Agile Contracts in Essex

Agile Software Development
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 13 34 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 16.25% 15.32% 19.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.11% 18.89% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 34
10th Percentile £318 £300 £391
25th Percentile £361 £436 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £534 £510
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +4.81% +1.90%
75th Percentile £488 £599 £568
90th Percentile £489 £673 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - - £70.18
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year - -0.38% +17.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.00% 81.08% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Essex

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Essex

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Essex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Essex

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Essex

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Essex region over the 6 months to 1 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
Basildon +4 6 £487 -18.92% 82
Brentwood 0 3 £400 +33.33% 1
Thurrock +2 1 - -
Agile
East of England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) dbt
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Looker
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (23.08%) Automotive
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) CRM Programme Manager
3 1 (7.69%) DTV Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Developer
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) Yocto
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) NumPy
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Digital TV
1 2 (15.38%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (15.38%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) TDD
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (23.08%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Data Security
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Use Case
4 3 (23.08%) User Experience
4 3 (23.08%) User Stories
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C
3 1 (7.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Checkmarx
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace