Agile Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Agile Software Development
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Agile 20 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 24.39% 28.74% 17.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.57% 30.49% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 8
10th Percentile £298 £312 £373
25th Percentile £379 £368 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £465 £506
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -8.15% -15.63%
75th Percentile £603 £531 £650
90th Percentile £814 £638 -
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £64.52
% change year-on-year -18.52% +4.63% +7.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70 82 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 85.37% 94.25% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 45
10th Percentile £160 £310 £301
25th Percentile £297 £390 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £790 £650 £745
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £12.57 - -
25th Percentile £12.60 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.48% - -
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £22.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Agile job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in East Sussex over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in East Sussex

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Agile

Agile
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Brighton +4 17 £488 +2.63% 17
Hove -2 1 £485 +15.48%
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) GitHub
1 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (20.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 5 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
3 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Automotive
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (15.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) ADO
5 1 (5.00%) Express.js
5 1 (5.00%) MERN Stack
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) ODBC
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (25.00%) Microservices
2 5 (25.00%) TDD
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (20.00%) Open Source
3 4 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) AI
4 3 (15.00%) API Development
4 3 (15.00%) Kanban
4 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Product Backlog
5 2 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) Go
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) CCNA
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CSPO
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Blue Prism
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow