Agile Contracts in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 415 606 879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 15.02% 18.86% 21.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.40% 20.82% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 461 637
10th Percentile £325 £388 £394
25th Percentile £418 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £698 £663 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 18
10th Percentile £41.13 £30.54 £26.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £32.77 £31.44
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year +21.08% -3.28% +21.63%
75th Percentile £52.78 £56.38 £54.38
90th Percentile £56.00 £62.16 £60.03
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester -1 292 £525 -3.31% 235
Cheshire -4 74 £448 -18.64% 60
Lancashire -2 25 £593 +20.08% 39
Cumbria -12 12 £440 -7.37% 7
Merseyside -12 9 £465 -7.00% 34
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.69%) Confluence
3 6 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.20%) Apache
4 5 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.72%) IIS
6 2 (0.48%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.48%) Mule
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 22 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.41%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.69%) Primavera
3 4 (0.96%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.72%) Aareon QL
4 3 (0.72%) Maximo
4 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.48%) iTrent
5 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.48%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 90 (21.69%) AWS
2 77 (18.55%) Azure
3 31 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (6.51%) Serverless
5 19 (4.58%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.37%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (3.13%) SaaS
8 12 (2.89%) GitHub
9 11 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.41%) GCP
11 9 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.17%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.93%) IaaS
12 8 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.69%) PaaS
14 6 (1.45%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.67%) Firewall
2 33 (7.95%) VPN
3 8 (1.93%) PPP
4 5 (1.20%) FTP
4 5 (1.20%) HTTP
5 3 (0.72%) DNS
5 3 (0.72%) SSL
6 2 (0.48%) DMZ
7 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.23%) MongoDB
2 22 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.10%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (3.61%) Power BI
7 13 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.17%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.20%) Big Data
11 5 (1.20%) Tableau
12 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.96%) Redis
13 3 (0.72%) GIS
13 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.72%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 56 (13.49%) JIRA
2 31 (7.47%) Git
3 28 (6.75%) Jenkins
4 26 (6.27%) GitLab
5 15 (3.61%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.41%) JUnit
7 9 (2.17%) Selenium
8 7 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.45%) Postman
9 6 (1.45%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.96%) Gatling
10 4 (0.96%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.96%) JMeter
10 4 (0.96%) Karma Test Runner
10 4 (0.96%) Maven
10 4 (0.96%) Mocha
10 4 (0.96%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.96%) webpack
11 3 (0.72%) Mockito
11 3 (0.72%) WebDriver
General
1 106 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.22%) Public Sector
3 58 (13.98%) Finance
4 33 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.58%) Banking
5 19 (4.58%) Legal
6 11 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.93%) Law
9 8 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.69%) Retail
11 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.96%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Billing
13 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Front Office
13 3 (0.72%) German Language
Job Titles
1 79 (19.04%) Architect
2 62 (14.94%) Developer
3 48 (11.57%) Lead
4 38 (9.16%) Senior
5 35 (8.43%) Technical Architect
6 31 (7.47%) Project Manager
7 29 (6.99%) Lead Architect
7 29 (6.99%) Technical Leader
8 28 (6.75%) Analyst
9 25 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
10 24 (5.78%) Java Developer
11 18 (4.34%) Delivery Manager
12 16 (3.86%) Business Analyst
13 14 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) Test Engineer
15 12 (2.89%) DBA
15 12 (2.89%) PostgreSQL DBA
16 11 (2.65%) Software Engineer
16 11 (2.65%) User Researcher
17 9 (2.17%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (12.77%) Node.js
2 33 (7.95%) REST
3 28 (6.75%) JSON
3 28 (6.75%) RESTful
4 26 (6.27%) React
5 25 (6.02%) .NET
5 25 (6.02%) XML
6 24 (5.78%) Kafka
6 24 (5.78%) Spring
7 20 (4.82%) Spring Boot
8 17 (4.10%) JPA
9 16 (3.86%) Hibernate
10 14 (3.37%) Web Services
11 13 (3.13%) .NET Framework
12 11 (2.65%) CSS
12 11 (2.65%) HTML
13 8 (1.93%) .NET Core
13 8 (1.93%) AngularJS
13 8 (1.93%) Spring Security
14 6 (1.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.67%) Public Cloud
2 35 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 12 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 8 (1.93%) Reference Data
6 7 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.45%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.20%) NHS
8 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.96%) Digital Signage
9 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (0.72%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.60%) Windows
2 37 (8.92%) Android
3 35 (8.43%) Apple iOS
4 34 (8.19%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.65%) Linux
6 7 (1.69%) Unix
7 3 (0.72%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.48%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (29.40%) DevOps
2 93 (22.41%) CI/CD
3 82 (19.76%) Scrum
4 67 (16.14%) Microservices
5 61 (14.70%) Design Patterns
6 54 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (12.77%) Project Management
8 49 (11.81%) Risk Management
9 39 (9.40%) Software Engineering
10 38 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (8.92%) Mentoring
11 37 (8.92%) Test Automation
12 36 (8.67%) Project Delivery
13 35 (8.43%) Roadmaps
14 32 (7.71%) Mobile Device Management
15 31 (7.47%) Security Architecture
15 31 (7.47%) Zero Trust
16 30 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (7.23%) Waterfall
17 28 (6.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 63 (15.18%) Java
2 44 (10.60%) SQL
3 35 (8.43%) C#
4 34 (8.19%) Python
5 27 (6.51%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.34%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.20%) Bash
9 5 (1.20%) Scala
10 4 (0.96%) Go
11 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.48%) Groovy
12 2 (0.48%) PHP
12 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
13 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 70 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.92%) Degree
4 8 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.20%) PMP
8 3 (0.72%) OSCP
9 2 (0.48%) APMG
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.24%) CCSA
10 1 (0.24%) CCSE
10 1 (0.24%) CISSP
10 1 (0.24%) ISEB
10 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.54%) QA
2 13 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.41%) PMO
5 8 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.93%) GDPR
5 8 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.96%) GRC
7 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.48%) GxP
8 2 (0.48%) P3O
9 1 (0.24%) GAMP
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (3.86%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (6.27%) Terraform
2 21 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.17%) Ansible
4 6 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Consul
6 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.24%) Graphite
6 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.24%) Istio
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) linkerd
6 1 (0.24%) Packer
6 1 (0.24%) Podman
6 1 (0.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.02%) Oracle
3 16 (3.86%) SAP
4 12 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.65%) Google
6 8 (1.93%) Pega
7 7 (1.69%) Avaloq
8 5 (1.20%) Apple
8 5 (1.20%) Informatica
8 5 (1.20%) Talend
9 4 (0.96%) Cadence
9 4 (0.96%) Logitech
9 4 (0.96%) Sage
10 3 (0.72%) Aareon
10 3 (0.72%) Cisco
10 3 (0.72%) Databricks
10 3 (0.72%) IBM
10 3 (0.72%) Nintex
10 3 (0.72%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.72%) VMware