Agile Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Agile Software Development
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 10 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 18.52% 11.11% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.41% 15.00% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £460 £314 -
25th Percentile £475 £401 £120
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £210
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +120.24% -60.00%
75th Percentile £519 £481 £366
90th Percentile £530 £493 £439
Oxfordshire median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -

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 49 40 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 90.74% 74.07% 76.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 57
10th Percentile £222 £189 £152
25th Percentile £250 £251 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +15.63% -11.11%
75th Percentile £515 £534 £488
90th Percentile £580 £575 £643
Oxfordshire median daily rate £448 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.79% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £51.08 - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £89.63 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -1.35% -21.12% +72.70%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Oxford

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Lucidchart
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (10.00%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Manufacturing
1 7 (70.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Change Manager
1 3 (30.00%) SAP Change Manager
1 3 (30.00%) SAP Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Process Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Life Science
1 7 (70.00%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Change Management
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (50.00%) Time Management
4 4 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Business Process Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
5 2 (20.00%) Operations Management
5 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Six Sigma
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft