Agile Software Development Contracts in Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Agile Software Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 29 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Agile Software Development South West / Bristol
Location	3 months to 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	3	5	3
Rank change year-on-year	+2	-2
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development	148	120	212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol	17.45%	14.02%	22.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	21.42%	17.00%	27.79%
Number of daily rates quoted	103	93	178
Median daily rate	£375	£400	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-6.25%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£281	£306	£306
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£524	£515
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£425	£388
% change year-on-year	-	+9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Median hourly rate	-	£39.00	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.25	£37.45
% change year-on-year	+0.59%	+12.81%

Agile Software Development is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills Bristol
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	691	706	763
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol	81.49%	82.48%	82.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	1541	1830	2139
Median daily rate	£388	£375	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.33%	-3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£263	£263	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£538	£588	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	48	47	46
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£39.50	£37.04
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+1.26%	+6.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.13	£12.00	£17.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.25	£44.00	£41.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.50	£28.00	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.64%	-6.66%

Agile Software Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Agile Software Development as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Software Development in Bristol

Agile Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Agile Software Development in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate trend for Agile Software Development in Bristol

Agile Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Agile Software Development in Bristol over the 3 months to 29 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Agile Software Development in Bristol

Agile Software Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Agile Software Development in Bristol

Agile Software Development
Contract Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Bristol region over the 3 months to 29 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Avonmouth	-	1	£400	-
Agile Software Development South West

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Bristol

For the 6 months to 29 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the Bristol region with a requirement for Agile Software Development.

1	107 (32.52%)	JavaScript
2	100 (30.40%)	Scrum
3	95 (28.88%)	.NET
4	88 (26.75%)	HTML
5	78 (23.71%)	Finance
6	77 (23.40%)	C#
6	77 (23.40%)	CSS
7	53 (16.11%)	MVC
8	52 (15.81%)	Microsoft
9	49 (14.89%)	Java
10	48 (14.59%)	SQL
11	46 (13.98%)	AngularJS
12	45 (13.68%)	Test Automation
13	43 (13.07%)	SQL Server
14	41 (12.46%)	TDD

14	41 (12.46%)	Git (software)
14	41 (12.46%)	ASP.NET Web API
15	40 (12.16%)	Banking
16	37 (11.25%)	ASP.NET
16	37 (11.25%)	Security Cleared
17	36 (10.94%)	BDD
18	34 (10.33%)	jQuery
18	34 (10.33%)	DevOps
19	33 (10.03%)	Selenium
20	32 (9.73%)	SC Cleared
21	31 (9.42%)	Marketing
21	31 (9.42%)	Telecoms
22	30 (9.12%)	QA
23	29 (8.81%)	HTML5
23	29 (8.81%)	Business Intelligence

Agile Software Development
Co-occurring IT Skills in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	11 (3.34%)	Confluence
2	10 (3.04%)	SharePoint
3	8 (2.43%)	Elasticsearch
4	7 (2.13%)	Apache
5	6 (1.82%)	IIS
6	5 (1.52%)	CMS
6	5 (1.52%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	5 (1.52%)	SharePoint 2013
6	5 (1.52%)	Skype for Business
6	5 (1.52%)	Tomcat
7	3 (0.91%)	Drupal
7	3 (0.91%)	PowerExchange
7	3 (0.91%)	Umbraco
8	2 (0.61%)	Apache Spark
8	2 (0.61%)	Jupyter
8	2 (0.61%)	OpenStack
8	2 (0.61%)	SharePoint 2010
8	2 (0.61%)	WordPress
9	1 (0.30%)	Adobe Experience Manager
9	1 (0.30%)	Oracle SOA Suite

