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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 239 260 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.55% 15.24% 19.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.20% 18.07% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 165 319
10th Percentile £356 £384 £417
25th Percentile £400 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £625
90th Percentile £599 £625 £700
England median daily rate £532 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.32% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £54.78
25th Percentile £84.83 - £58.94
Median hourly rate £91.69 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.99% +12.00% +101.61%
75th Percentile £98.56 - £65.31
90th Percentile - - £68.13
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +28.03%

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 1,030 1,439 1,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.88% 84.35% 90.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 862 1,285
10th Percentile £263 £276 £265
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -6.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £619
90th Percentile £621 £650 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 73 62
10th Percentile £16.25 £11.39 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.15 £10.01
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.23 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +60.54% +24.46% -42.85%
75th Percentile £22.14 £18.75 £20.99
90th Percentile £28.39 £53.75 £48.53
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% +4.17% +41.18%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 0 119 £493 -5.29% 318
South Yorkshire +4 115 £490 -5.77% 71
North Yorkshire +8 4 £400 -27.27% 56
East Yorkshire +1 3 - - 8
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 33 (13.81%) Confluence
2 16 (6.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.67%) Apache
5 3 (1.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.84%) Trello
4 1 (0.42%) Maple
4 1 (0.42%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.88%) AWS
2 21 (8.79%) Azure
3 17 (7.11%) Power Platform
4 15 (6.28%) GCP
4 15 (6.28%) GitHub
5 8 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.09%) CloudBees
6 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.09%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.67%) IaaS
8 3 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.84%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.84%) dbt
9 2 (0.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (0.84%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.21%) DNS
2 14 (5.86%) Firewall
3 10 (4.18%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.67%) NAS
4 4 (1.67%) Network Security
4 4 (1.67%) SAN
5 2 (0.84%) SSL
6 1 (0.42%) DHCP
6 1 (0.42%) HTTP
6 1 (0.42%) NGN
6 1 (0.42%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.11%) Oracle Database
2 16 (6.69%) Power BI
3 9 (3.77%) Tableau
4 8 (3.35%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.51%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.09%) Flink
7 4 (1.67%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.84%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.84%) Looker
9 2 (0.84%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.42%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 50 (20.92%) JIRA
2 32 (13.39%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.72%) Git
4 20 (8.37%) Postman
5 18 (7.53%) GitLab
6 17 (7.11%) Selenium
7 12 (5.02%) Cucumber
8 10 (4.18%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.35%) JMeter
10 7 (2.93%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.51%) TestNG
11 6 (2.51%) Visual Studio
12 5 (2.09%) Maven
12 5 (2.09%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (1.67%) JUnit
13 4 (1.67%) SoapUI
14 3 (1.26%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.42%) Crashlytics
15 1 (0.42%) Log4j
15 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
General
1 98 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 68 (28.45%) Finance
3 47 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.21%) Banking
5 16 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.09%) Retail
9 4 (1.67%) Local Government
10 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.84%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.42%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 37 (15.48%) Analyst
2 34 (14.23%) Senior
3 30 (12.55%) Business Analyst
4 23 (9.62%) Developer
4 23 (9.62%) Lead
5 20 (8.37%) Project Manager
6 17 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.60%) Architect
8 11 (4.60%) Delivery Manager
8 11 (4.60%) Engineering Specialist
8 11 (4.60%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 11 (4.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 11 (4.60%) Test Engineer
9 7 (2.93%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (2.93%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (2.93%) Software Engineer
9 7 (2.93%) Technical Manager
9 7 (2.93%) Tester
10 6 (2.51%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.18%) .NET
2 8 (3.35%) Playwright
3 7 (2.93%) Node.js
3 7 (2.93%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.51%) Gherkin
4 6 (2.51%) Middleware
5 5 (2.09%) Jest
6 4 (1.67%) Akka
6 4 (1.67%) React
6 4 (1.67%) React Native
6 4 (1.67%) Spring
7 3 (1.26%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.26%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.26%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.26%) CSS
7 3 (1.26%) HTML
7 3 (1.26%) Kafka
7 3 (1.26%) MSMQ
7 3 (1.26%) Play Framework
7 3 (1.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.53%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (6.28%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.02%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.77%) NHS
5 7 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.26%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.26%) Equities
8 3 (1.26%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.26%) Replication
8 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.84%) Derivative
9 2 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.90%) Linux
2 30 (12.55%) Windows
3 22 (9.21%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.09%) Unix
5 4 (1.67%) Solaris
6 3 (1.26%) AIX
6 3 (1.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.84%) Android
8 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.42%) HPUX
8 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.98%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (25.10%) DevOps
3 51 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 41 (17.15%) Microservices
5 40 (16.74%) Project Management
6 36 (15.06%) Scrum
7 30 (12.55%) Migration
8 29 (12.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (11.72%) Roadmaps
9 28 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (11.30%) Decision-Making
11 25 (10.46%) Change Management
11 25 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.04%) Test Automation
13 22 (9.21%) User Stories
14 21 (8.79%) Business Analysis
14 21 (8.79%) Risk Management
15 20 (8.37%) TDD
16 19 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (7.95%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.92%) Python
2 39 (16.32%) SQL
3 25 (10.46%) JavaScript
4 22 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.95%) Bash
5 19 (7.95%) Java
6 16 (6.69%) PL/SQL
7 15 (6.28%) Perl
8 10 (4.18%) Kotlin
8 10 (4.18%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.35%) Groovy
10 6 (2.51%) C#
11 4 (1.67%) Scala
12 3 (1.26%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.26%) Ruby
12 3 (1.26%) Swift
12 3 (1.26%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.84%) Go
14 1 (0.42%) Bicep
14 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (5.02%) Degree
5 6 (2.51%) APMP
5 6 (2.51%) CBAP
5 6 (2.51%) PMP
6 4 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.67%) RIBA
7 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.84%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CSPO
9 1 (0.42%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.86%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.02%) QA
3 9 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.51%) WCAG
5 5 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.09%) PMO
6 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.42%) SEPA
8 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.28%) Docker
3 12 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.67%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.67%) vSphere
5 3 (1.26%) VirtualBox
5 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.42%) XenApp
6 1 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (9.62%) Ansible
2 16 (6.69%) Terraform
3 12 (5.02%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.60%) Puppet
5 7 (2.93%) vCenter Server
6 5 (2.09%) Grafana
6 5 (2.09%) SCCM
7 4 (1.67%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.67%) Kibana
7 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.67%) vRealize
8 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.84%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.84%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.42%) SCOM
10 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.42%) Tivoli NetView
10 1 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.62%) Cisco
3 22 (9.21%) Oracle
4 12 (5.02%) Google
4 12 (5.02%) VMware
5 9 (3.77%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.51%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.09%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.09%) Splunk
8 4 (1.67%) Brio
8 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.67%) Citrix
8 4 (1.67%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.67%) IBM
9 3 (1.26%) Dell
9 3 (1.26%) SAP
10 2 (0.84%) Databricks
10 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.84%) Veritas