Agile Contracts in Bristol

Agile Software Development
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 133 239 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 12.45% 20.50% 23.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.22% 23.14% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 159 219
10th Percentile £410 £400 £400
25th Percentile £452 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +5.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £593 £650 £613
90th Percentile £647 £775 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 51 30
10th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £42.00
25th Percentile - £60.91 £63.60
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.30 -
90th Percentile - - £65.75
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 874 1,033 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 81.84% 88.59% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 708 854
10th Percentile £250 £300 £323
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +3.08% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £714 £656
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 204 114
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £46.39 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +31.32% -2.70%
75th Percentile £72.50 £66.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £66.80
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £58.65 £48.48
% change year-on-year -6.22% +20.98% +8.94%

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 26 May 2024.

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 26 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Bristol

Agile
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 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.26%) CMS
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.50%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.50%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.75%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.56%) Azure
2 20 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (12.03%) GitHub
4 7 (5.26%) AWS
5 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.76%) PaaS
6 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.76%) PowerApps
6 5 (3.76%) SaaS
7 4 (3.01%) Azure Stack
7 4 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.01%) IaaS
7 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.26%) GCP
8 3 (2.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.76%) Ethernet
2 5 (3.76%) HTTP
3 2 (1.50%) DNS
3 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.75%) 5G
4 1 (0.75%) DHCP
4 1 (0.75%) LTE
4 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) VSAN
4 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.76%) SQLite
3 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (2.26%) GIS
4 3 (2.26%) Metadata
5 2 (1.50%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) JIRA
2 16 (12.03%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.77%) GoogleTest
4 12 (9.02%) Git
5 11 (8.27%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.51%) Postman
7 5 (3.76%) Checkstyle
7 5 (3.76%) Eclipse
7 5 (3.76%) NUnit
7 5 (3.76%) Selenium
7 5 (3.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.26%) Burp Suite
8 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.26%) Maven
9 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.50%) GitLab
9 2 (1.50%) JUnit
10 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.75%) Subversion
10 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.29%) Finance
3 16 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.28%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Legal
7 5 (3.76%) Law
7 5 (3.76%) Marketing
7 5 (3.76%) Military
8 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Electronics
8 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.26%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.50%) Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Architect
2 24 (18.05%) Software Engineer
3 18 (13.53%) Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Project Manager
5 13 (9.77%) C++ Software Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) Java Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) Java Software Engineer
5 13 (9.77%) Senior
5 13 (9.77%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.02%) IT Manager
6 8 (6.02%) Test Engineer
7 7 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Analyst
8 6 (4.51%) C# Software Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Lead
9 5 (3.76%) IT Project Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (3.76%) Software Architect
9 5 (3.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.78%) XML
2 14 (10.53%) .NET
3 13 (9.77%) Qt
4 12 (9.02%) JSON
5 11 (8.27%) REST
6 8 (6.02%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.26%) Node.js
8 6 (4.51%) RESTful
9 5 (3.76%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.76%) .NET Framework
9 5 (3.76%) CSS
9 5 (3.76%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.76%) HTML
9 5 (3.76%) Playwright
9 5 (3.76%) Web Services
10 4 (3.01%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (2.26%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.26%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (2.26%) jQuery
11 3 (2.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (9.77%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.52%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.76%) Verilog
4 5 (3.76%) VHDL
5 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.01%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.26%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) PKI
7 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.04%) Linux
2 8 (6.02%) Windows
3 3 (2.26%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.75%) Android
4 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.85%) DevOps
2 31 (23.31%) CI/CD
3 27 (20.30%) Project Delivery
4 26 (19.55%) Software Engineering
5 19 (14.29%) Data Management
6 17 (12.78%) Project Management
7 16 (12.03%) Scrum
7 16 (12.03%) Test Automation
8 15 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (10.53%) Waterfall
10 13 (9.77%) ITIL
11 12 (9.02%) Migration
11 12 (9.02%) PRINCE2
11 12 (9.02%) Service Management
11 12 (9.02%) TDD
12 10 (7.52%) Enterprise Architecture
13 9 (6.77%) Change Management
13 9 (6.77%) Data Protection
13 9 (6.77%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.80%) C++
2 21 (15.79%) Python
3 16 (12.03%) C#
3 16 (12.03%) Java
4 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.77%) SQL
6 8 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.76%) C
8 3 (2.26%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Bash
10 1 (0.75%) Bicep
10 1 (0.75%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 38 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.02%) Degree
4 11 (8.27%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.26%) OSCP
6 2 (1.50%) HND
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.77%) MISRA
2 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.51%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.26%) QA
5 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (9.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.75%) XenApp
2 1 (0.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
2 1 (0.75%) Grafana
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.75%) Puppet
2 1 (0.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Google
3 6 (4.51%) BMC
3 6 (4.51%) Remedy
4 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.01%) SAP
6 2 (1.50%) FIS
6 2 (1.50%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.75%) Adobe
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.75%) Cadence
7 1 (0.75%) Citrix
7 1 (0.75%) Dell
7 1 (0.75%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.75%) Pardot
7 1 (0.75%) VMware