Applications
1	6 (1.82%)	Microsoft Office
2	3 (0.91%)	Microsoft Excel
2	3 (0.91%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
2	3 (0.91%)	Microsoft Project
3	2 (0.61%)	Adobe Creative Suite
3	2 (0.61%)	Spreadsheet
4	1 (0.30%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	22 (6.69%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	18 (5.47%)	Dynamics CRM
3	1 (0.30%)	HFM
3	1 (0.30%)	Hyperion Planning
3	1 (0.30%)	iTrent
3	1 (0.30%)	Oracle EBS
3	1 (0.30%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	26 (7.90%)	Amazon AWS
2	14 (4.26%)	Microsoft Azure
3	13 (3.95%)	GitHub
4	8 (2.43%)	Amazon EC2
5	4 (1.22%)	Amazon ELB
5	4 (1.22%)	Amazon S3
5	4 (1.22%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	4 (1.22%)	Route 53
5	4 (1.22%)	SaaS
6	3 (0.91%)	IaaS
7	2 (0.61%)	Cloud Computing
7	2 (0.61%)	PaaS
8	1 (0.30%)	Amazon SQS
8	1 (0.30%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8	1 (0.30%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	1 (0.30%)	Office 365

Communications & Networking
1	10 (3.04%)	HTTP
2	8 (2.43%)	DNS
2	8 (2.43%)	Internet
3	5 (1.52%)	Skype
4	4 (1.22%)	LDAP
4	4 (1.22%)	Remote Desktop
5	3 (0.91%)	DHCP
5	3 (0.91%)	Intrusion Detection
5	3 (0.91%)	SAN
5	3 (0.91%)	VPN
6	2 (0.61%)	Intranet
6	2 (0.61%)	Modbus
6	2 (0.61%)	NAS
6	2 (0.61%)	PuTTY
6	2 (0.61%)	SSL
6	2 (0.61%)	WinSCP
7	1 (0.30%)	F5 BIG-IP LTM
7	1 (0.30%)	LAN
7	1 (0.30%)	Unified Communications
7	1 (0.30%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	43 (13.07%)	SQL Server
2	15 (4.56%)	Hadoop
3	14 (4.26%)	Oracle Database
4	10 (3.04%)	MongoDB
5	9 (2.74%)	Big Data
6	8 (2.43%)	MySQL
6	8 (2.43%)	NoSQL
6	8 (2.43%)	Relational Database
7	7 (2.13%)	Amazon DynamoDB
8	6 (1.82%)	PostgreSQL
9	5 (1.52%)	Apache Hive
9	5 (1.52%)	Data Warehouse
9	5 (1.52%)	HBase
9	5 (1.52%)	Neo4j
9	5 (1.52%)	SQL Server 2008
9	5 (1.52%)	SQL Server 2012
10	4 (1.22%)	Oracle Reports
11	3 (0.91%)	Oracle Database 10g
11	3 (0.91%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	3 (0.91%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	41 (12.46%)	Git (software)
2	33 (10.03%)	Selenium
3	26 (7.90%)	JIRA
4	25 (7.60%)	Cucumber
5	24 (7.29%)	Visual Studio
6	23 (6.99%)	TeamCity
7	18 (5.47%)	Jenkins
8	17 (5.17%)	WebDriver
9	16 (4.86%)	Visual Studio Team System
10	13 (3.95%)	Ant
11	11 (3.34%)	SoapUI
12	10 (3.04%)	Maven
13	8 (2.43%)	Team Foundation Server
14	7 (2.13%)	JMeter
15	6 (1.82%)	Gradle
15	6 (1.82%)	Octopus Deploy
16	5 (1.52%)	Bitbucket
16	5 (1.52%)	Vagrant
17	4 (1.22%)	Artifactory
17	4 (1.22%)	Selenium IDE

General
1	78 (23.71%)	Finance
2	40 (12.16%)	Banking
3	31 (9.42%)	Marketing
3	31 (9.42%)	Telecoms
4	24 (7.29%)	Electronics
5	23 (6.99%)	Manufacturing
6	16 (4.86%)	Retail
7	11 (3.34%)	Retail Banking
8	5 (1.52%)	Legal
9	4 (1.22%)	Publishing
10	3 (0.91%)	Local Government
11	2 (0.61%)	Advertising
11	2 (0.61%)	Aerospace
11	2 (0.61%)	Automotive
11	2 (0.61%)	Games
11	2 (0.61%)	Military
12	1 (0.30%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	143 (43.47%)	Developer
2	39 (11.85%)	Analyst
3	38 (11.55%)	.NET Developer
4	34 (10.33%)	C# Developer
5	22 (6.69%)	Business Analyst
5	22 (6.69%)	Project Manager
6	21 (6.38%)	Architect
7	20 (6.08%)	C# .NET Developer
8	18 (5.47%)	Java Developer
8	18 (5.47%)	Tester
9	16 (4.86%)	CRM Developer
9	16 (4.86%)	Dynamics CRM Developer
10	14 (4.26%)	ASP.NET Developer
11	13 (3.95%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
11	13 (3.95%)	Senior Developer
12	12 (3.65%)	Microsoft Developer
13	11 (3.34%)	Test Analyst
13	11 (3.34%)	UI Developer
14	10 (3.04%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14	10 (3.04%)	Software Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	95 (28.88%)	.NET
2	88 (26.75%)	HTML
3	77 (23.40%)	CSS
4	46 (13.98%)	AngularJS
5	41 (12.46%)	ASP.NET Web API
6	37 (11.25%)	ASP.NET
7	34 (10.33%)	jQuery
8	29 (8.81%)	HTML5
9	28 (8.51%)	XML
10	27 (8.21%)	ASP.NET MVC
10	27 (8.21%)	REST
11	24 (7.29%)	.NET Framework
11	24 (7.29%)	SOAP
12	22 (6.69%)	Web Services
13	21 (6.38%)	React
14	20 (6.08%)	WCF
15	18 (5.47%)	RESTful
16	17 (5.17%)	JSON
17	16 (4.86%)	Ajax
17	16 (4.86%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	29 (8.81%)	Greenfield Project
2	26 (7.90%)	User Experience
3	22 (6.69%)	Analytical Skills
4	8 (2.43%)	Public Cloud
5	7 (2.13%)	Reference Data
6	6 (1.82%)	Blog
6	6 (1.82%)	Client/Server
6	6 (1.82%)	Data Structures
6	6 (1.82%)	Management Information System
6	6 (1.82%)	Mobile App
6	6 (1.82%)	Virtual Team
7	5 (1.52%)	Computer Science
8	3 (0.91%)	Algorithms
8	3 (0.91%)	iPad
8	3 (0.91%)	Linked Data
8	3 (0.91%)	PMI
8	3 (0.91%)	Social Media
9	2 (0.61%)	Data Centre
9	2 (0.61%)	Enterprise Storage
9	2 (0.61%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	20 (6.08%)	Linux
1	20 (6.08%)	Windows
2	12 (3.65%)	Windows Server 2012
3	11 (3.34%)	Windows Server
4	10 (3.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	8 (2.43%)	Windows Server 2008
6	7 (2.13%)	Windows 10
7	5 (1.52%)	Apple iOS
8	4 (1.22%)	CentOS
8	4 (1.22%)	Ubuntu
8	4 (1.22%)	Unix
9	3 (0.91%)	Android
10	2 (0.61%)	Windows Server 2003
11	1 (0.30%)	Debian

Processes & Methodologies
1	100 (30.40%)	Scrum
2	53 (16.11%)	MVC
3	45 (13.68%)	Test Automation
4	41 (12.46%)	TDD
5	36 (10.94%)	BDD
6	34 (10.33%)	DevOps
7	29 (8.81%)	Business Intelligence
8	28 (8.51%)	Project Management
9	27 (8.21%)	Waterfall
10	26 (7.90%)	PRINCE2
10	26 (7.90%)	User Stories
11	25 (7.60%)	Programme Management
12	24 (7.29%)	Digital Marketing
12	24 (7.29%)	Web Development
13	23 (6.99%)	SDLC
14	22 (6.69%)	Test Scripting
15	20 (6.08%)	Continuous Integration
15	20 (6.08%)	Microservices
16	19 (5.78%)	CRM
16	19 (5.78%)	OO

