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

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 630 697 1,033
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 18.60% 14.50% 18.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.72% 17.26% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 458 789
10th Percentile £356 £367 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% -6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £656 £700
England median daily rate £532 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.32% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 18
10th Percentile £25.26 £36.59 £30.54
25th Percentile £37.80 £37.55 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.16 £55.19
Median % change year-on-year +48.45% -14.56% -4.39%
75th Percentile £77.50 £56.81 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £70.75 £67.68
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +28.03%

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 3,040 4,039 4,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.75% 84.02% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,954 2,410 3,384
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £639 £670 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 395 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.09 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.88 £12.55 £15.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.77 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% -18.55% +33.89%
75th Percentile £52.00 £46.18 £43.55
90th Percentile £76.00 £63.75 £57.17
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% +4.17% +41.18%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -1 342 £453 -13.71% 1,031
Yorkshire -1 239 £490 -5.22% 507
North East -2 60 £475 -10.80% 235
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 77 (12.22%) Confluence
2 19 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.43%) WebSphere
6 8 (1.27%) Apache
7 7 (1.11%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.11%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.63%) JBoss
9 4 (0.63%) NetWeaver
9 4 (0.63%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.48%) CICS
10 3 (0.48%) CMS
10 3 (0.48%) Documentum
10 3 (0.48%) FileNet
10 3 (0.48%) IIS
10 3 (0.48%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 17 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.95%) Trello
5 5 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.32%) InVision
6 2 (0.32%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.16%) CATIA
7 1 (0.16%) Maple
7 1 (0.16%) Simulink
7 1 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 17 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.32%) Sage CRM
4 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.16%) LabWindows
5 1 (0.16%) Maximo
5 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 90 (14.29%) AWS
2 80 (12.70%) Azure
3 34 (5.40%) Serverless
4 30 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.29%) GCP
6 25 (3.97%) GitHub
7 20 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (2.86%) SaaS
10 17 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (1.75%) Power Automate
12 10 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.59%) PowerApps
13 9 (1.43%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.43%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.13%) DNS
2 20 (3.17%) Firewall
3 11 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.79%) HTTP
4 5 (0.79%) Network Security
5 4 (0.63%) NAS
5 4 (0.63%) SAN
6 3 (0.48%) DHCP
6 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.32%) Calico
7 2 (0.32%) SSL
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.16%) LAN
8 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.16%) NGN
8 1 (0.16%) SMS
8 1 (0.16%) SNA
8 1 (0.16%) VPN
8 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.44%) MongoDB
1 28 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (3.97%) Relational Database
3 22 (3.49%) NoSQL
3 22 (3.49%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.33%) Oracle Database
4 21 (3.33%) Power BI
5 13 (2.06%) Tableau
6 11 (1.75%) DynamoDB
6 11 (1.75%) MySQL
7 10 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.59%) RDBMS
8 7 (1.11%) DB2
8 7 (1.11%) Metadata
9 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.95%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.79%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.79%) Flink
11 4 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 122 (19.37%) JIRA
2 69 (10.95%) Jenkins
3 60 (9.52%) Git
4 37 (5.87%) GitLab
5 28 (4.44%) Selenium
6 24 (3.81%) Postman
7 23 (3.65%) Cucumber
8 22 (3.49%) JUnit
9 17 (2.70%) Gradle
10 13 (2.06%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.75%) Liquibase
12 10 (1.59%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.59%) Maven
12 10 (1.59%) Mockito
13 8 (1.27%) JMeter
14 7 (1.11%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
15 6 (0.95%) TestNG
16 5 (0.79%) Babel
General
1 209 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 160 (25.40%) Finance
3 97 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (14.13%) Public Sector
5 66 (10.48%) Banking
6 21 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (3.02%) Marketing
8 18 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 18 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.54%) Retail
10 15 (2.38%) Legal
11 14 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.59%) Electronics
13 8 (1.27%) Automotive
14 6 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.95%) Military
14 6 (0.95%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (14.29%) Analyst
1 90 (14.29%) Developer
2 76 (12.06%) Senior
3 74 (11.75%) Business Analyst
4 44 (6.98%) Lead
4 44 (6.98%) Project Manager
5 41 (6.51%) Architect
6 23 (3.65%) Software Engineer
7 20 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
8 18 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (2.86%) Tester
9 16 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (2.54%) Product Manager
9 16 (2.54%) Technical Manager
9 16 (2.54%) Test Engineer
10 14 (2.22%) Java Developer
11 13 (2.06%) React Developer
11 13 (2.06%) Scrum Master
12 12 (1.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.71%) Kafka
2 31 (4.92%) React
3 30 (4.76%) .NET
3 30 (4.76%) HTML
4 29 (4.60%) CSS
4 29 (4.60%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.29%) Node.js
6 26 (4.13%) Spring
7 25 (3.97%) RESTful
8 24 (3.81%) REST
9 16 (2.54%) Middleware
10 15 (2.38%) XML
11 14 (2.22%) HTML5
11 14 (2.22%) JSON
12 12 (1.90%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.90%) SOAP
12 12 (1.90%) Web Services
13 11 (1.75%) OpenAPI
13 11 (1.75%) Playwright
13 11 (1.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.17%) Mobile App
3 18 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.06%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.59%) CMDB
9 10 (1.59%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.43%) NHS
11 8 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (0.95%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.25%) Linux
2 36 (5.71%) Windows
3 24 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.54%) Android
5 13 (2.06%) Unix
6 12 (1.90%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.27%) Solaris
9 3 (0.48%) AIX
9 3 (0.48%) HPUX
9 3 (0.48%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.16%) VMS
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (28.73%) Problem-Solving
2 149 (23.65%) DevOps
3 126 (20.00%) Scrum
4 123 (19.52%) CI/CD
5 109 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 88 (13.97%) Microservices
7 87 (13.81%) Project Management
8 79 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (11.43%) Decision-Making
10 69 (10.95%) Migration
11 68 (10.79%) Roadmaps
12 65 (10.32%) Test Automation
12 65 (10.32%) Waterfall
13 59 (9.37%) Software Engineering
14 54 (8.57%) SDLC
15 52 (8.25%) Change Management
16 49 (7.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 49 (7.78%) TDD
16 49 (7.78%) User Stories
17 46 (7.30%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 101 (16.03%) Java
2 85 (13.49%) SQL
3 84 (13.33%) Python
4 71 (11.27%) JavaScript
5 28 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 26 (4.13%) Bash
7 21 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.02%) PL/SQL
9 17 (2.70%) Kotlin
9 17 (2.70%) Perl
10 15 (2.38%) C#
11 13 (2.06%) Scala
11 13 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.43%) Groovy
13 7 (1.11%) Objective-C
13 7 (1.11%) Ruby
13 7 (1.11%) Swift
14 5 (0.79%) C
14 5 (0.79%) C++
15 4 (0.63%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 111 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 91 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.51%) Degree
4 21 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (2.22%) PMP
6 12 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.11%) CBAP
9 6 (0.95%) APMP
10 5 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.79%) CSPO
10 5 (0.79%) ISEB
10 5 (0.79%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.63%) IIBA
11 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.63%) RIBA
12 3 (0.48%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.48%) Tableau Certification
12 3 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.71%) QA
2 35 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.59%) WCAG
5 7 (1.11%) PMO
6 6 (0.95%) GDPR
7 5 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.32%) GRC
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.16%) Basel III
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.16%) MISRA
11 1 (0.16%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.16%) NIST
11 1 (0.16%) PSD2
11 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (9.05%) Docker
2 33 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.63%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.63%) vSphere
5 3 (0.48%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.16%) XenApp
7 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (5.40%) Ansible
1 34 (5.40%) Terraform
2 32 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.06%) Puppet
4 12 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.43%) Grafana
7 7 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 6 (0.95%) SCCM
9 5 (0.79%) Kibana
9 5 (0.79%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.63%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (0.63%) vRealize
11 3 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.48%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.48%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.32%) HP Data Protector
12 2 (0.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 82 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.94%) Oracle
3 37 (5.87%) SAP
4 33 (5.24%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.97%) Cisco
6 17 (2.70%) Google
7 14 (2.22%) VMware
8 11 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.75%) IBM
8 11 (1.75%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.59%) Databricks
9 10 (1.59%) Splunk
10 9 (1.43%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.79%) Ariba
11 5 (0.79%) CheckPoint
11 5 (0.79%) Infoblox
11 5 (0.79%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.63%) Dell
12 4 (0.63%) HP
12 4 (0.63%) Salesforce