Agile Contracts in the South East

Agile Software Development
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 826 1,215 1,860
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 14.95% 20.84% 23.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.62% 23.30% 26.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 868 1,302
10th Percentile £363 £406 £393
25th Percentile £425 £455 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £517
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +8.84%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 55 38
10th Percentile £22.40 £25.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £37.88 £42.50 £40.36
Median hourly rate £58.30 £55.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +11.58% -1.42%
75th Percentile £64.49 £73.11 £62.98
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -7.69% +33.80% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South East 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
Thames Valley -4 352 £550 - 161
Hampshire -1 270 £564 +0.31% 146
Berkshire -7 247 £575 +9.52% 72
Surrey -1 106 £525 -5.41% 71
Buckinghamshire +1 82 £550 - 50
West Sussex +9 66 £450 -5.26% 36
Oxfordshire -1 23 £450 -16.28% 40
East Sussex 0 19 £490 -21.60% 21
Kent -5 12 £488 -4.88% 23
Sussex 0 4 £400 -33.33% 6
Middlesex 0 2 - - 3
M4 Corridor - 1 £598 -
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 82 (9.93%) Confluence
2 33 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.94%) Apache
4 15 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.21%) SAS
8 6 (0.73%) Drupal
8 6 (0.73%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.61%) CICS
10 3 (0.36%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.24%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Jadu
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.73%) SPSS
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.24%) Sketch
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.12%) InVision
7 1 (0.12%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 14 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (1.21%) SAP Hybris
4 8 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.48%) SAP WM
5 4 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.36%) Primavera
6 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 146 (17.68%) Azure
2 71 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (6.30%) AWS
4 34 (4.12%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
6 28 (3.39%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (2.78%) SaaS
9 21 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 21 (2.54%) Serverless
10 20 (2.42%) GitHub
11 19 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (1.94%) Azure Storage
13 12 (1.45%) Azure Functions
13 12 (1.45%) IaaS
13 12 (1.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 11 (1.33%) OpenShift
14 11 (1.33%) PaaS
15 9 (1.09%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.72%) DNS
2 33 (4.00%) DHCP
3 22 (2.66%) Firewall
4 21 (2.54%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.18%) Radio Access Network
6 17 (2.06%) SAN
7 14 (1.69%) BGP
7 14 (1.69%) SNMP
7 14 (1.69%) VPN
8 13 (1.57%) Software-Defined Radio
9 12 (1.45%) LAN
10 11 (1.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (1.33%) MPLS
11 7 (0.85%) Network Security
12 5 (0.61%) VSAN
13 4 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (0.36%) HTTP
14 3 (0.36%) Internet
14 3 (0.36%) IOS XR
14 3 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 24 (2.91%) Power BI
5 23 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 20 (2.42%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.94%) MySQL
8 11 (1.33%) Tableau
9 10 (1.21%) Couchbase
10 7 (0.85%) Big Data
11 6 (0.73%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.73%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.61%) DB2
12 5 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.48%) GIS
13 4 (0.48%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 126 (15.25%) JIRA
2 81 (9.81%) Git
3 44 (5.33%) Robot Framework
4 36 (4.36%) TestRail
5 34 (4.12%) GitLab
6 27 (3.27%) Jenkins
7 23 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.57%) Eclipse
9 13 (1.57%) GoogleTest
9 13 (1.57%) MSI
10 10 (1.21%) Selenium
11 8 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.61%) JUnit
12 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.48%) ClearCase
13 4 (0.48%) ClearQuest
13 4 (0.48%) JMeter
13 4 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 200 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 110 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (10.65%) Finance
4 53 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 26 (3.15%) Telecoms
6 24 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (2.54%) Retail
8 20 (2.42%) Automotive
9 19 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.30%) Marketing
9 19 (2.30%) Military
10 16 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.82%) Legal
12 14 (1.69%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.21%) Billing
15 7 (0.85%) Banking
16 6 (0.73%) Publishing
17 5 (0.61%) Electronics
17 5 (0.61%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 146 (17.68%) Developer
2 97 (11.74%) Analyst
2 97 (11.74%) Architect
3 89 (10.77%) Project Manager
4 85 (10.29%) Senior
5 53 (6.42%) Lead
6 39 (4.72%) Software Engineer
7 33 (4.00%) Test Analyst
8 29 (3.51%) Test Engineer
9 28 (3.39%) Business Analyst
9 28 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
10 24 (2.91%) Consultant
11 23 (2.78%) Infrastructure Architect
11 23 (2.78%) Senior Manager
12 22 (2.66%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
12 22 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.54%) Network Architect
13 21 (2.54%) Python Developer
14 20 (2.42%) Product Owner
14 20 (2.42%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.08%) CSS
1 42 (5.08%) REST
2 41 (4.96%) HTML
3 39 (4.72%) .NET
4 31 (3.75%) AngularJS
5 25 (3.03%) SOAP
6 22 (2.66%) React
7 21 (2.54%) Kafka
8 19 (2.30%) Node.js
8 19 (2.30%) RESTful
9 17 (2.06%) Spring
10 16 (1.94%) ARM Templates
10 16 (1.94%) XML
11 14 (1.69%) YANG
12 13 (1.57%) JSON
12 13 (1.57%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.45%) ASP.NET
14 11 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
14 11 (1.33%) Web Dynpro
14 11 (1.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 52 (6.30%) PKI
3 20 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.06%) Client/Server
6 14 (1.69%) Robotics
7 12 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.09%) CCTV
9 9 (1.09%) PMI
10 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.73%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 114 (13.80%) Linux
1 114 (13.80%) Windows
2 61 (7.38%) Windows Server
3 29 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
4 23 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.18%) Debian
6 15 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (0.97%) Unix
8 8 (0.97%) VMS
9 5 (0.61%) Android
10 4 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.48%) zOS
11 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (22.40%) Scrum
2 172 (20.82%) DevOps
3 114 (13.80%) Test Automation
4 111 (13.44%) Project Management
5 97 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (10.77%) Software Engineering
7 88 (10.65%) CI/CD
8 74 (8.96%) ITIL
8 74 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 72 (8.72%) Waterfall
10 70 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (8.23%) Project Delivery
12 60 (7.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 58 (7.02%) Analytics
14 56 (6.78%) Kanban
14 56 (6.78%) Prototyping
15 48 (5.81%) Migration
16 46 (5.57%) Continuous Integration
17 45 (5.45%) Decision-Making
18 42 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 121 (14.65%) Python
2 85 (10.29%) SQL
3 75 (9.08%) PowerShell
4 64 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 61 (7.38%) C#
6 58 (7.02%) Java
7 50 (6.05%) C++
8 31 (3.75%) VBScript
9 23 (2.78%) C
10 19 (2.30%) Bash
11 18 (2.18%) VB
12 16 (1.94%) Bicep
13 14 (1.69%) PHP
14 13 (1.57%) ABAP
15 11 (1.33%) Go
16 10 (1.21%) Shell Script
17 9 (1.09%) Scala
18 6 (0.73%) R
19 5 (0.61%) COBOL
19 5 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 299 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 154 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 137 (16.59%) DV Cleared
4 88 (10.65%) Degree
5 33 (4.00%) ISTQB
6 26 (3.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 22 (2.66%) PMI Certification
8 20 (2.42%) PMP
9 17 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 13 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.45%) MCSE
12 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.09%) MCSA
14 7 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.73%) VCAP
16 5 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.61%) CIPD
17 4 (0.48%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.36%) QA
2 27 (3.27%) PMO
3 13 (1.57%) ISO 9001
4 12 (1.45%) SLA
5 8 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.85%) RMADS
7 5 (0.61%) NIST
8 4 (0.48%) NCSC
8 4 (0.48%) PMBOK
9 3 (0.36%) COBIT
9 3 (0.36%) GDPR
9 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MISRA
11 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
System Software
1 64 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 54 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.72%) Docker
4 23 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.82%) vSphere
7 13 (1.57%) Firmware
8 8 (0.97%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.73%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 63 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 43 (5.21%) Ansible
3 32 (3.87%) Terraform
4 20 (2.42%) SCCM
4 20 (2.42%) SCOM
5 18 (2.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (2.18%) WSUS
6 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.82%) WMI
8 9 (1.09%) vRealize
9 8 (0.97%) Kibana
10 6 (0.73%) Packer
10 6 (0.73%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.61%) Argo
11 5 (0.61%) Grafana
11 5 (0.61%) Istio
12 4 (0.48%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.36%) MOM
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 2 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 132 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.29%) VMware
3 49 (5.93%) SAP
4 44 (5.33%) Oracle
5 25 (3.03%) Adobe
5 25 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.66%) Atlassian
7 16 (1.94%) Juniper
8 15 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.69%) Google
10 9 (1.09%) Cisco
10 9 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.85%) Databricks
12 6 (0.73%) HP
12 6 (0.73%) IBM
13 5 (0.61%) Arqiva
13 5 (0.61%) Veritas
13 5 (0.61%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.48%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.48%) Syncsort