Agile Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Agile Software Development
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing Agile 91 64 24
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 29.84% 23.36% 12.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.95% 26.67% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 53 21
10th Percentile £267 £305 £446
25th Percentile £331 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £400 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -18.37% -2.00%
75th Percentile £423 £440 £565
90th Percentile £482 £513 -
East Midlands median daily rate £392 £401 £490
% change year-on-year -2.43% -18.03% -2.10%

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 294 240 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 96.39% 87.59% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 180 137
10th Percentile £283 £324 £213
25th Percentile £350 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -15.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £450 £520 £565
90th Percentile £537 £600 £628
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £445 £500
% change year-on-year -6.74% -11.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile - - £12.10
25th Percentile - £23.10 £15.82
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -43.74% +32.35%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.75
% change year-on-year -12.60% -5.10% +30.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Agile job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Northamptonshire

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Agile

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 4 October 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 89 £360 -8.05% 11
Towcester - 1 £700 -
Agile
East Midlands

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) JBoss
2 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.19%) AWS
2 11 (12.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 8 (8.79%) Azure
3 8 (8.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) GCP
4 4 (4.40%) SaaS
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.30%) Serverless
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.10%) dbt
6 1 (1.10%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.10%) DB2
3 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Cucumber
1 12 (13.19%) Selenium
2 10 (10.99%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.99%) JIRA
3 6 (6.59%) JUnit
3 6 (6.59%) Mockito
3 6 (6.59%) SonarQube
4 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.40%) GitLab
5 4 (4.40%) Maven
5 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.20%) Git
6 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.10%) JMeter
7 1 (1.10%) Postman
General
1 36 (39.56%) Finance
2 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
3 27 (29.67%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (27.47%) Banking
5 11 (12.09%) Marketing
6 7 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.20%) Automotive
9 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.20%) Legal
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) Analyst
2 21 (23.08%) Business Analyst
3 13 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 10 (10.99%) Architect
5 9 (9.89%) Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Automation Tester
7 7 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
7 7 (7.69%) Tester
8 5 (5.49%) Salesforce Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Salesforce Business Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.40%) ETL Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Lead
9 4 (4.40%) Payments Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Payments Business Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Product Manager
9 4 (4.40%) Scrum Master
10 3 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) REST
2 11 (12.09%) SOAP
3 10 (10.99%) HTML
3 10 (10.99%) Middleware
4 9 (9.89%) Hibernate
5 8 (8.79%) Lightning Web Components
5 8 (8.79%) Visualforce
6 7 (7.69%) jQuery
7 6 (6.59%) DOM
7 6 (6.59%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.49%) Spring
9 4 (4.40%) CSS
9 4 (4.40%) Jest
9 4 (4.40%) JPA
9 4 (4.40%) Kafka
9 4 (4.40%) LDAP
9 4 (4.40%) Node.js
9 4 (4.40%) React
9 4 (4.40%) Redux
9 4 (4.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.27%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.79%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.59%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.40%) SCADA
6 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.20%) Robotics
8 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Unix
2 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.76%) Scrum
2 35 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (21.98%) Decision-Making
5 18 (19.78%) Business Analysis
5 18 (19.78%) Project Management
5 18 (19.78%) Roadmaps
5 18 (19.78%) SDLC
6 16 (17.58%) Waterfall
7 14 (15.38%) Microservices
7 14 (15.38%) User Stories
8 13 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 13 (14.29%) Backlog Management
8 13 (14.29%) Business Strategy
9 12 (13.19%) CI/CD
9 12 (13.19%) Risk Management
9 12 (13.19%) Sprint Retrospective
9 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.09%) Kanban
10 11 (12.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.98%) Java
2 16 (17.58%) SQL
3 8 (8.79%) Apex Code
4 4 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) PMI Certification
2 6 (6.59%) PMP
3 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.49%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) GDPR
2 8 (8.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 8 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.79%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.30%) NIST
3 3 (3.30%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.10%) GRC
5 1 (1.10%) NEBOSH
5 1 (1.10%) PMO
5 1 (1.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.48%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) Veracode
4 2 (2.20%) DocuSign
4 2 (2.20%) SAP
5 1 (1.10%) Databricks
5 1 (1.10%) Solace
5 1 (1.10%) Teradata
5 1 (1.10%) Workday