Agile Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Agile Software Development
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 6 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 14.63% 18.18% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.14% 19.61% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £480 £400
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% +20.00% -51.52%
75th Percentile £389 £550 £425
90th Percentile £460 - -
Dorset median daily rate £505 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +9.19% -9.76% -3.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35 51 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 85.37% 92.73% 84.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 49
10th Percentile £259 £366 £139
25th Percentile £270 £450 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £363
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +34.48% -26.77%
75th Percentile £563 £506 £600
90th Percentile £659 £700 £825
Dorset median daily rate £525 £488 £538
% change year-on-year +7.69% -9.30% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 15
10th Percentile - - £15.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £15.38
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -10.74% -11.21%
75th Percentile £15.75 - £20.31
90th Percentile - £21.36 £24.95
Dorset median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
% change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +175.56%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

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Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Agile

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bournemouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Bournemouth

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) CockroachDB
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Django Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Python/Django Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (33.33%) Django
3 2 (33.33%) Middleware
3 2 (33.33%) OAuth
3 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Security
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) API Design
2 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) SOLID
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle