Agile Contracts in Kent

Agile Software Development
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Agile 12 22 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 5.88% 10.05% 10.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.02% 13.25% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 27
10th Percentile £334 £406 £406
25th Percentile £425 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £536 £634 £614
90th Percentile £575 £640 £648
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £517
% change year-on-year - +6.38% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - £43.50
75th Percentile £64.99 - -
90th Percentile £66.21 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £55.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year +6.00% +6.80% -1.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 166 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 65.20% 75.80% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 126 216
10th Percentile £205 £122 £181
25th Percentile £263 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £433
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -19.08% +24.01%
75th Percentile £540 £514 £578
90th Percentile £656 £674 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 9
10th Percentile £11.47 £36.85 £22.02
25th Percentile £15.00 £41.16 £32.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £52.28 £35.55
Median % change year-on-year -32.09% +47.07% -8.67%
75th Percentile £46.87 £57.44 £43.50
90th Percentile £62.96 £62.25 £47.22
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Kent over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Kent region over the 6 months to 29 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
Chatham - 2 £488 - 3
Dartford - 2 - -
Maidstone - 2 £575 - 3
Sevenoaks 0 1 £275 -57.03% 1
Sittingbourne - 1 - - 1
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (8.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (8.33%) Skype
1 1 (8.33%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Trainer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Trainer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (16.67%) Blazor
2 2 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
1 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (16.67%) Kanban
2 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) SysML
2 2 (16.67%) UML
2 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (8.33%) Biotechnology
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (8.33%) Decision Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Line Management
3 1 (8.33%) Neuroscience
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Polycom