Agile Contracts in the South East

Agile Software Development
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 823 1,135 1,789
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 15.06% 20.13% 23.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.88% 22.60% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 817 1,262
10th Percentile £360 £406 £400
25th Percentile £427 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 52 36
10th Percentile £24.39 £23.20 £35.00
25th Percentile £40.13 £42.50 £42.05
Median hourly rate £58.60 £58.05 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +25.50% -18.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.06 £60.54
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.15
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -6.78% +30.35% +11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South East 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
Thames Valley -4 337 £550 - 202
Hampshire 0 291 £575 +2.31% 126
Berkshire -7 241 £575 +4.55% 82
Surrey 0 109 £525 -7.28% 58
Buckinghamshire -3 73 £513 -6.82% 70
West Sussex +8 59 £475 +14.73% 26
Oxfordshire +5 23 £450 -17.24% 51
East Sussex 0 13 £490 -18.33% 31
Kent -1 12 £519 +15.28% 28
Middlesex 0 3 - - 1
Sussex -1 3 £350 -41.67% 5
M4 Corridor - 1 £598 -
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 85 (10.33%) Confluence
2 36 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.70%) Apache
4 13 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 12 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.34%) SAS
7 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.73%) Drupal
9 5 (0.61%) CICS
10 3 (0.36%) Appian
10 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) IIS
12 1 (0.12%) Jadu
12 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.73%) SPSS
6 3 (0.36%) Sketch
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.12%) InVision
7 1 (0.12%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (1.22%) SAP Hybris
3 8 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.49%) Primavera
4 4 (0.49%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.12%) Maximo
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 147 (17.86%) Azure
2 71 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (5.59%) AWS
4 34 (4.13%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
6 31 (3.77%) Entra ID
7 25 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (3.04%) SaaS
8 21 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 20 (2.43%) Serverless
10 18 (2.19%) GitHub
11 17 (2.07%) Azure Storage
12 14 (1.70%) Azure Functions
13 13 (1.58%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.46%) IaaS
14 12 (1.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 11 (1.34%) PaaS
15 11 (1.34%) PowerApps
16 6 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.98%) DNS
2 35 (4.25%) DHCP
3 23 (2.79%) Firewall
4 17 (2.07%) SNMP
5 16 (1.94%) Radio Access Network
5 16 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.82%) Software-Defined Radio
7 14 (1.70%) LAN
8 12 (1.46%) BGP
9 11 (1.34%) SAN
10 10 (1.22%) VPN
11 9 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (1.09%) MPLS
12 6 (0.73%) Network Security
13 5 (0.61%) VSAN
14 4 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.49%) WAN
15 3 (0.36%) HTTP
15 3 (0.36%) Internet
15 3 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (3.77%) NoSQL
2 31 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.92%) Power BI
4 22 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.19%) MySQL
7 11 (1.34%) Couchbase
7 11 (1.34%) Tableau
8 8 (0.97%) RDBMS
9 7 (0.85%) Big Data
9 7 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (0.73%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (0.61%) DB2
11 5 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.49%) GIS
12 4 (0.49%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 132 (16.04%) JIRA
2 82 (9.96%) Git
3 44 (5.35%) Robot Framework
4 33 (4.01%) GitLab
4 33 (4.01%) TestRail
5 26 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.04%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.94%) Eclipse
8 15 (1.82%) GoogleTest
8 15 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.70%) MSI
10 13 (1.58%) Selenium
11 8 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.61%) JMeter
12 5 (0.61%) Postman
13 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.49%) ClearCase
13 4 (0.49%) ClearQuest
13 4 (0.49%) Subversion
13 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 194 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 109 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (10.69%) Finance
4 49 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 25 (3.04%) Telecoms
6 22 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (2.55%) Retail
8 20 (2.43%) Automotive
8 20 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.43%) Military
9 19 (2.31%) Marketing
10 16 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.82%) Legal
11 15 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.22%) Banking
13 10 (1.22%) Billing
14 5 (0.61%) German Language
14 5 (0.61%) Local Government
14 5 (0.61%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 136 (16.52%) Developer
2 109 (13.24%) Architect
3 96 (11.66%) Analyst
4 87 (10.57%) Project Manager
5 84 (10.21%) Senior
6 51 (6.20%) Lead
7 41 (4.98%) Software Engineer
8 33 (4.01%) Test Analyst
9 29 (3.52%) Test Engineer
10 28 (3.40%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
11 27 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
11 27 (3.28%) Network Architect
12 24 (2.92%) Senior Manager
13 23 (2.79%) Consultant
14 20 (2.43%) Senior Project Manager
15 19 (2.31%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
15 19 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.07%) Active Directory Support
16 17 (2.07%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.98%) CSS
1 41 (4.98%) HTML
2 35 (4.25%) .NET
3 34 (4.13%) REST
4 26 (3.16%) React
5 24 (2.92%) Kafka
6 23 (2.79%) AngularJS
7 19 (2.31%) SOAP
8 18 (2.19%) ARM Templates
9 17 (2.07%) XML
10 16 (1.94%) RESTful
11 15 (1.82%) Spring
12 13 (1.58%) Node.js
12 13 (1.58%) Web Services
12 13 (1.58%) YANG
13 12 (1.46%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.46%) JSON
14 11 (1.34%) ASP.NET MVC
14 11 (1.34%) Spring Boot
15 9 (1.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 53 (6.44%) PKI
3 21 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.07%) Client/Server
4 17 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.70%) Cloud Native
5 14 (1.70%) Robotics
6 13 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.34%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.09%) CCTV
9 9 (1.09%) Life Science
9 9 (1.09%) PMI
10 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.73%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (14.70%) Linux
2 118 (14.34%) Windows
3 64 (7.78%) Windows Server
4 31 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (1.46%) Debian
8 10 (1.22%) Unix
8 10 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (1.09%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.97%) VMS
11 5 (0.61%) Android
12 4 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.49%) zOS
13 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (22.48%) Scrum
2 179 (21.75%) DevOps
3 116 (14.09%) Test Automation
4 110 (13.37%) Project Management
5 93 (11.30%) Software Engineering
6 90 (10.94%) CI/CD
7 88 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (9.23%) Waterfall
10 74 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (8.26%) ITIL
12 62 (7.53%) Analytics
13 59 (7.17%) Project Delivery
14 55 (6.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 53 (6.44%) Prototyping
16 51 (6.20%) Kanban
17 45 (5.47%) Migration
17 45 (5.47%) SDLC
18 44 (5.35%) Infrastructure as Code
19 43 (5.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 123 (14.95%) Python
2 88 (10.69%) SQL
3 77 (9.36%) PowerShell
4 63 (7.65%) Java
5 62 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 59 (7.17%) C#
7 54 (6.56%) C++
8 34 (4.13%) VBScript
9 27 (3.28%) C
10 21 (2.55%) VB
11 19 (2.31%) Bash
12 18 (2.19%) Bicep
13 11 (1.34%) Go
13 11 (1.34%) PHP
13 11 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.09%) Scala
15 7 (0.85%) R
16 5 (0.61%) ABAP
16 5 (0.61%) COBOL
16 5 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 306 (37.18%) Security Cleared
2 149 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 143 (17.38%) DV Cleared
4 99 (12.03%) Degree
5 37 (4.50%) ISTQB
6 24 (2.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 20 (2.43%) PMI Certification
8 18 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 18 (2.19%) PMP
9 16 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (1.58%) MCSE
10 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.22%) MCSA
12 8 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.73%) VCAP
15 5 (0.61%) CIPD
15 5 (0.61%) CSPO
16 3 (0.36%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.74%) QA
2 28 (3.40%) PMO
3 13 (1.58%) ISO 9001
3 13 (1.58%) SLA
4 8 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.85%) RMADS
6 4 (0.49%) HL7
6 4 (0.49%) NCSC
6 4 (0.49%) NIST
6 4 (0.49%) PMBOK
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.24%) COBIT
8 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.24%) GDPR
8 2 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
System Software
1 69 (8.38%) Active Directory
2 53 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (4.25%) Docker
4 24 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.82%) Firmware
6 15 (1.82%) vSphere
7 8 (0.97%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.73%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.12%) HDFS
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 64 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.98%) Ansible
3 33 (4.01%) Terraform
4 21 (2.55%) SCCM
4 21 (2.55%) SCOM
5 19 (2.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (2.31%) WSUS
6 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.94%) WMI
8 9 (1.09%) Kibana
8 9 (1.09%) vRealize
9 8 (0.97%) Grafana
9 8 (0.97%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.85%) Argo
10 7 (0.85%) Istio
11 6 (0.73%) Packer
12 4 (0.49%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.36%) MOM
13 3 (0.36%) Rancher
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 133 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.60%) VMware
3 49 (5.95%) Oracle
4 45 (5.47%) SAP
5 21 (2.55%) Atlassian
6 20 (2.43%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.31%) Google
8 18 (2.19%) Juniper
9 17 (2.07%) Adobe
10 14 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.34%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.97%) Databricks
13 7 (0.85%) Cisco
14 6 (0.73%) HP
14 6 (0.73%) IBM
15 5 (0.61%) Arqiva
15 5 (0.61%) Veritas
15 5 (0.61%) Virgin Media
16 4 (0.49%) SolarWinds
16 4 (0.49%) Syncsort