Agile Contracts in Berkshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 239 426 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.40% 24.16% 24.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.97% 26.59% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 298 407
10th Percentile £410 £412 £390
25th Percentile £500 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +5.95% +7.89%
75th Percentile £631 £620 £593
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £517
% change year-on-year - +6.38% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 1
10th Percentile £41.75 £66.20 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £67.63 -
Median hourly rate £55.08 £70.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +33.02% +51.43%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.75 -
90th Percentile £60.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £56.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.64% +18.42% -13.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,711 1,602 2,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.74% 90.87% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 1,032 1,349
10th Percentile £213 £345 £271
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £680 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 48 42
10th Percentile £18.90 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.38 £25.72 £17.13
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%
75th Percentile £72.04 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £68.17
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Berkshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Berkshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Reading -9 163 £588 +5.95% 46
Bracknell -18 18 £550 +25.71% 15
Wokingham -3 17 £575 +9.52% 1
Windsor 0 12 £675 - 4
Newbury -2 10 £365 -14.12%
Maidenhead -9 4 £375 -34.78% 2
Slough -10 1 £575 +21.05% 9
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 16 (6.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.44%) Apache
3 12 (5.02%) Confluence
4 11 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.51%) SAS
6 4 (1.67%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.42%) Jadu
9 1 (0.42%) JBoss
9 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.51%) SPSS
4 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.84%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.84%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.84%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.84%) Sketch
7 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (6.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (3.35%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (3.35%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.67%) Primavera
4 1 (0.42%) Maximo
4 1 (0.42%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.42%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 70 (29.29%) Azure
2 35 (14.64%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (11.72%) Azure Monitor
4 25 (10.46%) Entra ID
5 17 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (6.69%) Azure Storage
7 15 (6.28%) Serverless
8 13 (5.44%) AWS
8 13 (5.44%) SaaS
9 12 (5.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (4.60%) OpenShift
11 10 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (4.18%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.35%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.51%) PaaS
14 5 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.09%) Smartsheet
15 4 (1.67%) IaaS
15 4 (1.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.53%) Radio Access Network
2 17 (7.11%) DNS
2 17 (7.11%) Firewall
3 16 (6.69%) DHCP
4 12 (5.02%) VPN
5 11 (4.60%) BGP
5 11 (4.60%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (4.60%) MPLS
6 3 (1.26%) Network Security
7 1 (0.42%) 3G
7 1 (0.42%) 4G
7 1 (0.42%) 5G
7 1 (0.42%) Broadband
7 1 (0.42%) DSL
7 1 (0.42%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.21%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.02%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.35%) Power BI
4 8 (3.35%) Tableau
5 7 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.51%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.26%) Big Data
8 3 (1.26%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.84%) MySQL
9 2 (0.84%) Power Query
10 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (16.32%) JIRA
2 18 (7.53%) Git
3 14 (5.86%) Robot Framework
4 12 (5.02%) GitLab
4 12 (5.02%) TestRail
5 7 (2.93%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (2.51%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.09%) Selenium
8 3 (1.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.42%) JMeter
10 1 (0.42%) Maven
10 1 (0.42%) Mockito
10 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.42%) Xcode
General
1 79 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.79%) Telecoms
4 18 (7.53%) Finance
5 14 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.18%) Billing
8 8 (3.35%) Legal
8 8 (3.35%) Marketing
9 6 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.51%) Retail
10 5 (2.09%) Automotive
10 5 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.09%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.67%) Electronics
11 4 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 45 (18.83%) Developer
2 39 (16.32%) Analyst
3 25 (10.46%) Project Manager
3 25 (10.46%) Senior
4 17 (7.11%) Consultant
5 16 (6.69%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (5.86%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (5.86%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (5.86%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (5.86%) Support Specialist
7 12 (5.02%) Senior Manager
8 10 (4.18%) Azure Developer
8 10 (4.18%) Business Analyst
8 10 (4.18%) Network Engineer
8 10 (4.18%) Test Engineer
9 9 (3.77%) Lead
9 9 (3.77%) Senior Project Manager
9 9 (3.77%) Site Engineer
9 9 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (3.35%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.11%) ARM Templates
1 17 (7.11%) REST
2 15 (6.28%) React
3 14 (5.86%) SOAP
4 11 (4.60%) HTML
4 11 (4.60%) NETCONF
4 11 (4.60%) RESTCONF
4 11 (4.60%) YANG
5 9 (3.77%) Kafka
6 8 (3.35%) Node.js
7 7 (2.93%) CSS
7 7 (2.93%) Web Services
8 6 (2.51%) .NET
8 6 (2.51%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.51%) D3.js
8 6 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.51%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.09%) Itk
9 5 (2.09%) Spring
10 4 (1.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.69%) PKI
2 16 (6.69%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (5.02%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.02%) Robotics
4 7 (2.93%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.09%) Life Science
5 5 (2.09%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.09%) PMI
6 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.26%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.84%) NHS
8 2 (0.84%) Photography
8 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.88%) Linux
2 25 (10.46%) Windows
3 24 (10.04%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (6.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.84%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (42.68%) DevOps
2 55 (23.01%) Scrum
3 49 (20.50%) CI/CD
4 45 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (15.06%) Analytics
6 33 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (12.13%) Project Management
8 27 (11.30%) Test Automation
9 26 (10.88%) Unit Testing
10 24 (10.04%) Microservices
11 23 (9.62%) Release Management
12 22 (9.21%) ITIL
12 22 (9.21%) Waterfall
13 20 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (7.95%) Containerisation
14 19 (7.95%) Project Delivery
14 19 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (7.95%) Workflow
15 18 (7.53%) Change Management
15 18 (7.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.57%) Python
2 25 (10.46%) PowerShell
3 23 (9.62%) VBScript
4 22 (9.21%) SQL
5 20 (8.37%) C#
6 16 (6.69%) Bicep
6 16 (6.69%) VB
7 14 (5.86%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.18%) Java
9 8 (3.35%) C
10 6 (2.51%) R
11 4 (1.67%) PHP
12 3 (1.26%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) C++
13 1 (0.42%) Go
13 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.99%) Degree
3 34 (14.23%) DV Cleared
3 34 (14.23%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.09%) CIPD
7 4 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.26%) PMP
9 2 (0.84%) CSPO
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.84%) MBA
9 2 (0.84%) PgMP
10 1 (0.42%) APMP
10 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.42%) CBAP
10 1 (0.42%) IIBA
10 1 (0.42%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.69%) QA
2 8 (3.35%) PMO
3 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.84%) HL7
4 1 (0.42%) COBIT
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) NIST
4 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (11.30%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.79%) Docker
3 16 (6.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (6.69%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (14.64%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (7.11%) SCOM
2 17 (7.11%) WSUS
3 16 (6.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.69%) SCCM
4 6 (2.51%) Kibana
4 6 (2.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.09%) Ansible
5 5 (2.09%) Argo
5 5 (2.09%) Grafana
5 5 (2.09%) Istio
6 4 (1.67%) Terraform
7 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 46 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.37%) Oracle
3 9 (3.77%) VMware
4 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.67%) SAP
5 3 (1.26%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.84%) Adobe
6 2 (0.84%) Citrix
6 2 (0.84%) HP
6 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.42%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.42%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) EMC
7 1 (0.42%) Isilon
7 1 (0.42%) Splunk
7 1 (0.42%) Virgin Media