Agile Contracts in Birmingham

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 80 78 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.93% 10.08% 14.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.09% 12.64% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 61 109
10th Percentile £413 £413 £400
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £638
90th Percentile £655 £925 £690
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
10th Percentile - £13.85 -
25th Percentile - £22.33 £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 £48.32 £47.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +1.73% +265.38% -77.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 468 617 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.31% 79.72% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 418 526
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £636
90th Percentile £689 £700 £719
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 35 31
10th Percentile - £13.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £13.10
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.00 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +23.99% +25.19%
75th Percentile £25.13 £43.63 £29.38
90th Percentile £27.27 £55.75 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
% change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +44.93%

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 5 July 2025.

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
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 7 (8.75%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) IIS
3 1 (1.25%) CMS
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Primavera
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) AWS
2 12 (15.00%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 8 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.50%) AWS KMS
6 6 (7.50%) Route 53
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.00%) GitHub
8 4 (5.00%) IaaS
8 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.75%) GCP
9 3 (3.75%) SaaS
9 3 (3.75%) Serverless
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.50%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.50%) PaaS
10 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) DHCP
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.25%) SAN
2 1 (1.25%) SSL
2 1 (1.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.50%) Power BI
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.50%) Tableau
7 1 (1.25%) Big Data
7 1 (1.25%) GIS
7 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Jenkins
1 14 (17.50%) JIRA
2 12 (15.00%) Git
3 8 (10.00%) Maven
4 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
5 6 (7.50%) JUnit
6 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (5.00%) DbUnit
6 4 (5.00%) jMock
6 4 (5.00%) Mockito
7 3 (3.75%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (2.50%) GitLab
8 2 (2.50%) JMeter
8 2 (2.50%) Postman
8 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.50%) Selenium
8 2 (2.50%) TestNG
8 2 (2.50%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Finance
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Advertising
6 4 (5.00%) Retail
7 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 3 (3.75%) Marketing
7 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Back Office
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Developer
2 12 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 9 (11.25%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 6 (7.50%) Lead
6 5 (6.25%) Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Tester
9 2 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Developer
9 2 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) REST
1 10 (12.50%) Web Services
2 9 (11.25%) Spring
2 9 (11.25%) Spring Boot
3 8 (10.00%) SOAP
4 7 (8.75%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (8.75%) RESTful
5 6 (7.50%) Hibernate
5 6 (7.50%) JPA
5 6 (7.50%) React
5 6 (7.50%) Spring Batch
5 6 (7.50%) Spring Integration
6 5 (6.25%) .NET
7 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.00%) Bootstrap
7 4 (5.00%) PowerMock
7 4 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (3.75%) YAML
9 2 (2.50%) Node.js
9 2 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 8 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.25%) CMDB
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.25%) SCADA
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) CentOS
3 1 (1.25%) Debian
3 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.00%) Project Management
2 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (30.00%) Scrum
3 21 (26.25%) DevOps
4 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (15.00%) Project Delivery
6 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 10 (12.50%) Waterfall
8 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.25%) Microservices
8 9 (11.25%) Migration
8 9 (11.25%) TDD
9 8 (10.00%) Data Protection
10 7 (8.75%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (8.75%) Kanban
10 7 (8.75%) SDLC
11 6 (7.50%) API Development
11 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (6.25%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Python
2 12 (15.00%) SQL
3 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.25%) Java
4 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.25%) PHP
6 4 (5.00%) C#
7 3 (3.75%) Bash
7 3 (3.75%) Groovy
7 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.25%) Bicep
8 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) CEH
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.50%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) PSD2
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Postfix
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Grafana
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.75%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (1.25%) Argo
5 1 (1.25%) Nessus
5 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (5.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.50%) Citrix
5 2 (2.50%) Foundry
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) Splunk
6 1 (1.25%) Ariba
6 1 (1.25%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.25%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.25%) Infor
6 1 (1.25%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.25%) Qualys
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.25%) Sophos
6 1 (1.25%) VMware