Agile Contracts in Brentwood

Agile Software Development
Essex > Brentwood

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Brentwood 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Agile 3 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brentwood 37.50% 25.00% 50.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 37.50% 30.00% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile - - £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £535
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.33%
75th Percentile £438 - £575
90th Percentile £461 - £589
Essex median daily rate £468 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.58% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - - £70.18
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median hourly rate - - £74.50
% change year-on-year - - -2.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Brentwood

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 Brentwood.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood 100.00% 83.33% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile £186 £366 £300
25th Percentile - £372 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -27.23% +63.85%
75th Percentile £476 £397 £569
90th Percentile £558 £399 £582
Essex median daily rate £400 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £35.60 - £65.51
25th Percentile £36.86 - £66.27
Median hourly rate £40.35 £40.00 £67.59
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £42.46 - £68.95
90th Percentile £42.91 - £69.74
Essex median hourly rate £18.87 £75.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -74.84% +71.90% +9.08%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Brentwood

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Agile

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brentwood 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DTV Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Yocto
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Digital TV
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (66.67%) STB
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes