Agile Contracts in South Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 4 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Agile 87 82 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.32% 17.94% 13.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.44% 20.05% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 58 57
10th Percentile £365 £379 £463
25th Percentile £417 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +33.33%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £625
90th Percentile £625 £645 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in South Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in South Yorkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in South Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in South Yorkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield 0 74 £488 -13.33% 58
Doncaster +8 1 £270 -16.92% 11
Barnsley +1 1 £400 -3.61% 1
Agile
Yorkshire

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 14 (16.09%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) Apache
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.94%) AWS
2 9 (10.34%) GCP
2 9 (10.34%) GitHub
3 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.75%) CloudBees
5 4 (4.60%) IaaS
6 3 (3.45%) Azure
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) DNS
1 5 (5.75%) Network Security
2 4 (4.60%) NAS
2 4 (4.60%) SAN
3 2 (2.30%) Firewall
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.15%) DHCP
4 1 (1.15%) HTTP
4 1 (1.15%) Internet
4 1 (1.15%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Power BI
2 5 (5.75%) Flink
3 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Tableau
4 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.30%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (28.74%) JIRA
2 14 (16.09%) Git
3 12 (13.79%) GitLab
4 11 (12.64%) Jenkins
5 6 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.90%) Visual Studio
6 5 (5.75%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (3.45%) Selenium
7 3 (3.45%) Vagrant
8 2 (2.30%) JMeter
8 2 (2.30%) Postman
9 1 (1.15%) JUnit
9 1 (1.15%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (1.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 34 (39.08%) Finance
2 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.64%) Banking
5 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.60%) Retail
6 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Back Office
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (19.54%) Senior
2 11 (12.64%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 10 (11.49%) Analyst
3 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Lead
5 8 (9.20%) Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Business Analyst
6 7 (8.05%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) JIRA Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Gherkin
1 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.75%) Node.js
3 4 (4.60%) Jest
3 4 (4.60%) Middleware
3 4 (4.60%) Spring
4 2 (2.30%) Kafka
4 2 (2.30%) REST
5 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.15%) CSS
5 1 (1.15%) CSS3
5 1 (1.15%) HTML
5 1 (1.15%) HTML5
5 1 (1.15%) JSON
5 1 (1.15%) RAML
5 1 (1.15%) React
5 1 (1.15%) RESTful
5 1 (1.15%) SOAP
5 1 (1.15%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) PMI
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.64%) Linux
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Android
4 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (24.14%) DevOps
2 21 (24.14%) Project Management
3 20 (22.99%) CI/CD
4 16 (18.39%) Microservices
4 16 (18.39%) Risk Management
5 15 (17.24%) Scrum
6 11 (12.64%) Migration
6 11 (12.64%) The Twelve-Factor App
7 10 (11.49%) Decision-Making
7 10 (11.49%) TDD
8 9 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (9.20%) Change Management
9 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (9.20%) Kanban
9 8 (9.20%) Software Delivery
9 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.20%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.05%) Data Protection
10 7 (8.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.33%) Python
2 17 (19.54%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.79%) Java
4 9 (10.34%) Shell Script
4 9 (10.34%) SQL
5 7 (8.05%) Groovy
5 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.90%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.45%) Ruby
8 2 (2.30%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.75%) Degree
3 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.30%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (1.15%) CBAP
5 1 (1.15%) CCNP
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.15%) CSPO
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.30%) PMO
3 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.60%) vSphere
3 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.45%) VirtualBox
4 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Ansible
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.05%) Terraform
3 6 (6.90%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.60%) Grafana
4 4 (4.60%) vRealize
5 3 (3.45%) Puppet
6 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.15%) SCCM
7 1 (1.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (9.20%) Google
2 5 (5.75%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.60%) VMware
4 3 (3.45%) Splunk
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco
5 2 (2.30%) Citrix
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle
5 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.15%) Dell
6 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.15%) Intel
6 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.15%) Veeam
6 1 (1.15%) Zscaler