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 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 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 41 35 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 28.08% 17.86% 17.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.60% 20.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 30 40
10th Percentile £269 £267 £231
25th Percentile £356 £355 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £388 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% +10.71% -24.32%
75th Percentile £440 £445 £500
90th Percentile £461 £488 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £448 £450
% change year-on-year -0.11% -0.56% -4.86%

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 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

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 May 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 May 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 0 37 £363 -4.61% 96
Daventry +2 3 £425 +9.68%
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 7 (17.07%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.44%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.44%) Actimize
2 1 (2.44%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (12.20%) Amazon S3
2 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (12.20%) Serverless
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (7.32%) GCP
3 3 (7.32%) SaaS
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (4.88%) Azure
5 1 (2.44%) Asana
5 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) Google App Engine
5 1 (2.44%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.44%) npm
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) ATM
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) LAN
2 1 (2.44%) WAN
2 1 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Looker
4 1 (2.44%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.07%) JIRA
3 6 (14.63%) Selenium
4 4 (9.76%) Cucumber
4 4 (9.76%) JUnit
4 4 (9.76%) Maven
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (7.32%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.88%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (4.88%) GitLab
6 2 (4.88%) Gradle
6 2 (4.88%) HP UFT
6 2 (4.88%) IntelliJ
6 2 (4.88%) Introscope
6 2 (4.88%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.88%) Mockito
6 2 (4.88%) NetBeans
6 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.88%) Subversion
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Banking
4 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Legal
5 2 (4.88%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Automotive
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.76%) SQL Developer
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Solution Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (7.32%) PL/SQL Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Product Owner
5 3 (7.32%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Junior
6 2 (4.88%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) HTML
2 7 (17.07%) CSS
2 7 (17.07%) Kafka
2 7 (17.07%) Spring Boot
3 6 (14.63%) Hibernate
4 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.20%) jQuery
4 5 (12.20%) Node.js
4 5 (12.20%) RESTful
4 5 (12.20%) Spring
5 4 (9.76%) J2EE
5 4 (9.76%) Web Services
6 3 (7.32%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (7.32%) Ajax
6 3 (7.32%) HTML5
7 2 (4.88%) JPA
7 2 (4.88%) React
7 2 (4.88%) REST
7 2 (4.88%) RxJS
7 2 (4.88%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.88%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) APACS
4 1 (2.44%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.44%) PMI
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) AIX
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
1 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (24.39%) Scrum
4 9 (21.95%) Microservices
5 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
5 7 (17.07%) Waterfall
6 6 (14.63%) Business Analysis
6 6 (14.63%) Business Strategy
6 6 (14.63%) Project Management
6 6 (14.63%) User Experience
7 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
7 5 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (9.76%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.76%) Data Modelling
8 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (9.76%) DevOps
8 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
8 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Java
2 12 (29.27%) SQL
3 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) Python
4 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.32%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.88%) C
6 2 (4.88%) Scala
7 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.44%) C++
7 1 (2.44%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) PMP
4 1 (2.44%) CBAP
4 1 (2.44%) IIBA
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.44%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.44%) Basel III
3 1 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) MiFID
3 1 (2.44%) PMO
3 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) CA Wily
2 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.88%) Puppet
3 1 (2.44%) SCOM
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) VMware
3 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (4.88%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.88%) HP
3 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.88%) Splunk
3 2 (4.88%) Veracode
4 1 (2.44%) Perforce