Agile Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Agile Software Development
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 45 41 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.18% 19.52% 35.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.81% 23.16% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 97
10th Percentile £357 £381 £465
25th Percentile £394 £477 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -11.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £559 £594 £700
90th Percentile £650 £600 £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -10.80% -11.25% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Newcastle upon Tyne

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Newcastle upon Tyne

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Newcastle upon Tyne

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Newcastle upon Tyne

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (15.56%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) OpenEdge
3 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.22%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) AWS
2 8 (17.78%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) IaaS
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.67%) Serverless
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) Miro
6 1 (2.22%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Delta Lake
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
2 2 (4.44%) Redis
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Cucumber
2 4 (8.89%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) JUnit
4 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.22%) ERwin
5 1 (2.22%) GitLab
5 1 (2.22%) LabVIEW
5 1 (2.22%) Postman
5 1 (2.22%) Selenium
5 1 (2.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (37.78%) Public Sector
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) French Language
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Designer
4 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.89%) QA Tester
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Tester
5 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) JIRA Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Scala Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Agile Requirements Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Stakeholder Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Stakeholder Management Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Akka
1 3 (6.67%) RESTful
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) CSS
2 2 (4.44%) HTML
2 2 (4.44%) Micronaut
2 2 (4.44%) Play Framework
2 2 (4.44%) REST
2 2 (4.44%) WireMock
3 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) boto
3 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) FPGA
4 1 (2.22%) PMI
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
2 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (15.56%) Data Protection
4 7 (15.56%) Scrum
4 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.33%) BDD
5 6 (13.33%) Microservices
5 6 (13.33%) Migration
5 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.11%) API Integration
6 5 (11.11%) DevOps
6 5 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 5 (11.11%) User Research
6 5 (11.11%) User Stories
7 4 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (8.89%) SDLC
7 4 (8.89%) User Experience
7 4 (8.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Java
2 5 (11.11%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) Groovy
4 3 (6.67%) Scala
5 2 (4.44%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.44%) CSPO
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Kibana
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.44%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Grafana
3 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.67%) New Relic
4 2 (4.44%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle