Agile Contracts in Milton Keynes

Agile Software Development
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 28 72 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 16.18% 18.46% 19.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.28% 21.75% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 62 124
10th Percentile £325 £408 £410
25th Percentile £375 £465 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £625
90th Percentile £743 £638 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £546 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.68% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Milton Keynes

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Milton Keynes

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Milton Keynes

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Milton Keynes

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Figma
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) GPON
1 1 (3.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.14%) DocumentDB
2 2 (7.14%) MS Access
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) GIS
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.57%) Impala
3 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) QARun
2 2 (7.14%) WinRunner
3 1 (3.57%) Axure RP
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Principal Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Service Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Test Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Relationships Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Service Relationship Manager
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
1 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
1 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
1 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
1 2 (7.14%) NHibernate
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) ITIL
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (21.43%) Integration Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Logistics
5 6 (21.43%) Microservices
5 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 6 (21.43%) User Experience
6 5 (17.86%) IT Strategy
6 5 (17.86%) Project Management
6 5 (17.86%) Prototyping
6 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.86%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (17.86%) Validation
7 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (7.14%) VB
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Magik
4 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) CCNP
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) MCSE
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.14%) APMP
3 2 (7.14%) ISEB
3 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (14.29%) NCSC
2 4 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
1 5 (17.86%) VMware
2 2 (7.14%) Citrix
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.57%) Snow
3 1 (3.57%) Sparx