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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 44 30 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 28.21% 20.55% 14.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.14% 21.74% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 18
10th Percentile £260 £285 £231
25th Percentile £312 £355 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £387 £338
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +14.67% -24.16%
75th Percentile £421 £450 £488
90th Percentile £459 £560 £560
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £393 £350
% change year-on-year -8.79% +12.14% -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 146 138 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.59% 94.52% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 109 89
10th Percentile £260 £355 £163
25th Percentile £324 £358 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +15.00% -13.51%
75th Percentile £473 £588 £500
90th Percentile £525 £620 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £396 £435 £400
% change year-on-year -9.08% +8.75% -12.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £15.28 - -
25th Percentile £17.57 - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +79.32%

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 16 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 (15.91%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.27%) JBoss
3 1 (2.27%) SAS
3 1 (2.27%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.27%) Actimize
2 1 (2.27%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
2 5 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (11.36%) Serverless
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (6.82%) GCP
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (4.55%) Azure
5 1 (2.27%) Asana
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (2.27%) Google App Engine
5 1 (2.27%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.27%) npm
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (2.27%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) DB2
4 1 (2.27%) Looker
4 1 (2.27%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) Selenium
3 8 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 7 (15.91%) JIRA
5 6 (13.64%) JUnit
6 5 (11.36%) SonarQube
7 4 (9.09%) Maven
7 4 (9.09%) Mockito
8 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket
9 2 (4.55%) Git
9 2 (4.55%) GitLab
9 2 (4.55%) Gradle
9 2 (4.55%) HP UFT
9 2 (4.55%) IntelliJ
9 2 (4.55%) Introscope
9 2 (4.55%) LoadRunner
9 2 (4.55%) NetBeans
9 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (4.55%) Subversion
9 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (36.36%) Finance
2 11 (25.00%) Banking
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Developer
2 8 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Automation Tester
4 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Tester
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Architect
5 3 (6.82%) AWS Solution Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (6.82%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.82%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Java Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Junior
6 2 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) HTML
2 9 (20.45%) Hibernate
2 9 (20.45%) jQuery
3 8 (18.18%) Kafka
3 8 (18.18%) Spring
4 7 (15.91%) CSS
4 7 (15.91%) Spring Boot
5 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
5 5 (11.36%) DOM
5 5 (11.36%) J2EE
5 5 (11.36%) Node.js
5 5 (11.36%) RESTful
5 5 (11.36%) Web Services
6 4 (9.09%) REST
7 3 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (6.82%) Ajax
7 3 (6.82%) HTML5
8 2 (4.55%) JSON
8 2 (4.55%) Spring MVC
8 2 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) APACS
4 1 (2.27%) PMI
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (4.55%) AIX
2 2 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.82%) Scrum
3 13 (29.55%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 10 (22.73%) Microservices
5 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.91%) Business Strategy
7 6 (13.64%) Business Analysis
7 6 (13.64%) User Experience
8 5 (11.36%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (11.36%) DevOps
8 5 (11.36%) SDLC
9 4 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (9.09%) Analytics
9 4 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 4 (9.09%) Budget Control
9 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 4 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) Java
2 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) Python
4 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) C
5 2 (4.55%) Scala
6 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.27%) C++
6 1 (2.27%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.55%) PMP
3 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) CBAP
4 1 (2.27%) IIBA
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.27%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) GRC
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.27%) Basel III
3 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) MiFID
3 1 (2.27%) PMO
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) CA Wily
2 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.55%) Puppet
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.55%) HP
4 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
4 2 (4.55%) Veracode
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) Perforce
5 1 (2.27%) Solace
5 1 (2.27%) Teradata