Agile Contracts in Oxford

Agile Software Development
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Agile 12 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 25.00% 12.50% 17.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.67% 14.94% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 15
10th Percentile £273 £349 £295
25th Percentile £400 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £525 £575
90th Percentile - £598 £748
Oxfordshire median daily rate £550 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +22.22% -16.28% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £22.05
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate - £26.03 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.24% -
75th Percentile - £28.27 £27.13
90th Percentile - £29.61 £27.35
Oxfordshire median hourly rate - £27.52 £24.50
% change year-on-year - +12.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 87 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 93.75% 83.65% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 58 85
10th Percentile £206 £250 £300
25th Percentile £360 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £525 £550
90th Percentile £700 £575 £678
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 2
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.75 £22.05
25th Percentile £16.96 £13.00 £22.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £21.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -14.29% +30.95%
75th Percentile £46.30 £39.13 £27.13
90th Percentile £46.78 £65.00 £27.35
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Oxford

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Oxford

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Oxford

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Oxford

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 5 (41.67%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (25.00%) SAP Manager
2 3 (25.00%) SAP Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Life Science
1 5 (41.67%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (8.33%) FPGA
4 1 (8.33%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (58.33%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (41.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) Time Management
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) ERP
5 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (25.00%) Product Requirements
5 3 (25.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Project Governance
6 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) C
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded C
2 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) PMBOK
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Intel
3 1 (8.33%) Siemens