Agile Contracts in West Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 141 163 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.86% 16.79% 22.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.66% 19.76% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 107 254
10th Percentile £313 £374 £425
25th Percentile £421 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -6.00% +7.58%
75th Percentile £564 £585 £638
90th Percentile £650 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £53.85
25th Percentile £84.83 - £56.63
Median hourly rate £91.69 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.99% +12.00% +113.68%
75th Percentile £98.56 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +30.99% +12.00% +101.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 825 1,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.40% 84.96% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 510 904
10th Percentile £301 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 20
10th Percentile - £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -34.05% +1.60%
75th Percentile £34.15 £15.24 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £53.75 £56.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.03 £13.16
% change year-on-year +69.92% -0.99% -29.63%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in West Yorkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Leeds +1 118 £500 -4.76% 223
Bradford -4 9 £325 -32.29% 25
Halifax -2 6 £513 -2.38% 1
Huddersfield - 2 £525 - 2
Agile
Yorkshire

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 18 (12.77%) Confluence
2 14 (9.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.71%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP MRS
2 1 (0.71%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.02%) AWS
2 20 (14.18%) Azure
3 9 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.67%) GCP
5 6 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.26%) Serverless
6 5 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.55%) GitHub
6 5 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.55%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.84%) IaaS
7 4 (2.84%) Smartsheet
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.13%) Asana
8 3 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.13%) Lucidchart
8 3 (2.13%) SaaS
9 2 (1.42%) Figma
9 2 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.64%) DNS
2 4 (2.84%) Firewall
3 2 (1.42%) SSL
3 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.71%) HTTP
4 1 (0.71%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) Oracle Database
2 8 (5.67%) Power BI
3 6 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.55%) Tableau
5 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.42%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.71%) GIS
8 1 (0.71%) Parquet
8 1 (0.71%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (18.44%) JIRA
2 14 (9.93%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.51%) Selenium
4 8 (5.67%) Cypress.io
4 8 (5.67%) GitLab
4 8 (5.67%) Postman
5 7 (4.96%) Git
6 6 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.26%) JMeter
6 6 (4.26%) REST Assured
6 6 (4.26%) TestNG
7 5 (3.55%) Maven
8 4 (2.84%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (2.13%) JUnit
10 2 (1.42%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.71%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.71%) Log4j
11 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.71%) TestRail
11 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (46.10%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (16.31%) Finance
4 19 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.84%) Banking
6 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.84%) Local Government
7 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.42%) Legal
8 2 (1.42%) Marketing
8 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (14.89%) Developer
2 19 (13.48%) Analyst
3 16 (11.35%) Senior
4 14 (9.93%) Architect
4 14 (9.93%) Business Analyst
5 11 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (7.80%) Test Engineer
6 9 (6.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 9 (6.38%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.67%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (5.67%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Designer
8 7 (4.96%) Engineering Specialist
8 7 (4.96%) Lead
9 5 (3.55%) Network Engineer
9 5 (3.55%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.55%) Technical Architect
10 4 (2.84%) IT Manager
10 4 (2.84%) IT Project Manager
10 4 (2.84%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.38%) Playwright
2 7 (4.96%) .NET
3 6 (4.26%) React
3 6 (4.26%) RESTful
4 4 (2.84%) Django
4 4 (2.84%) FastAPI
4 4 (2.84%) Flask
4 4 (2.84%) GraphQL
4 4 (2.84%) Kafka
4 4 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.84%) WebSockets
5 3 (2.13%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.13%) Akka
5 3 (2.13%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (2.13%) Celery
5 3 (2.13%) gRPC
5 3 (2.13%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (1.42%) JSON
6 2 (1.42%) Node.js
6 2 (1.42%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.64%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (9.22%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.67%) NHS
4 5 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.55%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.84%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.13%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.42%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.42%) IoT
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.06%) Linux
2 16 (11.35%) Windows
3 15 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.55%) Android
5 3 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.71%) HPUX
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Solaris
7 1 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.21%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (30.50%) CI/CD
3 28 (19.86%) DevOps
4 23 (16.31%) Microservices
5 19 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (12.77%) Mentoring
6 18 (12.77%) Scrum
6 18 (12.77%) SOA
7 17 (12.06%) Migration
7 17 (12.06%) Test Automation
8 16 (11.35%) Roadmaps
9 15 (10.64%) Decision-Making
9 15 (10.64%) Security Management
9 15 (10.64%) User Stories
10 13 (9.22%) Change Management
10 13 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (9.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.73%) SQL
2 16 (11.35%) Bash
2 16 (11.35%) Python
3 14 (9.93%) PL/SQL
4 13 (9.22%) Perl
5 12 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.26%) C#
7 6 (4.26%) Java
8 5 (3.55%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.84%) Groovy
10 3 (2.13%) Scala
10 3 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.42%) Swift
12 1 (0.71%) ABAP
12 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.71%) JCL
12 1 (0.71%) REXX
Qualifications
1 31 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.06%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.67%) Degree
5 5 (3.55%) CBAP
6 4 (2.84%) APMP
7 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.42%) PMP
8 2 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.71%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.22%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.67%) QA
3 6 (4.26%) WCAG
4 5 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.13%) PMO
6 1 (0.71%) GDPR
6 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (9.93%) Active Directory
1 14 (9.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (8.51%) Terraform
2 6 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.84%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.13%) Kibana
4 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.42%) Ansible
5 2 (1.42%) Grafana
5 2 (1.42%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (1.42%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.71%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Cisco
2 17 (12.06%) Oracle
3 8 (5.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.55%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.84%) CheckPoint
5 4 (2.84%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.84%) SAP
6 3 (2.13%) Brio
6 3 (2.13%) Google
6 3 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (1.42%) Dell
7 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.42%) Splunk
7 2 (1.42%) Veritas
7 2 (1.42%) Wrike
8 1 (0.71%) Databricks
8 1 (0.71%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.71%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.71%) Xamarin