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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 171 410 536
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 17.36% 25.15% 27.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.84% 27.61% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 291 398
10th Percentile £400 £419 £375
25th Percentile £452 £475 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £568
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 862 1,485 1,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.51% 91.10% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 1,022 1,257
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £404 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £618 £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 35 17 43
10th Percentile £11.91 £12.00 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £13.16 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.53 £18.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.39% - -21.74%
75th Percentile £15.20 £63.75 £22.58
90th Percentile £41.35 £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 3 May 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 3 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
Leeds -2 141 £525 -4.55% 90
Bradford +4 19 £490 -10.91% 9
Halifax +1 4 £525 -4.55% 3
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 (4.68%) Confluence
2 5 (2.92%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.58%) Drupal
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.09%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.17%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.17%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.54%) Azure
2 18 (10.53%) AWS
3 13 (7.60%) GitHub
4 11 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.26%) SaaS
6 4 (2.34%) Azure Functions
6 4 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.34%) GCP
6 4 (2.34%) IaaS
6 4 (2.34%) iPaaS
6 4 (2.34%) PaaS
6 4 (2.34%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.34%) Serverless
7 3 (1.75%) Akamai
7 3 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.17%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.17%) Slack
9 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.58%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) Network Security
2 3 (1.75%) HTTP
3 2 (1.17%) Firewall
3 2 (1.17%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.17%) WAN
3 2 (1.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.68%) GIS
3 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.92%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (2.34%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (2.34%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.34%) Power BI
5 4 (2.34%) Redis
6 2 (1.17%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.17%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.17%) Tableau
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) JIRA
2 14 (8.19%) Selenium
3 11 (6.43%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.09%) Git
5 5 (2.92%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.92%) GitLab
5 5 (2.92%) JMeter
6 4 (2.34%) JUnit
6 4 (2.34%) Postman
6 4 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.75%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.75%) XCUITest
8 2 (1.17%) Gatling
8 2 (1.17%) Mockito
8 2 (1.17%) Subversion
9 1 (0.58%) AppScan
9 1 (0.58%) Maven
9 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.58%) Xcode
General
1 48 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.28%) Finance
3 18 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.51%) Retail
6 5 (2.92%) Banking
7 3 (1.75%) Billing
7 3 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Games
9 1 (0.58%) Law
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (21.05%) Analyst
2 32 (18.71%) Developer
3 30 (17.54%) Business Analyst
4 23 (13.45%) Senior
5 18 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.43%) Tester
7 8 (4.68%) Architect
7 8 (4.68%) Automation Tester
7 8 (4.68%) Designer
8 7 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.51%) SAP Analyst
9 6 (3.51%) SAP Business Analyst
9 6 (3.51%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.51%) Senior Manager
9 6 (3.51%) Test Engineer
10 5 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.92%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.34%) .NET Developer
11 4 (2.34%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.68%) Web Services
2 7 (4.09%) Node.js
3 6 (3.51%) Gherkin
3 6 (3.51%) React
3 6 (3.51%) Spring
3 6 (3.51%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.92%) Kafka
5 4 (2.34%) .NET
5 4 (2.34%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.34%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.34%) JSON
5 4 (2.34%) SignalR
6 3 (1.75%) OAuth
6 3 (1.75%) React Native
6 3 (1.75%) REST
7 2 (1.17%) JAX-RS
7 2 (1.17%) Middleware
7 2 (1.17%) OpenID
7 2 (1.17%) RESTful
7 2 (1.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.92%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.92%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.34%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.75%) NHS
5 2 (1.17%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.58%) PMI
6 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.51%) Apple iOS
1 6 (3.51%) Unix
2 4 (2.34%) Linux
2 4 (2.34%) Mac OS X
2 4 (2.34%) Windows
3 3 (1.75%) Android
4 2 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.56%) Waterfall
2 40 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (18.71%) Scrum
3 32 (18.71%) Test Automation
4 31 (18.13%) DevOps
5 26 (15.20%) CI/CD
5 26 (15.20%) User Stories
6 22 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (11.70%) Business Analysis
7 20 (11.70%) Migration
8 18 (10.53%) TDD
9 17 (9.94%) Acceptance Criteria
9 17 (9.94%) Requirements Gathering
10 15 (8.77%) Full Stack Development
10 15 (8.77%) Project Management
10 15 (8.77%) SDLC
11 14 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (8.19%) Kanban
11 14 (8.19%) Project Delivery
11 14 (8.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.47%) Java
2 24 (14.04%) JavaScript
3 14 (8.19%) Python
4 7 (4.09%) C#
5 6 (3.51%) Scala
5 6 (3.51%) SQL
6 5 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.34%) MATLAB
7 4 (2.34%) Swift
7 4 (2.34%) VB.NET
7 4 (2.34%) VBA
8 3 (1.75%) Bash
9 2 (1.17%) C
9 2 (1.17%) Groovy
9 2 (1.17%) PHP
9 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (10.53%) Degree
2 14 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.92%) CBAP
5 4 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) CCSA
8 1 (0.58%) CCSE
8 1 (0.58%) PMP
8 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (2.34%) PMO
3 3 (1.75%) SLA
4 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.68%) Terraform
3 5 (2.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.17%) Ansible
4 2 (1.17%) Grafana
4 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.17%) Puppet
4 2 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) Graylog
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Nessus
5 1 (0.58%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.60%) SAP
3 5 (2.92%) ESRI
3 5 (2.92%) Google
4 4 (2.34%) Cisco
4 4 (2.34%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.34%) Zscaler
5 3 (1.75%) Aruba
5 3 (1.75%) Juniper
5 3 (1.75%) Meraki
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle
6 2 (1.17%) Brio
6 2 (1.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.17%) F5
7 1 (0.58%) Databricks
7 1 (0.58%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.58%) Okta
7 1 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.58%) Veracode
7 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media