Agile Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7,127 13,501 24,115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.46% 22.57% 27.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.07% 25.11% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,936 9,774 17,279
10th Percentile £380 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 251 238
10th Percentile £21.94 £35.00 £28.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £50.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.65
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +30.93% +10.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.78 £84.00 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.22% +17.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -3 6,016 £550 -4.35% 3,370
London -1 3,426 £578 -3.75% 1,239
UK excluding London -1 3,032 £525 - 2,317
Work from Home -3 2,620 £539 -2.00% 2,008
South East -2 826 £550 - 519
North of England -1 712 £511 -7.05% 582
Scotland -1 554 £500 +2.56% 181
South West -4 430 £538 -6.52% 353
North West -1 415 £524 -0.24% 365
Midlands -6 314 £525 - 387
Yorkshire -1 263 £500 -9.09% 162
West Midlands -3 240 £550 +1.85% 251
East of England -6 155 £500 -4.76% 238
East Midlands -10 71 £450 - 136
Wales 0 64 £515 -6.36% 85
North East -1 44 £533 -8.39% 60
Northern Ireland +7 14 £600 +41.18% 30

Agile
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
1 426 (5.98%) Confluence
2 183 (2.57%) Apache
3 168 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 159 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 82 (1.15%) CMS
6 81 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 67 (0.94%) Apache Spark
8 31 (0.43%) SAS
9 27 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 27 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 22 (0.31%) IIS
11 20 (0.28%) nginx
12 18 (0.25%) Drupal
13 16 (0.22%) CICS
14 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
14 11 (0.15%) MTS
15 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
16 9 (0.13%) JBoss
17 7 (0.098%) Tomcat
17 7 (0.098%) WebLogic
Applications
1 171 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 154 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 81 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 79 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 35 (0.49%) Sketch
7 32 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 26 (0.36%) Adobe XD
9 18 (0.25%) InVision
10 16 (0.22%) Trello
11 10 (0.14%) UserZoom
12 8 (0.11%) Simulink
13 7 (0.098%) SPSS
14 6 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 6 (0.084%) Stateflow
15 5 (0.070%) TargetLink
15 5 (0.070%) Zeplin
16 4 (0.056%) Chatbot
16 4 (0.056%) CINEMA 4D
17 3 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 80 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 65 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 31 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 30 (0.42%) Endur
5 26 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 20 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 19 (0.27%) Shopify
9 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 15 (0.21%) Primavera
12 14 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
13 13 (0.18%) Maximo
13 13 (0.18%) NetSuite
14 11 (0.15%) Aligne
14 11 (0.15%) EuroRunner
15 10 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
16 9 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
17 8 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
17 8 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,560 (21.89%) Azure
2 1,247 (17.50%) AWS
3 565 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
4 408 (5.72%) GCP
5 344 (4.83%) Power Platform
6 271 (3.80%) Serverless
7 260 (3.65%) GitHub
8 190 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 173 (2.43%) SaaS
10 146 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
11 140 (1.96%) Amazon S3
12 130 (1.82%) Entra ID
13 117 (1.64%) PaaS
14 113 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 99 (1.39%) Snowflake
16 97 (1.36%) dbt
17 96 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
17 96 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
18 94 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
19 88 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 174 (2.44%) Firewall
2 119 (1.67%) DNS
3 117 (1.64%) VPN
4 78 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 70 (0.98%) DHCP
5 70 (0.98%) HTTP
6 51 (0.72%) LAN
7 46 (0.65%) Internet
8 44 (0.62%) WAN
9 39 (0.55%) SAN
10 37 (0.52%) Modbus
10 37 (0.52%) Network Security
11 36 (0.51%) RS-422
11 36 (0.51%) RS-485
12 33 (0.46%) BGP
13 26 (0.36%) Wireless
14 25 (0.35%) SSL
15 21 (0.29%) MPLS
15 21 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
16 20 (0.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (6.24%) SQL Server
2 303 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
3 257 (3.61%) Power BI
4 189 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 176 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 173 (2.43%) NoSQL
7 159 (2.23%) Data Lake
8 158 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 125 (1.75%) Apache Ignite
10 124 (1.74%) MySQL
11 104 (1.46%) Big Data
12 99 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
13 88 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
14 82 (1.15%) Apache Arrow
14 82 (1.15%) Dremio
15 71 (1.00%) Tableau
16 66 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 55 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
19 52 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 956 (13.41%) JIRA
2 584 (8.19%) Git
3 363 (5.09%) Jenkins
4 210 (2.95%) GitLab
5 153 (2.15%) Selenium
6 144 (2.02%) Cypress.io
7 134 (1.88%) Postman
8 111 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 89 (1.25%) JUnit
10 75 (1.05%) Maven
11 72 (1.01%) Bitbucket
12 69 (0.97%) TeamCity
12 69 (0.97%) Visual Studio
13 54 (0.76%) SpecFlow
14 50 (0.70%) Robot Framework
15 47 (0.66%) JMeter
16 46 (0.65%) TestRail
16 46 (0.65%) WebDriver
17 41 (0.58%) SoapUI
17 41 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2,061 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 1,556 (21.83%) Finance
3 904 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 866 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 604 (8.47%) Banking
6 383 (5.37%) Front Office
7 224 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
8 204 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 186 (2.61%) Marketing
10 185 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 177 (2.48%) Retail
12 167 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 132 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 116 (1.63%) Back Office
15 115 (1.61%) Legal
15 115 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 115 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
16 102 (1.43%) Electronics
17 70 (0.98%) Military
18 64 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,556 (21.83%) Developer
2 941 (13.20%) Senior
3 793 (11.13%) Analyst
4 680 (9.54%) Architect
5 673 (9.44%) Project Manager
6 539 (7.56%) Lead
7 509 (7.14%) Business Analyst
8 395 (5.54%) Software Engineer
9 295 (4.14%) Java Developer
10 282 (3.96%) Senior Developer
11 273 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
12 217 (3.04%) Consultant
13 216 (3.03%) Full Stack Developer
14 213 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
15 172 (2.41%) Python Developer
16 166 (2.33%) Senior Manager
17 164 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
18 153 (2.15%) Software Developer
19 144 (2.02%) Product Owner
20 141 (1.98%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (7.14%) React
2 497 (6.97%) .NET
3 377 (5.29%) REST
4 331 (4.64%) CSS
5 323 (4.53%) HTML
6 284 (3.98%) Node.js
7 282 (3.96%) AngularJS
8 265 (3.72%) Kafka
9 260 (3.65%) Spring
10 236 (3.31%) XML
11 205 (2.88%) RESTful
12 198 (2.78%) JSON
13 188 (2.64%) Spring Boot
14 172 (2.41%) .NET Core
15 153 (2.15%) Web Services
16 150 (2.10%) Redux
17 140 (1.96%) .NET Framework
18 138 (1.94%) gRPC
19 127 (1.78%) Protocol Buffers
20 103 (1.45%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 646 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 264 (3.70%) Fixed Income
3 205 (2.88%) Hedge funds
4 204 (2.86%) Derivative
5 199 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 175 (2.46%) Equities
7 173 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 144 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 138 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 131 (1.84%) Mobile App
10 131 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 102 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 102 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
12 99 (1.39%) Cloud Native
13 93 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 92 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
15 90 (1.26%) PKI
16 77 (1.08%) Algorithms
17 76 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
17 76 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 480 (6.73%) Linux
2 347 (4.87%) Windows
3 149 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 146 (2.05%) Unix
5 97 (1.36%) Android
6 86 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 66 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 38 (0.53%) zOS
9 31 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 28 (0.39%) Ubuntu
12 25 (0.35%) CentOS
12 25 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 23 (0.32%) Debian
13 23 (0.32%) Mac OS X
14 21 (0.29%) VMS
15 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
16 9 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
16 9 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
17 8 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,661 (23.31%) DevOps
2 1,554 (21.80%) Scrum
3 1,058 (14.84%) Project Management
4 1,056 (14.82%) CI/CD
5 1,047 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
6 837 (11.74%) Software Engineering
7 798 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 666 (9.34%) Waterfall
9 654 (9.18%) Test Automation
10 648 (9.09%) Project Delivery
11 565 (7.93%) Roadmaps
12 560 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 543 (7.62%) Microservices
14 526 (7.38%) TDD
15 489 (6.86%) Analytics
16 485 (6.81%) Continuous Integration
17 476 (6.68%) SDLC
18 474 (6.65%) Migration
19 436 (6.12%) User Stories
20 430 (6.03%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (14.82%) Python
2 979 (13.74%) SQL
3 926 (12.99%) Java
4 758 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 658 (9.23%) C#
6 505 (7.09%) TypeScript
7 374 (5.25%) PowerShell
8 163 (2.29%) C++
9 144 (2.02%) C
10 134 (1.88%) Scala
11 124 (1.74%) Go
12 116 (1.63%) Bash
13 107 (1.50%) Bicep
14 89 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 79 (1.11%) Shell Script
16 76 (1.07%) Perl
17 64 (0.90%) Kotlin
18 61 (0.86%) PHP
19 55 (0.77%) T-SQL
20 52 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,321 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 942 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 758 (10.64%) Degree
4 368 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 194 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 122 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 119 (1.67%) PMP
8 116 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 96 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 63 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 47 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 41 (0.58%) Azure Certification
12 41 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (0.51%) APMP
14 35 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
15 34 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 32 (0.45%) CISSP
17 30 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
18 29 (0.41%) AWS Certification
19 28 (0.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (6.10%) QA
2 214 (3.00%) PMO
3 206 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 141 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 82 (1.15%) SLA
6 56 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 55 (0.77%) GDPR
8 43 (0.60%) WCAG
9 42 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
9 42 (0.59%) NIST
10 41 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.21%) MISRA
14 13 (0.18%) GRC
14 13 (0.18%) GxP
14 13 (0.18%) NCSC
14 13 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.15%) MiFID
16 10 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 427 (5.99%) Docker
2 246 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 114 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 27 (0.38%) vSphere
7 26 (0.36%) Firmware
7 26 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (0.32%) NFS
8 23 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
9 12 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.13%) HDFS
10 9 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 8 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
13 5 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.056%) vCloud
14 4 (0.056%) XenApp
15 3 (0.042%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 452 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 321 (4.50%) Terraform
3 252 (3.54%) Ansible
4 130 (1.82%) Grafana
5 72 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 67 (0.94%) Puppet
7 59 (0.83%) Kibana
8 44 (0.62%) SCCM
9 38 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 30 (0.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 28 (0.39%) SCOM
14 27 (0.38%) logstash
14 27 (0.38%) Progress Chef
15 23 (0.32%) Argo
16 20 (0.28%) WSUS
17 17 (0.24%) Packer
18 15 (0.21%) WMI
19 14 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 970 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 372 (5.22%) Oracle
3 295 (4.14%) SAP
4 182 (2.55%) Google
4 182 (2.55%) VMware
5 155 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 140 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 117 (1.64%) Databricks
8 110 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 109 (1.53%) Adobe
10 91 (1.28%) IBM
11 88 (1.23%) Splunk
12 86 (1.21%) Cisco
13 61 (0.86%) Dell
14 59 (0.83%) Red Hat
15 37 (0.52%) Informatica
16 36 (0.51%) Juniper
17 35 (0.49%) Remedy
18 33 (0.46%) HP
19 32 (0.45%) Cadence