Agile Contracts in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 6,016 11,423 19,298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 16.28% 22.60% 27.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.81% 25.04% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,207 8,252 13,911
10th Percentile £390 £413 £406
25th Percentile £463 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £788 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 237 217
10th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £42.50 £51.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +33.80% +7.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.71 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £81.00 £69.19
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.93% +10.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -1 3,426 £578 -3.75% 1,233
South East -2 826 £550 - 516
North of England -1 712 £511 -7.05% 578
South West -4 430 £538 -6.52% 352
North West -1 415 £524 -0.24% 365
Midlands -6 314 £525 - 384
Yorkshire -1 263 £500 -9.09% 158
West Midlands -3 240 £550 +1.85% 250
East of England -6 155 £500 -4.76% 239
East Midlands -10 71 £450 - 134
North East -1 44 £533 -8.39% 60
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 315 (5.24%) Confluence
2 175 (2.91%) Apache
3 160 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 133 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 71 (1.18%) CMS
6 69 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 57 (0.95%) Apache Spark
8 28 (0.47%) SAS
9 27 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 26 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 20 (0.33%) nginx
12 19 (0.32%) IIS
13 17 (0.28%) Drupal
14 13 (0.22%) CICS
15 11 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
15 11 (0.18%) MTS
16 10 (0.17%) ArcGIS
17 7 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
17 7 (0.12%) WebLogic
18 6 (0.100%) JBoss
Applications
1 144 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 123 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 95 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 65 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 58 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 31 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.45%) Sketch
8 19 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 15 (0.25%) InVision
10 8 (0.13%) Simulink
10 8 (0.13%) Trello
11 7 (0.12%) SPSS
12 6 (0.100%) Stateflow
13 5 (0.083%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (0.083%) TargetLink
13 5 (0.083%) UserZoom
13 5 (0.083%) Zeplin
14 4 (0.066%) CINEMA 4D
15 3 (0.050%) Windchill
16 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 77 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (0.50%) Endur
4 28 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 26 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 22 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 20 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 16 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 16 (0.27%) Shopify
9 15 (0.25%) Primavera
10 14 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
11 12 (0.20%) NetSuite
11 12 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.18%) Aligne
12 11 (0.18%) EuroRunner
13 9 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
13 9 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 8 (0.13%) ION MarketView
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
14 8 (0.13%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,352 (22.47%) Azure
2 1,021 (16.97%) AWS
3 495 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
4 370 (6.15%) GCP
5 294 (4.89%) Power Platform
6 210 (3.49%) Serverless
7 203 (3.37%) GitHub
8 155 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
9 146 (2.43%) SaaS
10 123 (2.04%) Entra ID
11 109 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 101 (1.68%) PaaS
13 95 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 94 (1.56%) Snowflake
15 92 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
16 91 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 91 (1.51%) dbt
17 89 (1.48%) Amazon S3
18 84 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
19 76 (1.26%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 150 (2.49%) Firewall
2 107 (1.78%) VPN
3 103 (1.71%) DNS
4 68 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 64 (1.06%) DHCP
6 60 (1.00%) HTTP
7 47 (0.78%) LAN
8 41 (0.68%) WAN
9 38 (0.63%) Internet
10 37 (0.62%) SAN
11 36 (0.60%) Modbus
11 36 (0.60%) RS-422
11 36 (0.60%) RS-485
12 33 (0.55%) Network Security
13 32 (0.53%) BGP
14 26 (0.43%) Wireless
15 21 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
16 20 (0.33%) Intranet
16 20 (0.33%) MPLS
17 19 (0.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 238 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
3 228 (3.79%) Power BI
4 158 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 158 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 150 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 142 (2.36%) Data Lake
7 138 (2.29%) MongoDB
8 125 (2.08%) Apache Ignite
9 98 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
10 94 (1.56%) Big Data
11 92 (1.53%) MySQL
12 88 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 82 (1.36%) Apache Arrow
13 82 (1.36%) Dremio
14 62 (1.03%) Tableau
15 55 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 53 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 47 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
18 42 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 740 (12.30%) JIRA
2 489 (8.13%) Git
3 282 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 155 (2.58%) GitLab
5 135 (2.24%) Selenium
6 107 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 100 (1.66%) Postman
8 84 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 68 (1.13%) JUnit
9 68 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 67 (1.11%) Bitbucket
11 62 (1.03%) TeamCity
12 57 (0.95%) Maven
13 53 (0.88%) SpecFlow
14 50 (0.83%) Robot Framework
15 44 (0.73%) TestRail
16 42 (0.70%) JMeter
17 38 (0.63%) WebDriver
17 38 (0.63%) webpack
18 37 (0.62%) SoapUI
General
1 1,730 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 1,408 (23.40%) Finance
3 746 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 665 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 546 (9.08%) Banking
6 381 (6.33%) Front Office
7 194 (3.22%) Investment Banking
8 193 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 169 (2.81%) Retail
10 167 (2.78%) Marketing
11 151 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 138 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 115 (1.91%) Back Office
13 115 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 102 (1.70%) Legal
15 97 (1.61%) Manufacturing
16 84 (1.40%) Electronics
17 81 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
18 70 (1.16%) Military
19 57 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,338 (22.24%) Developer
2 829 (13.78%) Senior
3 656 (10.90%) Analyst
4 588 (9.77%) Architect
5 564 (9.38%) Project Manager
6 455 (7.56%) Lead
7 427 (7.10%) Business Analyst
8 367 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 254 (4.22%) Senior Developer
10 228 (3.79%) Java Developer
11 225 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
12 179 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
12 179 (2.98%) Full Stack Developer
13 170 (2.83%) Consultant
14 163 (2.71%) Python Developer
15 143 (2.38%) Senior Manager
16 137 (2.28%) Software Developer
17 134 (2.23%) Product Owner
18 129 (2.14%) React Developer
19 125 (2.08%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (7.55%) .NET
2 426 (7.08%) React
3 292 (4.85%) REST
4 258 (4.29%) CSS
5 254 (4.22%) HTML
6 246 (4.09%) Node.js
7 237 (3.94%) AngularJS
8 234 (3.89%) Kafka
9 216 (3.59%) XML
10 179 (2.98%) Spring
11 170 (2.83%) JSON
12 167 (2.78%) .NET Core
13 163 (2.71%) RESTful
14 146 (2.43%) Redux
15 138 (2.29%) gRPC
16 136 (2.26%) Web Services
17 130 (2.16%) .NET Framework
18 127 (2.11%) Protocol Buffers
19 119 (1.98%) Spring Boot
20 101 (1.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 547 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 264 (4.39%) Fixed Income
3 205 (3.41%) Hedge funds
4 203 (3.37%) Derivative
5 196 (3.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 173 (2.88%) Equities
7 142 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 126 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 120 (1.99%) Mobile App
10 116 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 113 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 87 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 87 (1.45%) PKI
13 81 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 79 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
15 78 (1.30%) Cloud Native
16 72 (1.20%) Algorithms
17 71 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
18 58 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
19 57 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 399 (6.63%) Linux
2 302 (5.02%) Windows
3 138 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 119 (1.98%) Unix
5 91 (1.51%) Android
6 81 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 55 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (0.53%) zOS
9 31 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 25 (0.42%) CentOS
12 23 (0.38%) Debian
12 23 (0.38%) Mac OS X
12 23 (0.38%) Ubuntu
13 22 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
14 17 (0.28%) VMS
14 17 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
15 8 (0.13%) Solaris
16 6 (0.100%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,413 (23.49%) DevOps
2 1,319 (21.92%) Scrum
3 891 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 865 (14.38%) CI/CD
5 851 (14.15%) Project Management
6 754 (12.53%) Software Engineering
7 696 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 554 (9.21%) Waterfall
9 551 (9.16%) Project Delivery
10 534 (8.88%) Test Automation
11 475 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 474 (7.88%) TDD
13 447 (7.43%) Roadmaps
14 444 (7.38%) Microservices
15 415 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
16 408 (6.78%) Analytics
17 394 (6.55%) Migration
18 386 (6.42%) SDLC
19 351 (5.83%) Kanban
19 351 (5.83%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 905 (15.04%) Python
2 837 (13.91%) SQL
3 770 (12.80%) Java
4 654 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 624 (10.37%) C#
6 429 (7.13%) TypeScript
7 337 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 161 (2.68%) C++
9 132 (2.19%) C
10 112 (1.86%) Go
11 107 (1.78%) Bicep
12 105 (1.75%) Scala
13 88 (1.46%) Bash
14 68 (1.13%) PL/SQL
15 66 (1.10%) Shell Script
16 55 (0.91%) Kotlin
17 51 (0.85%) T-SQL
18 47 (0.78%) Perl
19 43 (0.71%) Ruby
20 39 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,155 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 809 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 620 (10.31%) Degree
4 359 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 159 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 114 (1.89%) PMI Certification
7 110 (1.83%) PMP
8 104 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 71 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 60 (1.00%) ISTQB
11 39 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 35 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 33 (0.55%) APMP
14 32 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 30 (0.50%) Azure Certification
16 28 (0.47%) AWS Certification
16 28 (0.47%) CISSP
16 28 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 26 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 26 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (5.95%) QA
2 182 (3.03%) PMO
3 136 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 131 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 68 (1.13%) SLA
6 49 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 45 (0.75%) GDPR
8 37 (0.62%) NIST
9 36 (0.60%) WCAG
10 32 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 17 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 13 (0.22%) GRC
13 13 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.18%) MiFID
14 11 (0.18%) MISRA
15 10 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.13%) GxP
16 8 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 365 (6.07%) Docker
2 230 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 104 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 20 (0.33%) NFS
6 20 (0.33%) Time Sharing Option
7 19 (0.32%) vSphere
8 18 (0.30%) Firmware
9 10 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.13%) HDFS
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.100%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.100%) VirtualBox
13 5 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 4 (0.066%) XenApp
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.050%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 403 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 268 (4.45%) Terraform
3 212 (3.52%) Ansible
4 86 (1.43%) Grafana
5 67 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 57 (0.95%) Puppet
7 41 (0.68%) Kibana
8 33 (0.55%) SCCM
9 31 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (0.47%) SCOM
11 27 (0.45%) logstash
11 27 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 24 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 21 (0.35%) Progress Chef
14 20 (0.33%) WSUS
15 15 (0.25%) WMI
16 13 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 12 (0.20%) Istio
18 11 (0.18%) Argo
Vendors
1 842 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 301 (5.00%) Oracle
3 247 (4.11%) SAP
4 163 (2.71%) VMware
5 162 (2.69%) Google
6 125 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 119 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 99 (1.65%) Adobe
9 95 (1.58%) Databricks
10 79 (1.31%) IBM
11 76 (1.26%) Cisco
12 70 (1.16%) Splunk
13 66 (1.10%) Atlassian
14 53 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 52 (0.86%) Dell
16 36 (0.60%) Juniper
17 35 (0.58%) Informatica
18 32 (0.53%) Remedy
19 31 (0.52%) Bloomberg
20 29 (0.48%) Virgin Media