Agile Contracts in the East Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 97 73 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.30% 9.44% 18.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.27% 12.09% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 58 170
10th Percentile £257 £295 £313
25th Percentile £358 £365 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% - -4.86%
75th Percentile £510 £550 £543
90th Percentile £550 £625 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £7.85 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.87% -16.36%
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 456 604 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.04% 78.14% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 406 693
10th Percentile £200 £194 £213
25th Percentile £322 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £417 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -7.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £558 £573
90th Percentile £588 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.20 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.18 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £31.41 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Northamptonshire +1 41 £367 -4.92% 34
Nottinghamshire +19 26 £500 -6.10% 71
Leicestershire +6 15 £463 -13.95% 41
Derbyshire +6 4 £500 +11.11% 27
Lincolnshire 0 2 £500 +25.00% 15
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 14 (14.43%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.03%) Actimize
2 1 (1.03%) BASE24
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.62%) AWS
2 19 (19.59%) Azure
3 9 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.22%) GCP
5 6 (6.19%) Serverless
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.15%) Asana
6 5 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.12%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.12%) SaaS
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon Glacier
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.03%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (1.03%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) DNS
1 2 (2.06%) HTTP
1 2 (2.06%) SAN
1 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.03%) ATM
2 1 (1.03%) DHCP
2 1 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (1.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) IPsec
2 1 (1.03%) LAN
2 1 (1.03%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.12%) MySQL
3 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.12%) Power BI
3 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.09%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.03%) Looker
6 1 (1.03%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.03%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (21.65%) JIRA
2 15 (15.46%) Git
3 11 (11.34%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.19%) Selenium
4 6 (6.19%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.12%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.12%) JUnit
5 4 (4.12%) Maven
5 4 (4.12%) NetBeans
6 3 (3.09%) Chocolatey
6 3 (3.09%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.09%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (3.09%) Postman
7 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.06%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (2.06%) GitLab
7 2 (2.06%) Gradle
7 2 (2.06%) Mockito
7 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.06%) Subversion
General
1 29 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 27 (27.84%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Banking
5 5 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Marketing
7 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Law
7 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.06%) Automotive
8 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Developer
2 10 (10.31%) Architect
3 8 (8.25%) Senior
4 7 (7.22%) Analyst
4 7 (7.22%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.19%) Android Developer
5 6 (6.19%) Test Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.15%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.15%) IT Project Manager
6 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.12%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.12%) AWS Solution Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) SQL Developer
8 3 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) .NET
2 12 (12.37%) HTML
3 9 (9.28%) AngularJS
3 9 (9.28%) RESTful
4 8 (8.25%) CSS
5 7 (7.22%) Kafka
5 7 (7.22%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.19%) .NET Core
6 6 (6.19%) Android Jetpack
6 6 (6.19%) Hibernate
6 6 (6.19%) Jetpack Compose
6 6 (6.19%) React
6 6 (6.19%) REST
7 5 (5.15%) jQuery
7 5 (5.15%) Node.js
7 5 (5.15%) Spring
8 4 (4.12%) J2EE
8 4 (4.12%) Web Services
9 3 (3.09%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (3.09%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.25%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.12%) Smartphone
4 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.06%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.06%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.03%) APACS
6 1 (1.03%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) PMI
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Android
2 6 (6.19%) Linux
3 4 (4.12%) Unix
4 2 (2.06%) AIX
4 2 (2.06%) Debian
4 2 (2.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.77%) CI/CD
2 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (19.59%) Microservices
4 19 (19.59%) Scrum
5 18 (18.56%) Test Automation
6 16 (16.49%) DevOps
6 16 (16.49%) Project Management
7 13 (13.40%) Waterfall
8 11 (11.34%) Project Delivery
9 10 (10.31%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.31%) Risk Management
9 10 (10.31%) User Experience
10 9 (9.28%) Analytics
10 9 (9.28%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.28%) SDLC
11 8 (8.25%) Data Modelling
11 8 (8.25%) Decision-Making
11 8 (8.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.62%) SQL
2 18 (18.56%) Java
3 15 (15.46%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.34%) Python
5 8 (8.25%) C#
5 8 (8.25%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.19%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.12%) C
8 3 (3.09%) C++
8 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.06%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.06%) Scala
10 1 (1.03%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.53%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) PMP
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CBAP
6 1 (1.03%) CCNP
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.03%) IIBA
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.19%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) GDPR
4 2 (2.06%) GRC
4 2 (2.06%) MISRA
4 2 (2.06%) MISRA C
4 2 (2.06%) PMO
4 2 (2.06%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.03%) Basel III
5 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.03%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.03%) MiFID
5 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Ansible
4 2 (2.06%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.06%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) SCOM
5 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.25%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) VMware
4 4 (4.12%) Apple
4 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.09%) Google
5 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.06%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.06%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.06%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.06%) HP
6 2 (2.06%) QNX
6 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.06%) Splunk
6 2 (2.06%) Veracode
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco
7 1 (1.03%) Juniper
7 1 (1.03%) Perforce
7 1 (1.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds