Agile Contracts in the West Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 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 5 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 241 468 958
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.50% 19.57% 26.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.89% 22.11% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 345 728
10th Percentile £358 £413 £396
25th Percentile £450 £453 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £524
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +3.10% +22.37%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £588
90th Percentile £750 £683 £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 0
10th Percentile £13.85 - -
25th Percentile £18.73 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £58.75 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.38
% change year-on-year -7.69% +31.65% +9.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Birmingham -3 86 £538 -2.27% 105
Warwickshire -2 55 £607 +12.93% 45
Coventry -1 40 £588 +9.30% 21
Shropshire -3 32 £358 -33.70% 9
Staffordshire -4 4 £325 -38.10% 18
Worcestershire -4 4 £560 -13.85% 16
Solihull -20 1 - - 7
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (3.73%) CICS
1 9 (3.73%) SAS
2 6 (2.49%) Confluence
3 4 (1.66%) CMS
3 4 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.24%) Drupal
5 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.49%) Simulink
2 6 (2.49%) Stateflow
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.07%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.83%) Trello
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (4.15%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.83%) Maximo
3 2 (0.83%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.83%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.16%) Azure
2 22 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.81%) AWS
4 10 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.15%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.32%) Boomi
7 7 (2.90%) Azure App Service
7 7 (2.90%) SaaS
8 6 (2.49%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (2.07%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.66%) IaaS
10 4 (1.66%) PaaS
11 3 (1.24%) GCP
11 3 (1.24%) Serverless
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.83%) iPaaS
12 2 (0.83%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.73%) Firewall
2 8 (3.32%) Network Security
2 8 (3.32%) WAN
3 6 (2.49%) DNS
3 6 (2.49%) Internet
4 5 (2.07%) LAN
4 5 (2.07%) VPN
5 4 (1.66%) SSL
6 3 (1.24%) ADSL
6 3 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.24%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.24%) MPLS
6 3 (1.24%) PSTN
6 3 (1.24%) SAN
7 2 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.83%) Intranet
7 2 (0.83%) Junos
7 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.41%) FTP
8 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.98%) MySQL
2 10 (4.15%) DB2
3 9 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (3.73%) IDMS
4 6 (2.49%) Power BI
4 6 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.24%) Big Data
7 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.41%) Flink
8 1 (0.41%) MS Access
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (16.18%) Git
2 21 (8.71%) JIRA
3 10 (4.15%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.32%) Subversion
5 7 (2.90%) Selenium
6 4 (1.66%) Ant
7 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.83%) Maven
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.83%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.83%) TestNG
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.41%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) NUnit
9 1 (0.41%) Postman
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 89 (36.93%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.82%) Finance
3 40 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.64%) Automotive
6 11 (4.56%) Retail
7 8 (3.32%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.90%) German Language
8 7 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.49%) Electronics
9 6 (2.49%) Marketing
9 6 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Law
11 3 (1.24%) Legal
12 2 (0.83%) Billing
12 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Local Government
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (16.60%) Developer
2 39 (16.18%) Architect
3 30 (12.45%) Senior
4 25 (10.37%) Project Manager
5 24 (9.96%) Analyst
6 17 (7.05%) Lead
7 15 (6.22%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.56%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.15%) Azure Architect
10 10 (4.15%) Consultant
10 10 (4.15%) Enterprise Architect
10 10 (4.15%) IBM Mainframe Developer
10 10 (4.15%) Mainframe Developer
11 9 (3.73%) Product Manager
12 8 (3.32%) Senior Project Manager
12 8 (3.32%) SQL Developer
13 7 (2.90%) Designer
13 7 (2.90%) Java Developer
14 6 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.22%) .NET
2 9 (3.73%) AngularJS
2 9 (3.73%) XML
3 8 (3.32%) JSON
4 7 (2.90%) HTML
5 6 (2.49%) REST
5 6 (2.49%) SOAP
5 6 (2.49%) Spring
6 5 (2.07%) CSS
6 5 (2.07%) RESTful
7 4 (1.66%) ADO
7 4 (1.66%) Web Services
8 3 (1.24%) React
8 3 (1.24%) Visualforce
8 3 (1.24%) WSDL
8 3 (1.24%) XSD
8 3 (1.24%) XSLT
8 3 (1.24%) YAML
9 2 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.83%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.54%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.56%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.15%) IBM Mainframe
4 10 (4.15%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.90%) IoT
5 7 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.07%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.24%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.15%) Unix
2 9 (3.73%) zOS
3 4 (1.66%) Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Windows
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.80%) Scrum
2 61 (25.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 44 (18.26%) Project Management
4 37 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (14.94%) Roadmaps
6 35 (14.52%) DevOps
7 32 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (12.86%) Project Delivery
9 30 (12.45%) Waterfall
10 28 (11.62%) Software Engineering
11 23 (9.54%) Requirements Gathering
12 21 (8.71%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (7.88%) Analytics
13 19 (7.88%) PRINCE2
14 18 (7.47%) CI/CD
14 18 (7.47%) ITIL
15 17 (7.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 16 (6.64%) Business Transformation
16 16 (6.64%) Decision-Making
16 16 (6.64%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.62%) SQL
2 13 (5.39%) C#
3 12 (4.98%) Java
4 10 (4.15%) COBOL
5 9 (3.73%) CLIST
5 9 (3.73%) REXX
5 9 (3.73%) SELCOPY
6 8 (3.32%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.90%) Bash
7 7 (2.90%) Bourne shell
7 7 (2.90%) Korn
7 7 (2.90%) Python
8 6 (2.49%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.49%) MATLAB
9 5 (2.07%) Bicep
9 5 (2.07%) C
9 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.24%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.24%) Perl
11 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (12.86%) Degree
2 25 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.15%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.07%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.07%) PMP
7 4 (1.66%) CCNA
8 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.24%) BC Cleared
8 3 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.41%) ACCA
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.41%) CIMA
10 1 (0.41%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.79%) QA
2 6 (2.49%) SLA
3 5 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.07%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (2.07%) ISO 26262
3 5 (2.07%) MISRA
3 5 (2.07%) MISRA C
4 4 (1.66%) PMO
5 3 (1.24%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (3.73%) Grafana
2 7 (2.90%) Terraform
3 6 (2.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.13%) Salesforce
3 20 (8.30%) SAP
4 14 (5.81%) IBM
5 13 (5.39%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.98%) Oracle
7 9 (3.73%) Denodo
7 9 (3.73%) Syncsort
7 9 (3.73%) Talend
8 8 (3.32%) Cisco
9 4 (1.66%) Databricks
10 3 (1.24%) BT
10 3 (1.24%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.24%) F5
10 3 (1.24%) Openreach
11 2 (0.83%) Cadence
11 2 (0.83%) Juniper
11 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.41%) Anaplan
12 1 (0.41%) VMware