Agile Contracts in Merseyside

Agile Software Development
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 20 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Agile 9 51 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.19% 16.35% 14.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.59% 18.96% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 35 33
10th Percentile £446 £225 £392
25th Percentile £484 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £544 £500
90th Percentile £610 £550 £633
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.11 - -
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
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 161 269 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 74.88% 86.22% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 196 201
10th Percentile £144 £300 £193
25th Percentile £233 £406 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £430
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +13.95% +14.67%
75th Percentile £508 £538 £538
90th Percentile £613 £619 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 15
10th Percentile - £16.22 £9.51
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £10.27
Median hourly rate £22.11 £17.50 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.34% +45.83% -4.08%
75th Percentile £36.25 £28.65 £15.25
90th Percentile £38.87 £43.20 £18.75
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Merseyside

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool -8 7 £550 +10.00% 33
Wirral - 1 £420 - 2
Birkenhead - 1 - - 2
Agile
North West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JMeter
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Development Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Software Development Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Software Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Transition Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Transition Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Coaching
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Software Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Case
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Facilities Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle