Agile Contracts in West Sussex

Agile Software Development
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 8 1 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Agile 19 68 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 13.01% 26.05% 15.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.96% 28.57% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 45 32
10th Percentile £375 £356 £401
25th Percentile £459 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -11.87%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £600
90th Percentile £738 £775 £729
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year - +26.35% -64.11%
South East median hourly rate £60.50 £58.30 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 238 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.99% 91.19% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 174 200
10th Percentile £217 £304 £181
25th Percentile £350 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £600
90th Percentile £632 £588 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 8
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.63 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.05 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in West Sussex

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in West Sussex

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in West Sussex

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in West Sussex

Agile
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Crawley +10 8 £675 +58.82% 80
Worthing -3 5 £525 +26.81% 7
Burgess Hill -4 5 £450 +5.88% 7
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.26%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) DataStage
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.53%) Postman
3 2 (10.53%) SoapUI
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Architect
1 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (15.79%) Systems Test Engineer
1 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Lead
2 2 (10.53%) Programme Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Test Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Business Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Support Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Playwright
1 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) gRPC
2 1 (5.26%) J2EE
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) QML
2 1 (5.26%) Qt
2 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) IoT
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) SCADA
3 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps
1 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (31.58%) Scrum
1 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
2 5 (26.32%) BDD
2 5 (26.32%) Validation
3 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
4 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (15.79%) Kanban
4 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) Programme Management
4 3 (15.79%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) SDLC
4 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
4 3 (15.79%) TDD
4 3 (15.79%) Test Management
4 3 (15.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) ISEB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.26%) Talend