Agile Contracts in the Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 311 545 1,254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.14% 16.77% 24.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.68% 19.14% 28.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 425 959
10th Percentile £356 £350 £383
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% - +13.89%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £586
90th Percentile £715 £675 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 8
10th Percentile £13.25 - £20.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £12.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% -55.56% +19.39%
75th Percentile £56.88 £18.25 £43.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £21.10 £59.63
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -6.06% +28.03% +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,848 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.44% 87.66% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,529 1,999 3,249
10th Percentile £231 £262 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 136
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.84
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +26.05% +19.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £23.63
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands -3 231 £550 +2.09% 297
East Midlands -9 77 £445 -3.78% 141
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 9 (2.89%) CICS
1 9 (2.89%) SAS
2 6 (1.93%) Confluence
3 3 (0.96%) CMS
3 3 (0.96%) Drupal
3 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.93%) Simulink
2 6 (1.93%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.61%) TargetLink
4 4 (1.29%) Trello
5 3 (0.96%) CANalyzer
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (3.22%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.64%) Maximo
4 2 (0.64%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.64%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.64%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.64%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 65 (20.90%) Azure
2 27 (8.68%) AWS
3 26 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (5.47%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.54%) SaaS
6 8 (2.57%) Boomi
7 7 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.25%) PowerApps
7 7 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (1.93%) Azure App Service
8 6 (1.93%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.61%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (1.29%) GCP
10 4 (1.29%) IaaS
10 4 (1.29%) PaaS
10 4 (1.29%) Serverless
11 3 (0.96%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.89%) SAN
2 8 (2.57%) WAN
3 7 (2.25%) Firewall
4 6 (1.93%) Internet
4 6 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.61%) DNS
5 5 (1.61%) LAN
6 4 (1.29%) Ethernet
6 4 (1.29%) Network Security
6 4 (1.29%) SSL
6 4 (1.29%) VPN
7 3 (0.96%) ADSL
7 3 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.96%) MPLS
7 3 (0.96%) PSTN
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.64%) Junos
8 2 (0.64%) SMS
9 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.40%) MySQL
2 17 (5.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (5.14%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.50%) DB2
5 13 (4.18%) Power BI
6 9 (2.89%) IDMS
7 6 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.96%) Big Data
10 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.64%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.32%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 41 (13.18%) Git
2 23 (7.40%) JIRA
3 9 (2.89%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.57%) Subversion
5 7 (2.25%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.93%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (1.61%) Selenium
7 5 (1.61%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.29%) Ant
8 4 (1.29%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.29%) JMeter
9 3 (0.96%) CANoe
9 3 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.32%) JUnit
11 1 (0.32%) NUnit
11 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 105 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 69 (22.19%) Finance
3 38 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.11%) Automotive
6 13 (4.18%) Banking
7 12 (3.86%) Retail
8 9 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.93%) Electronics
11 6 (1.93%) German Language
11 6 (1.93%) Law
11 6 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.61%) Marketing
13 4 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.29%) Local Government
14 3 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 62 (19.94%) Developer
2 43 (13.83%) Architect
3 42 (13.50%) Analyst
4 34 (10.93%) Project Manager
4 34 (10.93%) Senior
5 26 (8.36%) Business Analyst
6 19 (6.11%) Lead
7 14 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.86%) Consultant
8 12 (3.86%) Product Owner
8 12 (3.86%) Senior Manager
8 12 (3.86%) SQL Developer
9 11 (3.54%) Azure Architect
10 10 (3.22%) IBM Mainframe Developer
10 10 (3.22%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.22%) Mainframe Developer
11 9 (2.89%) Senior Project Manager
12 7 (2.25%) IT Project Manager
12 7 (2.25%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.75%) .NET
2 14 (4.50%) XML
3 12 (3.86%) React
4 11 (3.54%) Web Services
5 9 (2.89%) AngularJS
6 8 (2.57%) HTML
6 8 (2.57%) JSON
6 8 (2.57%) REST
7 7 (2.25%) RESTful
7 7 (2.25%) XSLT
8 6 (1.93%) Spring
9 5 (1.61%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.61%) Middleware
9 5 (1.61%) OAuth
9 5 (1.61%) SAML
9 5 (1.61%) SOAP
10 4 (1.29%) CSS
10 4 (1.29%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.29%) SAP PI
11 3 (0.96%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.68%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.50%) Mainframe
3 13 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.22%) IBM Mainframe
7 9 (2.89%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.57%) IoT
8 8 (2.57%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.25%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.25%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.29%) Industry 4.0
10 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.96%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.96%) Infotainment
11 3 (0.96%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.22%) Unix
2 9 (2.89%) zOS
3 8 (2.57%) Linux
4 4 (1.29%) Android
4 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.29%) Debian
4 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.29%) Windows
5 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (25.08%) Scrum
2 74 (23.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (19.29%) Project Management
4 54 (17.36%) Waterfall
5 45 (14.47%) DevOps
6 41 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.54%) Roadmaps
8 38 (12.22%) Software Engineering
9 36 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (10.61%) PRINCE2
10 33 (10.61%) Project Delivery
11 28 (9.00%) Analytics
11 28 (9.00%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (8.36%) Requirements Gathering
13 24 (7.72%) ITIL
14 23 (7.40%) ETL
15 22 (7.07%) Configuration Management
15 22 (7.07%) Customer Service
15 22 (7.07%) User Stories
16 21 (6.75%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.47%) SQL
2 21 (6.75%) JavaScript
3 20 (6.43%) Java
4 18 (5.79%) Python
5 17 (5.47%) C#
6 14 (4.50%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.22%) Bash
7 10 (3.22%) COBOL
8 9 (2.89%) C
8 9 (2.89%) CLIST
8 9 (2.89%) REXX
8 9 (2.89%) SELCOPY
9 7 (2.25%) Bourne shell
9 7 (2.25%) Korn
9 7 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.25%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.93%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.61%) ABAP
11 5 (1.61%) Bicep
12 3 (0.96%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.90%) Degree
2 37 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (3.22%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (1.93%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.93%) PMP
7 5 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.61%) ISEB
8 4 (1.29%) CCNA
8 4 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.29%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.96%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.64%) CBAP
11 1 (0.32%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.72%) QA
2 5 (1.61%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (1.61%) ISO 26262
2 5 (1.61%) MISRA
2 5 (1.61%) MISRA C
3 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.29%) SLA
4 3 (0.96%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.64%) PMO
6 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.29%) Docker
3 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.82%) Grafana
2 7 (2.25%) Ansible
2 7 (2.25%) Terraform
3 5 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.64%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.32%) Kibana
5 1 (0.32%) Puppet
5 1 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.36%) Oracle
3 24 (7.72%) SAP
4 19 (6.11%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.14%) Talend
6 15 (4.82%) Denodo
7 14 (4.50%) IBM
8 13 (4.18%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.89%) Cisco
9 9 (2.89%) Syncsort
10 5 (1.61%) VMware
11 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.96%) BT
12 3 (0.96%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.96%) F5
12 3 (0.96%) Okta
12 3 (0.96%) Openreach
13 2 (0.64%) Databricks
13 2 (0.64%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft