Agile Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 7,118 12,706 23,892
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 22.19% 27.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.44% 24.72% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,941 9,214 17,046
10th Percentile £375 £413 £405
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 233 252
10th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.25 £65.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +29.01% +12.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.00 £75.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -2 6,086 £550 -4.35% 3,926
London -1 3,508 £575 -4.17% 1,530
UK excluding London 0 2,956 £525 - 2,784
Work from Home -2 2,588 £545 -0.91% 2,276
South East -2 823 £550 - 732
North of England -1 688 £521 -5.23% 716
Scotland -2 497 £490 +0.51% 197
South West -3 446 £525 -8.70% 366
North West -1 392 £525 -1.18% 417
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
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
1 425 (5.97%) Confluence
2 243 (3.41%) Apache
3 227 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 151 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 85 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 81 (1.14%) CMS
7 69 (0.97%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.48%) SAS
9 30 (0.42%) nginx
10 29 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 21 (0.30%) IIS
11 21 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 16 (0.22%) CICS
13 15 (0.21%) Drupal
14 12 (0.17%) Headless CMS
15 11 (0.15%) MTS
16 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
16 10 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
16 10 (0.14%) JBoss
17 9 (0.13%) Appian
Applications
1 151 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 102 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
4 75 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 25 (0.35%) Sketch
8 19 (0.27%) Adobe XD
9 18 (0.25%) Trello
10 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 11 (0.15%) InVision
12 10 (0.14%) UserZoom
13 8 (0.11%) Simulink
14 7 (0.098%) SPSS
15 6 (0.084%) Stateflow
16 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 5 (0.070%) TargetLink
17 4 (0.056%) CPLEX
18 3 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
18 3 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 62 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 27 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 26 (0.37%) Endur
6 24 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 19 (0.27%) Shopify
8 17 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 17 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 14 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
10 13 (0.18%) Maximo
11 12 (0.17%) ION MarketView
12 11 (0.15%) Aligne
12 11 (0.15%) EuroRunner
12 11 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
13 9 (0.13%) Loan IQ
13 9 (0.13%) Primavera
13 9 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,576 (22.14%) Azure
2 1,248 (17.53%) AWS
3 574 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 465 (6.53%) GCP
5 356 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 262 (3.68%) GitHub
7 252 (3.54%) Serverless
8 187 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 174 (2.44%) SaaS
10 143 (2.01%) Entra ID
11 136 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 132 (1.85%) Snowflake
13 130 (1.83%) dbt
14 123 (1.73%) Amazon S3
15 118 (1.66%) PaaS
16 116 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 111 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
18 109 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
19 91 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
20 90 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 168 (2.36%) Firewall
2 114 (1.60%) DNS
3 105 (1.48%) VPN
4 78 (1.10%) HTTP
5 77 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 67 (0.94%) DHCP
7 50 (0.70%) Internet
8 47 (0.66%) LAN
9 39 (0.55%) WAN
10 36 (0.51%) Modbus
10 36 (0.51%) RS-485
11 34 (0.48%) RS-422
12 33 (0.46%) Network Security
13 32 (0.45%) SAN
14 27 (0.38%) SSL
15 24 (0.34%) SNMP
16 21 (0.30%) BGP
17 20 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
18 18 (0.25%) VSAN
19 17 (0.24%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 435 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 308 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
3 270 (3.79%) Power BI
4 199 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 192 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 181 (2.54%) Apache Ignite
7 178 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 175 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
9 143 (2.01%) MongoDB
10 134 (1.88%) MySQL
11 131 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
12 114 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
12 114 (1.60%) Dremio
13 104 (1.46%) Big Data
14 89 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
15 79 (1.11%) Tableau
16 69 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
19 47 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 951 (13.36%) JIRA
2 591 (8.30%) Git
3 342 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 201 (2.82%) GitLab
5 163 (2.29%) Selenium
6 161 (2.26%) Cypress.io
7 141 (1.98%) Postman
8 99 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 92 (1.29%) JUnit
10 89 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 75 (1.05%) Bitbucket
12 57 (0.80%) JMeter
12 57 (0.80%) TeamCity
13 55 (0.77%) Maven
14 53 (0.74%) Robot Framework
14 53 (0.74%) SpecFlow
15 48 (0.67%) WebDriver
16 44 (0.62%) TestRail
17 42 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
18 38 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 2,045 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 1,661 (23.34%) Finance
3 864 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 851 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 679 (9.54%) Banking
6 441 (6.20%) Front Office
7 233 (3.27%) Investment Banking
8 224 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 191 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 187 (2.63%) Retail
11 180 (2.53%) Marketing
12 161 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 140 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 138 (1.94%) Back Office
15 116 (1.63%) Legal
16 112 (1.57%) Manufacturing
17 105 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
18 96 (1.35%) Electronics
19 73 (1.03%) Military
20 64 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,553 (21.82%) Developer
2 944 (13.26%) Senior
3 813 (11.42%) Analyst
4 709 (9.96%) Architect
5 648 (9.10%) Project Manager
6 551 (7.74%) Lead
7 498 (7.00%) Business Analyst
8 451 (6.34%) Software Engineer
9 287 (4.03%) Java Developer
10 277 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
11 269 (3.78%) Senior Developer
12 220 (3.09%) Full Stack Developer
13 216 (3.03%) Consultant
14 206 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
15 198 (2.78%) Python Developer
16 174 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
17 171 (2.40%) Senior Manager
18 161 (2.26%) Software Developer
19 159 (2.23%) React Developer
20 154 (2.16%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (7.50%) .NET
2 531 (7.46%) React
3 345 (4.85%) REST
4 334 (4.69%) CSS
5 333 (4.68%) HTML
6 279 (3.92%) AngularJS
7 258 (3.62%) XML
8 257 (3.61%) Kafka
8 257 (3.61%) Node.js
9 248 (3.48%) Spring
10 196 (2.75%) gRPC
10 196 (2.75%) JSON
11 195 (2.74%) RESTful
12 188 (2.64%) Web Services
13 183 (2.57%) .NET Core
13 183 (2.57%) Protocol Buffers
14 175 (2.46%) Spring Boot
15 165 (2.32%) Redux
16 147 (2.07%) .NET Framework
17 131 (1.84%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 676 (9.50%) Product Ownership
2 314 (4.41%) Fixed Income
3 263 (3.69%) Hedge funds
4 244 (3.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 235 (3.30%) Derivative
6 226 (3.18%) Equities
7 173 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 139 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 139 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 139 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 137 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 112 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 111 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
12 97 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 96 (1.35%) Data Centre
14 93 (1.31%) Cloud Native
15 87 (1.22%) PKI
16 80 (1.12%) Algorithms
17 79 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
18 73 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 490 (6.88%) Linux
2 341 (4.79%) Windows
3 163 (2.29%) Unix
4 142 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 102 (1.43%) Android
6 84 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 58 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.55%) zOS
9 32 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.32%) Mac OS X
10 23 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 22 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 19 (0.27%) CentOS
12 19 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 19 (0.27%) VMS
12 19 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 17 (0.24%) Debian
14 10 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
15 7 (0.098%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,687 (23.70%) DevOps
2 1,538 (21.61%) Scrum
3 1,079 (15.16%) CI/CD
4 1,045 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
5 1,035 (14.54%) Project Management
6 934 (13.12%) Software Engineering
7 819 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 691 (9.71%) Test Automation
9 670 (9.41%) Waterfall
10 596 (8.37%) Project Delivery
11 549 (7.71%) Roadmaps
12 547 (7.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 536 (7.53%) Microservices
14 526 (7.39%) TDD
15 514 (7.22%) Analytics
16 500 (7.02%) SDLC
17 497 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
18 472 (6.63%) Migration
19 433 (6.08%) Kanban
20 431 (6.06%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (15.57%) Python
2 980 (13.77%) SQL
3 942 (13.23%) Java
4 773 (10.86%) JavaScript
5 673 (9.45%) C#
6 562 (7.90%) TypeScript
7 381 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 183 (2.57%) C++
9 152 (2.14%) C
10 142 (1.99%) Scala
11 128 (1.80%) Go
12 125 (1.76%) Bicep
13 118 (1.66%) Bash
14 87 (1.22%) PL/SQL
15 81 (1.14%) Shell Script
16 74 (1.04%) Perl
17 71 (1.00%) Kotlin
18 52 (0.73%) PHP
18 52 (0.73%) T-SQL
19 49 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,269 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 894 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 783 (11.00%) Degree
4 363 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 223 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 133 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 113 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 109 (1.53%) PMP
9 88 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 67 (0.94%) ISTQB
11 55 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 49 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 46 (0.65%) Azure Certification
14 42 (0.59%) APMP
15 40 (0.56%) CISSP
15 40 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 38 (0.53%) AWS Certification
17 34 (0.48%) CISM
18 31 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 29 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 450 (6.32%) QA
2 206 (2.89%) PMO
3 193 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 154 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 84 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 77 (1.08%) SLA
7 66 (0.93%) GDPR
8 42 (0.59%) NIST
9 41 (0.58%) WCAG
10 35 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
10 35 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (0.32%) MISRA
12 18 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.18%) GRC
15 13 (0.18%) GxP
16 12 (0.17%) ISO 20022
17 11 (0.15%) MISRA C
17 11 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 438 (6.15%) Docker
2 257 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 110 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 27 (0.38%) vSphere
7 26 (0.37%) Firmware
8 25 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (0.34%) NFS
9 24 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (0.15%) Hyper-V
11 9 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.084%) HDFS
13 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
14 4 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.056%) vCloud
15 3 (0.042%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.042%) XenApp
16 2 (0.028%) LXC
Systems Management
1 478 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 308 (4.33%) Terraform
3 255 (3.58%) Ansible
4 137 (1.92%) Grafana
5 79 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 71 (1.00%) Puppet
7 58 (0.81%) Kibana
8 44 (0.62%) SCCM
9 37 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 36 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 32 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 29 (0.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 28 (0.39%) SCOM
14 27 (0.38%) logstash
15 24 (0.34%) Packer
16 20 (0.28%) WSUS
17 19 (0.27%) Argo
18 16 (0.22%) Istio
18 16 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 978 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 364 (5.11%) Oracle
3 304 (4.27%) SAP
4 229 (3.22%) Google
5 174 (2.44%) VMware
6 156 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 149 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 113 (1.59%) Databricks
9 97 (1.36%) Adobe
10 96 (1.35%) Splunk
11 95 (1.33%) Atlassian
12 83 (1.17%) Cisco
12 83 (1.17%) IBM
13 60 (0.84%) Dell
14 49 (0.69%) Red Hat
15 36 (0.51%) Informatica
16 34 (0.48%) Bloomberg
17 33 (0.46%) Juniper
18 32 (0.45%) Cadence
18 32 (0.45%) Remedy