Agile Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Agile Software Development
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 43 93 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.11% 33.21% 29.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.05% 36.47% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 78 89
10th Percentile £378 £468 £423
25th Percentile £503 £503 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +17.07% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £600
90th Percentile £623 £775 £638
North East median daily rate £554 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +15.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 195 255 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 86.67% 91.07% 91.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 196 265
10th Percentile £315 £313 £200
25th Percentile £377 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £639 £741 £697
North East median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 0 11
10th Percentile £11.50 - £10.50
25th Percentile £12.13 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.87%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £17.38
90th Percentile £50.00 - £18.75
North East median hourly rate £17.50 £46.18 £16.50
% change year-on-year -62.10% +179.88% +24.53%

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 27 May 2024.

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 27 May 2024. 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 42 £533 -11.25% 46
Sunderland - 1 £725 - 9
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 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) Serverless
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (9.30%) BrowserStack
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (9.30%) GitHub
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Stack
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Miro
7 1 (2.33%) PaaS
7 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.30%) MySQL
1 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
1 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) JUnit
4 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 14 (32.56%) Public Sector
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Marketing
6 2 (4.65%) Finance
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Military
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Analyst
2 8 (18.60%) Portfolio Manager
3 6 (13.95%) Governance Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Governance Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Portfolio Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Business Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Content Designer
6 3 (6.98%) Designer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.65%) PMO Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) RESTful
2 4 (9.30%) Next.js
2 4 (9.30%) React
2 4 (9.30%) REST
3 3 (6.98%) JSON
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) XML
5 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.33%) Jest
5 1 (2.33%) Middleware
5 1 (2.33%) Node.js
5 1 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.33%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
1 4 (9.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
1 9 (20.93%) DevOps
1 9 (20.93%) Project Management
1 9 (20.93%) Scrum
1 9 (20.93%) Waterfall
2 8 (18.60%) Quality Management
3 7 (16.28%) Microservices
3 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.63%) Migration
5 5 (11.63%) Portfolio Management
6 4 (9.30%) BDD
6 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (9.30%) Product Backlog
6 4 (9.30%) SDLC
6 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
6 4 (9.30%) TDD
6 4 (9.30%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) Java
2 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.30%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.98%) PMO
3 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) WCAG
4 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Grafana
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) PagerDuty
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft