Agile Contracts in the South West

Agile Software Development
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 425 816 843
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 13.33% 22.26% 22.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.09% 24.86% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 622 574
10th Percentile £386 £405 £400
25th Percentile £463 £482 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £522
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +10.26% +4.30%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £600
90th Percentile £721 £718 £668
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 74 47
10th Percentile £31.60 £59.42 £42.00
25th Percentile £55.17 £60.91 £49.75
Median hourly rate £67.02 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +0.93% +30.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £73.25 -
90th Percentile - £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +32.65% +8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 3,282 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.87% 89.53% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,410 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 344 193
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.97
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the South West

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the South West

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the South West

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the South West

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the South West

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Wiltshire -3 149 £525 -7.89% 27
Bristol -9 106 £525 -4.55% 155
Gloucestershire 0 82 £563 -6.25% 65
Devon -10 24 £465 -15.45% 34
Dorset +5 20 £638 +25.93% 25
Somerset -9 16 £600 -7.69% 24
Cornwall +2 7 - - 1
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 28 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.12%) Confluence
3 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.18%) CMS
4 5 (1.18%) nginx
5 4 (0.94%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.94%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.47%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (4.24%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.47%) InVision
6 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 20 (4.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.47%) Primavera
5 2 (0.47%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.24%) Magento
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 79 (18.59%) Azure
2 38 (8.94%) AWS
3 30 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.59%) GitHub
7 10 (2.35%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.12%) GCP
9 8 (1.88%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.41%) PaaS
10 6 (1.41%) SaaS
10 6 (1.41%) Serverless
11 5 (1.18%) IaaS
11 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.94%) Azure Stack
12 4 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.94%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.53%) DNS
2 10 (2.35%) DHCP
3 9 (2.12%) VSAN
4 8 (1.88%) Intranet
4 8 (1.88%) Network Security
4 8 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.65%) 3G
5 7 (1.65%) 4G
5 7 (1.65%) LAN
5 7 (1.65%) WAN
6 5 (1.18%) HTTP
6 5 (1.18%) Skype
7 4 (0.94%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.94%) IPsec
8 3 (0.71%) Firewall
8 3 (0.71%) Internet
8 3 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.71%) VPN
9 2 (0.47%) Tactical Data Link
9 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.29%) Power BI
3 12 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.88%) MySQL
5 7 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.65%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.18%) CockroachDB
6 5 (1.18%) SQLite
7 4 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.94%) Couchbase
7 4 (0.94%) Metadata
7 4 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.71%) GIS
8 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 65 (15.29%) JIRA
2 20 (4.71%) Git
3 12 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.12%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.41%) Postman
6 6 (1.41%) Selenium
7 5 (1.18%) Checkstyle
7 5 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.18%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.94%) GitLab
8 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.94%) NUnit
9 3 (0.71%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.71%) GoogleTest
10 2 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.47%) JMeter
10 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 87 (20.47%) Finance
2 87 (20.47%) Public Sector
3 81 (19.06%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.82%) Telecoms
5 28 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (5.88%) Military
7 18 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 17 (4.00%) Marketing
9 16 (3.76%) Electronics
10 12 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.59%) Legal
12 7 (1.65%) Banking
12 7 (1.65%) Publishing
13 5 (1.18%) Law
14 4 (0.94%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.94%) German Language
15 3 (0.71%) Billing
