Agile Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Agile Software Development
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 8 4
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 43 88 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.78% 13.52% 22.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 14.59% 23.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 73 247
10th Percentile £407 £385 £389
25th Percentile £443 £461 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £626 £613 £625
90th Percentile £650 £698 £706
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £67.36
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £65.13 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.49% +4.20% +3.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 603 1,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.46% 92.63% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 455 989
10th Percentile £241 £275 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £598
90th Percentile £645 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 31
10th Percentile £14.58 £13.17 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.70 £16.00 £11.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +42.86% +1.82%
75th Percentile £36.75 £23.75 £17.38
90th Percentile £41.15 £24.00 £20.00
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Buckinghamshire

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Milton Keynes -10 34 £499 -0.25% 37
Marlow - 2 £650 -
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) AWS
2 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.30%) GitHub
4 2 (4.65%) Azure API Management
4 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.33%) dbt
5 1 (2.33%) Figma
5 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Broadband
1 4 (9.30%) DHCP
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) DWDM
1 4 (9.30%) Ethernet
1 4 (9.30%) GPON
1 4 (9.30%) IPv4
1 4 (9.30%) IPv6
1 4 (9.30%) MPLS
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.33%) Ingres
1 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
1 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) Postman
3 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (4.65%) LoadRunner
4 2 (4.65%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.33%) Axure RP
5 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.33%) Snyk
5 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (55.81%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing
5 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Senior
3 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Lead
4 3 (6.98%) Product Owner
4 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Test Leader
5 2 (4.65%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.98%) SOAP
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) HTML
2 1 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.33%) Middleware
2 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.33%) Playwright
2 1 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) Swagger
2 1 (2.33%) Visualforce
2 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (9.30%) PKI
3 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.91%) Scrum
3 11 (25.58%) ITIL
4 9 (20.93%) DevOps
4 9 (20.93%) Kanban
4 9 (20.93%) Project Management
4 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (16.28%) Waterfall
7 6 (13.95%) Migration
7 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
8 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.63%) Release Management
8 5 (11.63%) Risk Management
8 5 (11.63%) Test Scripting
8 5 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (11.63%) User Stories
9 4 (9.30%) Incident Management
9 4 (9.30%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) SQL
2 5 (11.63%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) C#
4 2 (4.65%) R
5 1 (2.33%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.33%) Bicep
5 1 (2.33%) Java
5 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) Ruby
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.65%) A+ Certification
5 2 (4.65%) MCP
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.33%) QA
1 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Ansible
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Puppet
4 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Nokia
2 4 (9.30%) Splunk
2 4 (9.30%) VMware
3 3 (6.98%) Remedy
3 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.65%) Veeam
5 1 (2.33%) Apple
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat