Agile Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Agile 72 155 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.25% 18.45% 13.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.46% 19.55% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 135 88
10th Percentile £407 £415 £391
25th Percentile £463 £457 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £705 £625
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £521
% change year-on-year - +5.67% +9.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 390 793 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.63% 94.40% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 641 574
10th Percentile £250 £275 £225
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £565
90th Percentile £658 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 42
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.18 £10.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.19 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.75 £11.78
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +16.77% -9.28%
75th Percentile £28.75 £16.69 £13.56
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.93 £24.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024. 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 -1 62 £550 +2.09% 41
High Wycombe -2 2 - - 4
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 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.17%) Appian
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
4 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.39%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) AWS
3 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.78%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.78%) PaaS
5 2 (2.78%) Serverless
5 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.39%) Figma
6 1 (1.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.50%) SAN
1 9 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 8 (11.11%) DHCP
2 8 (11.11%) DNS
3 4 (5.56%) VSAN
4 1 (1.39%) ATM
4 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.78%) Big Data
2 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.39%) DB2
3 1 (1.39%) Impala
3 1 (1.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (1.39%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.39%) Maven
3 1 (1.39%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Finance
4 3 (4.17%) Military
4 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Automotive
5 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.39%) Back Office
6 1 (1.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Developer
2 9 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 9 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 9 (12.50%) Senior
3 8 (11.11%) Analyst
3 8 (11.11%) Architect
4 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Lead
5 6 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.94%) Technical Leader
6 5 (6.94%) VMware Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.56%) CRM Manager
7 4 (5.56%) CRM Project Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Linux Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (2.78%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.78%) Swagger
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.39%) CSS
3 1 (1.39%) CSS3
3 1 (1.39%) HTML
3 1 (1.39%) HTML5
3 1 (1.39%) Kafka
3 1 (1.39%) Playwright
3 1 (1.39%) SOAP
3 1 (1.39%) WCF
3 1 (1.39%) WinForms
3 1 (1.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.11%) PKI
3 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Robotics
5 1 (1.39%) Clustering
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Linux
2 9 (12.50%) Debian
2 9 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) ITIL
2 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (18.06%) Waterfall
3 10 (13.89%) Data Engineering
3 10 (13.89%) Data Modelling
3 10 (13.89%) Decision-Making
3 10 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (13.89%) Problem Management
3 10 (13.89%) Project Management
3 10 (13.89%) Prototyping
4 9 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 9 (12.50%) Scrum
4 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 8 (11.11%) DevOps
5 8 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
5 8 (11.11%) Release Management
6 7 (9.72%) Customer Service
6 7 (9.72%) Incident Management
6 7 (9.72%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.28%) Python
2 9 (12.50%) SQL
3 6 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (4.17%) Java
4 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.78%) Scala
6 1 (1.39%) Bicep
6 1 (1.39%) C++
6 1 (1.39%) COBOL
6 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 41 (56.94%) Security Cleared
2 37 (51.39%) SC Cleared
3 22 (30.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.11%) Degree
5 5 (6.94%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.94%) PMP
6 4 (5.56%) VCAP
6 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (4.17%) CCNP
7 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.17%) MCSE
7 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.39%) APMP
9 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) NCSC
1 3 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.56%) vSphere
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) HDFS
3 1 (1.39%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) SCCM
1 3 (4.17%) SCOM
2 2 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (29.17%) VMware
3 9 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.17%) Cisco
5 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.78%) Informatica
6 2 (2.78%) Veeam
7 1 (1.39%) Cadence
7 1 (1.39%) Citrix
7 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.39%) SAP