Agile Contracts in Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 261 421 654
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.04% 19.48% 24.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.88% 21.50% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 318 479
10th Percentile £384 £416 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £54.78 £27.20
25th Percentile - £58.94 £28.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +101.61% +58.97%
75th Percentile - £65.31 £36.25
90th Percentile - £68.13 £39.40
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,460 1,958 2,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.15% 90.61% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 1,287 1,737
10th Percentile £275 £266 £253
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 62 81
10th Percentile £11.48 £9.80 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.44
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.37 £20.99 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £27.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Yorkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Yorkshire -1 175 £520 -5.45% 118
South Yorkshire +1 76 £525 -12.50% 28
North Yorkshire -4 7 £550 +0.92% 21
East Yorkshire -2 1 £450 -37.93% 4
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 26 (9.96%) Confluence
2 5 (1.92%) nginx
3 4 (1.53%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.15%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.30%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.77%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.77%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 48 (18.39%) Azure
2 40 (15.33%) AWS
3 36 (13.79%) GitHub
4 27 (10.34%) GCP
5 14 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.98%) SaaS
7 10 (3.83%) Kong
8 6 (2.30%) Apigee
8 6 (2.30%) PaaS
8 6 (2.30%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.92%) Azure Functions
9 5 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.92%) CloudBees
9 5 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (1.92%) Serverless
10 4 (1.53%) IaaS
11 3 (1.15%) Akamai
11 3 (1.15%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.15%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.36%) Firewall
2 12 (4.60%) HTTP
3 9 (3.45%) DNS
3 9 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.45%) VPN
4 5 (1.92%) HTTPS
4 5 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.53%) Network Security
6 3 (1.15%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.15%) SSL
7 2 (0.77%) RTP
7 2 (0.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.77%) WAN
7 2 (0.77%) Wireless
8 1 (0.38%) RFID
8 1 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.83%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.07%) GIS
5 7 (2.68%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.30%) Power BI
7 5 (1.92%) InterSystems Cache
7 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.92%) Redis
8 4 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.15%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.77%) MySQL
10 2 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.77%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.77%) Tableau
11 1 (0.38%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 42 (16.09%) Jenkins
2 39 (14.94%) JIRA
3 26 (9.96%) Git
4 18 (6.90%) JUnit
4 18 (6.90%) Selenium
5 13 (4.98%) GitLab
6 11 (4.21%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (3.45%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.45%) Travis CI
8 6 (2.30%) JMeter
9 5 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.53%) Postman
11 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.77%) Gatling
11 2 (0.77%) Maven
11 2 (0.77%) Mockito
11 2 (0.77%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.39%) Finance
3 30 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.83%) Banking
6 8 (3.07%) Retail
7 6 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Legal
10 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Games
10 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.77%) Marketing
10 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (18.01%) Developer
2 39 (14.94%) Analyst
3 29 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 29 (11.11%) Senior
4 27 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 17 (6.51%) Tester
6 16 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.13%) Lead
7 15 (5.75%) Automation Tester
8 13 (4.98%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.60%) Architect
10 10 (3.83%) Test Engineer
11 9 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (3.07%) Senior Manager
12 8 (3.07%) Storage Manager
13 7 (2.68%) Designer
14 6 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.30%) SAP Analyst
14 6 (2.30%) SAP Business Analyst
14 6 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.90%) YAML
2 17 (6.51%) JSON
3 14 (5.36%) Gherkin
3 14 (5.36%) REST
3 14 (5.36%) XML
4 13 (4.98%) React
5 12 (4.60%) Spring Boot
6 11 (4.21%) Spring
7 10 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (3.07%) .NET
8 8 (3.07%) HTML
8 8 (3.07%) Kafka
8 8 (3.07%) Node.js
8 8 (3.07%) Web Services
9 7 (2.68%) Hibernate
10 6 (2.30%) JPA
11 5 (1.92%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.92%) OAuth
11 5 (1.92%) React Native
11 5 (1.92%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.21%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.21%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.15%) CMDB
6 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.77%) NHS
7 2 (0.77%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) iSeries
8 1 (0.38%) Mashup
8 1 (0.38%) PMI
8 1 (0.38%) Replication
8 1 (0.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.66%) Linux
2 10 (3.83%) Unix
3 9 (3.45%) zOS
4 7 (2.68%) Windows
5 4 (1.53%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.15%) Android
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.67%) DevOps
2 64 (24.52%) Scrum
3 55 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (19.54%) Test Automation
5 49 (18.77%) CI/CD
6 47 (18.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (16.48%) Waterfall
8 38 (14.56%) Project Management
9 30 (11.49%) TDD
9 30 (11.49%) User Stories
10 26 (9.96%) Mentoring
11 25 (9.58%) Containerisation
11 25 (9.58%) Migration
12 24 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (8.81%) Analytics
13 23 (8.81%) Kanban
13 23 (8.81%) Software Engineering
14 21 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (7.66%) Data Modelling
15 20 (7.66%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.37%) Java
2 43 (16.48%) Python
3 36 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.75%) Bash
5 13 (4.98%) PowerShell
5 13 (4.98%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.60%) SQL
7 11 (4.21%) Scala
8 9 (3.45%) JCL
9 8 (3.07%) Groovy
9 8 (3.07%) REXX
10 7 (2.68%) C#
11 6 (2.30%) C
12 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.53%) Go
13 4 (1.53%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.53%) Ruby
13 4 (1.53%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.53%) VBA
14 3 (1.15%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 24 (9.20%) Degree
1 24 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.30%) DV Cleared
3 6 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.92%) CBAP
5 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) CCSA
7 1 (0.38%) CCSE
7 1 (0.38%) PMP
7 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.56%) QA
2 8 (3.07%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.07%) PMO
3 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.15%) GRC
5 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
System Software
1 36 (13.79%) Docker
2 9 (3.45%) NFS
2 9 (3.45%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.73%) Ansible
3 27 (10.34%) Terraform
4 18 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.36%) Grafana
6 11 (4.21%) Progress Chef
6 11 (4.21%) Puppet
7 10 (3.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 9 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (3.45%) Kibana
8 9 (3.45%) logstash
9 5 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.15%) Istio
11 2 (0.77%) Kiali
12 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.38%) Graylog
12 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.38%) Nessus
12 1 (0.38%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (5.36%) Microsoft
1 14 (5.36%) SAP
1 14 (5.36%) Splunk
2 10 (3.83%) Broadcom
2 10 (3.83%) Dell
2 10 (3.83%) Google
2 10 (3.83%) IBM
3 9 (3.45%) Brocade
3 9 (3.45%) CA
4 7 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.92%) F5
6 4 (1.53%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.53%) ESRI
7 3 (1.15%) Cisco
7 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.15%) VMware
7 3 (1.15%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.77%) Aruba
8 2 (0.77%) Brio
8 2 (0.77%) Meraki