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 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 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 20 23 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 18.87% 10.13% 14.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.74% 12.50% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 29
10th Percentile £336 £355 £261
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -16.28% +13.16%
75th Percentile £653 £506 £600
90th Percentile £700 £529 £720
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £22.05
25th Percentile - £26.03 £22.13
Median hourly rate - £27.52 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.31% -
75th Percentile - £36.63 £27.13
90th Percentile - £47.65 £27.35
South East median hourly rate £60.50 £58.30 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% +10.00%

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 92 184 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.79% 81.06% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 146
10th Percentile £250 £150 £263
25th Percentile £355 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £561
90th Percentile £695 £600 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £20.85 £13.12 £25.95
Median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%
75th Percentile £46.30 £29.38 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.54 £58.00 £52.90
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 0 12 £550 +12.82% 99
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 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 6 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (5.00%) Maximo
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (5.00%) VectorCAST
General
1 16 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (35.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (20.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (20.00%) SAP Manager
3 4 (20.00%) SAP Project Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Software Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Verification Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Agile Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Life Science
1 7 (35.00%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) FPGA
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (50.00%) Migration
4 7 (35.00%) Asset Management
4 7 (35.00%) Critical Thinking
4 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (35.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 7 (35.00%) Time Management
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 4 (20.00%) Product Requirements
6 4 (20.00%) Project Planning
7 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) ERP
7 3 (15.00%) Project Governance
7 3 (15.00%) Project Management
7 3 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (10.00%) PMP
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) PMBOK
2 2 (10.00%) ISO 26262
2 2 (10.00%) PMO
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) Intel
3 1 (5.00%) Siemens