Agile Contracts in Berkshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 263 392 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.43% 22.03% 22.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.34% 24.59% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 275 365
10th Percentile £400 £363 £392
25th Percentile £491 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +5.77% +6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £654
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 1
10th Percentile £42.00 £66.20 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £67.63 £60.75
Median hourly rate £55.80 £70.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +14.63% +43.02%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £61.24 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £62.50 £48.04
% change year-on-year -5.75% +30.10% -15.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,714 1,594 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.54% 89.60% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 995 1,321
10th Percentile £258 £339 £275
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £710 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 39
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £25.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%
75th Percentile £71.75 £74.90 £34.95
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £70.68
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in Berkshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Reading -8 175 £600 +6.67% 44
Wokingham -2 21 £500 -4.76% 2
Bracknell -15 17 £500 +19.05% 12
Windsor 0 13 £675 - 1
Newbury +1 10 £365 -14.12% 5
Maidenhead -8 8 £450 - 1
Slough -8 5 £625 +26.90% 3
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 21 (7.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.42%) Apache
2 9 (3.42%) Confluence
3 6 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.28%) SAS
4 4 (1.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Jadu
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.28%) SPSS
4 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.52%) Sketch
6 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (7.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 12 (4.56%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (4.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.52%) Primavera
4 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Maximo
5 1 (0.38%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.38%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 94 (35.74%) Azure
2 44 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (14.45%) Azure Monitor
4 31 (11.79%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.75%) Azure Storage
5 23 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (6.46%) Serverless
7 15 (5.70%) OpenShift
8 14 (5.32%) AWS
8 14 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (5.32%) SaaS
9 13 (4.94%) Azure Functions
10 9 (3.42%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.28%) GCP
12 5 (1.90%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.90%) Smartsheet
13 4 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.52%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.13%) Firewall
2 22 (8.37%) DNS
3 21 (7.98%) DHCP
4 14 (5.32%) Radio Access Network
5 9 (3.42%) VPN
6 8 (3.04%) BGP
6 8 (3.04%) MPLS
7 6 (2.28%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (1.90%) Network Security
9 3 (1.14%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.14%) WAN
10 2 (0.76%) 3G
10 2 (0.76%) 5G
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.76%) DMVPN
10 2 (0.76%) EIGRP
10 2 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.76%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.22%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (3.04%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.04%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.04%) Tableau
4 6 (2.28%) Qlik Sense
5 5 (1.90%) Power BI
5 5 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.52%) MySQL
6 4 (1.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.52%) Oracle Discoverer
6 4 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.52%) SQLPlus
7 3 (1.14%) Big Data
7 3 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 35 (13.31%) JIRA
2 24 (9.13%) Git
3 12 (4.56%) Selenium
4 11 (4.18%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (3.42%) Robot Framework
6 8 (3.04%) GitLab
7 6 (2.28%) TestRail
8 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.52%) JMeter
9 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.14%) Maven
10 2 (0.76%) JUnit
10 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.38%) Postman
11 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 89 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (9.13%) Telecoms
4 20 (7.60%) Finance
5 15 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.80%) Billing
8 8 (3.04%) Legal
9 7 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.90%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (1.90%) Marketing
10 5 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.90%) Retail
11 4 (1.52%) Automotive
11 4 (1.52%) Electronics
11 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (21.29%) Developer
2 36 (13.69%) Analyst
3 32 (12.17%) Senior
4 28 (10.65%) Project Manager
5 21 (7.98%) Active Directory Support
5 21 (7.98%) Consultant
6 16 (6.08%) Full Stack Developer
7 14 (5.32%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (5.32%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (5.32%) Site Engineer
7 14 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 14 (5.32%) Support Specialist
8 13 (4.94%) Azure Developer
8 13 (4.94%) Senior Manager
9 10 (3.80%) Test Analyst
10 9 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) Lead
10 9 (3.42%) Senior Project Manager
11 8 (3.04%) Functional Consultant
11 8 (3.04%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.37%) ARM Templates
1 22 (8.37%) React
2 16 (6.08%) HTML
3 15 (5.70%) REST
4 13 (4.94%) Kafka
5 11 (4.18%) CSS
5 11 (4.18%) XML
6 9 (3.42%) .NET
7 8 (3.04%) Node.js
7 8 (3.04%) SOAP
8 7 (2.66%) YANG
9 6 (2.28%) .NET Framework
9 6 (2.28%) D3.js
9 6 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.28%) NETCONF
9 6 (2.28%) RESTCONF
9 6 (2.28%) Web Services
10 5 (1.90%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.90%) JSON
10 5 (1.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.41%) Product Ownership
2 21 (7.98%) PKI
2 21 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.08%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.56%) Robotics
5 8 (3.04%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.90%) Biopharmaceutical
6 5 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.90%) Life Science
6 5 (1.90%) PMI
7 4 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.14%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.76%) IVR
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.69%) Linux
2 30 (11.41%) Windows
2 30 (11.41%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.98%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (7.98%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (47.91%) DevOps
2 54 (20.53%) Scrum
3 53 (20.15%) CI/CD
4 47 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (16.35%) Analytics
6 35 (13.31%) Microservices
7 33 (12.55%) ITIL
8 30 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (11.03%) Project Management
9 29 (11.03%) Test Automation
9 29 (11.03%) Unit Testing
10 28 (10.65%) Release Management
11 26 (9.89%) Service Management
12 25 (9.51%) Change Management
13 24 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (8.37%) Identity Management
14 22 (8.37%) RBAC
14 22 (8.37%) Software Engineering
15 21 (7.98%) Log Analytics
15 21 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.63%) Python
2 32 (12.17%) PowerShell
3 29 (11.03%) VBScript
4 28 (10.65%) C#
5 25 (9.51%) SQL
6 22 (8.37%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.98%) Bicep
7 21 (7.98%) VB
8 20 (7.60%) Java
9 9 (3.42%) C
10 6 (2.28%) R
11 5 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.52%) PHP
13 3 (1.14%) Ruby
14 2 (0.76%) Go
14 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.38%) Bash
15 1 (0.38%) C++
15 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.87%) Degree
3 45 (17.11%) SC Cleared
4 41 (15.59%) DV Cleared
5 21 (7.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (2.66%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.90%) CIPD
8 4 (1.52%) PMP
9 3 (1.14%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.76%) CCNA
10 2 (0.76%) CCNP
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.76%) MBA
10 2 (0.76%) PgMP
10 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.38%) ISACA
11 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.32%) QA
2 8 (3.04%) PMO
3 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.76%) COBIT
3 2 (0.76%) HL7
4 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (14.07%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.98%) Virtual Desktop
2 21 (7.98%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (4.94%) Docker
4 11 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 46 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 22 (8.37%) SCOM
2 22 (8.37%) WSUS
3 21 (7.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (7.98%) SCCM
4 9 (3.42%) Kibana
4 9 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.04%) Argo
5 8 (3.04%) Grafana
5 8 (3.04%) Istio
6 5 (1.90%) Terraform
7 4 (1.52%) Ansible
8 2 (0.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 56 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.89%) Oracle
3 11 (4.18%) VMware
4 6 (2.28%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.90%) SAP
6 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco
7 3 (1.14%) Google
8 2 (0.76%) Adobe
8 2 (0.76%) Aruba
8 2 (0.76%) Blue Coat
8 2 (0.76%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.76%) Citrix
8 2 (0.76%) F5
8 2 (0.76%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.76%) HP
8 2 (0.76%) Juniper
8 2 (0.76%) McAfee
8 2 (0.76%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.76%) Zscaler