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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 7,173 13,009 23,686
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.68% 22.47% 27.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.34% 25.02% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,960 9,428 16,933
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
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 £775 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £527 £500
% change year-on-year -0.38% +5.40% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 239 242
10th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £31.03
25th Percentile £42.50 £51.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £50.64
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +28.37% +13.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.07 £80.50 £76.43
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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -3 6,094 £550 -4.35% 3,397
London -1 3,492 £575 -4.17% 1,231
UK excluding London 0 2,999 £525 -0.38% 2,329
Work from Home -3 2,622 £538 -2.27% 2,044
South East -2 824 £550 - 484
North of England -2 699 £520 -5.45% 605
Scotland -2 518 £490 +1.03% 163
South West -3 444 £525 -8.70% 359
North West -1 398 £525 - 363
Midlands -5 328 £525 +2.44% 425
Yorkshire -2 268 £513 -6.82% 171
West Midlands -2 248 £550 +2.23% 271
East of England -5 157 £500 -4.76% 211
East Midlands -7 77 £450 -1.37% 152
Wales 0 56 £515 -7.62% 93
North East -2 43 £533 -7.39% 75
Northern Ireland +6 13 £600 +33.33% 38

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
1 428 (5.97%) Confluence
2 220 (3.07%) Apache
3 203 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 153 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 84 (1.17%) CMS
6 83 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 70 (0.98%) Apache Spark
8 32 (0.45%) SAS
9 29 (0.40%) nginx
10 27 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 21 (0.29%) IIS
11 21 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 17 (0.24%) Drupal
13 16 (0.22%) CICS
14 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 11 (0.15%) MTS
15 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 10 (0.14%) JBoss
16 9 (0.13%) Headless CMS
17 7 (0.098%) Appian
Applications
1 158 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 156 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 80 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 29 (0.40%) Sketch
8 20 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 18 (0.25%) Trello
10 14 (0.20%) InVision
11 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
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%) CINEMA 4D
18 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
18 3 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 80 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 69 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 28 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 27 (0.38%) Endur
6 23 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 19 (0.26%) Shopify
8 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 17 (0.24%) Loan IQ
9 17 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
11 13 (0.18%) Maximo
12 11 (0.15%) Aligne
12 11 (0.15%) EuroRunner
12 11 (0.15%) Primavera
13 10 (0.14%) ION MarketView
13 10 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
14 9 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,588 (22.14%) Azure
2 1,256 (17.51%) AWS
3 576 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
4 441 (6.15%) GCP
5 353 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 267 (3.72%) GitHub
7 265 (3.69%) Serverless
8 190 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
9 180 (2.51%) SaaS
10 142 (1.98%) Entra ID
11 141 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
12 127 (1.77%) Amazon S3
13 121 (1.69%) Snowflake
14 118 (1.65%) PaaS
15 115 (1.60%) dbt
16 114 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 108 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
18 105 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
19 90 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
19 90 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 166 (2.31%) Firewall
2 112 (1.56%) DNS
3 106 (1.48%) VPN
4 82 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.03%) HTTP
6 68 (0.95%) DHCP
7 46 (0.64%) LAN
8 43 (0.60%) Internet
9 38 (0.53%) WAN
10 37 (0.52%) Modbus
10 37 (0.52%) RS-485
10 37 (0.52%) SAN
11 35 (0.49%) Network Security
11 35 (0.49%) RS-422
12 25 (0.35%) SSL
13 24 (0.33%) BGP
14 22 (0.31%) SNMP
15 20 (0.28%) MPLS
15 20 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
15 20 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 298 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
3 268 (3.74%) Power BI
4 200 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 180 (2.51%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.47%) NoSQL
7 176 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 158 (2.20%) Apache Ignite
9 154 (2.15%) MongoDB
10 132 (1.84%) MySQL
11 117 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
12 105 (1.46%) Big Data
13 98 (1.37%) Apache Arrow
13 98 (1.37%) Dremio
14 88 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
15 72 (1.00%) Tableau
16 67 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
18 50 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
19 48 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 963 (13.43%) JIRA
2 598 (8.34%) Git
3 357 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 208 (2.90%) GitLab
5 166 (2.31%) Selenium
6 155 (2.16%) Cypress.io
7 141 (1.97%) Postman
8 112 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 95 (1.32%) JUnit
10 88 (1.23%) Visual Studio
11 77 (1.07%) Bitbucket
12 64 (0.89%) Maven
12 64 (0.89%) TeamCity
13 55 (0.77%) JMeter
13 55 (0.77%) SpecFlow
14 53 (0.74%) Robot Framework
15 49 (0.68%) WebDriver
16 47 (0.66%) TestRail
17 41 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
18 38 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 2,080 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 1,628 (22.70%) Finance
3 883 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 863 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
5 653 (9.10%) Banking
6 419 (5.84%) Front Office
7 231 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
8 222 (3.09%) Investment Banking
9 187 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 187 (2.61%) Retail
10 186 (2.59%) Marketing
11 164 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 143 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 140 (1.95%) Back Office
14 116 (1.62%) Manufacturing
15 114 (1.59%) Legal
16 110 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
17 99 (1.38%) Electronics
18 74 (1.03%) Military
19 63 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,567 (21.85%) Developer
2 961 (13.40%) Senior
3 812 (11.32%) Analyst
4 691 (9.63%) Architect
5 655 (9.13%) Project Manager
6 547 (7.63%) Lead
7 506 (7.05%) Business Analyst
8 440 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 297 (4.14%) Java Developer
10 278 (3.88%) Senior Developer
11 272 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
12 223 (3.11%) Consultant
13 216 (3.01%) Full Stack Developer
14 204 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
15 190 (2.65%) Python Developer
16 175 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
17 169 (2.36%) Senior Manager
18 157 (2.19%) Product Owner
19 156 (2.17%) Software Developer
20 154 (2.15%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (7.49%) .NET
2 531 (7.40%) React
3 364 (5.07%) REST
4 334 (4.66%) CSS
5 326 (4.54%) HTML
6 286 (3.99%) AngularJS
7 278 (3.88%) Node.js
8 264 (3.68%) Kafka
9 263 (3.67%) Spring
10 254 (3.54%) XML
11 206 (2.87%) RESTful
12 201 (2.80%) JSON
13 189 (2.63%) Spring Boot
14 186 (2.59%) Web Services
15 184 (2.57%) .NET Core
16 173 (2.41%) gRPC
17 162 (2.26%) Redux
18 160 (2.23%) Protocol Buffers
19 149 (2.08%) .NET Framework
20 120 (1.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 684 (9.54%) Product Ownership
2 299 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 241 (3.36%) Hedge funds
4 227 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 226 (3.15%) Derivative
6 205 (2.86%) Equities
7 178 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 139 (1.94%) Mobile App
8 139 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 138 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 138 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 110 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 109 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 100 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 97 (1.35%) Cloud Native
14 96 (1.34%) Data Centre
15 85 (1.18%) PKI
16 81 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 78 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
18 77 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 498 (6.94%) Linux
2 350 (4.88%) Windows
3 156 (2.17%) Unix
4 145 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 101 (1.41%) Android
6 84 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 60 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.54%) zOS
9 31 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 25 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 24 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 23 (0.32%) Mac OS X
14 21 (0.29%) CentOS
15 20 (0.28%) Debian
15 20 (0.28%) VMS
16 19 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
17 10 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
18 9 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
19 8 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,703 (23.74%) DevOps
2 1,558 (21.72%) Scrum
3 1,088 (15.17%) CI/CD
4 1,051 (14.65%) Project Management
5 1,050 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
6 906 (12.63%) Software Engineering
7 808 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 686 (9.56%) Test Automation
9 670 (9.34%) Waterfall
10 622 (8.67%) Project Delivery
11 561 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 550 (7.67%) Roadmaps
13 547 (7.63%) Microservices
14 534 (7.44%) TDD
15 510 (7.11%) Continuous Integration
16 501 (6.98%) SDLC
17 499 (6.96%) Analytics
18 482 (6.72%) Migration
19 432 (6.02%) Kanban
20 429 (5.98%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (15.11%) Python
2 987 (13.76%) SQL
3 953 (13.29%) Java
4 767 (10.69%) JavaScript
5 685 (9.55%) C#
6 549 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 384 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 182 (2.54%) C++
9 150 (2.09%) C
10 143 (1.99%) Scala
11 127 (1.77%) Go
12 124 (1.73%) Bicep
13 118 (1.65%) Bash
14 88 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 78 (1.09%) Shell Script
16 75 (1.05%) Perl
17 71 (0.99%) Kotlin
18 55 (0.77%) PHP
19 52 (0.72%) T-SQL
20 50 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,298 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 915 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 776 (10.82%) Degree
4 364 (5.07%) DV Cleared
5 216 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 114 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 112 (1.56%) PMP
9 92 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 67 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 52 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 47 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 42 (0.59%) APMP
14 38 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
15 36 (0.50%) AWS Certification
16 35 (0.49%) CISSP
17 32 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 30 (0.42%) CISM
19 28 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 446 (6.22%) QA
2 216 (3.01%) PMO
3 194 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 154 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 83 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 80 (1.12%) SLA
7 68 (0.95%) GDPR
8 43 (0.60%) NIST
9 41 (0.57%) WCAG
10 36 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
11 35 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 22 (0.31%) MISRA
13 21 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 15 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.20%) ISO 20022
17 13 (0.18%) GRC
18 12 (0.17%) GxP
18 12 (0.17%) NCSC
19 11 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 441 (6.15%) Docker
2 254 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 111 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 27 (0.38%) Firmware
6 27 (0.38%) vSphere
7 24 (0.33%) NFS
7 24 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
7 24 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.11%) HDFS
10 7 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 4 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.056%) vCloud
13 3 (0.042%) XenApp
14 2 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 471 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 323 (4.50%) Terraform
3 254 (3.54%) Ansible
4 132 (1.84%) Grafana
5 77 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 71 (0.99%) Puppet
7 61 (0.85%) Kibana
8 43 (0.60%) SCCM
9 37 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 37 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 32 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 31 (0.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 26 (0.36%) logstash
12 26 (0.36%) SCOM
13 25 (0.35%) Packer
14 21 (0.29%) Argo
15 19 (0.26%) WSUS
16 16 (0.22%) WMI
17 15 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 990 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 372 (5.19%) Oracle
3 312 (4.35%) SAP
4 216 (3.01%) Google
5 178 (2.48%) VMware
6 158 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 147 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 118 (1.65%) Databricks
9 101 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 97 (1.35%) Adobe
11 96 (1.34%) Splunk
12 93 (1.30%) IBM
13 87 (1.21%) Cisco
14 62 (0.86%) Dell
15 52 (0.72%) Red Hat
16 36 (0.50%) Informatica
17 34 (0.47%) Remedy
18 33 (0.46%) Bloomberg
18 33 (0.46%) HP
19 31 (0.43%) Cadence