Agile Contracts in Lancashire

Agile Software Development
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 25 40 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 12.89% 16.53% 30.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.34% 18.96% 32.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 58
10th Percentile £313 £413 £406
25th Percentile £454 £452 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £494 £482
Median % change year-on-year +20.08% +2.39% +20.56%
75th Percentile £641 £558 £525
90th Percentile £706 £700 £656
North West median daily rate £524 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.24% +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £46.23 £33.41
25th Percentile - £48.83 £38.68
Median hourly rate £45.88 £56.38 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +36.33% +87.98%
75th Percentile £48.43 £56.40 £45.70
90th Percentile - £61.55 £51.53
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year +21.08% -3.28% +21.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 211 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 78.87% 87.19% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 118 157
10th Percentile £313 £339 £230
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +10.94% +20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £575
90th Percentile £747 £700 £705
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 42 47
10th Percentile £15.63 £22.31 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.06 £28.85 £16.93
Median hourly rate £17.62 £42.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.54% +7.59% -3.66%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £48.00 £53.43 £60.34
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Lancashire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Preston 0 4 £666 +33.29% 13
Fleetwood - 4 £588 -
Blackpool -3 3 £625 +29.87% 4
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
1 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTP
1 3 (12.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Local Government
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Programme Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) IT Programme Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (12.00%) JDBC
2 3 (12.00%) JPA
2 3 (12.00%) JWT
2 3 (12.00%) Node.js
2 3 (12.00%) RESTful
2 3 (12.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) NHS
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Project Management
2 9 (36.00%) PRINCE2
2 9 (36.00%) Waterfall
3 8 (32.00%) Microservices
3 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.00%) Business Case
7 4 (16.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (16.00%) Information Security
7 4 (16.00%) People Management
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Management
7 4 (16.00%) Programme Governance
7 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) APMG
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) PMO
2 2 (8.00%) P3O
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Cadence
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce