Agile Contracts in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 6,086 10,753 19,276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 16.72% 22.19% 27.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.37% 24.64% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,270 7,807 13,849
10th Percentile £385 £413 £406
25th Percentile £460 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 221 232
10th Percentile £23.65 £35.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £61.06 £65.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +30.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £80.00 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year -8.02% +29.01% +12.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -1 3,508 £575 -4.17% 1,523
South East -2 823 £550 - 731
North of England -1 688 £521 -5.23% 715
South West -3 446 £525 -8.70% 365
North West -1 392 £525 -1.18% 416
Midlands -3 326 £525 +2.94% 478
Yorkshire -2 266 £515 -6.41% 212
West Midlands -1 247 £550 +2.23% 322
East of England -5 156 £500 -4.76% 205
East Midlands -8 76 £450 -1.37% 154
North East +1 43 £533 -9.36% 91
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 334 (5.49%) Confluence
2 234 (3.84%) Apache
3 218 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
4 130 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 73 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 72 (1.18%) CMS
7 59 (0.97%) Apache Spark
8 30 (0.49%) SAS
9 28 (0.46%) nginx
10 27 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 21 (0.35%) IIS
12 20 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 15 (0.25%) Drupal
14 13 (0.21%) CICS
15 12 (0.20%) Headless CMS
16 11 (0.18%) MTS
17 10 (0.16%) ArcGIS
17 10 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
18 9 (0.15%) Appian
19 7 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 133 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 124 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 93 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 53 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 37 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.33%) Sketch
8 15 (0.25%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.15%) Trello
10 8 (0.13%) InVision
10 8 (0.13%) Simulink
11 7 (0.12%) SPSS
12 6 (0.099%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.082%) Chatbot
13 5 (0.082%) TargetLink
13 5 (0.082%) UserZoom
14 4 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 3 (0.049%) CANalyzer
15 3 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
15 3 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 80 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 27 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 26 (0.43%) Endur
5 24 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 17 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 17 (0.28%) Shopify
7 14 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
8 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.20%) ION MarketView
10 11 (0.18%) Aligne
10 11 (0.18%) EuroRunner
10 11 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
10 11 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
11 9 (0.15%) Loan IQ
11 9 (0.15%) Primavera
12 8 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (0.13%) SAP PM
12 8 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,371 (22.53%) Azure
2 1,034 (16.99%) AWS
3 503 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
4 420 (6.90%) GCP
5 309 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 210 (3.45%) GitHub
7 199 (3.27%) Serverless
8 153 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
9 148 (2.43%) SaaS
10 136 (2.23%) Entra ID
11 125 (2.05%) Snowflake
12 123 (2.02%) dbt
13 112 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 110 (1.81%) Azure Service Bus
15 101 (1.66%) PaaS
16 94 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
17 90 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
18 85 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
19 80 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
20 77 (1.27%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.35%) Firewall
2 103 (1.69%) DNS
3 95 (1.56%) VPN
4 69 (1.13%) HTTP
4 69 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.04%) DHCP
6 42 (0.69%) LAN
7 41 (0.67%) Internet
8 36 (0.59%) RS-485
9 35 (0.58%) WAN
10 34 (0.56%) Modbus
10 34 (0.56%) RS-422
11 30 (0.49%) Network Security
11 30 (0.49%) SAN
12 23 (0.38%) SNMP
13 20 (0.33%) BGP
13 20 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
14 19 (0.31%) SSL
15 17 (0.28%) Wireless
16 16 (0.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (6.57%) SQL Server
2 249 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
3 243 (3.99%) Power BI
4 181 (2.97%) Apache Ignite
5 179 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 166 (2.73%) NoSQL
7 159 (2.61%) Relational Database
8 147 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 128 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
10 122 (2.00%) MongoDB
11 114 (1.87%) Apache Arrow
11 114 (1.87%) Dremio
12 104 (1.71%) MySQL
13 96 (1.58%) Big Data
14 89 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
15 71 (1.17%) Tableau
16 58 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
17 52 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
18 45 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
19 41 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 752 (12.36%) JIRA
2 503 (8.26%) Git
3 282 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 151 (2.48%) GitLab
5 141 (2.32%) Selenium
6 132 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 115 (1.89%) Postman
8 82 (1.35%) Visual Studio
9 77 (1.27%) JUnit
10 76 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 71 (1.17%) Bitbucket
12 52 (0.85%) JMeter
12 52 (0.85%) SpecFlow
13 50 (0.82%) Robot Framework
13 50 (0.82%) TeamCity
14 42 (0.69%) TestRail
15 40 (0.66%) WebDriver
16 39 (0.64%) Maven
17 37 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
18 33 (0.54%) Appium
General
1 1,739 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1,511 (24.83%) Finance
3 734 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 650 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 616 (10.12%) Banking
6 439 (7.21%) Front Office
7 225 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 201 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
9 174 (2.86%) Retail
10 162 (2.66%) Marketing
11 155 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 136 (2.23%) Back Office
12 136 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 116 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 99 (1.63%) Legal
15 95 (1.56%) Manufacturing
16 78 (1.28%) Electronics
17 74 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 73 (1.20%) Military
19 57 (0.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,344 (22.08%) Developer
2 848 (13.93%) Senior
3 682 (11.21%) Analyst
4 635 (10.43%) Architect
5 553 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 475 (7.80%) Lead
7 424 (6.97%) Business Analyst
8 422 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 247 (4.06%) Senior Developer
10 235 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 228 (3.75%) Java Developer
12 189 (3.11%) Full Stack Developer
13 187 (3.07%) Python Developer
14 172 (2.83%) Delivery Manager
15 162 (2.66%) Consultant
16 150 (2.46%) React Developer
17 148 (2.43%) Senior Manager
18 147 (2.42%) Software Developer
19 146 (2.40%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 138 (2.27%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (7.92%) .NET
2 458 (7.53%) React
3 276 (4.53%) REST
4 275 (4.52%) HTML
5 271 (4.45%) CSS
6 239 (3.93%) XML
7 233 (3.83%) AngularJS
7 233 (3.83%) Kafka
8 224 (3.68%) Node.js
9 196 (3.22%) gRPC
10 183 (3.01%) Protocol Buffers
11 182 (2.99%) Spring
12 175 (2.88%) .NET Core
13 173 (2.84%) JSON
14 167 (2.74%) Web Services
15 161 (2.65%) Redux
16 150 (2.46%) RESTful
17 134 (2.20%) .NET Framework
18 127 (2.09%) Pandas
19 120 (1.97%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 580 (9.53%) Product Ownership
2 314 (5.16%) Fixed Income
3 263 (4.32%) Hedge funds
4 241 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 234 (3.84%) Derivative
6 224 (3.68%) Equities
7 142 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 127 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 127 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 122 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 115 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 97 (1.59%) Data Structures
12 87 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 82 (1.35%) PKI
14 80 (1.31%) Data Centre
15 76 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
16 74 (1.22%) Algorithms
17 71 (1.17%) Cloud Native
18 66 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
19 55 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 416 (6.84%) Linux
2 297 (4.88%) Windows
3 134 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 130 (2.14%) Unix
5 97 (1.59%) Android
6 80 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (0.54%) zOS
9 32 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.38%) Mac OS X
11 22 (0.36%) Windows 10
12 20 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 19 (0.31%) CentOS
13 19 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (0.28%) Debian
15 16 (0.26%) VMS
16 14 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.099%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
17 6 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (23.84%) DevOps
2 1,310 (21.52%) Scrum
3 899 (14.77%) CI/CD
4 887 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
5 858 (14.10%) Project Management
6 843 (13.85%) Software Engineering
7 713 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 574 (9.43%) Waterfall
9 570 (9.37%) Test Automation
10 513 (8.43%) Project Delivery
11 488 (8.02%) TDD
12 477 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 445 (7.31%) Roadmaps
14 443 (7.28%) Microservices
15 440 (7.23%) Analytics
16 438 (7.20%) Continuous Integration
17 409 (6.72%) SDLC
18 403 (6.62%) Migration
19 358 (5.88%) Full Stack Development
20 355 (5.83%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 964 (15.84%) Python
2 836 (13.74%) SQL
3 814 (13.37%) Java
4 692 (11.37%) JavaScript
5 631 (10.37%) C#
6 491 (8.07%) TypeScript
7 349 (5.73%) PowerShell
8 181 (2.97%) C++
9 139 (2.28%) C
10 121 (1.99%) Bicep
11 114 (1.87%) Go
12 113 (1.86%) Scala
13 91 (1.50%) Bash
14 64 (1.05%) PL/SQL
15 62 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 59 (0.97%) Kotlin
17 49 (0.81%) T-SQL
18 48 (0.79%) Perl
19 40 (0.66%) Ruby
20 36 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,127 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 781 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 643 (10.57%) Degree
4 356 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 179 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 117 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 105 (1.73%) PMI Certification
8 101 (1.66%) PMP
9 64 (1.05%) ISTQB
10 63 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 41 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 38 (0.62%) APMP
14 35 (0.58%) CISSP
15 32 (0.53%) AWS Certification
16 31 (0.51%) Azure Certification
16 31 (0.51%) CISM
17 29 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 29 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 28 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (6.03%) QA
2 184 (3.02%) PMO
3 145 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 139 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 72 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 65 (1.07%) SLA
7 52 (0.85%) GDPR
8 41 (0.67%) NIST
9 33 (0.54%) WCAG
10 32 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 19 (0.31%) MISRA
12 16 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.21%) GRC
15 12 (0.20%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.16%) MiFID
18 8 (0.13%) GxP
18 8 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 380 (6.24%) Docker
2 242 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.35%) NFS
7 21 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
8 19 (0.31%) Firmware
8 19 (0.31%) vSphere
9 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.099%) HDFS
10 6 (0.099%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.099%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.049%) XenApp
13 2 (0.033%) LXC
14 1 (0.016%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 423 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 263 (4.32%) Terraform
3 217 (3.57%) Ansible
4 98 (1.61%) Grafana
5 73 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.00%) Puppet
7 45 (0.74%) Kibana
8 31 (0.51%) SCCM
9 30 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (0.46%) SCOM
11 27 (0.44%) logstash
12 26 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 26 (0.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 25 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (0.33%) WSUS
15 17 (0.28%) Packer
16 16 (0.26%) WMI
17 15 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
18 14 (0.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 857 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 287 (4.72%) Oracle
3 252 (4.14%) SAP
4 200 (3.29%) Google
5 155 (2.55%) VMware
6 130 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 126 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 97 (1.59%) Databricks
9 86 (1.41%) Adobe
10 78 (1.28%) Splunk
11 72 (1.18%) IBM
12 69 (1.13%) Cisco
13 65 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 51 (0.84%) Dell
15 43 (0.71%) Red Hat
16 34 (0.56%) Bloomberg
16 34 (0.56%) Informatica
17 33 (0.54%) Juniper
18 30 (0.49%) Virgin Media
19 29 (0.48%) Remedy