Agile Contracts in the Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 382 319 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.03% 11.04% 16.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.41% 13.58% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 232 415
10th Percentile £319 £356 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £519 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +1.27% -
75th Percentile £538 £625 £600
90th Percentile £589 £699 £675
England median daily rate £532 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.32% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 3
10th Percentile £32.46 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £34.17 £15.13 £12.50
Median hourly rate £37.02 £47.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% +265.38% -55.56%
75th Percentile £50.99 £56.88 £18.25
90th Percentile £56.39 £58.75 £21.10
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +29.01%

All Process and 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 1,872 2,349 2,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.34% 81.31% 87.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,569 1,975
10th Percentile £206 £231 £261
25th Percentile £356 £358 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £698
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 177 100
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £14.00 £14.88
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.00 £23.36
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -18.66% +29.78%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% +4.17% +44.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

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 8 June 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
West Midlands +4 259 £500 -9.09% 477
East Midlands +10 120 £406 -8.76% 327
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 37 (9.69%) Confluence
2 4 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.79%) Tomcat
3 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.52%) IIS
4 2 (0.52%) JBoss
4 2 (0.52%) R Markdown
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.26%) SAS
5 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.79%) Revit
4 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.26%) InDesign
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Open Workbench
5 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.52%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.52%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.26%) Actimize
3 1 (0.26%) BASE24
3 1 (0.26%) Primavera
3 1 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.26%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 69 (18.06%) AWS
1 69 (18.06%) Azure
2 31 (8.12%) Power Platform
3 26 (6.81%) Amazon S3
4 22 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (4.19%) PowerApps
8 16 (4.19%) SaaS
9 15 (3.93%) GCP
10 12 (3.14%) AWS KMS
10 12 (3.14%) Route 53
11 11 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.88%) Serverless
12 8 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.09%) GitHub
13 5 (1.31%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.14%) Firewall
2 6 (1.57%) DNS
2 6 (1.57%) HTTP
3 5 (1.31%) DHCP
3 5 (1.31%) Network Security
4 4 (1.05%) BIG-IP
4 4 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.05%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (1.05%) SAN
4 4 (1.05%) SSL
4 4 (1.05%) VLAN
5 3 (0.79%) IPsec
5 3 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.79%) VPN
6 2 (0.52%) BGP
6 2 (0.52%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.52%) OSPF
6 2 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (4.71%) DynamoDB
3 15 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 15 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.93%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.66%) Power BI
5 13 (3.40%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.83%) Big Data
8 5 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.31%) MySQL
9 4 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.05%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.52%) DB2
10 2 (0.52%) GIS
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (18.06%) JIRA
2 50 (13.09%) Jenkins
3 44 (11.52%) Git
4 24 (6.28%) Maven
5 23 (6.02%) JUnit
6 20 (5.24%) SonarQube
7 17 (4.45%) Mockito
8 16 (4.19%) Selenium
9 12 (3.14%) GitLab
10 10 (2.62%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.83%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (1.83%) DbUnit
11 7 (1.83%) jMock
11 7 (1.83%) Postman
12 5 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
13 4 (1.05%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.05%) NetBeans
14 3 (0.79%) JMeter
14 3 (0.79%) LoadRunner
General
1 126 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 96 (25.13%) Finance
3 56 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.02%) Banking
6 14 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.62%) Automotive
7 10 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.09%) Law
8 8 (2.09%) Retail
9 7 (1.83%) Legal
10 6 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.57%) Marketing
10 6 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.31%) Advertising
12 3 (0.79%) Games
13 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (20.68%) Developer
2 40 (10.47%) Analyst
3 30 (7.85%) Java Developer
3 30 (7.85%) Lead
3 30 (7.85%) Senior
4 29 (7.59%) Architect
5 25 (6.54%) Project Manager
6 23 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.45%) Product Owner
7 17 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (4.19%) Engagement Manager
9 15 (3.93%) Tester
10 14 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (3.14%) Senior Developer
12 10 (2.62%) Consultant
12 10 (2.62%) Programme Manager
12 10 (2.62%) Technical Leader
13 8 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.09%) Product Manager
14 7 (1.83%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.16%) REST
2 31 (8.12%) Spring
3 29 (7.59%) Spring Boot
4 26 (6.81%) RESTful
4 26 (6.81%) Web Services
5 25 (6.54%) HTML
6 24 (6.28%) .NET
6 24 (6.28%) Hibernate
7 20 (5.24%) AngularJS
7 20 (5.24%) React
8 19 (4.97%) SOAP
9 18 (4.71%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (4.19%) JPA
11 13 (3.40%) Bootstrap
11 13 (3.40%) jQuery
11 13 (3.40%) Spring Integration
12 12 (3.14%) CSS
13 11 (2.88%) Kafka
13 11 (2.88%) Node.js
13 11 (2.88%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.73%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.66%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.14%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.88%) IoT
4 11 (2.88%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.88%) SCADA
5 7 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.31%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.31%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.05%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.05%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.05%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.02%) Linux
2 14 (3.66%) Android
3 8 (2.09%) Unix
4 7 (1.83%) Windows
5 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.05%) Debian
7 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.52%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.92%) Scrum
2 93 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (23.04%) DevOps
4 82 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 74 (19.37%) Project Management
6 69 (18.06%) CI/CD
7 58 (15.18%) Microservices
8 49 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (12.57%) Waterfall
10 45 (11.78%) Project Delivery
11 44 (11.52%) Test Automation
12 36 (9.42%) TDD
13 34 (8.90%) Data Modelling
14 32 (8.38%) Risk Management
15 31 (8.12%) Migration
16 30 (7.85%) Process Improvement
16 30 (7.85%) Test Strategy
17 29 (7.59%) Business Analysis
18 28 (7.33%) Analytics
18 28 (7.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 69 (18.06%) SQL
2 59 (15.45%) Java
3 43 (11.26%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.16%) Python
5 18 (4.71%) C#
5 18 (4.71%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.45%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.83%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.57%) PHP
9 5 (1.31%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.05%) Bash
10 4 (1.05%) C
10 4 (1.05%) R
11 3 (0.79%) C++
11 3 (0.79%) Groovy
11 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.79%) Scala
12 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.52%) COBOL
12 2 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 60 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.78%) Degree
4 17 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.83%) PMP
7 6 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.31%) CISSP
8 5 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.05%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.79%) CEH
10 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.52%) APMP
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.90%) QA
2 11 (2.88%) PMO
3 9 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.09%) GDPR
4 8 (2.09%) NIST
5 7 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.05%) WCAG
7 3 (0.79%) GRC
7 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.52%) MISRA
8 2 (0.52%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.52%) NCSC
8 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.52%) SLA
8 2 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (12.30%) Docker
2 11 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.09%) Postfix
4 4 (1.05%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.71%) Terraform
3 17 (4.45%) Ansible
4 14 (3.66%) Grafana
5 11 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.57%) HP ALM
7 5 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.05%) Puppet
9 3 (0.79%) Kibana
9 3 (0.79%) Opsview
10 2 (0.52%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.52%) Nagios
10 2 (0.52%) Nessus
10 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.26%) Argo
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.26%) Rancher
11 1 (0.26%) SCCM
11 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.76%) Oracle
3 21 (5.50%) SAP
4 16 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.66%) Atlassian
6 13 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.62%) Cisco
8 9 (2.36%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (2.09%) HP
9 8 (2.09%) VMware
10 7 (1.83%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.57%) Google
11 6 (1.57%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.31%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.31%) F5
13 4 (1.05%) Apple
13 4 (1.05%) Databricks
13 4 (1.05%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.05%) Splunk
14 3 (0.79%) PagerDuty