Agile Contracts in Staffordshire

Agile Software Development
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Agile 9 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 7.83% 11.69% 12.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.28% 13.33% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 18
10th Percentile £303 £435 £419
25th Percentile £306 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £505 £469
Median % change year-on-year -35.64% +7.73% +41.51%
75th Percentile £456 £639 £538
90th Percentile £528 £650 £589
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.13 - -
Median hourly rate £15.90 - -
75th Percentile £16.67 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 £58.14
% change year-on-year +265.38% -77.64% +137.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 135 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.35% 87.66% 77.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 98 110
10th Percentile £160 £173 £164
25th Percentile £298 £350 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £463 £606 £488
90th Percentile £540 £745 £554
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 10
10th Percentile £14.71 £22.46 £13.20
25th Percentile £19.83 £24.38 £14.13
Median hourly rate £35.72 £27.50 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% +44.36% +27.00%
75th Percentile £49.38 £28.75 £19.77
90th Percentile £52.88 - £20.37
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
% change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +11.48%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Staffordshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Lichfield +3 4 £550 -11.12% 1
Stafford +2 2 £300 -53.85% 5
Burton-upon-Trent -3 2 - - 2
Stoke-on-Trent +3 1 £325 -43.72% 10
Agile
West Midlands

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Trello
2 1 (11.11%) Simulink
2 1 (11.11%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) MS Access
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Project Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) BREW
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Load Testing
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
4 1 (11.11%) R
4 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Sage