Agile Contracts in the North of England

Agile Software Development
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 698 1,170 1,664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 14.93% 20.58% 23.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.44% 22.70% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 882 1,224
10th Percentile £368 £400 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +7.24%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 20
10th Percentile £38.38 £30.54 £26.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.50 £31.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £55.19 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% +33.45% +59.06%
75th Percentile £56.81 £66.17 £50.63
90th Percentile £71.24 £70.00 £59.18
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -6.15% +33.80% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the North of England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -1 400 £525 - 356
Yorkshire -2 265 £513 -6.82% 172
North East -2 43 £533 -7.39% 73
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 28 (4.01%) Confluence
2 10 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.00%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.86%) nginx
6 5 (0.72%) Apache
7 3 (0.43%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.29%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 21 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.57%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.43%) Aareon QL
5 3 (0.43%) Maximo
5 3 (0.43%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) iTrent
6 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 129 (18.48%) AWS
2 128 (18.34%) Azure
3 49 (7.02%) GitHub
4 46 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (5.16%) Serverless
6 32 (4.58%) GCP
7 31 (4.44%) SaaS
8 28 (4.01%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.15%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.01%) PaaS
11 13 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.86%) IaaS
12 9 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.29%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.15%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.45%) Firewall
2 37 (5.30%) VPN
3 15 (2.15%) HTTP
4 9 (1.29%) DNS
5 7 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.72%) FTP
6 5 (0.72%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) PPP
8 3 (0.43%) SSL
9 2 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.29%) RTP
9 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.29%) WAN
9 2 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (5.44%) MongoDB
2 35 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (4.15%) Relational Database
4 24 (3.44%) Power BI
5 23 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.87%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.72%) GIS
8 12 (1.72%) RDBMS
9 10 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.29%) Redis
11 8 (1.15%) Tableau
12 7 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.00%) MySQL
13 6 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.86%) Big Data
13 6 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 83 (11.89%) JIRA
2 65 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 51 (7.31%) Git
4 40 (5.73%) GitLab
5 26 (3.72%) Selenium
6 22 (3.15%) JUnit
7 21 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.43%) JMeter
8 10 (1.43%) Postman
9 9 (1.29%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.00%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.86%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.86%) Travis CI
12 6 (0.86%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.72%) Gatling
13 5 (0.72%) Mockito
14 4 (0.57%) Mocha
General
1 188 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 109 (15.62%) Finance
3 90 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 64 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.44%) Banking
6 20 (2.87%) Legal
7 17 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (2.01%) Retail
10 13 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.58%) Marketing
12 8 (1.15%) Law
12 8 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.86%) Billing
14 4 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.57%) Military
15 3 (0.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 107 (15.33%) Developer
2 94 (13.47%) Architect
3 80 (11.46%) Analyst
4 67 (9.60%) Senior
5 63 (9.03%) Lead
6 59 (8.45%) Project Manager
7 52 (7.45%) Business Analyst
8 40 (5.73%) Java Developer
9 36 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (5.01%) Technical Architect
11 30 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (4.01%) Lead Architect
12 28 (4.01%) Technical Leader
13 27 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
14 22 (3.15%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.87%) Test Engineer
16 19 (2.72%) User Researcher
17 17 (2.44%) Storage Manager
17 17 (2.44%) Tester
18 14 (2.01%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.03%) Node.js
2 46 (6.59%) React
3 44 (6.30%) REST
4 40 (5.73%) JSON
4 40 (5.73%) Spring
5 35 (5.01%) Spring Boot
6 32 (4.58%) XML
7 31 (4.44%) .NET
7 31 (4.44%) Kafka
7 31 (4.44%) RESTful
8 23 (3.30%) Hibernate
8 23 (3.30%) JPA
9 22 (3.15%) Web Services
9 22 (3.15%) YAML
10 20 (2.87%) CSS
10 20 (2.87%) HTML
11 17 (2.44%) .NET Framework
12 14 (2.01%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.29%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.29%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.02%) Product Ownership
2 43 (6.16%) Public Cloud
3 21 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.29%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.29%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.29%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (1.43%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.15%) NHS
9 7 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.86%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.72%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.45%) Windows
2 43 (6.16%) Apple iOS
3 42 (6.02%) Android
4 40 (5.73%) Linux
5 35 (5.01%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.58%) zOS
7 17 (2.44%) Unix
8 6 (0.86%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.43%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (26.65%) DevOps
2 141 (20.20%) CI/CD
3 140 (20.06%) Scrum
4 112 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 108 (15.47%) Project Management
6 99 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (13.61%) Waterfall
8 84 (12.03%) Microservices
9 79 (11.32%) Test Automation
10 67 (9.60%) Design Patterns
11 65 (9.31%) Software Engineering
12 62 (8.88%) Risk Management
13 58 (8.31%) Mentoring
14 55 (7.88%) Project Delivery
14 55 (7.88%) Roadmaps
15 53 (7.59%) Migration
16 51 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (6.73%) SDLC
18 45 (6.45%) User Stories
19 43 (6.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 120 (17.19%) Java
2 75 (10.74%) Python
3 62 (8.88%) JavaScript
4 56 (8.02%) SQL
5 41 (5.87%) C#
6 32 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.44%) JCL
7 17 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 16 (2.29%) Bash
8 16 (2.29%) Scala
9 14 (2.01%) REXX
10 9 (1.29%) Groovy
11 7 (1.00%) Go
11 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.72%) C
12 5 (0.72%) Ruby
13 4 (0.57%) PHP
13 4 (0.57%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 88 (12.61%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.17%) Degree
4 14 (2.01%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (1.15%) PMP
7 5 (0.72%) CBAP
8 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.43%) OSCP
9 2 (0.29%) APMG
9 2 (0.29%) CCSA
9 2 (0.29%) CCSE
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) ISEB
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.45%) QA
2 24 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.87%) PMO
4 17 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.15%) GDPR
6 8 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.00%) GRC
8 4 (0.57%) SLA
9 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.43%) NIST
10 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) GxP
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) P3O
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.14%) GAMP
11 1 (0.14%) MISRA
11 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (6.88%) Docker
2 17 (2.44%) NFS
2 17 (2.44%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (7.45%) Terraform
2 50 (7.16%) Kubernetes
3 42 (6.02%) Ansible
4 23 (3.30%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.15%) Grafana
6 19 (2.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 9 (1.29%) Puppet
8 8 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (1.00%) Kibana
10 6 (0.86%) logstash
11 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.57%) Istio
13 2 (0.29%) Kiali
14 1 (0.14%) Consul
14 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
14 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.14%) linkerd
14 1 (0.14%) Packer
14 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 63 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.58%) SAP
3 27 (3.87%) Oracle
4 22 (3.15%) IBM
5 19 (2.72%) Broadcom
5 19 (2.72%) Dell
6 18 (2.58%) Google
7 17 (2.44%) Brocade
7 17 (2.44%) CA
8 15 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.58%) Splunk
10 9 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.00%) Avaloq
11 7 (1.00%) Cisco
12 6 (0.86%) VMware
13 5 (0.72%) Apple
13 5 (0.72%) ESRI
13 5 (0.72%) Informatica
13 5 (0.72%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.72%) Sage