Agile Contracts in Sheffield

Agile Software Development
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 5 5 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 74 64 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 23.20% 16.89% 16.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.26% 18.23% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 44 56
10th Percentile £363 £382 £463
25th Percentile £400 £444 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £553 £617 £628
90th Percentile £635 £649 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Sheffield

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Sheffield

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Sheffield

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Sheffield

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 13 (17.57%) Confluence
2 4 (5.41%) Apache
2 4 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.16%) GCP
1 9 (12.16%) GitHub
2 7 (9.46%) AWS
3 5 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (6.76%) CloudBees
3 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.41%) IaaS
5 3 (4.05%) Azure
5 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.70%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) DNS
1 5 (6.76%) Network Security
2 4 (5.41%) NAS
2 4 (5.41%) SAN
3 2 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.35%) DHCP
4 1 (1.35%) HTTP
4 1 (1.35%) Internet
4 1 (1.35%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) Flink
1 5 (6.76%) Power BI
2 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.70%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.70%) Tableau
4 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.35%) MySQL
4 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) JIRA
2 14 (18.92%) Git
3 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.11%) Cucumber
4 6 (8.11%) GitLab
4 6 (8.11%) Visual Studio
5 5 (6.76%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (4.05%) Vagrant
7 2 (2.70%) JMeter
7 2 (2.70%) Postman
7 2 (2.70%) Selenium
8 1 (1.35%) JUnit
8 1 (1.35%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 33 (44.59%) Finance
2 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 19 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.86%) Banking
5 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.41%) Retail
6 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Back Office
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Senior
2 11 (14.86%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 7 (9.46%) Analyst
3 7 (9.46%) Project Manager
4 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Lead
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) JIRA Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (2.70%) Microsoft 365 Manager
8 2 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) Gherkin
2 4 (5.41%) Middleware
3 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.70%) Kafka
4 2 (2.70%) Node.js
4 2 (2.70%) REST
5 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.35%) CSS
5 1 (1.35%) CSS3
5 1 (1.35%) HTML
5 1 (1.35%) HTML5
5 1 (1.35%) RAML
5 1 (1.35%) React
5 1 (1.35%) RESTful
5 1 (1.35%) SOAP
5 1 (1.35%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.35%) Vue
5 1 (1.35%) Web Services
5 1 (1.35%) XML
5 1 (1.35%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Replication
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Linux
1 5 (6.76%) Windows
2 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.35%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.68%) Project Management
3 15 (20.27%) DevOps
3 15 (20.27%) Risk Management
4 14 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 12 (16.22%) Scrum
6 10 (13.51%) Migration
7 9 (12.16%) Decision-Making
8 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (10.81%) Software Delivery
8 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (9.46%) Change Management
9 7 (9.46%) Data Protection
9 7 (9.46%) Kanban
9 7 (9.46%) Microservices
9 7 (9.46%) SDLC
9 7 (9.46%) TDD
9 7 (9.46%) Test Automation
10 6 (8.11%) Data Modelling
10 6 (8.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) Python
2 9 (12.16%) Shell Script
3 8 (10.81%) Java
3 8 (10.81%) JavaScript
3 8 (10.81%) SQL
4 7 (9.46%) Groovy
4 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.11%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.05%) Ruby
7 2 (2.70%) Go
8 1 (1.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.41%) Degree
3 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.35%) CCNP
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.41%) PCI DSS
1 4 (5.41%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) PMO
2 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.41%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.41%) vSphere
3 3 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.05%) VirtualBox
4 2 (2.70%) Docker
4 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Ansible
2 6 (8.11%) vCenter Server
3 4 (5.41%) Grafana
3 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.41%) vRealize
4 3 (4.05%) Puppet
5 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) SCCM
6 1 (1.35%) Terraform
6 1 (1.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Google
2 5 (6.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.41%) VMware
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.05%) Splunk
5 2 (2.70%) Cisco
5 2 (2.70%) Citrix
5 2 (2.70%) Oracle
5 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.35%) Dell
6 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.35%) Intel
6 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.35%) Veeam
6 1 (1.35%) Zscaler