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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 26 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -15 -10
Permanent jobs citing Agile 411 256 563
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.38% 7.60% 11.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.96% 8.69% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 296 187 259
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,635 £50,625 £49,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £74,990 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £85,000
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 5,162 2,946 3,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.55% 87.50% 79.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,832 1,374 1,751
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,246 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 1 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 1 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 0 267 £64,750 +3.60% 255
South Yorkshire -6 83 £55,000 -21.43% 98
North Yorkshire +6 21 £48,750 -18.75% 36
East Yorkshire +8 20 £48,750 -11.36% 9
Humberside - 1 - - 4
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 10 (2.43%) Confluence
1 10 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.46%) CMS
3 3 (0.73%) Apache
3 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.73%) IIS
4 2 (0.49%) nginx
4 2 (0.49%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.97%) Trello
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.73%) Shopify
3 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.24%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 124 (30.17%) Azure
2 119 (28.95%) AWS
3 47 (11.44%) Serverless
4 42 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (6.33%) Amazon S3
7 25 (6.08%) GCP
8 21 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (5.11%) GitHub
9 20 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.14%) SaaS
12 15 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.41%) Azure AI
13 14 (3.41%) Power Platform
14 13 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (2.43%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Network Security
2 4 (0.97%) ATM
2 4 (0.97%) CTI
2 4 (0.97%) DNS
2 4 (0.97%) Internet
2 4 (0.97%) VoIP
3 2 (0.49%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (0.49%) Firewall
3 2 (0.49%) HTTP
3 2 (0.49%) Profibus
3 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.76%) MongoDB
2 22 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.16%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.43%) MySQL
8 8 (1.95%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.95%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.46%) Power BI
11 5 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.22%) Metadata
11 5 (1.22%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.73%) Redis
12 3 (0.73%) Tableau
13 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 45 (10.95%) JIRA
2 34 (8.27%) GitLab
3 29 (7.06%) Jenkins
4 26 (6.33%) Git
5 17 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.68%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.19%) Maven
8 7 (1.70%) JMeter
9 5 (1.22%) Postman
9 5 (1.22%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.97%) Selenium
11 3 (0.73%) Appium
11 3 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.73%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.49%) Ranorex
13 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (25.79%) Public Sector
2 98 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 70 (17.03%) Finance
4 67 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.92%) Banking
7 12 (2.92%) Legal
8 10 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.19%) Advertising
9 9 (2.19%) Retail
10 6 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.46%) Local Government
10 6 (1.46%) Marketing
11 5 (1.22%) Back Office
11 5 (1.22%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.97%) Digital Economy
13 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.73%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (25.79%) Senior
2 94 (22.87%) Developer
3 69 (16.79%) Analyst
4 59 (14.36%) Business Analyst
5 53 (12.90%) Lead
6 38 (9.25%) Software Engineer
7 28 (6.81%) .NET Developer
8 27 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.60%) Architect
10 21 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 18 (4.38%) Product Manager
11 18 (4.38%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.14%) Technical Architect
13 16 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.16%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.16%) Python Developer
15 13 (3.16%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.33%) .NET
2 44 (10.71%) React
3 38 (9.25%) RESTful
4 36 (8.76%) AngularJS
5 35 (8.52%) Node.js
6 32 (7.79%) ASP.NET
7 31 (7.54%) Terraform
8 30 (7.30%) .NET Core
8 30 (7.30%) ASP.NET Core
9 21 (5.11%) CSS
9 21 (5.11%) REST
10 19 (4.62%) Spring Boot
11 17 (4.14%) Blazor
11 17 (4.14%) HTML
11 17 (4.14%) Vue
12 15 (3.65%) Entity Framework
13 14 (3.41%) ML.NET
14 13 (3.16%) Gherkin
14 13 (3.16%) Spring
15 12 (2.92%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.81%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.60%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.68%) NHS
5 10 (2.43%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.95%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.70%) PMI
7 7 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.46%) Blog
8 6 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.97%) iPhone
10 4 (0.97%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.35%) Linux
2 17 (4.14%) Windows
3 16 (3.89%) Unix
4 5 (1.22%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (29.68%) CI/CD
2 114 (27.74%) DevOps
3 113 (27.49%) Mentoring
4 105 (25.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 93 (22.63%) Coaching
6 76 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (18.49%) Scrum
7 65 (15.82%) Software Engineering
8 62 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 61 (14.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 58 (14.11%) Test Automation
11 54 (13.14%) AI
12 53 (12.90%) Microservices
13 46 (11.19%) SDLC
14 45 (10.95%) Roadmaps
15 43 (10.46%) Technical Leadership
16 40 (9.73%) Acceptance Criteria
17 39 (9.49%) User Experience
18 37 (9.00%) Waterfall
19 36 (8.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 82 (19.95%) SQL
2 75 (18.25%) C#
3 66 (16.06%) JavaScript
4 62 (15.09%) Java
5 53 (12.90%) Python
6 52 (12.65%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.41%) Groovy
8 13 (3.16%) Bash
9 11 (2.68%) PHP
10 7 (1.70%) Scala
11 6 (1.46%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.46%) Ruby
12 5 (1.22%) C++
13 3 (0.73%) COBOL
13 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.49%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.49%) Bicep
14 2 (0.49%) Ladder Logic
14 2 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (6.81%) Degree
2 27 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.68%) PMI Certification
5 10 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.70%) PMP
8 6 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.22%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.73%) APMP
10 3 (0.73%) CAPM
10 3 (0.73%) PgMP
11 1 (0.24%) ACCA
11 1 (0.24%) CBAP
11 1 (0.24%) CIMA
11 1 (0.24%) CSPO
11 1 (0.24%) IIBA
11 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.49%) QA
2 24 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 22 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.70%) PMO
5 6 (1.46%) WCAG
6 3 (0.73%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.49%) GRC
7 2 (0.49%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (7.79%) Docker
2 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.43%) Ansible
3 8 (1.95%) HP Fortify
4 7 (1.70%) Argo
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.73%) Packer
6 2 (0.49%) Grafana
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
6 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 72 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.62%) Google
3 15 (3.65%) SAP
4 9 (2.19%) Databricks
5 7 (1.70%) Oracle
6 5 (1.22%) Adobe
6 5 (1.22%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.22%) IBM
6 5 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.22%) TOWER Software
7 4 (0.97%) Apple
7 4 (0.97%) Avaya
7 4 (0.97%) Cisco
7 4 (0.97%) Facebook
7 4 (0.97%) Genesys
7 4 (0.97%) Pega
7 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.97%) Sony
7 4 (0.97%) VocaLink
7 4 (0.97%) Yahoo!