Agile Contracts in the East of England

Agile Software Development
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 155 292 499
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.18% 14.06% 19.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.49% 16.13% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 173 301
10th Percentile £246 £375 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £574
90th Percentile £626 £725 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 40 19
10th Percentile £57.00 £64.65 £40.30
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +18.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £66.39
90th Percentile - £82.75 £70.98
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -7.69% +33.80% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,810 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.14% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,068 1,270
10th Percentile £207 £200 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 344 388
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hertfordshire -6 81 £425 -17.60% 92
Essex -3 35 £534 +4.81% 18
Bedfordshire -13 17 £475 -19.15% 13
Cambridgeshire -30 11 £525 +10.53% 90
Suffolk -4 7 £550 -8.33% 3
Norfolk +8 4 £400 -33.33% 21
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 4 (2.58%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.58%) Confluence
2 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Mendix
4 1 (0.65%) SAS
4 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.29%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.65%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.65%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.65%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.45%) AWS
2 9 (5.81%) Azure
3 8 (5.16%) GCP
4 5 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (2.58%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.58%) Serverless
6 3 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.94%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (1.29%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.29%) SaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (23.23%) Modbus
1 36 (23.23%) RS-422
1 36 (23.23%) RS-485
2 14 (9.03%) Firewall
2 14 (9.03%) VPN
3 4 (2.58%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.58%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.58%) Wireless
4 3 (1.94%) 4G
4 3 (1.94%) 5G
4 3 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.65%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.65%) 802.11
5 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.65%) DNS
5 1 (0.65%) GSM
5 1 (0.65%) MQTT
5 1 (0.65%) RS-232
5 1 (0.65%) SSL
5 1 (0.65%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.87%) SQL Server
1 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (3.23%) Power BI
3 4 (2.58%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.94%) Big Data
5 2 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.29%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.29%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.29%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.29%) MySQL
5 2 (1.29%) Presto
5 2 (1.29%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.29%) Tableau
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (14.19%) JIRA
2 7 (4.52%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.87%) Git
3 6 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.58%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.29%) GitLab
5 2 (1.29%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.29%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
General
1 73 (47.10%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.87%) Electronics
3 31 (20.00%) Finance
4 15 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.16%) Banking
7 7 (4.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.58%) Games
9 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Military
10 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.94%) Law
10 3 (1.94%) Marketing
11 2 (1.29%) Automotive
11 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Retail
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (30.97%) Software Engineer
2 31 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 18 (11.61%) Developer
4 16 (10.32%) Senior
5 14 (9.03%) Project Manager
6 13 (8.39%) Architect
7 11 (7.10%) Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Full Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) C Software Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Lead
11 6 (3.87%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.87%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.87%) Senior Java Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Consultant
12 5 (3.23%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.58%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.26%) CSS
1 19 (12.26%) HTML
2 18 (11.61%) React
3 10 (6.45%) Yocto
4 6 (3.87%) Node.js
5 5 (3.23%) .NET
5 5 (3.23%) Web Services
6 4 (2.58%) REST
7 3 (1.94%) RESTful
8 2 (1.29%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.29%) Kafka
8 2 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.29%) MFC
8 2 (1.29%) Visualforce
8 2 (1.29%) WinForms
8 2 (1.29%) WPF
9 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.65%) Angular 2
9 1 (0.65%) Next.js
9 1 (0.65%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.71%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.52%) STB
4 5 (3.23%) Digital TV
5 3 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) PMI
7 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.90%) Linux
2 7 (4.52%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (42.58%) DevOps
2 62 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 42 (27.10%) Continuous Integration
4 41 (26.45%) TDD
4 41 (26.45%) Unit Testing
5 40 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (24.52%) Software Testing
7 37 (23.87%) Customer Requirements
8 36 (23.23%) Pair Programming
9 34 (21.94%) Scrum
10 31 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (16.77%) CI/CD
12 18 (11.61%) Identity Management
12 18 (11.61%) PRINCE2
13 16 (10.32%) Full Stack Development
14 15 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (8.39%) Project Management
16 12 (7.74%) Load Balancing
16 12 (7.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 10 (6.45%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.61%) C
1 49 (31.61%) C#
2 45 (29.03%) C++
3 30 (19.35%) Java
4 16 (10.32%) SQL
5 14 (9.03%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.10%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.10%) Python
7 2 (1.29%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.29%) C++/CLI
7 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) Groovy
8 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.65%) R
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (12.26%) Degree
2 16 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.23%) PMP
6 4 (2.58%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) PgMP
8 1 (0.65%) PhD
8 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) PMO
2 3 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.94%) QA
3 2 (1.29%) IFRS
4 1 (0.65%) GxP
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (2.58%) Firmware
2 2 (1.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) LXC
3 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.94%) Terraform
2 2 (1.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.29%) Proxmox
3 1 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.10%) SAP
3 7 (4.52%) Google
4 6 (3.87%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.87%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.94%) Informatica
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle
6 2 (1.29%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.29%) Snow
6 2 (1.29%) Talend
7 1 (0.65%) Ariba
7 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.65%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.65%) Hortonworks
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.65%) Teradata
7 1 (0.65%) Workday