Agile Contracts in the East of England

Agile Software Development
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 159 276 496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 8.39% 13.87% 19.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.81% 15.86% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 162 300
10th Percentile £229 £375 £374
25th Percentile £400 £436 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +0.10%
75th Percentile £584 £644 £575
90th Percentile £672 £725 £657
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 38 21
10th Percentile £60.00 £63.95 £42.50
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +18.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £67.36
90th Percentile - £83.25 £77.00
England median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -5.23% +33.80% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 1,740 2,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.49% 87.44% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 1,019 1,282
10th Percentile £204 £205 £185
25th Percentile £332 £315 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £554
90th Percentile £678 £700 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 334 376
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -15.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.20 £70.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024.

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 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
Hertfordshire -4 83 £419 -16.25% 74
Essex -3 31 £534 +3.89% 21
Bedfordshire -11 21 £501 -11.87% 10
Cambridgeshire -29 15 £525 +10.53% 86
Suffolk -3 6 £550 -8.33% 1
Norfolk +7 3 £354 -41.00% 21
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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 3 (1.89%) Apache
2 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.26%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.63%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.63%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 8 (5.03%) Azure
2 7 (4.40%) AWS
2 7 (4.40%) GCP
3 5 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.52%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (1.89%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.89%) Serverless
6 2 (1.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (1.26%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (1.26%) SaaS
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.63%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 37 (23.27%) RS-485
2 35 (22.01%) Modbus
2 35 (22.01%) RS-422
3 14 (8.81%) Firewall
3 14 (8.81%) VPN
4 6 (3.77%) Ethernet
4 6 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.89%) 4G
5 3 (1.89%) 5G
5 3 (1.89%) Wireless
6 2 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.63%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.63%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.63%) GSM
7 1 (0.63%) LTE
7 1 (0.63%) MQTT
7 1 (0.63%) RS-232
7 1 (0.63%) SAN
7 1 (0.63%) SSL
7 1 (0.63%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.14%) SQL Server
1 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (2.52%) Power BI
3 3 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.26%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.26%) Big Data
4 2 (1.26%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.26%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.26%) MySQL
4 2 (1.26%) Presto
4 2 (1.26%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.63%) HBase
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (17.61%) JIRA
2 11 (6.92%) Visual Studio
3 7 (4.40%) Eclipse
4 6 (3.77%) Git
5 4 (2.52%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.26%) GitLab
6 2 (1.26%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.26%) Maven
7 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
General
1 77 (48.43%) Social Skills
2 38 (23.90%) Electronics
3 33 (20.75%) Finance
4 18 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.18%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.03%) Banking
6 8 (5.03%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (5.03%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.77%) Military
8 5 (3.14%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.52%) Games
9 4 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.52%) Marketing
10 2 (1.26%) Automotive
10 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (32.70%) Software Engineer
2 32 (20.13%) C++ Software Engineer
3 18 (11.32%) Developer
4 17 (10.69%) Senior
5 16 (10.06%) Architect
6 13 (8.18%) Project Manager
7 12 (7.55%) Analyst
8 9 (5.66%) Full Stack Engineer
8 9 (5.66%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.66%) Lead
9 7 (4.40%) C Software Engineer
9 7 (4.40%) C# Software Engineer
9 7 (4.40%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Consultant
10 6 (3.77%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.77%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.95%) CSS
1 19 (11.95%) HTML
2 18 (11.32%) React
3 9 (5.66%) Web Services
3 9 (5.66%) Yocto
4 8 (5.03%) Node.js
5 6 (3.77%) .NET
6 4 (2.52%) REST
7 3 (1.89%) RESTful
7 3 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.26%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.26%) MFC
8 2 (1.26%) Visualforce
8 2 (1.26%) WinForms
8 2 (1.26%) WPF
9 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.63%) JPA
9 1 (0.63%) Spring
9 1 (0.63%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.24%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.77%) STB
4 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.52%) Digital TV
6 2 (1.26%) FPGA
6 2 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Life Science
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) PMI
7 1 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.84%) Linux
2 10 (6.29%) Windows
3 2 (1.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (41.51%) Software Engineering
2 64 (40.25%) DevOps
3 45 (28.30%) Continuous Integration
4 44 (27.67%) TDD
5 43 (27.04%) Unit Testing
6 39 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (22.64%) Software Testing
8 35 (22.01%) Customer Requirements
8 35 (22.01%) Pair Programming
9 34 (21.38%) Scrum
10 30 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (16.35%) CI/CD
12 18 (11.32%) Identity Management
12 18 (11.32%) PRINCE2
13 15 (9.43%) Full Stack Development
14 14 (8.81%) Project Management
14 14 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (8.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 13 (8.18%) Validation
15 13 (8.18%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.33%) C#
2 48 (30.19%) C++
3 45 (28.30%) C
4 31 (19.50%) Java
5 16 (10.06%) SQL
6 14 (8.81%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.18%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.29%) Python
9 2 (1.26%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.26%) C++/CLI
9 2 (1.26%) Rust
9 2 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (12.58%) Degree
2 16 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.40%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.14%) PMP
7 4 (2.52%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.89%) PhD
9 2 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.63%) PgMP
10 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) PMO
2 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.26%) IFRS
2 2 (1.26%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.89%) Firmware
2 2 (1.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) LXC
3 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.26%) Proxmox
1 2 (1.26%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.43%) SAP
3 7 (4.40%) Google
4 6 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.26%) Ariba
5 2 (1.26%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.26%) IBM
5 2 (1.26%) Informatica
5 2 (1.26%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (1.26%) Oracle
5 2 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (1.26%) Snow
5 2 (1.26%) Talend
6 1 (0.63%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.63%) IFS
6 1 (0.63%) OpenText
6 1 (0.63%) Pega
6 1 (0.63%) Workday