Agile Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Agile Software Development
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 91 59 60
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 32.16% 27.44% 24.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 38.40% 32.24% 28.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 39 29
10th Percentile £474 £373 £419
25th Percentile £513 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% +10.86%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £638
90th Percentile £725 £703 £654
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 183 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 83.75% 85.12% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 146 59
10th Percentile £463 £407 £244
25th Percentile £500 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £718 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £12.18 £18.50 -
25th Percentile - £21.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +60.00% -15.54%
75th Percentile - £32.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £17.37 £34.50 £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -66.86% +25.00% +11.11%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Agile job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Basingstoke

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.40%) Apache
2 3 (3.30%) Documentum
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (1.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.79%) Azure
2 5 (5.49%) AWS
3 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.30%) IaaS
5 2 (2.20%) PaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
6 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.89%) Firewall
2 7 (7.69%) LAN
3 6 (6.59%) DNS
4 2 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (2.20%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (2.20%) Junos
4 2 (2.20%) SMTP
5 1 (1.10%) S/MIME
5 1 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.10%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.40%) MSI
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) Robot Framework
2 3 (3.30%) SoapUI
2 3 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (2.20%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) GitLab
General
1 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.79%) Finance
4 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (41.76%) Architect
2 9 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) Network Architect
4 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (5.49%) Programme Manager
6 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Network Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Senior
7 3 (3.30%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Java Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Scrum Master
7 3 (3.30%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Security Technical Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Senior Tester
7 3 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) SOAP
1 3 (3.30%) XML
2 2 (2.20%) RESTful
2 2 (2.20%) YAML
3 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.10%) JSON
3 1 (1.10%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.67%) PKI
2 9 (9.89%) Fat Client
2 9 (9.89%) Thin Client
3 4 (4.40%) PMI
3 4 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.46%) Windows
2 13 (14.29%) Linux
3 9 (9.89%) Windows 7
4 8 (8.79%) Windows 10
4 8 (8.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (20.88%) DevOps
3 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (15.38%) Prototyping
5 13 (14.29%) Scrum
6 12 (13.19%) Project Management
7 9 (9.89%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (9.89%) Open Source
7 9 (9.89%) Test Automation
8 8 (8.79%) ITIL
8 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (7.69%) PRINCE2
9 7 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (6.59%) Migration
10 6 (6.59%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (6.59%) Waterfall
11 5 (5.49%) Architectural Design
11 5 (5.49%) Cryptography
11 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (5.49%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.58%) Python
3 3 (3.30%) Java
4 2 (2.20%) PHP
4 2 (2.20%) VB
5 1 (1.10%) Bash
5 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (98.90%) Security Cleared
2 87 (95.60%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) CISM
5 1 (1.10%) CISSP
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Degree
5 1 (1.10%) GIAC
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.10%) VCAP
5 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) NIST
2 5 (5.49%) SLA
3 4 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.20%) PMO
4 2 (2.20%) RMADS
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.10%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.10%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) vCloud
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) WMI
2 9 (9.89%) Ansible
3 6 (6.59%) Terraform
4 4 (4.40%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.30%) SCCM
5 3 (3.30%) SCOM
6 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.10%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.10%) Grafana
7 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.10%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) Puppet
7 1 (1.10%) vRealize
7 1 (1.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) VMware
2 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Cisco
3 7 (7.69%) Juniper
4 2 (2.20%) Citrix
4 2 (2.20%) F5
5 1 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.10%) NetIQ
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.10%) SAP
5 1 (1.10%) Sparx
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk
5 1 (1.10%) Thales
5 1 (1.10%) Workday