Agile Contracts in the East Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 75 185 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.69% 17.74% 17.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.36% 20.11% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 166 198
10th Percentile £298 £313 £361
25th Percentile £368 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -5.06% +17.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £562
90th Percentile £610 £625 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile £6.57 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £7.85 £23.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.87% -16.36% -
75th Percentile £9.14 - £30.81
90th Percentile - - £34.50
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £48.79
% change year-on-year -7.69% +33.22% +8.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 607 920 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.42% 88.21% 83.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 697 869
10th Percentile £200 £211 £207
25th Percentile £270 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £603
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 73 80
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.98 £9.59
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.47
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -4.60% +31.76%
75th Percentile £26.15 £30.00 £27.81
90th Percentile £38.75 £54.30 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +3 35 £388 +10.71% 41
Leicestershire -9 17 £538 +27.98% 40
Lincolnshire 0 5 £400 -32.11% 13
Nottinghamshire -22 5 - - 52
Derbyshire -11 4 £475 -9.52% 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 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) Azure
2 9 (12.00%) AWS
3 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.33%) SaaS
5 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.33%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) SAN
2 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.67%) LAN
3 2 (2.67%) SMS
4 1 (1.33%) DSL
4 1 (1.33%) NAS
4 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.33%) DB2
2 4 (5.33%) Power BI
3 3 (4.00%) Big Data
3 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.33%) MySQL
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (4.00%) JMeter
3 1 (1.33%) Git
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) JUnit
General
1 15 (20.00%) Finance
2 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Games
5 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Automotive
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Front Office
6 2 (2.67%) Local Government
6 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Advertising
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Analyst
2 14 (18.67%) Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Senior
4 10 (13.33%) Architect
5 9 (12.00%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.33%) SQL Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) IAM Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) React
2 5 (6.67%) .NET
3 3 (4.00%) LDAP
3 3 (4.00%) Middleware
3 3 (4.00%) OAuth
3 3 (4.00%) OpenID
3 3 (4.00%) SailPoint
3 3 (4.00%) SAML
3 3 (4.00%) Web Services
4 2 (2.67%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.67%) Kafka
5 1 (1.33%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (1.33%) gRPC
5 1 (1.33%) Jest
5 1 (1.33%) NestJS
5 1 (1.33%) RAML
5 1 (1.33%) Redux
5 1 (1.33%) SPFx
5 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.33%) Mainframe
3 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.67%) Wiki
5 1 (1.33%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) NHS
5 1 (1.33%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.33%) Robotics
5 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Debian
2 5 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 4 (5.33%) Android
3 4 (5.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.67%) Windows
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.00%) Waterfall
2 17 (22.67%) Project Management
3 15 (20.00%) Scrum
4 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.67%) Customer Service
5 11 (14.67%) DevOps
6 10 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 9 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 9 (12.00%) ITIL
7 9 (12.00%) PRINCE2
7 9 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (10.67%) CRM
8 8 (10.67%) Software Testing
9 7 (9.33%) API Design
9 7 (9.33%) Business Analysis
9 7 (9.33%) Test Automation
10 6 (8.00%) Data Engineering
10 6 (8.00%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.33%) SQL
2 10 (13.33%) Python
3 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.00%) Java
5 5 (6.67%) C#
6 4 (5.33%) C
6 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.00%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) R
8 1 (1.33%) Ruby
8 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) ISEB
4 5 (6.67%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.33%) Degree
6 3 (4.00%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.67%) CBAP
8 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.33%) IIBA
8 1 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Oracle
3 5 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.67%) VMware
4 3 (4.00%) Okta
5 2 (2.67%) NEC
5 2 (2.67%) Northgate
5 2 (2.67%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco
6 1 (1.33%) Denodo
6 1 (1.33%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.33%) NetApp
6 1 (1.33%) Sage
6 1 (1.33%) Talend