Agile Delivery Lead Contracts

Agile Delivery Leader
UK

The median Agile Delivery Leader daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 652 788
Rank change year-on-year +96 +136 -88
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Delivery Lead 28 45 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.081% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.086% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 47
10th Percentile £500 £524 £500
25th Percentile £525 £538 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.38% +10.85%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £650
90th Percentile - - £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £575 £565
% change year-on-year - +1.77% +5.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Agile Delivery Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Agile Delivery Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Delivery Lead in the UK

Agile Delivery Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Delivery Lead in the UK

Agile Delivery Lead
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Delivery Lead over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Delivery Lead in the UK

Agile Delivery Lead
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Delivery Lead within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +61 18 £619 +1.02% 9
London +58 12 £700 +9.29% 1
Work from Home +107 11 £550 -15.38% 7
UK excluding London +33 11 £575 - 8
Scotland +53 5 £450 -
North of England +17 3 £550 - 5
South East +16 3 £575 -2.13% 2
North West +16 2 £550 - 2
Yorkshire +13 1 £595 +5.78% 2

Agile Delivery Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Agile Delivery Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Agile Delivery Lead in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (28.57%) Scrum
3 7 (25.00%) Project Management
4 6 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
6 4 (14.29%) Finance
6 4 (14.29%) JIRA
6 4 (14.29%) Kanban
6 4 (14.29%) AWS
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
6 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Supplier Management
7 3 (10.71%) Azure
7 3 (10.71%) QA
7 3 (10.71%) Objectives and Key Results
7 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
8 2 (7.14%) Dependency Management
8 2 (7.14%) GRC
8 2 (7.14%) Product Strategy
8 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
8 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills

Agile Delivery Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) AWS
1 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) Asana
3 2 (7.14%) Miro
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) ADO
1 2 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Android
1 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Scrum
2 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (25.00%) Project Management
4 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Kanban
5 4 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (14.29%) SDLC
5 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 3 (10.71%) Objectives and Key Results
6 3 (10.71%) Supplier Management
7 2 (7.14%) Co-Creation
7 2 (7.14%) Contract Management
7 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (7.14%) User Experience
7 2 (7.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Java
1 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) GRC
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
1 1 (3.57%) UiPath