Agile Contracts in Cheshire

Agile Software Development
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 79 96 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.77% 18.68% 15.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.63% 20.65% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 68 42
10th Percentile £307 £438 £362
25th Percentile £382 £461 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +12.24% +11.68%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £547
90th Percentile £614 £680 £631
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £31.00
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - £30.54 £33.34
Median % change year-on-year - -8.38% -1.96%
75th Percentile - £32.91 £55.73
90th Percentile - £37.16 £63.00
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £44.79 £63.00
% change year-on-year +8.14% -28.91% +85.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 448 465 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.74% 90.47% 87.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 303 269
10th Percentile £309 £301 £204
25th Percentile £391 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% +3.87%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £538
90th Percentile £638 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 29 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.95 £9.93
25th Percentile £16.79 £22.53 £12.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.54 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% +40.22% -12.88%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £57.13
North West median hourly rate £26.46 £35.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year -24.41% +53.85% +30.34%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Cheshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Knutsford -2 27 £400 -27.27% 4
Warrington +6 17 £400 -11.11% 12
Macclesfield -6 17 £530 +17.78% 1
Chester +5 3 £725 +3.57% 21
Runcorn - 1 £475 - 2
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (6.33%) Apache
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.53%) IIS
3 2 (2.53%) Mule
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Sage X3
2 2 (2.53%) Maximo
3 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.05%) AWS
2 14 (17.72%) Azure
3 8 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (10.13%) Amazon S3
3 8 (10.13%) Snowflake
4 7 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.86%) Serverless
5 5 (6.33%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.80%) Route 53
6 3 (3.80%) SaaS
6 3 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.53%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) FTP
2 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.33%) Big Data
3 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.80%) DB2
5 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 2 (2.53%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.27%) Metadata
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (27.85%) JIRA
2 8 (10.13%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.53%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.53%) Log4j
4 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.27%) Postman
5 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 27 (34.18%) Finance
3 14 (17.72%) Pharmaceutical
4 13 (16.46%) Banking
5 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.86%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (8.86%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (7.59%) Manufacturing
8 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.80%) Front Office
9 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.53%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.53%) Legal
11 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (22.78%) Project Manager
2 12 (15.19%) Architect
3 8 (10.13%) Scrum Master
4 7 (8.86%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Lead
6 5 (6.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Accountant
7 4 (5.06%) Systems Accountant
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Data Manager
8 3 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Developer
9 2 (2.53%) Product Owner
9 2 (2.53%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) JSON
2 8 (10.13%) .NET
2 8 (10.13%) REST
3 7 (8.86%) XML
4 5 (6.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.06%) React
6 3 (3.80%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.80%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.80%) Web Services
7 2 (2.53%) CSS
7 2 (2.53%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.53%) HTML
7 2 (2.53%) Kafka
7 2 (2.53%) Middleware
7 2 (2.53%) XHTML
8 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (1.27%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.59%) Reference Data
3 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.80%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Life Science
4 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Android
1 4 (5.06%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.44%) Project Management
2 23 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (24.05%) Scrum
4 15 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.99%) SDLC
5 13 (16.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
7 11 (13.92%) ETL
8 10 (12.66%) Data Engineering
8 10 (12.66%) Data Management
8 10 (12.66%) DevOps
8 10 (12.66%) Matrix Organization
8 10 (12.66%) Microservices
8 10 (12.66%) Waterfall
9 9 (11.39%) CRM
9 9 (11.39%) OO
9 9 (11.39%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (10.13%) Analytics
10 8 (10.13%) Containerisation
11 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) SQL
2 14 (17.72%) Java
3 10 (12.66%) C#
4 8 (10.13%) Python
5 7 (8.86%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.80%) C
6 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.27%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Degree
1 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) PMI Certification
3 4 (5.06%) PMP
4 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) PMO
3 1 (1.27%) GAMP
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) GxP
3 1 (1.27%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) Grafana
1 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.27%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
1 8 (10.13%) SAP
2 7 (8.86%) Avaloq
2 7 (8.86%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.33%) Informatica
3 5 (6.33%) Talend
4 4 (5.06%) Sage
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) Nintex
5 2 (2.53%) Pega
6 1 (1.27%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.27%) HP
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle