Agile Contracts in Leicester

Agile Software Development
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 15 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 18.07% 12.93% 30.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.39% 17.65% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 32
10th Percentile £250 £414 £313
25th Percentile £302 £513 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +30.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £439
90th Percentile £538 £688 £468
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £538 £420
% change year-on-year -13.95% +27.98% -2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 85 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 80.72% 73.28% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 65 83
10th Percentile £250 £288 £292
25th Percentile £364 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £554 £588 £450
90th Percentile £651 £646 £613
Leicestershire median daily rate £444 £375 £414
% change year-on-year +18.33% -9.37% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £13.20 £13.62
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.38 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.50 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +0.89% +25.05%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.38 £21.71
90th Percentile - £27.40 £22.93
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £20.32
% change year-on-year +4.65% +5.81% +9.84%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Leicester

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Leicester

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Leicester over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Leicester

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Leicester

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Android Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Business Change Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Business Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Change Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Android Jetpack
1 6 (40.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (26.67%) Smartphone
3 2 (13.33%) Educational Technology
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Android Development
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (40.00%) Scrum
2 6 (40.00%) TDD
2 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (33.33%) API Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
4 4 (26.67%) Operations Management
4 4 (26.67%) Process Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Business Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) BitLocker
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Apple
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) F5
2 1 (6.67%) Juniper
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds