Agile Contract Job Trends in Devon

Agile Software Development
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 18 59 65
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 11.04% 26.58% 33.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.86% 33.15% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 37 57
10th Percentile £413 £434 £444
25th Percentile £438 £500 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £534 £685 £700
90th Percentile £550 - £725
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £66.75
% change year-on-year -14.29% +4.87% +1.91%

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 140 178 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 85.89% 80.18% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 97 143
10th Percentile £145 £187 £315
25th Percentile £269 £345 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £480 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -16.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £674
90th Percentile £588 £685 £711
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.24% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 5
10th Percentile £17.97 £40.25 £20.08
25th Percentile - £53.75 £31.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +73.33% -10.71%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £40.00
90th Percentile - - £64.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Agile job vacancy trend in Devon

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Devon over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Devon

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Agile

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 4 October 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 11 £520 -19.07% 8
Plymouth +4 5 £475 - 4
Newton Abbot - 1 £400 - 1
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Serverless
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.11%) Figma
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.56%) DTS
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Storybook
2 2 (11.11%) Vite
2 2 (11.11%) webpack
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Database Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) DBA
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) UI Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 3 (16.67%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) Redux
3 2 (11.11%) Vue
3 2 (11.11%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Kanban
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) BDD
6 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Data Management
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 3 (16.67%) User Experience
7 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) MCSE
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) QA
1 2 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) ESRI
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) VMware