Agile Contracts in Preston

Agile Software Development
Lancashire > Preston

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 13 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 4 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 7.27% 14.10% 22.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 14.29% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 15
10th Percentile - £378 £409
25th Percentile £593 £401 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +33.29% +3.20% +5.33%
75th Percentile £743 £850 £594
90th Percentile £747 - £624
Lancashire median daily rate £593 £494 £486
% change year-on-year +20.08% +1.65% +21.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £46.23 £32.09
25th Percentile - £48.83 £38.68
Median hourly rate - £56.38 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year - +36.33% +87.98%
75th Percentile - £56.40 £44.52
90th Percentile - £61.55 £45.70
Lancashire median hourly rate £45.88 £56.38 £41.36
% change year-on-year -18.62% +36.33% +87.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Preston with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50 77 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 90.91% 98.72% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 44
10th Percentile £356 £300 £175
25th Percentile £459 £363 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £438 £436
Median % change year-on-year +30.62% +0.43% -5.30%
75th Percentile £743 £534 £491
90th Percentile £981 £783 £582
Lancashire median daily rate £538 £533 £487
% change year-on-year +0.94% +9.46% +21.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 39 37
10th Percentile £12.20 £23.60 £14.36
25th Percentile - £29.00 £18.62
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -62.21% +6.99% +80.57%
75th Percentile £19.05 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £46.18 £54.03 £49.72
Lancashire median hourly rate £17.62 £42.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -58.54% +7.59% -3.66%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Preston

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Preston

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Preston over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Preston

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Preston

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cadence