Agile Contracts in Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 212 270 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.89% 16.00% 21.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.58% 18.52% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 178 344
10th Percentile £359 £387 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £625 £696
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £84.38 - £47.70
25th Percentile £84.67 - £58.94
Median hourly rate £96.85 - £66.25
75th Percentile £102.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £73.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 939 1,458 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.51% 86.43% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 874 1,388
10th Percentile £247 £263 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
West Yorkshire +2 120 £500 -3.29% 142
South Yorkshire 0 88 £500 -2.44% 57
North Yorkshire +2 5 £400 -20.00% 36
East Yorkshire +4 1 - - 13
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 27 (12.74%) Confluence
2 16 (7.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.89%) Apache
3 4 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.94%) nginx
4 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.94%) Traefik
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 29 (13.68%) AWS
2 17 (8.02%) Azure
3 12 (5.66%) GCP
3 12 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.25%) GitHub
5 7 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.36%) CloudBees
6 5 (2.36%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.89%) IaaS
7 4 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 4 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.42%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.94%) Lucidchart
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.85%) DNS
2 6 (2.83%) Firewall
3 5 (2.36%) Network Security
4 4 (1.89%) NAS
4 4 (1.89%) SAN
5 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.47%) DHCP
6 1 (0.47%) HTTP
6 1 (0.47%) Internet
6 1 (0.47%) NGN
6 1 (0.47%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.02%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.66%) Power BI
3 9 (4.25%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.36%) Flink
5 5 (2.36%) Tableau
6 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.94%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.47%) GIS
7 1 (0.47%) MySQL
7 1 (0.47%) Parquet
7 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (23.58%) JIRA
2 21 (9.91%) Git
3 15 (7.08%) GitLab
3 15 (7.08%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.13%) Selenium
5 7 (3.30%) Postman
6 6 (2.83%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.83%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.36%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.36%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (1.89%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.42%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.94%) JMeter
11 1 (0.47%) Bugzilla
11 1 (0.47%) JUnit
11 1 (0.47%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 82 (38.68%) Social Skills
2 57 (26.89%) Finance
3 33 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.08%) Banking
6 6 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.36%) Retail
8 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Military
9 3 (1.42%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
10 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 27 (12.74%) Developer
2 26 (12.26%) Senior
3 25 (11.79%) Analyst
4 22 (10.38%) Lead
5 21 (9.91%) Business Analyst
6 14 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.13%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.19%) Architect
8 11 (5.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 10 (4.72%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (4.72%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 9 (4.25%) Engineering Specialist
10 9 (4.25%) Technical Manager
10 9 (4.25%) Tester
11 7 (3.30%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.30%) QA Tester
11 7 (3.30%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.83%) Bid Manager
12 6 (2.83%) Bid Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.30%) Spring Boot
2 6 (2.83%) Gherkin
2 6 (2.83%) Node.js
2 6 (2.83%) React
3 5 (2.36%) .NET
3 5 (2.36%) Kafka
4 4 (1.89%) Akka
4 4 (1.89%) CSS
4 4 (1.89%) Jest
4 4 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.89%) Middleware
4 4 (1.89%) RESTful
4 4 (1.89%) Spring
5 3 (1.42%) cloud-init
5 3 (1.42%) Play Framework
5 3 (1.42%) REST
6 2 (0.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.94%) JSON
6 2 (0.94%) Vue
6 2 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.49%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.72%) NHS
4 7 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.42%) Replication
8 2 (0.94%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.94%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.94%) IoT
8 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.94%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.94%) PKI
8 2 (0.94%) PMI
8 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.04%) Linux
2 25 (11.79%) Windows
3 21 (9.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.89%) Unix
5 3 (1.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) HPUX
6 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.47%) Solaris
6 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.32%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (22.17%) DevOps
3 43 (20.28%) CI/CD
4 42 (19.81%) Microservices
5 36 (16.98%) Project Management
6 33 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (14.15%) Scrum
8 27 (12.74%) Change Management
8 27 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (11.32%) Roadmaps
10 22 (10.38%) Migration
11 21 (9.91%) Decision-Making
11 21 (9.91%) Risk Management
12 19 (8.96%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.49%) SOA
14 17 (8.02%) Security Management
15 16 (7.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (7.55%) TDD
15 16 (7.55%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.92%) Python
2 30 (14.15%) SQL
3 22 (10.38%) PowerShell
4 21 (9.91%) Bash
5 20 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.55%) PL/SQL
7 15 (7.08%) Java
7 15 (7.08%) Perl
8 9 (4.25%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.30%) Groovy
10 6 (2.83%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.36%) Go
12 4 (1.89%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.89%) C#
12 4 (1.89%) Scala
13 3 (1.42%) Ruby
14 1 (0.47%) JCL
14 1 (0.47%) REXX
14 1 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 35 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (6.13%) Degree
5 10 (4.72%) APMP
6 5 (2.36%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.89%) CBAP
7 4 (1.89%) PMP
8 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.94%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.47%) CCNP
10 1 (0.47%) CSPO
10 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.60%) QA
2 9 (4.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.77%) PMO
4 6 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.94%) NCSC
7 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.47%) HL7
8 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (11.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.83%) Docker
3 4 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.89%) vSphere
4 3 (1.42%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.60%) Terraform
3 10 (4.72%) Ansible
4 7 (3.30%) Grafana
5 6 (2.83%) vCenter Server
6 5 (2.36%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.89%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.89%) Kibana
7 4 (1.89%) vRealize
8 3 (1.42%) Packer
8 3 (1.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.94%) Consul
9 2 (0.94%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.94%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.94%) Istio
9 2 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.94%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.94%) Rancher
9 2 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (10.85%) Cisco
2 20 (9.43%) Oracle
3 10 (4.72%) Google
4 8 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.36%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.36%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.36%) SAP
6 5 (2.36%) Splunk
7 4 (1.89%) VMware
8 3 (1.42%) Brio
8 3 (1.42%) Dell
9 2 (0.94%) Apple
9 2 (0.94%) Citrix
9 2 (0.94%) IBM
9 2 (0.94%) Okta
9 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.94%) Veritas
9 2 (0.94%) Workday