Agile Contracts in Bristol

Agile Software Development
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 67 150 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.62% 13.35% 21.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.59% 16.50% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 76 170
10th Percentile £368 £404 £406
25th Percentile £413 £455 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £578
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £675
90th Percentile £618 £663 £784
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 38 49
10th Percentile £37.20 £65.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £47.63 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £89.00 £85.00 £76.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - +6.87% +0.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 578 909 1,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.60% 80.87% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 498 691
10th Percentile £235 £260 £313
25th Percentile £362 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £638
90th Percentile £645 £688 £719
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 211 181
10th Percentile £18.17 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £50.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £44.65 £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% +13.82% +36.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £77.50 £81.00
South West median hourly rate £28.10 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -48.92% -8.33% +20.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Bristol over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Bristol

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Bristol over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (4.48%) Confluence
1 3 (4.48%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.49%) Sketch
4 1 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.39%) Azure
2 14 (20.90%) AWS
3 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.48%) Google Sheets
4 3 (4.48%) SaaS
4 3 (4.48%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.99%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) GitHub
5 2 (2.99%) Serverless
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.49%) Boomi
6 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.49%) Firebase
6 1 (1.49%) npm
6 1 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) 5G
2 4 (5.97%) NetScaler
3 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.49%) DHCP
4 1 (1.49%) DNS
4 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.49%) HTTP
4 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) Power BI
2 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.99%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) DBeaver
2 2 (2.99%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) Ant
3 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.49%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.49%) webpack
General
1 30 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (31.34%) Finance
3 17 (25.37%) Public Sector
4 15 (22.39%) Telecoms
5 10 (14.93%) Manufacturing
6 9 (13.43%) Electronics
6 9 (13.43%) Marketing
7 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (10.45%) Billing
8 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.99%) Banking
9 2 (2.99%) Military
9 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.49%) Local Government
10 1 (1.49%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Senior
2 12 (17.91%) Lead
3 11 (16.42%) Developer
3 11 (16.42%) Project Manager
4 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) OSS Project Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Telecoms Manager
5 6 (8.96%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 5 (7.46%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.97%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Lead .NET Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead C# Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Product Owner
7 4 (5.97%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) CSS
1 6 (8.96%) React
2 5 (7.46%) HTML
3 4 (5.97%) .NET
3 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.97%) Node.js
3 4 (5.97%) Web Services
4 3 (4.48%) RESTful
5 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.99%) CSS3
5 2 (2.99%) HTML5
5 2 (2.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (2.99%) Spring
6 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.49%) Jest
6 1 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.49%) Next.js
6 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (1.49%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Replication
6 1 (1.49%) IoT
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows 10
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (2.99%) Android
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) Project Management
2 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (22.39%) Project Delivery
3 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (20.90%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (20.90%) Scrum
5 13 (19.40%) Waterfall
6 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (16.42%) CI/CD
7 11 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (16.42%) Roadmaps
8 10 (14.93%) DevOps
9 9 (13.43%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (13.43%) PRINCE2
9 9 (13.43%) Programme Management
9 9 (13.43%) Risk Management
10 8 (11.94%) Mentoring
11 7 (10.45%) Coaching
11 7 (10.45%) TDD
11 7 (10.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
1 10 (14.93%) SQL
2 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.96%) Python
5 5 (7.46%) C#
5 5 (7.46%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) C++
7 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.49%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) PMI Certification
3 7 (10.45%) PMP
4 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) Degree
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.48%) PMO
2 2 (2.99%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
3 1 (1.49%) NIST
3 1 (1.49%) PMBOK
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (5.97%) XenDesktop
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Amdocs OSS
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.97%) SCCM
4 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) SAP
3 6 (8.96%) Amdocs
3 6 (8.96%) Ciena
3 6 (8.96%) Ericsson
3 6 (8.96%) NetCracker
3 6 (8.96%) Nokia
4 4 (5.97%) Citrix
4 4 (5.97%) Google
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle
5 3 (4.48%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) Adobe
7 1 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco
7 1 (1.49%) Dell
7 1 (1.49%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.49%) Pardot