Agile Contracts in Devon

Agile Software Development
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 6 12 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 18 25 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 16.82% 9.09% 23.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.15% 11.31% 28.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 39
10th Percentile £431 £411 £413
25th Percentile £494 £461 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -15.45% -5.17%
75th Percentile £613 £491 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £680
South West median daily rate £565 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +5.12% -6.52% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 221 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 87.85% 80.36% 82.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 154 124
10th Percentile £145 £150 £238
25th Percentile £153 £307 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -10.05% +15.96%
75th Percentile £525 £556 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 9
10th Percentile £26.40 £10.42 £39.60
25th Percentile £48.50 £13.86 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -45.45% +161.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £73.00
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 Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Devon

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Devon

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Devon

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Devon

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Devon 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
Exeter +5 10 £500 +7.53% 23
Plymouth - 2 £463 - 16
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Storybook
3 1 (5.56%) Vite
3 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Local Government
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Aviation
5 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 6 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Designer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SEO Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) Redux
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) RESTful
1 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Scrum
1 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Data Science
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Pair Programming
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Prototyping
4 2 (11.11%) Secure Coding
4 2 (11.11%) SEO
4 2 (11.11%) Service Design
4 2 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) SC Cleared
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) ESRI
1 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
1 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow