Agile Contracts in Northamptonshire

Agile Software Development
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 75 54 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 28.20% 19.08% 12.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.76% 21.77% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 45 28
10th Percentile £260 £325 £280
25th Percentile £314 £356 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £398 £350
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +13.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £402 £445 £500
90th Percentile £447 £560 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -8.00% -5.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 248 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 94.74% 87.63% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 182 160
10th Percentile £263 £314 £212
25th Percentile £337 £360 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +11.25% -13.98%
75th Percentile £447 £561 £538
90th Percentile £525 £619 £595
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 15
10th Percentile £17.57 £10.90 £23.15
25th Percentile - £11.68 £33.40
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +54.55%
75th Percentile - £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £48.25 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year +11.00% -35.80% +23.16%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Northamptonshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Northamptonshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Northamptonshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Northamptonshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Northampton +1 72 £358 -8.56% 90
Daventry +3 2 £425 +4.62% 1
Agile
East Midlands

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.33%) SAS
3 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.33%) Actimize
2 1 (1.33%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) AWS
2 8 (10.67%) Azure
3 6 (8.00%) GCP
3 6 (8.00%) SaaS
4 5 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.67%) Serverless
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.33%) Asana
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.33%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.33%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.33%) npm
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) ATM
1 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.33%) DB2
5 1 (1.33%) Looker
5 1 (1.33%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (18.67%) Selenium
3 12 (16.00%) Cucumber
4 9 (12.00%) JIRA
5 8 (10.67%) JUnit
6 7 (9.33%) SonarQube
7 6 (8.00%) Maven
7 6 (8.00%) Mockito
8 5 (6.67%) Bitbucket
9 4 (5.33%) GitLab
9 4 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (4.00%) Git
11 2 (2.67%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (2.67%) Gradle
11 2 (2.67%) HP UFT
11 2 (2.67%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.67%) NetBeans
11 2 (2.67%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (2.67%) Subversion
11 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (34.67%) Finance
2 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (29.33%) Banking
4 19 (25.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 2 (2.67%) Marketing
8 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Developer
2 12 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Product Owner
5 8 (10.67%) Business Analyst
6 7 (9.33%) Architect
6 7 (9.33%) Automation Tester
6 7 (9.33%) Tester
7 6 (8.00%) Digital Product Owner
8 5 (6.67%) Scrum Master
8 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.33%) SQL Developer
10 3 (4.00%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.00%) AWS Solution Architect
10 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Junior
10 3 (4.00%) Lead
10 3 (4.00%) Programme Manager
11 2 (2.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) HTML
2 13 (17.33%) Hibernate
3 11 (14.67%) jQuery
3 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
4 10 (13.33%) Spring
5 9 (12.00%) CSS
6 8 (10.67%) Kafka
6 8 (10.67%) REST
7 7 (9.33%) DOM
7 7 (9.33%) Node.js
7 7 (9.33%) RESTful
8 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.67%) J2EE
8 5 (6.67%) Web Services
9 4 (5.33%) Jest
9 4 (5.33%) JPA
9 4 (5.33%) LDAP
9 4 (5.33%) React
9 4 (5.33%) Redux
9 4 (5.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.67%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.33%) APACS
4 1 (1.33%) PMI
4 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.67%) Linux
3 1 (1.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.67%) Scrum
2 28 (37.33%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (21.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 15 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (17.33%) SDLC
6 12 (16.00%) Business Analysis
6 12 (16.00%) Microservices
6 12 (16.00%) Project Management
7 11 (14.67%) Business Strategy
7 11 (14.67%) DevOps
8 10 (13.33%) Backlog Management
9 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.00%) User Experience
10 8 (10.67%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (10.67%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (9.33%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (9.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 7 (9.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 28 (37.33%) Java
2 19 (25.33%) SQL
3 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.33%) Python
4 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.67%) Scala
6 1 (1.33%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.33%) C
6 1 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) C++
6 1 (1.33%) COBOL
6 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.67%) PMP
5 1 (1.33%) CBAP
5 1 (1.33%) IIBA
5 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.33%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.00%) NIST
2 3 (4.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.67%) GRC
4 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) Basel III
4 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) MiFID
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
4 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.67%) Puppet
3 1 (1.33%) CA Wily
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Oracle
3 4 (5.33%) Veracode
4 2 (2.67%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.67%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) HP
4 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.33%) Perforce
5 1 (1.33%) Solace
5 1 (1.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.33%) Teradata
5 1 (1.33%) VMware