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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 146 272 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 16.40% 19.02% 18.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.36% 21.92% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 193 269
10th Percentile £375 £400 £388
25th Percentile £408 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £638
90th Percentile £675 £845 £675
North West median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - £62.59 £35.75
25th Percentile £67.50 £62.73 £36.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% +78.67% -48.28%
75th Percentile £77.50 £73.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £78.25 £73.90 £57.45
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £44.79
% change year-on-year +44.54% +8.14% -22.72%

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 795 1,241 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.33% 86.78% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 849 1,211
10th Percentile £303 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 74 53
10th Percentile £15.64 £12.43 £16.67
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.62% -25.71% +93.83%
75th Percentile £72.81 £60.94 £45.05
90th Percentile £80.48 £73.90 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £23.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +35.66% -34.72% +52.90%

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 15 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 15 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 +2 7 £400 -27.27% 24
Bolton -6 3 - - 45
Salford -8 2 £800 +100.00% 20
Altrincham - 1 - - 35
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 9 (6.16%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) Apache
2 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.05%) CMS
3 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) Documentum
5 1 (0.68%) FileNet
5 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Liferay
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
5 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.37%) Trello
4 1 (0.68%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 7 (4.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Maximo
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.60%) Azure
2 30 (20.55%) AWS
3 18 (12.33%) Serverless
4 8 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.79%) GitHub
6 5 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.42%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.74%) dbt
7 4 (2.74%) Figma
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) DHCP
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) SMS
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.33%) Relational Database
3 15 (10.27%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.85%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.79%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (4.11%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.42%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.42%) MySQL
7 5 (3.42%) Power BI
8 4 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.05%) Big Data
9 3 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.37%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.37%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.37%) Metadata
10 2 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) JIRA
2 15 (10.27%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.22%) GitLab
4 11 (7.53%) Liquibase
5 10 (6.85%) Gradle
5 10 (6.85%) JUnit
5 10 (6.85%) Mockito
6 5 (3.42%) Babel
6 5 (3.42%) webpack
7 4 (2.74%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.74%) Git
8 3 (2.05%) Grunt
8 3 (2.05%) gulp
8 3 (2.05%) Jasmine
8 3 (2.05%) Mocha
8 3 (2.05%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.05%) Selenium
9 2 (1.37%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.37%) Maven
9 2 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 43 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.29%) Finance
3 31 (21.23%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.96%) Marketing
5 15 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.22%) Banking
6 12 (8.22%) Telecoms
7 10 (6.85%) Electronics
7 10 (6.85%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.79%) Retail
9 5 (3.42%) Legal
10 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Automotive
11 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.68%) Back Office
12 1 (0.68%) Games
12 1 (0.68%) Law
12 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (21.23%) Developer
2 20 (13.70%) Senior
3 13 (8.90%) Analyst
3 13 (8.90%) Architect
4 12 (8.22%) Lead
4 12 (8.22%) Project Manager
5 10 (6.85%) React Developer
5 10 (6.85%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (5.48%) Product Manager
8 7 (4.79%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.79%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) DBA
9 6 (4.11%) JavaScript Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.07%) Kafka
2 20 (13.70%) React
3 18 (12.33%) .NET
4 13 (8.90%) Node.js
5 12 (8.22%) Spring
5 12 (8.22%) Spring Boot
6 11 (7.53%) OpenAPI
6 11 (7.53%) RESTful
6 11 (7.53%) Swagger
7 10 (6.85%) CSS
7 10 (6.85%) HTML
8 8 (5.48%) HTML5
8 8 (5.48%) REST
9 6 (4.11%) JSON
9 6 (4.11%) XML
10 3 (2.05%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.05%) jQuery
10 3 (2.05%) Mustache
10 3 (2.05%) Playwright
10 3 (2.05%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.90%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.11%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.05%) Social Media
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.37%) IoT
7 2 (1.37%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.37%) Replication
7 2 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.48%) Linux
2 5 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.74%) Unix
3 4 (2.74%) Windows
4 3 (2.05%) Android
5 2 (1.37%) CentOS
5 2 (1.37%) HPUX
5 2 (1.37%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.56%) DevOps
2 32 (21.92%) CI/CD
2 32 (21.92%) Software Engineering
3 27 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (17.81%) Microservices
5 24 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.38%) Migration
7 20 (13.70%) TDD
8 19 (13.01%) Containerisation
9 18 (12.33%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.64%) Project Management
10 17 (11.64%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.64%) Waterfall
11 15 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (9.59%) Mentoring
12 14 (9.59%) Scrum
13 12 (8.22%) Change Management
13 12 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (8.22%) User Experience
14 11 (7.53%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.81%) Java
1 26 (17.81%) SQL
2 23 (15.75%) JavaScript
3 15 (10.27%) TypeScript
4 12 (8.22%) Python
5 7 (4.79%) C#
6 3 (2.05%) Bash
7 2 (1.37%) Go
7 2 (1.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.68%) Groovy
8 1 (0.68%) Perl
8 1 (0.68%) Rust
8 1 (0.68%) Scala
8 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.79%) Degree
4 5 (3.42%) PMP
5 4 (2.74%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.37%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.37%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.68%) APMP
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CCSA
8 1 (0.68%) CCSE
8 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) ISEB
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.48%) QA
3 3 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.05%) GDPR
3 3 (2.05%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (13.01%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (6.16%) Terraform
2 3 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.37%) Packer
3 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.37%) Sysdig
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 23 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.33%) SAP
3 11 (7.53%) Oracle
4 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.42%) Databricks
6 4 (2.74%) IBM
7 2 (1.37%) Fujitsu
7 2 (1.37%) Glassbox
7 2 (1.37%) Google
7 2 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.37%) Splunk
7 2 (1.37%) Sun
8 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.68%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.68%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.68%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.68%) Talend
8 1 (0.68%) Tenable