Agile Contracts in the Thames Valley

Agile Software Development
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 230 339 599
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.70% 12.89% 21.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.91% 14.82% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 242 449
10th Percentile £384 £400 £410
25th Percentile £466 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £655 £618 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 5
10th Percentile £87.20 £27.21 £22.20
25th Percentile £87.41 £41.88 £22.50
Median hourly rate £89.53 £53.03 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.82% -24.24% +32.08%
75th Percentile £93.39 £59.95 £75.75
90th Percentile £94.66 £60.26 -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £58.30 £58.05
% change year-on-year +2.92% +0.44% +25.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,360 2,287 2,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.83% 86.96% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,283 1,794
10th Percentile £299 £213 £319
25th Percentile £411 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £603
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 168 63
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.28 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £31.78 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% -14.29% +205.06%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.72 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.60 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +127.91%

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 14 May 2025.

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
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 14 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
Berkshire +3 175 £568 -1.30% 189
Buckinghamshire -1 34 £550 +5.77% 83
Oxfordshire 0 21 £513 +13.89% 101
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 4 (1.74%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.74%) Confluence
2 2 (0.87%) CMS
2 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Camunda
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Simulink
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (1.74%) Primavera
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.43%) Maximo
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.43%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (23.48%) Azure
2 27 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (11.30%) AWS
4 13 (5.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (5.22%) SaaS
6 10 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.04%) GCP
9 6 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.61%) Serverless
10 5 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.17%) Azure API Management
10 5 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.17%) Oracle CX
11 4 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.74%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.74%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.17%) SD-WAN
2 4 (1.74%) HTTP
3 3 (1.30%) Broadband
3 3 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.87%) 2G
4 2 (0.87%) 3G
4 2 (0.87%) 4G
4 2 (0.87%) 5G
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) BGP
5 1 (0.43%) DHCP
5 1 (0.43%) DNS
5 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.43%) GPON
5 1 (0.43%) MPLS
5 1 (0.43%) Network Security
5 1 (0.43%) SSL
5 1 (0.43%) VoIP
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.74%) Big Data
3 4 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.74%) Power BI
4 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.87%) DocumentDB
5 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.87%) MS Access
5 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.43%) Impala
6 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.43%) MySQL
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (7.83%) JIRA
2 14 (6.09%) Git
3 12 (5.22%) Selenium
4 4 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.74%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.30%) GitLab
5 3 (1.30%) JUnit
5 3 (1.30%) Mockito
5 3 (1.30%) Postman
6 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.87%) JMeter
6 2 (0.87%) QARun
6 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.87%) WinRunner
7 1 (0.43%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.43%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.43%) VectorCAST
General
1 65 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.48%) Telecoms
3 52 (22.61%) Finance
4 34 (14.78%) Manufacturing
5 32 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (13.91%) Public Sector
6 25 (10.87%) Marketing
7 24 (10.43%) Electronics
8 9 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.61%) Billing
10 5 (2.17%) Retail
11 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.87%) Legal
12 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Automotive
13 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (20.87%) Architect
2 33 (14.35%) Analyst
3 26 (11.30%) Developer
4 21 (9.13%) Active Directory Architect
4 21 (9.13%) Lead
4 21 (9.13%) Project Manager
5 20 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 19 (8.26%) Senior
7 9 (3.91%) Data Analyst
8 7 (3.04%) Azure Developer
8 7 (3.04%) Consultant
8 7 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (3.04%) Designer
8 7 (3.04%) Product Owner
8 7 (3.04%) Scrum Master
8 7 (3.04%) Service Manager
8 7 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.61%) Auditor
9 6 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (2.61%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.13%) Web Services
2 18 (7.83%) REST
3 14 (6.09%) HTML
4 12 (5.22%) CSS
5 11 (4.78%) .NET
5 11 (4.78%) JSON
6 9 (3.91%) SOAP
7 7 (3.04%) ADO
7 7 (3.04%) XML
8 5 (2.17%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (2.17%) PySpark
8 5 (2.17%) React
8 5 (2.17%) RESTful
9 4 (1.74%) Ajax
9 4 (1.74%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.74%) Middleware
9 4 (1.74%) Playwright
9 4 (1.74%) Spring
9 4 (1.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.13%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.52%) Renewable Energy
3 10 (4.35%) Life Science
4 9 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.61%) CMDB
6 6 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.17%) Frameworx
7 5 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.17%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.17%) TM Forum
8 4 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.74%) PMI
9 3 (1.30%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.30%) Infotainment
9 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.61%) Windows
2 4 (1.74%) Linux
2 4 (1.74%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) CentOS
3 1 (0.43%) VMS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (20.43%) DevOps
3 46 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (17.83%) Scrum
4 41 (17.83%) Test Automation
5 37 (16.09%) Project Management
6 35 (15.22%) Waterfall
7 33 (14.35%) Roadmaps
8 31 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 30 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (13.04%) Programme Management
10 25 (10.87%) Migration
11 24 (10.43%) Digital Marketing
12 23 (10.00%) ITIL
13 21 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (9.13%) Identity Access Management
14 20 (8.70%) CI/CD
15 19 (8.26%) Change Management
15 19 (8.26%) User Stories
16 17 (7.39%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.65%) SQL
2 28 (12.17%) Python
3 23 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 18 (7.83%) C#
5 15 (6.52%) Java
5 15 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.30%) C
6 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.30%) VB
7 2 (0.87%) Bicep
7 2 (0.87%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.43%) Magik
8 1 (0.43%) Ruby
8 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.17%) DV Cleared
4 23 (10.00%) Degree
5 10 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 7 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.04%) PMP
7 5 (2.17%) CCNP
7 5 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.74%) MCSE
8 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.87%) APMP
9 2 (0.87%) ISEB
9 2 (0.87%) PgMP
9 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CISSP
10 1 (0.43%) IIBA
10 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.70%) QA
2 10 (4.35%) NCSC
3 9 (3.91%) PMO
4 6 (2.61%) GDPR
5 5 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.17%) NIST
6 4 (1.74%) PMBOK
7 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.87%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.87%) WCAG
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.04%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) Postfix
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (3.91%) Terraform
2 8 (3.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.30%) Amdocs OSS
3 3 (1.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Grafana
4 2 (0.87%) Kibana
4 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.43%) Podman
5 1 (0.43%) Puppet
5 1 (0.43%) SCCM
5 1 (0.43%) SCOM
5 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (17.39%) SAP
2 28 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.57%) Oracle
4 17 (7.39%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.78%) VMware
6 8 (3.48%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.04%) Databricks
8 5 (2.17%) Snow
9 4 (1.74%) Google
9 4 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.74%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.30%) Cisco
10 3 (1.30%) Cramer
10 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.30%) Remedy
11 2 (0.87%) Citrix
11 2 (0.87%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.87%) Splunk
12 1 (0.43%) IBM
12 1 (0.43%) Intel