Agile Contracts in the East of England

Agile Software Development
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 14 3
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 146 150 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 12.54% 7.97% 15.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.20% 9.41% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 55 203
10th Percentile £355 £243 £382
25th Percentile £450 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% -
75th Percentile £569 £593 £650
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 53 42
10th Percentile £39.07 £60.00 £60.15
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £72.88
90th Percentile £68.60 - £80.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,028 1,594 1,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.32% 84.74% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 633 1,031
10th Percentile £209 £201 £231
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £428 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -14.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 599 360
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.33 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.07 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +55.76%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Hertfordshire +3 67 £530 +32.50% 122
Cambridgeshire +30 34 £534 -2.95% 132
Bedfordshire -7 16 £550 +10.00% 51
Essex -4 13 £468 -12.45% 68
Norfolk +5 9 £450 -10.00% 28
Suffolk -3 7 £388 -29.55% 11
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (4.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.37%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
3 2 (1.37%) IBM Domino
3 2 (1.37%) Mule
3 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.37%) Simulink
3 2 (1.37%) Stateflow
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.68%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.68%) Sketch
4 1 (0.68%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.74%) SAP ERP
3 3 (2.05%) SAP LE
3 3 (2.05%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.85%) GCP
2 9 (6.16%) AWS
2 9 (6.16%) Azure
2 9 (6.16%) GitHub
3 8 (5.48%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.79%) SaaS
5 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.74%) Datadog
6 4 (2.74%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.37%) npm
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.68%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.68%) Serverless
8 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.90%) Ethernet
2 12 (8.22%) Firewall
2 12 (8.22%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.11%) Network Security
4 4 (2.74%) VSAN
4 4 (2.74%) Wireless
5 3 (2.05%) DNS
6 2 (1.37%) HTTP
7 1 (0.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.11%) Power BI
3 5 (3.42%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.05%) Metadata
5 2 (1.37%) DB2
5 2 (1.37%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.37%) Tableau
6 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.68%) Big Data
6 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Looker
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (9.59%) JIRA
2 13 (8.90%) Visual Studio
3 12 (8.22%) Eclipse
4 10 (6.85%) Git
5 9 (6.16%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.42%) LoadRunner
6 5 (3.42%) NeoLoad
7 3 (2.05%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.05%) GitLab
7 3 (2.05%) JMeter
8 2 (1.37%) CANoe
8 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (50.68%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.44%) Finance
3 21 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.59%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (8.22%) Military
6 11 (7.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.11%) Automotive
9 5 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.05%) Billing
10 3 (2.05%) Law
10 3 (2.05%) Local Government
10 3 (2.05%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.05%) Retail
11 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.37%) Electronics
11 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Police
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (15.07%) Developer
2 20 (13.70%) Project Manager
3 14 (9.59%) Senior
3 14 (9.59%) Software Engineer
4 12 (8.22%) Lead
5 11 (7.53%) C# Software Engineer
6 10 (6.85%) Analyst
7 8 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) Architect
8 7 (4.79%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) Programme Manager
9 6 (4.11%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.42%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (3.42%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 5 (3.42%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.42%) Technical Manager
11 4 (2.74%) Consultant
11 4 (2.74%) Functional Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.27%) Web Services
2 12 (8.22%) Node.js
3 10 (6.85%) CSS
4 9 (6.16%) REST
5 5 (3.42%) Alpine.js
5 5 (3.42%) Laravel
5 5 (3.42%) RESTful
5 5 (3.42%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (2.74%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.74%) SAP PI
6 4 (2.74%) SOAP
7 3 (2.05%) Express.js
7 3 (2.05%) Kafka
7 3 (2.05%) NgRx
7 3 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.05%) PySpark
7 3 (2.05%) RxJS
8 2 (1.37%) JWT
8 2 (1.37%) MUnit
8 2 (1.37%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.79%) Operational Technology
4 5 (3.42%) FMCG
4 5 (3.42%) Life Science
4 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.05%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.05%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.05%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.37%) Digital TV
7 2 (1.37%) STB
7 2 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.44%) Linux
2 22 (15.07%) Windows
3 6 (4.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (21.92%) CI/CD
3 29 (19.86%) Waterfall
4 28 (19.18%) Project Management
5 25 (17.12%) Software Engineering
6 24 (16.44%) PRINCE2
6 24 (16.44%) Validation
7 21 (14.38%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (13.01%) Project Delivery
9 19 (13.01%) TDD
10 18 (12.33%) Roadmaps
11 17 (11.64%) Change Management
12 14 (9.59%) Visualisation
13 12 (8.22%) Continuous Delivery
13 12 (8.22%) Digital Twin
13 12 (8.22%) Synthetic Environment
13 12 (8.22%) Unit Testing
14 11 (7.53%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.64%) SQL
2 14 (9.59%) C#
2 14 (9.59%) JavaScript
2 14 (9.59%) Python
3 13 (8.90%) C++
3 13 (8.90%) Java
4 11 (7.53%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.42%) PHP
6 3 (2.05%) Bash
6 3 (2.05%) Perl
6 3 (2.05%) R
7 2 (1.37%) DataWeave
7 2 (1.37%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.37%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.64%) Degree
4 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.42%) PMP
6 4 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (2.05%) VCAP
7 3 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.37%) APMG
8 2 (1.37%) CISSP
8 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.68%) ACCA
9 1 (0.68%) CIMA
9 1 (0.68%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.68%) CISM
9 1 (0.68%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.53%) GxP
2 5 (3.42%) QA
3 4 (2.74%) PMO
3 4 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.05%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) ITGC
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.42%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.74%) Docker
3 4 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.74%) vSphere
4 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (6.16%) Terraform
2 8 (5.48%) Ansible
3 7 (4.79%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (4.11%) VxRail
5 4 (2.74%) Grafana
5 4 (2.74%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.74%) PowerCLI
5 4 (2.74%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.37%) Avamar
6 2 (1.37%) CloudHub
6 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.16%) SAP
3 8 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.79%) Apple
4 7 (4.79%) Oracle
4 7 (4.79%) Samsung
4 7 (4.79%) SOTI
5 6 (4.11%) Dell
5 6 (4.11%) VMware
6 5 (3.42%) Google
7 4 (2.74%) Splunk
8 3 (2.05%) Databricks
8 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.05%) IBM
8 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.37%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.37%) IFS
9 2 (1.37%) LabWare