Agile Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 9 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 36 81 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.25% 17.02% 19.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.44% 20.61% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 67 145
10th Percentile £325 £409 £412
25th Percentile £388 £465 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £575 £625
90th Percentile £743 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -2 28 £425 -22.73% 103
High Wycombe +3 4 £550 - 78
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) GPON
1 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.56%) DocumentDB
2 2 (5.56%) MS Access
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) GIS
3 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.78%) Impala
3 1 (2.78%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) QARun
3 2 (5.56%) WinRunner
4 1 (2.78%) Axure RP
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Analyst
1 8 (22.22%) Architect
2 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Principal Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Service Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Test Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Relationships Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Service Relationship Manager
6 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Migration Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Designer
6 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Migration Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Web Services
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (5.56%) Entity Framework
2 2 (5.56%) Middleware
2 2 (5.56%) NHibernate
2 2 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) jQuery
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
1 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) ITIL
2 11 (30.56%) Waterfall
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
5 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (19.44%) User Experience
6 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Logistics
6 6 (16.67%) Microservices
6 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
6 6 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 5 (13.89%) IT Strategy
7 5 (13.89%) Prototyping
7 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.89%) Strategic Roadmap
7 5 (13.89%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (13.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) C#
2 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
3 2 (5.56%) VB
4 1 (2.78%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) Magik
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) CCNP
2 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) MCSE
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.56%) APMP
3 2 (5.56%) ISEB
3 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) NCSC
2 4 (11.11%) NIST
3 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.78%) Snow
5 1 (2.78%) Sparx