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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 455 354 1,038
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.51% 14.77% 18.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.62% 15.71% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 307 246 825
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,375 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,634 £98,474 £84,964
England median annual salary £66,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +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 4,284 2,254 4,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 70.68% 94.03% 83.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 1,279 3,691
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -2 342 £65,000 -3.70% 94
South Yorkshire -18 68 £57,150 -18.36% 29
North Yorkshire -5 22 £64,000 +16.36% 18
East Yorkshire -27 11 £50,000 - 14
Humberside - 1 - - 13
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 7 (1.54%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.66%) JBoss
4 2 (0.44%) Apache
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.44%) Sketch
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.86%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (31.87%) AWS
2 101 (22.20%) Azure
3 80 (17.58%) Serverless
4 60 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (12.97%) Amazon S3
6 51 (11.21%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (10.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (8.13%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (8.13%) Amazon SQS
8 37 (8.13%) Apigee
9 34 (7.47%) SaaS
10 22 (4.84%) GitHub
11 21 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (4.40%) GCP
13 17 (3.74%) Power Platform
14 13 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (2.42%) PowerApps
16 9 (1.98%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.13%) Broadband
2 4 (0.88%) DNS
3 2 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.22%) SSL
4 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (11.65%) DynamoDB
2 30 (6.59%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 15 (3.30%) MySQL
7 14 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.64%) Metadata
9 8 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.54%) Power BI
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.10%) Tableau
12 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.66%) Big Data
13 3 (0.66%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.44%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 66 (14.51%) GitLab
2 56 (12.31%) Jenkins
3 40 (8.79%) SonarQube
4 38 (8.35%) Cypress.io
4 38 (8.35%) Git
5 37 (8.13%) Maven
6 27 (5.93%) JIRA
7 8 (1.76%) Selenium
8 7 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.10%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.66%) 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
General
1 108 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 79 (17.36%) Finance
3 77 (16.92%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.35%) Games
6 22 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.08%) Retail
8 13 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.42%) Marketing
10 6 (1.32%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.10%) Automotive
11 5 (1.10%) Law
11 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.88%) Advertising
12 4 (0.88%) Agriculture
12 4 (0.88%) Electronics
13 3 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (0.66%) Local Government
13 3 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 125 (27.47%) Developer
2 104 (22.86%) Senior
3 76 (16.70%) Lead
4 52 (11.43%) Analyst
5 44 (9.67%) Business Analyst
6 43 (9.45%) Java Developer
7 31 (6.81%) Senior Manager
8 24 (5.27%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (4.62%) Python Developer
10 21 (4.62%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.18%) Development Manager
12 18 (3.96%) Software Manager
12 18 (3.96%) Technical Leader
13 17 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (3.52%) Software Developer
15 15 (3.30%) Architect
15 15 (3.30%) Engineering Manager
15 15 (3.30%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.43%) React
2 50 (10.99%) AngularJS
3 47 (10.33%) Spring Boot
4 37 (8.13%) Gherkin
4 37 (8.13%) Jest
5 35 (7.69%) .NET
6 27 (5.93%) Vue
7 25 (5.49%) Node.js
8 24 (5.27%) REST
9 22 (4.84%) CSS
9 22 (4.84%) HTML
10 20 (4.40%) RESTful
11 18 (3.96%) GraphQL
12 17 (3.74%) Flask
12 17 (3.74%) Spring
13 16 (3.52%) ASP.NET
14 13 (2.86%) .NET Core
14 13 (2.86%) Android SDK
14 13 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.23%) Mobile App
2 29 (6.37%) Cloud Native
2 29 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.05%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.52%) Social Media
8 15 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.54%) NHS
11 5 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.88%) Life Science
12 4 (0.88%) Media Streaming
12 4 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.91%) Android
2 23 (5.05%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.20%) Linux
4 8 (1.76%) Windows
5 7 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (35.16%) CI/CD
2 140 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 111 (24.40%) DevOps
4 92 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 90 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (19.12%) Coaching
7 76 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 66 (14.51%) Decision-Making
9 61 (13.41%) SDLC
10 59 (12.97%) Roadmaps
11 57 (12.53%) AI
12 56 (12.31%) Project Management
13 54 (11.87%) Microservices
13 54 (11.87%) Software Engineering
14 50 (10.99%) Scrum
15 47 (10.33%) Waterfall
16 46 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
17 45 (9.89%) Observability
18 43 (9.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 42 (9.23%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 96 (21.10%) Java
2 63 (13.85%) JavaScript
3 61 (13.41%) TypeScript
4 60 (13.19%) SQL
5 47 (10.33%) Python
6 44 (9.67%) C#
7 39 (8.57%) Groovy
8 37 (8.13%) Bash
9 19 (4.18%) PHP
10 16 (3.52%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.32%) VBA
12 5 (1.10%) C++
13 4 (0.88%) C
13 4 (0.88%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.88%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.88%) Go
14 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.44%) Scala
14 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (10.11%) AWS Certification
2 38 (8.35%) Degree
3 23 (5.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (5.05%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (3.96%) AWS Certified Developer
4 18 (3.96%) Security Cleared
5 17 (3.74%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.76%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.54%) IIBA
8 7 (1.54%) PMP
9 4 (0.88%) CBAP
10 3 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CIPD
12 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.89%) Accessibility
2 33 (7.25%) QA
3 22 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.54%) GDPR
4 7 (1.54%) GRC
5 6 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.66%) PMO
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
8 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (16.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (10.55%) Terraform
2 37 (8.13%) HP Fortify
3 22 (4.84%) Kubernetes
4 13 (2.86%) Ansible
5 7 (1.54%) Argo
6 6 (1.32%) Grafana
6 6 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.66%) Packer
8 2 (0.44%) Kibana
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (8.35%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.62%) SAP
3 8 (1.76%) Google
4 6 (1.32%) Adobe
4 6 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.10%) Databricks
5 5 (1.10%) IBM
6 4 (0.88%) Hotjar
6 4 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle
7 3 (0.66%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.22%) Apple
8 1 (0.22%) Concur
8 1 (0.22%) Foundry
8 1 (0.22%) Informatica
8 1 (0.22%) New Relic
8 1 (0.22%) Nintex
8 1 (0.22%) Sony
8 1 (0.22%) Yahoo!