Agile Contracts in the Thames Valley

Agile Software Development
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 345 590 694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.08% 20.61% 19.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.21% 22.71% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 444 497
10th Percentile £400 £400 £384
25th Percentile £459 £455 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 3
10th Percentile £27.50 £35.33 £54.55
25th Percentile £42.50 £54.56 £56.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% +14.23% +44.71%
75th Percentile £59.95 £75.75 £64.81
90th Percentile £61.06 - £66.34
South East median hourly rate £58.40 £58.59 £48.58
% change year-on-year -0.33% +20.61% -15.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the Thames Valley

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire -7 250 £575 +4.55% 77
Buckinghamshire -1 71 £511 -4.93% 80
Oxfordshire +6 24 £450 -11.76% 43
Agile
South East

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 28 (8.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.35%) Confluence
3 10 (2.90%) Apache
4 7 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.74%) SAS
6 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.87%) Appian
6 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.29%) CICS
8 1 (0.29%) Drupal
8 1 (0.29%) Jadu
8 1 (0.29%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.74%) SPSS
4 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.87%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.29%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.32%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.32%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.16%) Primavera
4 2 (0.58%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.29%) Maximo
5 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HRMS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 99 (28.70%) Azure
2 44 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (10.43%) Azure Monitor
4 30 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 26 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (5.80%) AWS
6 20 (5.80%) Azure Storage
7 18 (5.22%) Serverless
8 15 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 15 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (4.35%) SaaS
9 14 (4.06%) Azure Functions
10 13 (3.77%) Power Platform
11 12 (3.48%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.03%) GCP
13 6 (1.74%) PaaS
13 6 (1.74%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.45%) Smartsheet
15 4 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.41%) DNS
2 28 (8.12%) DHCP
3 23 (6.67%) Firewall
4 14 (4.06%) Radio Access Network
5 10 (2.90%) VPN
6 9 (2.61%) BGP
6 9 (2.61%) MPLS
6 9 (2.61%) SAN
6 9 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.03%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.16%) Network Security
8 4 (1.16%) VSAN
8 4 (1.16%) WAN
9 3 (0.87%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.58%) DMVPN
10 2 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.80%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.19%) Power BI
3 11 (3.19%) Tableau
4 10 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.61%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.74%) Big Data
7 6 (1.74%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (1.45%) MySQL
9 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.58%) Power Query
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.29%) HDInsight
11 1 (0.29%) Impala
Development Applications
1 45 (13.04%) JIRA
2 26 (7.54%) Git
3 13 (3.77%) Selenium
4 10 (2.90%) Robot Framework
5 9 (2.61%) GitLab
6 8 (2.32%) TestRail
7 7 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.16%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.16%) JMeter
8 4 (1.16%) Maven
9 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.87%) Postman
10 2 (0.58%) JUnit
10 2 (0.58%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.58%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.29%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.29%) Subversion
11 1 (0.29%) Xcode
General
1 99 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (7.83%) Finance
4 23 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.90%) Billing
7 10 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.61%) Marketing
8 9 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.32%) Automotive
9 8 (2.32%) Legal
10 7 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.16%) Electronics
12 4 (1.16%) Retail
13 3 (0.87%) Military
14 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (20.00%) Developer
2 47 (13.62%) Analyst
3 42 (12.17%) Project Manager
4 41 (11.88%) Senior
5 24 (6.96%) Consultant
6 20 (5.80%) Active Directory Support
7 17 (4.93%) Lead
8 16 (4.64%) Architect
8 16 (4.64%) Full Stack Developer
8 16 (4.64%) Python Developer
9 15 (4.35%) Azure Developer
9 15 (4.35%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.06%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (4.06%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (4.06%) Support Specialist
11 11 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.19%) Senior Project Manager
11 11 (3.19%) Site Engineer
11 11 (3.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (3.19%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.09%) ARM Templates
1 21 (6.09%) React
2 14 (4.06%) HTML
3 13 (3.77%) Kafka
4 12 (3.48%) REST
5 11 (3.19%) SOAP
6 9 (2.61%) .NET
6 9 (2.61%) CSS
7 8 (2.32%) Node.js
7 8 (2.32%) YANG
8 7 (2.03%) NETCONF
8 7 (2.03%) RESTCONF
9 6 (1.74%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.74%) D3.js
9 6 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (1.74%) Web Services
10 5 (1.45%) Itk
10 5 (1.45%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.45%) XML
11 4 (1.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.17%) Product Ownership
2 28 (8.12%) PKI
3 21 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.06%) Robotics
5 8 (2.32%) Client/Server
6 6 (1.74%) Life Science
7 5 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.45%) PMI
8 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.16%) Biopharmaceutical
8 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.33%) Linux
2 32 (9.28%) Windows
3 30 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 20 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.61%) Debian
5 9 (2.61%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (37.10%) DevOps
2 65 (18.84%) Scrum
3 59 (17.10%) CI/CD
4 55 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (15.94%) ITIL
5 48 (13.91%) Project Management
6 47 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (13.04%) Analytics
8 35 (10.14%) Release Management
8 35 (10.14%) Test Automation
8 35 (10.14%) Waterfall
9 34 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (8.41%) Microservices
11 27 (7.83%) Unit Testing
12 26 (7.54%) Software Engineering
13 25 (7.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (7.25%) Project Delivery
14 23 (6.67%) Decision-Making
14 23 (6.67%) Product Backlog
15 22 (6.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.68%) Python
2 34 (9.86%) PowerShell
3 28 (8.12%) C#
3 28 (8.12%) VBScript
4 26 (7.54%) SQL
5 22 (6.38%) Java
6 21 (6.09%) Bicep
7 20 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.80%) VB
8 9 (2.61%) C
9 6 (1.74%) R
10 5 (1.45%) PHP
11 3 (0.87%) C++
11 3 (0.87%) Ruby
12 2 (0.58%) Go
12 2 (0.58%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Bash
13 1 (0.29%) COBOL
13 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 101 (29.28%) Security Cleared
2 76 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 62 (17.97%) DV Cleared
4 56 (16.23%) Degree
5 20 (5.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (3.48%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.61%) PMP
8 6 (1.74%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.45%) CCNP
9 5 (1.45%) CIPD
9 5 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (1.16%) VCAP
10 4 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.87%) MCSE
11 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.58%) CCNA
12 2 (0.58%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.38%) QA
2 8 (2.32%) PMO
3 4 (1.16%) NIST
4 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.87%) NCSC
5 2 (0.58%) GDPR
5 2 (0.58%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) COBIT
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (12.46%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.80%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (4.35%) Docker
3 15 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.16%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) HDFS
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 41 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.96%) SCOM
3 23 (6.67%) SCCM
4 21 (6.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (6.09%) WSUS
5 20 (5.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.32%) Kibana
6 8 (2.32%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.03%) Argo
7 7 (2.03%) Grafana
7 7 (2.03%) Istio
8 6 (1.74%) Ansible
8 6 (1.74%) Terraform
9 2 (0.58%) Rancher
10 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 84 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.28%) VMware
3 23 (6.67%) Oracle
4 10 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.61%) SAP
6 8 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.74%) Cisco
9 3 (0.87%) Citrix
9 3 (0.87%) Google
9 3 (0.87%) Siemens
10 2 (0.58%) Adobe
10 2 (0.58%) Aruba
10 2 (0.58%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.58%) F5
10 2 (0.58%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.58%) Informatica
10 2 (0.58%) Juniper
10 2 (0.58%) McAfee
10 2 (0.58%) Veeam