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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Agile 25 38 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 13.44% 19.90% 14.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.92% 22.62% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 41
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £289 £358 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -23.42%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £550
90th Percentile £625 £713 £738
South East median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £70.07
Median % change year-on-year - -60.04% +30.97%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.53 £67.50
% change year-on-year -9.14% -10.33% +12.50%

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 157 168 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 84.41% 87.96% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 129 249
10th Percentile £170 £200 £200
25th Percentile £255 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £703 £603 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 5
10th Percentile - £24.45 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £22.23
Median hourly rate £18.82 £28.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.79% +14.47% +27.06%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £48.00
90th Percentile £47.25 £35.75 £61.24
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +96.08%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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
Burgess Hill -3 11 £288 -23.20% 1
Worthing +2 8 £550 +53.63% 9
Crawley +1 3 £475 -5.94% 16
Chichester +1 1 - - 5
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 £450 - 2
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 2 (8.00%) JBoss
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) GitHub
1 3 (12.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
2 8 (32.00%) JIRA
3 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (24.00%) Subversion
5 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.00%) IntelliJ
5 2 (8.00%) JUnit
5 2 (8.00%) Postman
5 2 (8.00%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Nutanix Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.00%) Test Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analytics Manager
5 1 (4.00%) PMO Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Transformation Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) VB.NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) REST
2 7 (28.00%) GraphQL
2 7 (28.00%) gRPC
2 7 (28.00%) Kafka
2 7 (28.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.00%) JSON
3 2 (8.00%) Playwright
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Scrum
2 11 (44.00%) Microservices
3 10 (40.00%) BDD
3 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) TDD
4 9 (36.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (36.00%) Waterfall
5 8 (32.00%) Kanban
5 8 (32.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) Regression Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (16.00%) DevOps
8 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.00%) SDLC
9 3 (12.00%) High Availability
9 3 (12.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Go
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (36.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PMP
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) GAMP
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
2 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (12.00%) Citrix
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Sitecore
4 1 (4.00%) VMware