Agile Contracts in Northern Ireland

Agile Software Development
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 4
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 14 14 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.46% 7.00% 17.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 9.15% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 26
10th Percentile £500 £365 £369
25th Percentile £531 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% +22.29%
75th Percentile £635 £469 £500
90th Percentile £688 £488 £563
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 153 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.68% 76.50% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 79 89
10th Percentile £211 £164 £145
25th Percentile £355 £291 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £413 £438
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -5.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £581 £508 £500
90th Percentile £663 £626 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.26
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -3.11% +12.43%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Northern Ireland

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Northern Ireland

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Northern Ireland

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
County Antrim +3 13 £581 +29.17% 39
County Londonderry - 1 £640 - 1
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Adobe XD
1 2 (14.29%) InVision
1 2 (14.29%) Sketch
2 1 (7.14%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (42.86%) Azure Functions
2 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 6 (42.86%) Serverless
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) Figma
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) IDMS
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Designer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) UX Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Excel Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Test Architect
3 1 (7.14%) User Experience Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.14%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (42.86%) Coaching
2 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Co-Creation
4 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) UX Design
4 3 (21.43%) UX Research
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) COBOL
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Qualtrics