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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 230 451 721
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 13.42% 13.92% 21.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.77% 16.90% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 274 544
10th Percentile £410 £396 £413
25th Percentile £478 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £528 £577
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -8.62% +9.95%
75th Percentile £638 £629 £675
90th Percentile £695 £713 £738
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 45 55
10th Percentile £65.50 £32.96 £53.75
25th Percentile £66.25 £57.39 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £70.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £73.47
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.06 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -6.06% +29.01%

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 1,557 2,668 3,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.84% 82.32% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 1,694 2,209
10th Percentile £220 £227 £313
25th Percentile £381 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 358 318
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.29
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% -8.33% +27.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.23
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £82.74
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +3 84 £575 +9.52% 54
Bristol -6 59 £500 -5.21% 207
Gloucestershire -6 32 £510 -11.30% 192
Dorset +2 20 £550 -21.43% 31
Devon +1 13 £510 +9.68% 42
Somerset -5 9 £620 +3.33% 51
Cornwall +2 2 £575 -8.00% 4
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 39 (16.96%) Confluence
2 11 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (9.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Sketch
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Maximo
1 2 (0.87%) 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 43 (18.70%) Azure
2 35 (15.22%) AWS
3 13 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (5.65%) GitHub
4 10 (4.35%) SaaS
4 10 (4.35%) Serverless
5 9 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (3.91%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.04%) GCP
6 7 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.74%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.74%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.91%) DNS
2 8 (3.48%) DHCP
3 7 (3.04%) Skype
4 6 (2.61%) 5G
5 4 (1.74%) Firewall
5 4 (1.74%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.74%) VPN
6 3 (1.30%) SAN
6 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.87%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.87%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.43%) ATM
8 1 (0.43%) BGP
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.43%) HTTP
8 1 (0.43%) LAN
8 1 (0.43%) OSPF
8 1 (0.43%) VLAN
8 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.61%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.17%) Power BI
4 4 (1.74%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.74%) Metadata
4 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.30%) MySQL
5 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.87%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 59 (25.65%) JIRA
2 20 (8.70%) Git
3 19 (8.26%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.96%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.48%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.17%) GitLab
7 4 (1.74%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.30%) Selenium
8 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.87%) webpack
10 1 (0.43%) Ant
10 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.43%) Rational Team Concert
10 1 (0.43%) Snyk
10 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.43%) Storybook
10 1 (0.43%) VersaTest
10 1 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 104 (45.22%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.39%) Public Sector
3 49 (21.30%) Finance
4 45 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.52%) Manufacturing
7 14 (6.09%) Electronics
7 14 (6.09%) Marketing
8 11 (4.78%) Military
9 8 (3.48%) Banking
10 7 (3.04%) Billing
10 7 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.30%) Retail
14 2 (0.87%) Aviation
14 2 (0.87%) Legal
14 2 (0.87%) Local Government
14 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (16.52%) Developer
2 28 (12.17%) Senior
3 22 (9.57%) Analyst
4 21 (9.13%) Lead
5 16 (6.96%) Delivery Manager
5 16 (6.96%) Project Manager
6 14 (6.09%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.22%) Architect
7 12 (5.22%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 10 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 8 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.61%) Administrator
10 6 (2.61%) OSS Project Manager
10 6 (2.61%) Product Owner
10 6 (2.61%) Software Developer
10 6 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.61%) Telecoms Manager
10 6 (2.61%) Telecoms Project Manager
11 5 (2.17%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.26%) REST
2 16 (6.96%) CSS
3 15 (6.52%) HTML
4 14 (6.09%) AngularJS
5 13 (5.65%) SOAP
6 12 (5.22%) Flash
6 12 (5.22%) Node.js
6 12 (5.22%) React
7 10 (4.35%) RESTful
8 8 (3.48%) Web Services
9 6 (2.61%) .NET
10 4 (1.74%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.74%) Ajax
10 4 (1.74%) jQuery
10 4 (1.74%) LDAP
11 3 (1.30%) CSS3
11 3 (1.30%) Django
11 3 (1.30%) HTML5
11 3 (1.30%) Spring
12 2 (0.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.74%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.22%) Clustering
3 11 (4.78%) PKI
4 7 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.61%) Digital Wallet
5 6 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) EPoS
9 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.43%) EMV
10 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.35%) Windows
2 23 (10.00%) Linux
3 22 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.91%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.91%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.30%) Android
6 3 (1.30%) VMS
7 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.87%) Unix
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (20.43%) DevOps
3 44 (19.13%) Scrum
4 42 (18.26%) Waterfall
5 41 (17.83%) CI/CD
6 39 (16.96%) Service Management
7 37 (16.09%) Project Management
8 32 (13.91%) Validation
9 27 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (11.74%) NsoIT
9 27 (11.74%) System Testing
10 24 (10.43%) Critical Thinking
10 24 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (10.43%) Software Engineering
10 24 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (10.43%) Test Automation
11 23 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (10.00%) ITIL
12 22 (9.57%) Project Delivery
13 19 (8.26%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.09%) Python
2 34 (14.78%) JavaScript
2 34 (14.78%) SQL
3 33 (14.35%) PowerShell
4 19 (8.26%) Java
5 16 (6.96%) Bash
6 9 (3.91%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.61%) C#
7 6 (2.61%) C++
8 4 (1.74%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.87%) Go
9 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.87%) VBScript
10 1 (0.43%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) PHP
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.43%) VB
10 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.48%) SC Cleared
3 44 (19.13%) DV Cleared
4 29 (12.61%) Degree
5 25 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 23 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.65%) CCNP
7 13 (5.65%) Master's Degree
8 12 (5.22%) CCNA
9 11 (4.78%) OCA
9 11 (4.78%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (4.35%) RHCA
10 10 (4.35%) RHCE
11 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (3.48%) PMI Certification
12 8 (3.48%) PMP
13 7 (3.04%) ISTQB
13 7 (3.04%) MCSE
14 6 (2.61%) MCSA
15 5 (2.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.39%) QA
2 7 (3.04%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.17%) JSP 440
4 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.74%) RMADS
5 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.30%) PMO
5 3 (1.30%) SLA
6 2 (0.87%) NCSC
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) WCAG
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) PMBOK
System Software
1 34 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (6.09%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.22%) VMware NSX
5 11 (4.78%) Docker
6 7 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (2.17%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.87%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (10.87%) Terraform
2 23 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 20 (8.70%) Ansible
4 15 (6.52%) Kubernetes
5 12 (5.22%) Puppet
6 11 (4.78%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.61%) Amdocs OSS
7 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.61%) SCCM
8 5 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.30%) OPNET
9 3 (1.30%) SCOM
9 3 (1.30%) WSUS
10 2 (0.87%) Grafana
10 2 (0.87%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 41 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.22%) VMware
3 28 (12.17%) Atlassian
4 24 (10.43%) Cisco
5 23 (10.00%) Oracle
6 16 (6.96%) SAP
7 13 (5.65%) ServiceNow
8 10 (4.35%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.61%) Amdocs
9 6 (2.61%) Ciena
9 6 (2.61%) Ericsson
9 6 (2.61%) NetCracker
9 6 (2.61%) Nokia
9 6 (2.61%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.17%) Google
10 5 (2.17%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.74%) Veeam
12 2 (0.87%) Apple
12 2 (0.87%) Ivanti
12 2 (0.87%) Pega