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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 101 163 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 17.06% 14.11% 24.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.53% 15.70% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 113 184
10th Percentile £425 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £500 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £561
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +4.77% +6.90%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £638
90th Percentile - £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £568 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.30% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £52.48 £70.53
25th Percentile - £55.71 £71.31
Median hourly rate - £58.30 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year - -19.86% -
75th Percentile - £60.23 £74.31
90th Percentile - £61.22 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £89.53 £55.44 £70.50
% change year-on-year +61.49% -21.37% +33.02%

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 545 1,038 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.06% 89.87% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 561 603
10th Percentile £307 £213 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £650
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 48 22
10th Percentile £33.82 £16.60 £45.25
25th Percentile £41.05 £52.55 £55.91
Median hourly rate £53.10 £61.60 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% -5.95% +133.93%
75th Percentile £65.14 £78.84 £74.59
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.48 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £60.57 £57.82
% change year-on-year +1.53% +4.76% +175.32%

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 21 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 2 (1.98%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.99%) Camunda
2 1 (0.99%) CMS
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (0.99%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.96%) Primavera
1 4 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.99%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.74%) Azure
2 17 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (9.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (5.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (4.95%) AWS
5 5 (4.95%) Azure API Management
5 5 (4.95%) Oracle CX
6 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.97%) Serverless
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.98%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.98%) OCI
7 2 (1.98%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.99%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.99%) dbt
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Broadband
2 2 (1.98%) SSL
3 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.97%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.99%) GIS
4 1 (0.99%) MySQL
4 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.99%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Git
1 10 (9.90%) JIRA
2 8 (7.92%) Selenium
3 4 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.96%) SpecFlow
4 3 (2.97%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.97%) JUnit
4 3 (2.97%) Mockito
5 2 (1.98%) JMeter
5 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.99%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.99%) GitLab
6 1 (0.99%) jMock
6 1 (0.99%) Maven
6 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.99%) Subversion
6 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (39.60%) Telecoms
2 28 (27.72%) Finance
2 28 (27.72%) Public Sector
3 24 (23.76%) Electronics
3 24 (23.76%) Manufacturing
3 24 (23.76%) Marketing
4 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
5 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.95%) Billing
7 2 (1.98%) Legal
8 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Law
8 1 (0.99%) Police
8 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (26.73%) Architect
2 21 (20.79%) Active Directory Architect
3 15 (14.85%) Developer
4 14 (13.86%) Analyst
5 11 (10.89%) Business Analyst
6 10 (9.90%) Lead
7 9 (8.91%) Senior
8 7 (6.93%) Azure Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.94%) Scrum Master
10 4 (3.96%) Designer
10 4 (3.96%) Solutions Designer
11 3 (2.97%) Automation Tester
11 3 (2.97%) Digital Transformation
11 3 (2.97%) Java Developer
11 3 (2.97%) Product Analyst
11 3 (2.97%) Product Owner
11 3 (2.97%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.97%) SAP Architect
11 3 (2.97%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.90%) REST
2 9 (8.91%) HTML
2 9 (8.91%) Web Services
3 8 (7.92%) JSON
4 7 (6.93%) ADO
4 7 (6.93%) CSS
5 5 (4.95%) .NET
6 3 (2.97%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (2.97%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.97%) Middleware
6 3 (2.97%) SOAP
6 3 (2.97%) Spring
6 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.98%) Apache Camel
7 2 (1.98%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.98%) Playwright
7 2 (1.98%) PySpark
7 2 (1.98%) WireMock
7 2 (1.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.95%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (3.96%) Frameworx
3 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.96%) TM Forum
4 3 (2.97%) Cyberattack
4 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.98%) CMDB
5 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.99%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.68%) Test Automation
2 27 (26.73%) Programme Management
3 26 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (24.75%) DevOps
5 24 (23.76%) Digital Marketing
6 21 (20.79%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (16.83%) Scrum
8 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (12.87%) Roadmaps
11 12 (11.88%) Waterfall
12 11 (10.89%) CRM
13 10 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (9.90%) User Stories
14 9 (8.91%) Project Management
14 9 (8.91%) System Testing
15 8 (7.92%) Backlog Management
15 8 (7.92%) CI/CD
15 8 (7.92%) Microservices
15 8 (7.92%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.79%) PowerShell
2 16 (15.84%) SQL
3 12 (11.88%) Python
4 10 (9.90%) Java
5 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.92%) C#
7 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.99%) Magik
Qualifications
1 31 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.76%) DV Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) Degree
3 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) IIBA
5 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) PMO
3 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.96%) Docker
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.98%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.98%) Kibana
3 1 (0.99%) Ansible
3 1 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.99%) Grafana
3 1 (0.99%) Podman
3 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (28.71%) SAP
2 17 (16.83%) Oracle
3 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.93%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.96%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.96%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.98%) Cramer
6 2 (1.98%) Databricks
6 2 (1.98%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.98%) Remedy
6 2 (1.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.99%) BMC
7 1 (0.99%) ESRI
7 1 (0.99%) Genesys
7 1 (0.99%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.99%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.99%) Snow