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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 413 380 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 8.75% 17.08% 20.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.77% 17.81% 23.95%
Number of salaries quoted 275 235 864
10th Percentile £42,164 £40,000 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,367 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +11.49% -0.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,625 £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 3,509 2,134 4,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.31% 95.91% 85.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,152 1,168 3,475
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,660 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,463 £90,000 £82,215
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 21 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 21 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 -4 323 £65,000 -7.14% 116
South Yorkshire -19 53 £55,000 -8.33% 25
North Yorkshire -9 19 £64,000 +11.30% 12
East Yorkshire -19 12 £46,250 -7.50% 12
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 (2.42%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.97%) Apache
3 4 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.97%) Confluence
4 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.48%) Sketch
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.39%) SAP ERP
2 7 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 152 (36.80%) AWS
2 92 (22.28%) Azure
3 83 (20.10%) Serverless
4 58 (14.04%) Amazon S3
5 52 (12.59%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (11.38%) Amazon ECS
7 43 (10.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 42 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (8.72%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (8.72%) SaaS
10 32 (7.75%) GitHub
11 31 (7.51%) Amazon ECR
11 31 (7.51%) Apigee
12 19 (4.60%) GCP
13 18 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (3.39%) Power Platform
15 13 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.66%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.96%) Broadband
2 5 (1.21%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) HTTP
3 2 (0.48%) SSL
4 1 (0.24%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.08%) DynamoDB
2 33 (7.99%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.78%) NoSQL
4 26 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.63%) MySQL
7 12 (2.91%) Metadata
8 9 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (1.21%) Power BI
12 4 (0.97%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.73%) Big Data
13 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.73%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (11.86%) GitLab
2 48 (11.62%) Jenkins
3 38 (9.20%) Git
4 32 (7.75%) Cypress.io
5 31 (7.51%) Maven
5 31 (7.51%) SonarQube
6 16 (3.87%) JIRA
7 7 (1.69%) Selenium
8 5 (1.21%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.73%) JUnit
10 2 (0.48%) Postman
11 1 (0.24%) Gatling
11 1 (0.24%) JMeter
11 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 114 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.16%) Finance
3 59 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 39 (9.44%) Games
5 38 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.12%) Retail
8 13 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.91%) Marketing
10 10 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.94%) Local Government
12 6 (1.45%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.45%) 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
1 112 (27.12%) Developer
2 90 (21.79%) Senior
3 63 (15.25%) Lead
4 36 (8.72%) Java Developer
5 32 (7.75%) Analyst
6 26 (6.30%) Business Analyst
7 25 (6.05%) Software Engineer
8 23 (5.57%) Development Manager
9 22 (5.33%) Senior Manager
10 21 (5.08%) Python Developer
10 21 (5.08%) Senior Developer
11 18 (4.36%) Software Manager
12 17 (4.12%) Delivery Manager
12 17 (4.12%) Software Development Manager
13 15 (3.63%) Architect
13 15 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.39%) .NET Development Manager
14 14 (3.39%) AWS Developer
14 14 (3.39%) Engineering Manager
14 14 (3.39%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (16.46%) React
2 43 (10.41%) Spring Boot
3 42 (10.17%) AngularJS
4 41 (9.93%) .NET
5 31 (7.51%) Gherkin
5 31 (7.51%) Jest
5 31 (7.51%) Node.js
6 30 (7.26%) CSS
6 30 (7.26%) HTML
7 28 (6.78%) REST
8 27 (6.54%) Vue
9 21 (5.08%) GraphQL
10 20 (4.84%) RESTful
11 19 (4.60%) Flask
11 19 (4.60%) Spring
12 18 (4.36%) .NET Core
12 18 (4.36%) ASP.NET
13 16 (3.87%) Django
14 15 (3.63%) FastAPI
15 14 (3.39%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.93%) Mobile App
2 30 (7.26%) Cloud Native
3 26 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.57%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.33%) Data Structures
6 20 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (4.60%) Social Media
8 17 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.69%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.45%) NHS
13 5 (1.21%) Analogue Electronics
13 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.97%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.97%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.72%) Android
2 23 (5.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (38.26%) CI/CD
2 138 (33.41%) Mentoring
3 105 (25.42%) DevOps
4 92 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (18.40%) Coaching
7 64 (15.50%) Software Engineering
7 64 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 62 (15.01%) Project Management
9 59 (14.29%) SDLC
10 55 (13.32%) Microservices
11 52 (12.59%) AI
11 52 (12.59%) Decision-Making
12 48 (11.62%) Observability
12 48 (11.62%) Roadmaps
13 43 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 41 (9.93%) Waterfall
15 40 (9.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (19.13%) Java
2 71 (17.19%) JavaScript
3 62 (15.01%) SQL
4 57 (13.80%) TypeScript
5 42 (10.17%) Python
6 38 (9.20%) C#
7 31 (7.51%) Bash
8 30 (7.26%) Groovy
9 16 (3.87%) PHP
10 15 (3.63%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.45%) C++
11 6 (1.45%) VBA
12 5 (1.21%) C
12 5 (1.21%) Embedded C
12 5 (1.21%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.73%) Go
14 2 (0.48%) COBOL
14 2 (0.48%) R
15 1 (0.24%) ABAP
15 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (10.17%) AWS Certification
2 28 (6.78%) Degree
3 19 (4.60%) AWS Certified Developer
3 19 (4.60%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (4.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (2.18%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.18%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.45%) IIBA
6 6 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.21%) PMP
8 3 (0.73%) CBAP
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.24%) CIPD
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.41%) Accessibility
2 26 (6.30%) QA
3 17 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.42%) GDPR
5 8 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.21%) GRC
8 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.73%) PMO
10 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.48%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.48%) WCAG
11 1 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 81 (19.61%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Squid
Systems Management
1 55 (13.32%) Terraform
2 31 (7.51%) HP Fortify
3 19 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 10 (2.42%) Ansible
5 6 (1.45%) Grafana
5 6 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.57%) SAP
3 8 (1.94%) Google
4 6 (1.45%) Adobe
4 6 (1.45%) 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 (0.48%) New Relic
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle
9 1 (0.24%) Apple
9 1 (0.24%) Facebook
9 1 (0.24%) Informatica
9 1 (0.24%) Nintex
9 1 (0.24%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.24%) Sony
9 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!