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 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 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 259 416 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.95% 19.39% 24.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.79% 21.42% 27.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 318 480
10th Percentile £383 £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 1,456 1,942 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.06% 90.54% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,278 1,738
10th Percentile £275 £267 £254
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £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 76 62 81
10th Percentile £11.53 £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 £21.63 £20.99 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £27.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +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 12 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 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
West Yorkshire -1 175 £520 -5.45% 121
South Yorkshire +1 75 £538 -10.42% 30
North Yorkshire -6 6 £550 +0.92% 20
East Yorkshire -1 1 £450 -37.93% 3
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 (10.04%) Confluence
2 5 (1.93%) nginx
3 4 (1.54%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.93%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.32%) 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 (18.53%) Azure
2 40 (15.44%) AWS
3 35 (13.51%) GitHub
4 27 (10.42%) GCP
5 14 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.02%) SaaS
7 10 (3.86%) Kong
8 6 (2.32%) Apigee
8 6 (2.32%) PaaS
8 6 (2.32%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.93%) Azure Functions
9 5 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (1.93%) CloudBees
9 5 (1.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (1.93%) Serverless
10 4 (1.54%) IaaS
11 3 (1.16%) Akamai
11 3 (1.16%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.41%) Firewall
2 12 (4.63%) HTTP
3 9 (3.47%) DNS
3 9 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.47%) VPN
4 5 (1.93%) HTTPS
4 5 (1.93%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (1.54%) Network Security
6 3 (1.16%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.16%) SSL
7 2 (0.77%) RTP
7 2 (0.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.77%) WAN
7 2 (0.77%) Wireless
8 1 (0.39%) RFID
8 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.86%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (3.09%) GIS
5 7 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.32%) Power BI
7 5 (1.93%) InterSystems Cache
7 5 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.93%) Redis
8 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.16%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.16%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.16%) 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 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 41 (15.83%) Jenkins
2 39 (15.06%) JIRA
3 26 (10.04%) Git
4 18 (6.95%) JUnit
4 18 (6.95%) Selenium
5 13 (5.02%) GitLab
6 11 (4.25%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (3.47%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.47%) Travis CI
8 6 (2.32%) JMeter
9 5 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.54%) 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 79 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.15%) Finance
3 30 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.86%) Banking
6 8 (3.09%) Retail
7 6 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.16%) 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 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (18.15%) Developer
2 39 (15.06%) Analyst
3 29 (11.20%) Business Analyst
3 29 (11.20%) Senior
4 27 (10.42%) Project Manager
5 17 (6.56%) Tester
6 16 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.18%) Lead
7 15 (5.79%) Automation Tester
8 13 (5.02%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.63%) Architect
10 10 (3.86%) Test Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (3.09%) Senior Manager
12 8 (3.09%) Storage Manager
13 7 (2.70%) Designer
14 6 (2.32%) Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.32%) DevOps Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.32%) SAP Analyst
14 6 (2.32%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.56%) JSON
1 17 (6.56%) YAML
2 14 (5.41%) Gherkin
2 14 (5.41%) REST
2 14 (5.41%) XML
3 13 (5.02%) React
4 12 (4.63%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.25%) Spring
6 10 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.09%) .NET
7 8 (3.09%) HTML
7 8 (3.09%) Kafka
7 8 (3.09%) Node.js
7 8 (3.09%) Web Services
8 7 (2.70%) Hibernate
9 6 (2.32%) JPA
10 5 (1.93%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.93%) OAuth
10 5 (1.93%) React Native
10 5 (1.93%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.95%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.25%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.93%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.93%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.16%) CMDB
7 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.77%) NHS
8 2 (0.77%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.39%) iSeries
9 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.34%) Linux
2 10 (3.86%) Unix
3 8 (3.09%) zOS
4 7 (2.70%) Windows
5 4 (1.54%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.16%) Android
6 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (25.87%) DevOps
2 63 (24.32%) Scrum
3 55 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (19.69%) Test Automation
5 49 (18.92%) CI/CD
6 46 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (16.60%) Waterfall
8 37 (14.29%) Project Management
9 30 (11.58%) TDD
9 30 (11.58%) User Stories
10 26 (10.04%) Mentoring
11 25 (9.65%) Containerisation
11 25 (9.65%) Migration
12 24 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (8.88%) Analytics
13 23 (8.88%) Kanban
13 23 (8.88%) Software Engineering
14 21 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (7.72%) Data Modelling
15 20 (7.72%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.55%) Java
2 42 (16.22%) Python
3 36 (13.90%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.79%) Bash
5 13 (5.02%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.02%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.63%) SQL
7 11 (4.25%) Scala
8 8 (3.09%) Groovy
8 8 (3.09%) JCL
9 7 (2.70%) C#
9 7 (2.70%) REXX
10 6 (2.32%) C
11 5 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.54%) Go
12 4 (1.54%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.54%) Ruby
12 4 (1.54%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.54%) VBA
13 3 (1.16%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 24 (9.27%) Degree
1 24 (9.27%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.32%) DV Cleared
3 6 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.93%) CBAP
5 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) CCSA
7 1 (0.39%) CCSE
7 1 (0.39%) PMP
7 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.67%) QA
2 8 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.09%) PMO
3 5 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.16%) GRC
5 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) HL7
System Software
1 36 (13.90%) Docker
2 8 (3.09%) NFS
2 8 (3.09%) Time Sharing Option
3 3 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.42%) Ansible
2 27 (10.42%) Terraform
3 18 (6.95%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.41%) Grafana
5 11 (4.25%) Progress Chef
5 11 (4.25%) Puppet
6 9 (3.47%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (3.47%) Kibana
6 9 (3.47%) logstash
6 9 (3.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.16%) Istio
9 2 (0.77%) Kiali
10 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.39%) Graylog
10 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.39%) Nessus
10 1 (0.39%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (5.41%) Microsoft
1 14 (5.41%) SAP
1 14 (5.41%) Splunk
2 10 (3.86%) Google
3 9 (3.47%) Broadcom
3 9 (3.47%) Dell
3 9 (3.47%) IBM
4 8 (3.09%) Brocade
4 8 (3.09%) CA
5 7 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.93%) F5
7 4 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.54%) ESRI
8 3 (1.16%) Cisco
8 3 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.16%) VMware
8 3 (1.16%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.77%) Brio
9 2 (0.77%) Juniper
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle