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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 2 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 691 1,055 1,689
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 14.56% 19.03% 23.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.20% 21.12% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 805 1,209
10th Percentile £371 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £656 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 38
10th Percentile £36.40 £30.54 £31.00
25th Percentile £41.71 £37.50 £38.68
Median hourly rate £48.43 £56.38 £57.73
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -2.33% +133.23%
75th Percentile £60.83 £64.88 £76.88
90th Percentile £70.90 £70.85 £78.55
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.06% +30.00% -

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 4,018 4,995 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.66% 90.08% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,429 4,621
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 206 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.74 £26.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +41.32% +6.92%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
North West 0 394 £525 -2.33% 428
Yorkshire -1 262 £513 -6.82% 168
North East +1 48 £554 -3.70% 68
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 31 (4.49%) Confluence
2 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.01%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.87%) Apache
5 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.87%) nginx
6 3 (0.43%) IIS
6 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.29%) Mule
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.87%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.58%) Sage X3
4 3 (0.43%) Aareon QL
4 3 (0.43%) Maximo
4 3 (0.43%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.29%) iTrent
5 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 130 (18.81%) Azure
2 119 (17.22%) AWS
3 53 (7.67%) GitHub
4 46 (6.66%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (5.21%) GCP
6 33 (4.78%) Serverless
7 31 (4.49%) SaaS
8 25 (3.62%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.03%) PaaS
11 13 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.88%) IaaS
12 12 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.30%) Kong
13 9 (1.30%) Snowflake
14 8 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.16%) Azure Functions
14 8 (1.16%) BrowserStack
14 8 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 48 (6.95%) Firewall
2 40 (5.79%) VPN
3 18 (2.60%) HTTP
4 12 (1.74%) DNS
5 10 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.87%) SSL
7 5 (0.72%) FTP
7 5 (0.72%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.58%) Network Security
9 3 (0.43%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.43%) WAN
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) RTP
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) Wireless
11 1 (0.14%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (3.76%) MongoDB
2 26 (3.76%) Relational Database
3 21 (3.04%) Power BI
4 19 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 18 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.74%) GIS
8 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.30%) Redis
10 8 (1.16%) MySQL
10 8 (1.16%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.01%) Tableau
12 6 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.87%) Big Data
12 6 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 90 (13.02%) JIRA
2 68 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 57 (8.25%) Git
4 35 (5.07%) GitLab
5 26 (3.76%) JUnit
5 26 (3.76%) Selenium
6 18 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 11 (1.59%) JMeter
8 10 (1.45%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.30%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.30%) Postman
9 9 (1.30%) Travis CI
10 8 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.72%) Mockito
12 5 (0.72%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.58%) Jasmine
13 4 (0.58%) Mocha
General
1 187 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 107 (15.48%) Finance
3 88 (12.74%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.34%) Banking
6 21 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.75%) Legal
8 15 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (1.45%) Marketing
9 10 (1.45%) Retail
10 8 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.01%) Law
11 7 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.87%) Military
13 4 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Front Office
13 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.43%) German Language
Job Titles
1 99 (14.33%) Architect
2 98 (14.18%) Developer
3 78 (11.29%) Analyst
4 65 (9.41%) Lead
5 64 (9.26%) Project Manager
6 61 (8.83%) Senior
7 48 (6.95%) Business Analyst
8 39 (5.64%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (5.50%) Java Developer
10 37 (5.35%) Technical Architect
11 33 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (4.34%) Lead Architect
12 30 (4.34%) Technical Leader
13 27 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
14 21 (3.04%) Test Engineer
15 19 (2.75%) Software Engineer
16 17 (2.46%) Storage Manager
16 17 (2.46%) Tester
17 15 (2.17%) Automation Tester
17 15 (2.17%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.81%) Node.js
2 48 (6.95%) REST
3 43 (6.22%) React
4 39 (5.64%) JSON
5 38 (5.50%) Spring
6 34 (4.92%) .NET
6 34 (4.92%) Spring Boot
6 34 (4.92%) XML
7 27 (3.91%) Kafka
8 25 (3.62%) YAML
9 23 (3.33%) Hibernate
9 23 (3.33%) HTML
9 23 (3.33%) JPA
10 20 (2.89%) Web Services
11 17 (2.46%) CSS
11 17 (2.46%) RESTful
12 16 (2.32%) .NET Framework
13 14 (2.03%) Gherkin
14 13 (1.88%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 39 (5.64%) Public Cloud
3 20 (2.89%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.46%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.45%) Reference Data
8 9 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.16%) NHS
9 8 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 6 (0.87%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.87%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.66%) Windows
2 42 (6.08%) Android
3 41 (5.93%) Apple iOS
3 41 (5.93%) Linux
4 35 (5.07%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.04%) Unix
6 18 (2.60%) zOS
7 7 (1.01%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.43%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (26.63%) DevOps
2 137 (19.83%) Scrum
3 133 (19.25%) CI/CD
4 115 (16.64%) Project Management
5 113 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 100 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (14.33%) Waterfall
8 84 (12.16%) Test Automation
9 74 (10.71%) Microservices
10 63 (9.12%) Software Engineering
11 58 (8.39%) Mentoring
12 57 (8.25%) Project Delivery
12 57 (8.25%) Risk Management
13 55 (7.96%) Design Patterns
14 54 (7.81%) Migration
15 53 (7.67%) Roadmaps
16 51 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 49 (7.09%) SDLC
18 48 (6.95%) Containerisation
19 46 (6.66%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 124 (17.95%) Java
2 78 (11.29%) Python
3 68 (9.84%) JavaScript
4 61 (8.83%) SQL
5 41 (5.93%) C#
6 33 (4.78%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.89%) Bash
7 20 (2.89%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.46%) JCL
9 16 (2.32%) Scala
10 14 (2.03%) REXX
11 10 (1.45%) C
12 9 (1.30%) Groovy
13 7 (1.01%) Go
13 7 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.87%) C++
15 5 (0.72%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.72%) Ruby
16 4 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 87 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.97%) Degree
4 15 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.16%) PMP
7 6 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (0.72%) CBAP
9 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.43%) OSCP
11 2 (0.29%) APMG
11 2 (0.29%) CCSA
11 2 (0.29%) CCSE
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.39%) QA
2 27 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.04%) PMO
4 17 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.01%) GDPR
6 7 (1.01%) GRC
7 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.43%) MISRA
7 3 (0.43%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.43%) NIST
7 3 (0.43%) WCAG
8 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) GxP
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.29%) P3O
9 1 (0.14%) GAMP
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (7.96%) Docker
2 17 (2.46%) NFS
2 17 (2.46%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 54 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.09%) Terraform
3 48 (6.95%) Ansible
4 27 (3.91%) Grafana
4 27 (3.91%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 12 (1.74%) Puppet
7 11 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.45%) Kibana
9 9 (1.30%) logstash
10 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.58%) Istio
12 2 (0.29%) Kiali
13 1 (0.14%) Consul
13 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.14%) linkerd
13 1 (0.14%) Packer
13 1 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 56 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.05%) SAP
3 23 (3.33%) Oracle
4 22 (3.18%) IBM
5 20 (2.89%) Google
6 19 (2.75%) Broadcom
6 19 (2.75%) Dell
7 17 (2.46%) Brocade
7 17 (2.46%) CA
8 15 (2.17%) Salesforce
9 14 (2.03%) Splunk
10 9 (1.30%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.01%) Avaloq
12 6 (0.87%) Cisco
12 6 (0.87%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.87%) PagerDuty
12 6 (0.87%) VMware
13 5 (0.72%) ESRI
13 5 (0.72%) F5
13 5 (0.72%) Talend