Agile Contracts in Derby

Agile Software Development
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 5 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 6.10% 3.40% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 5.56% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile £450 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £515
90th Percentile - £566 £551
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 90 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 78.05% 61.22% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 64 70
10th Percentile £184 £167 £115
25th Percentile £200 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £272 £480
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -43.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £450 £578
90th Percentile £628 £588 £650
Derbyshire median daily rate £425 £267 £469
% change year-on-year +59.18% -43.04% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 32
10th Percentile £21.38 - £13.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.18 £17.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% +3.98% -15.85%
75th Percentile £24.66 £18.75 £19.35
90th Percentile £24.95 £18.88 £65.00
Derbyshire median hourly rate £22.30 £17.50 £16.83
% change year-on-year +27.40% +3.98% -15.85%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Derby

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Derby

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Derby

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Chocolatey
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Service Catalogue
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle