Agile Contracts in Northampton

Agile Software Development
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 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 1 1 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 37 27 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 30.08% 21.26% 20.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 32.17% 22.50% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 24
10th Percentile £268 £275 -
25th Percentile £356 £355 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £380 £338
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +12.59% -24.79%
75th Percentile £447 £445 £500
90th Percentile £463 £484 £535
Northamptonshire median daily rate £367 £388 £350
% change year-on-year -5.29% +10.71% -24.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 120 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.50% 94.49% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 89
10th Percentile £262 £325 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +22.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £500
90th Percentile £529 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Northampton

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Northampton

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Northampton

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 7 (18.92%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.70%) Actimize
2 1 (2.70%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
2 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (13.51%) Serverless
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (8.11%) GCP
3 3 (8.11%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (5.41%) Azure
5 1 (2.70%) Asana
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (2.70%) Google App Engine
5 1 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.70%) npm
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) Looker
4 1 (2.70%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.92%) JIRA
3 6 (16.22%) Selenium
4 4 (10.81%) Cucumber
4 4 (10.81%) JUnit
4 4 (10.81%) Maven
5 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.41%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (5.41%) GitLab
6 2 (5.41%) Gradle
6 2 (5.41%) HP UFT
6 2 (5.41%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.41%) Introscope
6 2 (5.41%) LoadRunner
6 2 (5.41%) Mockito
6 2 (5.41%) NetBeans
6 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (5.41%) Subversion
7 1 (2.70%) Eclipse
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Architect
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Digital Product Owner
4 3 (8.11%) Product Owner
4 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Junior
5 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (2.70%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) HTML
2 7 (18.92%) CSS
2 7 (18.92%) Kafka
2 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.22%) Hibernate
4 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
4 5 (13.51%) jQuery
4 5 (13.51%) Node.js
4 5 (13.51%) RESTful
4 5 (13.51%) Spring
5 4 (10.81%) J2EE
5 4 (10.81%) Web Services
6 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (8.11%) Ajax
6 3 (8.11%) HTML5
7 2 (5.41%) Bootstrap
7 2 (5.41%) React
7 2 (5.41%) Redux
7 2 (5.41%) REST
7 2 (5.41%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.70%) APACS
4 1 (2.70%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) AIX
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
2 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (27.03%) Scrum
4 9 (24.32%) Microservices
5 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.22%) Business Analysis
6 6 (16.22%) Business Strategy
6 6 (16.22%) User Experience
7 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (13.51%) Project Management
8 4 (10.81%) Analytics
8 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
8 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.81%) Data Modelling
8 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
8 4 (10.81%) DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) Risk Management
8 4 (10.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Java
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.81%) Python
4 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.41%) C
5 2 (5.41%) Scala
6 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.70%) C++
6 1 (2.70%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.41%) PMP
4 1 (2.70%) CBAP
4 1 (2.70%) IIBA
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GRC
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.70%) Basel III
3 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) MiFID
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) CA Wily
2 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.41%) Puppet
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Google
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (5.41%) HP
2 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) Splunk
2 2 (5.41%) Veracode
2 2 (5.41%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Perforce