Agile Contracts in the Thames Valley

Agile Software Development
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 342 617 722
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.94% 21.71% 20.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.87% 23.69% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 463 525
10th Percentile £402 £410 £390
25th Percentile £464 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £517
% change year-on-year - +6.38% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 1
10th Percentile £27.21 £22.20 -
25th Percentile £41.88 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £53.03 £70.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +32.08% +51.43%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.75 -
90th Percentile £60.26 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £57.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +1.39% +21.05% -14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,605 3,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.66% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,293 1,807 2,067
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.76% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 82
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.69% -17.05%
75th Percentile £63.72 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.49
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -17.31%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -8 241 £575 +5.22% 78
Buckinghamshire -2 78 £525 -4.55% 52
Oxfordshire -2 23 £450 -18.18% 48
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 24 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.39%) Confluence
3 12 (3.51%) Apache
4 10 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.75%) SAS
7 4 (1.17%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.88%) Appian
9 2 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.29%) CICS
10 1 (0.29%) Drupal
10 1 (0.29%) Jadu
10 1 (0.29%) JBoss
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.75%) SPSS
4 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.58%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.58%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.58%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (4.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.34%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.34%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.17%) Primavera
4 2 (0.58%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.29%) Maximo
5 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 88 (25.73%) Azure
2 42 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (9.06%) Azure Monitor
4 26 (7.60%) Entra ID
5 22 (6.43%) AWS
6 21 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (5.56%) Serverless
8 16 (4.68%) Azure Storage
9 15 (4.39%) SaaS
10 14 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (4.09%) Azure Functions
11 12 (3.51%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.22%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.34%) PaaS
14 5 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.46%) Smartsheet
15 4 (1.17%) IaaS
15 4 (1.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.31%) DNS
2 24 (7.02%) DHCP
3 18 (5.26%) Firewall
4 17 (4.97%) Radio Access Network
5 14 (4.09%) SAN
5 14 (4.09%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.51%) VPN
7 10 (2.92%) BGP
7 10 (2.92%) Ethernet VPN
7 10 (2.92%) MPLS
8 4 (1.17%) Network Security
8 4 (1.17%) VSAN
9 2 (0.58%) WAN
10 1 (0.29%) 3G
10 1 (0.29%) 4G
10 1 (0.29%) ATM
10 1 (0.29%) Broadband
10 1 (0.29%) DSL
10 1 (0.29%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.73%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.22%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.22%) Power BI
3 11 (3.22%) Tableau
4 9 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.05%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.75%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (1.46%) Big Data
8 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.88%) MySQL
9 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.58%) Power Query
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.29%) DB2
10 1 (0.29%) Impala
10 1 (0.29%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 47 (13.74%) JIRA
2 24 (7.02%) Git
3 13 (3.80%) Robot Framework
4 12 (3.51%) TestRail
5 11 (3.22%) GitLab
6 8 (2.34%) Selenium
7 7 (2.05%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.75%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.88%) JUnit
9 3 (0.88%) Postman
9 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.58%) Maven
10 2 (0.58%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.29%) Mockito
11 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.29%) Subversion
11 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 93 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (8.19%) Finance
4 22 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.14%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.22%) Marketing
8 10 (2.92%) Billing
9 9 (2.63%) Automotive
9 9 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.34%) Legal
10 8 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.75%) Retail
12 5 (1.46%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (1.17%) Electronics
13 4 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.88%) Military
15 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 72 (21.05%) Developer
2 46 (13.45%) Analyst
3 45 (13.16%) Project Manager
4 39 (11.40%) Senior
5 20 (5.85%) Consultant
5 20 (5.85%) Python Developer
6 18 (5.26%) Lead
7 16 (4.68%) Active Directory Support
7 16 (4.68%) Full Stack Developer
8 15 (4.39%) Azure Developer
8 15 (4.39%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.09%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (4.09%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (4.09%) Support Specialist
10 13 (3.80%) Architect
11 12 (3.51%) Senior Project Manager
12 11 (3.22%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.92%) Site Engineer
13 10 (2.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.26%) React
2 17 (4.97%) ARM Templates
3 16 (4.68%) REST
4 14 (4.09%) SOAP
5 12 (3.51%) .NET
5 12 (3.51%) HTML
6 11 (3.22%) Kafka
7 10 (2.92%) NETCONF
7 10 (2.92%) RESTCONF
7 10 (2.92%) YANG
8 8 (2.34%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.34%) CSS
8 8 (2.34%) Node.js
9 7 (2.05%) Web Services
10 6 (1.75%) D3.js
10 6 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.75%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.46%) Itk
11 5 (1.46%) Spring
12 4 (1.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 24 (7.02%) PKI
3 17 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.09%) Robotics
5 13 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.05%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.75%) Life Science
8 5 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.46%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.46%) PMI
9 4 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.88%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.58%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.28%) Linux
2 28 (8.19%) Windows
3 25 (7.31%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (4.09%) Debian
5 14 (4.09%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.58%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (34.21%) DevOps
2 64 (18.71%) Scrum
3 56 (16.37%) CI/CD
4 54 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (15.50%) ITIL
6 51 (14.91%) Project Management
7 46 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (11.11%) Analytics
9 37 (10.82%) Waterfall
10 35 (10.23%) Test Automation
11 31 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (8.77%) Project Delivery
12 30 (8.77%) Release Management
12 30 (8.77%) Unit Testing
13 29 (8.48%) Microservices
14 27 (7.89%) Decision-Making
15 24 (7.02%) Data Modelling
15 24 (7.02%) Matrix Organization
15 24 (7.02%) Software Engineering
16 22 (6.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.25%) Python
2 29 (8.48%) SQL
3 28 (8.19%) PowerShell
4 27 (7.89%) C#
5 23 (6.73%) VBScript
6 17 (4.97%) Bicep
7 16 (4.68%) VB
8 15 (4.39%) Java
8 15 (4.39%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.63%) C
10 6 (1.75%) R
11 5 (1.46%) PHP
12 3 (0.88%) Ruby
13 2 (0.58%) C++
13 2 (0.58%) Scala
14 1 (0.29%) Bash
14 1 (0.29%) COBOL
14 1 (0.29%) JCL
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (28.65%) Security Cleared
2 76 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 59 (17.25%) DV Cleared
4 52 (15.20%) Degree
5 16 (4.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (3.22%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.63%) PMP
8 6 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.46%) CIPD
10 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.17%) VCAP
10 4 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.88%) CCNP
11 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.88%) MCSE
11 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.58%) APMP
12 2 (0.58%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.43%) QA
2 8 (2.34%) PMO
3 4 (1.17%) NIST
4 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.88%) NCSC
5 2 (0.58%) GDPR
5 2 (0.58%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) COBIT
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.14%) Docker
3 16 (4.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.17%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) HDFS
6 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (10.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.85%) SCOM
3 19 (5.56%) SCCM
4 17 (4.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (4.97%) WSUS
5 16 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.05%) Ansible
6 7 (2.05%) Kibana
6 7 (2.05%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.75%) Argo
7 6 (1.75%) Grafana
7 6 (1.75%) Istio
8 5 (1.46%) Terraform
9 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 81 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.23%) VMware
3 22 (6.43%) Oracle
4 16 (4.68%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.34%) SAP
7 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.88%) Cisco
8 3 (0.88%) Citrix
8 3 (0.88%) Siemens
9 2 (0.58%) Adobe
9 2 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.58%) HP
9 2 (0.58%) Informatica
9 2 (0.58%) Veeam
10 1 (0.29%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.29%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.29%) Isilon
10 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.29%) Splunk