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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 259 234 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.36% 12.06% 17.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.67% 14.53% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 164 284
10th Percentile £399 £358 £405
25th Percentile £425 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.09% +2.62%
75th Percentile £541 £650 £626
90th Percentile £605 £754 £694
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 2
10th Percentile £34.19 £13.85 -
25th Percentile £38.49 £18.73 £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 £57.50 £13.50
90th Percentile £58.20 £58.75 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.06 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -6.06% +29.01%

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 1,253 1,610 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.80% 82.95% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 1,077 1,325
10th Percentile £200 £267 £263
25th Percentile £375 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £606
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 116 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.22 £13.70
Median hourly rate £21.03 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £31.19 £40.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.75
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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
Birmingham +3 74 £500 -10.11% 168
Warwickshire -1 57 £500 -17.15% 83
Shropshire +6 55 £512 +43.02% 49
Solihull +27 20 £525 - 15
Coventry -2 19 £400 -28.89% 40
Worcestershire +1 5 £550 +4.76% 28
Staffordshire 0 5 £525 +61.54% 115
Herefordshire - 4 £550 - 9
Walsall - 3 £350 - 5
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 25 (9.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) IIS
3 2 (0.77%) R Markdown
3 2 (0.77%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (3.86%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.16%) Revit
4 3 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) Open Workbench
5 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.77%) SAP FI
1 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Primavera
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 47 (18.15%) Azure
2 46 (17.76%) AWS
3 31 (11.97%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 18 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
7 16 (6.18%) PowerApps
8 14 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (4.25%) AWS KMS
10 11 (4.25%) Route 53
11 9 (3.47%) GitHub
12 8 (3.09%) GCP
13 7 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.32%) SaaS
14 6 (2.32%) Serverless
15 5 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.25%) Firewall
2 5 (1.93%) Network Security
3 4 (1.54%) BIG-IP
3 4 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.54%) DHCP
3 4 (1.54%) DNS
3 4 (1.54%) HTTP
3 4 (1.54%) SSL
3 4 (1.54%) VLAN
4 3 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.16%) VPN
5 2 (0.77%) BGP
5 2 (0.77%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.77%) IPsec
5 2 (0.77%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.77%) OSPF
5 2 (0.77%) SAN
5 2 (0.77%) TACACS
5 2 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.79%) DynamoDB
4 14 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (5.41%) Power BI
5 13 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.86%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.70%) Big Data
7 7 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.32%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.54%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.77%) GIS
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.77%) Tableau
12 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.39%) IDMS
12 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.39%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (20.46%) JIRA
2 33 (12.74%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.42%) Git
4 19 (7.34%) Maven
5 16 (6.18%) JUnit
6 12 (4.63%) Mockito
7 11 (4.25%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.86%) GitLab
9 6 (2.32%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.32%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.32%) jMock
10 5 (1.93%) Postman
11 4 (1.54%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.54%) Selenium
12 3 (1.16%) JMeter
12 3 (1.16%) Plastic SCM
12 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.16%) TestNG
12 3 (1.16%) Travis CI
General
1 88 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.85%) Finance
3 35 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.47%) Automotive
7 7 (2.70%) Retail
8 6 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.32%) Law
8 6 (2.32%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.93%) Advertising
9 5 (1.93%) Legal
9 5 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Games
10 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.77%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (19.69%) Developer
2 29 (11.20%) Analyst
3 26 (10.04%) Lead
4 24 (9.27%) Project Manager
5 23 (8.88%) Senior
6 21 (8.11%) Java Developer
7 19 (7.34%) Architect
8 16 (6.18%) Engagement Manager
9 15 (5.79%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.86%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.86%) Tester
11 9 (3.47%) Technical Leader
12 8 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.70%) Product Owner
14 6 (2.32%) Consultant
14 6 (2.32%) Data Engineer
14 6 (2.32%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.32%) Lead Java Developer
14 6 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.49%) REST
1 22 (8.49%) Spring
2 21 (8.11%) Spring Boot
3 20 (7.72%) Web Services
4 16 (6.18%) SOAP
5 14 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
5 14 (5.41%) Hibernate
5 14 (5.41%) React
5 14 (5.41%) RESTful
6 13 (5.02%) JPA
7 11 (4.25%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.86%) Bootstrap
8 10 (3.86%) Spring Batch
8 10 (3.86%) Spring Integration
9 9 (3.47%) .NET
9 9 (3.47%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (3.09%) HTML
11 7 (2.70%) Middleware
11 7 (2.70%) Node.js
12 6 (2.32%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.25%) IoT
2 11 (4.25%) SCADA
3 10 (3.86%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.32%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.93%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.54%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.16%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) PMI
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.18%) Linux
2 7 (2.70%) Windows
3 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.77%) CentOS
4 2 (0.77%) Debian
4 2 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (26.64%) DevOps
2 64 (24.71%) Scrum
3 60 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (22.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (19.31%) Project Management
6 42 (16.22%) CI/CD
7 38 (14.67%) Microservices
8 37 (14.29%) Waterfall
9 33 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (12.74%) Project Delivery
10 29 (11.20%) Test Strategy
11 28 (10.81%) Migration
12 27 (10.42%) Data Modelling
13 26 (10.04%) TDD
14 23 (8.88%) Risk Management
15 21 (8.11%) Process Improvement
16 20 (7.72%) Roadmaps
16 20 (7.72%) Test Automation
17 19 (7.34%) Analytics
17 19 (7.34%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.15%) SQL
2 32 (12.36%) Java
3 29 (11.20%) Python
4 28 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.47%) C#
6 9 (3.47%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.32%) PHP
8 5 (1.93%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.54%) Bash
9 4 (1.54%) R
10 3 (1.16%) Groovy
11 2 (0.77%) Go
12 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.39%) JSX
12 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.39%) RPG
12 1 (0.39%) RPG/400
12 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (20.46%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.11%) Degree
4 10 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.93%) CISSP
6 4 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.54%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.54%) PMP
7 3 (1.16%) CEH
7 3 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.77%) APMP
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.77%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.72%) QA
2 8 (3.09%) PMO
3 5 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.93%) GDPR
3 5 (1.93%) NIST
4 4 (1.54%) WCAG
5 2 (0.77%) NCSC
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) PMBOK
System Software
1 38 (14.67%) Docker
2 7 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.70%) Postfix
3 2 (0.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.41%) Ansible
2 14 (5.41%) Terraform
3 13 (5.02%) Grafana
4 10 (3.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.32%) HP ALM
6 3 (1.16%) Kibana
6 3 (1.16%) Opsview
7 2 (0.77%) Nagios
7 2 (0.77%) Nessus
7 2 (0.77%) Puppet
7 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) Argo
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) Rancher
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.34%) SAP
3 13 (5.02%) Atlassian
3 13 (5.02%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.86%) Oracle
5 9 (3.47%) Cisco
6 8 (3.09%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.32%) HP
7 6 (2.32%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.93%) CheckPoint
8 5 (1.93%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.54%) F5
9 4 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.16%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.16%) Databricks
10 3 (1.16%) Google
10 3 (1.16%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.16%) IBM
10 3 (1.16%) VMware