Agile Contracts in Hampshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 5 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Agile 286 264 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.67% 20.39% 27.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.38% 22.90% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 182 364
10th Percentile £385 £407 £388
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £562 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +10.04% +7.52%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £686
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £521
% change year-on-year - +5.67% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 27
10th Percentile £60.00 £55.38 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £58.59 £37.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £71.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +42.50% -11.50%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £62.70
90th Percentile £80.45 - £65.12
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £58.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.44% +22.20% -15.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,338 1,153 1,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.64% 89.03% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 740 1,113
10th Percentile £388 £239 £310
25th Percentile £456 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% +5.00% +6.42%
75th Percentile £675 £616 £600
90th Percentile £744 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 96 148
10th Percentile £13.05 £16.11 £13.25
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +138.89% -31.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £62.15
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024. 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 86 £600 +3.27% 16
Portsmouth +8 62 £413 - 18
Southampton -4 20 £600 +6.19% 29
Aldershot -1 19 £550 -2.14% 1
Havant +2 11 £588 +8.29% 1
Winchester 0 9 £250 -41.18% 7
Farnborough -12 7 £341 -28.32% 10
Hook -3 3 £580 -5.31%
Fareham +20 2 £375 -46.43% 10
Gosport +5 1 £525 -19.23% 1
Andover -1 1 £438 -2.78% 3
Eastleigh -5 1 £475 -13.64% 3
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 44 (15.38%) Confluence
2 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.75%) Drupal
4 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Simulink
3 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.49%) Azure
2 20 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (4.90%) AWS
4 12 (4.20%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.80%) IaaS
6 6 (2.10%) GitHub
7 3 (1.05%) SaaS
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.70%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.70%) Datadog
8 2 (0.70%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.70%) Miro
8 2 (0.70%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.70%) Route 53
8 2 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.59%) SNMP
2 15 (5.24%) Software-Defined Radio
3 12 (4.20%) DNS
3 12 (4.20%) LAN
4 10 (3.50%) DHCP
5 3 (1.05%) Firewall
5 3 (1.05%) Network Security
6 2 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.70%) SAN
6 2 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.35%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.35%) HTTP
7 1 (0.35%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.35%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
7 1 (0.35%) WAN
7 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.55%) MySQL
2 10 (3.50%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.75%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.05%) Power BI
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.70%) Big Data
8 2 (0.70%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (0.70%) CouchDB
8 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.70%) Lumira
8 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.70%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (17.83%) JIRA
2 35 (12.24%) Git
3 32 (11.19%) Robot Framework
4 20 (6.99%) TestRail
5 18 (6.29%) Bitbucket
6 15 (5.24%) Eclipse
6 15 (5.24%) GoogleTest
7 14 (4.90%) GitLab
7 14 (4.90%) MSI
7 14 (4.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.40%) ClearCase
8 4 (1.40%) ClearQuest
8 4 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.05%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.35%) MagicDraw
10 1 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 36 (12.59%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.99%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.94%) Military
5 14 (4.90%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.55%) Finance
7 4 (1.40%) Retail
8 3 (1.05%) Banking
9 2 (0.70%) French Language
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (28.32%) Architect
2 36 (12.59%) Analyst
3 31 (10.84%) Software Engineer
4 29 (10.14%) Senior
5 26 (9.09%) Developer
6 25 (8.74%) Infrastructure Architect
6 25 (8.74%) Network Architect
7 24 (8.39%) Project Manager
8 23 (8.04%) Test Analyst
9 20 (6.99%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
10 18 (6.29%) Test Engineer
11 14 (4.90%) Lead
11 14 (4.90%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.55%) C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (4.20%) Integration Engineer
14 11 (3.85%) Test and Integration Engineer
15 9 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.15%) Java Engineer
15 9 (3.15%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.39%) CSS
2 18 (6.29%) HTML
3 6 (2.10%) .NET
4 5 (1.75%) Node.js
4 5 (1.75%) Sass
5 4 (1.40%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.40%) RESTful
5 4 (1.40%) XML
6 3 (1.05%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.05%) Blazor
6 3 (1.05%) React
7 2 (0.70%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.70%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.70%) JSON
7 2 (0.70%) LDAP
7 2 (0.70%) PySpark
7 2 (0.70%) Vue
7 2 (0.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.44%) PKI
2 10 (3.50%) Client/Server
3 9 (3.15%) CCTV
3 9 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.10%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.40%) PMI
6 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.05%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.70%) Clustering
8 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.70%) Replication
9 1 (0.35%) CMDB
9 1 (0.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 77 (26.92%) Windows
2 59 (20.63%) Linux
3 36 (12.59%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (3.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (2.10%) VMS
8 5 (1.75%) Unix
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.35%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (24.48%) Scrum
2 51 (17.83%) Software Engineering
3 43 (15.03%) Test Automation
4 37 (12.94%) Prototyping
5 32 (11.19%) DevOps
6 26 (9.09%) Kanban
7 25 (8.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 24 (8.39%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (8.39%) Project Management
9 23 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (8.04%) Test Management
10 20 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (6.64%) Customer Requirements
11 19 (6.64%) Migration
11 19 (6.64%) UML
11 19 (6.64%) Waterfall
12 18 (6.29%) Project Delivery
13 16 (5.59%) SysML
14 15 (5.24%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 48 (16.78%) PowerShell
2 45 (15.73%) Python
3 43 (15.03%) C++
4 28 (9.79%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.99%) Java
6 18 (6.29%) SQL
7 16 (5.59%) C
7 16 (5.59%) C#
8 10 (3.50%) Bash
9 8 (2.80%) VBScript
10 6 (2.10%) PHP
11 4 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.70%) Go
12 2 (0.70%) Perl
12 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.70%) Ruby
13 1 (0.35%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 185 (64.69%) Security Cleared
2 81 (28.32%) DV Cleared
3 58 (20.28%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.69%) ISTQB
5 20 (6.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (4.20%) Degree
6 12 (4.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (3.50%) MCSA
7 10 (3.50%) MCSE
7 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.10%) PMP
9 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.70%) CSPO
10 2 (0.70%) VCAP
11 1 (0.35%) APMG
11 1 (0.35%) CBAP
11 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.35%) IIBA
11 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.20%) SLA
2 8 (2.80%) ISO 9001
2 8 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.45%) PMO
3 7 (2.45%) RMADS
4 4 (1.40%) PMBOK
4 4 (1.40%) QA
5 2 (0.70%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.35%) MISRA
6 1 (0.35%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (9.79%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.24%) Firmware
4 10 (3.50%) vSphere
5 7 (2.45%) Docker
6 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.70%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (9.79%) Ansible
2 26 (9.09%) Terraform
3 17 (5.94%) Kubernetes
4 16 (5.59%) WMI
5 9 (3.15%) vRealize
6 6 (2.10%) Packer
7 4 (1.40%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.05%) MOM
9 2 (0.70%) Nagios
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.70%) Puppet
9 2 (0.70%) Rancher
9 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.70%) VxRail
10 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.35%) Nessus
10 1 (0.35%) SCCM
10 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (16.78%) VMware
2 44 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.94%) Atlassian
4 16 (5.59%) Google
4 16 (5.59%) Juniper
5 11 (3.85%) Oracle
6 5 (1.75%) Arqiva
6 5 (1.75%) SAP
6 5 (1.75%) Veritas
7 4 (1.40%) HP
7 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.05%) ArcSight
8 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.05%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.05%) Sparx
9 2 (0.70%) Foundry
9 2 (0.70%) New Relic
9 2 (0.70%) Palantir
9 2 (0.70%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow