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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 724 1,203 1,708
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 20.63% 23.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.62% 22.75% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 894 1,267
10th Percentile £363 £400 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +7.82%
75th Percentile £593 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £699 £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 21
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 £48.75
90th Percentile £56.00 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.65% +10.56%

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 4,110 5,288 6,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,521 3,674 4,657
10th Percentile £288 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 207 261
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.48 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.43% +49.73% -
75th Percentile £44.24 £45.05 £32.77
90th Percentile £53.88 £65.00 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -1 419 £525 - 382
Yorkshire -2 270 £500 -9.09% 165
North East -1 45 £533 -8.39% 70
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 27 (3.73%) Confluence
2 10 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.97%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.83%) nginx
6 5 (0.69%) Apache
7 3 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.41%) 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 28 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.07%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.28%) InVision
5 2 (0.28%) Sketch
5 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.28%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 14 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.97%) Primavera
2 7 (0.97%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.55%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.41%) Aareon QL
4 3 (0.41%) 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
1 137 (18.92%) Azure
2 132 (18.23%) AWS
3 50 (6.91%) GitHub
4 49 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (5.11%) Serverless
6 35 (4.83%) GCP
7 29 (4.01%) Power Platform
8 27 (3.73%) SaaS
9 15 (2.07%) Amazon S3
10 14 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (1.93%) PaaS
11 13 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.80%) IaaS
12 9 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.24%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.10%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (0.97%) BrowserStack
14 7 (0.97%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.49%) Firewall
2 39 (5.39%) VPN
3 15 (2.07%) HTTP
4 9 (1.24%) DNS
5 8 (1.10%) PPP
6 7 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.69%) FTP
7 5 (0.69%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.55%) Network Security
9 3 (0.41%) 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 (5.52%) MongoDB
2 38 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (4.14%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.45%) Power BI
5 19 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.80%) RDBMS
8 12 (1.66%) GIS
9 11 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.24%) Redis
11 8 (1.10%) Tableau
12 7 (0.97%) Big Data
12 7 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.97%) MySQL
13 6 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 89 (12.29%) JIRA
2 66 (9.12%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.60%) Git
4 42 (5.80%) GitLab
5 28 (3.87%) Selenium
6 23 (3.18%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.62%) JUnit
8 11 (1.52%) Postman
9 10 (1.38%) JMeter
10 9 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.10%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.97%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.83%) Gatling
13 6 (0.83%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.83%) Travis CI
13 6 (0.83%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.69%) Maven
14 5 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 202 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.92%) Finance
3 97 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 68 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.28%) Banking
6 21 (2.90%) Legal
7 15 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (2.07%) Retail
8 14 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.52%) Marketing
10 11 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.24%) Law
12 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.97%) Billing
14 4 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.55%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.41%) Automotive
15 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 115 (15.88%) Developer
2 93 (12.85%) Architect
3 89 (12.29%) Analyst
4 67 (9.25%) Senior
5 66 (9.12%) Lead
6 60 (8.29%) Project Manager
7 59 (8.15%) Business Analyst
8 40 (5.52%) Java Developer
9 36 (4.97%) Technical Architect
10 34 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (4.01%) Lead Architect
11 29 (4.01%) Technical Leader
12 27 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (2.76%) Test Engineer
14 19 (2.62%) Tester
15 17 (2.35%) Storage Manager
16 16 (2.21%) Automation Tester
16 16 (2.21%) Software Engineer
16 16 (2.21%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (8.56%) Node.js
2 45 (6.22%) REST
3 42 (5.80%) React
4 40 (5.52%) JSON
5 37 (5.11%) Spring
6 34 (4.70%) RESTful
7 33 (4.56%) Spring Boot
8 32 (4.42%) Kafka
8 32 (4.42%) XML
9 30 (4.14%) .NET
10 23 (3.18%) Hibernate
10 23 (3.18%) JPA
11 22 (3.04%) Web Services
11 22 (3.04%) YAML
12 19 (2.62%) CSS
12 19 (2.62%) HTML
13 17 (2.35%) .NET Framework
14 13 (1.80%) AngularJS
15 10 (1.38%) Middleware
16 9 (1.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 44 (6.08%) Public Cloud
3 22 (3.04%) Data Centre
4 17 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.10%) NHS
7 8 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.10%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.83%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.83%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.63%) Windows
2 42 (5.80%) Apple iOS
2 42 (5.80%) Linux
3 41 (5.66%) Android
4 35 (4.83%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.49%) Unix
5 18 (2.49%) zOS
6 6 (0.83%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.41%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (26.93%) DevOps
2 146 (20.17%) Scrum
3 142 (19.61%) CI/CD
4 116 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 108 (14.92%) Project Management
6 105 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (13.12%) Waterfall
8 82 (11.33%) Microservices
9 79 (10.91%) Test Automation
10 69 (9.53%) Design Patterns
11 67 (9.25%) Risk Management
12 61 (8.43%) Mentoring
13 60 (8.29%) Software Engineering
14 57 (7.87%) Roadmaps
15 56 (7.73%) Project Delivery
16 53 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 53 (7.32%) Migration
16 53 (7.32%) User Stories
17 45 (6.22%) SDLC
18 43 (5.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 113 (15.61%) Java
2 79 (10.91%) Python
3 64 (8.84%) JavaScript
4 60 (8.29%) SQL
5 46 (6.35%) C#
6 32 (4.42%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.49%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.35%) JCL
9 16 (2.21%) Bash
10 15 (2.07%) Scala
11 14 (1.93%) REXX
12 9 (1.24%) Go
12 9 (1.24%) Groovy
13 7 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.83%) Ruby
15 4 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.55%) Swift
15 4 (0.55%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 110 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 93 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.70%) Degree
4 14 (1.93%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.38%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.10%) PMP
8 7 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.69%) CBAP
10 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) 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%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.18%) QA
2 24 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.76%) PMO
4 18 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.10%) GDPR
6 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.97%) GRC
8 6 (0.83%) SLA
9 4 (0.55%) WCAG
10 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) GxP
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.28%) P3O
12 1 (0.14%) GAMP
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (6.63%) Docker
2 17 (2.35%) NFS
2 17 (2.35%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.41%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 51 (7.04%) Terraform
2 49 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 41 (5.66%) Ansible
4 22 (3.04%) Grafana
5 21 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 9 (1.24%) Puppet
8 8 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.97%) Kibana
10 6 (0.83%) logstash
11 5 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.55%) Istio
13 2 (0.28%) Kiali
14 1 (0.14%) Consul
14 1 (0.14%) Graylog
14 1 (0.14%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
14 1 (0.14%) linkerd
14 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 70 (9.67%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.83%) SAP
3 32 (4.42%) Oracle
4 22 (3.04%) IBM
5 20 (2.76%) Google
6 19 (2.62%) Broadcom
6 19 (2.62%) Dell
7 17 (2.35%) Brocade
7 17 (2.35%) CA
8 15 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.52%) Splunk
10 10 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.10%) Pega
12 7 (0.97%) Avaloq
12 7 (0.97%) Cisco
13 6 (0.83%) VMware
14 5 (0.69%) Apple
14 5 (0.69%) ESRI
14 5 (0.69%) Informatica
14 5 (0.69%) Sage