Agile Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Agile Software Development
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 12.12% 5.56% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.05% 7.69% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £329 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +53.85% -43.72%
75th Percentile £500 - £338
90th Percentile £557 - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £388 £525 £325
% change year-on-year -26.19% +61.54% -35.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 13 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 57.58% 72.22% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 18
10th Percentile £183 £323 £299
25th Percentile £280 £394 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +14.29% -33.01%
75th Percentile £419 £423 £418
90th Percentile £469 £483 £496
Staffordshire median daily rate £405 £313 £369
% change year-on-year +29.60% -15.27% -26.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.10 £13.14 £10.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% +20.22% -
75th Percentile £20.93 £16.39 -
90th Percentile £25.62 £21.09 -
Staffordshire median hourly rate £27.50 £19.00 £35.72
% change year-on-year +44.74% -46.80% +29.87%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Agile job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Stoke-on-Trent

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Boomi
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (25.00%) BAPI
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow