Agile Contracts in Lancashire

Agile Software Development
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 27 23 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 13.99% 10.50% 20.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.88% 14.56% 22.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 36
10th Percentile £390 £404 £363
25th Percentile £419 £471 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% +4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £569 £708 £625
90th Percentile £600 £743 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile £37.96 - -
25th Percentile £44.85 £37.55 £45.88
Median hourly rate £58.64 £40.33 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year +45.42% -28.50% +42.51%
75th Percentile £73.84 £45.88 £74.37
90th Percentile £81.00 £58.85 £77.28
North West median hourly rate £70.08 £55.44 £47.73
% change year-on-year +26.41% +16.17% -31.82%

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 170 158 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 88.08% 72.15% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 60 134
10th Percentile £351 £205 £326
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +1.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £586 £638 £630
90th Percentile £656 £741 £696
North West median daily rate £460 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 49 60
10th Percentile £16.09 - £20.58
25th Percentile £25.84 £16.06 £29.15
Median hourly rate £40.83 £27.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +48.45% -35.67% +13.10%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.10 £49.52
90th Percentile £71.06 £48.00 £57.95
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.16% +4.78% +32.78%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Lancashire over the 6 months to 30 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Lancashire over the 6 months to 30 July 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 30 July 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 +10 15 £556 -24.90% 11
Blackpool +4 3 £387 - 2
Lytham St Annes - 1 - - 1
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
2 4 (14.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.41%) Simulink
2 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) ShareGate
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) IaaS
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) dbt
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.70%) Looker
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA Agile
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Aeronautics
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Avionics
5 1 (3.70%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 3 (11.11%) Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 3 (11.11%) Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Design Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Development Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Head of Digital
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Business Finance Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Head of Networks
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Coaching
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
2 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (22.22%) Project Management
3 6 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Kanban
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Analytics
5 3 (11.11%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (7.41%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Groovy
1 2 (7.41%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Degree
4 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Nintex
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.41%) MathWorks
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Ariba
4 1 (3.70%) Blue Prism
4 1 (3.70%) Google