15 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (14.12%) Project Manager
2 55 (12.94%) Developer
2 55 (12.94%) Senior
3 52 (12.24%) Architect
4 29 (6.82%) Lead
5 25 (5.88%) Analyst
6 24 (5.65%) Delivery Manager
7 22 (5.18%) Senior Manager
8 17 (4.00%) Project Leader
8 17 (4.00%) Software Engineer
9 14 (3.29%) DV Cleared Project Manager
9 14 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (3.29%) Technical Architect
9 14 (3.29%) Test Engineer
10 13 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.82%) Business Analyst
11 12 (2.82%) IT Manager
12 11 (2.59%) Service Manager
13 10 (2.35%) Senior Delivery Manager
14 9 (2.12%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.88%) .NET
2 22 (5.18%) React
3 21 (4.94%) AngularJS
4 20 (4.71%) XML
5 19 (4.47%) JSON
5 19 (4.47%) REST
6 17 (4.00%) Spring
7 13 (3.06%) CSS
8 10 (2.35%) HTML
9 8 (1.88%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.88%) .NET Framework
10 7 (1.65%) Middleware
11 6 (1.41%) Flash
11 6 (1.41%) Node.js
11 6 (1.41%) RESTful
12 5 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
12 5 (1.18%) YAML
13 4 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (0.94%) HTML5
13 4 (0.94%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.06%) PKI
4 12 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.59%) Cyber Defence
6 8 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.41%) Clustering
9 5 (1.18%) CMDB
9 5 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.18%) Verilog
9 5 (1.18%) VHDL
10 4 (0.94%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.94%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.71%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.82%) Linux
2 28 (6.59%) Windows
3 13 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (2.12%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.18%) CentOS
7 3 (0.71%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.71%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Android
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (26.59%) Project Management
2 92 (21.65%) DevOps
3 84 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (14.12%) Project Delivery
6 59 (13.88%) PRINCE2
6 59 (13.88%) Scrum
7 50 (11.76%) ITIL
7 50 (11.76%) Waterfall
8 44 (10.35%) Programme Management
9 43 (10.12%) Change Management
10 40 (9.41%) Service Management
11 39 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (8.47%) Data Management
13 35 (8.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 33 (7.76%) Software Engineering
15 32 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
16 30 (7.06%) Business Case
16 30 (7.06%) CI/CD
16 30 (7.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (11.76%) Python
2 45 (10.59%) SQL
3 34 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.53%) C
5 30 (7.06%) C#
6 28 (6.59%) Java
7 18 (4.24%) C++
8 15 (3.53%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.59%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.94%) PHP
11 3 (0.71%) Bash
12 2 (0.47%) Bicep
12 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.47%) Perl
12 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.47%) SOQL
13 1 (0.24%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 254 (59.76%) Security Cleared
2 143 (33.65%) SC Cleared
3 124 (29.18%) DV Cleared
4 51 (12.00%) Degree
5 20 (4.71%) APMP
6 14 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.88%) CISM
9 8 (1.88%) CISSP
10 7 (1.65%) CCNA
10 7 (1.65%) MCSE
11 6 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.41%) HND
11 6 (1.41%) MCSA
12 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.94%) OSCP
12 4 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.47%) QA
2 28 (6.59%) PMO
3 14 (3.29%) NIST
4 13 (3.06%) SLA
5 11 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.12%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.88%) GDPR
7 8 (1.88%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.71%) MISRA
10 3 (0.71%) WCAG
11 2 (0.47%) JTAG
11 2 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.24%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.53%) Docker
4 13 (3.06%) VMware NSX
5 10 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.47%) vSphere
7 2 (0.47%) XenApp
7 2 (0.47%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (5.88%) Terraform
2 21 (4.94%) Ansible
3 9 (2.12%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.88%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.18%) OPNET
5 5 (1.18%) SCCM
6 4 (0.94%) Puppet
6 4 (0.94%) SCOM
7 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.71%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.47%) MOM
8 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.47%) WSUS
9 1 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.24%) Grafana
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.59%) VMware
3 22 (5.18%) Remedy
4 19 (4.47%) SAP
5 17 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.35%) Google
6 10 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.88%) Cisco
8 7 (1.65%) BMC
9 4 (0.94%) Adobe
9 4 (0.94%) Oracle
9 4 (0.94%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.94%) Sparx
10 3 (0.71%) Citrix
10 3 (0.71%) Dell
11 2 (0.47%) Mapbox
11 2 (0.47%) OpenText
11 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.47%) Splunk
11 2 (0.47%) Veeam