Agile Contracts in Dorset

Agile Software Development
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 1 15 3
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing Agile 20 27 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 18.52% 9.89% 17.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.62% 11.11% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 26
10th Percentile - - £391
25th Percentile £456 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -3.30% -14.52%
75th Percentile £528 £550 £688
90th Percentile £653 £710 £838
South West median daily rate £575 £555 £575
% change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +16.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £69.62 -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.76% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 97 243 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 89.81% 89.01% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 143 142
10th Percentile £306 £172 £218
25th Percentile £452 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £498
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +8.04% +13.71%
75th Percentile £634 £644 £570
90th Percentile £730 £735 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 52 17
10th Percentile £14.41 £17.46 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.71 £23.43 £16.00
Median hourly rate £15.62 £56.49 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.35% +162.74% -59.26%
75th Percentile £22.79 £65.98 £55.66
90th Percentile £43.84 £69.26 £60.06
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +36.84%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Dorset

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth +8 7 £460 -16.36% 9
Poole - 1 £700 - 5
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 6 (30.00%) IIS
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
1 7 (35.00%) GitHub
2 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
1 7 (35.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 7 (35.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) SDLC
3 5 (25.00%) Operational Stability
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Community of Practice
5 3 (15.00%) Information Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Kanban
5 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
7 1 (5.00%) API Development
7 1 (5.00%) Data Science
7 1 (5.00%) Data Strategy
7 1 (5.00%) IT Strategy
7 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Blue Coat
1 7 (35.00%) CheckPoint
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco
1 7 (35.00%) F5
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Google