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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 48 38 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.62% 19.90% 36.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.81% 23.31% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 80
10th Percentile £358 £375 £473
25th Percentile £388 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -11.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £705
90th Percentile £650 - £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -8.45% -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 186 163 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.78% 85.34% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 86 191
10th Percentile £229 £350 £350
25th Percentile £360 £403 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £653
90th Percentile £625 £650 £744
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 0
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £18.67 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £33.74 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.98% - -
75th Percentile £49.56 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.03 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £18.24 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year +4.20% - -

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 21 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 (14.58%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) OpenEdge
3 2 (4.17%) Documentum
3 2 (4.17%) FileNet
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (12.50%) Azure
2 6 (12.50%) Serverless
3 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.33%) IaaS
4 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.17%) MySQL
2 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.08%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) JIRA
2 5 (10.42%) Cucumber
3 4 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (6.25%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) JUnit
4 3 (6.25%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.17%) Git
5 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.17%) Postman
5 2 (4.17%) Selenium
6 1 (2.08%) ERwin
6 1 (2.08%) LabVIEW
6 1 (2.08%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (39.58%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) QA Tester
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Test Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Tester
5 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Designer
5 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) JIRA Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Agile Requirements Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Business Requirements Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (4.17%) User Requirements Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) WireMock
2 2 (4.17%) Akka
2 2 (4.17%) Micronaut
2 2 (4.17%) Play Framework
3 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.08%) boto
3 1 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.08%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) FPGA
4 1 (2.08%) PMI
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
1 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (16.67%) Scrum
3 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
5 6 (12.50%) BDD
5 6 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 5 (10.42%) DevOps
6 5 (10.42%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (10.42%) Incident Management
6 5 (10.42%) Migration
6 5 (10.42%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (8.33%) User Experience
7 4 (8.33%) User Research
7 4 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) Groovy
4 2 (4.17%) Rust
4 2 (4.17%) Scala
5 1 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) C
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) CSPO
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Accessibility
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.08%) PMO
2 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) Ansible
2 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Kibana
4 1 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.08%) Grafana
4 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) New Relic
5 1 (2.08%) OpenText