Agile Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Agile Software Development
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 50 92 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.19% 34.07% 29.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.27% 37.40% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 77 95
10th Percentile £368 £420 £425
25th Percentile £430 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £606
90th Percentile £610 £775 £650
North East median daily rate £533 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -7.39% +15.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 206 246 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.29% 91.11% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 183 283
10th Percentile £328 £313 £212
25th Percentile £400 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £749 £688
North East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 12
10th Percentile £11.50 £18.23 £10.53
25th Percentile £12.13 £18.56 £12.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £16.18
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +59.15% +24.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £32.44 £17.31
90th Percentile £68.75 £33.23 £18.63
North East median hourly rate £19.50 £32.25 £16.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% +95.45% +29.41%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Tyne and Wear

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 49 £529 -11.88% 41
Sunderland - 1 £725 - 7
Agile
North East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) Serverless
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.00%) BrowserStack
4 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (10.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Stack
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Miro
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (10.00%) MySQL
1 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 6 (12.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.00%) Git
5 3 (6.00%) Selenium
6 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.00%) JUnit
6 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
General
1 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.00%) Marketing
5 2 (4.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Military
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
2 8 (16.00%) Portfolio Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (12.00%) Governance Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
4 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Full Stack Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Governance Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Portfolio Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Content Designer
6 3 (6.00%) Designer
6 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.00%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) RESTful
2 5 (10.00%) Next.js
2 5 (10.00%) React
3 4 (8.00%) REST
4 3 (6.00%) JSON
5 2 (4.00%) CSS
5 2 (4.00%) HTML
5 2 (4.00%) XML
6 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.00%) Jest
6 1 (2.00%) Middleware
6 1 (2.00%) Node.js
6 1 (2.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
1 5 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (26.00%) Scrum
2 12 (24.00%) Project Management
3 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (18.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (18.00%) Waterfall
6 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (16.00%) Microservices
6 8 (16.00%) Quality Management
6 8 (16.00%) SFIA
7 7 (14.00%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (14.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 6 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.00%) Migration
8 6 (12.00%) User Research
9 5 (10.00%) SDLC
9 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) Java
2 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
3 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.00%) PMO
2 3 (6.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) Grafana
2 5 (10.00%) Ansible
2 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) PagerDuty
2 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft