Agile Contracts in Reading

Agile Software Development
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 5 9 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 113 175 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 18.93% 14.68% 23.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.36% 16.28% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 113 182
10th Percentile £400 £433 £425
25th Percentile £500 £501 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £619
90th Percentile - £688 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £560 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £52.35 £70.53
25th Percentile - £54.78 £71.31
Median hourly rate - £58.30 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year - -19.86% -
75th Percentile - £59.95 £74.31
90th Percentile - £60.61 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £89.53 £55.08 £70.50
% change year-on-year +62.55% -21.88% +7.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Reading

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Reading

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Reading

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Reading

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (0.88%) Apache
1 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.88%) Camunda
1 1 (0.88%) CMS
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Primavera
1 4 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.88%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.09%) Azure
2 24 (21.24%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (11.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (7.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (5.31%) Azure API Management
5 6 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (4.42%) AWS
6 5 (4.42%) Oracle CX
6 5 (4.42%) Serverless
7 4 (3.54%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.65%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.77%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.88%) BGP
2 1 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.88%) MPLS
2 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.88%) SSL
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.65%) Power BI
2 3 (2.65%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.88%) Big Data
4 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.88%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Git
2 12 (10.62%) JIRA
3 11 (9.73%) Selenium
4 5 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.54%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.65%) GitLab
6 3 (2.65%) JUnit
6 3 (2.65%) Mockito
7 2 (1.77%) JMeter
7 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.88%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.88%) jMock
8 1 (0.88%) Maven
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.88%) Subversion
8 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (37.17%) Telecoms
2 30 (26.55%) Finance
3 28 (24.78%) Public Sector
4 24 (21.24%) Electronics
4 24 (21.24%) Manufacturing
4 24 (21.24%) Marketing
5 19 (16.81%) Social Skills
6 15 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Billing
8 2 (1.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Law
9 1 (0.88%) Police
9 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (23.01%) Architect
2 21 (18.58%) Active Directory Architect
3 20 (17.70%) Developer
4 15 (13.27%) Analyst
5 12 (10.62%) Business Analyst
6 10 (8.85%) Azure Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Lead
7 9 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Senior
8 7 (6.19%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.54%) Designer
9 4 (3.54%) Product Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Product Owner
9 4 (3.54%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Solutions Designer
10 3 (2.65%) Administrator
10 3 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.65%) Digital Transformation
10 3 (2.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 3 (2.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.73%) ADO
1 11 (9.73%) HTML
2 10 (8.85%) REST
3 9 (7.96%) CSS
3 9 (7.96%) JSON
4 8 (7.08%) Web Services
5 7 (6.19%) .NET
6 3 (2.65%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (2.65%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.65%) React
6 3 (2.65%) SOAP
6 3 (2.65%) Spring
6 3 (2.65%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.65%) XML
7 2 (1.77%) Apache Camel
7 2 (1.77%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.77%) jQuery
7 2 (1.77%) Playwright
7 2 (1.77%) PySpark
7 2 (1.77%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.04%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.31%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.54%) Frameworx
4 4 (3.54%) TM Forum
5 3 (2.65%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) CMDB
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) IoT
7 1 (0.88%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.88%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.47%) Windows
2 2 (1.77%) Linux
2 2 (1.77%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.97%) Test Automation
2 31 (27.43%) DevOps
3 27 (23.89%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (23.89%) Programme Management
4 24 (21.24%) Digital Marketing
5 21 (18.58%) Identity Access Management
5 21 (18.58%) Scrum
6 16 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.39%) Roadmaps
9 13 (11.50%) Waterfall
10 12 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (10.62%) User Stories
11 11 (9.73%) CI/CD
11 11 (9.73%) CRM
11 11 (9.73%) Project Management
11 11 (9.73%) SDLC
11 11 (9.73%) System Testing
11 11 (9.73%) Unit Testing
12 10 (8.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.58%) PowerShell
2 19 (16.81%) Python
3 18 (15.93%) SQL
4 13 (11.50%) Java
5 11 (9.73%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.85%) C#
7 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.24%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) Degree
3 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) IIBA
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) PMO
2 5 (4.42%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (21.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.31%) Docker
3 2 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.77%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.77%) Kibana
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
3 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) Podman
3 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (25.66%) SAP
2 14 (12.39%) Oracle
3 9 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.19%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.31%) OpenAI
5 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.54%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.77%) Cramer
7 2 (1.77%) Databricks
7 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.77%) Remedy
7 2 (1.77%) Splunk
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) BMC
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) Genesys
8 1 (0.88%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.88%) Snow