Agile Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Agile Software Development
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 10 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 11.76% 14.08% 13.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.39% 15.63% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 15
10th Percentile £410 £398 £401
25th Percentile £413 £458 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +30.95% -1.75%
75th Percentile £518 £575 £575
90th Percentile £613 £644 £603
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £550 £420
% change year-on-year -15.91% +30.95% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
Leicestershire median hourly rate - - £65.00

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 61 64 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 71.76% 90.14% 82.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 85
10th Percentile £192 £225 £175
25th Percentile £400 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -13.45% +23.46%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £575
90th Percentile £627 £714 £701
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £428 £475
% change year-on-year -0.58% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £14.51 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.51 £21.25 £34.00
Median hourly rate £17.92 £22.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% -59.82% -12.16%
75th Percentile £21.09 £23.75 £60.50
90th Percentile £22.53 - £63.20
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.50 £23.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year +1.08% +10.71% -65.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Agile job vacancy trend in Leicester

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Leicester over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Leicester

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (20.00%) dbt
2 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Android Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (30.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Android Development
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) API Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
5 2 (20.00%) Product Vision
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) SAP