Agile Contracts

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

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 7,143 12,280 23,662
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.62% 21.90% 27.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.43% 24.42% 29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,960 8,929 16,875
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 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 221 248
10th Percentile £22.37 £35.00 £31.18
25th Percentile £42.19 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% +25.00% +15.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.71 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.66 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.75 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.54% +13.04% +15.00%

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 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 6,131 £550 -4.35% 3,382
London -1 3,550 £575 -4.17% 1,200
UK excluding London 0 2,965 £525 - 2,354
Work from Home -3 2,557 £550 - 2,071
South East -2 836 £550 - 505
North of England -1 690 £517 -6.00% 651
Scotland -2 502 £475 -2.06% 198
South West -4 451 £525 -8.70% 321
North West -1 393 £525 -2.33% 404
Midlands -5 311 £525 +2.94% 431
Yorkshire -1 262 £513 -6.82% 178
West Midlands -3 231 £550 +2.33% 291
East of England -10 154 £500 -4.76% 200
East Midlands -10 77 £445 -3.78% 139
Wales -2 49 £508 -10.96% 62
North East +1 48 £554 -5.74% 74
Northern Ireland +2 13 £600 +37.14% 39

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
1 418 (5.85%) Confluence
2 261 (3.65%) Apache
3 247 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 157 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 88 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 87 (1.22%) CMS
7 69 (0.97%) Apache Spark
8 39 (0.55%) SAS
9 31 (0.43%) nginx
10 29 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 21 (0.29%) IIS
12 20 (0.28%) OpenStack
13 16 (0.22%) CICS
14 15 (0.21%) Drupal
15 13 (0.18%) Headless CMS
16 12 (0.17%) ArcGIS
17 10 (0.14%) JBoss
18 9 (0.13%) Appian
18 9 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
18 9 (0.13%) MTS
Applications
1 149 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 93 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 76 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 40 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.28%) Trello
8 18 (0.25%) Sketch
9 15 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 13 (0.18%) Chatbot
11 9 (0.13%) UserZoom
12 8 (0.11%) Simulink
12 8 (0.11%) SPSS
13 7 (0.098%) InVision
14 6 (0.084%) Stateflow
15 5 (0.070%) CPLEX
15 5 (0.070%) TargetLink
16 4 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
17 3 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
17 3 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 79 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 24 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 23 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.31%) Endur
7 18 (0.25%) Maximo
8 17 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 16 (0.22%) Shopify
10 14 (0.20%) ION MarketView
10 14 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
11 11 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.13%) Aligne
12 9 (0.13%) EuroRunner
12 9 (0.13%) Primavera
12 9 (0.13%) SAP CO
12 9 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 8 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
13 8 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,601 (22.41%) Azure
2 1,261 (17.65%) AWS
3 576 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 479 (6.71%) GCP
5 358 (5.01%) Power Platform
6 272 (3.81%) GitHub
7 246 (3.44%) Serverless
8 190 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
9 178 (2.49%) SaaS
10 151 (2.11%) Entra ID
11 149 (2.09%) Snowflake
12 148 (2.07%) dbt
13 133 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
14 124 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 123 (1.72%) PaaS
16 111 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 108 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 108 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
18 94 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
19 90 (1.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 173 (2.42%) Firewall
2 111 (1.55%) DNS
3 105 (1.47%) VPN
4 80 (1.12%) HTTP
5 74 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 68 (0.95%) DHCP
7 50 (0.70%) Internet
8 49 (0.69%) LAN
9 43 (0.60%) WAN
10 36 (0.50%) Modbus
10 36 (0.50%) RS-485
11 34 (0.48%) RS-422
12 31 (0.43%) Network Security
13 30 (0.42%) SAN
14 25 (0.35%) SNMP
15 22 (0.31%) SSL
16 21 (0.29%) BGP
17 18 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
18 17 (0.24%) MPLS
19 16 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 312 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
3 273 (3.82%) Power BI
4 207 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 203 (2.84%) Relational Database
6 196 (2.74%) Apache Ignite
7 188 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 169 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
9 144 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
10 138 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 138 (1.93%) MySQL
11 133 (1.86%) Dremio
12 131 (1.83%) Apache Arrow
13 112 (1.57%) Big Data
14 91 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
15 90 (1.26%) Tableau
16 74 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
17 59 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
17 59 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
18 47 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 948 (13.27%) JIRA
2 601 (8.41%) Git
3 356 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 194 (2.72%) GitLab
5 180 (2.52%) Selenium
6 164 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 145 (2.03%) Postman
8 108 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 103 (1.44%) JUnit
10 91 (1.27%) Visual Studio
11 82 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 61 (0.85%) Maven
13 60 (0.84%) JMeter
14 55 (0.77%) TeamCity
15 54 (0.76%) Robot Framework
16 52 (0.73%) SpecFlow
17 47 (0.66%) WebDriver
18 43 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
19 41 (0.57%) TestRail
20 40 (0.56%) Mockito
General
1 2,020 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 1,689 (23.65%) Finance
3 863 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 837 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
5 708 (9.91%) Banking
6 454 (6.36%) Front Office
7 246 (3.44%) Investment Banking
8 224 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 201 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 181 (2.53%) Retail
11 177 (2.48%) Marketing
12 161 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 147 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 137 (1.92%) Back Office
15 121 (1.69%) Manufacturing
16 110 (1.54%) Legal
17 98 (1.37%) Electronics
17 98 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
18 75 (1.05%) Military
19 60 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,593 (22.30%) Developer
2 971 (13.59%) Senior
3 827 (11.58%) Analyst
4 712 (9.97%) Architect
5 650 (9.10%) Project Manager
6 547 (7.66%) Lead
7 500 (7.00%) Business Analyst
8 461 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 304 (4.26%) Java Developer
10 280 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 278 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
12 224 (3.14%) Consultant
12 224 (3.14%) Full Stack Developer
13 204 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
14 199 (2.79%) Python Developer
15 178 (2.49%) Senior Manager
16 172 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
17 164 (2.30%) React Developer
17 164 (2.30%) Software Developer
18 151 (2.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (7.57%) .NET
2 534 (7.48%) React
3 357 (5.00%) REST
4 345 (4.83%) HTML
5 344 (4.82%) CSS
6 286 (4.00%) AngularJS
7 268 (3.75%) Kafka
8 258 (3.61%) Spring
9 256 (3.58%) Node.js
10 253 (3.54%) XML
11 212 (2.97%) gRPC
12 209 (2.93%) RESTful
13 198 (2.77%) Protocol Buffers
14 192 (2.69%) Web Services
15 185 (2.59%) Spring Boot
16 183 (2.56%) .NET Core
17 182 (2.55%) JSON
18 163 (2.28%) Redux
19 152 (2.13%) .NET Framework
20 146 (2.04%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 669 (9.37%) Product Ownership
2 327 (4.58%) Fixed Income
3 279 (3.91%) Hedge funds
4 264 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 248 (3.47%) Derivative
6 237 (3.32%) Equities
7 161 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 143 (2.00%) Mobile App
9 141 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 137 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 136 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 112 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 111 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
14 99 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
15 97 (1.36%) Data Centre
16 91 (1.27%) Cloud Native
16 91 (1.27%) PKI
17 78 (1.09%) Algorithms
18 74 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
18 74 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 494 (6.92%) Linux
2 340 (4.76%) Windows
3 173 (2.42%) Unix
4 146 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 100 (1.40%) Android
6 79 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 57 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.55%) zOS
9 37 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (0.34%) Mac OS X
11 22 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 21 (0.29%) VMS
12 21 (0.29%) Windows 10
13 20 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 19 (0.27%) CentOS
15 18 (0.25%) Ubuntu
16 15 (0.21%) Debian
17 10 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
18 6 (0.084%) Mac OS
18 6 (0.084%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,704 (23.86%) DevOps
2 1,542 (21.59%) Scrum
3 1,098 (15.37%) CI/CD
4 1,035 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
5 1,028 (14.39%) Project Management
6 954 (13.36%) Software Engineering
7 832 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 698 (9.77%) Test Automation
9 664 (9.30%) Waterfall
10 576 (8.06%) Project Delivery
11 552 (7.73%) Microservices
12 547 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 542 (7.59%) Roadmaps
14 541 (7.57%) TDD
15 536 (7.50%) Analytics
16 515 (7.21%) SDLC
17 489 (6.85%) Continuous Integration
18 478 (6.69%) Migration
19 438 (6.13%) User Stories
20 434 (6.08%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,131 (15.83%) Python
2 996 (13.94%) Java
3 974 (13.64%) SQL
4 793 (11.10%) JavaScript
5 669 (9.37%) C#
6 568 (7.95%) TypeScript
7 398 (5.57%) PowerShell
8 193 (2.70%) C++
9 152 (2.13%) C
10 142 (1.99%) Scala
11 130 (1.82%) Go
12 128 (1.79%) Bicep
13 126 (1.76%) Bash
14 90 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 88 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 74 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 71 (0.99%) Perl
18 52 (0.73%) PHP
19 48 (0.67%) Ruby
19 48 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,285 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 894 (12.52%) SC Cleared
3 797 (11.16%) Degree
4 377 (5.28%) DV Cleared
5 227 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 133 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 111 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 108 (1.51%) PMP
9 90 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 66 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 57 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 53 (0.74%) Azure Certification
13 45 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 40 (0.56%) AWS Certification
15 39 (0.55%) CISSP
16 38 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
17 36 (0.50%) APMP
18 33 (0.46%) CISM
19 32 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 31 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 461 (6.45%) QA
2 194 (2.72%) PMO
3 187 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 165 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 85 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 71 (0.99%) SLA
7 63 (0.88%) GDPR
8 42 (0.59%) NIST
9 41 (0.57%) WCAG
10 37 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 35 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
12 29 (0.41%) MISRA
13 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.21%) GxP
16 13 (0.18%) GRC
16 13 (0.18%) MISRA C
17 12 (0.17%) ISO 20022
18 11 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 461 (6.45%) Docker
2 267 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 120 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 30 (0.42%) vSphere
7 28 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (0.34%) Firmware
8 24 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
9 23 (0.32%) NFS
10 12 (0.17%) Hyper-V
11 9 (0.13%) HDFS
12 7 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
14 4 (0.056%) vCloud
14 4 (0.056%) XenApp
15 3 (0.042%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.042%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 512 (7.17%) Kubernetes
2 315 (4.41%) Terraform
3 264 (3.70%) Ansible
4 145 (2.03%) Grafana
5 86 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.04%) Puppet
7 60 (0.84%) Kibana
8 46 (0.64%) SCCM
9 39 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 32 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 31 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 30 (0.42%) logstash
14 29 (0.41%) SCOM
15 28 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 24 (0.34%) Packer
17 22 (0.31%) WSUS
18 19 (0.27%) Argo
19 17 (0.24%) WMI
20 15 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 981 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 357 (5.00%) Oracle
3 309 (4.33%) SAP
4 246 (3.44%) Google
5 181 (2.53%) VMware
6 160 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 156 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 100 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 100 (1.40%) Databricks
9 93 (1.30%) Splunk
10 88 (1.23%) Adobe
11 87 (1.22%) Cisco
12 83 (1.16%) IBM
13 59 (0.83%) Dell
14 44 (0.62%) Red Hat
15 38 (0.53%) Informatica
15 38 (0.53%) Juniper
16 33 (0.46%) Bloomberg
17 31 (0.43%) Cadence
17 31 (0.43%) Remedy