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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 120 172 383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.47% 17.60% 24.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.35% 20.24% 27.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 109 277
10th Percentile £324 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £633
90th Percentile £631 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -4.81% -6.41% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £88.26 - £57.55
25th Percentile £93.41 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £102.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £102.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +125.81%

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 514 850 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.95% 87.00% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 496 962
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.76% +7.25%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £619
90th Percentile £600 £662 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.94%

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 18 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 18 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 +1 110 £481 -8.33% 200
Halifax -4 6 £531 +1.19% 2
Bradford -5 3 £398 -18.88% 23
Huddersfield - 1 £525 - 4
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 (14.17%) Confluence
2 16 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) nginx
3 1 (0.83%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.67%) AWS
2 12 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.33%) IaaS
3 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
3 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.50%) GCP
4 3 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.67%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.67%) SaaS
5 2 (1.67%) Serverless
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.83%) GitHub
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.00%) DNS
2 4 (3.33%) Firewall
3 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) SNA
4 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.17%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.33%) Power BI
3 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.67%) Tableau
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.83%) GIS
5 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Parquet
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (20.83%) JIRA
2 13 (10.83%) Selenium
3 10 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 9 (7.50%) Postman
5 7 (5.83%) Git
5 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
6 6 (5.00%) GitLab
7 5 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.17%) JMeter
7 5 (4.17%) REST Assured
7 5 (4.17%) TestNG
8 4 (3.33%) Maven
8 4 (3.33%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (3.33%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.50%) JUnit
General
1 53 (44.17%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.17%) Finance
3 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.67%) Local Government
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (15.00%) Developer
2 14 (11.67%) Senior
3 13 (10.83%) Analyst
3 13 (10.83%) Lead
4 12 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 9 (7.50%) Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Engineering Specialist
7 8 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Technical Manager
9 6 (5.00%) Bid Manager
9 6 (5.00%) Bid Writer
9 6 (5.00%) Tester
10 5 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (4.17%) Network Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) QA Tester
10 5 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Project Manager
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.83%) Playwright
2 5 (4.17%) .NET
2 5 (4.17%) React
3 4 (3.33%) Akka
4 3 (2.50%) CSS
4 3 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.50%) Play Framework
4 3 (2.50%) RESTful
5 2 (1.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.83%) cloud-init
6 1 (0.83%) D3.js
6 1 (0.83%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.83%) Flask
6 1 (0.83%) Kafka
6 1 (0.83%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.83%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (7.50%) NHS
2 9 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.50%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.67%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.67%) IoT
5 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) PKI
6 1 (0.83%) PMI
6 1 (0.83%) Replication
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.67%) Linux
2 19 (15.83%) Windows
3 17 (14.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) HPUX
5 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
5 1 (0.83%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (21.67%) CI/CD
3 24 (20.00%) Microservices
4 22 (18.33%) DevOps
5 21 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (15.83%) Roadmaps
7 18 (15.00%) SOA
8 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (14.17%) Security Management
9 16 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (12.50%) Migration
10 15 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.83%) Server Management
12 12 (10.00%) Change Management
12 12 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (10.00%) User Stories
13 11 (9.17%) Decision-Making
13 11 (9.17%) Project Management
14 10 (8.33%) API Testing
14 10 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.33%) SQL
2 18 (15.00%) Bash
3 16 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 15 (12.50%) Perl
5 14 (11.67%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.83%) Java
6 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.83%) Python
7 4 (3.33%) C#
7 4 (3.33%) Groovy
7 4 (3.33%) Scala
8 3 (2.50%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) JCL
9 1 (0.83%) REXX
Qualifications
1 35 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.83%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (8.33%) APMP
5 5 (4.17%) Degree
6 3 (2.50%) CBAP
7 2 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.67%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.67%) PMP
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.83%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.50%) QA
3 6 (5.00%) PMO
4 5 (4.17%) WCAG
5 3 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (14.17%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.00%) Terraform
2 4 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 4 (3.33%) Kibana
3 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.67%) Grafana
4 2 (1.67%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (1.67%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.83%) Consul
5 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.83%) Istio
5 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.83%) linkerd
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.83%) Packer
5 1 (0.83%) Rancher
5 1 (0.83%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Cisco
2 18 (15.00%) Oracle
3 5 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 4 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.50%) Brio
6 2 (1.67%) Dell
6 2 (1.67%) Google
6 2 (1.67%) IBM
6 2 (1.67%) SAP
6 2 (1.67%) Splunk
6 2 (1.67%) Veritas
7 1 (0.83%) Apple
7 1 (0.83%) ESRI
7 1 (0.83%) Okta
7 1 (0.83%) Sun
7 1 (0.83%) Unisys
7 1 (0.83%) Xamarin