Agile Contracts in the North of England

Agile Software Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 580 724 1,203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 17.72% 15.11% 20.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.67% 17.62% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 491 894
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £593 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £699
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 23
10th Percentile £25.26 £41.13 £30.54
25th Percentile £37.80 £45.88 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% -10.31% +30.58%
75th Percentile £82.00 £52.78 £64.88
90th Percentile £99.24 £56.00 £70.00
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,949 4,110 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.07% 85.80% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,903 2,521 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £288 £303
25th Percentile £376 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 356 207
10th Percentile £14.77 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.78 £12.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.61 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -36.43% +49.73%
75th Percentile £56.34 £44.24 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.13 £53.88 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -3 328 £492 -6.29% 599
Yorkshire -1 212 £500 - 258
North East 0 52 £475 -10.80% 88
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 54 (9.31%) Confluence
2 20 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 13 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.55%) Apache
6 7 (1.21%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.03%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.03%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.86%) NetWeaver
9 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.69%) JBoss
9 4 (0.69%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.52%) CICS
10 3 (0.52%) CMS
10 3 (0.52%) nginx
10 3 (0.52%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.34%) Traefik
12 1 (0.17%) FileNet
12 1 (0.17%) Liferay
Applications
1 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.86%) Trello
4 4 (0.69%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.34%) InVision
6 2 (0.34%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.17%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 21 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.17%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.17%) Maximo
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.17%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.17%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 90 (15.52%) Azure
2 84 (14.48%) AWS
3 30 (5.17%) Serverless
4 29 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 25 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (3.97%) GCP
7 21 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (2.76%) GitHub
9 15 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.41%) PowerApps
11 13 (2.24%) Entra ID
11 13 (2.24%) SaaS
12 11 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.21%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.66%) DNS
2 12 (2.07%) Firewall
3 6 (1.03%) HTTP
4 5 (0.86%) Network Security
5 4 (0.69%) NAS
5 4 (0.69%) SAN
5 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.52%) DHCP
6 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.17%) NGN
7 1 (0.17%) SNA
7 1 (0.17%) SSL
7 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.52%) MongoDB
1 32 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 24 (4.14%) Power BI
4 21 (3.62%) NoSQL
4 21 (3.62%) Oracle Database
5 15 (2.59%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.07%) MySQL
6 12 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.72%) RDBMS
8 9 (1.55%) Tableau
9 8 (1.38%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.21%) DB2
11 6 (1.03%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.03%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.86%) Flink
12 5 (0.86%) Metadata
13 4 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 102 (17.59%) JIRA
2 49 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 44 (7.59%) Git
4 32 (5.52%) GitLab
5 22 (3.79%) Selenium
6 19 (3.28%) JUnit
7 16 (2.76%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.07%) Gradle
9 11 (1.90%) Liquibase
10 10 (1.72%) Mockito
11 9 (1.55%) Postman
11 9 (1.55%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.03%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.03%) ScriptRunner
13 5 (0.86%) Babel
13 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.86%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.86%) ERwin
13 5 (0.86%) webpack
14 4 (0.69%) Jasmine
General
1 184 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 132 (22.76%) Finance
3 92 (15.86%) Public Sector
4 76 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.07%) Banking
6 27 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 22 (3.79%) Marketing
8 18 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.93%) Retail
9 17 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (2.41%) Automotive
12 13 (2.24%) Legal
12 13 (2.24%) Military
13 12 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.72%) Electronics
15 5 (0.86%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.86%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (15.52%) Developer
2 77 (13.28%) Analyst
3 67 (11.55%) Senior
4 61 (10.52%) Business Analyst
5 42 (7.24%) Lead
5 42 (7.24%) Project Manager
6 40 (6.90%) Architect
7 21 (3.62%) Software Engineer
8 19 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.28%) Technical Manager
8 19 (3.28%) Tester
9 17 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (2.59%) Java Developer
11 14 (2.41%) React Developer
12 13 (2.24%) Designer
12 13 (2.24%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.07%) QA Tester
14 11 (1.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.55%) Kafka
2 31 (5.34%) React
3 29 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 27 (4.66%) .NET
4 27 (4.66%) RESTful
5 25 (4.31%) CSS
5 25 (4.31%) REST
5 25 (4.31%) Spring
6 24 (4.14%) HTML
7 23 (3.97%) Node.js
8 18 (3.10%) XML
9 16 (2.76%) JSON
10 15 (2.59%) Middleware
11 14 (2.41%) HTML5
11 14 (2.41%) SOAP
12 12 (2.07%) OpenAPI
12 12 (2.07%) Swagger
13 11 (1.90%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.90%) Web Services
14 9 (1.55%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.31%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.24%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.07%) NHS
6 11 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.55%) CMDB
8 9 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.38%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.03%) Industry 4.0
11 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing Execution System
11 6 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.93%) Linux
2 33 (5.69%) Windows
3 23 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.76%) Unix
5 10 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.38%) Android
7 6 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.03%) CentOS
8 5 (0.86%) Solaris
9 3 (0.52%) HPUX
9 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 127 (21.90%) DevOps
3 112 (19.31%) CI/CD
4 107 (18.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 95 (16.38%) Scrum
6 86 (14.83%) Microservices
7 77 (13.28%) Project Management
8 66 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (11.21%) Roadmaps
10 61 (10.52%) Decision-Making
10 61 (10.52%) Migration
11 58 (10.00%) SDLC
11 58 (10.00%) Waterfall
12 57 (9.83%) Test Automation
13 52 (8.97%) Change Management
13 52 (8.97%) Software Engineering
14 47 (8.10%) Mentoring
15 43 (7.41%) TDD
16 40 (6.90%) Data Modelling
16 40 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 82 (14.14%) Java
2 74 (12.76%) SQL
3 69 (11.90%) Python
4 57 (9.83%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.17%) Bash
6 28 (4.83%) PowerShell
7 19 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.93%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.76%) C#
9 16 (2.76%) Perl
10 11 (1.90%) Scala
11 10 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.38%) Go
12 8 (1.38%) Groovy
12 8 (1.38%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.86%) ABAP
14 4 (0.69%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.52%) JCL
15 3 (0.52%) REXX
15 3 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 108 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 87 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.59%) Degree
4 22 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.07%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.90%) APMP
6 11 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.90%) PMP
7 10 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.03%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.86%) CBAP
9 5 (0.86%) ISEB
9 5 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.69%) IIBA
11 3 (0.52%) CSPO
11 3 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.03%) QA
2 25 (4.31%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.72%) PMO
5 5 (0.86%) GDPR
6 4 (0.69%) NCSC
6 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.69%) WCAG
7 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) MISRA
8 2 (0.34%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.17%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (7.59%) Docker
2 36 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.69%) vSphere
5 3 (0.52%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 30 (5.17%) Kubernetes
1 30 (5.17%) Terraform
2 18 (3.10%) Ansible
3 13 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.07%) Grafana
4 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.38%) Kibana
6 7 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.03%) MOM
7 6 (1.03%) Packer
7 6 (1.03%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.86%) Puppet
9 4 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.69%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.69%) vRealize
10 3 (0.52%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.34%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.34%) SCCM
11 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.97%) Oracle
3 44 (7.59%) SAP
4 28 (4.83%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.31%) Cisco
6 12 (2.07%) Google
7 11 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 10 (1.72%) Splunk
9 9 (1.55%) Databricks
10 7 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.03%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.03%) IBM
11 6 (1.03%) Rockwell
11 6 (1.03%) Siemens
11 6 (1.03%) VMware
12 5 (0.86%) Ariba
12 5 (0.86%) Infoblox
13 4 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.69%) Dell