Agile Contracts in East Sussex

Agile Software Development
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 5 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 4.46% 17.57% 17.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 19.70% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 12
10th Percentile - £306 -
25th Percentile £463 £343 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -18.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £656 £556 £650
90th Percentile £668 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 105 66 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 93.75% 89.19% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 49 63
10th Percentile £302 £306 £212
25th Percentile £375 £380 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £700
90th Percentile £651 £815 £745
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £16.89 £11.00 £13.09
25th Percentile £17.75 £15.38 £13.16
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% +40.28% -
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £55.63
90th Percentile £21.59 £51.50 £61.50
South East median hourly rate £27.05 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.06% -5.00% +132.56%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in East Sussex

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in East Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Agile in East Sussex

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in East Sussex over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in East Sussex

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in East Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in East Sussex

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 22 May 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 -6 4 £488 -0.51% 36
Hove +1 1 £638 +67.76% 1
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Figma
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft