Agile Contracts in the North East

Agile Software Development
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 52 45 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 16.40% 13.24% 29.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.16% 16.48% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 102
10th Percentile £354 £368 £434
25th Percentile £400 £477 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £581
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -8.39% +16.25%
75th Percentile £556 £594 £700
90th Percentile £650 £600 £774
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £49.87 - -
25th Percentile £50.22 - -
Median hourly rate £52.81 - -
75th Percentile £56.19 - -
90th Percentile £57.03 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 258 273 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.39% 80.29% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 129 301
10th Percentile £225 £228 £255
25th Percentile £358 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £655 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Tyne and Wear -2 47 £475 -10.80% 80
Durham +2 2 £494 -10.23% 3
Northumberland - 1 - -
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (13.46%) Confluence
2 3 (5.77%) OpenEdge
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.85%) Trello
2 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.85%) AWS
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) IaaS
4 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.77%) Serverless
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.92%) Kong
6 1 (1.92%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
3 2 (3.85%) MySQL
3 2 (3.85%) Redis
3 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.92%) Big Data
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) Metadata
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) JIRA
2 5 (9.62%) Git
3 4 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 4 (7.69%) JUnit
3 4 (7.69%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.85%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.92%) ERwin
6 1 (1.92%) git-flow
6 1 (1.92%) GitLab
6 1 (1.92%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.92%) Postman
6 1 (1.92%) Selenium
6 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (36.54%) Public Sector
2 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) French Language
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Developer
2 6 (11.54%) Analyst
2 6 (11.54%) Senior
3 4 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 4 (7.69%) Designer
3 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Product Manager
3 4 (7.69%) QA Tester
3 4 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Tester
4 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
4 3 (5.77%) JIRA Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Lead
4 3 (5.77%) Scala Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Agile Requirements Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Stakeholder Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) RESTful
2 3 (5.77%) .NET
2 3 (5.77%) Akka
2 3 (5.77%) CSS
2 3 (5.77%) HTML
3 2 (3.85%) Micronaut
3 2 (3.85%) Play Framework
3 2 (3.85%) REST
3 2 (3.85%) WireMock
4 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.92%) boto
4 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.92%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.92%) React
4 1 (1.92%) SOAP
4 1 (1.92%) Spring
4 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.85%) PMI
2 2 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.92%) FPGA
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (13.46%) Data Protection
4 7 (13.46%) Microservices
4 7 (13.46%) Scrum
4 7 (13.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (11.54%) BDD
5 6 (11.54%) DevOps
5 6 (11.54%) Migration
5 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 5 (9.62%) API Integration
6 5 (9.62%) Incident Management
6 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (9.62%) Waterfall
7 4 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (7.69%) SDLC
7 4 (7.69%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) Java
2 5 (9.62%) Python
2 5 (9.62%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) Groovy
4 3 (5.77%) C#
4 3 (5.77%) Scala
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) C
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CSPO
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.92%) APMG
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PMP
5 1 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) PMO
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.92%) NCSC
4 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) Kibana
2 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.85%) Ansible
3 2 (3.85%) Grafana
3 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.92%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.77%) New Relic
4 2 (3.85%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.92%) IBM
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle