Agile Contracts in Devon

Agile Software Development
South West > Devon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 25 43 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 9.23% 22.05% 25.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.52% 26.88% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 35 48
10th Percentile £411 £432 £379
25th Percentile £461 £495 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% -5.17% +0.30%
75th Percentile £491 £600 £635
90th Percentile £600 £675 £671
South West median daily rate £535 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.96% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.32
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.55 £64.30
% change year-on-year +6.78% +1.95% +28.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 160 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 80.07% 82.05% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 119 168
10th Percentile £150 £240 £180
25th Percentile £309 £391 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £408
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +13.97% -22.29%
75th Percentile £519 £594 £590
90th Percentile £600 £674 £668
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 5
10th Percentile £10.42 £39.60 £18.43
25th Percentile £13.86 £47.00 £20.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +161.90% -15.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £39.16
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £41.46
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £60.70 £48.61
% change year-on-year -9.39% +24.87% +11.75%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Devon

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Devon

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Devon over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Devon

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Devon

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Devon region over the 6 months to 5 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
Exeter -7 18 £465 -15.45% 28
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
1 4 (16.00%) Selenium
2 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (8.00%) JUnit
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Project Manager
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Contracts Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (12.00%) Product Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) SEO Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 1 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (4.00%) Migration Manager
7 1 (4.00%) Product Owner
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 1 (4.00%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) CSS
1 2 (8.00%) CSS3
1 2 (8.00%) HTML
1 2 (8.00%) HTML5
1 2 (8.00%) Jest
1 2 (8.00%) Node.js
1 2 (8.00%) React
1 2 (8.00%) React Native
1 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) PRINCE2
2 8 (32.00%) Project Management
3 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (28.00%) Waterfall
4 6 (24.00%) Contract Management
4 6 (24.00%) PRINCE
4 6 (24.00%) Project Governance
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.00%) Agile Project Management
7 3 (12.00%) Business Case
7 3 (12.00%) Change Management
7 3 (12.00%) Coaching
7 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 3 (12.00%) SEO
7 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (68.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Cadence