Agile Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Agile Software Development
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 43 25 45
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 20.09% 16.78% 19.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.89% 22.12% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 30
10th Percentile £380 £431 £360
25th Percentile £413 £467 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £509 £624
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% -18.40% +24.75%
75th Percentile £517 £563 £720
90th Percentile £572 - -
North West median daily rate £447 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -8.78% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 11
10th Percentile - £39.55 -
25th Percentile - £43.38 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £51.00 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% -12.05% +32.28%
75th Percentile £53.87 £59.88 £76.19
90th Percentile £73.70 £64.45 £78.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £55.00 £60.25
% change year-on-year -17.35% -8.71% +59.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 113 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.11% 75.84% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 45 121
10th Percentile £164 £259 £375
25th Percentile £364 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £493 £623
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -20.80% +17.45%
75th Percentile £571 £549 £717
90th Percentile £655 £616 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 55
10th Percentile £33.62 £24.81 £20.58
25th Percentile £44.58 £32.48 £37.67
Median hourly rate £45.46 £44.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -3.44% +15.45%
75th Percentile £69.25 £49.80 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £59.51
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Lancashire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Lancashire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Preston -3 15 £455 - 19
Blackpool +7 3 £410 - 5
Lytham St Annes - 1 - -
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) Moodle
3 1 (2.33%) MTS
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.30%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (6.98%) Azure
3 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.65%) GCP
3 2 (4.65%) ShareGate
4 1 (2.33%) AWS
4 1 (2.33%) dbt
4 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) X.25
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.33%) Looker
1 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.33%) Power BI
1 1 (2.33%) Power Query
1 1 (2.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 31 (72.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Aeronautics
5 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) Lead
2 6 (13.95%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) Business Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Payroll Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Project Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) SAP Manager
4 2 (4.65%) SAP Project Manager
4 2 (4.65%) Senior
5 1 (2.33%) Automation Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Development Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Head of Digital
5 1 (2.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Product Owner
5 1 (2.33%) SAP Administrator
5 1 (2.33%) Scrum Master
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (2.33%) SharePoint Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.33%) IDoc
2 1 (2.33%) JWT
2 1 (2.33%) Laravel
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.33%) React
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.88%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Project Management
2 19 (44.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (44.19%) ITIL
3 18 (41.86%) Change Management
3 18 (41.86%) DevOps
4 17 (39.53%) PRINCE2
4 17 (39.53%) Project Delivery
5 16 (37.21%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (34.88%) Agile Project Management
6 15 (34.88%) Budget Management
6 15 (34.88%) Lean Six Sigma
6 15 (34.88%) Service Delivery
6 15 (34.88%) Six Sigma
7 14 (32.56%) Security Management
8 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (11.63%) Migration
11 5 (11.63%) Waterfall
12 4 (9.30%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) C#
1 2 (4.65%) Python
1 2 (4.65%) SQL
2 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.33%) PHP
2 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) Degree
2 15 (34.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
4 7 (16.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) CISM
6 1 (2.33%) CISSP
6 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) GRC
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (2.33%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) SAP
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Nintex
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) MathWorks
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Saba