Agile Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Agile Software Development
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire 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 10 13 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 58 73 163
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 13.00% 12.46% 19.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.43% 14.43% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 131
10th Percentile £384 £437 £413
25th Percentile £525 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £600
90th Percentile £738 £760 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - £44.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £48.50
75th Percentile £86.25 - £52.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -0.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 402 506 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 90.13% 86.35% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 352 559
10th Percentile £307 £357 £356
25th Percentile £498 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% - -
75th Percentile £651 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £721
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 17
10th Percentile £12.50 - £17.74
25th Percentile £18.87 - £40.85
Median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.78% -78.68% -
75th Percentile £25.15 - £64.50
90th Percentile - £22.23 £72.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -6.05%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Wiltshire

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Agile

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Corsham +1 27 £565 -5.83% 13
Swindon +1 17 £519 +6.41% 13
Salisbury +7 2 - - 6
Chippenham +3 1 £568 +51.33% 3
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 18 (31.03%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Primavera
2 2 (3.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 9 (15.52%) Azure
3 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) iPaaS
4 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.72%) IaaS
5 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.72%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.72%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Skype
2 2 (3.45%) BGP
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) OSPF
2 2 (3.45%) Unified Communications
2 2 (3.45%) VLAN
2 2 (3.45%) VoIP
2 2 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.17%) Metadata
2 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (31.03%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.17%) Git
4 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.45%) GitLab
4 2 (3.45%) Maven
4 2 (3.45%) Selenium
4 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.72%) Appium
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Snyk
5 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.72%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (29.31%) Public Sector
2 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Military
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Analyst
2 6 (10.34%) Developer
2 6 (10.34%) Security Analyst
2 6 (10.34%) Security Engineer
2 6 (10.34%) Service Management Specialist
3 5 (8.62%) Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Lead
4 4 (6.90%) Project Planner
4 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Management Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Service Management Consultant
6 2 (3.45%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Principal Architect
6 2 (3.45%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Telephony Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) REST
2 3 (5.17%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (3.45%) Middleware
3 2 (3.45%) Playwright
3 2 (3.45%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) JFC
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
4 1 (1.72%) React
4 1 (1.72%) Spring
4 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (8.62%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) PKI
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.86%) DevOps
2 12 (20.69%) Waterfall
3 11 (18.97%) Service Management
4 10 (17.24%) ITIL
4 10 (17.24%) ITSM
5 9 (15.52%) Critical Thinking
5 9 (15.52%) Impact Assessments
6 7 (12.07%) Dashboard Development
6 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.07%) Service Delivery
7 6 (10.34%) Change Management
7 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (10.34%) Incident Management
7 6 (10.34%) Project Management
7 6 (10.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (10.34%) Security Management
7 6 (10.34%) SIEM
7 6 (10.34%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) Python
2 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.90%) SQL
4 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) Apex Code
5 2 (3.45%) Bash
5 2 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) Groovy
6 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (74.14%) Security Cleared
2 36 (62.07%) SC Cleared
3 20 (34.48%) DV Cleared
4 17 (29.31%) Degree
5 9 (15.52%) CISSP
6 6 (10.34%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (10.34%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (10.34%) SANS
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.90%) ISTQB
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.45%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (3.45%) CISA
9 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.45%) DBS Check
9 2 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) P3O
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.45%) JSP 440
3 2 (3.45%) RMADS
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Ansible
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (1.72%) Grafana
2 1 (1.72%) OPNET
2 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.62%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.17%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) HP
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.72%) Veeam