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 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 5 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 824 1,184 1,800
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 14.93% 20.88% 23.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.69% 23.39% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 851 1,268
10th Percentile £360 £406 £400
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +6.08% +9.16%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £601
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 53 54 33
10th Percentile £23.41 £24.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £36.75 £42.50 £40.71
Median hourly rate £58.30 £58.05 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +22.20% -14.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.74 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.65
England median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% +30.00% +11.11%

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 4,658 5,063 6,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.28% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,720 3,521 4,612
10th Percentile £250 £249 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 222 279
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.31 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 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
Thames Valley -4 342 £550 - 178
Hampshire -1 283 £575 +1.77% 133
Berkshire -8 243 £575 +4.55% 77
Surrey -1 109 £525 -5.41% 52
Buckinghamshire -1 76 £525 -4.55% 53
West Sussex +8 62 £475 +5.56% 26
Oxfordshire -1 23 £450 -18.18% 49
East Sussex 0 13 £490 -18.33% 20
Kent -7 11 £488 -4.88% 29
Sussex 0 4 £400 -33.33% 4
Middlesex +1 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 85 (10.32%) Confluence
2 34 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.82%) Apache
4 13 (1.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 11 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.21%) SAS
7 6 (0.73%) Drupal
8 5 (0.61%) CICS
9 4 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.24%) JBoss
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) IIS
12 1 (0.12%) Jadu
12 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (2.31%) 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 3 (0.36%) Sketch
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.12%) InVision
8 1 (0.12%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (1.21%) SAP Hybris
3 8 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (0.49%) Primavera
4 4 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.49%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.12%) Maximo
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MII
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 142 (17.23%) Azure
2 68 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (6.07%) AWS
4 33 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 31 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
6 30 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 26 (3.16%) SaaS
8 24 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (2.55%) Serverless
10 20 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (2.18%) GitHub
12 16 (1.94%) Azure Storage
13 14 (1.70%) Azure Functions
14 12 (1.46%) IaaS
14 12 (1.46%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 11 (1.33%) PaaS
16 10 (1.21%) PowerApps
17 6 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.73%) DNS
2 33 (4.00%) DHCP
3 21 (2.55%) Firewall
4 19 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.06%) Radio Access Network
6 16 (1.94%) SNMP
7 15 (1.82%) Software-Defined Radio
8 14 (1.70%) SAN
9 13 (1.58%) BGP
9 13 (1.58%) LAN
10 12 (1.46%) VPN
11 10 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (1.21%) MPLS
12 7 (0.85%) Network Security
13 5 (0.61%) VSAN
14 4 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
15 3 (0.36%) HTTP
15 3 (0.36%) Internet
15 3 (0.36%) SSL
15 3 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (3.88%) NoSQL
2 32 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 24 (2.91%) Power BI
4 23 (2.79%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.06%) MySQL
7 11 (1.33%) Couchbase
7 11 (1.33%) Tableau
8 7 (0.85%) Big Data
8 7 (0.85%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.73%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (0.61%) DB2
10 5 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.49%) GIS
11 4 (0.49%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 135 (16.38%) JIRA
2 83 (10.07%) Git
3 45 (5.46%) Robot Framework
4 35 (4.25%) TestRail
5 34 (4.13%) GitLab
6 26 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 26 (3.16%) Jenkins
7 15 (1.82%) Eclipse
7 15 (1.82%) GoogleTest
7 15 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (1.70%) MSI
9 13 (1.58%) Selenium
10 8 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.61%) JMeter
11 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.49%) ClearCase
12 4 (0.49%) ClearQuest
12 4 (0.49%) JUnit
12 4 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 196 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 109 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (10.56%) Finance
4 51 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 25 (3.03%) Telecoms
6 22 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (2.67%) Retail
7 21 (2.55%) Automotive
8 20 (2.43%) Marketing
9 19 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.31%) Military
10 15 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.82%) Legal
10 15 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.21%) Banking
12 10 (1.21%) Billing
13 5 (0.61%) German Language
