Agile Contracts in the West Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 267 226 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.75% 10.94% 17.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.00% 13.52% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 161 291
10th Percentile £392 £358 £413
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £541 £650 £625
90th Percentile £621 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 2
10th Percentile £34.19 £14.79 -
25th Percentile £38.49 £22.33 £12.50
Median hourly rate £48.32 £47.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +265.38% -77.59%
75th Percentile £55.49 £58.13 £13.50
90th Percentile £58.20 £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,672 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.76% 80.93% 87.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,112 1,334
10th Percentile £203 £263 £263
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.81%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £623
90th Percentile £674 £731 £706
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 114 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.16 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.28 £21.23 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% -15.10% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Birmingham +6 79 £500 -9.09% 383
Warwickshire +4 62 £500 -17.63% 94
Shropshire +4 60 £502 +40.22% 137
Solihull +27 21 £550 - 6
Coventry -5 17 £400 -28.89% 116
Worcestershire +6 5 £550 +10.00% 74
Staffordshire -4 5 £525 +35.48% 160
Herefordshire - 4 £550 - 22
Walsall - 3 £350 - 3
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 23 (8.61%) Confluence
2 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.75%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) R Markdown
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 13 (4.87%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.12%) Revit
4 3 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.75%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Primavera
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 53 (19.85%) Azure
2 46 (17.23%) AWS
3 31 (11.61%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.12%) Amazon S3
5 18 (6.74%) PowerApps
6 17 (6.37%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.12%) GitHub
11 10 (3.75%) AWS KMS
11 10 (3.75%) GCP
11 10 (3.75%) Route 53
12 7 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.25%) SaaS
14 5 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.87%) Serverless
15 4 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.87%) Firewall
2 5 (1.87%) Network Security
3 4 (1.50%) BIG-IP
3 4 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.50%) DHCP
3 4 (1.50%) DNS
3 4 (1.50%) HTTP
3 4 (1.50%) SSL
3 4 (1.50%) VLAN
4 3 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.12%) VPN
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.75%) IPsec
5 2 (0.75%) OSPF
5 2 (0.75%) SAN
5 2 (0.75%) TACACS
5 2 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (4.87%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.49%) Power BI
6 10 (3.75%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.62%) Big Data
8 6 (2.25%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.75%) GIS
10 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.75%) Tableau
11 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.37%) DataStage
11 1 (0.37%) DB2
11 1 (0.37%) MySQL
11 1 (0.37%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 56 (20.97%) JIRA
2 32 (11.99%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.86%) Git
4 20 (7.49%) Maven
5 15 (5.62%) JUnit
6 12 (4.49%) SonarQube
7 11 (4.12%) GitLab
7 11 (4.12%) Mockito
8 7 (2.62%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (2.62%) DbUnit
8 7 (2.62%) jMock
9 5 (1.87%) Postman
10 4 (1.50%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.50%) Selenium
11 3 (1.12%) JMeter
11 3 (1.12%) Plastic SCM
11 3 (1.12%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.12%) ScriptRunner
11 3 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.12%) TestNG
General
1 88 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.97%) Finance
3 36 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.25%) Law
6 6 (2.25%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.25%) Retail
7 5 (1.87%) Advertising
7 5 (1.87%) Automotive
7 5 (1.87%) Legal
7 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.50%) Marketing
9 3 (1.12%) Games
10 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (20.22%) Developer
2 27 (10.11%) Analyst
3 26 (9.74%) Project Manager
4 24 (8.99%) Lead
5 22 (8.24%) Java Developer
5 22 (8.24%) Senior
6 19 (7.12%) Architect
7 15 (5.62%) Engagement Manager
8 12 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (3.75%) Senior Developer
9 10 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.75%) Tester
10 9 (3.37%) Technical Leader
11 8 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.62%) Product Owner
13 6 (2.25%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.25%) Lead Developer
13 6 (2.25%) Lead Java Developer
13 6 (2.25%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.99%) REST
2 22 (8.24%) Spring
3 21 (7.87%) Spring Boot
4 19 (7.12%) Web Services
5 18 (6.74%) SOAP
6 15 (5.62%) ActiveMQ
6 15 (5.62%) RESTful
7 14 (5.24%) JPA
7 14 (5.24%) React
8 13 (4.87%) Hibernate
9 12 (4.49%) .NET
9 12 (4.49%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.12%) Bootstrap
10 11 (4.12%) Spring Batch
10 11 (4.12%) Spring Integration
11 10 (3.75%) Spring Cloud
12 8 (3.00%) ADO
12 8 (3.00%) Middleware
13 7 (2.62%) HTML
13 7 (2.62%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.87%) SCADA
3 11 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.62%) IoT
7 5 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.50%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.50%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.75%) NHS
10 2 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.74%) Linux
2 9 (3.37%) Windows
3 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.75%) CentOS
4 2 (0.75%) Debian
4 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.46%) DevOps
2 67 (25.09%) Scrum
3 63 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (21.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (19.10%) Project Management
6 47 (17.60%) CI/CD
7 36 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (13.48%) Microservices
7 36 (13.48%) Waterfall
8 34 (12.73%) Project Delivery
9 31 (11.61%) Test Strategy
10 29 (10.86%) Migration
11 25 (9.36%) Data Modelling
12 23 (8.61%) Risk Management
12 23 (8.61%) TDD
13 22 (8.24%) ITIL
14 21 (7.87%) Change Management
14 21 (7.87%) Roadmaps
15 20 (7.49%) Problem Management
15 20 (7.49%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.60%) SQL
2 34 (12.73%) Java
3 28 (10.49%) JavaScript
4 27 (10.11%) Python
5 17 (6.37%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.12%) C#
7 9 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.25%) Bash
8 6 (2.25%) PHP
8 6 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.50%) R
10 3 (1.12%) Groovy
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.75%) Scala
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.37%) RPG
12 1 (0.37%) RPG/400
12 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.49%) Degree
4 7 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.87%) CISSP
6 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.87%) PMP
7 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.12%) CEH
8 3 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.12%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.75%) APMP
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.37%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.99%) QA
2 7 (2.62%) PMO
3 6 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.25%) NIST
4 5 (1.87%) GDPR
5 4 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.50%) WCAG
6 2 (0.75%) NCSC
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 39 (14.61%) Docker
2 8 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.00%) Postfix
3 2 (0.75%) Firmware
4 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.99%) Terraform
3 15 (5.62%) Ansible
4 14 (5.24%) Grafana
5 11 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.25%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.12%) Kibana
7 3 (1.12%) Opsview
8 2 (0.75%) Nagios
8 2 (0.75%) Nessus
8 2 (0.75%) Puppet
8 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.37%) Rancher
9 1 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.62%) SAP
2 15 (5.62%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.87%) Atlassian
4 12 (4.49%) Oracle
5 10 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.37%) Cisco
6 9 (3.37%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.62%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.25%) HP
8 6 (2.25%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.87%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.50%) F5
10 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.12%) Autodesk
11 3 (1.12%) Google
11 3 (1.12%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.12%) VMware
12 2 (0.75%) Juniper
12 2 (0.75%) Sophos