Agile Contracts in Shropshire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 57 36 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 43.85% 26.87% 48.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 45.60% 43.37% 51.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 27 64
10th Percentile £406 £344 £415
25th Percentile £456 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +43.02% -33.70% +2.37%
75th Percentile £537 £425 -
90th Percentile £541 £526 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £501 £536 £540
% change year-on-year -6.53% -0.74% +3.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Telford +7 52 £512 +43.02% 77
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 15 (26.32%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.51%) Open Workbench
4 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) Power Platform
3 12 (21.05%) PowerApps
4 8 (14.04%) AWS
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Big Data
1 6 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.51%) IDMS
3 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (29.82%) JIRA
2 6 (10.53%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.51%) CA Gen
4 2 (3.51%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.51%) Maven
5 1 (1.75%) JBehave
5 1 (1.75%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.75%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.07%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Engagement Manager
2 10 (17.54%) Developer
2 10 (17.54%) Lead
3 7 (12.28%) Technical Leader
4 5 (8.77%) Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Data Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Test Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) QA Leader
7 2 (3.51%) Report Manager
7 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 1 (1.75%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
8 1 (1.75%) Public Sector Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) React
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Camel
2 2 (3.51%) CSS
2 2 (3.51%) HTML
2 2 (3.51%) Next.js
2 2 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.75%) .NET
3 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.75%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.75%) JSON
3 1 (1.75%) Quarkus
3 1 (1.75%) SOAP
3 1 (1.75%) Spring
3 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
1 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) DevOps
2 19 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (31.58%) Project Delivery
4 16 (28.07%) Process Improvement
4 16 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (22.81%) Problem Management
5 13 (22.81%) Test Strategy
6 12 (21.05%) Configuration Management
6 12 (21.05%) Project Management
7 11 (19.30%) Data Modelling
7 11 (19.30%) OO
8 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.79%) Waterfall
9 8 (14.04%) Agile Project Management
9 8 (14.04%) Project Planning
10 7 (12.28%) Analytics
10 7 (12.28%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
10 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) SQL
2 6 (10.53%) Java
3 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.51%) COBOL
4 2 (3.51%) Python
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 15 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.51%) ISEB
3 2 (3.51%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) PMO
3 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Ansible
2 4 (7.02%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Opsview
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) SAP
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.26%) PagerDuty
4 3 (5.26%) Talend
5 1 (1.75%) Databricks
5 1 (1.75%) QAD