Agile Contracts in Bristol

Agile Software Development
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 111 256 332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.53% 20.40% 23.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.70% 22.92% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 163 216
10th Percentile £408 £378 £372
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £756 £675
South West median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 64 27
10th Percentile £65.00 £60.27 £42.00
25th Percentile - £60.91 £60.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.55 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% +0.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.30 -
90th Percentile - £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 874 1,117 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.92% 89.00% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 750 848
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £659
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 220 103
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +36.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.88 £66.95
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.60%) Confluence
3 3 (2.70%) CMS
3 3 (2.70%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.80%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (4.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.80%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.90%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.90%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.13%) Azure
2 16 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.21%) AWS
3 8 (7.21%) GitHub
4 5 (4.50%) PaaS
4 5 (4.50%) SaaS
5 4 (3.60%) Azure Stack
5 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.60%) IaaS
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
5 4 (3.60%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) GCP
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) Serverless
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) HTTP
2 3 (2.70%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) DNS
3 1 (0.90%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.90%) VSAN
3 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.50%) SQLite
2 4 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (2.70%) GIS
3 3 (2.70%) Metadata
4 2 (1.80%) MySQL
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (16.22%) JIRA
2 8 (7.21%) Git
3 7 (6.31%) Visual Studio
4 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.50%) Checkstyle
5 5 (4.50%) GoogleTest
5 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.60%) Postman
7 3 (2.70%) Burp Suite
7 3 (2.70%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.70%) NUnit
8 2 (1.80%) GitLab
9 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.90%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.90%) Maven
9 1 (0.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.90%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.90%) Subversion
9 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 17 (15.32%) Finance
4 16 (14.41%) Telecoms
5 9 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.41%) Legal
6 6 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.50%) Banking
7 5 (4.50%) Marketing
8 4 (3.60%) Electronics
8 4 (3.60%) Law
8 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.70%) Billing
9 3 (2.70%) Military
9 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (26.13%) Architect
2 15 (13.51%) Software Engineer
3 13 (11.71%) Developer
4 12 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.91%) Project Manager
5 11 (9.91%) Senior
6 7 (6.31%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) IT Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Java Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Lead
8 5 (4.50%) Software Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Python Software Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Salesforce Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.32%) XML
2 13 (11.71%) .NET
3 12 (10.81%) JSON
4 9 (8.11%) REST
5 6 (5.41%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.41%) CSS
5 6 (5.41%) HTML
5 6 (5.41%) RESTful
6 5 (4.50%) .NET Framework
6 5 (4.50%) Node.js
6 5 (4.50%) Qt
7 4 (3.60%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (2.70%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.70%) jQuery
8 3 (2.70%) Playwright
8 3 (2.70%) Web Services
9 2 (1.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.50%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.50%) Verilog
3 5 (4.50%) VHDL
4 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.60%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) PKI
6 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.81%) Linux
2 7 (6.31%) Windows
3 3 (2.70%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.90%) Android
5 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.90%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.04%) DevOps
2 25 (22.52%) Project Delivery
3 19 (17.12%) Data Management
4 18 (16.22%) Software Engineering
5 16 (14.41%) CI/CD
6 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (12.61%) Project Management
7 14 (12.61%) Scrum
8 12 (10.81%) Test Automation
9 11 (9.91%) Decision-Making
9 11 (9.91%) Service Management
9 11 (9.91%) Waterfall
10 10 (9.01%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (9.01%) ITIL
10 10 (9.01%) Migration
10 10 (9.01%) Programme Management
11 9 (8.11%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.11%) Data Protection
11 9 (8.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) C++
1 15 (13.51%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.71%) C#
4 9 (8.11%) SQL
5 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.41%) Java
7 5 (4.50%) C
8 3 (2.70%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.90%) Bash
10 1 (0.90%) Bicep
10 1 (0.90%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.02%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.81%) Degree
4 11 (9.91%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) OSCP
6 2 (1.80%) HND
6 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.80%) PMP
7 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.50%) MISRA
3 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.70%) GDPR
4 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.70%) QA
4 3 (2.70%) SLA
5 1 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.90%) NCSC
5 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.80%) XenApp
2 2 (1.80%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (3.60%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) Ansible
2 1 (0.90%) Grafana
2 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.90%) Puppet
2 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.41%) BMC
2 6 (5.41%) Remedy
3 5 (4.50%) Google
4 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.60%) SAP
5 2 (1.80%) Citrix
5 2 (1.80%) FIS
5 2 (1.80%) Mapbox
5 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.90%) Adobe
6 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.90%) Dell
6 1 (0.90%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.90%) Pardot
6 1 (0.90%) VMware