Agile Developer Contracts

Agile Developer
UK

The median Agile Developer daily rate in the UK is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 629 736
Rank change year-on-year +68 +107 -189
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Developer 18 71 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 56 104
10th Percentile £490 £530 £450
25th Percentile £600 £600 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £838 £900 £744
90th Percentile - £975 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £563 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% -1.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Agile Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Agile Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Developer in the UK

Agile Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Developer in the UK

Agile Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Developer in the UK

Agile Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile Developer in the UK

Agile Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +62 18 £750 - 7
London +59 15 £788 +5.00% 1
Work from Home +108 10 £613 +2.08% 6
UK excluding London +69 3 £600 +6.67% 6
North of England +28 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
East of England - 1 £600 -

Agile Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Agile Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Agile Developer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) TDD
3 9 (50.00%) Scala
4 6 (33.33%) Azure
4 6 (33.33%) Finance
5 5 (27.78%) Scrum
5 5 (27.78%) Kafka
6 4 (22.22%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
7 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (16.67%) ITSM
7 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 2 (11.11%) CSS
8 2 (11.11%) Web Services
8 2 (11.11%) C#
8 2 (11.11%) HTML
8 2 (11.11%) Java
8 2 (11.11%) ITIL
8 2 (11.11%) OO
8 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 2 (11.11%) Service Management
8 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
8 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
8 2 (11.11%) BDD
8 2 (11.11%) AWS
8 2 (11.11%) Workflow

Agile Developer Skill Set
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 1 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) IaaS
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Mockito
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) React
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.56%) JAX-RS
3 1 (5.56%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) TDD
3 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
6 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 2 (11.11%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Kanban
6 2 (11.11%) OO
6 2 (11.11%) Operations Management
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Service Management
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Scala
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Bicep
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk