Agile Contracts in Cheshire

Agile Software Development
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Agile 76 128 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.64% 23.79% 14.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.27% 25.96% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 92 42
10th Percentile £65 £413 £324
25th Percentile £311 £445 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +15.79% +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £524
90th Percentile £614 £640 £621
North West median daily rate £523 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £31.00
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - £30.54 £33.34
Median % change year-on-year - -8.38% -1.96%
75th Percentile - £32.91 £55.73
90th Percentile - £37.16 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.00 £43.02
% change year-on-year +21.08% -7.01% +26.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 440 493 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.78% 91.64% 85.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 332 253
10th Percentile £285 £264 £214
25th Percentile £400 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +7.19% +2.97%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £630 £656 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 25
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.97 £11.29
25th Percentile £16.61 £22.97 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +24.65% -19.50%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £44.13 £38.80 £61.30
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cheshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington +2 20 £400 -11.11% 13
Knutsford -6 18 £409 -25.64% 9
Macclesfield -17 12 £510 +10.27% 9
Daresbury - 7 £65 -
Chester -2 3 £725 +3.57% 18
Northwich -12 1 £650 +293.94% 1
Runcorn - 1 £475 -
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.58%) Apache
1 5 (6.58%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.63%) IIS
3 2 (2.63%) Mule
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Primavera
2 4 (5.26%) Sage X3
3 2 (2.63%) Maximo
4 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.68%) AWS
2 12 (15.79%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.21%) Serverless
5 5 (6.58%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (6.58%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.95%) GitHub
6 3 (3.95%) Route 53
6 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) PPP
2 5 (6.58%) FTP
3 2 (2.63%) DMZ
3 2 (2.63%) Firewall
3 2 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Big Data
2 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.63%) Power BI
3 2 (2.63%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.32%) Metadata
4 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (32.89%) JIRA
2 9 (11.84%) Git
3 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.63%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.63%) Log4j
4 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.32%) GitLab
5 1 (1.32%) Postman
5 1 (1.32%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (51.32%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.89%) Finance
3 13 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (11.84%) Banking
6 7 (9.21%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.58%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.26%) Legal
8 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.95%) Front Office
10 2 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.63%) Digital Economy
10 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Project Manager
2 9 (11.84%) Architect
3 8 (10.53%) Scrum Master
4 7 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Lead
6 5 (6.58%) Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Accountant
7 4 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Systems Accountant
8 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Applications Architect
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Developer
9 2 (2.63%) Pega Developer
9 2 (2.63%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Salesforce Project Manager
9 2 (2.63%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) JSON
2 8 (10.53%) REST
3 7 (9.21%) XML
4 5 (6.58%) .NET
4 5 (6.58%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.95%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.95%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.95%) Web Services
6 2 (2.63%) CSS
6 2 (2.63%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.63%) HTML
6 2 (2.63%) Kafka
6 2 (2.63%) Middleware
6 2 (2.63%) XHTML
7 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.32%) React
7 1 (1.32%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.26%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.32%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Life Science
4 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Android
2 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.32%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.84%) Scrum
1 28 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (28.95%) Project Management
3 15 (19.74%) Risk Management
4 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (17.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 12 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 12 (15.79%) SDLC
5 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 11 (14.47%) DevOps
6 11 (14.47%) User Stories
7 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.84%) Asset Management
8 9 (11.84%) ETL
8 9 (11.84%) Kanban
8 9 (11.84%) OO
8 9 (11.84%) PRINCE2
8 9 (11.84%) Sprint Planning
8 9 (11.84%) Sprint Retrospective
8 9 (11.84%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) SQL
2 12 (15.79%) Java
3 10 (13.16%) C#
4 9 (11.84%) Python
5 7 (9.21%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) Bicep
7 1 (1.32%) C
7 1 (1.32%) C++
7 1 (1.32%) Go
7 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.11%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.26%) PMP
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.63%) PMO
3 1 (1.32%) GAMP
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) GxP
3 1 (1.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Grafana
2 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) SAP
3 7 (9.21%) Avaloq
3 7 (9.21%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.58%) Informatica
4 5 (6.58%) Talend
5 4 (5.26%) Sage
6 2 (2.63%) IBM
6 2 (2.63%) Nintex
6 2 (2.63%) Pega
7 1 (1.32%) HP
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle