Agile Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Agile Software Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 1,147 765 575
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 15.16% 19.14% 13.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.24% 21.49% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 558 358
10th Percentile £360 £331 £375
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -8.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £585
90th Percentile £650 £650 £651
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 21 11
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.50 £37.00
25th Percentile £59.06 £47.12 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.40 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +40.89% -8.05%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £70.75
90th Percentile £74.13 £81.00 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process & 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 6,289 3,559 3,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.13% 89.04% 83.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,687 2,302 2,001
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £405 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -0.08%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 203 179
10th Percentile £14.68 £13.56 £12.55
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.35 £16.38
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.32 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.00% -36.24% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.75 £51.89
90th Percentile £79.88 £70.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Agile job vacancy trend in the North of England

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Agile

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 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Agile

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 16 September 2026.

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 16 September 2026. 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
Yorkshire -1 489 £500 +5.26% 451
North West -4 443 £500 +11.11% 1,051
North East +2 232 £450 -10.00% 225
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 111 (9.68%) Confluence
2 34 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.13%) Apache
5 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.96%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.70%) CMS
9 5 (0.44%) Camunda
9 5 (0.44%) SAS
10 4 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.35%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.26%) nginx
11 3 (0.26%) WordPress
12 2 (0.17%) CICS
12 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.087%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.087%) Traefik
Applications
1 28 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.17%) Trello
7 1 (0.087%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.087%) Sketch
7 1 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.087%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.35%) Shopify
4 3 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.087%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.087%) Exstream
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.087%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.087%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.087%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.087%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 281 (24.50%) AWS
2 221 (19.27%) Azure
3 113 (9.85%) GCP
4 94 (8.20%) GitHub
5 72 (6.28%) Power Platform
6 58 (5.06%) Serverless
7 54 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (3.75%) OpenShift
10 37 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (2.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 23 (2.01%) Entra ID
16 22 (1.92%) SaaS
17 21 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (1.83%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (1.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.66%) Firewall
2 33 (2.88%) DNS
3 22 (1.92%) Network Security
4 20 (1.74%) BIG-IP
5 15 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 14 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (0.61%) DHCP
8 6 (0.52%) 3GPP
8 6 (0.52%) Intranet
8 6 (0.52%) RTP
8 6 (0.52%) VPN
8 6 (0.52%) Wireshark
9 5 (0.44%) VLAN
9 5 (0.44%) WAN
10 4 (0.35%) SSL
10 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.26%) HTTP
11 3 (0.26%) LAN
11 3 (0.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.80%) MongoDB
2 46 (4.01%) Power BI
3 34 (2.96%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 20 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.48%) Metadata
8 14 (1.22%) BigQuery
8 14 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 13 (1.13%) Big Data
10 11 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.87%) Looker
11 10 (0.87%) MySQL
11 10 (0.87%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.70%) Neo4j
13 8 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 198 (17.26%) JIRA
2 121 (10.55%) Git
3 99 (8.63%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.14%) GitLab
5 37 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 23 (2.01%) Cucumber
7 22 (1.92%) Selenium
8 20 (1.74%) Mockito
8 20 (1.74%) Postman
9 17 (1.48%) JUnit
10 16 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (1.13%) Claude Code
11 13 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.96%) Gradle
13 10 (0.87%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.87%) Maven
14 9 (0.78%) fastlane
15 8 (0.70%) Gatling
16 7 (0.61%) WebDriver
General
1 432 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 279 (24.32%) Finance
3 258 (22.49%) Public Sector
4 128 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (10.55%) Banking
6 60 (5.23%) Retail
7 56 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (2.96%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.27%) Legal
11 22 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.83%) Military
12 21 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.31%) Law
14 12 (1.05%) Marketing
15 11 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 237 (20.66%) Developer
2 170 (14.82%) Analyst
2 170 (14.82%) Senior
3 119 (10.37%) Lead
4 108 (9.42%) Business Analyst
5 86 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 75 (6.54%) Architect
7 74 (6.45%) Project Manager
8 56 (4.88%) Senior Developer
9 53 (4.62%) Delivery Manager
10 49 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 38 (3.31%) Product Manager
12 34 (2.96%) Software Developer
13 33 (2.88%) Designer
14 32 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.79%) Java Engineer
14 32 (2.79%) Senior Manager
15 27 (2.35%) Consultant
15 27 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (13.16%) Terraform
2 98 (8.54%) REST
3 86 (7.50%) Kafka
4 68 (5.93%) Spring
5 63 (5.49%) Spring Boot
6 61 (5.32%) React
6 61 (5.32%) RESTful
7 53 (4.62%) AngularJS
8 51 (4.45%) Node.js
9 46 (4.01%) HTML
10 41 (3.57%) .NET
11 36 (3.14%) CSS
12 29 (2.53%) Quarkus
13 25 (2.18%) JSON
13 25 (2.18%) Playwright
14 20 (1.74%) Middleware
15 15 (1.31%) OAuth
15 15 (1.31%) Web Services
16 14 (1.22%) Next.js
16 14 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 170 (14.82%) Product Ownership
2 132 (11.51%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 41 (3.57%) NHS
5 34 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (2.79%) Mobile App
7 29 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 29 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.35%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.92%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.48%) Public Cloud
13 16 (1.39%) Credit Risk
13 16 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (0.96%) AI Agents
14 11 (0.96%) Blog
14 11 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (6.10%) Linux
2 34 (2.96%) Windows
3 25 (2.18%) Unix
4 20 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.05%) Android
5 12 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.52%) zOS
8 5 (0.44%) VMS
9 4 (0.35%) AIX
9 4 (0.35%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.087%) CentOS
11 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.087%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (32.26%) CI/CD
2 333 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 299 (26.07%) DevOps
4 250 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 230 (20.05%) Scrum
6 216 (18.83%) Test Automation
7 179 (15.61%) Software Engineering
8 164 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
9 148 (12.90%) Microservices
10 144 (12.55%) Roadmaps
11 141 (12.29%) SDLC
12 135 (11.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 131 (11.42%) AI
14 123 (10.72%) Decision-Making
15 120 (10.46%) Infrastructure as Code
16 116 (10.11%) Analytics
17 112 (9.76%) Mentoring
18 106 (9.24%) Workshop Facilitation
19 102 (8.89%) User Stories
20 101 (8.81%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 224 (19.53%) Java
2 187 (16.30%) Python
3 149 (12.99%) SQL
4 95 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 54 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 49 (4.27%) PowerShell
7 48 (4.18%) C#
8 44 (3.84%) Bash
9 25 (2.18%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.18%) Scala
10 17 (1.48%) Bicep
11 14 (1.22%) ActionScript
12 13 (1.13%) Go
13 10 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.70%) Swift
14 8 (0.70%) VBA
15 7 (0.61%) Groovy
16 5 (0.44%) JCL
16 5 (0.44%) PHP
16 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 231 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 200 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 86 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 77 (6.71%) Degree
5 27 (2.35%) CISSP
6 23 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.66%) PMP
8 17 (1.48%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.22%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.78%) CISM
12 9 (0.78%) IIBA
13 6 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.44%) CCSP
14 5 (0.44%) CEH
14 5 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (9.94%) QA
2 97 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 52 (4.53%) Data Quality
4 40 (3.49%) WCAG
5 22 (1.92%) PMO
6 13 (1.13%) GRC
7 12 (1.05%) NIST
8 10 (0.87%) GDPR
9 8 (0.70%) HL7
10 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.44%) COBIT
12 4 (0.35%) GxP
13 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.26%) SLA
14 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.17%) P3O
15 1 (0.087%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.087%) NCSC
15 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
System Software
1 149 (12.99%) Docker
2 23 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.44%) NFS
4 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.35%) Firmware
5 4 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.087%) GPFS
7 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.087%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 163 (14.21%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.75%) Ansible
3 37 (3.23%) Grafana
4 34 (2.96%) Argo
5 25 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.31%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.87%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.61%) Control-M
10 5 (0.44%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.35%) IBM Guardium
11 4 (0.35%) Nessus
11 4 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (0.26%) Consul
12 3 (0.26%) Rancher
13 2 (0.17%) CA Endevor
13 2 (0.17%) Kibana
13 2 (0.17%) Packer
13 2 (0.17%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 119 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.84%) Google
3 64 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 44 (3.84%) Red Hat
5 27 (2.35%) SAP
6 26 (2.27%) Oracle
7 24 (2.09%) Databricks
8 22 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.83%) F5
10 20 (1.74%) Splunk
11 17 (1.48%) IBM
12 16 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 15 (1.31%) Infoblox
14 11 (0.96%) Apple
15 10 (0.87%) Informatica
16 9 (0.78%) Adobe
16 9 (0.78%) UiPath
17 8 (0.70%) Atlassian
18 7 (0.61%) Citrix
18 7 (0.61%) CyberArk