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 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 12 10 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 55 112 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.24% 10.60% 20.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.16% 12.74% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 63 163
10th Percentile £320 £408 £378
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £606 £650
90th Percentile £653 £650 £756
South West median daily rate £565 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +5.12% -6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 64
10th Percentile £53.98 £65.00 £60.27
25th Percentile £58.81 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £64.00 £70.00 £65.55
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +6.78% +0.85%
75th Percentile £66.25 £85.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £68.50 - £85.00
South West median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -5.36% +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 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 (5.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Appian
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.64%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.82%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.82%) Sketch
2 1 (1.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) AWS
1 7 (12.73%) Azure
2 6 (10.91%) SaaS
3 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.45%) IaaS
3 3 (5.45%) PaaS
4 2 (3.64%) GitHub
4 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.82%) Figma
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Serverless
5 1 (1.82%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) 5G
2 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.82%) 2G
3 1 (1.82%) 4G
3 1 (1.82%) DHCP
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.82%) HTTP
3 1 (1.82%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.82%) VPN
3 1 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.82%) DB2
2 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.82%) Metadata
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.64%) Selenium
3 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.82%) Ant
4 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.82%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.82%) MLflow
4 1 (1.82%) NUnit
4 1 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.73%) Public Sector
3 17 (30.91%) Finance
4 15 (27.27%) Telecoms
5 12 (21.82%) Manufacturing
6 10 (18.18%) Electronics
6 10 (18.18%) Marketing
7 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (9.09%) Billing
8 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.64%) Military
9 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.82%) Aviation
10 1 (1.82%) Banking
10 1 (1.82%) Law
10 1 (1.82%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (12.73%) Analyst
1 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
2 6 (10.91%) Business Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) Developer
2 6 (10.91%) Senior
3 5 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (9.09%) Lead
4 4 (7.27%) OSS Project Manager
4 4 (7.27%) Product Owner
4 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Telecoms Manager
4 4 (7.27%) Telecoms Project Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (3.64%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Programmer
6 2 (3.64%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) CSS
2 5 (9.09%) HTML
3 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.45%) HTML5
4 3 (5.45%) Node.js
4 3 (5.45%) Web Services
5 2 (3.64%) .NET
5 2 (3.64%) CSS3
5 2 (3.64%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) RESTful
5 2 (3.64%) SOAP
6 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.82%) Angular 2
6 1 (1.82%) Django
6 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.82%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.82%) OAuth
6 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Robotics
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Android
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) Project Management
2 17 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (23.64%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (23.64%) CI/CD
4 13 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (21.82%) Programme Management
6 11 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 10 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
7 10 (18.18%) Scrum
8 9 (16.36%) DevOps
8 9 (16.36%) Project Delivery
9 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
10 7 (12.73%) Product Backlog
11 6 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (10.91%) Risk Management
11 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
11 6 (10.91%) User Experience
12 5 (9.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
2 5 (9.09%) SQL
3 4 (7.27%) Python
3 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.64%) C#
4 2 (3.64%) C++
4 2 (3.64%) Java
4 2 (3.64%) Perl
4 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.82%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.82%) Bash
5 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.82%) Ruby
5 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.82%) X++
Qualifications
1 17 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 5 (9.09%) PMP
4 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.82%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.45%) PMO
2 2 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) PMBOK
3 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Amdocs OSS
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) SAP
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) Ericsson
3 5 (9.09%) Nokia
4 4 (7.27%) Amdocs
4 4 (7.27%) Ciena
4 4 (7.27%) NetCracker
5 2 (3.64%) Google
5 2 (3.64%) Siemens
6 1 (1.82%) Adobe
6 1 (1.82%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Pardot
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce