Agile Contracts in the North of England

Agile Software Development
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 717 1,197 1,699
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 14.98% 20.50% 23.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.45% 22.57% 26.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 889 1,262
10th Percentile £366 £400 £386
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £593 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 24
10th Percentile £41.13 £30.54 £26.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.50 £31.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £54.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +30.58% +59.06%
75th Percentile £52.78 £64.88 £56.25
90th Percentile £56.00 £70.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.38
% change year-on-year -7.69% +31.65% +9.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,108 5,304 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.82% 90.84% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,517 3,679 4,645
10th Percentile £287 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £681 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 212 263
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.50 £12.94
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.60 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -35.80% +47.59% -1.29%
75th Percentile £44.74 £45.05 £33.66
90th Percentile £53.85 £65.00 £51.69
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -1 416 £523 -0.48% 370
Yorkshire -2 267 £500 -9.09% 158
North East -1 44 £533 -8.39% 61
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 26 (3.63%) Confluence
2 9 (1.26%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.98%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.84%) nginx
6 5 (0.70%) Apache
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.28%) Mule
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.28%) InVision
6 2 (0.28%) Sketch
6 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.28%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 14 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.98%) Primavera
2 7 (0.98%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.56%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.42%) Aareon QL
4 3 (0.42%) Maximo
5 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.28%) iTrent
5 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.28%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (0.28%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 136 (18.97%) Azure
2 128 (17.85%) AWS
3 49 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (6.69%) GitHub
5 36 (5.02%) Serverless
6 33 (4.60%) GCP
7 27 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 27 (3.77%) SaaS
8 15 (2.09%) Amazon S3
9 14 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (1.95%) PaaS
10 13 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (1.81%) IaaS
11 9 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (0.98%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.56%) Firewall
2 39 (5.44%) VPN
3 15 (2.09%) HTTP
4 9 (1.26%) DNS
5 8 (1.12%) PPP
6 7 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.70%) FTP
7 5 (0.70%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.56%) Network Security
9 3 (0.42%) SSL
10 2 (0.28%) DMZ
10 2 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.28%) RTP
10 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.28%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.58%) MongoDB
2 38 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (4.18%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.49%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.21%) Power BI
6 18 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (2.51%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.81%) RDBMS
8 12 (1.67%) GIS
9 11 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.26%) Redis
11 8 (1.12%) Tableau
12 7 (0.98%) Big Data
12 7 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.98%) MySQL
13 6 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 88 (12.27%) JIRA
2 64 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 54 (7.53%) Git
4 42 (5.86%) GitLab
5 28 (3.91%) Selenium
6 23 (3.21%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.65%) JUnit
8 11 (1.53%) Postman
9 10 (1.39%) JMeter
10 9 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.98%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.98%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.84%) Gatling
13 6 (0.84%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.84%) Travis CI
13 6 (0.84%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.70%) Maven
14 5 (0.70%) Mockito
General
1 198 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 108 (15.06%) Finance
3 95 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 67 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.32%) Banking
6 21 (2.93%) Legal
7 15 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (2.09%) Retail
8 14 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.53%) Marketing
10 11 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.26%) Law
12 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.98%) Billing
14 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (15.76%) Developer
2 94 (13.11%) Architect
3 87 (12.13%) Analyst
4 67 (9.34%) Senior
5 66 (9.21%) Lead
6 60 (8.37%) Project Manager
7 58 (8.09%) Business Analyst
8 40 (5.58%) Java Developer
9 36 (5.02%) Technical Architect
10 34 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (4.04%) Lead Architect
11 29 (4.04%) Technical Leader
12 28 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (3.63%) Delivery Manager
14 20 (2.79%) Test Engineer
15 18 (2.51%) Tester
16 17 (2.37%) Storage Manager
17 16 (2.23%) Software Engineer
17 16 (2.23%) User Researcher
18 15 (2.09%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.51%) Node.js
2 45 (6.28%) REST
3 41 (5.72%) React
4 40 (5.58%) JSON
5 36 (5.02%) Spring
6 34 (4.74%) RESTful
7 33 (4.60%) Spring Boot
7 33 (4.60%) XML
8 32 (4.46%) Kafka
9 30 (4.18%) .NET
10 23 (3.21%) Hibernate
10 23 (3.21%) JPA
11 22 (3.07%) Web Services
11 22 (3.07%) YAML
12 19 (2.65%) HTML
13 18 (2.51%) CSS
14 16 (2.23%) .NET Framework
15 13 (1.81%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.67%) Middleware
17 9 (1.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.67%) Product Ownership
2 44 (6.14%) Public Cloud
3 22 (3.07%) Data Centre
4 17 (2.37%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.37%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.37%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.12%) NHS
7 8 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.98%) CMDB
9 6 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.83%) Windows
2 42 (5.86%) Apple iOS
2 42 (5.86%) Linux
3 41 (5.72%) Android
4 35 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.65%) Unix
6 18 (2.51%) zOS
7 6 (0.84%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.42%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (26.92%) DevOps
2 146 (20.36%) Scrum
3 137 (19.11%) CI/CD
4 116 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 109 (15.20%) Project Management
6 101 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (13.11%) Waterfall
8 82 (11.44%) Microservices
9 77 (10.74%) Test Automation
10 69 (9.62%) Design Patterns
11 68 (9.48%) Risk Management
12 61 (8.51%) Mentoring
13 59 (8.23%) Software Engineering
14 57 (7.95%) Roadmaps
15 56 (7.81%) Project Delivery
16 54 (7.53%) Migration
16 54 (7.53%) User Stories
17 53 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 42 (5.86%) Continuous Integration
18 42 (5.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 112 (15.62%) Java
2 79 (11.02%) Python
3 62 (8.65%) JavaScript
4 59 (8.23%) SQL
5 45 (6.28%) C#
6 29 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.51%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.37%) JCL
9 14 (1.95%) Bash
9 14 (1.95%) REXX
9 14 (1.95%) Scala
10 9 (1.26%) Go
10 9 (1.26%) Groovy
11 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.84%) Ruby
13 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.56%) PHP
13 4 (0.56%) Swift
14 3 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 107 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 91 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.79%) Degree
4 14 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 11 (1.53%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.12%) PMP
8 7 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.70%) CBAP
9 5 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.42%) OSCP
11 2 (0.28%) APMG
11 2 (0.28%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.28%) CCSA
11 2 (0.28%) CCSE
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) ISEB
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.25%) QA
2 23 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.79%) PMO
4 18 (2.51%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.12%) GDPR
6 8 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.98%) GRC
8 6 (0.84%) SLA
9 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.56%) WCAG
10 3 (0.42%) NIST
10 3 (0.42%) P3O
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) GxP
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.14%) GAMP
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (6.56%) Docker
2 17 (2.37%) NFS
2 17 (2.37%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (6.97%) Terraform
2 48 (6.69%) Kubernetes
3 41 (5.72%) Ansible
4 22 (3.07%) Grafana
5 20 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 9 (1.26%) Puppet
8 8 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.98%) Kibana
10 6 (0.84%) logstash
11 4 (0.56%) Istio
11 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.28%) Kiali
13 1 (0.14%) Consul
13 1 (0.14%) Graphite
13 1 (0.14%) Graylog
13 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.14%) linkerd
13 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 69 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.74%) SAP
3 32 (4.46%) Oracle
4 22 (3.07%) IBM
5 19 (2.65%) Broadcom
5 19 (2.65%) Dell
6 18 (2.51%) Google
7 17 (2.37%) Brocade
7 17 (2.37%) CA
8 15 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.53%) Splunk
10 8 (1.12%) Pega
11 7 (0.98%) Avaloq
11 7 (0.98%) Cisco
12 6 (0.84%) VMware
13 5 (0.70%) Apple
13 5 (0.70%) ESRI
13 5 (0.70%) Informatica
13 5 (0.70%) Sage