Agile Contracts in Staffordshire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 12 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Agile 5 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 4.67% 10.07% 11.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 12.10% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 19
10th Percentile £301 £430 £406
25th Percentile £303 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -40.48% +13.51% +26.71%
75th Percentile £328 £650 £538
90th Percentile £334 £670 £589
West Midlands median daily rate £536 £540 £523
% change year-on-year -0.74% +3.35% +22.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 - -
Median hourly rate £15.90 - -
75th Percentile £16.67 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +265.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 124 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.11% 83.22% 76.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 92 106
10th Percentile £209 £163 £171
25th Percentile £306 £297 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +1.59%
75th Percentile £469 £575 £506
90th Percentile £535 £696 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +15.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £13.87 - £13.20
25th Percentile £15.13 - £14.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +78.49% +17.64% +6.42%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £19.77
90th Percentile £56.13 - £20.37
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 Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Stafford 0 2 £300 -53.85% 2
Burton-upon-Trent -1 2 - - 1
Stoke-on-Trent +1 1 £325 -50.00% 7
Agile
West Midlands

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Simulink
1 1 (20.00%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) MS Access
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Change Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Project Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft