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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -8
Permanent jobs citing Agile 455 303 647
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 6.17% 8.71% 12.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 9.87% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 326 222 410
10th Percentile £40,625 £36,250 £39,697
25th Percentile £48,260 £47,298 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,987 £78,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 4,912 3,069 4,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.57% 88.24% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,560 1,524 2,498
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,825 £29,694
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,932 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -5.00% -7.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,955 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -11.26%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -4 293 £62,500 - 105
South Yorkshire -11 88 £55,000 -21.43% 23
North Yorkshire +14 28 £55,000 -8.33% 12
East Yorkshire 0 22 £50,000 -14.89% 4
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 (2.20%) Confluence
2 9 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.54%) CMS
4 3 (0.66%) Apache
4 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.66%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) JBoss
5 2 (0.44%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.88%) Trello
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.66%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 124 (27.25%) Azure
2 105 (23.08%) AWS
3 45 (9.89%) Serverless
4 41 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (6.81%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (5.27%) Amazon S3
8 23 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (4.40%) GCP
10 19 (4.18%) AWS Step Functions
10 19 (4.18%) GitHub
11 16 (3.52%) SaaS
12 15 (3.30%) Amazon ECR
12 15 (3.30%) Apigee
12 15 (3.30%) Azure AI
13 13 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.86%) Power Platform
14 9 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.62%) Broadband
2 4 (0.88%) ATM
2 4 (0.88%) CTI
2 4 (0.88%) HTTP
2 4 (0.88%) Internet
2 4 (0.88%) VoIP
3 2 (0.44%) DNS
3 2 (0.44%) Network Security
3 2 (0.44%) Profibus
3 2 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 24 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (4.18%) DynamoDB
4 17 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.08%) MySQL
6 13 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.98%) BigQuery
7 9 (1.98%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.88%) Big Data
10 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.88%) Power BI
11 3 (0.66%) Metadata
11 3 (0.66%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.66%) Redis
11 3 (0.66%) Tableau
12 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (10.33%) JIRA
2 35 (7.69%) GitLab
3 32 (7.03%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.59%) Git
5 19 (4.18%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.96%) SonarQube
7 16 (3.52%) Maven
8 6 (1.32%) Selenium
9 5 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.10%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.88%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.44%) JUnit
12 2 (0.44%) Postman
13 1 (0.22%) Gatling
13 1 (0.22%) JMeter
13 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 90 (19.78%) Finance
3 89 (19.56%) Public Sector
4 61 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.62%) Games
7 18 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.64%) Retail
10 9 (1.98%) Advertising
10 9 (1.98%) Banking
11 8 (1.76%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.76%) Legal
11 8 (1.76%) Local Government
12 7 (1.54%) Marketing
13 5 (1.10%) Automotive
13 5 (1.10%) Back Office
13 5 (1.10%) Law
13 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.10%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (25.93%) Developer
2 108 (23.74%) Senior
3 80 (17.58%) Analyst
4 71 (15.60%) Business Analyst
5 63 (13.85%) Lead
6 38 (8.35%) Software Engineer
7 31 (6.81%) .NET Developer
8 26 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (5.71%) Java Developer
9 24 (5.27%) Product Manager
10 21 (4.62%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.96%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
13 17 (3.74%) Senior Business Analyst
13 17 (3.74%) Senior Manager
14 16 (3.52%) Architect
14 16 (3.52%) Technical Leader
15 14 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
15 14 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (12.31%) .NET
2 51 (11.21%) React
3 48 (10.55%) AngularJS
4 36 (7.91%) RESTful
5 35 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 33 (7.25%) .NET Core
6 33 (7.25%) ASP.NET Core
6 33 (7.25%) Vue
7 31 (6.81%) Node.js
8 29 (6.37%) Terraform
9 26 (5.71%) CSS
10 23 (5.05%) Spring Boot
11 21 (4.62%) HTML
12 18 (3.96%) Blazor
13 17 (3.74%) Entity Framework
13 17 (3.74%) Jest
14 16 (3.52%) REST
15 15 (3.30%) Gherkin
15 15 (3.30%) ML.NET
16 13 (2.86%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 32 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.74%) Social Media
5 16 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.30%) NHS
7 14 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (3.08%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.64%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.54%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.54%) PMI
13 6 (1.32%) Blog
14 5 (1.10%) BBC
14 5 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (1.10%) Life Science
15 4 (0.88%) e-Learning
15 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.49%) Android
2 17 (3.74%) Linux
3 16 (3.52%) Windows
4 12 (2.64%) Unix
5 9 (1.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 117 (25.71%) Mentoring
3 108 (23.74%) DevOps
4 99 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 86 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (18.02%) Coaching
7 73 (16.04%) AI
8 72 (15.82%) Scrum
9 64 (14.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 64 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 59 (12.97%) Software Engineering
11 58 (12.75%) Roadmaps
12 51 (11.21%) Decision-Making
13 48 (10.55%) User Experience
13 48 (10.55%) Waterfall
14 47 (10.33%) Microservices
14 47 (10.33%) SDLC
14 47 (10.33%) Test Automation
15 45 (9.89%) Acceptance Criteria
16 44 (9.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (17.58%) C#
1 80 (17.58%) SQL
2 79 (17.36%) Java
3 75 (16.48%) JavaScript
4 55 (12.09%) Python
4 55 (12.09%) TypeScript
5 21 (4.62%) Groovy
6 18 (3.96%) Bash
6 18 (3.96%) Kotlin
6 18 (3.96%) PHP
7 7 (1.54%) Scala
8 6 (1.32%) Ruby
9 3 (0.66%) COBOL
9 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.44%) Go
10 2 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
10 2 (0.44%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (8.79%) Degree
2 24 (5.27%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.30%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.30%) PMI Certification
5 12 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 12 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.42%) PMP
7 6 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.88%) CBAP
8 4 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (0.88%) IIBA
9 3 (0.66%) APMP
9 3 (0.66%) CAPM
9 3 (0.66%) PgMP
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 35 (7.69%) QA
2 22 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.54%) PMO
4 5 (1.10%) GRC
5 4 (0.88%) WCAG
6 3 (0.66%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) GDPR
7 2 (0.44%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (9.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.30%) HP Fortify
3 7 (1.54%) Ansible
3 7 (1.54%) Argo
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.66%) Packer
5 2 (0.44%) Kibana
5 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 71 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.74%) Google
3 15 (3.30%) SAP
4 8 (1.76%) Databricks
5 7 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.32%) TOWER Software
7 5 (1.10%) Adobe
7 5 (1.10%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.10%) Apple
7 5 (1.10%) Facebook
7 5 (1.10%) IBM
7 5 (1.10%) Oracle
7 5 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.10%) Sony
7 5 (1.10%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.88%) Avaya
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco
8 4 (0.88%) Genesys
8 4 (0.88%) Pega
8 4 (0.88%) VocaLink