Agile Contracts in Berkshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 187 251 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.94% 12.65% 22.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.06% 14.23% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 163 287
10th Percentile £407 £413 £400
25th Percentile £476 £500 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £615
90th Percentile £700 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 3
10th Percentile £87.20 £41.75 £66.20
25th Percentile £87.41 £42.50 £67.63
Median hourly rate £89.53 £55.08 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.55% -21.88% +7.63%
75th Percentile £93.39 £59.95 £75.75
90th Percentile £94.66 £60.88 -
South East median hourly rate £60.50 £58.30 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading +4 113 £600 - 134
Wokingham -7 20 £708 +23.04% 5
Bracknell +16 16 £550 +4.76% 12
Windsor -6 11 £500 -25.93% 6
Slough -6 1 £650 +13.04% 94
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.07%) Apache
2 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Camunda
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.14%) Primavera
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.07%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.53%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.13%) Azure
2 29 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (8.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (8.02%) AWS
5 10 (5.35%) SaaS
6 9 (4.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (4.81%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.28%) Serverless
8 6 (3.21%) Azure API Management
8 6 (3.21%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.67%) GCP
9 5 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.67%) Oracle CX
10 4 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.14%) HTTP
3 3 (1.60%) Broadband
3 3 (1.60%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.07%) 2G
4 2 (1.07%) 3G
4 2 (1.07%) 4G
4 2 (1.07%) 5G
4 2 (1.07%) Firewall
5 1 (0.53%) BGP
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.53%) MPLS
5 1 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) SSL
5 1 (0.53%) VoIP
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.67%) Big Data
1 5 (2.67%) Power BI
1 5 (2.67%) Relational Database
1 5 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (8.02%) Git
1 15 (8.02%) Selenium
2 14 (7.49%) JIRA
3 5 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.14%) GitLab
4 4 (2.14%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.60%) JUnit
5 3 (1.60%) Mockito
5 3 (1.60%) Postman
6 2 (1.07%) JMeter
6 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.53%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.53%) jMock
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.53%) Subversion
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (28.34%) Telecoms
2 40 (21.39%) Social Skills
3 38 (20.32%) Finance
4 32 (17.11%) Public Sector
5 26 (13.90%) Manufacturing
6 24 (12.83%) Electronics
6 24 (12.83%) Marketing
7 23 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.21%) Billing
9 4 (2.14%) Retail
10 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.07%) Legal
11 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
12 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Law
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (21.39%) Architect
2 24 (12.83%) Analyst
2 24 (12.83%) Developer
3 21 (11.23%) Active Directory Architect
4 16 (8.56%) Business Analyst
5 15 (8.02%) Lead
6 14 (7.49%) Project Manager
6 14 (7.49%) Senior
7 10 (5.35%) Azure Developer
8 9 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (3.74%) Scrum Master
10 6 (3.21%) Auditor
10 6 (3.21%) Consultant
10 6 (3.21%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.21%) Security Auditor
11 5 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.67%) Designer
11 5 (2.67%) Product Owner
11 5 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.63%) Web Services
2 16 (8.56%) REST
3 15 (8.02%) HTML
4 13 (6.95%) CSS
5 11 (5.88%) ADO
5 11 (5.88%) JSON
6 10 (5.35%) .NET
7 9 (4.81%) SOAP
8 7 (3.74%) XML
9 5 (2.67%) PySpark
10 4 (2.14%) Ajax
10 4 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.14%) React
11 3 (1.60%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.60%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (1.60%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (1.60%) Hibernate
11 3 (1.60%) Spring
11 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
12 2 (1.07%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.63%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.28%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (3.21%) CMDB
3 6 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.67%) Frameworx
4 5 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.67%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.67%) TM Forum
5 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.14%) IoT
5 4 (2.14%) PMI
5 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.60%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.60%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.60%) Infotainment
7 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.37%) Windows
2 4 (2.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.07%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) CentOS
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.93%) DevOps
2 39 (20.86%) Test Automation
3 35 (18.72%) Scrum
4 33 (17.65%) Project Management
5 32 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.04%) Programme Management
7 29 (15.51%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (13.90%) Roadmaps
9 24 (12.83%) Digital Marketing
9 24 (12.83%) Waterfall
10 21 (11.23%) Identity Access Management
11 19 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (8.56%) CI/CD
14 15 (8.02%) Change Management
14 15 (8.02%) User Stories
15 14 (7.49%) Product Backlog
15 14 (7.49%) SDLC
16 13 (6.95%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.58%) Python
2 29 (15.51%) SQL
3 23 (12.30%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.09%) Java
5 16 (8.56%) C#
6 13 (6.95%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.07%) Bicep
9 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.53%) R
9 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) VB
9 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.37%) DV Cleared
3 16 (8.56%) Degree
4 14 (7.49%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.28%) PMI Certification
6 7 (3.74%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.67%) PMP
8 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) PgMP
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CCNP
9 1 (0.53%) CISA
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CISM
9 1 (0.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.53%) IIBA
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.53%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.88%) PMO
1 11 (5.88%) QA
2 6 (3.21%) GDPR
2 6 (3.21%) NCSC
3 2 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (13.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.21%) Docker
2 6 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) Postfix
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (3.74%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.74%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) Amdocs OSS
2 3 (1.60%) Ansible
3 2 (1.07%) Grafana
3 2 (1.07%) Kibana
3 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Podman
4 1 (0.53%) Puppet
4 1 (0.53%) SCCM
4 1 (0.53%) SCOM
4 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (16.58%) SAP
2 22 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.09%) Oracle
3 17 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.28%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.21%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.21%) VMware
6 5 (2.67%) Databricks
7 4 (2.14%) Snow
7 4 (2.14%) Virgin Media
8 3 (1.60%) Cramer
8 3 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.60%) Remedy
9 2 (1.07%) Cisco
9 2 (1.07%) Google
9 2 (1.07%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.07%) Splunk
9 2 (1.07%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft