Agile Contracts in Chester

Agile Software Development
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Agile 14 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 17.28% 3.13% 9.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.90% 4.00% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 4
10th Percentile £563 - £503
25th Percentile £594 £713 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +7.41% +80.00%
75th Percentile £706 £738 £700
90th Percentile £738 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £423 £538
% change year-on-year +5.33% -21.40% +12.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £30.54
75th Percentile - - £32.91
90th Percentile - - £37.16
Cheshire median hourly rate £83.50 - £30.54
% change year-on-year - - -12.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 50 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 82.72% 78.13% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 16 42
10th Percentile £325 £450 £375
25th Percentile £442 £542 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +17.62% +23.53%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £597
90th Percentile £768 - £686
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £488 £522
% change year-on-year -10.26% -6.52% +15.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 16
10th Percentile £12.63 £16.00 £17.38
25th Percentile £15.85 £25.50 £30.06
Median hourly rate £29.28 £35.00 £31.88
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +9.80% +46.36%
75th Percentile £45.85 £41.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £37.52
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.01 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -37.11% +14.60% +45.43%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Chester

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Chester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Chester over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Chester

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Agile

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) Mule
1 2 (14.29%) Mule ESB
1 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.14%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.14%) JBoss
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
1 3 (21.43%) Smartsheet
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Appium
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (64.29%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Senior PMO
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Payments Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Architect
3 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) J2EE
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) PMI
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (35.71%) Waterfall
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (21.43%) Change Control
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Management
5 3 (21.43%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
5 3 (21.43%) Programme Management
5 3 (21.43%) Project Governance
5 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) PMI Certification
2 3 (21.43%) PMP
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) P3O
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) AppDynamics
1 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
1 3 (21.43%) Planview
1 3 (21.43%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) UiPath