Agile Contracts in Bedfordshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 21 32 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 8.75% 18.60% 15.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.14% 20.38% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 11
10th Percentile £399 £428 £350
25th Percentile £406 £500 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +7.00% -
75th Percentile £656 £630 £538
90th Percentile £700 £644 £580
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £74.00 £47.50
25th Percentile - £80.00 £52.81
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +63.64% -
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £55.75
% change year-on-year -0.38% +17.04% +23.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 207 157 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.25% 91.28% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 107 152
10th Percentile £300 £208 £215
25th Percentile £413 £309 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £481
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -3.28% +13.12%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £536
90th Percentile £700 £603 £623
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 18
10th Percentile £15.32 £17.80 £14.68
25th Percentile £15.39 £22.00 £43.75
Median hourly rate £21.50 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.33% +36.36% +254.84%
75th Percentile £32.90 £90.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £65.75 - £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -8.58%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Bedfordshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Luton -10 16 £503 -3.37% 6
Dunstable - 3 £395 -
Agile
East of England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
1 8 (38.10%) Pharmaceutical
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Project Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) SAP Manager
3 3 (14.29%) SAP Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Finance Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Financial Leader
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Financial Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.76%) Angular 2
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) HTML5
2 1 (4.76%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (4.76%) JPA
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) React
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) PMI
2 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (23.81%) Project Delivery
2 5 (23.81%) Scrum
2 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (19.05%) User Stories
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
4 3 (14.29%) ITSM
4 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Change Management
5 2 (9.52%) CRM
5 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
5 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) Supplier Management
5 2 (9.52%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) C++
1 1 (4.76%) Java
1 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
1 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) SAP
2 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.52%) Ariba
3 2 (9.52%) Snow
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle