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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 168 254 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 14.26% 24.59% 26.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.28% 27.85% 29.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 184 269
10th Percentile £425 £425 £378
25th Percentile £500 £506 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £550 £520
% change year-on-year +4.55% +5.77% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £52.62 £70.53 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £71.31 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £72.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% - -
75th Percentile £59.95 £74.31 -
90th Percentile £61.17 £75.18 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £55.80 £70.50 £57.25
% change year-on-year -20.85% +23.14% +34.71%

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 1,032 912 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.61% 88.29% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 592 812
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £462 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £552 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +10.30% +2.56%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 22 9
10th Percentile £14.80 £45.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £50.89 £55.91 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.33 £68.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% +126.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £78.84 £75.56 £34.89
90th Percentile £87.52 £79.19 £38.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.60 £60.88 £21.03
% change year-on-year -0.45% +189.54% -0.12%

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 5 June 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 20 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.76%) Apache
3 7 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.79%) Confluence
4 3 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.60%) Jadu
6 1 (0.60%) JBoss
6 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (8.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.60%) Maximo
3 1 (0.60%) Primavera
3 1 (0.60%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.60%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 80 (47.62%) Azure
2 35 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
2 35 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
3 30 (17.86%) Entra ID
4 21 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (11.90%) Azure Storage
6 17 (10.12%) Serverless
7 15 (8.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 13 (7.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (7.74%) Azure Functions
9 11 (6.55%) SaaS
10 9 (5.36%) AWS
11 6 (3.57%) GCP
12 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (1.19%) Azure Cognitive Search
14 2 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (1.19%) PaaS
14 2 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.69%) Firewall
2 21 (12.50%) DNS
3 20 (11.90%) DHCP
4 13 (7.74%) Radio Access Network
5 10 (5.95%) VPN
6 9 (5.36%) BGP
6 9 (5.36%) MPLS
7 7 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.79%) Network Security
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (1.19%) DMVPN
9 2 (1.19%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.19%) IPsec
9 2 (1.19%) OSPF
9 2 (1.19%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.19%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.90%) NoSQL
2 16 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.79%) MySQL
4 3 (1.79%) Power BI
4 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.19%) Tableau
6 1 (0.60%) Big Data
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (14.29%) JIRA
2 21 (12.50%) Git
3 12 (7.14%) Selenium
4 10 (5.95%) Robot Framework
5 7 (4.17%) GitLab
5 7 (4.17%) TestRail
6 6 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (2.38%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.38%) JMeter
8 3 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.79%) Maven
9 2 (1.19%) JUnit
9 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.60%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.60%) Xcode
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 13 (7.74%) Finance
5 12 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.95%) Billing
7 6 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Mandarin Language
8 5 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (18.45%) Developer
2 27 (16.07%) Analyst
3 23 (13.69%) Senior
4 20 (11.90%) Active Directory Support
4 20 (11.90%) Consultant
5 15 (8.93%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (8.33%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (8.33%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 14 (8.33%) Support Specialist
7 13 (7.74%) Azure Developer
8 11 (6.55%) Senior Manager
9 10 (5.95%) Test Analyst
10 9 (5.36%) Senior Project Manager
11 8 (4.76%) Functional Consultant
11 8 (4.76%) QA Analyst
12 7 (4.17%) Oracle Consultant
12 7 (4.17%) Oracle Functional Consultant
12 7 (4.17%) Product Analyst
12 7 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 16 (9.52%) React
3 12 (7.14%) REST
4 9 (5.36%) HTML
4 9 (5.36%) SOAP
5 8 (4.76%) YANG
6 7 (4.17%) NETCONF
6 7 (4.17%) Node.js
6 7 (4.17%) RESTCONF
7 5 (2.98%) Itk
7 5 (2.98%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.98%) Web Services
8 4 (2.38%) .NET
8 4 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.38%) CSS
8 4 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.38%) Kafka
8 4 (2.38%) Spring
8 4 (2.38%) XML
9 3 (1.79%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.07%) Product Ownership
2 20 (11.90%) PKI
2 20 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.60%) Life Science
6 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.60%) NHS
6 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.64%) Linux
2 28 (16.67%) Windows
2 28 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 20 (11.90%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (11.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (50.00%) DevOps
2 50 (29.76%) CI/CD
3 43 (25.60%) Scrum
4 25 (14.88%) Unit Testing
5 24 (14.29%) Analytics
5 24 (14.29%) Release Management
5 24 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 23 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (13.69%) ITIL
7 22 (13.10%) Service Management
8 21 (12.50%) Identity Management
8 21 (12.50%) RBAC
9 20 (11.90%) Log Analytics
9 20 (11.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (11.90%) Privileged Identity Management
10 19 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (11.31%) Microservices
10 19 (11.31%) SDLC
11 18 (10.71%) Full Stack Development
11 18 (10.71%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.62%) Python
2 30 (17.86%) PowerShell
3 28 (16.67%) VBScript
4 22 (13.10%) C#
5 20 (11.90%) Bicep
5 20 (11.90%) VB
6 18 (10.71%) Java
7 15 (8.93%) JavaScript
8 12 (7.14%) SQL
9 9 (5.36%) C
10 4 (2.38%) PHP
11 3 (1.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.60%) Bash
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.62%) DV Cleared
3 30 (17.86%) Degree
4 25 (14.88%) SC Cleared
5 20 (11.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (2.98%) CIPD
7 3 (1.79%) PMP
8 2 (1.19%) CCNA
8 2 (1.19%) CCNP
8 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.60%) ISACA
9 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.74%) QA
2 7 (4.17%) PMO
3 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) COBIT
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) HL7
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (11.90%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (8.33%) Docker
4 8 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 29 (17.26%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (11.90%) SCCM
2 20 (11.90%) SCOM
2 20 (11.90%) WSUS
3 2 (1.19%) Ansible
3 2 (1.19%) Terraform
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.50%) Oracle
3 8 (4.76%) VMware
4 4 (2.38%) SAP
5 3 (1.79%) Cisco
5 3 (1.79%) Google
6 2 (1.19%) Adobe
6 2 (1.19%) Aruba
6 2 (1.19%) Blue Coat
6 2 (1.19%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.19%) Citrix
6 2 (1.19%) F5
6 2 (1.19%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.19%) HP
6 2 (1.19%) Juniper
6 2 (1.19%) McAfee
6 2 (1.19%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.19%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.60%) EMC
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce