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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 60 48 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 19.67% 15.38% 27.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.79% 19.20% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 26 80
10th Percentile £358 £366 £432
25th Percentile £413 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £554 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -5.74% +17.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £650 £613 £775
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £49.87 - -
25th Percentile £50.22 £35.64 -
Median hourly rate £52.81 £38.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.98% - -
75th Percentile £56.19 £40.91 -
90th Percentile £57.03 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.06 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -6.06% +29.01%

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 242 250 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.34% 80.13% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 112 245
10th Percentile £218 £263 £236
25th Percentile £356 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.40% +4.60%
75th Percentile £556 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 49 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.74
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 £34.98
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -50.43% +138.42%
75th Percentile £33.40 £48.75 £43.07
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 £44.94
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 May 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 31 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
Tyne and Wear -1 54 £500 -9.71% 131
Durham +4 4 £438 -20.45% 5
Northumberland +3 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 11 (18.33%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) OpenEdge
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.33%) Documentum
3 2 (3.33%) FileNet
4 1 (1.67%) Apache
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.33%) Trello
2 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) LabWindows
1 1 (1.67%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.00%) AWS
2 6 (10.00%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) Serverless
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.67%) IaaS
3 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.33%) Miro
5 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.67%) MySQL
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.67%) Big Data
5 1 (1.67%) Metadata
5 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) JIRA
2 7 (11.67%) Cucumber
3 6 (10.00%) Git
4 4 (6.67%) GitLab
4 4 (6.67%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (6.67%) Selenium
5 3 (5.00%) JUnit
5 3 (5.00%) Postman
5 3 (5.00%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.67%) Appium
7 1 (1.67%) ERwin
7 1 (1.67%) git-flow
7 1 (1.67%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.67%) French Language
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Developer
2 7 (11.67%) Analyst
2 7 (11.67%) Senior
3 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.33%) Product Manager
3 5 (8.33%) QA Tester
3 5 (8.33%) Test Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Tester
4 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Designer
5 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) JIRA Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Agile Requirements Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) Stakeholder Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management Business Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) User Requirements Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) RESTful
2 3 (5.00%) WireMock
3 2 (3.33%) Akka
3 2 (3.33%) Micronaut
3 2 (3.33%) Node.js
3 2 (3.33%) Play Framework
3 2 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.67%) boto
4 1 (1.67%) CSS
4 1 (1.67%) HTML
4 1 (1.67%) React
4 1 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.67%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) PMI
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.67%) Scrum
2 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (13.33%) BDD
4 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 6 (10.00%) DevOps
5 6 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (10.00%) Migration
5 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 5 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 5 (8.33%) User Stories
7 4 (6.67%) Microservices
7 4 (6.67%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) Java
2 8 (13.33%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) Python
4 4 (6.67%) Groovy
5 2 (3.33%) Bash
5 2 (3.33%) Rust
5 2 (3.33%) Scala
6 1 (1.67%) C
6 1 (1.67%) C#
6 1 (1.67%) Go
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) Perl
6 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) CSPO
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.67%) APMG
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PMP
5 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
4 1 (1.67%) NIST
4 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) Ansible
2 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.33%) Kibana
4 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.67%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) OpenText
5 1 (1.67%) Sage