Agile Contracts in the Thames Valley

Agile Software Development
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 355 616 748
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.14% 21.03% 21.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.05% 22.88% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 467 543
10th Percentile £402 £400 £388
25th Percentile £465 £453 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £588
90th Percentile £688 £681 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £520
% change year-on-year - +5.77% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £22.20 £55.35
25th Percentile £41.88 £22.50 £58.88
Median hourly rate £53.03 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +6.87% +87.14%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.75 £76.88
90th Percentile £60.26 - £83.25
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.50 £49.29
% change year-on-year +11.05% +6.51% +10.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,359 2,692 3,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.31% 91.91% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,870 2,083
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 86
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -7 249 £575 +9.52% 90
Buckinghamshire -1 83 £538 -2.27% 69
Oxfordshire -2 23 £450 -16.28% 44
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 22 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.23%) Confluence
3 13 (3.66%) Apache
4 11 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.69%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.85%) Appian
8 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.56%) nginx
9 1 (0.28%) CICS
9 1 (0.28%) Drupal
9 1 (0.28%) Jadu
9 1 (0.28%) JBoss
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.69%) SPSS
4 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.56%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.28%) Sketch
7 1 (0.28%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (4.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.25%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.85%) Primavera
4 2 (0.56%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.28%) Maximo
5 1 (0.28%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.28%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 92 (25.92%) Azure
2 45 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (8.45%) Azure Monitor
4 28 (7.89%) AWS
5 22 (6.20%) Entra ID
6 19 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (5.07%) Serverless
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Storage
9 13 (3.66%) SaaS
10 12 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.38%) OpenShift
10 12 (3.38%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.10%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.25%) PaaS
13 7 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (1.41%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.76%) DNS
2 23 (6.48%) DHCP
3 18 (5.07%) Firewall
3 18 (5.07%) Radio Access Network
4 15 (4.23%) SAN
4 15 (4.23%) TCP/IP
5 14 (3.94%) VPN
6 11 (3.10%) BGP
6 11 (3.10%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (3.10%) MPLS
7 6 (1.69%) Network Security
8 4 (1.13%) VSAN
9 2 (0.56%) WAN
10 1 (0.28%) 3G
10 1 (0.28%) 4G
10 1 (0.28%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) ATM
10 1 (0.28%) Broadband
10 1 (0.28%) DSL
10 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.38%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.38%) Power BI
4 11 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.10%) Tableau
5 9 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.69%) Big Data
6 6 (1.69%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.13%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.85%) MySQL
10 2 (0.56%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.56%) Power Query
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.28%) Apache Zeppelin
11 1 (0.28%) Impala
11 1 (0.28%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 49 (13.80%) JIRA
2 27 (7.61%) Git
3 14 (3.94%) Robot Framework
4 13 (3.66%) GitLab
5 12 (3.38%) TestRail
6 8 (2.25%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.97%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.41%) JUnit
8 5 (1.41%) Selenium
9 4 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.85%) Postman
11 2 (0.56%) Maven
11 2 (0.56%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.28%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.28%) Mockito
12 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.28%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.28%) WebDriver
General
1 95 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (8.17%) Finance
4 24 (6.76%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.76%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.10%) Marketing
7 10 (2.82%) Billing
8 9 (2.54%) Automotive
8 9 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.25%) Legal
9 8 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.41%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (1.41%) Retail
12 4 (1.13%) Electronics
13 3 (0.85%) Military
13 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 72 (20.28%) Developer
2 47 (13.24%) Analyst
3 45 (12.68%) Project Manager
4 41 (11.55%) Senior
5 24 (6.76%) Lead
6 21 (5.92%) Consultant
7 19 (5.35%) Python Developer
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Specialist
8 15 (4.23%) Senior Manager
9 14 (3.94%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (3.94%) Active Directory Support
9 14 (3.94%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (3.94%) Support Specialist
10 13 (3.66%) Architect
11 12 (3.38%) Business Analyst
11 12 (3.38%) Senior Project Manager
12 11 (3.10%) Azure Developer
12 11 (3.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.10%) Scrum Master
12 11 (3.10%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.35%) REST
2 17 (4.79%) SOAP
3 15 (4.23%) AngularJS
3 15 (4.23%) ARM Templates
4 14 (3.94%) HTML
4 14 (3.94%) Node.js
4 14 (3.94%) React
5 13 (3.66%) .NET
6 12 (3.38%) Kafka
7 11 (3.10%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.10%) RESTCONF
7 11 (3.10%) YANG
8 10 (2.82%) CSS
9 9 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.25%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.97%) Spring
11 7 (1.97%) Web Services
12 6 (1.69%) D3.js
12 6 (1.69%) RESTful
13 5 (1.41%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.55%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.48%) PKI
3 16 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.94%) Robotics
5 12 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.97%) Client/Server
6 7 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.41%) PMI
8 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.13%) Life Science
8 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.56%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (0.56%) CSOC
10 2 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.83%) Linux
2 27 (7.61%) Windows
3 23 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.23%) Debian
4 15 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 14 (3.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (3.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.56%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (33.52%) DevOps
2 76 (21.41%) Scrum
3 57 (16.06%) CI/CD
4 55 (15.49%) ITIL
5 52 (14.65%) Project Management
6 51 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (10.70%) Test Automation
8 38 (10.70%) Waterfall
9 37 (10.42%) Analytics
10 35 (9.86%) Project Delivery
11 33 (9.30%) Release Management
12 31 (8.73%) Decision-Making
12 31 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (8.73%) Unit Testing
13 28 (7.89%) Microservices
14 26 (7.32%) Workflow
15 25 (7.04%) Matrix Organization
16 24 (6.76%) Data Modelling
17 23 (6.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.06%) Python
2 31 (8.73%) SQL
3 27 (7.61%) C#
3 27 (7.61%) PowerShell
4 22 (6.20%) VBScript
5 20 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.79%) Java
7 15 (4.23%) Bicep
7 15 (4.23%) VB
8 8 (2.25%) C
8 8 (2.25%) PHP
9 7 (1.97%) R
10 3 (0.85%) Ruby
10 3 (0.85%) Scala
11 2 (0.56%) C++
11 2 (0.56%) Go
12 1 (0.28%) Bash
12 1 (0.28%) COBOL
12 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 77 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 59 (16.62%) DV Cleared
4 50 (14.08%) Degree
5 15 (4.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (3.10%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.54%) PMP
8 5 (1.41%) CIPD
9 4 (1.13%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.13%) VCAP
9 4 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.85%) CCNP
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.85%) MCSE
10 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.56%) ISACA
11 2 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.04%) QA
2 8 (2.25%) PMO
3 5 (1.41%) NIST
4 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.85%) GDPR
4 3 (0.85%) NCSC
5 2 (0.56%) COBIT
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 24 (6.76%) Docker
3 15 (4.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.13%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) HDFS
6 1 (0.28%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 39 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.35%) SCOM
3 18 (5.07%) SCCM
4 16 (4.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (4.51%) WSUS
5 15 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (2.82%) Ansible
7 8 (2.25%) Kibana
8 7 (1.97%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.69%) Terraform
10 5 (1.41%) Argo
10 5 (1.41%) Grafana
10 5 (1.41%) Istio
11 2 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.42%) VMware
3 23 (6.48%) Oracle
4 17 (4.79%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.25%) SAP
7 7 (1.97%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.85%) Cisco
9 3 (0.85%) Citrix
9 3 (0.85%) Siemens
10 2 (0.56%) Adobe
10 2 (0.56%) AlgoSec
10 2 (0.56%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.56%) HP
10 2 (0.56%) Informatica
10 2 (0.56%) Juniper
10 2 (0.56%) Veeam
11 1 (0.28%) Virgin Media