Agile Contracts in Manchester

Agile Software Development
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 261 318 624
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 17.86% 18.13% 23.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.90% 20.03% 26.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 249 440
10th Percentile £400 £377 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +11.70%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £623
90th Percentile £850 £678 £675
North West median daily rate £519 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -3.49% +7.50% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £62.59 £35.75 -
25th Percentile £62.73 £36.88 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.67% -50.00% +64.84%
75th Percentile £73.00 £44.63 £81.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £57.45 -
North West median hourly rate £47.16 £44.79 £63.00
% change year-on-year +5.29% -28.91% +85.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,249 1,588 2,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.49% 90.54% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,176 1,806
10th Percentile £325 £315 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £693 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 50 51
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.61 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +21.62% +13.99%
75th Percentile £59.38 £38.44 £45.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Manchester

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Salford -1 6 £378 -39.60% 11
Oldham -2 3 £350 -12.50% 2
Stockport -1 1 £550 +7.32% 3
Bolton -2 1 £525 -
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (2.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.15%) Aareon QL
3 2 (0.77%) iTrent
3 2 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.38%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.69%) Azure
2 45 (17.24%) AWS
3 20 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.13%) Power Platform
5 14 (5.36%) Serverless
6 12 (4.60%) SaaS
7 8 (3.07%) GitHub
7 8 (3.07%) PaaS
8 7 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.68%) IaaS
9 6 (2.30%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.30%) GCP
9 6 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.92%) Boomi
11 4 (1.53%) Azure Stack
11 4 (1.53%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.53%) npm
11 4 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.53%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.03%) Firewall
2 31 (11.88%) VPN
3 2 (0.77%) DNS
3 2 (0.77%) HTTP
3 2 (0.77%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) PPP
4 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.36%) Relational Database
2 13 (4.98%) MongoDB
2 13 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.60%) Power BI
4 10 (3.83%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (2.30%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.53%) Redis
7 4 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.53%) Tableau
8 3 (1.15%) GIS
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.77%) MySQL
9 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.77%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (7.66%) Git
2 18 (6.90%) JIRA
3 15 (5.75%) GitLab
3 15 (5.75%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.45%) JUnit
5 8 (3.07%) Cucumber
5 8 (3.07%) Selenium
6 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.53%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.53%) JMeter
6 4 (1.53%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.53%) Mocha
6 4 (1.53%) Postman
6 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.53%) webpack
7 3 (1.15%) Mockito
7 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.77%) Appium
8 2 (0.77%) Gatling
8 2 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.94%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.81%) Finance
4 15 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.21%) Legal
6 8 (3.07%) Banking
7 6 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.30%) Marketing
8 5 (1.92%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.15%) Automotive
9 3 (1.15%) German Language
9 3 (1.15%) Law
10 2 (0.77%) Military
10 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) French Language
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 77 (29.50%) Architect
2 44 (16.86%) Developer
3 43 (16.48%) Lead
4 36 (13.79%) Technical Architect
5 31 (11.88%) Lead Architect
6 30 (11.49%) Technical Leader
7 28 (10.73%) Senior
8 25 (9.58%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (8.81%) Java Developer
10 19 (7.28%) Analyst
11 14 (5.36%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (3.45%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 7 (2.68%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 7 (2.68%) Business Analyst
14 7 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.68%) Integration Architect
14 7 (2.68%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.68%) User Researcher
15 6 (2.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.24%) Node.js
2 27 (10.34%) REST
3 26 (9.96%) React
4 22 (8.43%) Spring
4 22 (8.43%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.13%) Kafka
6 14 (5.36%) .NET
6 14 (5.36%) Hibernate
6 14 (5.36%) JPA
6 14 (5.36%) XML
7 13 (4.98%) JSON
8 11 (4.21%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.83%) HTML
9 10 (3.83%) RESTful
10 9 (3.45%) Web Services
11 8 (3.07%) CSS
11 8 (3.07%) Spring Security
12 7 (2.68%) SOAP
13 6 (2.30%) .NET Framework
14 5 (1.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.26%) Public Cloud
2 24 (9.20%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.07%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.53%) Digital Signage
7 4 (1.53%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.15%) NHS
8 3 (1.15%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.77%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.94%) Windows
2 35 (13.41%) Android
3 34 (13.03%) Apple iOS
3 34 (13.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.68%) Unix
5 6 (2.30%) Linux
6 3 (1.15%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (37.55%) DevOps
2 66 (25.29%) CI/CD
3 41 (15.71%) Design Patterns
3 41 (15.71%) Microservices
4 40 (15.33%) Scrum
5 34 (13.03%) Risk Management
6 32 (12.26%) Mobile Device Management
6 32 (12.26%) Security Architecture
7 31 (11.88%) Zero Trust
8 29 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
9 28 (10.73%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 28 (10.73%) Roadmaps
10 27 (10.34%) Project Delivery
11 26 (9.96%) Mentoring
12 25 (9.58%) Waterfall
13 24 (9.20%) Test Automation
14 21 (8.05%) Front End Development
14 21 (8.05%) Migration
14 21 (8.05%) User Experience
15 20 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.62%) Java
2 28 (10.73%) SQL
3 18 (6.90%) C#
3 18 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 18 (6.90%) Python
4 16 (6.13%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.68%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.53%) Bash
7 3 (1.15%) Scala
8 2 (0.77%) Go
8 2 (0.77%) Groovy
8 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.77%) PHP
8 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.38%) C
9 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.90%) Degree
4 9 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) CCSA
6 1 (0.38%) CCSE
6 1 (0.38%) CISSP
6 1 (0.38%) PMP
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.75%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.36%) QA
3 9 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (2.68%) PMO
5 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.53%) GRC
7 3 (1.15%) GDPR
7 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.15%) NIST
8 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.77%) WCAG
9 1 (0.38%) GxP
System Software
1 17 (6.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.60%) Terraform
3 10 (3.83%) Ansible
4 2 (0.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.36%) Oracle
3 10 (3.83%) Google
4 5 (1.92%) Apple
4 5 (1.92%) Logitech
4 5 (1.92%) SAP
5 4 (1.53%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.15%) Aareon
6 3 (1.15%) Databricks
7 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.77%) Cisco
7 2 (0.77%) IDERA
7 2 (0.77%) Mapbox
7 2 (0.77%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (0.77%) Remedy
7 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.77%) Verint
7 2 (0.77%) VMware
8 1 (0.38%) Embarcadero