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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 853 486 742
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 18.15% 13.52% 16.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.44% 15.59% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 297 515
10th Percentile £327 £356 £379
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £650
England median daily rate £520 £568 £563
% change year-on-year -8.45% +0.98% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 17
10th Percentile £39.00 £34.65 £40.00
25th Percentile - £45.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £75.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +20.97% +24.00%
75th Percentile £56.25 £96.64 £74.37
90th Percentile £67.43 £102.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.38% -3.46% -

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 4,173 3,118 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 86.73% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,783 2,721
10th Percentile £215 £260 £288
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 159 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.18 £15.65
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.96 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +2.47% +28.64%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.10 £62.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 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 December 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
Yorkshire +2 400 £500 - 162
North West +1 368 £447 -9.70% 282
North East +4 93 £450 -4.76% 46
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 88 (10.32%) Confluence
2 21 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.52%) CMS
4 6 (0.70%) CICS
5 5 (0.59%) Apache
5 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.59%) SAS
6 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.35%) MTS
7 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) Mule
8 2 (0.23%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.94%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.70%) Sketch
6 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.23%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) InVision
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.70%) VisionPLUS
3 3 (0.35%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.23%) Finacle
5 1 (0.12%) Magento
5 1 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.12%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) SAP MRS
5 1 (0.12%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 198 (23.21%) AWS
2 160 (18.76%) Azure
3 102 (11.96%) GCP
4 92 (10.79%) Serverless
5 58 (6.80%) GitHub
6 52 (6.10%) Power Platform
7 45 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (3.05%) SaaS
11 24 (2.81%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (1.99%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.88%) Figma
16 15 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (1.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.76%) Firewall
2 6 (0.70%) DNS
2 6 (0.70%) SAN
2 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.59%) HTTP
3 5 (0.59%) Internet
4 3 (0.35%) LAN
4 3 (0.35%) NAS
5 2 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.23%) WAN
5 2 (0.23%) Wireless
5 2 (0.23%) X.25
6 1 (0.12%) DWDM
6 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.09%) NoSQL
2 65 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.39%) MongoDB
4 37 (4.34%) Power BI
4 37 (4.34%) Relational Database
5 24 (2.81%) DynamoDB
5 24 (2.81%) MySQL
6 22 (2.58%) BigQuery
6 22 (2.58%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.99%) RDBMS
8 15 (1.76%) Redis
9 12 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.41%) Oracle Database
10 11 (1.29%) Looker
11 10 (1.17%) Tableau
12 9 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.70%) DocumentDB
13 6 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 168 (19.70%) JIRA
2 117 (13.72%) Git
3 101 (11.84%) Jenkins
4 81 (9.50%) GitLab
5 36 (4.22%) Cucumber
5 36 (4.22%) Postman
6 22 (2.58%) Mockito
6 22 (2.58%) Selenium
7 21 (2.46%) Liquibase
8 18 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 13 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.52%) Gradle
9 13 (1.52%) JUnit
10 11 (1.29%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.29%) SoapUI
11 10 (1.17%) Maven
12 8 (0.94%) Mocha
12 8 (0.94%) TestRail
13 6 (0.70%) Xcode
13 6 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 340 (39.86%) Social Skills
2 234 (27.43%) Finance
3 169 (19.81%) Public Sector
4 127 (14.89%) Banking
5 125 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 25 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.88%) Legal
9 14 (1.64%) Retail
9 14 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Publishing
13 7 (0.82%) Military
14 6 (0.70%) Digital Health
14 6 (0.70%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.70%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 169 (19.81%) Developer
2 120 (14.07%) Analyst
3 119 (13.95%) Senior
4 90 (10.55%) Lead
5 82 (9.61%) Business Analyst
6 56 (6.57%) Software Engineer
7 54 (6.33%) Java Developer
8 47 (5.51%) Project Manager
9 38 (4.45%) Architect
10 31 (3.63%) Test Engineer
11 30 (3.52%) Senior Developer
12 27 (3.17%) Designer
12 27 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
13 24 (2.81%) Product Owner
14 22 (2.58%) Senior Business Analyst
15 21 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.46%) Scrum Master
16 20 (2.34%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (11.25%) REST
2 89 (10.43%) RESTful
3 64 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 56 (6.57%) Kafka
5 54 (6.33%) React
6 52 (6.10%) Spring
7 50 (5.86%) Node.js
8 40 (4.69%) HTML
9 38 (4.45%) .NET
10 36 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (4.10%) JSON
12 33 (3.87%) CSS
13 29 (3.40%) FastAPI
14 27 (3.17%) Jest
15 24 (2.81%) XML
16 21 (2.46%) Playwright
17 20 (2.34%) ActiveMQ
18 19 (2.23%) JAX-RS
19 18 (2.11%) AngularJS
20 15 (1.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.37%) Product Ownership
2 72 (8.44%) Cloud Native
3 35 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (3.87%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 21 (2.46%) NHS
6 20 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.94%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.82%) Mainframe
14 6 (0.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.68%) Linux
2 31 (3.63%) Unix
3 19 (2.23%) Mac OS X
4 15 (1.76%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.76%) Windows
5 14 (1.64%) Android
6 8 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (31.07%) DevOps
2 250 (29.31%) CI/CD
3 195 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 173 (20.28%) Microservices
4 173 (20.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 162 (18.99%) Scrum
6 153 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 152 (17.82%) Test Automation
8 131 (15.36%) Containerisation
9 105 (12.31%) TDD
10 102 (11.96%) Project Management
11 99 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 91 (10.67%) Software Engineering
13 82 (9.61%) Change Management
14 80 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 80 (9.38%) Roadmaps
14 80 (9.38%) Waterfall
15 76 (8.91%) Mentoring
16 75 (8.79%) User Stories
17 73 (8.56%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 179 (20.98%) Python
2 166 (19.46%) Java
3 104 (12.19%) SQL
4 69 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.74%) TypeScript
6 38 (4.45%) C#
7 34 (3.99%) Go
8 23 (2.70%) Bash
9 15 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.29%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.29%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.17%) Swift
12 8 (0.94%) C++
13 7 (0.82%) COBOL
13 7 (0.82%) Objective-C
14 6 (0.70%) Ruby
14 6 (0.70%) Scala
15 5 (0.59%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 115 (13.48%) Degree
3 84 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 52 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.87%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.58%) PMP
8 17 (1.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 16 (1.88%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.41%) ISTQB
11 10 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.17%) CISM
11 10 (1.17%) CISSP
12 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.47%) CBAP
13 4 (0.47%) CSPO
13 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.49%) QA
2 67 (7.85%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 25 (2.93%) WCAG
5 21 (2.46%) GDPR
6 15 (1.76%) PSD2
7 14 (1.64%) PMO
8 13 (1.52%) ISO 20022
9 12 (1.41%) SEPA
10 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (1.29%) NIST
11 10 (1.17%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.82%) SLA
13 5 (0.59%) HL7
14 4 (0.47%) P3O
15 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.35%) Basel III
15 3 (0.35%) COBIT
16 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 1 (0.12%) Basel II
System Software
1 129 (15.12%) Docker
2 9 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.47%) vSphere
6 3 (0.35%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 145 (17.00%) Kubernetes
2 102 (11.96%) Terraform
3 74 (8.68%) Ansible
4 55 (6.45%) Grafana
5 48 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.29%) Control-M
7 10 (1.17%) IBM Guardium
7 10 (1.17%) Nessus
8 9 (1.06%) Data Guard
8 9 (1.06%) yum
9 7 (0.82%) Puppet
10 6 (0.70%) CA Endevor
10 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.47%) Argo
11 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.47%) SCCM
12 3 (0.35%) Kibana
12 3 (0.35%) SELinux
12 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 108 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.21%) Oracle
3 48 (5.63%) Google
4 47 (5.51%) Splunk
5 34 (3.99%) ServiceNow
6 26 (3.05%) SAP
7 13 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.29%) VMware
9 10 (1.17%) Databricks
9 10 (1.17%) Tenable
10 9 (1.06%) CyberArk
10 9 (1.06%) IBM
11 8 (0.94%) BeyondTrust
11 8 (0.94%) F5
11 8 (0.94%) GoldenSource
11 8 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.94%) Thycotic
12 6 (0.70%) Adobe
12 6 (0.70%) Planview
12 6 (0.70%) Red Hat