Agile Contracts in Leeds

Agile Software Development
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 2 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 108 144 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 23.23% 18.02% 27.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.23% 20.81% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 89 253
10th Percentile £339 £405 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £691 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £84.38 - £57.55
25th Percentile £84.67 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £96.85 - £70.00
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £74.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +139.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
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 Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Leeds

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Leeds

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Leeds

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Leeds

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (14.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 14 (12.96%) Confluence
3 2 (1.85%) nginx
3 2 (1.85%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.52%) AWS
2 11 (10.19%) Azure
3 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.70%) IaaS
3 4 (3.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (2.78%) GCP
4 3 (2.78%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.85%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Asana
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.93%) Figma
6 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.70%) Firewall
3 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.74%) Oracle Database
2 6 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (20.37%) JIRA
2 8 (7.41%) Selenium
3 6 (5.56%) Git
4 5 (4.63%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.70%) Postman
5 4 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (3.70%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.78%) GitLab
6 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Finance
3 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.85%) Banking
8 2 (1.85%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.85%) Military
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (16.67%) Developer
2 13 (12.04%) Senior
3 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (9.26%) Lead
5 9 (8.33%) Analyst
5 9 (8.33%) Architect
5 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 8 (7.41%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.41%) Engineering Specialist
7 7 (6.48%) Technical Manager
8 6 (5.56%) Bid Manager
8 6 (5.56%) Bid Writer
8 6 (5.56%) Tester
9 5 (4.63%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.63%) Designer
9 5 (4.63%) QA Tester
9 5 (4.63%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Scala Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.63%) React
2 4 (3.70%) .NET
2 4 (3.70%) Akka
2 4 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.78%) cloud-init
3 3 (2.78%) CSS
3 3 (2.78%) Kafka
3 3 (2.78%) Play Framework
3 3 (2.78%) RESTful
4 2 (1.85%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.85%) Playwright
4 2 (1.85%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) Django
5 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.93%) Nightwatchjs
5 1 (0.93%) OAuth
5 1 (0.93%) React Native
5 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (8.33%) NHS
3 5 (4.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.85%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.85%) IoT
6 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.85%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) PMI
7 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.37%) Linux
2 19 (17.59%) Windows
3 17 (15.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.78%) CentOS
5 3 (2.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.93%) HPUX
6 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.26%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (23.15%) Microservices
3 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 19 (17.59%) DevOps
6 18 (16.67%) SOA
7 17 (15.74%) Roadmaps
7 17 (15.74%) Security Management
8 16 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.96%) Migration
10 13 (12.04%) Server Management
10 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (11.11%) Change Management
12 10 (9.26%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.26%) Project Management
12 10 (9.26%) Scrum
13 9 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 9 (8.33%) User Stories
13 9 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.52%) Bash
2 19 (17.59%) SQL
3 16 (14.81%) PL/SQL
4 15 (13.89%) Perl
5 14 (12.96%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.41%) Python
7 4 (3.70%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.70%) Groovy
7 4 (3.70%) Scala
8 3 (2.78%) C#
8 3 (2.78%) Go
8 3 (2.78%) Java
8 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.59%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (9.26%) APMP
5 4 (3.70%) Degree
6 2 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.85%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) CBAP
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.48%) QA
3 6 (5.56%) PMO
4 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (15.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Terraform
2 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.70%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.70%) Kibana
4 3 (2.78%) Grafana
4 3 (2.78%) Packer
4 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.85%) Consul
5 2 (1.85%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.85%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (1.85%) Istio
5 2 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.85%) linkerd
5 2 (1.85%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.85%) Rancher
5 2 (1.85%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (19.44%) Cisco
2 18 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (4.63%) Atlassian
3 5 (4.63%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 4 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.78%) Brio
6 2 (1.85%) Apple
6 2 (1.85%) Dell
6 2 (1.85%) ESET
6 2 (1.85%) Google
6 2 (1.85%) Okta
6 2 (1.85%) Splunk
6 2 (1.85%) Veritas
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.93%) Sun
7 1 (0.93%) Unisys
7 1 (0.93%) Xamarin