Agile Contracts in Somerset

Agile Software Development
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 17 36 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 7.49% 20.11% 22.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.18% 22.50% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 36
10th Percentile £398 £513 £372
25th Percentile £506 £565 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £514
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +26.52% +8.73%
75th Percentile - £704 £600
90th Percentile £610 £744 £718
South West median daily rate £525 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -9.40% +10.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £50.37
25th Percentile - - £51.30
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £53.47
Median % change year-on-year - -6.48% -
75th Percentile - £60.59 £56.26
90th Percentile - £66.94 £57.56
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
Somerset

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 160 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 73.57% 89.39% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 127 128
10th Percentile £200 £224 £221
25th Percentile £406 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £525
90th Percentile £622 £730 £607
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 11
10th Percentile £12.50 £33.42 £15.76
25th Percentile - £37.50 £31.09
Median hourly rate £25.00 £51.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.46% +3.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £60.13 £56.13
90th Percentile £61.25 £69.74 £58.43
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Somerset

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Somerset

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Somerset over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Somerset

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Somerset

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Taunton +2 11 £600 -11.21%
Bath +3 3 £398 -14.05% 20
Yeovil -6 2 - - 2
Weston-super-Mare - 1 £450 - 1
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) NUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Electronics
3 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Administrator
1 3 (17.65%) Change Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Digital Project Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Administrator
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Business Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (23.53%) Change Management
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Fintech
3 3 (17.65%) Lean Six Sigma
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
3 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (17.65%) SDLC
3 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Identification
3 3 (17.65%) Workflow
4 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
1 3 (17.65%) SAP