Agile Contracts in Hampshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 204 319 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 23.18% 18.01% 20.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.02% 21.98% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 200 181
10th Percentile £402 £381 £413
25th Percentile £475 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £613 £660 £636
90th Percentile £651 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 28
10th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £54.25
25th Percentile £51.06 £65.00 £58.01
Median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £76.50 -
South East median hourly rate £57.63 £58.91 £61.25
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.83% +22.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 755 1,451 1,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.80% 81.93% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 821 716
10th Percentile £325 £375 £241
25th Percentile £463 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £661 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 166 105
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.63 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.06 £21.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +89.62%
75th Percentile £60.13 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.50
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Hampshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Hampshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Hampshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Hampshire

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Hampshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Basingstoke +1 72 £600 -14.29% 107
Portsmouth +1 45 £514 +26.52% 102
Southampton +1 17 £525 -12.50% 112
Farnborough +17 16 £490 +43.70% 30
Havant -7 9 £538 -10.42% 2
Winchester +9 7 £485 - 22
Fleet - 6 £402 - 2
Fareham -2 2 £521 +22.65% 14
Andover - 2 £631 - 5
Hook +2 1 £500 -13.79% 3
Gosport - 1 £387 - 2
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (11.76%) Confluence
2 13 (6.37%) Apache
3 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.45%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.96%) CMS
5 4 (1.96%) Drupal
5 4 (1.96%) IIS
5 4 (1.96%) Mule
5 4 (1.96%) Mule ESB
5 4 (1.96%) WordPress
6 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.49%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.76%) Azure
2 20 (9.80%) AWS
3 8 (3.92%) GitHub
4 7 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.45%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.96%) Serverless
7 3 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.47%) iPaaS
7 3 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.47%) SaaS
8 2 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.98%) IaaS
8 2 (0.98%) Miro
8 2 (0.98%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.49%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.84%) LAN
2 9 (4.41%) Junos
3 8 (3.92%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (3.92%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (3.92%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (3.43%) Network Security
4 7 (3.43%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (2.94%) DNS
5 6 (2.94%) SNMP
6 4 (1.96%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.96%) Internet
6 4 (1.96%) SMTP
7 3 (1.47%) HTTP
8 2 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.49%) 4G
9 1 (0.49%) 5G
9 1 (0.49%) Firewall
9 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.49%) LTE
9 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.94%) MySQL
3 6 (2.94%) Redis
4 5 (2.45%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.45%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.98%) Metadata
7 2 (0.98%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (0.98%) Power BI
7 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.98%) Tableau
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.49%) ObjectStore
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 54 (26.47%) JIRA
2 27 (13.24%) Git
3 24 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.84%) Robot Framework
5 13 (6.37%) Bitbucket
6 12 (5.88%) GoogleTest
7 11 (5.39%) SoapUI
8 9 (4.41%) Eclipse
9 8 (3.92%) TestRail
10 7 (3.43%) GitLab
10 7 (3.43%) MSI
11 5 (2.45%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.45%) Postman
11 5 (2.45%) Selenium
11 5 (2.45%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.96%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.47%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.98%) Subversion
15 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 45 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.75%) Finance
3 10 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (4.90%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.45%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.45%) Legal
6 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.47%) Aviation
7 3 (1.47%) Banking
7 3 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.47%) Retail
8 2 (0.98%) Automotive
8 2 (0.98%) Billing
8 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (14.71%) Architect
2 24 (11.76%) Developer
3 18 (8.82%) Analyst
4 17 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 16 (7.84%) Senior
6 15 (7.35%) Network Engineer
7 12 (5.88%) Tester
8 11 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 11 (5.39%) Test Analyst
9 10 (4.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (4.90%) Software Test Engineer
10 9 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.92%) Integration Engineer
11 8 (3.92%) Network Architect
11 8 (3.92%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.92%) Senior Tester
12 7 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 7 (3.43%) ERP Manager
12 7 (3.43%) Implementation Manager
12 7 (3.43%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.80%) SOAP
2 16 (7.84%) Web Services
3 15 (7.35%) CSS
3 15 (7.35%) XML
4 14 (6.86%) REST
5 12 (5.88%) HTML
6 11 (5.39%) RESTful
7 10 (4.90%) Kafka
8 9 (4.41%) YAML
9 6 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.94%) JSON
10 5 (2.45%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.45%) Keycloak
10 5 (2.45%) RAML
10 5 (2.45%) React
11 4 (1.96%) Ajax
11 4 (1.96%) jQuery
11 4 (1.96%) LAMP
11 4 (1.96%) Node.js
11 4 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.31%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.39%) PKI
4 4 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.96%) Legacy Code
5 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.47%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.98%) Device Driver
6 2 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.98%) IoT
6 2 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) Clustering
7 1 (0.49%) GNSS
7 1 (0.49%) iPad
7 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (19.12%) Linux
2 20 (9.80%) Windows
3 8 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.45%) CentOS
4 5 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.96%) Unix
5 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.04%) Scrum
2 46 (22.55%) Test Automation
3 43 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (17.65%) DevOps
5 32 (15.69%) Project Management
6 28 (13.73%) CI/CD
7 25 (12.25%) Software Testing
8 21 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (10.29%) Waterfall
9 20 (9.80%) Software Engineering
10 19 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (8.33%) PRINCE2
12 16 (7.84%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 16 (7.84%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (7.35%) Customer Requirements
14 14 (6.86%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.86%) Prototyping
14 14 (6.86%) SDLC
15 13 (6.37%) UML
15 13 (6.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.24%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.76%) Python
3 20 (9.80%) Java
3 20 (9.80%) SQL
4 12 (5.88%) C++
5 11 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.39%) PHP
6 8 (3.92%) Bash
6 8 (3.92%) VB
7 4 (1.96%) DataWeave
7 4 (1.96%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.47%) C#
8 3 (1.47%) Scala
8 3 (1.47%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.98%) C
9 2 (0.98%) Delphi
9 2 (0.98%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.49%) Go
10 1 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 122 (59.80%) Security Cleared
2 78 (38.24%) DV Cleared
3 42 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.86%) Degree
5 9 (4.41%) PMP
6 8 (3.92%) ISTQB
6 8 (3.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (3.43%) CISM
8 5 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.98%) VCAP
11 2 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.49%) HND
12 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.49%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.86%) SLA
2 9 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.92%) QA
4 6 (2.94%) NIST
5 5 (2.45%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.98%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.98%) RMADS
7 1 (0.49%) GDPR
7 1 (0.49%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.94%) Firmware
4 5 (2.45%) Docker
5 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.98%) vSphere
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (13.24%) Ansible
2 20 (9.80%) Terraform
3 13 (6.37%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.92%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.43%) WMI
6 5 (2.45%) CloudHub
6 5 (2.45%) Grafana
6 5 (2.45%) Packer
6 5 (2.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.98%) vRealize
7 2 (0.98%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.35%) Cisco
2 15 (7.35%) VMware
3 13 (6.37%) Juniper
4 10 (4.90%) Atlassian
4 10 (4.90%) Google
5 8 (3.92%) Citrix
5 8 (3.92%) F5
5 8 (3.92%) Oracle
6 7 (3.43%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.94%) Intel
7 6 (2.94%) Zend
8 5 (2.45%) Adobe
8 5 (2.45%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.45%) Splunk
9 3 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.98%) Fujitsu
10 2 (0.98%) Palantir
11 1 (0.49%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow