Agile Contracts in Lancashire

Agile Software Development
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 31 55 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 15.98% 21.57% 24.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.14% 23.50% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 36 46
10th Percentile £403 £358 £400
25th Percentile £406 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +20.00% +3.20%
75th Percentile £563 £720 £564
90th Percentile - - £612
North West median daily rate £492 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 5
10th Percentile £37.22 - £25.60
25th Percentile £37.55 £45.88 £29.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £63.75 £37.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.74% +68.64% -44.43%
75th Percentile £43.10 £75.28 £69.35
90th Percentile £57.74 £78.00 £79.11
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +75.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 234 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 72.16% 91.76% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 132 161
10th Percentile £257 £360 £225
25th Percentile £325 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% +13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £688
90th Percentile £634 £720 £750
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 62 26
10th Percentile £29.89 £20.58 £13.63
25th Percentile £37.00 £37.80 £19.28
Median hourly rate £40.33 £46.18 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +38.27% +93.27%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.00 £45.57
90th Percentile £51.53 £61.54 £61.03
North West median hourly rate £40.33 £35.50 £25.41
% change year-on-year +13.59% +39.74% +41.14%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Lancashire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Lancashire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Preston -5 11 £400 -5.88% 12
Chorley 0 2 £525 +31.25% 3
Blackpool -6 2 - - 3
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Business Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Misys Midas
2 1 (3.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (12.90%) JIRA
General
1 7 (22.58%) Military
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Software Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Network Manager
3 6 (19.35%) Network Services Manager
3 6 (19.35%) Service Manager
4 3 (9.68%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Change and Release Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Senior
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) Web Services
1 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Requirements Management
2 12 (38.71%) SysML
2 12 (38.71%) UML
3 10 (32.26%) Data Modelling
3 10 (32.26%) Software Testing
4 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (19.35%) Business Strategy
6 6 (19.35%) Commercial Awareness
6 6 (19.35%) Cost Reduction
6 6 (19.35%) IT Strategy
6 6 (19.35%) Product Management
6 6 (19.35%) Programme Management
6 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
6 6 (19.35%) Scorecard
6 6 (19.35%) Service Design
6 6 (19.35%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (19.35%) Supplier Management
6 6 (19.35%) Transition Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) C++
2 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.45%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) MATLAB
3 2 (6.45%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (32.26%) MISRA
1 10 (32.26%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Argo
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Istio
3 1 (3.23%) Kibana
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Atlassian
2 6 (19.35%) TOWER Software
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Blue Prism
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft