Agile Contracts in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 368 383 539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 17.50% 13.86% 17.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.75% 16.40% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 258 401
10th Percentile £356 £363 £388
25th Percentile £400 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £620
90th Percentile £638 £738 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 14
10th Percentile £25.36 £37.55 £30.54
25th Percentile £42.46 £43.14 £35.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.88 £44.79
Median % change year-on-year +52.57% +2.45% -31.68%
75th Percentile £78.13 £67.85 £60.59
90th Percentile £81.85 £71.24 £65.33
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,863 2,335 2,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.59% 84.51% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,421 1,912
10th Percentile £296 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 264 153
10th Percentile £13.02 £11.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £19.02 £15.43 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.90 £30.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -0.13% +29.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £67.23 £58.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Manchester -3 154 £450 -14.29% 984
Cheshire +3 150 £429 -3.60% 218
Lancashire -5 28 £525 -2.33% 350
Merseyside +7 15 £511 +20.29% 113
Cumbria +12 12 £513 +45.18% 26
Agile
England

Agile
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 48 (13.04%) Confluence
2 12 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.26%) WebSphere
3 8 (2.17%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.36%) JBoss
5 5 (1.36%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.09%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.82%) CICS
8 2 (0.54%) Apache
8 2 (0.54%) CMS
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.27%) Documentum
9 1 (0.27%) FileNet
9 1 (0.27%) Liferay
9 1 (0.27%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.36%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.54%) InVision
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.54%) Simulink
5 2 (0.54%) Trello
5 2 (0.54%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.27%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 64 (17.39%) AWS
2 51 (13.86%) Azure
3 26 (7.07%) Serverless
4 20 (5.43%) SaaS
5 15 (4.08%) GitHub
6 14 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.80%) GCP
7 13 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.99%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.17%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.63%) Figma
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.36%) dbt
12 5 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.36%) IaaS
12 5 (1.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.63%) Firewall
2 5 (1.36%) HTTP
3 3 (0.82%) DNS
3 3 (0.82%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.82%) SAN
4 2 (0.54%) Calico
4 2 (0.54%) DHCP
5 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.27%) LAN
5 1 (0.27%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) SMS
5 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) WAN
5 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.43%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.16%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (2.45%) DB2
7 9 (2.45%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.17%) RDBMS
9 7 (1.90%) Power BI
10 6 (1.63%) MySQL
11 4 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.09%) Metadata
11 4 (1.09%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.09%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.82%) Big Data
12 3 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (20.38%) JIRA
2 42 (11.41%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.42%) Git
4 29 (7.88%) GitLab
5 26 (7.07%) JUnit
6 17 (4.62%) Gradle
7 13 (3.53%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.53%) Mockito
8 12 (3.26%) Bitbucket
9 11 (2.99%) Liquibase
10 10 (2.72%) Selenium
11 8 (2.17%) Maven
12 4 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.09%) Xcode
13 3 (0.82%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.82%) ScriptRunner
13 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.82%) Subversion
14 2 (0.54%) HP UFT
14 2 (0.54%) NetBeans
General
1 110 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 102 (27.72%) Finance
3 57 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (13.59%) Banking
5 45 (12.23%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.08%) Marketing
8 14 (3.80%) Legal
8 14 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (3.26%) Retail
11 11 (2.99%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.72%) Electronics
12 10 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.17%) Automotive
14 7 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.63%) Military
15 6 (1.63%) Publishing
16 5 (1.36%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 68 (18.48%) Developer
2 46 (12.50%) Analyst
3 42 (11.41%) Business Analyst
4 39 (10.60%) Senior
5 25 (6.79%) Architect
6 24 (6.52%) Lead
7 22 (5.98%) Project Manager
8 20 (5.43%) Java Developer
9 15 (4.08%) Software Engineer
10 14 (3.80%) Scrum Master
11 12 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (2.45%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
13 9 (2.45%) Technical Manager
14 8 (2.17%) DBA
14 8 (2.17%) Product Owner
14 8 (2.17%) React Developer
14 8 (2.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.87%) Kafka
2 33 (8.97%) React
3 32 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 28 (7.61%) Spring
5 27 (7.34%) REST
6 26 (7.07%) HTML
6 26 (7.07%) RESTful
7 25 (6.79%) CSS
8 23 (6.25%) Node.js
9 16 (4.35%) .NET
9 16 (4.35%) SOAP
10 15 (4.08%) AngularJS
10 15 (4.08%) Web Services
11 14 (3.80%) XML
12 13 (3.53%) Middleware
13 12 (3.26%) JSON
14 11 (2.99%) OpenAPI
14 11 (2.99%) Swagger
15 8 (2.17%) HTML5
15 8 (2.17%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.59%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.89%) Virtual Team
3 15 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.45%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.45%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.17%) CMDB
8 6 (1.63%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.63%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.09%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.09%) PKI
11 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.82%) Social Media
11 3 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.35%) Linux
2 15 (4.08%) Android
3 10 (2.72%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.72%) Unix
3 10 (2.72%) Windows
4 4 (1.09%) Solaris
4 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.54%) HPUX
7 1 (0.27%) VMS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (28.26%) Scrum
2 92 (25.00%) DevOps
2 92 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 70 (19.02%) CI/CD
5 63 (17.12%) Microservices
6 56 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (13.86%) Project Management
8 48 (13.04%) SDLC
9 44 (11.96%) Migration
9 44 (11.96%) Waterfall
10 40 (10.87%) Containerisation
11 39 (10.60%) Roadmaps
12 37 (10.05%) ITIL
13 36 (9.78%) Software Engineering
13 36 (9.78%) TDD
14 35 (9.51%) Decision-Making
15 34 (9.24%) Test Automation
16 32 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
17 31 (8.42%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.83%) Java
2 53 (14.40%) JavaScript
2 53 (14.40%) SQL
3 37 (10.05%) Python
4 23 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 9 (2.45%) C#
5 9 (2.45%) Kotlin
6 8 (2.17%) Scala
7 5 (1.36%) Bash
8 4 (1.09%) ABAP
8 4 (1.09%) C
8 4 (1.09%) C++
8 4 (1.09%) Objective-C
8 4 (1.09%) Ruby
8 4 (1.09%) Swift
9 3 (0.82%) Groovy
9 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.54%) JCL
Qualifications
1 65 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 51 (13.86%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.61%) Degree
4 9 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.90%) PMP
6 4 (1.09%) CBAP
6 4 (1.09%) IIBA
6 4 (1.09%) ISEB
7 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.54%) CCNA
8 2 (0.54%) CCNP
8 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.79%) QA
2 13 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.09%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) COBIT
6 2 (0.54%) PMO
6 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) Basel III
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (10.60%) Docker
2 9 (2.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.08%) Terraform
3 12 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.63%) Ansible
5 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.82%) Grafana
6 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.82%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.54%) Istio
7 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.54%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 53 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.87%) ServiceNow
3 31 (8.42%) Oracle
4 28 (7.61%) SAP
5 9 (2.45%) IBM
6 6 (1.63%) Google
6 6 (1.63%) HP
7 5 (1.36%) Ariba
7 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.36%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.36%) Infoblox
7 5 (1.36%) Splunk
8 4 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.09%) Databricks
8 4 (1.09%) Nintex
8 4 (1.09%) Ping Identity
8 4 (1.09%) VMware
9 3 (0.82%) F5
9 3 (0.82%) Informatica
9 3 (0.82%) Veracode