Agile Contracts in Cheltenham

Agile Software Development
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 15 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 8 61 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.90% 32.80% 36.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% 37.65% 41.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 52
10th Percentile £595 £421 £514
25th Percentile £624 £513 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £550 £651
Median % change year-on-year +26.36% -15.45% +16.94%
75th Percentile £743 £644 £700
90th Percentile £759 £708 £761
Gloucestershire median daily rate £543 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -1.36% -6.78% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £81.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -
75th Percentile - - £94.50
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £81.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -56.79% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54 162 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 87.10% 87.10% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 90 103
10th Percentile £523 £398 £331
25th Percentile £547 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £643 £674 £700
90th Percentile £722 £739 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £48.20 £67.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £70.25 £67.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £71.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -4.70% +484.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £88.13
90th Percentile - £74.25 £91.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Cheltenham

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Cheltenham

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cheltenham

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Cheltenham

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
1 4 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
1 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Epics
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) DV Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (12.50%) APMP
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) VMware