Agile Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,993 5,053 7,413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.61% 21.54% 24.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.30% 24.05% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 3,779 5,347
10th Percentile £358 £399 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 191 135
10th Percentile £22.33 £37.50 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £53.13 £42.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +22.64% +17.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year -8.40% +31.66% +11.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -2 824 £550 - 470
North of England -2 698 £517 -6.00% 604
Scotland -2 517 £490 +1.03% 173
South West -3 442 £530 -7.83% 359
North West -1 400 £525 - 356
Midlands -5 326 £525 +2.44% 424
Yorkshire -2 265 £513 -6.82% 182
West Midlands -2 246 £550 +2.23% 273
East of England -5 158 £500 -4.76% 204
East Midlands -7 77 £450 -1.37% 149
Wales +1 55 £515 -6.36% 83
North East -2 43 £533 -7.39% 70
Northern Ireland +5 13 £600 +33.33% 37
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 215 (7.18%) Confluence
2 67 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.00%) Apache
5 25 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.60%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) SAS
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.40%) CICS
11 11 (0.37%) nginx
12 10 (0.33%) Drupal
13 7 (0.23%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.17%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
16 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 104 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.27%) Simulink
7 6 (0.20%) Sketch
7 6 (0.20%) SPSS
7 6 (0.20%) Stateflow
8 5 (0.17%) InVision
8 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.067%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.067%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 30 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 15 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.40%) Maximo
6 11 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
7 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.30%) Primavera
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.27%) SAP PM
10 7 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.17%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.13%) Sage X3
12 4 (0.13%) SAP WM
13 3 (0.10%) Aareon QL
13 3 (0.10%) SAP CO
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 498 (16.64%) Azure
2 350 (11.69%) AWS
3 201 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 110 (3.68%) GitHub
6 108 (3.61%) Serverless
7 79 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
8 78 (2.61%) SaaS
9 68 (2.27%) GCP
10 60 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 60 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
12 42 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (1.37%) IaaS
14 40 (1.34%) OpenShift
15 37 (1.24%) Entra ID
15 37 (1.24%) PaaS
16 34 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.64%) Firewall
2 80 (2.67%) VPN
3 76 (2.54%) DNS
4 58 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.57%) DHCP
6 37 (1.24%) Modbus
6 37 (1.24%) RS-485
7 35 (1.17%) RS-422
8 30 (1.00%) Network Security
9 29 (0.97%) LAN
10 27 (0.90%) SAN
11 23 (0.77%) HTTP
11 23 (0.77%) WAN
12 19 (0.63%) Internet
13 17 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
13 17 (0.57%) VSAN
14 16 (0.53%) SNMP
14 16 (0.53%) SSL
15 15 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
16 14 (0.47%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.84%) Power BI
3 85 (2.84%) Relational Database
4 74 (2.47%) MySQL
5 73 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 70 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (0.87%) Big Data
9 25 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 24 (0.80%) GIS
10 24 (0.80%) RDBMS
11 23 (0.77%) DB2
12 22 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (0.70%) Tableau
14 19 (0.63%) Oracle Database
15 18 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.60%) Data Lake
16 15 (0.50%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 477 (15.94%) JIRA
2 241 (8.05%) Git
3 160 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 105 (3.51%) GitLab
5 59 (1.97%) Selenium
6 52 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 49 (1.64%) JUnit
8 45 (1.50%) Postman
8 45 (1.50%) Robot Framework
9 44 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 41 (1.37%) Visual Studio
11 37 (1.24%) Cypress.io
12 36 (1.20%) TestRail
13 27 (0.90%) Eclipse
13 27 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
14 24 (0.80%) GoogleTest
15 21 (0.70%) JMeter
15 21 (0.70%) Subversion
16 18 (0.60%) Maven
17 14 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 871 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 481 (16.07%) Finance
3 419 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 372 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 104 (3.47%) Banking
7 77 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (2.44%) Electronics
9 72 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 69 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 63 (2.10%) Marketing
13 57 (1.90%) Military
14 53 (1.77%) Legal
15 50 (1.67%) Retail
16 48 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 42 (1.40%) Automotive
18 27 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (0.84%) Aerospace
20 24 (0.80%) Billing
Job Titles
1 499 (16.67%) Developer
2 331 (11.06%) Analyst
3 321 (10.73%) Architect
4 319 (10.66%) Senior
5 316 (10.56%) Project Manager
6 224 (7.48%) Lead
7 159 (5.31%) Business Analyst
8 156 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 121 (4.04%) Java Developer
10 94 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
11 86 (2.87%) Senior Manager
12 82 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
13 80 (2.67%) Consultant
14 75 (2.51%) Test Engineer
15 69 (2.31%) Full Stack Developer
16 64 (2.14%) DevOps Engineer
16 64 (2.14%) Technical Architect
17 59 (1.97%) C++ Software Engineer
18 53 (1.77%) IT Manager
18 53 (1.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (5.51%) React
2 154 (5.15%) REST
3 141 (4.71%) Spring
4 137 (4.58%) .NET
5 134 (4.48%) CSS
6 131 (4.38%) HTML
7 111 (3.71%) Node.js
8 103 (3.44%) Spring Boot
9 93 (3.11%) AngularJS
10 89 (2.97%) Kafka
11 85 (2.84%) RESTful
12 81 (2.71%) JSON
13 80 (2.67%) XML
14 68 (2.27%) Web Services
15 43 (1.44%) AWS CDK
16 42 (1.40%) .NET Framework
17 40 (1.34%) JPA
18 39 (1.30%) SOAP
19 35 (1.17%) YAML
20 30 (1.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 233 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 98 (3.27%) Public Cloud
3 80 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (2.61%) Management Information System
5 69 (2.31%) PKI
6 48 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 43 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 43 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 42 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 37 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 24 (0.80%) Mainframe
15 23 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.67%) Algorithms
16 20 (0.67%) Client/Server
16 20 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 287 (9.59%) Linux
2 235 (7.85%) Windows
3 117 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 58 (1.94%) Unix
5 51 (1.70%) Android
6 49 (1.64%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (0.97%) zOS
10 25 (0.84%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.74%) Debian
12 20 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
13 18 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
14 16 (0.53%) Windows 10
15 10 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
16 8 (0.27%) VMS
17 6 (0.20%) CentOS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (22.22%) DevOps
2 619 (20.68%) Scrum
3 534 (17.84%) Project Management
4 413 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
5 403 (13.46%) CI/CD
5 403 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 358 (11.96%) Software Engineering
7 338 (11.29%) Waterfall
8 297 (9.92%) Test Automation
9 280 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 271 (9.05%) Project Delivery
11 229 (7.65%) Roadmaps
12 215 (7.18%) PRINCE2
13 212 (7.08%) Continuous Integration
14 205 (6.85%) Microservices
15 201 (6.72%) ITIL
16 196 (6.55%) SDLC
17 188 (6.28%) Migration
18 180 (6.01%) TDD
19 178 (5.95%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 361 (12.06%) Python
2 356 (11.89%) Java
3 334 (11.16%) SQL
4 228 (7.62%) JavaScript
5 223 (7.45%) C#
6 135 (4.51%) PowerShell
7 131 (4.38%) C++
8 123 (4.11%) C
9 117 (3.91%) TypeScript
10 59 (1.97%) Bash
11 46 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 39 (1.30%) PHP
13 38 (1.27%) Scala
14 33 (1.10%) VBScript
15 30 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 27 (0.90%) Perl
17 25 (0.84%) Bicep
17 25 (0.84%) REXX
18 23 (0.77%) VB
19 19 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 776 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 483 (16.14%) SC Cleared
3 318 (10.62%) Degree
4 289 (9.66%) DV Cleared
5 54 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.50%) ISTQB
7 44 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 44 (1.47%) PMP
8 43 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 33 (1.10%) APMP
10 27 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 27 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 26 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 24 (0.80%) MCSE
13 21 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.50%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.18%) QA
2 107 (3.58%) PMO
3 78 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 47 (1.57%) SLA
5 35 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 33 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 23 (0.77%) NIST
8 20 (0.67%) MISRA
9 18 (0.60%) GDPR
9 18 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.37%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.30%) WCAG
14 8 (0.27%) NCSC
14 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.23%) GRC
15 7 (0.23%) RMADS
16 6 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 149 (4.98%) Docker
2 99 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 89 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.87%) Firmware
6 23 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.70%) vSphere
8 20 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (0.60%) NFS
10 17 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
11 9 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
14 4 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.067%) HDFS
16 2 (0.067%) LXC
17 1 (0.033%) vCloud
17 1 (0.033%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 150 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 128 (4.28%) Ansible
3 127 (4.24%) Terraform
4 76 (2.54%) Grafana
5 37 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.17%) SCCM
7 33 (1.10%) Kibana
8 26 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 24 (0.80%) SCOM
10 19 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 19 (0.63%) WSUS
11 17 (0.57%) Puppet
12 16 (0.53%) Argo
12 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (0.50%) WMI
14 12 (0.40%) Istio
14 12 (0.40%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.37%) Packer
16 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 405 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 152 (5.08%) Oracle
3 140 (4.68%) SAP
4 132 (4.41%) VMware
5 71 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 62 (2.07%) Google
8 54 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.57%) IBM
10 39 (1.30%) Cisco
11 35 (1.17%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.04%) Dell
13 26 (0.87%) Adobe
13 26 (0.87%) Remedy
13 26 (0.87%) Splunk
14 22 (0.74%) Juniper
15 21 (0.70%) Databricks
15 21 (0.70%) Talend
16 19 (0.63%) Broadcom
16 19 (0.63%) CA