Agile Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Agile Software Development
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Agile 211 156 138
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.42% 12.66% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.04% 14.36% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 83 49
10th Percentile £244 £376 £200
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.37% +1.71%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £663 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 49
10th Percentile £61.25 £47.69 £60.00
25th Percentile - £61.56 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.89 £65.81 -
90th Percentile £74.80 £67.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -

All Process & 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 1,753 1,086 1,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.29% 88.15% 84.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 521 610
10th Percentile £190 £206 £200
25th Percentile £399 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year - +17.30% -14.75%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £556
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 240 587
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.41
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -8.13% +89.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Agile job vacancy trend in the East of England

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the East of England

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 2026. 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 0 89 £463 -12.32% 40
Bedfordshire +11 41 £550 - 14
Suffolk +10 28 £550 +57.14% 13
Essex 0 28 £505 +4.12% 8
Cambridgeshire -6 19 £600 +12.41% 25
Norfolk -18 5 £400 -11.11% 10
East Anglia - 1 £450 - 16
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.64%) Confluence
2 9 (4.27%) CMS
2 9 (4.27%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) Mendix
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.47%) CATIA
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.47%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.95%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.59%) Azure
2 30 (14.22%) AWS
3 17 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (7.58%) GCP
5 9 (4.27%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.79%) GitHub
7 7 (3.32%) Miro
8 6 (2.84%) Serverless
9 5 (2.37%) SaaS
10 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.90%) Apple Pay
10 4 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.42%) Google Ads
11 3 (1.42%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.64%) Firewall
2 11 (5.21%) VPN
3 10 (4.74%) Ethernet
4 8 (3.79%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.42%) Modbus
6 3 (1.42%) RS-232
6 3 (1.42%) RS-422
6 3 (1.42%) RS-485
7 2 (0.95%) DNS
7 2 (0.95%) SSL
7 2 (0.95%) WAN
8 1 (0.47%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.47%) Intranet
8 1 (0.47%) LAN
8 1 (0.47%) Network Security
8 1 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.69%) Relational Database
2 9 (4.27%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.32%) Power BI
5 5 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.95%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.95%) MySQL
6 2 (0.95%) Redis
7 1 (0.47%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.47%) Metadata
7 1 (0.47%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (17.54%) JIRA
2 23 (10.90%) Git
3 16 (7.58%) GitLab
4 11 (5.21%) Visual Studio
5 9 (4.27%) Gradle
6 8 (3.79%) Eclipse
7 6 (2.84%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.37%) Selenium
9 3 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.95%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.95%) Appium
10 2 (0.95%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.95%) JMeter
10 2 (0.95%) MSTest
10 2 (0.95%) Postman
10 2 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.95%) Sourcetree
10 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.95%) Xcode
11 1 (0.47%) Serenity BDD
General
1 72 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.48%) Finance
3 37 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.06%) Manufacturing
5 16 (7.58%) Retail
6 14 (6.64%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.74%) Electronics
7 10 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.27%) Banking
9 8 (3.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (3.32%) Law
10 7 (3.32%) Legal
10 7 (3.32%) Military
11 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.95%) Automotive
14 2 (0.95%) Marketing
15 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (16.11%) Software Engineer
2 32 (15.17%) Developer
3 22 (10.43%) Project Manager
4 21 (9.95%) Senior
5 19 (9.00%) Architect
5 19 (9.00%) Java Developer
6 18 (8.53%) Product Manager
7 13 (6.16%) Lead
8 12 (5.69%) Software Developer
9 11 (5.21%) Java Software Developer
9 11 (5.21%) Support Specialist
9 11 (5.21%) Technical Specialist
9 11 (5.21%) Technical Support
9 11 (5.21%) Technical Support Specialist
10 10 (4.74%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.79%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.79%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.90%) React
2 22 (10.43%) Node.js
3 16 (7.58%) .NET
4 13 (6.16%) CSS
4 13 (6.16%) HTML
4 13 (6.16%) REST
5 12 (5.69%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.69%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.21%) ONVIF
7 9 (4.27%) Spring
7 9 (4.27%) Web Services
8 8 (3.79%) ASP.NET
8 8 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (3.79%) jQuery
9 5 (2.37%) Kafka
10 4 (1.90%) RESTful
11 3 (1.42%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.42%) ADO
11 3 (1.42%) OAuth
11 3 (1.42%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.22%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.21%) Video\Live Streaming
3 8 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.84%) Robotics
5 6 (2.84%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.37%) Life Science
6 5 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.90%) Linux
2 20 (9.48%) Windows
3 3 (1.42%) Android
3 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.75%) DevOps
2 66 (31.28%) CI/CD
3 63 (29.86%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (27.01%) Software Engineering
5 56 (26.54%) Scrum
6 52 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (17.54%) Test Automation
9 30 (14.22%) AI
10 29 (13.74%) Microservices
11 28 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (12.80%) Roadmaps
12 27 (12.80%) Validation
13 26 (12.32%) User Stories
14 24 (11.37%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (11.37%) Project Management
14 24 (11.37%) Software Testing
14 24 (11.37%) Sprint Planning
15 23 (10.90%) Waterfall
16 21 (9.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.27%) C#
2 27 (12.80%) Java
3 24 (11.37%) C++
4 19 (9.00%) SQL
5 18 (8.53%) Python
6 17 (8.06%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.69%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.27%) C
9 7 (3.32%) Bash
10 3 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.95%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) ABAP
12 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.47%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 36 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.17%) Degree
3 24 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.21%) A+ Certification
5 11 (5.21%) CCNA
5 11 (5.21%) MCSA
6 8 (3.79%) PMI Certification
7 7 (3.32%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.32%) PMP
8 5 (2.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.47%) CCSP
12 1 (0.47%) CISSP
12 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.95%) QA
2 11 (5.21%) PMO
3 7 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 5 (2.37%) GxP
4 5 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) ITGC
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.74%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) Firmware
3 2 (0.95%) Squid
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) GPFS
4 1 (0.47%) Lustre
4 1 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (7.58%) Ansible
2 12 (5.69%) Terraform
3 8 (3.79%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.90%) Grafana
4 4 (1.90%) Puppet
5 3 (1.42%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.95%) Check_MK
6 2 (0.95%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.95%) Kibana
6 2 (0.95%) Podman
6 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.47%) Consul
7 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) Packer
7 1 (0.47%) Salt
7 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.00%) SAP
3 10 (4.74%) Sitecore
4 7 (3.32%) Oracle
4 7 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.84%) VMware
6 5 (2.37%) Databricks
6 5 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.90%) IBM
8 3 (1.42%) Confluent
8 3 (1.42%) HP
8 3 (1.42%) Progress
9 2 (0.95%) Braze
9 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.95%) Ingenico
9 2 (0.95%) mParticle
9 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.95%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.95%) Trend Micro