Agile Contracts in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 400 595 862
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 14.93% 19.16% 21.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.34% 21.18% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 453 619
10th Percentile £341 £388 £394
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £706 £663 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 17
10th Percentile £38.38 £30.54 £29.10
25th Percentile £45.88 £33.89 £32.77
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.79 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% +8.29% +4.04%
75th Percentile £56.81 £56.39 £56.25
90th Percentile £71.24 £66.35 £60.45
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -6.15% +33.80% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,307 2,809 3,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.08% 90.47% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 1,986 2,574
10th Percentile £307 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 157
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +71.43% +14.01%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.52 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 0 275 £525 -4.55% 227
Cheshire -3 74 £448 -18.64% 59
Lancashire -1 26 £593 +18.58% 43
Cumbria -10 12 £440 -7.37% 8
Merseyside -14 10 £510 +2.00% 27
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 9 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.00%) Confluence
3 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.25%) Apache
4 5 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.75%) IIS
6 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.50%) Mule
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 15 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.00%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.75%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.75%) Maximo
3 3 (0.75%) Primavera
3 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) iTrent
4 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.50%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 87 (21.75%) AWS
2 73 (18.25%) Azure
3 31 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (6.75%) Serverless
5 20 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.25%) SaaS
7 14 (3.50%) Amazon S3
8 13 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.50%) GitHub
11 9 (2.25%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.00%) GCP
12 8 (2.00%) IaaS
12 8 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.75%) PaaS
14 6 (1.50%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.50%) Firewall
2 31 (7.75%) VPN
3 5 (1.25%) FTP
3 5 (1.25%) HTTP
4 4 (1.00%) PPP
5 3 (0.75%) DNS
5 3 (0.75%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.00%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.75%) Relational Database
3 16 (4.00%) Power BI
4 15 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.00%) RDBMS
6 11 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.25%) Big Data
9 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.25%) Tableau
10 4 (1.00%) Redis
11 3 (0.75%) DB2
11 3 (0.75%) GIS
11 3 (0.75%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (12.50%) JIRA
2 28 (7.00%) Git
3 25 (6.25%) GitLab
4 24 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.25%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.50%) JUnit
7 9 (2.25%) Selenium
8 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.50%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.25%) Postman
11 4 (1.00%) Jasmine
11 4 (1.00%) JMeter
11 4 (1.00%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (1.00%) Mocha
11 4 (1.00%) webpack
12 3 (0.75%) Maven
12 3 (0.75%) Mockito
12 3 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.75%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 95 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.50%) Finance
3 53 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.00%) Banking
6 18 (4.50%) Legal
7 14 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 12 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Law
11 7 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.50%) Retail
13 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.00%) Marketing
15 3 (0.75%) Automotive
15 3 (0.75%) Billing
15 3 (0.75%) German Language
15 3 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (20.50%) Architect
2 54 (13.50%) Developer
3 46 (11.50%) Lead
4 39 (9.75%) Senior
5 34 (8.50%) Technical Architect
6 31 (7.75%) Project Manager
7 28 (7.00%) Lead Architect
7 28 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (7.00%) Technical Leader
8 26 (6.50%) Analyst
9 24 (6.00%) Java Developer
10 18 (4.50%) Delivery Manager
11 16 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.00%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.00%) Test Engineer
14 11 (2.75%) DBA
14 11 (2.75%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 11 (2.75%) User Researcher
15 9 (2.25%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (13.50%) Node.js
2 32 (8.00%) REST
3 29 (7.25%) React
4 28 (7.00%) JSON
5 27 (6.75%) Spring
6 26 (6.50%) .NET
7 25 (6.25%) RESTful
7 25 (6.25%) XML
8 23 (5.75%) Kafka
8 23 (5.75%) Spring Boot
9 17 (4.25%) JPA
10 16 (4.00%) Hibernate
11 14 (3.50%) Web Services
12 13 (3.25%) .NET Framework
12 13 (3.25%) CSS
12 13 (3.25%) HTML
13 9 (2.25%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.00%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.00%) Spring Security
15 6 (1.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.25%) Public Cloud
2 35 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 7 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.50%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.25%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.25%) NHS
8 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.00%) Digital Signage
9 4 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.25%) Windows
2 39 (9.75%) Android
3 38 (9.50%) Apple iOS
4 34 (8.50%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.50%) Linux
6 7 (1.75%) Unix
7 3 (0.75%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.50%) DevOps
2 93 (23.25%) CI/CD
3 74 (18.50%) Scrum
4 69 (17.25%) Microservices
5 58 (14.50%) Design Patterns
6 56 (14.00%) Project Management
7 50 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (11.00%) Risk Management
9 42 (10.50%) Software Engineering
10 36 (9.00%) Project Delivery
10 36 (9.00%) Test Automation
11 35 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (8.75%) Waterfall
12 34 (8.50%) Roadmaps
13 33 (8.25%) Mentoring
14 32 (8.00%) Mobile Device Management
14 32 (8.00%) Security Architecture
15 31 (7.75%) Zero Trust
16 30 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 29 (7.25%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.25%) Java
2 43 (10.75%) SQL
3 33 (8.25%) C#
4 31 (7.75%) Python
5 25 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.50%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 7 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.25%) Bash
9 4 (1.00%) Scala
10 3 (0.75%) C
10 3 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.50%) Groovy
11 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.50%) PHP
11 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.25%) Bicep
12 1 (0.25%) C++
12 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 63 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.75%) Degree
4 8 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.50%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.25%) PMP
7 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.75%) OSCP
9 2 (0.50%) APMG
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CCSA
10 1 (0.25%) CCSE
10 1 (0.25%) CISSP
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.75%) QA
2 12 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.75%) PMO
4 8 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (2.00%) GDPR
4 8 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.00%) GRC
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.75%) NIST
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.50%) GxP
7 2 (0.50%) P3O
7 2 (0.50%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) GAMP
8 1 (0.25%) MISRA
8 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (3.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (6.50%) Terraform
2 21 (5.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.25%) Ansible
4 6 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.25%) Graphite
6 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) linkerd
6 1 (0.25%) Packer
6 1 (0.25%) Podman
6 1 (0.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.00%) Oracle
3 16 (4.00%) SAP
4 12 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.50%) Google
6 7 (1.75%) Avaloq
7 5 (1.25%) Apple
7 5 (1.25%) Informatica
7 5 (1.25%) Talend
8 4 (1.00%) Cadence
8 4 (1.00%) Logitech
8 4 (1.00%) Pega
8 4 (1.00%) Sage
9 3 (0.75%) Aareon
9 3 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco
9 3 (0.75%) Databricks
9 3 (0.75%) IBM
9 3 (0.75%) Nintex
9 3 (0.75%) VMware