Agile Contracts in Telford

Agile Software Development
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 52 33 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 48.15% 28.21% 51.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 49.52% 45.21% 54.05%
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% +3.35%
75th Percentile £537 £425 -
90th Percentile £541 £526 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £512 £358 £540
% change year-on-year +43.02% -33.70% +2.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 73 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 97.22% 62.39% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 119
10th Percentile £315 £341 £412
25th Percentile £448 £358 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £545
90th Percentile £541 £520 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £484 £378 £538
% change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - £11.85 -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Telford

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Telford

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Telford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Telford

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 13 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.85%) Open Workbench
4 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) Azure
2 13 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 12 (23.08%) PowerApps
4 6 (11.54%) AWS
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.92%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Big Data
1 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.85%) IDMS
2 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) JIRA
2 5 (9.62%) GitLab
3 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.85%) CA Gen
4 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (1.92%) JBehave
5 1 (1.92%) Selenium
5 1 (1.92%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Engagement Manager
2 10 (19.23%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) Lead
3 7 (13.46%) Technical Leader
4 4 (7.69%) Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 4 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) QA Leader
6 2 (3.85%) Report Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Test Analyst
7 1 (1.92%) Big Data Manager
7 1 (1.92%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (1.92%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) React
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Camel
2 2 (3.85%) CSS
2 2 (3.85%) HTML
2 2 (3.85%) Next.js
2 2 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.92%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.92%) JSON
3 1 (1.92%) Quarkus
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
3 1 (1.92%) Spring
3 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
1 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) DevOps
2 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 15 (28.85%) Process Improvement
4 15 (28.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 12 (23.08%) Configuration Management
6 12 (23.08%) Problem Management
7 11 (21.15%) Data Modelling
7 11 (21.15%) OO
8 10 (19.23%) Project Management
9 9 (17.31%) Waterfall
10 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 8 (15.38%) Project Planning
11 7 (13.46%) Analytics
11 7 (13.46%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 7 (13.46%) Business Analysis
12 6 (11.54%) Agile Project Management
12 6 (11.54%) Scrum
12 6 (11.54%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) Java
3 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.85%) COBOL
4 2 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.85%) ISEB
3 2 (3.85%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.92%) CISSP
4 1 (1.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 4 (7.69%) PMO
3 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Ansible
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Opsview
4 1 (1.92%) Grafana
4 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) SAP
3 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.85%) Talend
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) QAD