13 5 (0.61%) Local Government
13 5 (0.61%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 141 (17.11%) Developer
2 103 (12.50%) Architect
3 97 (11.77%) Analyst
4 88 (10.68%) Project Manager
5 81 (9.83%) Senior
6 51 (6.19%) Lead
7 40 (4.85%) Software Engineer
8 31 (3.76%) Test Analyst
9 30 (3.64%) Business Analyst
9 30 (3.64%) Test Engineer
10 29 (3.52%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (3.16%) Infrastructure Architect
12 25 (3.03%) Network Architect
13 24 (2.91%) Consultant
14 23 (2.79%) Senior Manager
15 20 (2.43%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
15 20 (2.43%) Senior Project Manager
16 19 (2.31%) Python Developer
16 19 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (2.06%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.98%) CSS
1 41 (4.98%) HTML
2 38 (4.61%) REST
3 37 (4.49%) .NET
4 27 (3.28%) React
5 25 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.79%) Kafka
7 22 (2.67%) SOAP
8 18 (2.18%) XML
9 17 (2.06%) ARM Templates
9 17 (2.06%) RESTful
10 16 (1.94%) Spring
11 14 (1.70%) JSON
11 14 (1.70%) Node.js
11 14 (1.70%) Web Services
11 14 (1.70%) YANG
12 12 (1.46%) ASP.NET
12 12 (1.46%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (1.21%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.40%) Product Ownership
2 52 (6.31%) PKI
3 20 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.06%) Client/Server
4 17 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.70%) Robotics
6 13 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.46%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.09%) CCTV
10 9 (1.09%) Life Science
10 9 (1.09%) PMI
11 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.73%) Mainframe
11 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (14.56%) Linux
2 115 (13.96%) Windows
3 62 (7.52%) Windows Server
4 30 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (1.82%) Debian
8 12 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.21%) Unix
10 9 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.97%) VMS
12 5 (0.61%) Android
13 4 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.49%) zOS
14 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (22.21%) Scrum
2 175 (21.24%) DevOps
3 118 (14.32%) Test Automation
4 113 (13.71%) Project Management
5 92 (11.17%) Software Engineering
6 91 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (10.92%) CI/CD
8 78 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (9.22%) Waterfall
10 71 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 69 (8.37%) ITIL
12 65 (7.89%) Project Delivery
13 59 (7.16%) Analytics
14 56 (6.80%) Prototyping
14 56 (6.80%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 52 (6.31%) Kanban
16 47 (5.70%) Migration
17 45 (5.46%) Continuous Integration
18 43 (5.22%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (5.10%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 123 (14.93%) Python
2 88 (10.68%) SQL
3 76 (9.22%) PowerShell
4 62 (7.52%) JavaScript
5 61 (7.40%) C#
6 60 (7.28%) Java
7 53 (6.43%) C++
8 31 (3.76%) VBScript
9 25 (3.03%) C
10 19 (2.31%) Bash
11 18 (2.18%) VB
12 17 (2.06%) Bicep
13 11 (1.33%) Go
13 11 (1.33%) PHP
13 11 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.09%) Scala
15 6 (0.73%) ABAP
15 6 (0.73%) R
16 5 (0.61%) COBOL
16 5 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 302 (36.65%) Security Cleared
2 147 (17.84%) SC Cleared
3 142 (17.23%) DV Cleared
4 95 (11.53%) Degree
5 37 (4.49%) ISTQB
6 25 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 21 (2.55%) PMI Certification
8 19 (2.31%) PMP
9 17 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (1.46%) MCSE
11 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.09%) MCSA
13 8 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.73%) VCAP
16 5 (0.61%) CIPD
16 5 (0.61%) CSPO
17 3 (0.36%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.49%) QA
2 28 (3.40%) PMO
3 13 (1.58%) ISO 9001
3 13 (1.58%) SLA
4 8 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.85%) RMADS
6 4 (0.49%) HL7
6 4 (0.49%) NCSC
6 4 (0.49%) NIST
6 4 (0.49%) PMBOK
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.24%) COBIT
8 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.24%) GDPR
8 2 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
System Software
1 67 (8.13%) Active Directory
2 52 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (4.49%) Docker
4 23 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.82%) Firmware
6 15 (1.82%) vSphere
7 8 (0.97%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.73%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.12%) HDFS
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 63 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.10%) Ansible
3 33 (4.00%) Terraform
4 20 (2.43%) SCCM
4 20 (2.43%) SCOM
5 18 (2.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (2.18%) WSUS
6 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (1.94%) WMI
8 9 (1.09%) vRealize
9 8 (0.97%) Kibana
10 7 (0.85%) Grafana
10 7 (0.85%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.73%) Argo
11 6 (0.73%) Istio
11 6 (0.73%) Packer
12 4 (0.49%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.36%) MOM
13 3 (0.36%) Rancher
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 131 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 81 (9.83%) VMware
3 49 (5.95%) Oracle
4 45 (5.46%) SAP
5 23 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.67%) Atlassian
7 18 (2.18%) Adobe
7 18 (2.18%) Google
8 17 (2.06%) Juniper
9 16 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.85%) Cisco
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 (0.49%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.49%) Syncsort