Agile Contracts in Somerset

Agile Software Development
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 20 8 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 13 22 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 6.88% 11.58% 23.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 13.41% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 44
10th Percentile £559 £410 £400
25th Percentile £581 £563 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £670
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.45% +41.05%
75th Percentile £652 £690 £750
90th Percentile £661 £741 £881
South West median daily rate £575 £555 £575
% change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +16.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £46.33 -
25th Percentile - £48.31 £55.93
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year - -12.56% -
75th Percentile - £55.46 £58.43
90th Percentile - £55.75 -
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
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 164 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 75.66% 86.32% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 109 146
10th Percentile £200 £158 £199
25th Percentile £316 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.75% +22.24%
75th Percentile £625 £610 £618
90th Percentile £715 £717 £740
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 14
10th Percentile £12.50 £35.00 £16.96
25th Percentile £13.25 £46.71 £23.06
Median hourly rate £20.50 £51.89 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.49% +3.78% +112.77%
75th Percentile £41.88 £62.22 £56.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.31
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 Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Somerset

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Somerset

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Somerset

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Somerset 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
Taunton -5 3 £600 -9.54% 2
Bath -7 1 £575 +35.29% 8
Agile
South West

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) NUnit
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) Selenium
1 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Electronics
3 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
3 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Multimedia
4 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Content Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Project Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Project Management
2 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
2 5 (38.46%) PRINCE2
2 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) Programme Management
4 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (23.08%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (23.08%) DSDM
5 2 (15.38%) Budget Management
5 2 (15.38%) Content Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Identification
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
5 2 (15.38%) User Research
5 2 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
1 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) SAP