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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 7,151 12,415 23,786
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.70% 22.06% 26.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.48% 24.59% 29.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,975 9,021 16,961
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 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% +9.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 227 252
10th Percentile £22.62 £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 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.84 £79.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.75 £65.00 £57.34
% change year-on-year -6.54% +13.36% +20.72%

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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
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 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +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% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 6,139 £550 -4.35% 3,582
London -1 3,542 £575 -4.17% 1,319
UK excluding London 0 2,976 £525 - 2,439
Work from Home -2 2,571 £550 - 2,105
South East -2 834 £550 - 525
North of England -1 702 £517 -6.00% 663
Scotland -2 497 £487 -0.10% 202
South West -4 449 £525 -9.40% 350
North West 0 399 £524 -2.56% 403
Midlands -4 319 £525 +2.44% 442
Yorkshire -1 268 £513 -6.82% 187
West Midlands -3 240 £550 +1.85% 290
East of England -10 153 £500 -4.76% 205
East Midlands -8 76 £445 -3.78% 151
Wales -1 50 £508 -7.73% 64
North East +1 48 £554 -3.70% 78
Northern Ireland +7 13 £600 +37.14% 42

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
1 409 (5.72%) Confluence
2 261 (3.65%) Apache
3 249 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 156 (2.18%) SharePoint
5 85 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 83 (1.16%) CMS
7 69 (0.96%) Apache Spark
8 36 (0.50%) SAS
9 32 (0.45%) 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 11 (0.15%) MTS
18 10 (0.14%) JBoss
19 9 (0.13%) Appian
19 9 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 150 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 147 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 73 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 21 (0.29%) Sketch
8 18 (0.25%) Trello
9 17 (0.24%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 9 (0.13%) InVision
11 9 (0.13%) UserZoom
12 8 (0.11%) Simulink
13 7 (0.098%) SPSS
14 6 (0.084%) Stateflow
15 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 5 (0.070%) CPLEX
15 5 (0.070%) TargetLink
16 3 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 80 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 26 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 24 (0.34%) Endur
6 23 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 17 (0.24%) Maximo
7 17 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 16 (0.22%) Shopify
9 14 (0.20%) ION MarketView
9 14 (0.20%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
10 11 (0.15%) Aligne
10 11 (0.15%) EuroRunner
11 10 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
12 9 (0.13%) Primavera
12 9 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 8 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
13 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
13 8 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,596 (22.32%) Azure
2 1,262 (17.65%) AWS
3 573 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
4 480 (6.71%) GCP
5 360 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 273 (3.82%) GitHub
7 252 (3.52%) Serverless
8 188 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 179 (2.50%) SaaS
10 150 (2.10%) Entra ID
11 147 (2.06%) dbt
12 146 (2.04%) Snowflake
13 135 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
14 126 (1.76%) Amazon S3
15 120 (1.68%) PaaS
16 113 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
17 111 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 111 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
18 95 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
19 88 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 173 (2.42%) Firewall
2 112 (1.57%) DNS
3 106 (1.48%) VPN
4 77 (1.08%) HTTP
5 76 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 66 (0.92%) DHCP
7 51 (0.71%) Internet
8 48 (0.67%) LAN
9 42 (0.59%) WAN
10 36 (0.50%) Modbus
10 36 (0.50%) RS-485
11 34 (0.48%) Network Security
11 34 (0.48%) RS-422
12 31 (0.43%) SAN
13 25 (0.35%) SNMP
14 23 (0.32%) SSL
15 22 (0.31%) BGP
16 19 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
17 18 (0.25%) MPLS
18 17 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 430 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 317 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
3 272 (3.80%) Power BI
4 202 (2.82%) Data Lake
4 202 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 197 (2.75%) Apache Ignite
6 192 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 169 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 145 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
9 141 (1.97%) MongoDB
10 138 (1.93%) MySQL
11 132 (1.85%) Dremio
12 130 (1.82%) Apache Arrow
13 106 (1.48%) Big Data
14 89 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
15 88 (1.23%) Tableau
16 72 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
17 59 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
18 55 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
19 47 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 939 (13.13%) JIRA
2 600 (8.39%) Git
3 356 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 195 (2.73%) GitLab
5 181 (2.53%) Selenium
6 165 (2.31%) Cypress.io
7 144 (2.01%) Postman
8 108 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 102 (1.43%) JUnit
10 91 (1.27%) Visual Studio
11 77 (1.08%) Bitbucket
12 64 (0.89%) Maven
13 60 (0.84%) JMeter
14 59 (0.83%) TeamCity
15 55 (0.77%) Robot Framework
16 52 (0.73%) SpecFlow
17 47 (0.66%) WebDriver
18 45 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
19 44 (0.62%) TestRail
20 40 (0.56%) Mockito
General
1 2,032 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 1,693 (23.68%) Finance
3 861 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 842 (11.77%) Analytical Skills
5 705 (9.86%) Banking
6 455 (6.36%) Front Office
7 246 (3.44%) Investment Banking
8 222 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
9 195 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
10 185 (2.59%) Retail
11 179 (2.50%) Marketing
12 162 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 148 (2.07%) Telecoms
14 138 (1.93%) Back Office
15 121 (1.69%) Manufacturing
16 114 (1.59%) Legal
17 102 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
18 98 (1.37%) Electronics
19 73 (1.02%) Military
20 61 (0.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,583 (22.14%) Developer
2 956 (13.37%) Senior
3 828 (11.58%) Analyst
4 706 (9.87%) Architect
5 664 (9.29%) Project Manager
6 547 (7.65%) Lead
7 499 (6.98%) Business Analyst
8 461 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 303 (4.24%) Java Developer
10 280 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 276 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 227 (3.17%) Full Stack Developer
13 222 (3.10%) Consultant
14 203 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
15 199 (2.78%) Python Developer
16 175 (2.45%) Senior Manager
17 172 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
18 167 (2.34%) Software Developer
19 163 (2.28%) React Developer
20 154 (2.15%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 540 (7.55%) .NET
2 538 (7.52%) React
3 351 (4.91%) REST
4 342 (4.78%) HTML
5 340 (4.75%) CSS
6 289 (4.04%) AngularJS
7 268 (3.75%) Kafka
8 259 (3.62%) XML
9 257 (3.59%) Spring
10 253 (3.54%) Node.js
11 213 (2.98%) gRPC
12 203 (2.84%) RESTful
13 199 (2.78%) Protocol Buffers
14 188 (2.63%) JSON
15 187 (2.62%) Web Services
16 183 (2.56%) .NET Core
17 182 (2.55%) Spring Boot
18 162 (2.27%) Redux
19 151 (2.11%) .NET Framework
20 147 (2.06%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 673 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 325 (4.54%) Fixed Income
3 275 (3.85%) Hedge funds
4 258 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 246 (3.44%) Derivative
6 235 (3.29%) Equities
7 172 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 143 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 141 (1.97%) Mobile App
9 141 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 135 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 112 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 111 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
13 100 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
14 97 (1.36%) Data Centre
15 93 (1.30%) Cloud Native
16 88 (1.23%) PKI
17 79 (1.10%) Algorithms
18 77 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
19 76 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 491 (6.87%) Linux
2 345 (4.82%) Windows
3 173 (2.42%) Unix
4 146 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 101 (1.41%) Android
6 81 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 58 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.55%) zOS
9 36 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (0.34%) Mac OS X
11 21 (0.29%) VMS
11 21 (0.29%) Windows 10
11 21 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.27%) CentOS
12 19 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 18 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 16 (0.22%) Debian
15 10 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
16 7 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
17 6 (0.084%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,695 (23.70%) DevOps
2 1,544 (21.59%) Scrum
3 1,091 (15.26%) CI/CD
4 1,042 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1,036 (14.49%) Project Management
6 952 (13.31%) Software Engineering
7 821 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 706 (9.87%) Test Automation
9 672 (9.40%) Waterfall
10 587 (8.21%) Project Delivery
11 551 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 547 (7.65%) Microservices
13 542 (7.58%) Roadmaps
13 542 (7.58%) TDD
14 527 (7.37%) Analytics
15 514 (7.19%) SDLC
16 494 (6.91%) Continuous Integration
17 480 (6.71%) Migration
18 438 (6.13%) User Stories
19 431 (6.03%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,124 (15.72%) Python
2 991 (13.86%) Java
3 971 (13.58%) SQL
4 792 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 669 (9.36%) C#
6 569 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 393 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 189 (2.64%) C++
9 152 (2.13%) C
10 142 (1.99%) Scala
11 127 (1.78%) Bicep
11 127 (1.78%) Go
12 122 (1.71%) Bash
13 89 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 88 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 74 (1.03%) Kotlin
16 71 (0.99%) Perl
17 52 (0.73%) PHP
18 48 (0.67%) T-SQL
19 47 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,272 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 889 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 795 (11.12%) Degree
4 372 (5.20%) DV Cleared
5 230 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 135 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 110 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 107 (1.50%) PMP
9 91 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 68 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 54 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 52 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 48 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 40 (0.56%) APMP
15 39 (0.55%) AWS Certification
15 39 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 38 (0.53%) CISSP
17 33 (0.46%) CISM
17 33 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 29 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 456 (6.38%) QA
2 200 (2.80%) PMO
3 189 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 165 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 85 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 73 (1.02%) SLA
7 62 (0.87%) GDPR
8 42 (0.59%) NIST
9 41 (0.57%) WCAG
10 36 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 34 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 27 (0.38%) MISRA
13 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.20%) 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
1 456 (6.38%) Docker
2 267 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 115 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 28 (0.39%) vSphere
7 27 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (0.34%) Firmware
8 24 (0.34%) NFS
8 24 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
9 12 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.11%) HDFS
10 8 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
13 4 (0.056%) vCloud
13 4 (0.056%) XenApp
14 3 (0.042%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.028%) LXC
Systems Management
1 502 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 315 (4.40%) Terraform
3 264 (3.69%) Ansible
4 143 (2.00%) Grafana
5 85 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.03%) Puppet
7 57 (0.80%) Kibana
8 45 (0.63%) SCCM
9 38 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 31 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.41%) SCOM
13 29 (0.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 27 (0.38%) logstash
15 24 (0.34%) Packer
16 21 (0.29%) WSUS
17 19 (0.27%) Argo
18 17 (0.24%) WMI
19 16 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 986 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 358 (5.01%) Oracle
3 310 (4.34%) SAP
4 244 (3.41%) Google
5 178 (2.49%) VMware
6 159 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 153 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 101 (1.41%) Databricks
9 97 (1.36%) Atlassian
10 94 (1.31%) Splunk
11 92 (1.29%) Adobe
12 88 (1.23%) Cisco
13 82 (1.15%) IBM
14 60 (0.84%) Dell
15 45 (0.63%) Red Hat
16 38 (0.53%) Informatica
16 38 (0.53%) Juniper
17 33 (0.46%) Bloomberg
18 31 (0.43%) ION Trading
18 31 (0.43%) Remedy