Agile Project Management Contracts

Agile Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Agile Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Project Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 531 577
Rank change year-on-year +47 +46 -56
Contract jobs citing Agile Project Management 85 164 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.32% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 114 197
10th Percentile £340 £410 £407
25th Percentile £456 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £514 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -4.86% +6.40%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £623 £709 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 3
10th Percentile £21.10 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £22.33 £31.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £37.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -47.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £82.75 £43.38
90th Percentile - £87.50 £48.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £25.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +140.00% -24.24% -53.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile Project Management 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 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
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% -4.99%

Agile Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Project Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile Project Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +32 69 £556 +4.46% 65
London +69 38 £575 +9.52% 12
UK excluding London 0 33 £488 -3.70% 51
Work from Home +64 21 £475 -5.00% 27
South East +16 10 £341 -18.81% 14
South West +9 9 £538 -17.31% 5
North of England +6 5 £500 +11.11% 10
North West +10 4 £575 +21.05% 6
Midlands +26 3 £488 -9.72% 13
West Midlands +12 3 £488 -10.55% 9
Scotland +24 2 £475 -5.00%
East of England +6 2 £750 +36.36% 8
Wales - 2 £160 - 1
North East +11 1 £325 -

Agile Project Management
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 9 (10.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.88%) SharePoint 2013
3 4 (4.71%) CMS
4 3 (3.53%) Confluence
4 3 (3.53%) Drupal
4 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.18%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.24%) SuccessFactors
3 6 (7.06%) OCI
4 3 (3.53%) AWS
4 3 (3.53%) Azure
4 3 (3.53%) OneDrive
4 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.18%) GCP
5 1 (1.18%) GitHub
5 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Internet
1 2 (2.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) Tableau
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) JIRA
General
1 35 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.47%) Finance
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Local Government
6 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.53%) Military
6 3 (3.53%) Retail
6 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.35%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) French Language
7 2 (2.35%) Games
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (48.24%) Project Manager
2 13 (15.29%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (9.41%) Analyst
3 8 (9.41%) Senior
3 8 (9.41%) Senior Manager
4 7 (8.24%) Agile Project Manager
4 7 (8.24%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.24%) Technical Manager
4 7 (8.24%) Technical Project Manager
5 5 (5.88%) Consultant
5 5 (5.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 5 (5.88%) SharePoint Project Manager
6 4 (4.71%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.71%) Cloud Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.71%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.71%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (4.71%) Oracle Consultant
6 4 (4.71%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) PySpark
2 4 (4.71%) Web Services
3 1 (1.18%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.24%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.88%) PMI
3 5 (5.88%) Taxonomies
4 4 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.18%) CMDB
7 1 (1.18%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) STB
7 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (100.00%) Agile
1 85 (100.00%) Project Management
2 22 (25.88%) Project Delivery
3 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (24.71%) Scrum
4 19 (22.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (16.47%) User Stories
6 13 (15.29%) Decision-Making
6 13 (15.29%) Migration
7 11 (12.94%) Change Management
7 11 (12.94%) PRINCE2
7 11 (12.94%) Waterfall
8 10 (11.76%) Kanban
8 10 (11.76%) Project Planning
9 8 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (9.41%) Data Analysis
9 8 (9.41%) Matrix Management
9 8 (9.41%) SDLC
9 8 (9.41%) Visualisation
10 6 (7.06%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.88%) Python
2 4 (4.71%) Java
3 1 (1.18%) C
3 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) Degree
2 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.88%) PMP
5 4 (4.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (3.53%) BC Cleared
6 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.35%) CSPO
8 1 (1.18%) APMG
8 1 (1.18%) APMP
8 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) PMBOK
2 4 (4.71%) PMO
3 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Ansible
1 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) SAP
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) IFS
5 1 (1.18%) Planview
5 1 (1.18%) Progress
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow