Agile Contracts in Halifax

Agile Software Development
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Halifax 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 3 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 6 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Halifax 31.58% 44.44% 36.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% 44.44% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £502 - £498
25th Percentile £505 £513 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £552
90th Percentile - - £584
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 9 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 94.74% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £493 - £449
25th Percentile £500 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £330 £550
Median % change year-on-year +55.30% -40.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile £550 £434 £588
90th Percentile £575 £496 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Halifax

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Halifax

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SNA
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Product Owner
1 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 2 (33.33%) Contingency Planning
1 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 2 (33.33%) Objectives and Key Results
1 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
1 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (33.33%) Product Vision
1 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM