Agile Contracts in Herefordshire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire 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 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 18.18% - 13.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.22% - 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £460 - £621
25th Percentile £550 - £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £649
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.58%
75th Percentile - - £661
90th Percentile - - £663
West Midlands median daily rate £501 £536 £540
% change year-on-year -6.53% -0.74% +3.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 49 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 81.82% 98.00% 97.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 32
10th Percentile £380 £518 £414
25th Percentile £450 £536 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £629
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.52% +30.65%
75th Percentile £800 £769 £691
90th Percentile £900 £850 £723
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -62.98% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Herefordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Herefordshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Herefordshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Herefordshire 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
Ledbury - 2 £700 -
Hereford - 1 - - 4
Agile
West Midlands

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Case Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle