Business Agility Contracts

Business Agility
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Agility skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Agility over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 684 822
Rank change year-on-year +105 +138 -127
Contract jobs citing Business Agility 11 19 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.032% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.036% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 27
10th Percentile £463 £465 £509
25th Percentile £577 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +12.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £875 £755 £681
90th Percentile £879 - £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £700 £609
% change year-on-year -17.86% +15.04% -2.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Agility 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 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Business Agility
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Agility in the UK

Business Agility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Agility in the UK

Business Agility
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Agility over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Agility in the UK

Business Agility
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 Business Agility within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +117 7 £850 +19.30% 5
London +94 6 £850 +16.44% 2
UK excluding London +50 5 £575 -17.86% 3
Scotland - 4 £425 -
Work from Home +119 1 £588 -16.07% 1
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £575 -

Business Agility
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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Consultant
1 5 (45.45%) Security Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Information Security Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Project Officer
3 2 (18.18%) Project Support Officer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Coaching
3 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) Information Security
3 5 (45.45%) Security Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Community of Practice
4 2 (18.18%) Conflict Management
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Epics
4 2 (18.18%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) SABSA
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) Groovy
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) CISM
1 5 (45.45%) CRISC
2 3 (27.27%) CISSP
3 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (18.18%) CISA
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) ISO 31000
1 5 (45.45%) NIST 800
1 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google