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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Agile 474 347 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.49% 13.70% 18.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% 14.54% 21.97%
Number of salaries quoted 324 240 815
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £40,988
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -3.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £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 4,384 2,387 4,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.29% 94.27% 82.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,877 1,268 3,722
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -2 349 £63,076 -6.55% 97
South Yorkshire -19 73 £57,548 -16.29% 43
North Yorkshire -11 23 £64,000 +8.94% 16
East Yorkshire -23 14 £50,000 +2.56% 10
Humberside - 1 - - 9
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 7 (1.48%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) Apache
4 3 (0.63%) JBoss
5 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.42%) Sketch
3 2 (0.42%) Trello
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.74%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (31.43%) AWS
2 111 (23.42%) Azure
3 78 (16.46%) Serverless
4 59 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (12.24%) Amazon S3
6 52 (10.97%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (9.49%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (7.81%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (7.81%) Apigee
9 35 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
10 31 (6.54%) SaaS
11 24 (5.06%) GCP
12 20 (4.22%) GitHub
13 18 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (3.80%) Power Platform
14 13 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.53%) PowerApps
16 9 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.69%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.81%) Broadband
2 4 (0.84%) DNS
3 2 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.97%) DynamoDB
2 29 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (5.91%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.06%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.01%) MySQL
7 15 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.53%) Metadata
9 11 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.90%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.48%) Power BI
13 6 (1.27%) Tableau
14 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.84%) Big Data
15 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
16 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
17 2 (0.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 66 (13.92%) GitLab
2 58 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 40 (8.44%) SonarQube
4 39 (8.23%) Cypress.io
5 38 (8.02%) Maven
6 37 (7.81%) Git
7 27 (5.70%) JIRA
8 8 (1.69%) Selenium
9 7 (1.48%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.05%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.63%) JUnit
12 2 (0.42%) Postman
12 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.21%) Gatling
13 1 (0.21%) JMeter
13 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
General
1 106 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.09%) Finance
2 81 (17.09%) Public Sector
3 48 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.02%) Games
5 23 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (2.74%) Retail
7 10 (2.11%) Marketing
8 6 (1.27%) Automotive
8 6 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.27%) Law
9 5 (1.05%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.84%) Electronics
11 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (0.63%) Local Government
11 3 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 131 (27.64%) Developer
2 111 (23.42%) Senior
3 82 (17.30%) Lead
4 56 (11.81%) Analyst
5 48 (10.13%) Business Analyst
6 45 (9.49%) Java Developer
7 31 (6.54%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.12%) Senior Manager
9 24 (5.06%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (4.43%) Python Developer
12 18 (3.80%) Technical Leader
13 16 (3.38%) Architect
13 16 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.16%) .NET Developer
14 15 (3.16%) Development Manager
14 15 (3.16%) Engineering Manager
15 14 (2.95%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.81%) AngularJS
2 54 (11.39%) React
3 48 (10.13%) Spring Boot
4 38 (8.02%) Jest
5 37 (7.81%) Gherkin
6 34 (7.17%) .NET
7 31 (6.54%) Vue
8 30 (6.33%) Node.js
9 25 (5.27%) REST
10 24 (5.06%) RESTful
11 21 (4.43%) CSS
11 21 (4.43%) HTML
12 18 (3.80%) ASP.NET
12 18 (3.80%) GraphQL
12 18 (3.80%) Spring
13 16 (3.38%) Flask
14 15 (3.16%) .NET Core
14 15 (3.16%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (2.74%) Android SDK
16 12 (2.53%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.86%) Mobile App
2 28 (5.91%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.43%) Data Structures
6 18 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.59%) Social Media
8 16 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.48%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.48%) NHS
12 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.05%) Life Science
13 5 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
14 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.59%) Android
2 23 (4.85%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.11%) Linux
4 8 (1.69%) Windows
5 7 (1.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (33.97%) CI/CD
2 153 (32.28%) Mentoring
3 110 (23.21%) DevOps
4 96 (20.25%) Coaching
5 94 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 76 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (13.71%) Decision-Making
9 62 (13.08%) Roadmaps
10 61 (12.87%) AI
11 60 (12.66%) SDLC
12 59 (12.45%) Software Engineering
13 58 (12.24%) Project Management
14 57 (12.03%) Microservices
15 53 (11.18%) Scrum
16 51 (10.76%) Full-Stack Development
17 47 (9.92%) Waterfall
18 43 (9.07%) Observability
18 43 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
19 41 (8.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 106 (22.36%) Java
2 74 (15.61%) JavaScript
3 69 (14.56%) SQL
4 68 (14.35%) TypeScript
5 52 (10.97%) Python
6 48 (10.13%) C#
7 40 (8.44%) Groovy
8 39 (8.23%) Bash
9 20 (4.22%) PHP
10 16 (3.38%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.27%) VBA
12 5 (1.05%) C++
13 4 (0.84%) C
13 4 (0.84%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.84%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.84%) Go
13 4 (0.84%) Scala
14 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (9.49%) AWS Certification
2 41 (8.65%) Degree
3 23 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (4.85%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (4.01%) Security Cleared
5 18 (3.80%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.32%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.11%) PMP
9 7 (1.48%) IIBA
10 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.84%) CBAP
12 3 (0.63%) APMP
12 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.63%) CAPM
12 3 (0.63%) PgMP
13 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.92%) Accessibility
2 36 (7.59%) QA
3 25 (5.27%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.48%) GRC
5 6 (1.27%) GDPR
5 6 (1.27%) PMO
6 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (15.19%) Docker
2 4 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (9.07%) Terraform
2 37 (7.81%) HP Fortify
3 20 (4.22%) Kubernetes
4 11 (2.32%) Ansible
5 7 (1.48%) Argo
6 4 (0.84%) Grafana
6 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.63%) Packer
8 2 (0.42%) Kibana
9 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.43%) SAP
3 10 (2.11%) Google
4 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.27%) Adobe
5 6 (1.27%) Databricks
6 5 (1.05%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.05%) IBM
7 4 (0.84%) Hotjar
7 4 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.84%) TOWER Software
8 2 (0.42%) Apple
8 2 (0.42%) Facebook
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle
8 2 (0.42%) Sony
8 2 (0.42%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.21%) Concur
9 1 (0.21%) New Relic
9 1 (0.21%) Nintex
9 1 (0.21%) Palantir