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 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 2 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 117 174 410
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.35% 17.42% 25.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.31% 19.89% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 111 286
10th Percentile £320 £400 £422
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £680 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £84.38 - £57.55
25th Percentile £84.67 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £96.85 - £70.00
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 - £66.25
% change year-on-year - - +113.71%

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 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

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 1 May 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 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
Leeds +1 108 £500 -4.76% 126
Halifax -2 6 £531 +1.19% 2
Bradford -5 3 £398 -18.88% 11
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 17 (14.53%) Confluence
2 16 (13.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.71%) nginx
3 2 (1.71%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.09%) AWS
2 11 (9.40%) Azure
3 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.42%) IaaS
3 4 (3.42%) Power Automate
3 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (3.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (2.56%) GCP
5 2 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.71%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Asana
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.85%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.38%) DNS
2 4 (3.42%) Firewall
3 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.53%) Oracle Database
2 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.42%) Power BI
4 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.71%) Tableau
6 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.85%) GIS
6 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (21.37%) JIRA
2 8 (6.84%) Selenium
3 6 (5.13%) Git
4 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.42%) Postman
5 4 (3.42%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (3.42%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.56%) GitLab
6 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.24%) Finance
3 15 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.71%) Banking
9 2 (1.71%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.71%) Local Government
9 2 (1.71%) Military
9 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (16.24%) Developer
2 13 (11.11%) Analyst
2 13 (11.11%) Lead
2 13 (11.11%) Senior
3 12 (10.26%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (7.69%) Architect
4 9 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 8 (6.84%) Engineering Specialist
6 7 (5.98%) Technical Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Bid Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Bid Writer
7 6 (5.13%) Tester
8 5 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Designer
8 5 (4.27%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) QA Tester
8 5 (4.27%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) Scala Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.27%) React
2 4 (3.42%) .NET
2 4 (3.42%) Akka
2 4 (3.42%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.56%) cloud-init
3 3 (2.56%) CSS
3 3 (2.56%) Kafka
3 3 (2.56%) Play Framework
3 3 (2.56%) RESTful
4 2 (1.71%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.71%) Playwright
4 2 (1.71%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.85%) D3.js
5 1 (0.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.85%) Flask
5 1 (0.85%) Nightwatchjs
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.85%) React Native
5 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.53%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (7.69%) NHS
3 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.71%) IoT
6 2 (1.71%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.71%) PKI
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) PMI
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.80%) Linux
2 19 (16.24%) Windows
3 17 (14.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.42%) Unix
5 3 (2.56%) CentOS
6 1 (0.85%) HPUX
6 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.85%) Solaris
6 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (21.37%) Microservices
3 22 (18.80%) DevOps
4 21 (17.95%) CI/CD
4 21 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (16.24%) Roadmaps
6 18 (15.38%) SOA
7 17 (14.53%) Security Management
7 17 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (12.82%) Migration
10 14 (11.97%) Change Management
10 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (11.11%) Server Management
11 13 (11.11%) User Stories
12 11 (9.40%) Decision-Making
12 11 (9.40%) Project Management
12 11 (9.40%) Scrum
13 10 (8.55%) Workshop Facilitation
14 9 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.09%) Bash
1 20 (17.09%) SQL
2 16 (13.68%) PL/SQL
3 15 (12.82%) Perl
4 14 (11.97%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.84%) Python
6 4 (3.42%) Apex Code
6 4 (3.42%) Groovy
6 4 (3.42%) Scala
7 3 (2.56%) C#
7 3 (2.56%) Go
7 3 (2.56%) Java
7 3 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.85%) JCL
8 1 (0.85%) REXX
Qualifications
1 31 (26.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.24%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (8.55%) APMP
5 6 (5.13%) Degree
6 3 (2.56%) CBAP
7 2 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.71%) PMP
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.98%) QA
3 6 (5.13%) PMO
4 3 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (14.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.13%) Terraform
2 5 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.42%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.42%) Kibana
4 3 (2.56%) Grafana
4 3 (2.56%) Packer
4 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.71%) Consul
5 2 (1.71%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.71%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (1.71%) Istio
5 2 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.71%) linkerd
5 2 (1.71%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.71%) Rancher
5 2 (1.71%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.85%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Cisco
2 18 (15.38%) Oracle
3 5 (4.27%) Atlassian
3 5 (4.27%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.42%) CheckPoint
4 4 (3.42%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.56%) Brio
6 2 (1.71%) Apple
6 2 (1.71%) Dell
6 2 (1.71%) ESET
6 2 (1.71%) Google
6 2 (1.71%) IBM
6 2 (1.71%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.71%) Okta
6 2 (1.71%) SAP
6 2 (1.71%) Splunk
6 2 (1.71%) Veritas
7 1 (0.85%) Sun
7 1 (0.85%) Unisys
7 1 (0.85%) Xamarin