Agile Contracts in Birmingham

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 6 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Agile 83 133 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.29% 15.13% 19.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.70% 17.30% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 103 186
10th Percentile £413 £400 £372
25th Percentile £463 £456 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% +25.59%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £650
90th Percentile £925 £685 £709
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% +2.48% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £13.25 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +265.38% -77.59% +141.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 606 769 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.45% 87.49% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 508 872
10th Percentile £236 £290 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +6.77% +12.94%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £600
90th Percentile £698 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 23
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.10 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £19.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.64% +15.31% -5.56%
75th Percentile £47.13 £29.06 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £53.00 £19.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
% change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +3.09%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Birmingham

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.64%) NetSuite
2 3 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.69%) Azure
2 8 (9.64%) Boomi
3 7 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (7.23%) AWS
4 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.23%) SaaS
5 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.61%) GitHub
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.41%) iPaaS
7 2 (2.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Serverless
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) WAN
2 5 (6.02%) Internet
3 4 (4.82%) LAN
4 3 (3.61%) ADSL
4 3 (3.61%) Ethernet
4 3 (3.61%) MPLS
4 3 (3.61%) PSTN
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (2.41%) Firewall
5 2 (2.41%) Junos
5 2 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.41%) VPN
6 1 (1.20%) IPsec
6 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.61%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) Power BI
3 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.20%) Big Data
4 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) Flink
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Git
2 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) Selenium
4 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 45 (54.22%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.12%) Finance
3 19 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) German Language
4 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.02%) Retail
6 4 (4.82%) Automotive
6 4 (4.82%) Electronics
6 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Back Office
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Billing
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Local Government
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Architect
2 12 (14.46%) Analyst
3 9 (10.84%) Developer
3 9 (10.84%) Project Manager
4 8 (9.64%) Azure Architect
4 8 (9.64%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.43%) Lead
5 7 (8.43%) Senior
6 6 (7.23%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (7.23%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Author
7 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Technical Author
8 3 (3.61%) Coordinator
8 3 (3.61%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.61%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.61%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) XML
2 6 (7.23%) JSON
2 6 (7.23%) Spring
3 5 (6.02%) HTML
4 4 (4.82%) REST
4 4 (4.82%) SOAP
5 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.61%) React
5 3 (3.61%) Visualforce
5 3 (3.61%) Web Services
5 3 (3.61%) WSDL
5 3 (3.61%) XSD
5 3 (3.61%) XSLT
6 2 (2.41%) .NET
6 2 (2.41%) CSS
6 2 (2.41%) Middleware
6 2 (2.41%) OAuth
6 2 (2.41%) React Native
6 2 (2.41%) SAML
7 1 (1.20%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.82%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (4.82%) IoT
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.61%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.41%) FMCG
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 2 (2.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.92%) Scrum
2 18 (21.69%) Project Management
3 15 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (16.87%) Roadmaps
5 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (15.66%) User Stories
5 13 (15.66%) Waterfall
6 11 (13.25%) Computer Science
6 11 (13.25%) DevOps
6 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.05%) Business Transformation
7 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.84%) Change Control
8 9 (10.84%) CRM
8 9 (10.84%) Data Architecture
9 8 (9.64%) Analytical Thinking
9 8 (9.64%) Change Management
9 8 (9.64%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.43%) IT Strategy
10 7 (8.43%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.84%) SQL
2 7 (8.43%) Java
3 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.61%) Apex Code
4 3 (3.61%) SOQL
5 2 (2.41%) C#
5 2 (2.41%) Perl
5 2 (2.41%) Python
6 1 (1.20%) Groovy
6 1 (1.20%) PHP
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) ProC
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) BC Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.61%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.61%) PMP
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) ACCA
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.20%) CCNA
6 1 (1.20%) CCNP
6 1 (1.20%) CIMA
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) SLA
3 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Docker
1 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (2.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) Ansible
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.20%) Puppet
2 1 (1.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.02%) Cisco
3 5 (6.02%) SAP
4 3 (3.61%) BT
4 3 (3.61%) Openreach
4 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.41%) Databricks
5 2 (2.41%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.41%) Juniper
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.20%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.20%) Conga
6 1 (1.20%) Dell
6 1 (1.20%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.20%) Progress
6 1 (1.20%) Sage
6 1 (1.20%) Snow
6 1 (1.20%) VMware