Agile Contracts in Bedfordshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 4
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 17 21 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.26% 8.86% 18.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.89% 10.50% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 20
10th Percentile - £399 £448
25th Percentile £500 £406 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £634
90th Percentile £688 £700 £644
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £82.50
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £89.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 200 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 94.70% 84.39% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 116 103
10th Percentile £384 £300 £208
25th Percentile £500 £400 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £669 £573 £600
90th Percentile £746 £650 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £15.36 £17.10
25th Percentile £60.38 £15.39 £20.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £21.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +248.84% -55.67% -7.62%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £92.50 £66.45 £87.00
East of England median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +81.82% +41.94%

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 1 June 2025.

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 1 June 2025. 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 -6 11 £600 +9.09% 575
Dunstable +3 1 £350 -11.39% 2
Bedford - 1 - - 556
Shefford - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Anypoint
1 2 (11.76%) Mule
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (23.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
1 5 (29.41%) LoadRunner
1 5 (29.41%) NeoLoad
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) JMeter
4 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 9 (52.94%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Automotive
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Test Leader
3 3 (17.65%) Training Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Avaya Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) JWT
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) MUnit
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) SOAP
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) JTAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) FMCG
1 5 (29.41%) Life Science
2 3 (17.65%) e-Learning
2 3 (17.65%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) IVR
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Waterfall
2 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) ERP
3 5 (29.41%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Project Management
3 5 (29.41%) Test Management
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (17.65%) Matrix Management
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Service Management
5 3 (17.65%) Validation
6 2 (11.76%) Data Transformation
6 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) CSPO
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GxP
1 4 (23.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Ariba
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
2 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Avaya
3 1 (5.88%) MKS
3 1 (5.88%) Verint