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 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 8 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Agile 143 91 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.79% 12.08% 11.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.00% 14.92% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 69 79
10th Percentile £262 £298 £313
25th Percentile £353 £356 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £469 £469 £594
90th Percentile £518 £590 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £35.60
25th Percentile - £45.00 £54.50
Median hourly rate £37.02 £50.00 £76.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.96% -34.43% +169.91%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +0.39%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 650 610 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.41% 81.01% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 411 536
10th Percentile £240 £270 £213
25th Percentile £333 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £613
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 36 43
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.91 £18.86
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.16 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -39.67% +61.51%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.19 £53.88
90th Percentile - £50.36 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Agile

Agile
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +1 90 £360 -10.00% 29
Nottinghamshire +6 21 £458 -6.15% 56
Leicestershire +2 15 £463 +2.78% 42
Derbyshire +7 6 £700 +40.00% 32
Lincolnshire +1 5 £500 +165.08% 25
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 9 (6.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) JBoss
2 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.70%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.70%) InDesign
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.10%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.40%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.70%) BASE24
4 1 (0.70%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.38%) Azure
2 19 (13.29%) AWS
3 11 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 8 (5.59%) SaaS
6 7 (4.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 6 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.20%) Serverless
8 4 (2.80%) GCP
8 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.80%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.10%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.40%) ChatGPT
10 2 (1.40%) Figma
10 2 (1.40%) GitHub
10 2 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) ATM
1 1 (0.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.20%) DynamoDB
1 6 (4.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.80%) Power BI
3 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.10%) MySQL
4 3 (2.10%) Tableau
5 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.70%) DB2
6 1 (0.70%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) JIRA
2 15 (10.49%) Git
3 14 (9.79%) Selenium
4 12 (8.39%) Cucumber
5 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.90%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.20%) JUnit
7 6 (4.20%) Mockito
8 5 (3.50%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.80%) GitLab
9 4 (2.80%) Maven
9 4 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.40%) Postman
10 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.70%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.70%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (32.87%) Finance
2 45 (31.47%) Social Skills
3 30 (20.98%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (18.88%) Banking
5 13 (9.09%) Marketing
6 6 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.10%) Legal
9 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.40%) Publishing
10 2 (1.40%) Retail
10 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (18.18%) Analyst
1 26 (18.18%) Developer
2 22 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 16 (11.19%) Product Owner
4 11 (7.69%) Lead
5 9 (6.29%) Architect
5 9 (6.29%) Java Developer
6 8 (5.59%) Android Developer
6 8 (5.59%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.90%) Automation Tester
7 7 (4.90%) Salesforce Architect
7 7 (4.90%) Tester
8 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Product Manager
9 5 (3.50%) Salesforce Analyst
9 5 (3.50%) Salesforce Business Analyst
9 5 (3.50%) Senior
10 4 (2.80%) Consultant
10 4 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.80%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.59%) RESTful
2 16 (11.19%) REST
3 15 (10.49%) HTML
4 11 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 10 (6.99%) SOAP
6 9 (6.29%) .NET
6 9 (6.29%) Middleware
7 8 (5.59%) Android Jetpack
7 8 (5.59%) CSS
7 8 (5.59%) Jetpack Compose
7 8 (5.59%) jQuery
7 8 (5.59%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (5.59%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.59%) Visualforce
8 7 (4.90%) DOM
8 7 (4.90%) React
8 7 (4.90%) Spring
9 4 (2.80%) Django
9 4 (2.80%) JPA
9 4 (2.80%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.58%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.99%) Mobile App
4 7 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.80%) Smartphone
6 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.40%) SCADA
7 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) APACS
8 1 (0.70%) Blog
8 1 (0.70%) FPGA
8 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.70%) Social Media
8 1 (0.70%) Tandem
8 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.79%) Android
2 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.40%) Unix
2 2 (1.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.57%) Scrum
2 42 (29.37%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (20.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 25 (17.48%) Project Management
6 24 (16.78%) DevOps
6 24 (16.78%) Test Automation
7 22 (15.38%) SDLC
8 19 (13.29%) Decision-Making
8 19 (13.29%) Mentoring
8 19 (13.29%) Microservices
8 19 (13.29%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.59%) Business Analysis
9 18 (12.59%) TDD
10 17 (11.89%) Computer Science
10 17 (11.89%) User Stories
10 17 (11.89%) Waterfall
11 14 (9.79%) Backlog Management
11 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (9.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.08%) SQL
2 22 (15.38%) Java
3 11 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.29%) Apex Code
4 9 (6.29%) C#
5 8 (5.59%) Kotlin
6 6 (4.20%) Python
7 5 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.80%) PHP
8 4 (2.80%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.70%) ABAP
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) COBOL
10 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Degree
2 9 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.20%) PMP
5 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.50%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.10%) CISA
6 3 (2.10%) CISM
6 3 (2.10%) CISSP
6 3 (2.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.40%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.09%) QA
2 9 (6.29%) GDPR
3 8 (5.59%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (4.20%) NIST
5 6 (4.20%) NIST 800
6 3 (2.10%) COBIT
6 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.40%) GRC
7 2 (1.40%) MiFID
7 2 (1.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.70%) Basel III
8 1 (0.70%) EMIR
8 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.70%) PSD2
8 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.80%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.10%) RSA Archer
1 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.59%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.69%) Oracle
4 4 (2.80%) Apple
4 4 (2.80%) Veracode
5 3 (2.10%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.10%) Rapid7
5 3 (2.10%) SAP
5 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.40%) Avaya
6 2 (1.40%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.40%) Genesys
7 1 (0.70%) Databricks
7 1 (0.70%) Facebook
7 1 (0.70%) Instagram
7 1 (0.70%) Marketo
7 1 (0.70%) Solace
7 1 (0.70%) Twitter
7 1 (0.70%) Workday
7 1 (0.70%) YouTube