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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 688 1,127 1,692
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 14.92% 20.02% 23.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.48% 22.13% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 844 1,218
10th Percentile £375 £400 £379
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +10.00% +5.26%
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% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 38
10th Percentile £36.02 £30.54 £31.00
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.50 £38.68
Median hourly rate £48.43 £56.38 £57.73
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% -2.33% +125.75%
75th Percentile £52.78 £66.52 £76.88
90th Percentile £70.98 £70.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -6.78% +30.35% +11.67%

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 3,937 5,092 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.36% 90.48% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 3,501 4,644
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -1 392 £525 -1.18% 422
Yorkshire -2 266 £515 -6.41% 213
North East +1 43 £533 -9.36% 91
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 (4.51%) Confluence
2 9 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.02%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.87%) Apache
5 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.87%) nginx
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.29%) Mule
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.74%) 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 13 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.02%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.58%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.44%) Aareon QL
5 3 (0.44%) Maximo
6 2 (0.29%) iTrent
6 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.15%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 127 (18.46%) Azure
2 117 (17.01%) AWS
3 51 (7.41%) GitHub
4 46 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (5.23%) Serverless
6 35 (5.09%) GCP
7 31 (4.51%) SaaS
8 26 (3.78%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.18%) Amazon S3
9 15 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.03%) PaaS
11 13 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (1.89%) IaaS
12 9 (1.31%) Kong
12 9 (1.31%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.16%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 48 (6.98%) Firewall
2 40 (5.81%) VPN
3 18 (2.62%) HTTP
4 12 (1.74%) DNS
5 10 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.87%) SSL
7 5 (0.73%) FTP
7 5 (0.73%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.58%) Network Security
9 3 (0.44%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.29%) Internet
10 2 (0.29%) RTP
10 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.29%) WAN
10 2 (0.29%) Wireless
11 1 (0.15%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (4.22%) MongoDB
2 29 (4.22%) Relational Database
3 22 (3.20%) NoSQL
3 22 (3.20%) Power BI
4 19 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.74%) GIS
6 12 (1.74%) RDBMS
7 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (1.31%) Redis
9 8 (1.16%) Tableau
10 7 (1.02%) MySQL
11 6 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.87%) Big Data
11 6 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 88 (12.79%) JIRA
2 67 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 56 (8.14%) Git
4 34 (4.94%) GitLab
5 25 (3.63%) Selenium
6 24 (3.49%) JUnit
7 17 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.60%) JMeter
9 10 (1.45%) CircleCI
9 10 (1.45%) Postman
10 9 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.31%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.31%) Travis CI
11 8 (1.16%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.87%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.73%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.58%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.58%) Gatling
14 4 (0.58%) Jasmine
General
1 188 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 108 (15.70%) Finance
3 89 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 67 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.51%) Banking
6 20 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (2.91%) Legal
7 17 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.18%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (1.60%) Marketing
9 11 (1.60%) Retail
10 9 (1.31%) Law
11 8 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.58%) Military
13 3 (0.44%) Billing
13 3 (0.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 100 (14.53%) Architect
2 98 (14.24%) Developer
3 82 (11.92%) Analyst
4 66 (9.59%) Lead
5 59 (8.58%) Project Manager
6 58 (8.43%) Senior
7 53 (7.70%) Business Analyst
8 40 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (5.38%) Java Developer
9 37 (5.38%) Technical Architect
10 31 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (4.36%) Lead Architect
11 30 (4.36%) Technical Leader
12 27 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (2.91%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.47%) Software Engineer
14 17 (2.47%) Storage Manager
14 17 (2.47%) Tester
15 16 (2.33%) User Researcher
16 14 (2.03%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.70%) Node.js
2 48 (6.98%) REST
3 43 (6.25%) JSON
4 42 (6.10%) React
5 39 (5.67%) Spring
6 37 (5.38%) XML
7 35 (5.09%) Spring Boot
8 34 (4.94%) .NET
9 30 (4.36%) Kafka
10 25 (3.63%) YAML
11 23 (3.34%) Hibernate
11 23 (3.34%) JPA
12 21 (3.05%) HTML
12 21 (3.05%) Web Services
13 19 (2.76%) RESTful
14 18 (2.62%) CSS
15 17 (2.47%) .NET Framework
16 14 (2.03%) AngularJS
17 12 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
17 12 (1.74%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 59 (8.58%) Product Ownership
2 41 (5.96%) Public Cloud
3 21 (3.05%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 16 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.45%) Reference Data
8 9 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
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%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.73%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.73%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.69%) Windows
2 42 (6.10%) Android
2 42 (6.10%) Apple iOS
3 40 (5.81%) Linux
4 35 (5.09%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.76%) Unix
6 18 (2.62%) zOS
7 6 (0.87%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.44%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (27.18%) DevOps
2 140 (20.35%) Scrum
3 131 (19.04%) CI/CD
4 113 (16.42%) Project Management
5 111 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (15.12%) Waterfall
7 80 (11.63%) Test Automation
8 73 (10.61%) Microservices
9 61 (8.87%) Software Engineering
10 59 (8.58%) Risk Management
11 58 (8.43%) Design Patterns
11 58 (8.43%) Mentoring
12 56 (8.14%) Project Delivery
12 56 (8.14%) Roadmaps
13 54 (7.85%) Migration
14 53 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (6.98%) SDLC
16 47 (6.83%) Analytics
17 46 (6.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (17.30%) Java
2 79 (11.48%) Python
3 63 (9.16%) JavaScript
4 58 (8.43%) SQL
5 41 (5.96%) C#
6 30 (4.36%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.91%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.76%) Bash
9 17 (2.47%) JCL
10 15 (2.18%) Scala
11 14 (2.03%) REXX
12 9 (1.31%) Groovy
13 8 (1.16%) C
14 7 (1.02%) Go
14 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.73%) Ruby
16 4 (0.58%) PHP
16 4 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (13.66%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.87%) Degree
4 15 (2.18%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (1.16%) PMP
7 7 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.73%) CBAP
9 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.44%) OSCP
11 2 (0.29%) APMG
11 2 (0.29%) CCSA
11 2 (0.29%) CCSE
12 1 (0.15%) CISSP
12 1 (0.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.28%) QA
2 26 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.91%) PMO
4 17 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.16%) GDPR
5 8 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.02%) GRC
7 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.44%) NIST
8 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) GxP
8 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.29%) P3O
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
9 1 (0.15%) GAMP
9 1 (0.15%) MISRA
9 1 (0.15%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 52 (7.56%) Docker
2 17 (2.47%) NFS
2 17 (2.47%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (7.70%) Kubernetes
2 47 (6.83%) Terraform
3 46 (6.69%) Ansible
4 25 (3.63%) Grafana
4 25 (3.63%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 12 (1.74%) Puppet
7 11 (1.60%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (1.45%) Kibana
9 9 (1.31%) logstash
10 5 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.58%) Istio
12 2 (0.29%) Kiali
13 1 (0.15%) Consul
13 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.15%) linkerd
13 1 (0.15%) Packer
13 1 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 59 (8.58%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.36%) SAP
3 27 (3.92%) Oracle
4 22 (3.20%) IBM
5 19 (2.76%) Broadcom
5 19 (2.76%) Dell
5 19 (2.76%) Google
6 17 (2.47%) Brocade
6 17 (2.47%) CA
7 15 (2.18%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.03%) Splunk
9 9 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.02%) Avaloq
10 7 (1.02%) Cisco
11 6 (0.87%) VMware
12 5 (0.73%) Apple
12 5 (0.73%) ESRI
12 5 (0.73%) Informatica
12 5 (0.73%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.73%) Sage