Agile Contracts in Dorset

Agile Software Development
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing Agile 20 22 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 12.20% 10.14% 12.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 12.22% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 13
10th Percentile £399 £288 -
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% +2.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £769 £538 £588
90th Percentile - £605 £640
South West median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £44.01
25th Percentile £57.33 - £46.55
Median hourly rate £57.39 £60.70 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +19.56% -11.70%
75th Percentile £67.37 - £54.14
90th Percentile £70.66 - £56.15
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
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 180 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 85.37% 82.95% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 104 89
10th Percentile £174 £160 £276
25th Percentile £175 £245 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +4.17% +16.36%
75th Percentile £630 £610 £575
90th Percentile £825 £638 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 39
10th Percentile £11.87 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £13.69 £48.86 £45.36
Median hourly rate £15.31 £56.29 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.80% +7.22% +10.53%
75th Percentile £56.49 £62.72 £60.93
90th Percentile £61.25 £70.77 £79.28
South West median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Dorset over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Dorset

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Dorset over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bournemouth +5 9 £400 -23.81% 13
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 4 (20.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
1 4 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (20.00%) IPsec
1 4 (20.00%) LAN
1 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (25.00%) CockroachDB
3 4 (20.00%) Couchbase
3 4 (20.00%) MySQL
4 3 (15.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Military
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Django Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Python/Django Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Middleware
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) JSON
2 4 (20.00%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (20.00%) YAML
3 3 (15.00%) JPA
3 3 (15.00%) Spring
3 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) Django
4 2 (10.00%) Kafka
4 2 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) CentOS
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) Microservices
3 8 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) SDLC
5 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
6 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (20.00%) Business Strategy
7 4 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
7 4 (20.00%) Information Security
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
7 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) MODAF
7 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) SysML
7 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) PHP
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) HND
3 4 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
2 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 4 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Google
1 4 (20.00%) Sparx
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft