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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 340 593 711
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.06% 21.24% 20.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.01% 23.27% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 444 517
10th Percentile £400 £410 £388
25th Percentile £463 £455 £420
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 £520
% change year-on-year - +5.77% +9.47%
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 £58.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.44% +22.20% -15.93%

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 2,265 2,548 3,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.01% 91.26% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 1,767 2,102
10th Percentile £213 £320 £226
25th Percentile £370 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% +7.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 62 88
10th Percentile £14.17 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.38 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +197.79% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £60.41
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -6 245 £575 +4.55% 84
Buckinghamshire -2 72 £519 -5.68% 59
Oxfordshire +3 23 £450 -17.24% 51
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 25 (7.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.41%) Confluence
3 12 (3.53%) Apache
4 10 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.76%) SAS
7 3 (0.88%) Appian
7 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.29%) CICS
9 1 (0.29%) Drupal
9 1 (0.29%) Jadu
9 1 (0.29%) JBoss
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.76%) SPSS
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.59%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.29%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.29%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (4.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.35%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.18%) Primavera
4 2 (0.59%) 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 90 (26.47%) Azure
2 43 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (9.41%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (7.94%) Entra ID
5 22 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (6.18%) AWS
7 18 (5.29%) Serverless
8 17 (5.00%) Azure Storage
9 15 (4.41%) SaaS
10 14 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (4.12%) Azure Functions
11 12 (3.53%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.53%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.35%) PaaS
13 5 (1.47%) GCP
13 5 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.47%) Smartsheet
14 4 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.65%) DNS
2 25 (7.35%) DHCP
3 18 (5.29%) Firewall
4 17 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
5 11 (3.24%) VPN
6 10 (2.94%) BGP
6 10 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
6 10 (2.94%) MPLS
7 9 (2.65%) SAN
7 9 (2.65%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.18%) VSAN
9 3 (0.88%) Network Security
10 2 (0.59%) WAN
11 1 (0.29%) 3G
11 1 (0.29%) 4G
11 1 (0.29%) ATM
11 1 (0.29%) Broadband
11 1 (0.29%) DSL
11 1 (0.29%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.76%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.53%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.24%) Power BI
4 11 (3.24%) Tableau
5 10 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.06%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.76%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (1.47%) Big Data
8 5 (1.47%) MySQL
9 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.88%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.59%) Power Query
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.29%) Impala
11 1 (0.29%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 47 (13.82%) JIRA
2 24 (7.06%) Git
3 13 (3.82%) Robot Framework
4 12 (3.53%) TestRail
5 11 (3.24%) GitLab
6 8 (2.35%) Selenium
7 7 (2.06%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.88%) Postman
9 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.59%) JUnit
10 2 (0.59%) Maven
10 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.29%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.29%) Mockito
11 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 93 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (7.94%) Finance
4 24 (7.06%) Telecoms
5 20 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.94%) Billing
7 10 (2.94%) Marketing
8 9 (2.65%) Automotive
8 9 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.35%) Legal
9 8 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.76%) Retail
11 5 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (1.18%) Electronics
12 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.88%) Military
14 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (20.29%) Developer
2 47 (13.82%) Analyst
3 44 (12.94%) Project Manager
4 37 (10.88%) Senior
5 20 (5.88%) Consultant
6 18 (5.29%) Lead
7 17 (5.00%) Active Directory Support
8 15 (4.41%) Azure Developer
8 15 (4.41%) Full Stack Developer
8 15 (4.41%) Python Developer
8 15 (4.41%) Senior Manager
9 14 (4.12%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (4.12%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (4.12%) Support Specialist
10 13 (3.82%) Architect
11 12 (3.53%) Senior Project Manager
12 11 (3.24%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.94%) Site Engineer
13 10 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.59%) React
2 18 (5.29%) ARM Templates
3 16 (4.71%) REST
4 13 (3.82%) HTML
4 13 (3.82%) SOAP
5 11 (3.24%) .NET
5 11 (3.24%) Kafka
5 11 (3.24%) YANG
6 10 (2.94%) NETCONF
6 10 (2.94%) RESTCONF
7 8 (2.35%) CSS
7 8 (2.35%) Node.js
8 7 (2.06%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.76%) D3.js
9 6 (1.76%) Web Services
10 5 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.47%) Itk
10 5 (1.47%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.47%) XML
11 4 (1.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.47%) Product Ownership
2 25 (7.35%) PKI
3 18 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.12%) Robotics
5 13 (3.82%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.06%) Client/Server
7 6 (1.76%) Life Science
8 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.47%) PMI
9 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
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 (0.59%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.06%) Linux
2 29 (8.53%) Windows
3 26 (7.65%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.65%) Debian
5 9 (2.65%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.59%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (35.29%) DevOps
2 67 (19.71%) Scrum
3 58 (17.06%) CI/CD
4 53 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (14.71%) Project Management
6 49 (14.41%) ITIL
7 46 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (11.47%) Analytics
9 37 (10.88%) Waterfall
10 35 (10.29%) Test Automation
11 32 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (9.12%) Release Management
13 30 (8.82%) Unit Testing
14 29 (8.53%) Project Delivery
15 28 (8.24%) Microservices
16 26 (7.65%) Decision-Making
17 24 (7.06%) Software Engineering
18 23 (6.76%) SDLC
19 22 (6.47%) Infrastructure as Code
19 22 (6.47%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 58 (17.06%) Python
2 30 (8.82%) SQL
3 29 (8.53%) PowerShell
4 28 (8.24%) C#
5 24 (7.06%) VBScript
6 18 (5.29%) Bicep
7 17 (5.00%) Java
7 17 (5.00%) VB
8 16 (4.71%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.65%) C
10 6 (1.76%) R
11 5 (1.47%) PHP
12 3 (0.88%) Ruby
13 2 (0.59%) C++
13 2 (0.59%) 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 94 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 72 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 57 (16.76%) DV Cleared
4 53 (15.59%) Degree
5 17 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (3.24%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.65%) PMP
8 6 (1.76%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.47%) CIPD
10 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.18%) VCAP
10 4 (1.18%) 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 (0.59%) APMP
12 2 (0.59%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.47%) QA
2 8 (2.35%) PMO
3 4 (1.18%) NIST
4 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.88%) NCSC
5 2 (0.59%) GDPR
5 2 (0.59%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) COBIT
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (11.47%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.88%) Docker
3 17 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.18%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) HDFS
6 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (10.88%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.18%) SCOM
3 20 (5.88%) SCCM
4 18 (5.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (5.29%) WSUS
5 17 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.06%) Kibana
6 7 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.76%) Ansible
7 6 (1.76%) Argo
7 6 (1.76%) Grafana
7 6 (1.76%) Istio
8 5 (1.47%) Terraform
9 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 78 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.82%) VMware
3 25 (7.35%) Oracle
4 11 (3.24%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.94%) SAP
6 9 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.88%) Cisco
8 3 (0.88%) Citrix
8 3 (0.88%) Google
8 3 (0.88%) Siemens
9 2 (0.59%) Adobe
9 2 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.59%) HP
9 2 (0.59%) Informatica
9 2 (0.59%) Veeam
10 1 (0.29%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.29%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.29%) Isilon
10 1 (0.29%) Splunk