Agile Contracts in the Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 321 630 1,224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.86% 18.66% 24.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.43% 21.07% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 490 948
10th Percentile £356 £350 £383
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +1.46% +20.59%
75th Percentile £625 £595 £588
90th Percentile £710 £666 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 6
10th Percentile £13.25 - £20.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £12.50 £21.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% -52.73% -26.17%
75th Percentile £56.88 £18.25 £30.81
90th Percentile £58.75 £21.10 £34.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -6.92% +33.80% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,225 2,990 4,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.22% 88.54% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 2,094 3,250
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £685 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 115 143
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.88 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +7.14% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.38 £22.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.50 £34.90
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
West Midlands -2 245 £550 +1.85% 321
East Midlands -10 74 £448 -1.92% 165
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.80%) CICS
1 9 (2.80%) SAS
2 7 (2.18%) Confluence
3 4 (1.25%) CMS
4 3 (0.93%) Drupal
4 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.87%) Simulink
2 6 (1.87%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.56%) TargetLink
4 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.62%) Trello
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (3.12%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.62%) Maximo
3 2 (0.62%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.62%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.62%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.62%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.81%) Azure
2 29 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (7.17%) AWS
4 18 (5.61%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.43%) SaaS
6 10 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.49%) Boomi
7 8 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.18%) Azure App Service
8 7 (2.18%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (1.87%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.56%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.25%) GCP
11 4 (1.25%) IaaS
11 4 (1.25%) PaaS
11 4 (1.25%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.25%) Serverless
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.93%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.12%) SAN
2 8 (2.49%) Firewall
2 8 (2.49%) Network Security
2 8 (2.49%) WAN
3 7 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.87%) Internet
4 6 (1.87%) LAN
5 5 (1.56%) DNS
6 4 (1.25%) SSL
6 4 (1.25%) VPN
7 3 (0.93%) ADSL
7 3 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.93%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.93%) MPLS
7 3 (0.93%) PSTN
8 2 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.62%) Intranet
8 2 (0.62%) Junos
8 2 (0.62%) SMS
9 1 (0.31%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.92%) MySQL
2 15 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (4.36%) DB2
4 12 (3.74%) Power BI
4 12 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.80%) IDMS
6 6 (1.87%) Big Data
7 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.31%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.31%) MS Access
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (13.71%) Git
2 20 (6.23%) JIRA
3 10 (3.12%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.49%) Subversion
6 7 (2.18%) Selenium
7 4 (1.25%) Ant
7 4 (1.25%) JMeter
7 4 (1.25%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.62%) Maven
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.62%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.62%) TestNG
10 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.31%) JUnit
10 1 (0.31%) NUnit
General
1 103 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.56%) Finance
3 44 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.98%) Automotive
6 13 (4.05%) Banking
7 12 (3.74%) Retail
8 8 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.18%) German Language
9 7 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.18%) Marketing
9 7 (2.18%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.87%) Electronics
11 5 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Local Government
13 3 (0.93%) Law
13 3 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (17.45%) Developer
2 50 (15.58%) Architect
3 42 (13.08%) Analyst
4 38 (11.84%) Senior
5 33 (10.28%) Project Manager
6 25 (7.79%) Business Analyst
7 23 (7.17%) Lead
8 16 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (4.36%) Consultant
10 13 (4.05%) Senior Manager
11 12 (3.74%) Azure Architect
11 12 (3.74%) Product Owner
11 12 (3.74%) SQL Developer
12 10 (3.12%) Enterprise Architect
12 10 (3.12%) IBM Mainframe Developer
12 10 (3.12%) Mainframe Developer
13 9 (2.80%) Senior Project Manager
14 8 (2.49%) Designer
14 8 (2.49%) Java Developer
15 7 (2.18%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.23%) .NET
2 13 (4.05%) React
3 12 (3.74%) XML
4 10 (3.12%) AngularJS
4 10 (3.12%) HTML
5 9 (2.80%) Web Services
6 8 (2.49%) JSON
7 7 (2.18%) REST
8 6 (1.87%) CSS
8 6 (1.87%) RESTful
8 6 (1.87%) SOAP
8 6 (1.87%) Spring
9 5 (1.56%) Middleware
9 5 (1.56%) OAuth
9 5 (1.56%) SAML
9 5 (1.56%) XSLT
10 4 (1.25%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.25%) Kafka
10 4 (1.25%) Visualforce
11 3 (0.93%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.36%) Mainframe
2 14 (4.36%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.43%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.12%) IBM Mainframe
6 9 (2.80%) IoT
7 7 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.56%) Industry 4.0
10 4 (1.25%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.12%) Linux
1 10 (3.12%) Unix
2 9 (2.80%) zOS
3 5 (1.56%) Debian
3 5 (1.56%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.25%) Android
4 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.25%) Windows
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (25.55%) Scrum
2 74 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (18.69%) Project Management
4 52 (16.20%) Waterfall
5 50 (15.58%) DevOps
6 45 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (13.71%) Roadmaps
8 38 (11.84%) Software Engineering
9 36 (11.21%) Project Delivery
10 35 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (8.72%) ITIL
11 28 (8.72%) PRINCE2
11 28 (8.72%) Requirements Gathering
12 27 (8.41%) Analytics
13 25 (7.79%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (7.48%) Customer Service
15 23 (7.17%) CI/CD
15 23 (7.17%) Software Testing
15 23 (7.17%) User Stories
16 22 (6.85%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 41 (12.77%) SQL
2 18 (5.61%) C#
2 18 (5.61%) Java
3 17 (5.30%) JavaScript
3 17 (5.30%) Python
4 12 (3.74%) PL/SQL
5 10 (3.12%) Bash
5 10 (3.12%) COBOL
6 9 (2.80%) C
6 9 (2.80%) CLIST
6 9 (2.80%) REXX
6 9 (2.80%) SELCOPY
7 7 (2.18%) Bourne shell
7 7 (2.18%) Korn
8 6 (1.87%) MATLAB
8 6 (1.87%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.56%) Bicep
10 4 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.90%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.59%) Degree
4 14 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.12%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.87%) PMP
9 5 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.56%) ISEB
10 4 (1.25%) CCNA
10 4 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.93%) BC Cleared
11 3 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.62%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.41%) QA
2 7 (2.18%) SLA
3 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.56%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (1.56%) ISO 26262
3 5 (1.56%) MISRA
3 5 (1.56%) MISRA C
4 4 (1.25%) PMO
5 3 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.93%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
6 1 (0.31%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.93%) Docker
3 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (4.36%) Grafana
2 8 (2.49%) Terraform
3 6 (1.87%) Ansible
4 5 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.62%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.48%) SAP
3 23 (7.17%) Salesforce
4 21 (6.54%) Oracle
5 15 (4.67%) Talend
6 14 (4.36%) Denodo
6 14 (4.36%) IBM
6 14 (4.36%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.80%) Cisco
7 9 (2.80%) Syncsort
8 5 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.56%) VMware
9 4 (1.25%) Databricks
10 3 (0.93%) BT
10 3 (0.93%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.93%) F5
10 3 (0.93%) Okta
10 3 (0.93%) Openreach
11 2 (0.62%) Northgate
11 2 (0.62%) Sage