Agile Contracts in Shropshire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Shropshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 32 83 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 24.81% 48.54% 49.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 41.03% 51.88% 50.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 64 225
10th Percentile £340 £415 £406
25th Percentile - £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +1.89% +22.26%
75th Percentile £425 - £575
90th Percentile £531 £595 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +22.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 160 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 60.47% 93.57% 98.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 125 451
10th Percentile £260 £410 £381
25th Percentile £354 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £538 £505
Median % change year-on-year -25.65% +6.53% +24.69%
75th Percentile £499 £540 £575
90th Percentile £519 £595 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £10.42 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.05% +214.29% +34.62%
75th Percentile £11.32 £57.50 £18.75
90th Percentile £14.26 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Shropshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Shropshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Shropshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Shropshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Telford -4 30 £358 -33.70% 5
Agile
West Midlands

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 9 (28.13%) CICS
1 9 (28.13%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) DB2
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (28.13%) IDMS
2 9 (28.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (56.25%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) Ant
3 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Mainframe Developer
3 8 (25.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Service Designer
5 1 (3.13%) Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) CSS
1 2 (6.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) IBM Mainframe
1 10 (31.25%) Mainframe
2 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) zOS
2 8 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Scrum
2 19 (59.38%) Requirements Gathering
3 11 (34.38%) Configuration Management
3 11 (34.38%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (34.38%) Software Engineering
3 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (31.25%) Analytics
4 10 (31.25%) Data Analytics
4 10 (31.25%) Data Extraction
4 10 (31.25%) ETL
5 9 (28.13%) Dashboard Development
6 8 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 8 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 8 (25.00%) System Testing
6 8 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 2 (6.25%) Minimum Viable Product
7 2 (6.25%) Problem Management
7 2 (6.25%) Prototyping
7 2 (6.25%) Service Design
8 1 (3.13%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) COBOL
2 9 (28.13%) CLIST
2 9 (28.13%) REXX
2 9 (28.13%) SELCOPY
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 7 (21.88%) Bash
4 7 (21.88%) Bourne shell
4 7 (21.88%) Korn
4 7 (21.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) IBM
2 9 (28.13%) Denodo
2 9 (28.13%) Syncsort
2 9 (28.13%) Talend
3 8 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft