Agile Contracts in Bedfordshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Bedfordshire

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 21 31 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 8.82% 18.02% 14.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.50% 19.87% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 10
10th Percentile £399 £448 £349
25th Percentile £406 £515 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +17.35% -2.00%
75th Percentile £656 £634 £538
90th Percentile £700 £644 £587
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £72.00 £46.50
25th Percentile - £75.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +43.48% -
75th Percentile - £87.50 £65.25
90th Percentile - £89.00 £67.35
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +7.44% +34.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 200 156 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 84.03% 90.70% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 104 158
10th Percentile £300 £208 £207
25th Percentile £400 £318 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £537
90th Percentile £650 £625 £641
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 18
10th Percentile £15.36 £17.10 £13.80
25th Percentile £15.39 £20.25 £23.19
Median hourly rate £21.50 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.67% -7.62% +238.71%
75th Percentile £65.25 £82.50 £64.31
90th Percentile £66.45 £87.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Luton -9 17 £550 +5.77% 3
Dunstable - 3 £395 -
Agile
East of England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Embedded Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Embedded Software Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Business Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Change Manager
4 1 (4.76%) CRM Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Manager
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.76%) Angular 2
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) HTML5
2 1 (4.76%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (4.76%) JPA
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) PMI
2 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (23.81%) Scrum
2 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (19.05%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (19.05%) User Stories
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (14.29%) ITSM
4 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Change Management
5 2 (9.52%) CRM
5 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) OO
5 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) C++
2 1 (4.76%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GxP
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Ariba
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Snow