Agile Contract Job Trends in Chelmsford

Agile Software Development
Essex > Chelmsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chelmsford requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Chelmsford 9.62% - 20.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.90% - 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £484 - £373
25th Percentile £489 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.05%
75th Percentile £527 - £463
90th Percentile £533 - £478
Essex median daily rate £510 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +4.51% +2.74% -10.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chelmsford

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 Chelmsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chelmsford 80.77% 88.89% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 3
10th Percentile £240 - £373
25th Percentile £413 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -47.06% -6.18%
75th Percentile £483 £230 £463
90th Percentile £614 £325 £478
Essex median daily rate £500 £460 £350
% change year-on-year +8.70% +31.43% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 1
10th Percentile £14.25 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £78.75 -
Median hourly rate £18.36 £95.00 £15.76
Median % change year-on-year -80.67% +502.79% -
75th Percentile £35.53 £108.75 -
90th Percentile £81.05 £115.50 -
Essex median hourly rate £19.22 £18.87 £70.50
% change year-on-year +1.85% -73.23% +4.31%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chelmsford.

Agile job vacancy trend in Chelmsford

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Chelmsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chelmsford citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chelmsford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) SQL