Agile Contract Job Trends in Stockport

Agile Software Development
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport 22.22% 15.79% 16.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.22% 17.65% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £316 -
25th Percentile £713 £330 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £356 £550
Median % change year-on-year +103.51% -35.23% +57.14%
75th Percentile £738 £380 £575
90th Percentile - £392 -
Manchester median daily rate £495 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9 17 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport 100.00% 89.47% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £181 £372 £313
25th Percentile £250 - £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £406
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £453 £467
90th Percentile £693 £500 £532
Manchester median daily rate £476 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.18
25th Percentile - - £15.48
Median hourly rate - - £17.66
75th Percentile - - £19.83
90th Percentile - - £21.13
Manchester median hourly rate £56.25 £35.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% +29.63% +35.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Stockport

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Stockport

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Agile

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Hourly Rate Trend in Stockport

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Agile

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Business Change
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes