Agile Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Agile Software Development
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 19 20 54
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 10.05% 16.13% 20.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.29% 19.80% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 20
10th Percentile £364 £376 £373
25th Percentile £404 £431 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -16.28% +13.16%
75th Percentile £473 £553 £591
90th Percentile £592 £590 £716
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 18
10th Percentile - £55.11 £51.25
25th Percentile - £60.81 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £71.13 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +12.50% -7.69%

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 143 101 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 75.66% 81.45% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 58 129
10th Percentile £262 £348 £385
25th Percentile £417 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £613 £665
90th Percentile £587 £691 £800
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 31
10th Percentile £16.27 £31.25 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £35.00 £30.36
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.43% +5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.38 £63.13
90th Percentile £52.06 £71.00 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
% change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Portsmouth

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) GitHub
1 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (21.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Postman
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Legal
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Coordinator
2 3 (15.79%) Designer
2 3 (15.79%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 2 (10.53%) Service Designer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) User Researcher
4 1 (5.26%) Content Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
1 4 (21.05%) Keycloak
2 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.79%) YAML
3 2 (10.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Life Science
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
3 4 (21.05%) Ergonomics
3 4 (21.05%) Ethnography
3 4 (21.05%) Human Factors
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (21.05%) Observability
3 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Service Design
3 4 (21.05%) User Research
3 4 (21.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) Data Privacy
4 3 (15.79%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 3 (15.79%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (15.79%) Information Assurance
4 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) RMADS
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (10.53%) WCAG
3 1 (5.26%) GxP
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
1 4 (21.05%) Grafana
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Packer
3 1 (5.26%) Argo
3 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Splunk
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Micro Focus
3 1 (5.26%) VMware