Agile Contracts in Liverpool

Agile Software Development
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool 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 15 25 14
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 10 8 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 7.35% 4.30% 11.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.93% 5.33% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 23
10th Percentile £440 £423 £233
25th Percentile £469 £476 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £637 £588 £538
90th Percentile £656 £610 £550
Merseyside median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +9.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 150 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 82.35% 80.65% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 67 185
10th Percentile £143 £143 £325
25th Percentile £163 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £375 £490
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -23.47% +4.53%
75th Percentile £588 £494 £550
90th Percentile £654 £630 £655
Merseyside median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 6
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.11 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.49% +55.52%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.27 £19.13
90th Percentile £25.22 £36.99 £21.50
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
% change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Liverpool

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Liverpool

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Liverpool

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Liverpool

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Military
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (10.00%) E-Business Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) JPA
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Solaris
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (40.00%) Business Case
2 4 (40.00%) Line Management
2 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (20.00%) Database Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (10.00%) Insurtech
5 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle