Agile Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Agile Software Development
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 11 43 54
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 13.58% 40.95% 40.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.19% 45.26% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 31 51
10th Percentile £493 £409 £465
25th Percentile - £482 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £643 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +7.08% -10.98%
75th Percentile £544 £685 £700
90th Percentile £570 - £725
Devon median daily rate £500 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -21.57% +6.25% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 95 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 79.01% 90.48% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 69 115
10th Percentile £275 £197 £355
25th Percentile £309 £388 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -17.39% -
75th Percentile £550 £650 £675
90th Percentile £588 £685 £723
Devon median daily rate £400 £478 £575
% change year-on-year -16.23% -16.96% +9.52%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Exeter

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 4 (36.36%) GitHub
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.09%) DTS
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Military
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Database Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) Digital Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Data Management
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
4 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Database Security
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 2 (18.18%) MCSE
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft