Agile Contracts in Reading

Agile Software Development
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile 173 245 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 14.60% 23.69% 27.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.18% 26.20% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 180 278
10th Percentile £430 £428 £379
25th Percentile £501 £484 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
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 £55.08 £70.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -21.88% +7.63% +87.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,069 935 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.21% 90.43% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 619 821
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 15 (8.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.94%) Apache
3 11 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.47%) OpenStack
5 5 (2.89%) Confluence
6 2 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.58%) Jadu
7 1 (0.58%) JBoss
7 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (8.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (4.05%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (4.05%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.58%) Maximo
3 1 (0.58%) Primavera
3 1 (0.58%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.58%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 71 (41.04%) Azure
2 34 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (17.92%) Azure Monitor
4 24 (13.87%) Entra ID
5 17 (9.83%) Serverless
6 16 (9.25%) Azure Storage
7 15 (8.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (8.09%) AWS
9 11 (6.36%) SaaS
10 10 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (5.78%) Azure Functions
11 7 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.47%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 6 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.47%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.73%) PowerApps
14 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.83%) DNS
1 17 (9.83%) Firewall
1 17 (9.83%) Radio Access Network
2 16 (9.25%) DHCP
3 12 (6.94%) VPN
4 11 (6.36%) BGP
4 11 (6.36%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (6.36%) MPLS
5 3 (1.73%) Network Security
6 1 (0.58%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (11.56%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.36%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.20%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.47%) Power BI
6 3 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.16%) Power Query
7 2 (1.16%) Tableau
8 1 (0.58%) Big Data
8 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.58%) MySQL
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (15.61%) JIRA
2 22 (12.72%) Git
3 14 (8.09%) Robot Framework
4 12 (6.94%) TestRail
5 11 (6.36%) GitLab
6 7 (4.05%) Jenkins
7 6 (3.47%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (2.89%) JUnit
8 5 (2.89%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.58%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.58%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.58%) JMeter
10 1 (0.58%) Mockito
10 1 (0.58%) Postman
10 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.58%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.58%) Xcode
General
1 50 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.12%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.09%) Telecoms
4 13 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.94%) Finance
6 10 (5.78%) Billing
7 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Mandarin Language
8 5 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.73%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (17.34%) Developer
2 27 (15.61%) Analyst
3 19 (10.98%) Senior
4 17 (9.83%) Consultant
5 15 (8.67%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (8.67%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (8.09%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (8.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (8.09%) Project Manager
6 14 (8.09%) Support Specialist
7 13 (7.51%) Lead
8 10 (5.78%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.78%) Senior Manager
8 10 (5.78%) Test Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Azure Developer
9 9 (5.20%) Senior Project Manager
10 8 (4.62%) Functional Consultant
10 8 (4.62%) QA Analyst
10 8 (4.62%) Test Analyst
11 7 (4.05%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.40%) REST
2 16 (9.25%) ARM Templates
2 16 (9.25%) SOAP
3 13 (7.51%) Node.js
4 11 (6.36%) AngularJS
4 11 (6.36%) HTML
4 11 (6.36%) NETCONF
4 11 (6.36%) React
4 11 (6.36%) RESTCONF
4 11 (6.36%) YANG
5 8 (4.62%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.05%) CSS
6 7 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.05%) Spring
6 7 (4.05%) Web Services
7 6 (3.47%) RESTful
8 5 (2.89%) Itk
9 4 (2.31%) .NET
9 4 (2.31%) Kafka
10 3 (1.73%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.25%) PKI
2 16 (9.25%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.05%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.73%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.87%) Linux
1 24 (13.87%) Windows
2 22 (12.72%) Windows Server
3 15 (8.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (8.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.16%) Android
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.09%) DevOps
2 52 (30.06%) Scrum
3 48 (27.75%) CI/CD
4 28 (16.18%) Unit Testing
5 27 (15.61%) Test Automation
6 23 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (12.72%) Release Management
8 20 (11.56%) Analytics
8 20 (11.56%) Workflow
9 18 (10.40%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (10.40%) Integration Testing
9 18 (10.40%) ITIL
10 17 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (9.83%) Identity Management
10 17 (9.83%) Microservices
10 17 (9.83%) Product Backlog
10 17 (9.83%) Project Delivery
10 17 (9.83%) RBAC
10 17 (9.83%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.34%) Python
2 24 (13.87%) PowerShell
3 23 (13.29%) VBScript
4 18 (10.40%) C#
5 16 (9.25%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.25%) VB
6 15 (8.67%) Bicep
6 15 (8.67%) SQL
7 11 (6.36%) Java
8 8 (4.62%) C
9 7 (4.05%) PHP
10 3 (1.73%) Ruby
11 1 (0.58%) Bash
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.50%) DV Cleared
3 26 (15.03%) Degree
4 24 (13.87%) SC Cleared
5 16 (9.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (2.89%) CIPD
7 3 (1.73%) PMP
8 2 (1.16%) ISACA
8 2 (1.16%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.58%) APMP
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CBAP
9 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.58%) CSPO
9 1 (0.58%) IIBA
9 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.25%) QA
2 7 (4.05%) PMO
3 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) COBIT
3 2 (1.16%) GDPR
3 2 (1.16%) NIST
4 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (14.45%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.14%) Docker
3 16 (9.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (9.25%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 16 (9.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (9.25%) SCCM
2 16 (9.25%) SCOM
2 16 (9.25%) WSUS
3 5 (2.89%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) Terraform
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.98%) Oracle
3 7 (4.05%) VMware
4 4 (2.31%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.73%) SAP
6 2 (1.16%) Adobe
6 2 (1.16%) Citrix
6 2 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (0.58%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.58%) EMC
7 1 (0.58%) Isilon
7 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media