Agile Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Agile Software Development
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 47 41 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.26% 16.87% 33.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.15% 19.71% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 23 98
10th Percentile £352 £381 £468
25th Percentile £381 £477 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -11.25% +20.00%
75th Percentile £566 £594 £700
90th Percentile £650 £600 £775
North East median daily rate £475 £533 £581
% change year-on-year -10.80% -8.39% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £52.81 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 45 £475 -10.80% 107
Gateshead - 1 £775 - 2
Agile
North East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) OpenEdge
3 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.13%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.91%) AWS
2 8 (17.02%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) IaaS
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.38%) Serverless
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.26%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.26%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.26%) MySQL
3 2 (4.26%) Redis
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) JIRA
2 5 (10.64%) Git
3 4 (8.51%) Cucumber
3 4 (8.51%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.38%) JUnit
4 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.13%) ERwin
6 1 (2.13%) git-flow
6 1 (2.13%) GitLab
6 1 (2.13%) LabVIEW
6 1 (2.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.13%) Selenium
6 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (36.17%) Public Sector
2 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.38%) French Language
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Finance
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Developer
2 6 (12.77%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Designer
4 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.51%) QA Tester
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Tester
5 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) JIRA Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) Scala Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Agile Requirements Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Stakeholder Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) User Requirements Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) RESTful
2 3 (6.38%) .NET
2 3 (6.38%) Akka
2 3 (6.38%) CSS
2 3 (6.38%) HTML
3 2 (4.26%) Micronaut
3 2 (4.26%) Play Framework
3 2 (4.26%) REST
3 2 (4.26%) WireMock
4 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.13%) boto
4 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.13%) React
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) FPGA
4 1 (2.13%) PMI
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
2 9 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 7 (14.89%) Data Protection
4 7 (14.89%) Scrum
4 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.77%) BDD
5 6 (12.77%) Microservices
5 6 (12.77%) Migration
5 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
6 5 (10.64%) API Integration
6 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
6 5 (10.64%) DevOps
6 5 (10.64%) Incident Management
6 5 (10.64%) User Research
6 5 (10.64%) User Stories
7 4 (8.51%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.51%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) Java
2 5 (10.64%) Python
2 5 (10.64%) SQL
3 4 (8.51%) Groovy
4 3 (6.38%) C#
4 3 (6.38%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) C
5 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.26%) CSPO
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) PMO
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Kibana
2 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
3 2 (4.26%) Grafana
3 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.38%) New Relic
4 2 (4.26%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.13%) IBM
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle