Agile Contracts in Cumbria

Agile Software Development
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 -6
Contract jobs citing Agile 14 12 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 7.18% 4.63% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 4.84% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 1
10th Percentile £479 £274 -
25th Percentile £500 £276 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% +16.92%
75th Percentile £650 £508 £488
90th Percentile £709 £549 -
North West median daily rate £485 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -7.18% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.26 - -
Median hourly rate £27.13 £52.78 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.61% - -
75th Percentile £39.79 - -
90th Percentile £59.82 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.54% +21.08% -3.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 248 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 85.64% 95.75% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 146 29
10th Percentile £368 £430 £350
25th Percentile £425 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +12.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £500
90th Percentile £638 £725 £710
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 64 8
10th Percentile £22.72 - £22.61
25th Percentile £25.26 £10.95 £44.81
Median hourly rate £31.76 £13.00 £55.38
Median % change year-on-year +144.31% -76.52% +11.80%
75th Percentile £59.24 £44.74 £66.16
90th Percentile £81.15 £51.91 £83.40
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Cumbria

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Cumbria

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cumbria

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Cumbria

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Cumbria

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Barrow-in-Furness +4 11 £540 +20.00% 2
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) NetScaler
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Build Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Build Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Build Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 1 (7.14%) IDoc
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SAP PI
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Project Governance
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Network Management
5 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Test Management
5 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) ABAP
1 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Nintex
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) VMware