Agile Contracts in Worcestershire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 16 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -9
Contract jobs citing Agile 4 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 7.69% 4.60% 11.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 5.63% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £523 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% +44.44%
75th Percentile £700 £555 £675
90th Percentile - £564 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.09% +2.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49 71 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 94.23% 81.61% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 54 73
10th Percentile £145 £213 £316
25th Percentile £500 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +31.25%
75th Percentile £709 £575 £613
90th Percentile £891 £588 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile £13.71 £10.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £15.94 £10.72 £16.84
Median hourly rate £17.16 £20.74 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +19.67% +11.79%
75th Percentile £18.13 £63.13 £17.62
90th Percentile £43.68 £72.75 £17.68
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £21.69
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.73% +27.59%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Worcestershire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Worcestershire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Worcestershire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Worcestershire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Malvern - 3 £700 - 7
Worcester -5 2 £700 +40.00% 8
Agile
West Midlands

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft