Agile Contract Job Trends in Blackpool

Agile Software Development
Lancashire > Blackpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blackpool requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 11 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Blackpool 44.00% 22.22% 14.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 45.83% 22.22% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £353 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.58%
75th Percentile £440 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £425 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -26.09% -3.02% +24.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24 9 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 96.00% 100.00% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 18
10th Percentile £341 £333 £375
25th Percentile £363 £382 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -28.71% +15.91%
75th Percentile £494 £532 £719
90th Percentile £570 £588 £720
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £533 £538
% change year-on-year -6.10% -0.93% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £22.55 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £11.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £25.52 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.46 £31.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year +44.23% -29.96% +5.88%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool.

Agile job vacancy trend in Blackpool

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blackpool citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Blackpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Blackpool over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Blackpool

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
2 1 (9.09%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JMeter
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
2 7 (63.64%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Project Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Performance Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Performance Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Focus Group
1 7 (63.64%) GAP Analysis
1 7 (63.64%) Impact Analysis
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (9.09%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (9.09%) User Research
3 1 (9.09%) Validation
3 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
3 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
1 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft