Agile Contracts in Staffordshire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 10 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile 6 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.96% 3.81% 10.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 4.55% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 13
10th Percentile £516 - £430
25th Percentile £522 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £525
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -38.10% +13.51%
75th Percentile £578 £338 £650
90th Percentile £582 - £670
West Midlands median daily rate £501 £536 £540
% change year-on-year -6.53% -0.74% +3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.90 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £47.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year +21.05% +265.38% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 88 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 88.06% 83.81% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 61 90
10th Percentile £140 £213 £163
25th Percentile £150 £325 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £575
90th Percentile £553 £538 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 2
10th Percentile £12.40 £13.87 -
25th Percentile £13.78 £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £17.62 £40.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -55.95% +78.49% +17.64%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £23.82 £56.13 -
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 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 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
Lichfield - 4 £550 - 1
Stafford -1 1 - - 6
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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Boomi
3 2 (33.33%) OCI
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Coach
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Django
1 2 (33.33%) MACH
2 1 (16.67%) ADO
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) API Integration
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft