Agile Contracts in Manchester

Agile Software Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 151 291 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 16.31% 19.18% 18.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.19% 22.03% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 203 283
10th Percentile £375 £390 £388
25th Percentile £408 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% +6.47%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £671 £820 £675
North West median daily rate £485 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -7.18% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £35.75
25th Percentile £67.50 £62.96 £36.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.92 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% +75.79% -28.57%
75th Percentile £77.50 £68.88 £44.63
90th Percentile £78.25 - £57.45
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.54% +21.08% -3.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stockport +3 7 £400 -27.27% 17
Bolton -6 3 - - 36
Salford -8 2 £800 +113.33% 13
Altrincham - 1 - - 29
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (4.64%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) Apache
2 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.99%) CMS
3 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) Documentum
5 1 (0.66%) FileNet
5 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.66%) Liferay
5 1 (0.66%) SAS
5 1 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.66%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) CATIA
3 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (4.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.66%) Maximo
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.66%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.66%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.18%) Azure
2 26 (17.22%) AWS
3 20 (13.25%) Serverless
4 11 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.30%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.31%) GitHub
9 4 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.65%) dbt
9 4 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.99%) Figma
10 3 (1.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) DNS
2 1 (0.66%) DHCP
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (13.91%) Relational Database
3 16 (10.60%) MongoDB
4 12 (7.95%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.96%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (5.96%) RDBMS
6 8 (5.30%) MySQL
6 8 (5.30%) Power BI
7 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.99%) Big Data
9 3 (1.99%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.32%) Metadata
10 2 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (10.60%) Jenkins
1 16 (10.60%) JIRA
2 13 (8.61%) GitLab
3 11 (7.28%) Liquibase
4 10 (6.62%) Gradle
4 10 (6.62%) JUnit
4 10 (6.62%) Mockito
5 5 (3.31%) Babel
5 5 (3.31%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.31%) webpack
6 4 (2.65%) Git
7 3 (1.99%) Grunt
7 3 (1.99%) gulp
7 3 (1.99%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.99%) Mocha
7 3 (1.99%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.99%) Selenium
8 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.32%) Maven
8 2 (1.32%) Subversion
General
1 41 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.85%) Finance
3 32 (21.19%) Public Sector
4 19 (12.58%) Marketing
5 14 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.27%) Telecoms
6 13 (8.61%) Banking
7 10 (6.62%) Electronics
7 10 (6.62%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.64%) Retail
9 4 (2.65%) Legal
10 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.32%) Automotive
11 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.32%) Military
11 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.66%) Back Office
12 1 (0.66%) Games
12 1 (0.66%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (19.87%) Developer
2 20 (13.25%) Senior
3 17 (11.26%) Analyst
4 13 (8.61%) Architect
4 13 (8.61%) Project Manager
5 11 (7.28%) Lead
6 10 (6.62%) React Developer
7 9 (5.96%) DBA
7 9 (5.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (5.30%) Product Manager
8 8 (5.30%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.64%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) JavaScript Developer
10 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 5 (3.31%) Java Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.23%) Kafka
2 20 (13.25%) React
3 16 (10.60%) .NET
4 12 (7.95%) Node.js
4 12 (7.95%) Spring
4 12 (7.95%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.28%) OpenAPI
5 11 (7.28%) Swagger
6 10 (6.62%) RESTful
7 9 (5.96%) CSS
7 9 (5.96%) HTML
7 9 (5.96%) JSON
7 9 (5.96%) XML
8 8 (5.30%) HTML5
8 8 (5.30%) REST
9 3 (1.99%) cloud-init
9 3 (1.99%) jQuery
9 3 (1.99%) Mustache
9 3 (1.99%) Playwright
9 3 (1.99%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.97%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.97%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.31%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.99%) Social Media
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.32%) IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.32%) Replication
6 2 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.96%) Linux
2 6 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (3.97%) Unix
3 4 (2.65%) Windows
4 3 (1.99%) Android
4 3 (1.99%) CentOS
5 2 (1.32%) HPUX
5 2 (1.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.79%) DevOps
2 33 (21.85%) CI/CD
3 29 (19.21%) Software Engineering
4 27 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (15.23%) Microservices
7 20 (13.25%) Migration
8 19 (12.58%) TDD
9 18 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (11.92%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.26%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.26%) Waterfall
11 16 (10.60%) Containerisation
11 16 (10.60%) Mentoring
11 16 (10.60%) Project Management
12 12 (7.95%) Change Management
12 12 (7.95%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (7.95%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (7.95%) User Experience
13 11 (7.28%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.56%) Java
1 25 (16.56%) SQL
2 21 (13.91%) JavaScript
3 14 (9.27%) TypeScript
4 13 (8.61%) Python
5 6 (3.97%) C#
6 4 (2.65%) Bash
7 3 (1.99%) Go
8 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.66%) Groovy
9 1 (0.66%) Perl
9 1 (0.66%) Rust
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.30%) Degree
4 5 (3.31%) PMP
5 4 (2.65%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.32%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.66%) APMP
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CCSA
8 1 (0.66%) CCSE
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) ISEB
8 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) Accessibility
1 9 (5.96%) QA
2 3 (1.99%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.99%) GDPR
2 3 (1.99%) WCAG
3 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (11.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.30%) Terraform
2 3 (1.99%) Packer
3 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.32%) Sysdig
4 1 (0.66%) Ansible
4 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 26 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.92%) SAP
3 14 (9.27%) Oracle
4 8 (5.30%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.31%) Databricks
6 3 (1.99%) IBM
7 2 (1.32%) Fujitsu
7 2 (1.32%) Glassbox
7 2 (1.32%) Google
7 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.32%) Splunk
7 2 (1.32%) Sun
8 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco
8 1 (0.66%) Dell
8 1 (0.66%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.66%) Talend
8 1 (0.66%) Tenable