Agile Contracts in Birmingham

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 6 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Agile 86 127 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.23% 14.14% 19.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.44% 16.02% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 96 183
10th Percentile £409 £400 £382
25th Percentile £450 £459 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +24.71%
75th Percentile £694 £628 £675
90th Percentile £925 £663 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £540 £524
% change year-on-year +1.85% +3.10% +22.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £13.25 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +265.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 793 1,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.31% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 530 881
10th Percentile £248 £263 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £510 £488
% change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -12.99% -4.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
% change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (9.30%) NetSuite
2 3 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.26%) Azure
2 8 (9.30%) Boomi
3 7 (8.14%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (6.98%) AWS
4 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.98%) SaaS
5 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.49%) Serverless
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub
7 2 (2.33%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.16%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.16%) IaaS
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.30%) WAN
2 5 (5.81%) Internet
2 5 (5.81%) LAN
3 3 (3.49%) ADSL
3 3 (3.49%) Ethernet
3 3 (3.49%) Firewall
3 3 (3.49%) MPLS
3 3 (3.49%) PSTN
3 3 (3.49%) VPN
4 2 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.33%) Junos
4 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.16%) DHCP
5 1 (1.16%) DNS
5 1 (1.16%) FTP
5 1 (1.16%) IPsec
5 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.49%) MySQL
3 2 (2.33%) Power BI
3 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.16%) Big Data
4 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.16%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 5 (5.81%) JIRA
2 4 (4.65%) Git
3 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.33%) Selenium
5 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 42 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 25 (29.07%) Finance
3 18 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.98%) German Language
6 5 (5.81%) Electronics
6 5 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 4 (4.65%) Automotive
8 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.33%) Legal
9 2 (2.33%) Marketing
9 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Back Office
10 1 (1.16%) Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.16%) Local Government
10 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Architect
2 12 (13.95%) Analyst
2 12 (13.95%) Developer
3 9 (10.47%) Project Manager
3 9 (10.47%) Senior
4 8 (9.30%) Azure Architect
4 8 (9.30%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.14%) Lead
6 6 (6.98%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.65%) Author
7 4 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Technical Author
8 3 (3.49%) Coordinator
8 3 (3.49%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.47%) XML
2 6 (6.98%) JSON
2 6 (6.98%) Spring
3 5 (5.81%) SOAP
4 4 (4.65%) .NET
4 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.65%) HTML
4 4 (4.65%) REST
5 3 (3.49%) React
5 3 (3.49%) Web Services
5 3 (3.49%) WSDL
5 3 (3.49%) XSD
5 3 (3.49%) XSLT
6 2 (2.33%) CSS
6 2 (2.33%) Kafka
6 2 (2.33%) Middleware
6 2 (2.33%) OAuth
6 2 (2.33%) React Native
6 2 (2.33%) SAML
6 2 (2.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.65%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (4.65%) IoT
2 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.49%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.33%) FMCG
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.16%) PKI
5 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Windows
3 2 (2.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.07%) Scrum
2 19 (22.09%) Project Management
3 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (16.28%) Roadmaps
4 14 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (15.12%) Waterfall
6 12 (13.95%) User Stories
7 11 (12.79%) Computer Science
7 11 (12.79%) DevOps
7 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.79%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.63%) Business Transformation
8 10 (11.63%) Change Control
9 9 (10.47%) CRM
9 9 (10.47%) Data Architecture
10 8 (9.30%) Analytical Thinking
10 8 (9.30%) Change Management
10 8 (9.30%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.14%) IT Strategy
11 7 (8.14%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.47%) SQL
2 8 (9.30%) Java
3 5 (5.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.65%) C#
5 3 (3.49%) Python
6 2 (2.33%) Apex Code
6 2 (2.33%) Perl
6 2 (2.33%) SOQL
7 1 (1.16%) Groovy
7 1 (1.16%) PHP
7 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.16%) ProC
7 1 (1.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) BC Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.49%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.49%) PMP
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.16%) ACCA
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.16%) CCNA
6 1 (1.16%) CCNP
6 1 (1.16%) CIMA
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) SLA
3 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.16%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (2.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.47%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.98%) SAP
4 5 (5.81%) Cisco
5 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.49%) BT
6 3 (3.49%) Openreach
7 2 (2.33%) Databricks
7 2 (2.33%) Juniper
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (1.16%) Anaplan
8 1 (1.16%) Dell
8 1 (1.16%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.16%) Progress
8 1 (1.16%) Sage
8 1 (1.16%) Snow
8 1 (1.16%) UiPath
8 1 (1.16%) VMware