Programming Languages
1	107 (32.52%)	JavaScript
2	77 (23.40%)	C#
3	49 (14.89%)	Java
4	48 (14.59%)	SQL
5	16 (4.86%)	Python
6	14 (4.26%)	PHP
6	14 (4.26%)	Ruby
7	9 (2.74%)	C++
8	8 (2.43%)	Bash Shell
8	8 (2.43%)	PowerShell
8	8 (2.43%)	Scala
9	7 (2.13%)	PL/SQL
9	7 (2.13%)	T-SQL
9	7 (2.13%)	VB
10	5 (1.52%)	VB6
11	4 (1.22%)	C
11	4 (1.22%)	Perl
12	2 (0.61%)	F#
12	2 (0.61%)	VB.NET
12	2 (0.61%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	37 (11.25%)	Security Cleared
2	32 (9.73%)	SC Cleared
3	8 (2.43%)	Degree
3	8 (2.43%)	DV Cleared
3	8 (2.43%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
4	6 (1.82%)	ISEB
5	5 (1.52%)	APMP
6	4 (1.22%)	ISTQB
7	3 (0.91%)	AWS Certification
7	3 (0.91%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
7	3 (0.91%)	PMI Certification
8	2 (0.61%)	Computer Science Degree
8	2 (0.61%)	IIBA
8	2 (0.61%)	ISEB Practitioner
9	1 (0.30%)	ACCA
9	1 (0.30%)	BC Cleared
9	1 (0.30%)	CIMA
9	1 (0.30%)	CITP
9	1 (0.30%)	PMP
9	1 (0.30%)	Six Sigma Green Belt

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	30 (9.12%)	QA
2	5 (1.52%)	Data Quality
3	3 (0.91%)	COBIT
3	3 (0.91%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	2 (0.61%)	PMO
5	1 (0.30%)	FINREP
5	1 (0.30%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	1 (0.30%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	11 (3.34%)	Active Directory
2	8 (2.43%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	4 (1.22%)	DFS Replication
3	4 (1.22%)	Microsoft App-V
4	3 (0.91%)	Docker
5	2 (0.61%)	Hyper-V
5	2 (0.61%)	Virtual Machines
5	2 (0.61%)	vSphere
5	2 (0.61%)	Xen
6	1 (0.30%)	Shibboleth

Systems Management
1	11 (3.34%)	Opscode Chef
1	11 (3.34%)	Puppet
2	4 (1.22%)	Terraform
3	3 (0.91%)	Ansible
4	2 (0.61%)	NetBackup
4	2 (0.61%)	SCCM
4	2 (0.61%)	vRealize
4	2 (0.61%)	ZABBIX
5	1 (0.30%)	Kibana
5	1 (0.30%)	logstash

Vendors
1	52 (15.81%)	Microsoft
2	24 (7.29%)	Oracle
3	22 (6.69%)	SAP
4	11 (3.34%)	VMware
5	10 (3.04%)	Red Hat
6	9 (2.74%)	Cloudera
7	8 (2.43%)	hybris
8	7 (2.13%)	Sitecore
9	6 (1.82%)	Google
10	5 (1.52%)	MapR
10	5 (1.52%)	Nuix
10	5 (1.52%)	Splunk
11	3 (0.91%)	Adobe
11	3 (0.91%)	ATG
11	3 (0.91%)	HP
11	3 (0.91%)	Informatica
12	2 (0.61%)	arcserve
12	2 (0.61%)	BT
12	2 (0.61%)	Cisco
12	2 (0.61%)	Huawei