Agile Contracts in Kent

Agile Software Development
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 12 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 9 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 8.57% 5.94% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 9.02% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £463 £334 £406
25th Percentile £478 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £544
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £657 £536 £634
90th Percentile £738 £575 £640
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £16.36 £58.91 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.23% - -
South East median hourly rate £60.50 £58.30 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 133 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 90.48% 65.84% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 126
10th Percentile £199 £205 £122
25th Percentile £213 £263 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +21.43% -19.08%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £514
90th Percentile £688 £656 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £14.68 £11.47 £36.85
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.00 £41.16
Median hourly rate £21.43 £35.50 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.63% -32.09% +47.07%
75th Percentile £22.61 £46.87 £57.44
90th Percentile £51.55 £62.96 £62.25
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Kent 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
Maidstone -5 1 £550 -4.35% 44
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) French Language
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Security Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) CSS3
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) HTML5
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) WCF
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Wiki
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) API Integration
1 2 (22.22%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
1 2 (22.22%) Microservices
1 2 (22.22%) MVC
1 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
1 2 (22.22%) Scrum
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
1 2 (22.22%) Speech Recognition
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (22.22%) Time Management
2 1 (11.11%) Business Case
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
2 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CEH
1 1 (11.11%) CISM
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) GIAC
1 1 (11.11%) OSCP
1 1 (11.11%) SANS
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft