Agile Contracts in the West Midlands

Agile Software Development
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 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 4 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 247 418 1,001
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.06% 18.42% 27.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.60% 20.89% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 306 756
10th Percentile £358 £412 £399
25th Percentile £420 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +2.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £647 £603 £588
90th Percentile £750 £694 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £13.85 - -
25th Percentile £18.73 £12.50 £56.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +265.38% -77.59% +141.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.50 £59.50
90th Percentile £58.75 - -
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -6.78% +30.35% +11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,583 2,001 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.71% 88.19% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,364 2,356
10th Percentile £275 £263 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 67
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +3.09%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.10
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the West Midlands

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Birmingham -3 83 £550 - 132
Warwickshire -1 55 £600 +14.29% 57
Coventry 0 40 £563 +7.14% 45
Shropshire 0 38 £360 -33.33% 4
Staffordshire +1 8 £313 -38.12% 31
Worcestershire -4 3 £550 -15.38% 19
Solihull -20 1 - - 6
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (3.64%) CICS
1 9 (3.64%) SAS
2 5 (2.02%) Confluence
3 3 (1.21%) CMS
3 3 (1.21%) Drupal
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.43%) Simulink
2 6 (2.43%) Stateflow
3 5 (2.02%) TargetLink
4 3 (1.21%) CANalyzer
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.21%) Trello
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (4.05%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.81%) Maximo
4 2 (0.81%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.81%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.81%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.40%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.84%) Azure
2 25 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (7.29%) AWS
4 12 (4.86%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.24%) Boomi
5 8 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.83%) SaaS
6 7 (2.83%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (2.43%) Azure App Service
7 6 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.02%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.02%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.02%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.62%) IaaS
9 4 (1.62%) PaaS
10 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.21%) GCP
10 3 (1.21%) GitHub
10 3 (1.21%) Serverless
11 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.24%) Firewall
1 8 (3.24%) Network Security
2 7 (2.83%) WAN
3 6 (2.43%) Internet
4 5 (2.02%) DNS
5 4 (1.62%) Ethernet
5 4 (1.62%) LAN
5 4 (1.62%) SSL
5 4 (1.62%) VPN
6 3 (1.21%) ADSL
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.21%) MPLS
6 3 (1.21%) PSTN
6 3 (1.21%) SAN
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.81%) Junos
7 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.40%) Intranet
8 1 (0.40%) IPsec
8 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.50%) MySQL
2 15 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
3 10 (4.05%) DB2
4 9 (3.64%) IDMS
4 9 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.24%) Power BI
6 6 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.21%) Big Data
7 3 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.40%) Flink
9 1 (0.40%) MS Access
9 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (16.60%) Git
2 20 (8.10%) JIRA
3 9 (3.64%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.24%) Subversion
5 6 (2.43%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.02%) Selenium
7 4 (1.62%) Ant
7 4 (1.62%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.62%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.21%) CANoe
8 3 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.40%) JMeter
10 1 (0.40%) NUnit
10 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.40%) TestRail
10 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 94 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.46%) Finance
3 39 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.88%) Automotive
6 10 (4.05%) Retail
7 7 (2.83%) German Language
7 7 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.43%) Electronics
8 6 (2.43%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.02%) Marketing
9 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.62%) Law
11 3 (1.21%) Billing
11 3 (1.21%) Legal
12 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Local Government
13 1 (0.40%) Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (16.60%) Developer
2 39 (15.79%) Architect
3 26 (10.53%) Analyst
3 26 (10.53%) Senior
4 24 (9.72%) Project Manager
5 18 (7.29%) Lead
6 15 (6.07%) Business Analyst
7 11 (4.45%) Senior Manager
7 11 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.05%) Azure Architect
8 10 (4.05%) Enterprise Architect
8 10 (4.05%) IBM Mainframe Developer
8 10 (4.05%) Mainframe Developer
9 8 (3.24%) Consultant
9 8 (3.24%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (3.24%) SQL Developer
10 7 (2.83%) Designer
10 7 (2.83%) Product Owner
11 6 (2.43%) IT Manager
11 6 (2.43%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.07%) .NET
2 12 (4.86%) XML
3 9 (3.64%) HTML
4 8 (3.24%) AngularJS
4 8 (3.24%) JSON
5 7 (2.83%) Web Services
6 6 (2.43%) CSS
6 6 (2.43%) REST
6 6 (2.43%) RESTful
6 6 (2.43%) Spring
6 6 (2.43%) XSLT
7 4 (1.62%) SOAP
8 3 (1.21%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.21%) Entity Framework
8 3 (1.21%) React
8 3 (1.21%) Visualforce
8 3 (1.21%) WSDL
8 3 (1.21%) XSD
9 2 (0.81%) OAuth
9 2 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 12 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.05%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (4.05%) Mainframe
4 8 (3.24%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.24%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.83%) IoT
5 7 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.02%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.62%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.21%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.21%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.21%) Infotainment
8 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.05%) Unix
2 9 (3.64%) zOS
3 4 (1.62%) Linux
4 3 (1.21%) Windows
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.32%) Scrum
2 63 (25.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (18.22%) Project Management
4 37 (14.98%) Roadmaps
5 36 (14.57%) DevOps
6 35 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (12.96%) Software Engineering
8 31 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (12.15%) Waterfall
10 27 (10.93%) Requirements Gathering
11 26 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
12 25 (10.12%) Analytics
12 25 (10.12%) Project Delivery
13 21 (8.50%) ETL
14 20 (8.10%) PRINCE2
15 19 (7.69%) ITIL
16 18 (7.29%) CI/CD
16 18 (7.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 17 (6.88%) Configuration Management
17 17 (6.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.96%) SQL
2 13 (5.26%) C#
3 10 (4.05%) COBOL
3 10 (4.05%) Java
3 10 (4.05%) JavaScript
3 10 (4.05%) Python
4 9 (3.64%) CLIST
4 9 (3.64%) REXX
4 9 (3.64%) SELCOPY
5 8 (3.24%) PL/SQL
6 7 (2.83%) Bash
6 7 (2.83%) Bourne shell
6 7 (2.83%) Korn
7 6 (2.43%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.02%) Bicep
8 5 (2.02%) C
8 5 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 34 (13.77%) Degree
2 31 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 30 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.05%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.02%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.02%) PMP
7 4 (1.62%) CCNA
8 3 (1.21%) BC Cleared
8 3 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) APMG
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.31%) QA
2 5 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.02%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (2.02%) ISO 26262
2 5 (2.02%) MISRA
2 5 (2.02%) MISRA C
2 5 (2.02%) SLA
3 3 (1.21%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.21%) PMO
4 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.81%) Docker
1 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (5.67%) Grafana
2 7 (2.83%) Ansible
2 7 (2.83%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.40%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.40%) Puppet
4 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.50%) SAP
3 19 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 17 (6.88%) Oracle
5 15 (6.07%) Talend
6 14 (5.67%) Denodo
6 14 (5.67%) IBM
7 13 (5.26%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.64%) Syncsort
9 8 (3.24%) Cisco
10 4 (1.62%) Databricks
11 3 (1.21%) BT
11 3 (1.21%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.21%) F5
11 3 (1.21%) Openreach
12 2 (0.81%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.81%) Juniper
12 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.81%) Sage
13 1 (0.40%) Dell