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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 148 71 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 26.24% 14.58% 16.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.72% 16.71% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 48 61
10th Percentile £358 £377 £463
25th Percentile £388 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £516 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% -13.96% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £651
90th Percentile £610 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £513 £560
% change year-on-year -4.88% -8.48% +12.00%

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 534 425 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.68% 87.27% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 234 284
10th Percentile £295 £357 £328
25th Percentile £380 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £503 £564
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% -10.82% +12.75%
75th Percentile £545 £580 £675
90th Percentile £625 £638 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 4
10th Percentile £15.00 - £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -34.21% +16.42%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.13 £20.69
90th Percentile - £21.85 £21.93
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.81%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +6 141 £463 -10.96% 52
Barnsley -8 2 £295 -24.36% 4
Doncaster +9 1 £270 -16.92% 4
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 24 (16.22%) Confluence
2 6 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (1.35%) CICS
4 2 (1.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Maple
4 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.22%) GCP
2 22 (14.86%) AWS
3 20 (13.51%) Azure
4 13 (8.78%) GitHub
5 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.05%) Azure AKS
6 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.05%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.38%) CloudBees
8 4 (2.70%) IaaS
9 3 (2.03%) Serverless
10 2 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.35%) dbt
10 2 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.35%) npm
10 2 (1.35%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.68%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.14%) Firewall
2 10 (6.76%) DNS
2 10 (6.76%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.73%) NAS
3 7 (4.73%) SAN
4 4 (2.70%) Network Security
5 2 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (1.35%) HTTP
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.41%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.05%) Power BI
3 5 (3.38%) BigQuery
3 5 (3.38%) Flink
3 5 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.38%) Tableau
4 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.35%) Looker
6 2 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.68%) Metadata
7 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (27.03%) Git
1 40 (27.03%) JIRA
2 35 (23.65%) Jenkins
3 19 (12.84%) Postman
4 15 (10.14%) GitLab
5 8 (5.41%) SoapUI
6 6 (4.05%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.05%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.70%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (2.03%) Liquibase
8 3 (2.03%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.35%) Babel
9 2 (1.35%) ChangeMan
9 2 (1.35%) CocoaPods
9 2 (1.35%) webpack
9 2 (1.35%) Xcode
10 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 69 (46.62%) Finance
2 51 (34.46%) Social Skills
3 34 (22.97%) Banking
4 30 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.70%) Retail
7 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
9 1 (0.68%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (17.57%) Analyst
2 24 (16.22%) Senior
3 18 (12.16%) Developer
4 17 (11.49%) Project Manager
5 16 (10.81%) Business Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) Lead
7 11 (7.43%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 10 (6.76%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Test Analyst
11 6 (4.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 6 (4.05%) Technical Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Windows Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (2.70%) Infrastructure Manager
13 4 (2.70%) Lead Business Analyst
13 4 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
13 4 (2.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.41%) Middleware
2 7 (4.73%) CSS
2 7 (4.73%) HTML
2 7 (4.73%) REST
2 7 (4.73%) RESTful
3 6 (4.05%) .NET
3 6 (4.05%) Gherkin
4 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (3.38%) jQuery
5 4 (2.70%) Hugging Face
5 4 (2.70%) JSON
5 4 (2.70%) OpenCV
5 4 (2.70%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.70%) Regular Expression
5 4 (2.70%) SpaCy
5 4 (2.70%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.70%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.03%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.03%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.73%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.73%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.05%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Equities
5 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.35%) Derivative
6 2 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.35%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.35%) IVR
6 2 (1.35%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.22%) Linux
2 17 (11.49%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.70%) Unix
5 3 (2.03%) AIX
5 3 (2.03%) Solaris
5 3 (2.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 3 (2.03%) VMS
6 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.68%) Android
7 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.51%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (33.78%) DevOps
3 32 (21.62%) CI/CD
4 31 (20.95%) Scrum
5 25 (16.89%) Project Management
6 22 (14.86%) Migration
7 21 (14.19%) Kanban
8 17 (11.49%) Decision-Making
9 16 (10.81%) Microservices
9 16 (10.81%) Risk Management
10 15 (10.14%) Data Management
10 15 (10.14%) Data Protection
11 14 (9.46%) Waterfall
12 13 (8.78%) Business Analysis
12 13 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (8.11%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (7.43%) Configuration Management
14 11 (7.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.51%) Python
2 19 (12.84%) JavaScript
3 16 (10.81%) Shell Script
4 15 (10.14%) SQL
5 14 (9.46%) Java
6 12 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.76%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.73%) Groovy
9 6 (4.05%) C#
10 5 (3.38%) Objective-C
10 5 (3.38%) Swift
11 3 (2.03%) Go
11 3 (2.03%) Ruby
12 2 (1.35%) COBOL
13 1 (0.68%) Bash
13 1 (0.68%) Bicep
13 1 (0.68%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (8.11%) Degree
2 8 (5.41%) CISM
2 8 (5.41%) CISSP
2 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (5.41%) ISTQB
3 7 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.70%) RIBA
5 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.03%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.35%) Tableau Certification
6 2 (1.35%) VCAP
6 2 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.68%) CBAP
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.05%) GDPR
2 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.05%) NIST
2 6 (4.05%) QA
3 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.35%) PMO
3 2 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.68%) SEPA
4 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.08%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (6.08%) VMware NSX
2 9 (6.08%) vSphere
3 8 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.38%) Docker
4 5 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.03%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.03%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.68%) XenApp
7 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (22.30%) Ansible
2 14 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.78%) Puppet
4 12 (8.11%) vCenter Server
5 11 (7.43%) Terraform
6 7 (4.73%) SCCM
6 7 (4.73%) vRealize
7 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (3.38%) Grafana
8 5 (3.38%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.03%) Data Guard
9 3 (2.03%) yum
10 2 (1.35%) CA Endevor
10 2 (1.35%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.68%) SCOM
11 1 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 38 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.19%) Google
3 19 (12.84%) VMware
4 11 (7.43%) MuleSoft
5 8 (5.41%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (5.41%) CyberArk
5 8 (5.41%) Thycotic
6 6 (4.05%) Splunk
7 5 (3.38%) F5
8 4 (2.70%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.70%) Citrix
8 4 (2.70%) GoldenSource
8 4 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.03%) Databricks
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle
10 2 (1.35%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.35%) Genesys
10 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.68%) HP