Agile Contracts in Merseyside

Agile Software Development
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 12 23 9
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 -4
Contract jobs citing Agile 17 10 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.12% 4.39% 14.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.78% 5.59% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 36
10th Percentile £451 £401 £281
25th Percentile £475 £420 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £541
90th Percentile £653 £605 £550
North West median daily rate £485 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -7.18% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.11 -
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
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +10 10 £600 +13.21% 73
Southport - 6 £523 -
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.88%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Military
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Change and Release Manager
1 6 (35.29%) Change Manager
1 6 (35.29%) Release Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.88%) JPA
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Solaris
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Roadmaps
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Release Management
2 6 (35.29%) Waterfall
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Business Case
4 4 (23.53%) Change Management
4 4 (23.53%) Line Management
4 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) Service Management
5 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Supplier Management
5 3 (17.65%) Test Management
6 2 (11.76%) Database Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Grafana
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Splunk