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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 649 706 1,028
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 18.79% 14.53% 18.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.93% 17.38% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 462 790
10th Percentile £356 £365 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% -6.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £656 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 17
10th Percentile £25.28 £36.59 £30.54
25th Percentile £42.46 £37.55 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.16 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.45% -12.68% -6.82%
75th Percentile £78.13 £56.81 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £61.25 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.00% -3.85% +29.01%

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 3,101 4,063 4,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.78% 83.60% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 2,408 3,378
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 395 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.09 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -12.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £43.39
90th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £56.23
England median hourly rate £27.13 £37.88 £35.03
% change year-on-year -28.38% +8.12% +36.41%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -1 352 £450 -11.76% 4,462
Yorkshire 0 246 £491 -4.95% 3,355
North East -1 63 £475 -10.17% 755
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 85 (13.10%) Confluence
2 19 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.39%) Apache
5 9 (1.39%) WebSphere
6 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.08%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.62%) JBoss
9 4 (0.62%) NetWeaver
9 4 (0.62%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.46%) CICS
10 3 (0.46%) CMS
10 3 (0.46%) Documentum
10 3 (0.46%) FileNet
10 3 (0.46%) IIS
10 3 (0.46%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.16%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.92%) Trello
6 5 (0.77%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) InVision
7 2 (0.31%) Simulink
7 2 (0.31%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) Maple
8 1 (0.15%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 13 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.31%) Sage CRM
4 2 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.15%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.15%) Maximo
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.15%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.15%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (14.48%) AWS
2 77 (11.86%) Azure
3 35 (5.39%) Serverless
4 33 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.31%) GitHub
6 27 (4.16%) GCP
7 20 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (2.93%) SaaS
9 16 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.69%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.69%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.54%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (1.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.31%) DNS
2 20 (3.08%) Firewall
3 11 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.77%) HTTP
4 5 (0.77%) Network Security
5 4 (0.62%) NAS
5 4 (0.62%) SAN
6 3 (0.46%) DHCP
6 3 (0.46%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.31%) Calico
7 2 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.31%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.15%) LAN
8 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.15%) NGN
8 1 (0.15%) SMS
8 1 (0.15%) SNA
8 1 (0.15%) VPN
8 1 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.47%) MongoDB
3 25 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 24 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 23 (3.54%) Power BI
5 23 (3.54%) SQL Server
6 21 (3.24%) Oracle Database
7 13 (2.00%) MySQL
7 13 (2.00%) Tableau
8 11 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.54%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.08%) DB2
11 7 (1.08%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.08%) Metadata
12 5 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.77%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.77%) Flink
Development Applications
1 127 (19.57%) JIRA
2 72 (11.09%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.24%) Git
4 42 (6.47%) GitLab
5 26 (4.01%) Selenium
6 24 (3.70%) JUnit
7 23 (3.54%) Cucumber
8 22 (3.39%) Postman
9 17 (2.62%) Gradle
10 12 (1.85%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.69%) Liquibase
11 11 (1.69%) Maven
11 11 (1.69%) Mockito
12 9 (1.39%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.23%) JMeter
14 6 (0.92%) ScriptRunner
14 6 (0.92%) TestNG
14 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.77%) Subversion
General
1 216 (33.28%) Social Skills
2 167 (25.73%) Finance
3 103 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (14.48%) Public Sector
5 68 (10.48%) Banking
6 24 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (2.93%) Marketing
9 18 (2.77%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.47%) Legal
10 16 (2.47%) Retail
11 14 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.16%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.54%) Electronics
14 8 (1.23%) Automotive
15 7 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.08%) Publishing
16 6 (0.92%) Military
16 6 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (14.64%) Developer
2 89 (13.71%) Analyst
3 77 (11.86%) Senior
4 74 (11.40%) Business Analyst
5 47 (7.24%) Project Manager
6 46 (7.09%) Lead
7 40 (6.16%) Architect
8 23 (3.54%) Software Engineer
9 22 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
10 18 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (2.77%) Tester
11 17 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (2.47%) Product Manager
12 16 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (2.31%) Designer
13 15 (2.31%) Java Developer
13 15 (2.31%) Technical Manager
13 15 (2.31%) Test Engineer
14 14 (2.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (2.16%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.55%) Kafka
2 32 (4.93%) HTML
2 32 (4.93%) Spring Boot
3 31 (4.78%) React
4 30 (4.62%) .NET
4 30 (4.62%) CSS
5 29 (4.47%) Node.js
6 28 (4.31%) Spring
7 26 (4.01%) REST
8 25 (3.85%) RESTful
9 17 (2.62%) Web Services
10 16 (2.47%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.47%) Middleware
11 15 (2.31%) SOAP
11 15 (2.31%) XML
12 13 (2.00%) HTML5
12 13 (2.00%) JSON
13 12 (1.85%) Playwright
14 11 (1.69%) OpenAPI
14 11 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.79%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 18 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (2.77%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.77%) Virtual Team
4 17 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.54%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.39%) CMDB
9 9 (1.39%) NHS
10 8 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.92%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.01%) Linux
2 38 (5.86%) Windows
3 24 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.62%) Android
5 13 (2.00%) Unix
6 11 (1.69%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.23%) Solaris
9 3 (0.46%) AIX
9 3 (0.46%) HPUX
9 3 (0.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.31%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
2 153 (23.57%) DevOps
3 134 (20.65%) Scrum
4 126 (19.41%) CI/CD
5 115 (17.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 89 (13.71%) Microservices
6 89 (13.71%) Project Management
7 82 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (11.09%) Migration
9 71 (10.94%) Roadmaps
10 68 (10.48%) Decision-Making
11 64 (9.86%) Waterfall
12 63 (9.71%) Test Automation
13 58 (8.94%) Software Engineering
14 56 (8.63%) User Stories
15 55 (8.47%) SDLC
16 52 (8.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (7.86%) Change Management
18 49 (7.55%) TDD
19 47 (7.24%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 108 (16.64%) Java
2 89 (13.71%) SQL
3 85 (13.10%) Python
4 76 (11.71%) JavaScript
5 29 (4.47%) PowerShell
6 27 (4.16%) Bash
7 21 (3.24%) TypeScript
8 19 (2.93%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.93%) PL/SQL
9 17 (2.62%) Perl
10 16 (2.47%) C#
11 13 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.85%) Scala
13 9 (1.39%) Groovy
14 7 (1.08%) Objective-C
14 7 (1.08%) Ruby
14 7 (1.08%) Swift
15 5 (0.77%) C
16 4 (0.62%) ABAP
16 4 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 112 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 90 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.40%) Degree
4 21 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (2.00%) PMP
6 11 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 10 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.39%) CBAP
8 9 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.77%) ISEB
11 4 (0.62%) APMP
11 4 (0.62%) CSPO
11 4 (0.62%) IIBA
11 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.62%) RIBA
12 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.70%) Accessibility
2 31 (4.78%) QA
3 15 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.54%) WCAG
5 9 (1.39%) PMO
6 7 (1.08%) GDPR
7 5 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.46%) GRC
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.31%) COBIT
10 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.15%) Basel III
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.15%) NIST
11 1 (0.15%) PSD2
11 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (9.09%) Docker
2 32 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.92%) vSphere
5 5 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.46%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.15%) XenApp
9 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (5.86%) Terraform
2 35 (5.39%) Ansible
3 32 (4.93%) Kubernetes
4 14 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.00%) Puppet
6 10 (1.54%) Grafana
6 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.39%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.92%) SCCM
9 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.62%) Kibana
9 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (0.62%) vRealize
10 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.46%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.46%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.31%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.31%) Istio
11 2 (0.31%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 86 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.70%) Oracle
3 40 (6.16%) ServiceNow
4 33 (5.08%) SAP
5 25 (3.85%) Cisco
6 19 (2.93%) Google
7 16 (2.47%) VMware
8 11 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.69%) IBM
8 11 (1.69%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.54%) Databricks
9 10 (1.54%) Splunk
10 9 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.77%) Ariba
11 5 (0.77%) CheckPoint
11 5 (0.77%) Infoblox
11 5 (0.77%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.62%) Dell
12 4 (0.62%) HP
12 4 (0.62%) Salesforce