Agile Contracts in Kent

Agile Software Development
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Agile 17 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 7.83% 9.66% 11.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.18% 13.42% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 30
10th Percentile £394 £99 £409
25th Percentile £481 £406 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +33.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £632
90th Percentile £638 - £678
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £64.99 - -
90th Percentile £66.21 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £48.04
% change year-on-year -5.75% +30.10% -15.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 129 149 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 59.45% 71.98% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 111 225
10th Percentile £205 £200 £189
25th Percentile £285 £205 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £355 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -25.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £649
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 5
10th Percentile £11.80 £42.78 £19.07
25th Percentile - £49.51 £23.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £56.47 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.44% +71.12% -16.49%
75th Percentile £35.75 £62.25 £33.86
90th Percentile £62.96 £71.72 £44.59
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Kent over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Kent

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Kent region over the 6 months to 12 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
Chatham - 6 £556 - 6
Dartford - 2 - - 1
Maidstone - 2 £575 - 9
Sevenoaks 0 1 £275 -57.03% 4
Sittingbourne - 1 - -
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (23.53%) SAS
2 1 (5.88%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (5.88%) Skype
1 1 (5.88%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Trainer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Trainer
5 1 (5.88%) Credit Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Designer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Strategy Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) UI Designer
5 1 (5.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
1 2 (11.76%) Blazor
1 2 (11.76%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Credit Risk
2 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.88%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) Coaching
2 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (23.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.76%) Kanban
4 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
4 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) SysML
4 2 (11.76%) UML
4 2 (11.76%) UX Design
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) C++
3 4 (23.53%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) R
4 2 (11.76%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Apple
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Polycom