Agile Contracts in the East Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 87 158 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.07% 15.85% 16.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 18.08% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 143 191
10th Percentile £292 £313 £360
25th Percentile £368 £350 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -7.22% +19.75%
75th Percentile £538 £565 £538
90th Percentile £603 £645 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile £6.57 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £7.85 £23.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.87% -16.36% -
75th Percentile £9.14 - £30.81
90th Percentile - - £34.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 874 1,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.13% 87.66% 82.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 681 856
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £305 £345 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £525
90th Percentile £623 £700 £608
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 50 72
10th Percentile £11.67 £13.11 £9.75
25th Percentile £12.75 £17.82 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.00 £26.07 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +30.35% +53.85%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £32.06
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the East Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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
Northamptonshire +7 49 £395 +12.71% 33
Leicestershire -6 17 £538 +27.98% 28
Nottinghamshire -14 10 £488 -18.75% 47
Lincolnshire 0 3 £189 -68.08% 10
Derbyshire -16 2 £450 -14.29% 14
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 4 (4.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) SAS
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Azure
2 7 (8.05%) AWS
3 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.60%) SaaS
5 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.15%) GCP
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.15%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) SAN
2 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.30%) SMS
4 1 (1.15%) DSL
4 1 (1.15%) LAN
4 1 (1.15%) NAS
4 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.60%) DB2
2 4 (4.60%) Power BI
3 3 (3.45%) Big Data
3 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) JIRA
2 6 (6.90%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (3.45%) JMeter
4 1 (1.15%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.15%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) JUnit
General
1 23 (26.44%) Finance
2 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 14 (16.09%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Automotive
6 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.30%) Front Office
6 2 (2.30%) Local Government
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
7 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.15%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.15%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Developer
2 18 (20.69%) Analyst
3 12 (13.79%) Project Manager
4 11 (12.64%) Business Analyst
5 10 (11.49%) Architect
5 10 (11.49%) Senior
6 6 (6.90%) Oracle Developer
7 5 (5.75%) SAP Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Agile Coach
8 4 (4.60%) Consultant
8 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.60%) SQL Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Performance Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Performance Test Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.20%) React
2 6 (6.90%) .NET
3 5 (5.75%) SAP PI
4 3 (3.45%) ISPF
4 3 (3.45%) LDAP
4 3 (3.45%) Middleware
4 3 (3.45%) OAuth
4 3 (3.45%) OpenID
4 3 (3.45%) REST
4 3 (3.45%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.45%) SAML
4 3 (3.45%) Web Services
5 2 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.30%) Kafka
6 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.15%) gRPC
6 1 (1.15%) RAML
6 1 (1.15%) Redux
6 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.05%) Mainframe
3 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.30%) Wiki
6 1 (1.15%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.15%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Robotics
6 1 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Android
1 4 (4.60%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.45%) Debian
2 3 (3.45%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
2 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 21 (24.14%) Project Management
3 17 (19.54%) Scrum
4 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (16.09%) Project Delivery
5 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (12.64%) Customer Service
7 10 (11.49%) ITIL
7 10 (11.49%) PRINCE2
7 10 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (10.34%) Migration
8 9 (10.34%) SDLC
9 8 (9.20%) DevOps
10 7 (8.05%) API Design
10 7 (8.05%) Business Analysis
10 7 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.05%) CRM
10 7 (8.05%) Data Modelling
10 7 (8.05%) Software Engineering
11 6 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.24%) SQL
2 12 (13.79%) Java
3 9 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.20%) Python
5 6 (6.90%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.75%) ABAP
7 4 (4.60%) C
7 4 (4.60%) C#
7 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.45%) Bash
8 3 (3.45%) JCL
9 2 (2.30%) REXX
10 1 (1.15%) R
10 1 (1.15%) Ruby
10 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (9.20%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.75%) ISEB
3 4 (4.60%) Degree
3 4 (4.60%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) CBAP
6 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) IIBA
6 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.30%) GRC
2 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Control-M
1 3 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.15%) Grafana
2 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.20%) Oracle
2 8 (9.20%) SAP
3 3 (3.45%) CA
3 3 (3.45%) CyberArk
3 3 (3.45%) Okta
3 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.45%) Splunk
3 3 (3.45%) VMware
4 2 (2.30%) BMC
4 2 (2.30%) NEC
4 2 (2.30%) Northgate
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco
5 1 (1.15%) Denodo
5 1 (1.15%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.15%) NetApp
5 1 (1.15%) Sage
5 1 (1.15%) Talend