Agile Contracts in Belfast

Agile Software Development
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 16 7
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 9 11 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 4.48% 7.75% 14.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 9.91% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 17
10th Percentile £380 £240 -
25th Percentile £425 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% -3.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £513 £536
90th Percentile - £616 £580
County Antrim median daily rate £550 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +20.55% -3.95% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 111 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.55% 78.17% 83.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 55 68
10th Percentile £264 £146 £200
25th Percentile £325 £170 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -18.37%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £498
90th Percentile £625 £620 £591
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +18.75% - -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £14.04 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.19 £21.19 £13.23
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £17.30 - £13.91
90th Percentile £24.50 - £14.73
County Antrim median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +22.64%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Belfast

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Belfast over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Belfast

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Agile

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Market Risk Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Risk Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Credit Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Market Risk
2 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (11.11%) Equities
3 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Business Analysis
1 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Project Management
1 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Dependency Management
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) IT Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) PMP
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) ISEB
2 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 3 (33.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce