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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 124 118 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 21.75% 16.32% 22.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.80% 19.44% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 76 201
10th Percentile £375 £416 £419
25th Percentile £425 £466 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -12.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £650
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £520 £575
% change year-on-year -3.85% -9.57% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £25.10 - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% - -
75th Percentile £62.53 - -
90th Percentile £84.14 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -62.86% - -

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 521 607 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 91.40% 83.96% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 399 698
10th Percentile £307 £325 £363
25th Percentile £391 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -8.26% +6.86%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £619 £650 £711
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £12.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.28% -35.26% -11.11%
75th Percentile £50.48 £20.88 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £33.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.90 £18.50
% change year-on-year +71.63% -30.27% -1.07%

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 2 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Leeds

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 (14.52%) Confluence
2 13 (10.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.42%) Apache
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.39%) AWS
2 16 (12.90%) Azure
3 13 (10.48%) Serverless
4 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (7.26%) GitHub
5 9 (7.26%) Power Platform
6 8 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.65%) GCP
8 5 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.23%) IaaS
9 4 (3.23%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.42%) Lucidchart
10 3 (2.42%) Slack
10 3 (2.42%) Smartsheet
11 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.29%) DNS
2 4 (3.23%) Firewall
3 2 (1.61%) SSL
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) Oracle Database
2 8 (6.45%) Power BI
3 6 (4.84%) Tableau
4 4 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.61%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.81%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (20.16%) JIRA
2 11 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.26%) Selenium
4 8 (6.45%) Git
4 8 (6.45%) GitLab
5 6 (4.84%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.84%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.84%) JMeter
5 6 (4.84%) Postman
5 6 (4.84%) REST Assured
5 6 (4.84%) TestNG
6 5 (4.03%) Maven
7 4 (3.23%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (2.42%) JUnit
9 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.81%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.81%) Log4j
10 1 (0.81%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.81%) TestRail
10 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.90%) Finance
5 5 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.42%) Legal
6 3 (2.42%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Marketing
7 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (12.10%) Analyst
2 14 (11.29%) Senior
3 13 (10.48%) Software Engineer
4 12 (9.68%) Developer
5 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Test Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Architect
6 10 (8.06%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (7.26%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 7 (5.65%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.84%) Lead
10 5 (4.03%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Designer
10 5 (4.03%) Engineering Specialist
11 4 (3.23%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.23%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Network Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.48%) React
2 8 (6.45%) Playwright
3 7 (5.65%) Node.js
4 6 (4.84%) .NET
5 4 (3.23%) Kafka
6 3 (2.42%) REST
7 2 (1.61%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.61%) CSS
7 2 (1.61%) FHIR
7 2 (1.61%) HTML
7 2 (1.61%) RESTful
8 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.81%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.81%) Blazor
8 1 (0.81%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.81%) Jetpack Compose
8 1 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.81%) Next.js
8 1 (0.81%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.48%) Cloud Native
1 13 (10.48%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.65%) NHS
2 7 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.42%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.42%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.81%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) PMI
6 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.10%) Linux
2 14 (11.29%) Windows
3 13 (10.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.42%) Android
5 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.81%) HPUX
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.81%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.61%) CI/CD
1 33 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (19.35%) DevOps
3 20 (16.13%) Scrum
4 19 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (14.52%) Microservices
6 17 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (11.29%) Decision-Making
9 14 (11.29%) Test Automation
10 13 (10.48%) Roadmaps
10 13 (10.48%) Security Management
10 13 (10.48%) SOA
11 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (9.68%) Migration
11 12 (9.68%) User Stories
12 11 (8.87%) Change Management
12 11 (8.87%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.35%) SQL
2 16 (12.90%) Python
3 15 (12.10%) Bash
4 13 (10.48%) PL/SQL
5 12 (9.68%) Perl
6 11 (8.87%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.06%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.45%) Java
9 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.03%) C#
11 4 (3.23%) Groovy
12 3 (2.42%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.81%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.81%) Bicep
13 1 (0.81%) Go
13 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.03%) Degree
5 4 (3.23%) APMP
6 2 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.81%) ACCA
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CBAP
7 1 (0.81%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) MBA
7 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PMP
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) Accessibility
2 10 (8.06%) QA
3 9 (7.26%) WCAG
4 4 (3.23%) PMO
5 2 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
6 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (11.29%) Docker
2 13 (10.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (12.90%) Terraform
2 5 (4.03%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.23%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.42%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.61%) Grafana
5 2 (1.61%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (1.61%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (14.52%) Cisco
2 15 (12.10%) Oracle
3 7 (5.65%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.03%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 4 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.23%) Google
6 2 (1.61%) Brio
6 2 (1.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.61%) Dell
6 2 (1.61%) IBM
6 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.61%) Splunk
6 2 (1.61%) Veritas
7 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.81%) Wrike
7 1 (0.81%) Xamarin