Agile Contracts in Bedfordshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 17 39 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.59% 20.86% 18.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 22.81% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 14
10th Percentile £398 £440 £362
25th Percentile £400 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £532 £628 £538
90th Percentile £633 £646 £603
East of England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £74.00 £48.50
25th Percentile - £80.00 £53.13
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +63.64% -
75th Percentile - - £59.38
90th Percentile - - £64.25
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +18.64% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 171 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.21% 91.44% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 122 133
10th Percentile £313 £208 £263
25th Percentile £439 £307 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £538
90th Percentile £625 £625 £635
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £467
% change year-on-year - +1.82% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 19
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £21.50 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £32.90 £87.50 £61.38
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -11.43%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Luton -17 14 £500 -10.11% 10
Dunstable - 2 £395 -
Agile
East of England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (5.88%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SAN
1 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) SAP Manager
3 3 (17.65%) SAP Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (5.88%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Change Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Angular 2
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) HTML5
1 1 (5.88%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (5.88%) JPA
1 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) Spring
1 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) PMI
2 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
2 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 3 (17.65%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (17.65%) ITSM
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (17.65%) User Stories
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Coaching
4 2 (11.76%) CRM
4 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C++
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
1 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) Snow
4 1 (5.88%) Ariba
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle