Agile Contracts in Oxfordshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Agile 16 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.03% 8.94% 11.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.45% 11.46% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 26
10th Percentile £415 £340 £250
25th Percentile £438 £355 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -15.46% +6.15%
75th Percentile £503 £502 £628
90th Percentile £531 £531 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.03 £22.50
Median hourly rate - £27.52 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.06% +85.19%
75th Percentile - £36.63 £27.50
90th Percentile - £47.65 -
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
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 192 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 89.47% 78.05% 87.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 128 137
10th Percentile £180 £173 £244
25th Percentile £250 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
75th Percentile £550 £500 £588
90th Percentile £688 £623 £672
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 34 17
10th Percentile £14.24 £11.80 £24.00
25th Percentile £20.85 £13.00 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.30 £19.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +29.74% -39.63% +72.63%
75th Percentile £46.30 £29.75 £50.00
90th Percentile - £65.00 £51.50
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £49.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -51.02% -2.00% +122.22%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Oxfordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Oxfordshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Oxfordshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Oxfordshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Oxford -2 12 £450 -7.69% 125
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (56.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 6 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (6.25%) Maximo
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Manufacturing
2 9 (56.25%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Project Manager
1 6 (37.50%) SAP Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (25.00%) SAP Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Change Manager
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Change Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Life Science
1 9 (56.25%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) FPGA
4 1 (6.25%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (68.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (56.25%) Critical Thinking
2 9 (56.25%) Migration
2 9 (56.25%) Strategic Thinking
2 9 (56.25%) Time Management
3 7 (43.75%) Asset Management
4 5 (31.25%) Change Management
4 5 (31.25%) ERP
5 4 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 4 (25.00%) Product Requirements
5 4 (25.00%) Project Planning
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (18.75%) Project Governance
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) User Stories
7 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) C
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded C
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) PMBOK
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Intel
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Siemens