Agile Contracts in the South West

Agile Software Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 234 438 812
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 13.90% 13.70% 22.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.38% 16.52% 24.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 271 620
10th Percentile £411 £388 £406
25th Percentile £475 £461 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 32 69
10th Percentile £58.28 £31.60 £59.83
25th Percentile £62.25 £57.33 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £69.06 £77.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £72.25 £85.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,521 2,651 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.32% 82.90% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,695 2,396
10th Percentile £235 £217 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 332 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the South West

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the South West

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the South West

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the South West

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the South West

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +2 84 £575 +9.52% 50
Bristol 0 56 £500 -4.76% 153
Gloucestershire -12 30 £530 -3.64% 153
Dorset +3 23 £550 -13.73% 24
Devon +6 18 £500 +7.53% 38
Somerset -3 9 £620 +3.33% 30
Cornwall +2 2 £575 - 3
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 38 (16.24%) Confluence
2 11 (4.70%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.71%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (8.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Sketch
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) BASE24
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.43%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.81%) Azure
2 27 (11.54%) AWS
3 11 (4.70%) GitHub
4 10 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.27%) SaaS
5 9 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.85%) Serverless
6 8 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.42%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.99%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.56%) GCP
8 6 (2.56%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.71%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.28%) IaaS
11 3 (1.28%) PaaS
12 2 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.42%) DNS
2 7 (2.99%) DHCP
3 5 (2.14%) 5G
3 5 (2.14%) Skype
4 3 (1.28%) Firewall
4 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.28%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.85%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.85%) LAN
5 2 (0.85%) SAN
5 2 (0.85%) VPN
5 2 (0.85%) WAN
6 1 (0.43%) 2G
6 1 (0.43%) 4G
6 1 (0.43%) ATM
6 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.43%) HTTP
6 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.43%) SMTP
6 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.71%) MySQL
6 4 (1.71%) Power BI
7 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.28%) Metadata
7 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 57 (24.36%) JIRA
2 22 (9.40%) Git
3 18 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.84%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 7 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.14%) Selenium
7 3 (1.28%) GitLab
7 3 (1.28%) Postman
7 3 (1.28%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.85%) NUnit
9 1 (0.43%) Ant
9 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.43%) JUnit
9 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.43%) Storybook
9 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (45.30%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.35%) Public Sector
3 47 (20.09%) Finance
4 42 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.26%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.98%) Manufacturing
7 12 (5.13%) Electronics
7 12 (5.13%) Marketing
8 8 (3.42%) Military
9 7 (2.99%) Banking
9 7 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.56%) Legal
11 5 (2.14%) Billing
12 4 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.28%) Aviation
13 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.28%) Retail
14 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (11.11%) Developer
1 26 (11.11%) Senior
2 22 (9.40%) Analyst
3 20 (8.55%) Lead
4 16 (6.84%) Architect
4 16 (6.84%) Delivery Manager
5 14 (5.98%) Business Analyst
5 14 (5.98%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.98%) Software Engineer
6 12 (5.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 9 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.56%) Product Owner
8 6 (2.56%) Scrum Master
8 6 (2.56%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.14%) Administrator
9 5 (2.14%) Configuration Manager
9 5 (2.14%) IT Manager
9 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (2.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.26%) REST
2 16 (6.84%) AngularJS
2 16 (6.84%) CSS
3 15 (6.41%) HTML
4 13 (5.56%) SOAP
5 12 (5.13%) Flash
6 9 (3.85%) Node.js
6 9 (3.85%) RESTful
7 7 (2.99%) Web Services
8 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (2.56%) React
9 5 (2.14%) .NET
9 5 (2.14%) jQuery
10 4 (1.71%) Ajax
10 4 (1.71%) HTML5
10 4 (1.71%) LDAP
11 3 (1.28%) CSS3
11 3 (1.28%) Vue
12 2 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.68%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.13%) Clustering
3 10 (4.27%) PKI
4 7 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.56%) Digital Wallet
5 6 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.71%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.85%) CMDB
8 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.85%) EPoS
8 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Robotics
8 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.43%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.39%) Windows
2 24 (10.26%) Linux
3 20 (8.55%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.28%) Android
7 3 (1.28%) VMS
8 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.85%) Unix
8 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (20.09%) Scrum
3 42 (17.95%) Service Management
4 41 (17.52%) CI/CD
5 40 (17.09%) Waterfall
6 39 (16.67%) Validation
7 37 (15.81%) DevOps
7 37 (15.81%) Project Management
8 36 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (11.11%) ITIL
10 26 (11.11%) NsoIT
10 26 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 25 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (10.68%) System Testing
12 23 (9.83%) Configuration Management
13 20 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (8.55%) Critical Thinking
13 20 (8.55%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.09%) Python
2 33 (14.10%) SQL
3 32 (13.68%) PowerShell
4 31 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.26%) Java
6 16 (6.84%) Bash
7 7 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.56%) C++
9 4 (1.71%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.85%) C#
10 2 (0.85%) Go
10 2 (0.85%) Perl
10 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.85%) VBScript
11 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.43%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) VB
11 1 (0.43%) X++
Qualifications
1 107 (45.73%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.53%) DV Cleared
4 30 (12.82%) Degree
5 24 (10.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 22 (9.40%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (6.41%) Master's Degree
8 12 (5.13%) CCNA
8 12 (5.13%) CCNP
9 11 (4.70%) OCA
9 11 (4.70%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (4.27%) RHCA
10 10 (4.27%) RHCE
11 9 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.56%) PMI Certification
12 6 (2.56%) PMP
13 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (2.14%) MCSA
13 5 (2.14%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.55%) QA
2 6 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.28%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.28%) PMO
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.85%) NCSC
5 2 (0.85%) RMADS
5 2 (0.85%) SLA
5 2 (0.85%) WCAG
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) PMBOK
System Software
1 31 (13.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (5.13%) VMware NSX
5 11 (4.70%) Docker
6 6 (2.56%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (9.83%) vCenter Server
2 20 (8.55%) Ansible
3 17 (7.26%) Terraform
4 12 (5.13%) Puppet
5 11 (4.70%) Kubernetes
5 11 (4.70%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.71%) Amdocs OSS
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.71%) SCCM
8 3 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.28%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.28%) SCOM
8 3 (1.28%) WSUS
9 2 (0.85%) Grafana
9 2 (0.85%) OPNET
9 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 37 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.68%) VMware
3 27 (11.54%) Atlassian
4 26 (11.11%) Oracle
5 22 (9.40%) Cisco
6 15 (6.41%) ServiceNow
7 14 (5.98%) SAP
8 11 (4.70%) Google
9 8 (3.42%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.14%) Ericsson
10 5 (2.14%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.14%) Nokia
11 4 (1.71%) Amdocs
11 4 (1.71%) Ciena
11 4 (1.71%) NetCracker
11 4 (1.71%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.71%) Veeam
12 3 (1.28%) Remedy
13 2 (0.85%) Apple
13 2 (0.85%) Siemens