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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 8 25 22
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 9.20% 23.81% 9.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 26.04% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 7
10th Percentile - £451 £442
25th Percentile - £456 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £538 £498
Median % change year-on-year -49.77% +8.04% -7.01%
75th Percentile - £675 £528
90th Percentile - £686 £538
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -1.74%
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 £62.82 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.36% - -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 64 96 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 73.56% 91.43% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 54 117
10th Percentile £175 £269 £172
25th Percentile £270 £418 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £675
90th Percentile £675 £688 £825
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 48
10th Percentile - - £15.62
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.85 £15.22 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -73.07% +175.56%
75th Percentile £22.79 £15.62 £65.98
90th Percentile £25.15 £20.40 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

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
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 14 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 -1 5 £270 -46.00% 21
Poole -1 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 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) CockroachDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Django Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Python/Django Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) Django
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Compact Framework
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (12.50%) OpenID
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Security
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) SOLID
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Android Development
4 2 (25.00%) API Design
4 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Xamarin