Agile Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,956 4,839 7,465
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.59% 20.92% 24.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.31% 23.39% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,960 3,599 5,363
10th Percentile £358 £388 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 183 161
10th Percentile £22.37 £37.50 £31.50
25th Percentile £45.88 £53.75 £42.33
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.30 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.97 £76.64
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK excluding London 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
South East -2 823 £550 - 731
North of England -1 688 £521 -5.23% 715
Scotland -2 497 £490 +0.51% 197
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
Wales -2 50 £508 -10.18% 96
North East +1 43 £533 -9.36% 91
Northern Ireland +3 13 £600 +33.33% 41
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 208 (7.04%) Confluence
2 66 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (0.95%) Apache
5 24 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 18 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.61%) SAS
7 16 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 14 (0.47%) CMS
9 12 (0.41%) CICS
10 11 (0.37%) nginx
11 10 (0.34%) Drupal
12 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.20%) IIS
14 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.14%) Appian
15 4 (0.14%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 97 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
4 29 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 29 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 28 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.27%) Simulink
7 6 (0.20%) Sketch
7 6 (0.20%) SPSS
7 6 (0.20%) Stateflow
8 5 (0.17%) InVision
8 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
9 4 (0.14%) Trello
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) CANalyzer
11 2 (0.068%) UserZoom
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.034%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 26 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 15 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.41%) Maximo
6 11 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
7 10 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 8 (0.27%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.20%) Primavera
10 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.17%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
12 4 (0.14%) Sage X3
12 4 (0.14%) SAP WM
13 3 (0.10%) Aareon QL
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 497 (16.81%) Azure
2 340 (11.50%) AWS
3 201 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 113 (3.82%) GitHub
6 107 (3.62%) Serverless
7 77 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (2.57%) SaaS
9 75 (2.54%) GCP
10 63 (2.13%) Amazon S3
11 62 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (1.49%) OpenShift
14 40 (1.35%) IaaS
15 39 (1.32%) Entra ID
16 37 (1.25%) PaaS
17 34 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
18 32 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.86%) Firewall
2 82 (2.77%) DNS
2 82 (2.77%) VPN
3 56 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 50 (1.69%) DHCP
5 36 (1.22%) Modbus
5 36 (1.22%) RS-485
6 34 (1.15%) RS-422
7 32 (1.08%) LAN
8 28 (0.95%) Network Security
9 26 (0.88%) HTTP
9 26 (0.88%) WAN
10 22 (0.74%) Internet
10 22 (0.74%) SAN
11 21 (0.71%) SSL
12 17 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
12 17 (0.58%) SNMP
12 17 (0.58%) VSAN
13 15 (0.51%) Ethernet
13 15 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (2.88%) Power BI
2 85 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 83 (2.81%) Relational Database
4 77 (2.60%) MySQL
5 70 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 64 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 33 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 27 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (0.88%) RDBMS
10 25 (0.85%) Big Data
11 24 (0.81%) GIS
12 21 (0.71%) DB2
12 21 (0.71%) Tableau
13 19 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (0.58%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.54%) Data Lake
16 15 (0.51%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 473 (16.00%) JIRA
2 235 (7.95%) Git
3 152 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 95 (3.21%) GitLab
5 58 (1.96%) Selenium
6 51 (1.73%) Bitbucket
7 44 (1.49%) JUnit
7 44 (1.49%) Robot Framework
8 42 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 38 (1.29%) Postman
10 36 (1.22%) Cypress.io
11 34 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.15%) TestRail
12 28 (0.95%) Eclipse
13 27 (0.91%) GoogleTest
13 27 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
14 22 (0.74%) JMeter
15 21 (0.71%) Subversion
16 15 (0.51%) Maven
16 15 (0.51%) MSI
General
1 848 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 485 (16.41%) Finance
3 416 (14.07%) Public Sector
4 371 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (3.45%) Banking
5 102 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 81 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 72 (2.44%) Electronics
8 71 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 68 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 65 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 60 (2.03%) Marketing
12 58 (1.96%) Military
13 53 (1.79%) Legal
14 48 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 45 (1.52%) Retail
16 44 (1.49%) Automotive
17 28 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 28 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
18 23 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 486 (16.44%) Developer
2 332 (11.23%) Analyst
2 332 (11.23%) Architect
3 308 (10.42%) Project Manager
4 298 (10.08%) Senior
5 225 (7.61%) Lead
6 158 (5.35%) Business Analyst
7 154 (5.21%) Software Engineer
8 113 (3.82%) Java Developer
9 96 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
10 85 (2.88%) Senior Manager
11 82 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
12 81 (2.74%) Consultant
13 75 (2.54%) Test Engineer
14 68 (2.30%) Full Stack Developer
14 68 (2.30%) Technical Architect
15 66 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
16 60 (2.03%) C++ Software Engineer
17 52 (1.76%) Product Manager
18 50 (1.69%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (5.28%) React
2 146 (4.94%) REST
3 138 (4.67%) .NET
4 133 (4.50%) Spring
5 128 (4.33%) CSS
5 128 (4.33%) HTML
6 98 (3.32%) Node.js
7 97 (3.28%) Spring Boot
8 88 (2.98%) AngularJS
9 86 (2.91%) XML
10 81 (2.74%) Kafka
11 79 (2.67%) JSON
12 73 (2.47%) RESTful
13 66 (2.23%) Web Services
14 47 (1.59%) AWS CDK
15 42 (1.42%) .NET Framework
16 40 (1.35%) JPA
17 39 (1.32%) SOAP
18 36 (1.22%) YAML
19 32 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 231 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 96 (3.25%) Public Cloud
3 79 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 73 (2.47%) PKI
6 48 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 46 (1.56%) Cloud Native
8 43 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 43 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 42 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 32 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (0.81%) Mainframe
15 23 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 22 (0.74%) Algorithms
17 21 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 20 (0.68%) Client/Server
19 18 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 286 (9.68%) Linux
2 240 (8.12%) Windows
3 121 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 64 (2.17%) Unix
5 51 (1.73%) Android
6 48 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (0.98%) zOS
10 21 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
11 19 (0.64%) Ubuntu
12 18 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
13 17 (0.58%) Debian
14 13 (0.44%) Windows 10
15 10 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
16 8 (0.27%) VMS
17 6 (0.20%) CentOS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (22.46%) DevOps
2 616 (20.84%) Scrum
3 527 (17.83%) Project Management
4 407 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
5 402 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 400 (13.53%) CI/CD
7 362 (12.25%) Software Engineering
8 343 (11.60%) Waterfall
9 294 (9.95%) Test Automation
10 275 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 262 (8.86%) Project Delivery
12 229 (7.75%) Roadmaps
13 214 (7.24%) PRINCE2
14 203 (6.87%) Continuous Integration
15 200 (6.77%) ITIL
16 197 (6.66%) SDLC
17 189 (6.39%) Microservices
18 179 (6.06%) Migration
19 177 (5.99%) User Stories
20 175 (5.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 368 (12.45%) Python
2 351 (11.87%) Java
3 331 (11.20%) SQL
4 222 (7.51%) JavaScript
5 218 (7.37%) C#
6 139 (4.70%) PowerShell
7 136 (4.60%) C++
8 126 (4.26%) C
9 118 (3.99%) TypeScript
10 61 (2.06%) Bash
11 47 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 37 (1.25%) Scala
13 36 (1.22%) PHP
13 36 (1.22%) VBScript
14 32 (1.08%) Shell Script
15 26 (0.88%) Bicep
15 26 (0.88%) Perl
15 26 (0.88%) VB
16 25 (0.85%) REXX
17 19 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 761 (25.74%) Security Cleared
2 477 (16.14%) SC Cleared
3 321 (10.86%) Degree
4 287 (9.71%) DV Cleared
5 52 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 43 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 43 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 41 (1.39%) PMP
9 39 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 32 (1.08%) APMP
11 31 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (0.95%) MCSE
12 28 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 27 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 26 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 23 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 17 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
17 17 (0.58%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.26%) QA
2 103 (3.48%) PMO
3 80 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 45 (1.52%) SLA
5 35 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 32 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 24 (0.81%) NIST
8 23 (0.78%) MISRA
9 19 (0.64%) GDPR
10 18 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 16 (0.54%) ISO 9001
12 14 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.37%) MISRA C
14 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
15 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.27%) WCAG
16 7 (0.24%) GRC
16 7 (0.24%) RMADS
17 6 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 150 (5.07%) Docker
2 104 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 90 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.85%) Firmware
6 23 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.71%) vSphere
8 18 (0.61%) NFS
9 17 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.068%) LXC
14 1 (0.034%) HDFS
14 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.034%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 156 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 128 (4.33%) Ansible
3 118 (3.99%) Terraform
4 83 (2.81%) Grafana
5 40 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.29%) SCCM
7 32 (1.08%) Kibana
8 27 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (0.85%) SCOM
10 24 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (0.68%) Puppet
11 20 (0.68%) WSUS
12 19 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 16 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 16 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.54%) WMI
14 14 (0.47%) Argo
15 13 (0.44%) Istio
16 10 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
16 10 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 398 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 152 (5.14%) Oracle
3 138 (4.67%) SAP
4 130 (4.40%) VMware
5 70 (2.37%) Google
6 67 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 64 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 57 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.59%) IBM
10 38 (1.29%) Cisco
11 31 (1.05%) Dell
12 30 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 29 (0.98%) Splunk
14 26 (0.88%) Adobe
15 24 (0.81%) Remedy
16 23 (0.78%) Databricks
16 23 (0.78%) Juniper
17 22 (0.74%) Talend
18 19 (0.64%) Broadcom
18 19 (0.64%) CA