Agile Contracts in West Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 166 403 539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.73% 24.75% 28.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.06% 27.07% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 281 398
10th Percentile £400 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £566
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £57.55 £26.73
25th Percentile - £61.25 £27.44
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year - +139.32% +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £30.44
90th Percentile - £74.00 £30.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £66.25 £31.00
% change year-on-year - +113.71% +19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 871 1,489 1,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.80% 91.46% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 1,018 1,245
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 43
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.81 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.12 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.59% +50.00% -19.54%
75th Percentile £15.24 £63.75 £22.58
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.45
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -2 135 £525 -4.55% 86
Bradford +4 19 £490 -10.91% 6
Halifax +1 4 £525 -4.55% 3
Huddersfield - 1 £375 - 2
Agile
Yorkshire

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (4.82%) Confluence
2 5 (3.01%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) Drupal
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.22%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.20%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.20%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.48%) Azure
2 15 (9.04%) AWS
3 14 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.63%) GitHub
5 9 (5.42%) SaaS
6 4 (2.41%) Azure Functions
6 4 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.41%) IaaS
6 4 (2.41%) iPaaS
6 4 (2.41%) PaaS
6 4 (2.41%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.41%) Serverless
7 3 (1.81%) Akamai
7 3 (1.81%) GCP
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.20%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.20%) Slack
9 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.60%) Figma
9 1 (0.60%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) Network Security
2 3 (1.81%) HTTP
3 2 (1.20%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.20%) WAN
3 2 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.82%) GIS
1 8 (4.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.01%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (2.41%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (2.41%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.41%) Power BI
4 4 (2.41%) Redis
5 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.20%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.20%) Tableau
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (9.04%) JIRA
2 14 (8.43%) Selenium
3 8 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.22%) Git
5 5 (3.01%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.01%) GitLab
5 5 (3.01%) JMeter
6 4 (2.41%) Postman
6 4 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.81%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.81%) XCUITest
8 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.20%) Gatling
8 2 (1.20%) JUnit
8 2 (1.20%) Mockito
8 2 (1.20%) Subversion
9 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.60%) CocoaPods
9 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.25%) Finance
3 18 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.61%) Retail
6 5 (3.01%) Banking
7 3 (1.81%) Billing
7 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Games
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (22.89%) Analyst
2 30 (18.07%) Business Analyst
3 29 (17.47%) Developer
4 24 (14.46%) Senior
5 19 (11.45%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.02%) Tester
7 8 (4.82%) Architect
7 8 (4.82%) Designer
8 7 (4.22%) Automation Tester
8 7 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.22%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.61%) SAP Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) SAP Business Analyst
9 6 (3.61%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.61%) Test Analyst
10 5 (3.01%) Lead
10 5 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.41%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.41%) Service Designer
11 4 (2.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.82%) Web Services
2 6 (3.61%) Node.js
3 5 (3.01%) Kafka
3 5 (3.01%) React
3 5 (3.01%) Spring
3 5 (3.01%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.41%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (2.41%) Gherkin
4 4 (2.41%) JSON
4 4 (2.41%) SignalR
5 3 (1.81%) .NET
5 3 (1.81%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.81%) ADO
5 3 (1.81%) OAuth
5 3 (1.81%) React Native
5 3 (1.81%) REST
6 2 (1.20%) CSS
6 2 (1.20%) HTML
6 2 (1.20%) Middleware
6 2 (1.20%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.01%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.81%) NHS
5 2 (1.20%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.60%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.60%) PMI
6 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.60%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Apple iOS
1 6 (3.61%) Unix
2 4 (2.41%) Linux
2 4 (2.41%) Mac OS X
2 4 (2.41%) Windows
3 3 (1.81%) Android
4 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.51%) Waterfall
2 38 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (19.28%) DevOps
4 30 (18.07%) Scrum
5 28 (16.87%) Test Automation
6 24 (14.46%) User Stories
7 23 (13.86%) Migration
7 23 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (12.65%) CI/CD
9 20 (12.05%) Business Analysis
10 17 (10.24%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (9.64%) Project Management
12 15 (9.04%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (9.04%) Full Stack Development
13 14 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (8.43%) Project Delivery
13 14 (8.43%) Roadmaps
13 14 (8.43%) SDLC
13 14 (8.43%) TDD
14 12 (7.23%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.07%) Java
2 22 (13.25%) JavaScript
3 14 (8.43%) Python
4 6 (3.61%) C#
5 5 (3.01%) SQL
6 4 (2.41%) Scala
6 4 (2.41%) Swift
7 3 (1.81%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.81%) VB.NET
7 3 (1.81%) VBA
8 2 (1.20%) Groovy
8 2 (1.20%) PHP
8 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.60%) Bash
9 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (10.24%) Degree
2 11 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.01%) CBAP
5 3 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) CCSA
7 1 (0.60%) CCSE
7 1 (0.60%) PMP
7 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.24%) QA
2 4 (2.41%) PMO
3 3 (1.81%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (3.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.61%) Terraform
3 3 (1.81%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Grafana
4 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.20%) Puppet
5 1 (0.60%) Graylog
5 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.60%) Nessus
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.60%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (9.04%) SAP
2 14 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.61%) Oracle
4 5 (3.01%) ESRI
5 4 (2.41%) Cisco
5 4 (2.41%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.81%) Aruba
6 3 (1.81%) Google
6 3 (1.81%) Juniper
6 3 (1.81%) Meraki
6 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.81%) Workday
7 2 (1.20%) Brio
7 2 (1.20%) F5
8 1 (0.60%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.60%) Splunk
8 1 (0.60%) Veracode
8 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media