Agile Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Agile Software Development
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Agile 10 24 24
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 11.36% 22.43% 9.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.71% 24.24% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 9
10th Percentile - £450 £464
25th Percentile - £456 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -46.00% -2.44% -4.21%
75th Percentile £389 £656 £531
90th Percentile £460 £675 £538
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £23.43
25th Percentile - - £46.52
Median hourly rate - - £69.62
75th Percentile - - £70.14
90th Percentile - - £70.65
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -0.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 99 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 77.27% 92.52% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 54 124
10th Percentile £183 £269 £172
25th Percentile £270 £407 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £531
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -8.24% +7.32%
75th Percentile £543 £559 £650
90th Percentile £675 £684 £818
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 51
10th Percentile - - £15.62
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £21.96
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.22 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -73.07% +175.56%
75th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £65.98
90th Percentile £25.15 £20.40 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Dorset

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Dorset over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Agile

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Bournemouth -2 6 £270 -46.00% 20
Poole 0 1 - - 4
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) CockroachDB
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Django Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python/Django Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (40.00%) OAuth
3 4 (40.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (30.00%) Middleware
4 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 3 (30.00%) SOAP
4 3 (30.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (20.00%) Django
5 2 (20.00%) React
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Compact Framework
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (10.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
4 3 (30.00%) SOLID
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
5 2 (20.00%) Android Development
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Xamarin