Agile Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 729 448 313
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 15.05% 16.97% 11.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.26% 19.38% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 338 221
10th Percentile £364 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £380 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -9.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £612
90th Percentile £629 £600 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 5
10th Percentile £17.84 £27.40 -
25th Percentile £20.31 £31.01 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.16 £37.02 £32.28
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +14.68% -56.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £48.51 £55.00
90th Percentile - £55.40 £57.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,992 2,312 2,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.43% 87.58% 81.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 1,512 1,449
10th Percentile £309 £235 £263
25th Percentile £408 £360 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £612
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 175 76
10th Percentile £13.10 £12.87 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.82 £17.87 £15.08
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.39 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +0.66% -22.73%
75th Percentile £38.75 £26.86 £40.32
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.60 £55.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Agile job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
West Midlands +1 632 £475 -5.00% 262
East Midlands -15 93 £481 +26.51% 125
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 123 (16.87%) Confluence
2 36 (4.94%) SAS
3 21 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.82%) Tuxedo
5 4 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.41%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Appian
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Sketch
6 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 19 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.10%) ContrOCC
4 5 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) BASE24
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.27%) Primavera
6 2 (0.27%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 189 (25.93%) AWS
2 143 (19.62%) Azure
3 81 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (8.64%) Power Platform
5 59 (8.09%) GitHub
6 46 (6.31%) Serverless
7 40 (5.49%) Amazon S3
8 38 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 38 (5.21%) Power Automate
9 35 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
10 34 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (2.61%) PowerApps
16 16 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (1.92%) Azure Functions
18 13 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (1.78%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.82%) Firewall
2 4 (0.55%) Network Security
3 3 (0.41%) Intranet
4 2 (0.27%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.27%) VSAN
5 1 (0.14%) DHCP
5 1 (0.14%) DNS
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.14%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (5.49%) Pentaho
3 37 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (4.94%) Power BI
5 34 (4.66%) SQL Server
6 29 (3.98%) Relational Database
7 25 (3.43%) Oracle Reports
8 22 (3.02%) Data Lake
9 19 (2.61%) NoSQL
10 18 (2.47%) MongoDB
11 17 (2.33%) Metadata
12 15 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (1.92%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.78%) Ingres
15 12 (1.65%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
17 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.96%) MySQL
17 7 (0.96%) RDBMS
18 6 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 190 (26.06%) JIRA
2 106 (14.54%) Git
3 76 (10.43%) GitLab
4 73 (10.01%) Jenkins
5 48 (6.58%) JUnit
6 39 (5.35%) Selenium
7 35 (4.80%) Postman
8 33 (4.53%) SonarQube
9 31 (4.25%) Maven
10 29 (3.98%) Zephyr
11 28 (3.84%) Cucumber
12 27 (3.70%) Mockito
13 20 (2.74%) Bitbucket
14 15 (2.06%) WebDriver
15 14 (1.92%) Artifactory
15 14 (1.92%) Gatling
16 11 (1.51%) Cypress.io
17 7 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 7 (0.96%) JMeter
17 7 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 307 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 233 (31.96%) Public Sector
3 103 (14.13%) Finance
4 98 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (3.16%) Banking
7 23 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.61%) Retail
9 18 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.65%) Local Government
11 10 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.37%) Legal
12 9 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.82%) Law
14 5 (0.69%) Marketing
14 5 (0.69%) Military
15 4 (0.55%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 131 (17.97%) Senior
2 118 (16.19%) Developer
3 83 (11.39%) Analyst
4 72 (9.88%) Lead
5 57 (7.82%) Data Engineer
6 54 (7.41%) Architect
7 51 (7.00%) Scrum Master
8 49 (6.72%) Project Manager
9 46 (6.31%) Business Analyst
10 35 (4.80%) Java Developer
11 34 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 29 (3.98%) Delivery Manager
13 28 (3.84%) Designer
13 28 (3.84%) Senior Manager
14 27 (3.70%) Test Analyst
15 22 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (2.88%) Tester
17 20 (2.74%) Product Manager
18 18 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
19 17 (2.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.47%) Spring
2 53 (7.27%) Spring Boot
3 49 (6.72%) REST
4 43 (5.90%) RESTful
5 35 (4.80%) SOAP
6 34 (4.66%) JSON
7 32 (4.39%) Terraform
8 30 (4.12%) .NET
8 30 (4.12%) React
9 27 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 26 (3.57%) JPA
10 26 (3.57%) Web Services
11 25 (3.43%) Playwright
12 22 (3.02%) Hibernate
13 21 (2.88%) ActiveMQ
14 20 (2.74%) Gherkin
15 18 (2.47%) HTML
16 17 (2.33%) Spring Cloud
17 16 (2.19%) CSS
18 15 (2.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 114 (15.64%) Product Ownership
2 64 (8.78%) Cloud Native
3 27 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.23%) Taxonomies
10 8 (1.10%) BYOD
11 7 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.96%) Autonomous Agent
11 7 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (0.96%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.82%) Data Fabric
13 5 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.69%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.84%) Linux
2 25 (3.43%) Unix
3 8 (1.10%) Windows
4 5 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.41%) CentOS
6 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) zOS
7 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.14%) MVS
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (32.51%) Scrum
2 222 (30.45%) DevOps
3 219 (30.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 208 (28.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 202 (27.71%) CI/CD
6 170 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
7 152 (20.85%) Test Automation
8 110 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 107 (14.68%) Migration
10 106 (14.54%) Sprint Planning
11 93 (12.76%) Microservices
12 89 (12.21%) User Stories
13 88 (12.07%) ETL
14 87 (11.93%) Data Modelling
15 84 (11.52%) Analytics
16 83 (11.39%) Backlog Refinement
17 72 (9.88%) Roadmaps
18 70 (9.60%) AI
18 70 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
19 69 (9.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 142 (19.48%) SQL
2 108 (14.81%) Java
3 70 (9.60%) JavaScript
4 50 (6.86%) Python
5 45 (6.17%) C#
6 25 (3.43%) PL/SQL
7 19 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.78%) C
9 10 (1.37%) Scala
9 10 (1.37%) VB
10 8 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.10%) ProC
10 8 (1.10%) VB6
11 7 (0.96%) Bash
12 5 (0.69%) R
13 4 (0.55%) ABAP
13 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.27%) JCL
15 2 (0.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 253 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 230 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 112 (15.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 45 (6.17%) Degree
5 36 (4.94%) ISTQB
6 25 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.19%) PMP
8 15 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.92%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.51%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.69%) CISSP
15 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
16 2 (0.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 2 (0.27%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (13.44%) QA
2 83 (11.39%) Accessibility
3 40 (5.49%) WCAG
4 35 (4.80%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.74%) GDPR
6 13 (1.78%) SLA
7 12 (1.65%) PMO
8 8 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.82%) GRC
10 4 (0.55%) NCSC
10 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.41%) NIST
12 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 19650
13 1 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 102 (13.99%) Docker
2 6 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.69%) Postfix
4 4 (0.55%) GPFS
4 4 (0.55%) NFS
4 4 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.55%) vSphere
5 2 (0.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 75 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.21%) Grafana
3 27 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.51%) Ansible
5 6 (0.82%) Kibana
6 4 (0.55%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.55%) vRealize
7 3 (0.41%) Argo
7 3 (0.41%) Istio
7 3 (0.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.27%) Control-M
8 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.27%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.27%) VxRail
9 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 122 (16.74%) Oracle
2 77 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 48 (6.58%) Talend
4 38 (5.21%) Denodo
5 20 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.61%) SAP
7 18 (2.47%) Databricks
8 15 (2.06%) Atlassian
8 15 (2.06%) Informatica
9 8 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.10%) Liquidlogic
10 7 (0.96%) Actian
10 7 (0.96%) Adobe
10 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.96%) Splunk
11 6 (0.82%) Google
12 5 (0.69%) Cisco
12 5 (0.69%) Pega
12 5 (0.69%) VMware