Agile Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Agile Software Development
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 17 14 40
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 17.71% 12.61% 25.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.25% 15.05% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 30
10th Percentile £150 £387 £456
25th Percentile £375 £425 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% -18.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £578 £528 £666
90th Percentile £594 £915 £743
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £82.50 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -32.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 93 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 83.33% 83.78% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 60 99
10th Percentile £180 £213 £363
25th Percentile £308 £384 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £630
90th Percentile £730 £641 £703
Wiltshire median daily rate £571 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.86% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.21%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £60.00
% change year-on-year +81.78% -78.68% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Agile job vacancy trend in Swindon

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Swindon over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Swindon

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Agile

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) iPaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Military
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Management Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Principal Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) Visualforce
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) User Stories
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
4 3 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (11.76%) Biotechnology
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
5 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.76%) RBAC
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Apex Code
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Salesforce
2 3 (17.65%) MuleSoft
3 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle