Agile Project Management Contracts in the North West

Agile Project Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Agile Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 133 128
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 +38
Contract jobs citing Agile Project Management 13 4 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.15% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.17% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 20
10th Percentile £397 £445 £415
25th Percentile £400 £494 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +19.82% -5.91%
75th Percentile £424 - £625
90th Percentile £435 - £680
England median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £52.10
90th Percentile - - £60.85
England median hourly rate £60.00 £46.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +29.03% +24.00% -11.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Agile Project Management 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Agile Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Agile Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Project Management in the North West

Agile Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Project Management in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Agile Project Management in the North West

Agile Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Project Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Project Management in the North West

Agile Project Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Project Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheshire - 9 £407 - 3
Manchester +17 3 £411 -28.48% 8
Lancashire - 1 - - 2
Agile Project Management
England

Agile Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (46.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA Agile
General
1 7 (53.85%) Automotive
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Avionics
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Analytics Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Change Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Change Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Project Change Manager
2 1 (7.69%) SAS Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (46.15%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) Project Management
2 8 (61.54%) Analytics
3 7 (53.85%) Decision-Making
3 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) API Integration
4 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
4 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
4 6 (46.15%) ERP
4 6 (46.15%) Lean Manufacturing
4 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
4 6 (46.15%) Operations Management
4 6 (46.15%) PLM
4 6 (46.15%) Presales
4 6 (46.15%) Product Roadmap
4 6 (46.15%) Quality Management
4 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
4 6 (46.15%) Supply Chain Management
4 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (46.15%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
1 7 (53.85%) Master's Degree
2 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) MOM
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) SAP
2 6 (46.15%) Rockwell
2 6 (46.15%) Siemens
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce