Agile Contracts in the North East

Agile Software Development
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 4 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 44 125 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 13.02% 29.48% 29.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.18% 32.22% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 102 126
10th Percentile £368 £434 £400
25th Percentile £477 £503 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £581 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +16.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £588
90th Percentile £600 £774 £638
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -7.69% +33.80% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 388 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.47% 91.51% 85.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 301 336
10th Percentile £228 £255 £173
25th Percentile £363 £410 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £655 £720 £681
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 2 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.98 £10.77
25th Percentile £11.81 £35.56 £12.91
Median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +8.20%
75th Percentile £47.47 £45.56 £18.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £35.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +1 40 £533 -11.25% 51
Durham -2 2 £550 +22.22% 12
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (2.27%) CMS
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Serverless
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.82%) BrowserStack
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.82%) GitHub
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Stack
5 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.27%) dbt
6 1 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Miro
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.82%) MySQL
1 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.55%) Git
5 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.27%) JUnit
5 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 12 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Billing
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Analyst
2 8 (18.18%) Portfolio Manager
3 7 (15.91%) Business Analyst
4 6 (13.64%) Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Governance Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Architect
5 5 (11.36%) Governance Analyst
5 5 (11.36%) Portfolio Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 2 (4.55%) PMO Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) REST
1 4 (9.09%) RESTful
2 3 (6.82%) JSON
2 3 (6.82%) Next.js
2 3 (6.82%) React
3 2 (4.55%) CSS
3 2 (4.55%) HTML
3 2 (4.55%) XML
4 1 (2.27%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.27%) Jest
4 1 (2.27%) Middleware
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.27%) BBC
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Project Management
1 11 (25.00%) Scrum
2 9 (20.45%) Waterfall
3 8 (18.18%) DevOps
3 8 (18.18%) Quality Management
4 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
4 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.64%) Microservices
6 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
6 5 (11.36%) Migration
6 5 (11.36%) Portfolio Management
6 5 (11.36%) Product Backlog
6 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.09%) Change Management
7 4 (9.09%) Data Management
7 4 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Java
2 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.55%) PMP
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) PMO
3 2 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) WCAG
4 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Grafana
2 3 (6.82%) Ansible
2 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) PagerDuty
1 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
1 3 (6.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Virgin Media
3 1 (2.27%) Ariba
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) SAP