Agile Contracts in the North West

Agile Software Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 395 521 884
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 14.20% 17.29% 21.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.87% 19.27% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 395 606
10th Percentile £361 £375 £400
25th Percentile £417 £451 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +5.73%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £600
90th Percentile £738 £675 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 34
10th Percentile £37.55 £30.54 £31.53
25th Percentile £39.63 £35.63 £41.68
Median hourly rate £47.16 £44.79 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -28.91% +85.29%
75th Percentile £52.78 £56.40 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.71 £66.48 £79.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.18% 89.74% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,901 2,610
10th Percentile £310 £313 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.06 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £23.55
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +29.71% +29.98%
75th Percentile £46.18 £44.31 £52.36
90th Percentile £66.61 £62.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the North West

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the North West

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester 0 259 £525 -2.55% 263
Cheshire -3 79 £448 -18.64% 51
Lancashire +1 33 £575 +15.00% 42
Cumbria -6 11 £430 -9.47% 18
Merseyside -15 9 £530 +6.00% 36
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (2.28%) Confluence
1 9 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.52%) Apache
2 6 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.76%) IIS
5 2 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.51%) Mule
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.01%) Misys Midas
2 4 (1.01%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.76%) Aareon QL
3 3 (0.76%) Maximo
4 2 (0.51%) iTrent
4 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 72 (18.23%) Azure
2 68 (17.22%) AWS
3 31 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (5.57%) Serverless
5 19 (4.81%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.30%) SaaS
7 14 (3.54%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.28%) GitHub
11 9 (2.28%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.03%) IaaS
12 8 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.77%) PaaS
13 7 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.52%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.52%) GCP
14 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.61%) Firewall
2 31 (7.85%) VPN
3 5 (1.27%) FTP
3 5 (1.27%) HTTP
4 3 (0.76%) SSL
5 2 (0.51%) DNS
5 2 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) PPP
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (3.80%) Power BI
1 15 (3.80%) Relational Database
2 14 (3.54%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.28%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.77%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.27%) Big Data
7 5 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.01%) Redis
8 4 (1.01%) Tableau
9 3 (0.76%) DB2
9 3 (0.76%) GIS
9 3 (0.76%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (13.67%) JIRA
2 29 (7.34%) Git
3 21 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.05%) GitLab
5 9 (2.28%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.28%) JUnit
5 9 (2.28%) Selenium
6 7 (1.77%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.27%) JMeter
8 5 (1.27%) Postman
9 4 (1.01%) Jasmine
9 4 (1.01%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (1.01%) Mocha
9 4 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (1.01%) webpack
10 3 (0.76%) Mockito
10 3 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.76%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 94 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 59 (14.94%) Finance
3 49 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.82%) Banking
6 17 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (3.29%) Legal
9 11 (2.78%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.52%) Marketing
11 6 (1.52%) Military
11 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.76%) Automotive
13 3 (0.76%) Front Office
13 3 (0.76%) German Language
13 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.76%) Law
13 3 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (22.78%) Architect
2 50 (12.66%) Developer
3 48 (12.15%) Lead
4 36 (9.11%) Technical Architect
5 35 (8.86%) Project Manager
6 34 (8.61%) Senior
7 33 (8.35%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (7.85%) Lead Architect
9 30 (7.59%) Technical Leader
10 28 (7.09%) Analyst
11 24 (6.08%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.56%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.29%) Software Engineer
14 12 (3.04%) Business Analyst
14 12 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.78%) Test Engineer
16 8 (2.03%) Product Manager
16 8 (2.03%) Programme Manager
16 8 (2.03%) Scrum Master
16 8 (2.03%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.39%) Node.js
2 36 (9.11%) REST
3 28 (7.09%) React
4 27 (6.84%) Spring
5 26 (6.58%) .NET
6 23 (5.82%) JSON
7 22 (5.57%) Spring Boot
7 22 (5.57%) XML
8 18 (4.56%) Kafka
9 17 (4.30%) JPA
10 16 (4.05%) Hibernate
11 14 (3.54%) HTML
12 12 (3.04%) .NET Framework
12 12 (3.04%) CSS
12 12 (3.04%) Web Services
13 10 (2.53%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.53%) RESTful
14 8 (2.03%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.03%) SOAP
14 8 (2.03%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.11%) Product Ownership
2 35 (8.86%) Public Cloud
3 15 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.53%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.53%) Reference Data
6 8 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.52%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.52%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.27%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.27%) NHS
9 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.01%) Digital Signage
10 4 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
11 3 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.87%) Android
1 39 (9.87%) Windows
2 38 (9.62%) Apple iOS
3 34 (8.61%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.28%) Linux
5 8 (2.03%) Unix
6 3 (0.76%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.76%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (28.86%) DevOps
2 78 (19.75%) CI/CD
3 64 (16.20%) Scrum
4 63 (15.95%) Project Management
5 57 (14.43%) Microservices
6 49 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (11.90%) Design Patterns
7 47 (11.90%) Waterfall
8 41 (10.38%) Risk Management
9 39 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (9.87%) Project Delivery
10 38 (9.62%) Roadmaps
10 38 (9.62%) Software Engineering
11 35 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.86%) Test Automation
12 32 (8.10%) Mobile Device Management
12 32 (8.10%) Security Architecture
13 31 (7.85%) Zero Trust
14 30 (7.59%) Mentoring
15 29 (7.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (15.95%) Java
2 46 (11.65%) SQL
3 33 (8.35%) C#
4 29 (7.34%) Python
5 28 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.03%) PL/SQL
8 7 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.01%) Bash
9 4 (1.01%) C
9 4 (1.01%) C++
10 3 (0.76%) Scala
11 2 (0.51%) Go
11 2 (0.51%) Groovy
11 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.51%) PHP
11 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.25%) Bicep
12 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 60 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.38%) Degree
4 10 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.27%) PMP
7 3 (0.76%) OSCP
8 2 (0.51%) APMG
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) CCSA
9 1 (0.25%) CCSE
9 1 (0.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.06%) QA
2 16 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.78%) PMO
4 8 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.27%) GRC
7 4 (1.01%) GDPR
7 4 (1.01%) MISRA
7 4 (1.01%) MISRA C
8 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.76%) NIST
9 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.51%) GxP
9 2 (0.51%) P3O
9 2 (0.51%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) GAMP
10 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (4.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.30%) Terraform
3 10 (2.53%) Ansible
4 5 (1.27%) Grafana
5 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 39 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.32%) Oracle
3 14 (3.54%) SAP
4 12 (3.04%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.53%) Google
6 7 (1.77%) Avaloq
7 6 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.27%) Apple
8 5 (1.27%) Informatica
8 5 (1.27%) Talend
9 4 (1.01%) Cadence
9 4 (1.01%) Logitech
9 4 (1.01%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.01%) Pega
9 4 (1.01%) Sage
10 3 (0.76%) Aareon
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco
10 3 (0.76%) Databricks
10 3 (0.76%) IBM
10 3 (0.76%) Nintex