Agile Contracts in Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 264 493 675
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.83% 21.27% 24.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.31% 23.44% 27.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 354 498
10th Percentile £394 £413 £363
25th Percentile £428 £473 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £47.70 £27.20
25th Percentile - £58.94 £28.63
Median hourly rate - £66.25 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year - +113.71% +19.23%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £36.25
90th Percentile - £73.00 £39.40
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +32.65% +8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,442 2,103 2,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.45% 90.72% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,395 1,764
10th Percentile £275 £293 £261
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £551
90th Percentile £651 £700 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 63 80
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.96
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.35% -9.51%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.57 £22.81
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.63
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
West Yorkshire -3 169 £520 -5.45% 113
South Yorkshire +3 81 £513 -14.58% 32
North Yorkshire -1 10 £463 -13.15% 29
East Yorkshire -5 1 £450 -37.93% 2
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (7.20%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) ArcGIS
2 5 (1.89%) nginx
3 3 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.14%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.65%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.76%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.76%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 47 (17.80%) Azure
2 36 (13.64%) GitHub
3 32 (12.12%) AWS
4 22 (8.33%) GCP
5 14 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.92%) SaaS
7 7 (2.65%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.27%) Apigee
8 6 (2.27%) Kong
8 6 (2.27%) PaaS
9 5 (1.89%) Azure Functions
9 5 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.89%) CloudBees
9 5 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (1.89%) Serverless
10 4 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.52%) IaaS
10 4 (1.52%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.14%) Akamai
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.17%) Firewall
2 9 (3.41%) HTTP
3 6 (2.27%) DNS
3 6 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.27%) VPN
4 5 (1.89%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.52%) Network Security
6 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.76%) RTP
6 2 (0.76%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.76%) WAN
6 2 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.41%) GIS
2 9 (3.41%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.65%) Power BI
5 6 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (1.89%) InterSystems Cache
6 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.89%) Redis
7 4 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.14%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.14%) Tableau
9 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.76%) MySQL
9 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.76%) Spatial Data
10 1 (0.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 40 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 28 (10.61%) JIRA
3 21 (7.95%) Git
4 18 (6.82%) Selenium
5 11 (4.17%) GitLab
6 10 (3.79%) JUnit
7 7 (2.65%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.27%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.27%) JMeter
8 6 (2.27%) Travis CI
9 5 (1.89%) Postman
9 5 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.14%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.14%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.76%) Gatling
11 2 (0.76%) Mockito
12 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 83 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.67%) Finance
3 29 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.55%) Banking
6 7 (2.65%) Retail
7 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.14%) Billing
8 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.76%) Legal
9 2 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.38%) Games
10 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Law
10 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (17.42%) Developer
2 45 (17.05%) Analyst
3 35 (13.26%) Business Analyst
4 29 (10.98%) Senior
5 25 (9.47%) Project Manager
6 17 (6.44%) Storage Manager
7 15 (5.68%) Lead
8 14 (5.30%) Architect
9 13 (4.92%) Tester
10 12 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.55%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.79%) Automation Tester
12 9 (3.41%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (3.03%) Designer
13 8 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 6 (2.27%) SAP Analyst
14 6 (2.27%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.27%) Senior Manager
14 6 (2.27%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.95%) YAML
2 14 (5.30%) React
3 13 (4.92%) JSON
4 12 (4.55%) REST
4 12 (4.55%) Spring
4 12 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.41%) XML
6 8 (3.03%) Kafka
6 8 (3.03%) Node.js
6 8 (3.03%) Web Services
7 7 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.65%) Hibernate
8 6 (2.27%) Gherkin
8 6 (2.27%) JPA
9 5 (1.89%) .NET
9 5 (1.89%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.89%) CSS
9 5 (1.89%) HTML
9 5 (1.89%) React Native
9 5 (1.89%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.82%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.89%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.14%) CMDB
7 3 (1.14%) NHS
8 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.76%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) iSeries
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.38%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.23%) Linux
2 18 (6.82%) zOS
3 7 (2.65%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.65%) Unix
4 4 (1.52%) Android
4 4 (1.52%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.52%) Windows
5 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.48%) DevOps
2 58 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (20.45%) Scrum
5 53 (20.08%) Waterfall
6 46 (17.42%) Project Management
7 42 (15.91%) Test Automation
8 41 (15.53%) CI/CD
9 29 (10.98%) User Stories
10 25 (9.47%) Migration
11 24 (9.09%) Problem Management
12 23 (8.71%) Mentoring
13 21 (7.95%) Business Analysis
13 21 (7.95%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (7.95%) TDD
14 20 (7.58%) Analytics
14 20 (7.58%) Containerisation
14 20 (7.58%) Roadmaps
15 19 (7.20%) Requirements Gathering
15 19 (7.20%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.05%) Java
2 44 (16.67%) Python
3 31 (11.74%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.44%) JCL
5 14 (5.30%) REXX
6 11 (4.17%) Bash
6 11 (4.17%) C#
6 11 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.79%) SQL
8 9 (3.41%) Scala
9 7 (2.65%) Groovy
10 5 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.52%) Go
11 4 (1.52%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.52%) Ruby
11 4 (1.52%) Swift
11 4 (1.52%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.52%) VBA
12 2 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (9.47%) Degree
2 22 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.89%) CBAP
7 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) CCSA
9 1 (0.38%) CCSE
9 1 (0.38%) PMP
9 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.98%) QA
2 9 (3.41%) PMO
3 8 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.14%) GRC
4 3 (1.14%) SLA
5 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 30 (11.36%) Docker
2 17 (6.44%) NFS
2 17 (6.44%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (1.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 30 (11.36%) Ansible
2 28 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 22 (8.33%) Terraform
4 19 (7.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 13 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.17%) Grafana
7 8 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.03%) Puppet
8 6 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (2.27%) Kibana
8 6 (2.27%) logstash
9 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.14%) Istio
11 2 (0.76%) Kiali
12 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.38%) Graylog
12 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.38%) Nessus
12 1 (0.38%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 20 (7.58%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.20%) Broadcom
2 19 (7.20%) Dell
2 19 (7.20%) IBM
3 17 (6.44%) Brocade
3 17 (6.44%) CA
4 15 (5.68%) SAP
5 10 (3.79%) Splunk
6 9 (3.41%) Google
7 7 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.89%) ESRI
9 4 (1.52%) Cisco
9 4 (1.52%) Wind River
9 4 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.14%) Aruba
10 3 (1.14%) Juniper
10 3 (1.14%) Meraki
10 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.14%) Oracle
10 3 (1.14%) VMware