Agile Contracts in Portsmouth

Agile Software Development
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile 38 60 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 30.89% 20.07% 16.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 38.00% 22.56% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 15
10th Percentile £419 £300 -
25th Percentile £464 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £413 £438
Median % change year-on-year +26.06% -5.71% -8.85%
75th Percentile £625 £556 £578
90th Percentile £626 £570 £623
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £555 £562
% change year-on-year -0.90% -1.25% +12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 7
10th Percentile £50.75 - £52.06
25th Percentile £55.09 £60.00 £59.63
Median hourly rate £58.88 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63.44 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.67 £72.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 266 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 81.30% 88.96% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 138
10th Percentile £363 £400 £201
25th Percentile £438 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £574
90th Percentile £660 £848 £672
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 100 22
10th Percentile £40.88 £51.06 £45.06
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.40 £51.44
Median hourly rate £58.88 £59.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.37% +27.78%
75th Percentile £63.44 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £66.88 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Portsmouth

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Portsmouth

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Portsmouth

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Portsmouth

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Portsmouth

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 18 (47.37%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) GitHub
2 1 (2.63%) AWS
2 1 (2.63%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (2.63%) npm
2 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
2 1 (2.63%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (21.05%) SNMP
3 5 (13.16%) LAN
4 3 (7.89%) HTTP
5 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
3 1 (2.63%) ObjectStore
3 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (57.89%) JIRA
2 18 (47.37%) Git
3 16 (42.11%) Bitbucket
4 14 (36.84%) GoogleTest
4 14 (36.84%) Robot Framework
5 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
6 11 (28.95%) Eclipse
7 6 (15.79%) GitLab
8 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.63%) Postman
8 1 (2.63%) Selenium
8 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
2 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.63%) Automotive
3 1 (2.63%) Aviation
3 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.63%) Military
3 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Developer
1 7 (18.42%) Embedded Engineer
1 7 (18.42%) Software Engineer
1 7 (18.42%) Software Test Engineer
1 7 (18.42%) Test Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Firmware Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (7.89%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) CSS
2 8 (21.05%) HTML
3 3 (7.89%) Next.js
3 3 (7.89%) Node.js
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) RESTful
3 3 (7.89%) Web Services
4 2 (5.26%) Django
4 2 (5.26%) FastAPI
4 2 (5.26%) Flask
4 2 (5.26%) pytest
4 2 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) Celery
5 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.63%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.63%) Kafka
5 1 (2.63%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.63%) Spring
5 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.89%) Verilog
2 3 (7.89%) VHDL
3 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Scrum
2 16 (42.11%) Software Engineering
3 14 (36.84%) SysML
3 14 (36.84%) UML
4 11 (28.95%) Validation
5 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 9 (23.68%) Software Testing
7 8 (21.05%) Sprint Planning
7 8 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
8 7 (18.42%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (18.42%) Migration
9 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.79%) Prototyping
9 6 (15.79%) Sprint Retrospective
10 5 (13.16%) Preventative Maintenance
11 4 (10.53%) Agile Project Management
11 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
11 4 (10.53%) Code Quality
11 4 (10.53%) Lean Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) C++
2 9 (23.68%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.89%) Java
4 3 (7.89%) SystemVerilog
4 3 (7.89%) Tcl
4 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (76.32%) Security Cleared
2 26 (68.42%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) HND
3 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) SLA
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Packer
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Atlassian
2 12 (31.58%) Google
3 6 (15.79%) Intel
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco
4 3 (7.89%) Juniper
4 3 (7.89%) Xilinx
5 2 (5.26%) Palantir
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.63%) Splunk
6 1 (2.63%) Twitter