) Spring Boot
5 32 (7.02%) Vue
6 31 (6.80%) RESTful
7 28 (6.14%) Jest
8 27 (5.92%) Gherkin
8 27 (5.92%) Node.js
9 23 (5.04%) ASP.NET
10 22 (4.82%) ASP.NET Core
11 21 (4.61%) REST
12 20 (4.39%) .NET Core
13 17 (3.73%) CSS
13 17 (3.73%) GraphQL
14 16 (3.51%) HTML
15 14 (3.07%) Flask
16 13 (2.85%) Android SDK
17 11 (2.41%) ML.NET
18 10 (2.19%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.87%) Mobile App
2 31 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.39%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.95%) Social Media
6 16 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.75%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.54%) NHS
10 6 (1.32%) Life Science
11 5 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.55%) Android
2 23 (5.04%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.85%) Linux
4 10 (2.19%) Windows
5 9 (1.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (30.92%) Mentoring
2 140 (30.70%) CI/CD
3 101 (22.15%) DevOps
4 93 (20.39%) Coaching
5 83 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 80 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (15.35%) AI
8 67 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 61 (13.38%) Decision-Making
9 61 (13.38%) Project Management
9 61 (13.38%) Roadmaps
10 59 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (12.28%) Scrum
11 56 (12.28%) Software Engineering
12 54 (11.84%) SDLC
13 46 (10.09%) Microservices
14 44 (9.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 44 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
15 42 (9.21%) Test Automation
16 40 (8.77%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 92 (20.18%) Java
2 75 (16.45%) JavaScript
3 69 (15.13%) SQL
4 64 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 57 (12.50%) C#
6 53 (11.62%) Python
7 32 (7.02%) Groovy
8 30 (6.58%) Bash
9 19 (4.17%) PHP
10 16 (3.51%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.32%) VBA
12 5 (1.10%) Scala
13 3 (0.66%) Go
13 3 (0.66%) 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%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 46 (10.09%) Degree
2 31 (6.80%) AWS Certification
3 22 (4.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (4.39%) Security Cleared
5 18 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.41%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.19%) PMP
9 6 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.32%) IIBA
10 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.88%) CBAP
11 3 (0.66%) APMP
11 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.66%) CAPM
11 3 (0.66%) PgMP
12 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.87%) Accessibility
2 29 (6.36%) QA
3 27 (5.92%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.54%) PMO
5 5 (1.10%) 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 49 (10.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (6.14%) Terraform
2 27 (5.92%) HP Fortify
3 16 (3.51%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.75%) Ansible
5 7 (1.54%) Argo
6 3 (0.66%) Packer
7 2 (0.44%) Grafana
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
7 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.51%) Google
2 16 (3.51%) SAP
3 9 (1.97%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.32%) TOWER Software
5 5 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.10%) Databricks
5 5 (1.10%) IBM
6 4 (0.88%) Adobe
6 4 (0.88%) Apple
6 4 (0.88%) Facebook
6 4 (0.88%) Hotjar
6 4 (0.88%) Sony
6 4 (0.88%) Yahoo!
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle
7 2 (0.44%) Pega
8 1 (0.22%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (0.22%) Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir