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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 2
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 335 476 836
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 9.85% 14.14% 29.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.98% 15.84% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 242 208 702
10th Percentile £39,775 £42,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,812 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,600 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -10.16% +3.28%
75th Percentile £79,688 £71,250 £80,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500

All Process and 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 2,797 3,005 2,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 82.26% 89.25% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 1,169 2,063
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -4.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 2025. 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 -4 263 £65,000 +18.18% 273
South Yorkshire -16 40 £55,000 -5.93% 124
North Yorkshire -15 19 £60,000 +4.35% 58
East Yorkshire -11 12 £55,000 +7.32% 58
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 12 (3.58%) Confluence
2 8 (2.39%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.79%) Apache
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.19%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Drupal
6 2 (0.60%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.30%) FileNet
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.60%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.69%) SAP ERP
1 9 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.60%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (37.01%) AWS
2 98 (29.25%) Azure
3 57 (17.01%) Serverless
4 45 (13.43%) SaaS
5 41 (12.24%) Amazon S3
6 32 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (8.96%) GitHub
8 28 (8.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 26 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (6.57%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (6.57%) GCP
11 19 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.18%) Amazon ECR
12 14 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.18%) Apigee
13 13 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (3.28%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (2.09%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.79%) DNS
2 3 (0.90%) Firewall
3 2 (0.60%) AMQP
3 2 (0.60%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) LAN
4 1 (0.30%) MPLS
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) VoIP
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
4 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.15%) SQL Server
2 32 (9.55%) DynamoDB
3 23 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.97%) NoSQL
4 20 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.88%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.28%) MySQL
7 7 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.19%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.19%) Looker
9 4 (1.19%) Metadata
9 4 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.19%) Power BI
9 4 (1.19%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.90%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.90%) Spark SQL
10 3 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (9.85%) Git
2 30 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.36%) GitLab
4 18 (5.37%) JIRA
5 15 (4.48%) Cypress.io
6 14 (4.18%) Maven
6 14 (4.18%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.90%) Selenium
8 2 (0.60%) Grunt
8 2 (0.60%) gulp
8 2 (0.60%) Storybook
8 2 (0.60%) webpack
9 1 (0.30%) Appium
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) JUnit
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 117 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.61%) Finance
3 36 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.16%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (4.48%) Law
7 14 (4.18%) Retail
8 13 (3.88%) Marketing
9 12 (3.58%) Legal
10 7 (2.09%) Advertising
11 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.49%) Banking
12 5 (1.49%) Electronics
12 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.49%) Local Government
13 4 (1.19%) Military
13 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (22.99%) Developer
2 59 (17.61%) Senior
3 44 (13.13%) Lead
4 28 (8.36%) Analyst
5 20 (5.97%) Business Analyst
6 19 (5.67%) Development Manager
7 18 (5.37%) Java Developer
8 17 (5.07%) Software Manager
9 16 (4.78%) Python Developer
9 16 (4.78%) Software Development Manager
10 15 (4.48%) Architect
10 15 (4.48%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.48%) Software Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) .NET Developer
11 12 (3.58%) Consultant
11 12 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 12 (3.58%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.28%) .NET Development Manager
13 10 (2.99%) AWS Developer
13 10 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (18.51%) React
2 54 (16.12%) .NET
3 39 (11.64%) CSS
4 34 (10.15%) HTML
5 31 (9.25%) Node.js
6 28 (8.36%) Spring Boot
7 27 (8.06%) REST
8 25 (7.46%) AngularJS
9 24 (7.16%) ASP.NET
10 21 (6.27%) RESTful
10 21 (6.27%) Spring
11 19 (5.67%) Django
11 19 (5.67%) FastAPI
11 19 (5.67%) Flask
12 16 (4.78%) .NET Core
12 16 (4.78%) Vue
13 14 (4.18%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (4.18%) Blazor
13 14 (4.18%) Gherkin
13 14 (4.18%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (1.79%) NHS
5 5 (1.49%) Analogue Electronics
5 5 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (1.49%) Social Media
5 5 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (0.90%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.60%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Linux
1 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.94%) CI/CD
2 99 (29.55%) DevOps
3 96 (28.66%) Mentoring
4 86 (25.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (20.30%) Software Engineering
7 54 (16.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (15.52%) SDLC
9 50 (14.93%) Coaching
9 50 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (14.33%) Microservices
11 47 (14.03%) Scrum
12 35 (10.45%) Project Management
12 35 (10.45%) Waterfall
13 34 (10.15%) Project Delivery
14 33 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (9.25%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (8.96%) Decision-Making
17 29 (8.66%) Roadmaps
18 26 (7.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (21.49%) SQL
2 63 (18.81%) JavaScript
3 47 (14.03%) Python
4 44 (13.13%) TypeScript
5 43 (12.84%) Java
6 39 (11.64%) C#
7 16 (4.78%) Bash
8 14 (4.18%) PHP
9 13 (3.88%) Groovy
10 9 (2.69%) C++
11 5 (1.49%) C
11 5 (1.49%) Embedded C
11 5 (1.49%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.19%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.90%) ABAP
13 3 (0.90%) Scala
14 2 (0.60%) COBOL
14 2 (0.60%) Go
14 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (7.76%) Degree
2 23 (6.87%) AWS Certification
3 16 (4.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 15 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.18%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (1.19%) ACCA
8 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.60%) IIBA
11 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.16%) QA
2 13 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.69%) GDPR
4 7 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.19%) GAAP
6 4 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (1.19%) IFRS
7 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.60%) GRC
7 2 (0.60%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) NIST
7 2 (0.60%) P3O
7 2 (0.60%) PMO
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 68 (20.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (1.49%) Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 59 (17.61%) Terraform
2 25 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.18%) HP Fortify
4 12 (3.58%) Ansible
5 8 (2.39%) Grafana
5 8 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.27%) SAP
3 13 (3.88%) Databricks
4 6 (1.79%) Google
5 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.19%) Oracle
7 3 (0.90%) Pega
7 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.90%) WSO2
8 2 (0.60%) Adobe
8 2 (0.60%) IBM
8 2 (0.60%) New Relic
8 2 (0.60%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.30%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.30%) ESRI
9 1 (0.30%) iManage
9 1 (0.30%) Intapp
9 1 (0.30%) Sage
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.30%) TOWER Software