Agile Contracts in the North East

Agile Software Development
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 48 95 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 15.24% 26.91% 27.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.97% 30.16% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 80 110
10th Percentile £366 £411 £398
25th Percentile £503 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £599
90th Percentile £613 £775 £638
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.64 - -
Median hourly rate £38.27 - -
75th Percentile £40.91 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.06% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 315 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.32% 89.24% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 243 323
10th Percentile £263 £234 £181
25th Percentile £363 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 2 15
10th Percentile £11.44 £32.74 £10.60
25th Percentile £12.13 £34.98 £12.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £39.34 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.43% +138.42% +26.92%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.07 £18.13
90th Percentile £68.75 £44.94 £33.75
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 East

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North East

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 East 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
Tyne and Wear +2 43 £554 -7.71% 56
Durham -1 2 £550 +4.76% 6
Northumberland - 1 - -
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) Serverless
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.33%) BrowserStack
4 4 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.33%) GitHub
5 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Stack
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.08%) IaaS
7 1 (2.08%) Miro
7 1 (2.08%) PaaS
7 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.33%) MySQL
1 4 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) GitLab
1 5 (10.42%) JIRA
2 4 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.17%) Git
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 14 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Finance
5 3 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Portfolio Manager
3 6 (12.50%) Governance Manager
4 5 (10.42%) Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Governance Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Portfolio Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Content Designer
6 3 (6.25%) Designer
6 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) RESTful
2 4 (8.33%) Next.js
2 4 (8.33%) React
2 4 (8.33%) REST
3 3 (6.25%) JSON
4 2 (4.17%) CSS
4 2 (4.17%) HTML
4 2 (4.17%) XML
5 1 (2.08%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.08%) Jest
5 1 (2.08%) Middleware
5 1 (2.08%) Node.js
5 1 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.08%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
1 4 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Project Management
2 10 (20.83%) Scrum
2 10 (20.83%) Waterfall
3 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (18.75%) DevOps
3 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.67%) Quality Management
4 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (14.58%) Microservices
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (12.50%) Migration
7 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.42%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
8 4 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (8.33%) Operational Stability
8 4 (8.33%) Product Backlog
8 4 (8.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.33%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.17%) Scala
5 1 (2.08%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.17%) PMP
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.25%) PMO
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) WCAG
4 1 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Grafana
2 4 (8.33%) Ansible
2 4 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 4 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) PagerDuty
2 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.08%) Ariba
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) SAP