Agile Contracts with Work from Home Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,559 5,256 12,148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.48% 21.81% 27.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.96% 24.32% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,897 3,879 8,776
10th Percentile £390 £409 £400
25th Percentile £450 £466 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 121 140
10th Percentile £18.20 £35.00 £34.89
25th Percentile £24.17 £50.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £49.38
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +31.65% +9.72%
75th Percentile £61.75 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £76.00 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% +25.00% +15.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Agile daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Agile hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 152 (5.94%) Confluence
2 133 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
3 130 (5.08%) Apache
4 43 (1.68%) CMS
5 39 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 38 (1.48%) SharePoint
7 19 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 13 (0.51%) SAS
9 12 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.43%) nginx
11 9 (0.35%) CICS
12 6 (0.23%) Appian
12 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.20%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.20%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.16%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
15 3 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 52 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 29 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.43%) Trello
7 6 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.16%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.12%) Sketch
11 2 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.078%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.039%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.039%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.039%) InDesign
12 1 (0.039%) Simulink
12 1 (0.039%) SPSS
12 1 (0.039%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 33 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
5 9 (0.35%) Maximo
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 6 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.20%) Endur
8 5 (0.20%) Shopify
9 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.12%) Primavera
10 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.078%) Aligne
11 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.078%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 576 (22.51%) Azure
2 545 (21.30%) AWS
3 211 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
4 196 (7.66%) GCP
5 139 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 126 (4.92%) dbt
7 101 (3.95%) Snowflake
8 95 (3.71%) Serverless
9 94 (3.67%) SaaS
10 85 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
11 83 (3.24%) GitHub
12 58 (2.27%) PaaS
13 56 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (2.19%) Entra ID
14 55 (2.15%) Amazon S3
15 48 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
16 43 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (1.48%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
19 36 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.77%) Firewall
2 57 (2.23%) DNS
3 39 (1.52%) DHCP
4 36 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 34 (1.33%) VPN
6 19 (0.74%) HTTP
7 18 (0.70%) SAN
8 17 (0.66%) WAN
9 15 (0.59%) LAN
10 14 (0.55%) Internet
11 10 (0.39%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.35%) 4G
13 8 (0.31%) 3G
13 8 (0.31%) Wireless
14 7 (0.27%) ATM
14 7 (0.27%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.27%) VoIP
15 6 (0.23%) BGP
15 6 (0.23%) IPsec
15 6 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 132 (5.16%) Data Lake
3 121 (4.73%) Amazon Athena
4 116 (4.53%) Dremio
5 114 (4.45%) Apache Arrow
5 114 (4.45%) Apache Ignite
6 105 (4.10%) Power BI
7 85 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
8 70 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
9 68 (2.66%) Relational Database
10 52 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 46 (1.80%) MySQL
12 41 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 41 (1.60%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.52%) Big Data
14 30 (1.17%) Tableau
15 25 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
16 20 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 20 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 328 (12.82%) JIRA
2 169 (6.60%) Git
3 109 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 71 (2.77%) GitLab
5 52 (2.03%) Selenium
6 45 (1.76%) Postman
7 39 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 38 (1.48%) JMeter
9 28 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.94%) JUnit
11 21 (0.82%) Visual Studio
12 19 (0.74%) SpecFlow
13 18 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 17 (0.66%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.59%) TestRail
15 15 (0.59%) WebDriver
16 14 (0.55%) Maven
17 13 (0.51%) Appium
18 12 (0.47%) Artifactory
18 12 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 729 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 696 (27.20%) Finance
3 330 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 290 (11.33%) Banking
5 252 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
6 217 (8.48%) Front Office
7 140 (5.47%) Investment Banking
8 79 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
9 70 (2.74%) Marketing
10 68 (2.66%) Retail
11 58 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 58 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 48 (1.88%) Back Office
14 42 (1.64%) Legal
15 32 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (1.09%) Electronics
17 28 (1.09%) Publishing
18 23 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 527 (20.59%) Developer
2 391 (15.28%) Senior
3 327 (12.78%) Analyst
4 243 (9.50%) Architect
5 237 (9.26%) Project Manager
6 216 (8.44%) Business Analyst
7 207 (8.09%) Lead
8 156 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 127 (4.96%) Consultant
10 105 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
11 102 (3.99%) Senior Developer
12 88 (3.44%) Java Developer
13 85 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
14 80 (3.13%) Software Developer
15 76 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
15 76 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
16 73 (2.85%) Senior Manager
17 66 (2.58%) Java Engineer
18 63 (2.46%) Full Stack Developer
18 63 (2.46%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (6.88%) .NET
2 173 (6.76%) React
3 132 (5.16%) REST
4 118 (4.61%) gRPC
5 117 (4.57%) Protocol Buffers
6 113 (4.42%) CSS
6 113 (4.42%) HTML
7 109 (4.26%) Pandas
8 107 (4.18%) NumPy
8 107 (4.18%) SciPy
9 101 (3.95%) Node.js
10 100 (3.91%) AngularJS
10 100 (3.91%) XML
11 84 (3.28%) Kafka
12 82 (3.20%) JSON
13 71 (2.77%) RESTful
14 66 (2.58%) Spring
15 63 (2.46%) Web Services
16 57 (2.23%) Spring Boot
17 51 (1.99%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 226 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 168 (6.57%) Fixed Income
3 150 (5.86%) Derivative
4 145 (5.67%) Equities
5 138 (5.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 133 (5.20%) Hedge funds
7 56 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 53 (2.07%) Mobile App
9 51 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 51 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 38 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 35 (1.37%) PKI
14 34 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 33 (1.29%) Onboarding
16 32 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
17 29 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
18 21 (0.82%) Cloud Native
18 21 (0.82%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 159 (6.21%) Linux
2 109 (4.26%) Windows
3 44 (1.72%) Unix
4 42 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 31 (1.21%) Android
6 23 (0.90%) zOS
7 21 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 14 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.43%) VMS
12 10 (0.39%) Debian
13 9 (0.35%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.20%) Solaris
15 4 (0.16%) CentOS
15 4 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.12%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (23.29%) DevOps
2 504 (19.70%) Scrum
3 375 (14.65%) CI/CD
4 358 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
5 346 (13.52%) Software Engineering
6 340 (13.29%) Project Management
7 325 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 244 (9.53%) Waterfall
9 243 (9.50%) Analytics
10 229 (8.95%) Test Automation
11 209 (8.17%) Project Delivery
12 194 (7.58%) Roadmaps
13 192 (7.50%) Asset Management
14 180 (7.03%) User Stories
15 175 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 174 (6.80%) Microservices
17 170 (6.64%) SDLC
18 166 (6.49%) User Experience
19 160 (6.25%) Migration
20 157 (6.14%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 434 (16.96%) Python
2 361 (14.11%) Java
3 336 (13.13%) JavaScript
4 327 (12.78%) SQL
5 245 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 212 (8.28%) C#
7 118 (4.61%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.54%) Go
9 61 (2.38%) Bicep
10 52 (2.03%) Bash
11 48 (1.88%) Scala
12 38 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 28 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 27 (1.06%) Perl
14 27 (1.06%) VB
15 24 (0.94%) C++
16 23 (0.90%) REXX
17 22 (0.86%) VBScript
18 20 (0.78%) C
18 20 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 376 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 313 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 288 (11.25%) Degree
4 93 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 59 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 46 (1.80%) PMP
8 44 (1.72%) PMI Certification
9 40 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.37%) ISTQB
11 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 18 (0.70%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.55%) CISSP
16 12 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (0.43%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (0.35%) CISM
18 9 (0.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (7.15%) QA
2 84 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 70 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 61 (2.38%) PMO
5 33 (1.29%) GDPR
6 32 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.09%) SLA
8 17 (0.66%) NIST
9 14 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
9 14 (0.55%) WCAG
10 13 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.27%) GxP
13 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.23%) MiFID
14 5 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
15 4 (0.16%) NCSC
15 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 157 (6.14%) Docker
2 87 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.63%) Time Sharing Option
7 14 (0.55%) NFS
8 8 (0.31%) vSphere
9 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) vCloud
10 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.078%) Firmware
12 1 (0.039%) HDFS
12 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 191 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 106 (4.14%) Terraform
3 84 (3.28%) Ansible
4 46 (1.80%) Grafana
5 26 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.02%) SCCM
6 23 (0.90%) Puppet
7 22 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.82%) SCOM
9 20 (0.78%) WSUS
10 18 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 17 (0.66%) Kibana
12 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.27%) Argo
13 7 (0.27%) Packer
14 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.23%) logstash
14 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 342 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.45%) Oracle
3 122 (4.77%) SAP
4 64 (2.50%) Google
5 60 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 57 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 49 (1.91%) Databricks
8 48 (1.88%) IBM
9 44 (1.72%) VMware
10 40 (1.56%) Splunk
11 34 (1.33%) Adobe
12 32 (1.25%) Cisco
13 28 (1.09%) Dell
14 23 (0.90%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.70%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.63%) Brocade
16 16 (0.63%) CA
16 16 (0.63%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.59%) Remedy
18 14 (0.55%) Bloomberg