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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 412 396 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.96% 17.28% 20.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.96% 18.03% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 271 225 879
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.14% -2.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 3,446 2,196 4,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.93% 95.81% 85.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,113 1,135 3,450
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,125 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,700 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -3 325 £65,924 -5.82% 105
South Yorkshire -23 51 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North Yorkshire -8 18 £64,000 +11.30% 13
East Yorkshire -16 12 £46,250 -7.50% 14
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%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.46%) Apache
4 5 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.21%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) CMS
5 2 (0.49%) JBoss
5 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.49%) Sketch
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.40%) SAP ERP
2 8 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (37.14%) AWS
2 92 (22.33%) Azure
3 83 (20.15%) Serverless
4 59 (14.32%) Amazon S3
5 52 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (11.17%) Amazon ECS
7 43 (10.44%) AWS Step Functions
8 42 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (9.22%) SaaS
10 36 (8.74%) Amazon SQS
11 33 (8.01%) GitHub
12 30 (7.28%) Amazon ECR
12 30 (7.28%) Apigee
13 19 (4.61%) GCP
14 17 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (3.64%) Power Platform
16 13 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.67%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.98%) Broadband
2 5 (1.21%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) SSL
4 1 (0.24%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.11%) DynamoDB
2 32 (7.77%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.80%) NoSQL
4 26 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.85%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.64%) MySQL
7 12 (2.91%) Metadata
8 11 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.94%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.21%) Power BI
12 4 (0.97%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.97%) Tableau
13 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.73%) Big Data
13 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.73%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 47 (11.41%) GitLab
2 46 (11.17%) Jenkins
3 37 (8.98%) Git
4 31 (7.52%) Cypress.io
5 30 (7.28%) Maven
5 30 (7.28%) SonarQube
6 14 (3.40%) JIRA
7 6 (1.46%) Selenium
8 5 (1.21%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.49%) JUnit
11 1 (0.24%) Gatling
11 1 (0.24%) JMeter
11 1 (0.24%) Postman
11 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 114 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.99%) Finance
3 56 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 40 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.47%) Games
6 19 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.88%) Retail
8 13 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.91%) Marketing
10 10 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.94%) Local Government
12 6 (1.46%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.21%) Electronics
13 5 (1.21%) Law
13 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.97%) Advertising
14 4 (0.97%) Fire and Rescue
14 4 (0.97%) Legal
14 4 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 109 (26.46%) Developer
2 89 (21.60%) Senior
3 63 (15.29%) Lead
4 35 (8.50%) Java Developer
5 32 (7.77%) Analyst
6 26 (6.31%) Business Analyst
7 25 (6.07%) Software Engineer
8 24 (5.83%) Development Manager
9 20 (4.85%) Python Developer
9 20 (4.85%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.85%) Senior Manager
10 19 (4.61%) Software Manager
11 18 (4.37%) Software Development Manager
12 17 (4.13%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (3.64%) Architect
14 14 (3.40%) .NET Development Manager
14 14 (3.40%) AWS Developer
14 14 (3.40%) Engineering Manager
14 14 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.40%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.50%) React
2 42 (10.19%) Spring Boot
3 41 (9.95%) .NET
3 41 (9.95%) AngularJS
4 32 (7.77%) Node.js
5 30 (7.28%) Gherkin
5 30 (7.28%) Jest
6 29 (7.04%) HTML
6 29 (7.04%) REST
7 28 (6.80%) CSS
8 26 (6.31%) Vue
9 21 (5.10%) GraphQL
10 19 (4.61%) Flask
10 19 (4.61%) RESTful
10 19 (4.61%) Spring
11 17 (4.13%) .NET Core
11 17 (4.13%) ASP.NET
12 16 (3.88%) Django
13 15 (3.64%) FastAPI
14 13 (3.16%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.95%) Mobile App
2 30 (7.28%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.58%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.34%) Data Structures
6 21 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (4.37%) Social Media
8 17 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.18%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.70%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.21%) Analogue Electronics
12 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.21%) NHS
12 5 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.97%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.74%) Android
2 23 (5.58%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (38.35%) CI/CD
2 138 (33.50%) Mentoring
3 104 (25.24%) DevOps
4 92 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (18.45%) Coaching
7 68 (16.50%) Software Engineering
8 65 (15.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 63 (15.29%) Project Management
10 59 (14.32%) SDLC
11 57 (13.83%) Microservices
12 53 (12.86%) Decision-Making
13 51 (12.38%) AI
14 49 (11.89%) Observability
15 48 (11.65%) Roadmaps
16 45 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 43 (10.44%) Waterfall
18 42 (10.19%) Scrum
18 42 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 40 (9.71%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (18.69%) Java
2 70 (16.99%) JavaScript
3 63 (15.29%) SQL
4 57 (13.83%) TypeScript
5 43 (10.44%) Python
6 37 (8.98%) C#
7 30 (7.28%) Bash
8 29 (7.04%) Groovy
9 15 (3.64%) Kotlin
9 15 (3.64%) PHP
10 6 (1.46%) VBA
11 5 (1.21%) C
11 5 (1.21%) C++
11 5 (1.21%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.21%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.73%) Go
13 2 (0.49%) ABAP
13 2 (0.49%) COBOL
13 2 (0.49%) R
14 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (9.95%) AWS Certification
2 26 (6.31%) Degree
3 19 (4.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 18 (4.37%) ITIL Certification
5 17 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (1.94%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.94%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.46%) IIBA
8 5 (1.21%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.97%) PMP
10 3 (0.73%) CBAP
11 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.24%) CIPD
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.44%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.07%) QA
3 16 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.18%) GDPR
5 7 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.97%) GRC
7 4 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.97%) PMO
8 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) P3O
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.49%) WCAG
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 81 (19.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Squid
Systems Management
1 56 (13.59%) Terraform
2 30 (7.28%) HP Fortify
3 19 (4.61%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.43%) Ansible
5 6 (1.46%) Grafana
5 6 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (8.01%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.07%) SAP
3 7 (1.70%) Google
4 6 (1.46%) Adobe
4 6 (1.46%) Databricks
5 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.97%) Hotjar
6 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.73%) Pega
7 3 (0.73%) WSO2
8 2 (0.49%) New Relic
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle
9 1 (0.24%) Informatica
9 1 (0.24%) Nintex
9 1 (0.24%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software