Agile Contracts with Work from Home Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,619 5,625 12,249
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.35% 22.39% 27.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.72% 24.94% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 4,120 8,904
10th Percentile £381 £410 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £631
90th Percentile £788 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 136 127
10th Percentile £18.20 £35.00 £33.45
25th Percentile £24.17 £45.31 £39.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.20% +45.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £61.75 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.35 £85.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.25 £49.54
% change year-on-year -7.66% +31.71% +10.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Agile daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Agile hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 160 (6.11%) Confluence
2 96 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (3.59%) Apache
4 45 (1.72%) CMS
5 37 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 32 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 21 (0.80%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.46%) SAS
9 11 (0.42%) nginx
10 9 (0.34%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.15%) Appian
12 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 63 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 32 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.42%) Trello
7 5 (0.19%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.076%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.038%) InVision
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Simulink
10 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.038%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 36 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
5 9 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.31%) Endur
6 8 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.31%) Primavera
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.27%) Shopify
8 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.19%) Maximo
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.11%) Aligne
11 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 593 (22.64%) Azure
2 545 (20.81%) AWS
3 215 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
4 183 (6.99%) GCP
5 146 (5.57%) Power Platform
6 107 (4.09%) Serverless
7 99 (3.78%) SaaS
8 89 (3.40%) dbt
9 87 (3.32%) GitHub
10 79 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
11 70 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 59 (2.25%) PaaS
13 58 (2.21%) Amazon S3
13 58 (2.21%) Entra ID
14 57 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
16 40 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
17 39 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.67%) Firewall
2 51 (1.95%) DNS
3 43 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.34%) DHCP
5 33 (1.26%) VPN
6 26 (0.99%) SAN
7 19 (0.73%) HTTP
8 15 (0.57%) WAN
9 13 (0.50%) LAN
10 12 (0.46%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.34%) Network Security
11 9 (0.34%) Wireless
12 8 (0.31%) 4G
12 8 (0.31%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.31%) Internet
12 8 (0.31%) VLAN
13 7 (0.27%) 3G
13 7 (0.27%) ATM
13 7 (0.27%) NAS
14 6 (0.23%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (5.99%) SQL Server
2 107 (4.09%) Power BI
3 103 (3.93%) Data Lake
4 90 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
5 87 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 85 (3.25%) Apache Ignite
7 82 (3.13%) Apache Arrow
7 82 (3.13%) Dremio
8 70 (2.67%) Relational Database
9 65 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
10 55 (2.10%) NoSQL
11 46 (1.76%) MySQL
12 45 (1.72%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 32 (1.22%) Big Data
15 24 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (0.88%) Tableau
17 21 (0.80%) Oracle Database
18 19 (0.73%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 333 (12.71%) JIRA
2 175 (6.68%) Git
3 112 (4.28%) Jenkins
4 78 (2.98%) GitLab
5 52 (1.99%) Selenium
6 44 (1.68%) Postman
7 43 (1.64%) Cypress.io
8 34 (1.30%) JMeter
9 29 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 24 (0.92%) Visual Studio
11 22 (0.84%) Maven
11 22 (0.84%) SpecFlow
12 21 (0.80%) JUnit
13 20 (0.76%) TeamCity
14 17 (0.65%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.57%) TestRail
15 15 (0.57%) WebDriver
16 12 (0.46%) Appium
16 12 (0.46%) Artifactory
16 12 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 769 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 676 (25.81%) Finance
3 353 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 277 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
5 264 (10.08%) Banking
6 184 (7.03%) Front Office
7 115 (4.39%) Investment Banking
8 81 (3.09%) Marketing
9 71 (2.71%) Retail
10 70 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (2.18%) Manufacturing
13 53 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 47 (1.79%) Back Office
14 47 (1.79%) Legal
15 37 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.30%) Electronics
17 32 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (1.07%) Automotive
19 23 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 560 (21.38%) Developer
2 375 (14.32%) Senior
3 325 (12.41%) Analyst
4 246 (9.39%) Architect
5 238 (9.09%) Project Manager
6 219 (8.36%) Business Analyst
7 201 (7.67%) Lead
8 145 (5.54%) Software Engineer
9 128 (4.89%) Consultant
10 107 (4.09%) Senior Developer
11 104 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
12 92 (3.51%) Java Developer
13 85 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
14 82 (3.13%) Software Developer
15 75 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
16 69 (2.63%) Full Stack Developer
17 68 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
18 67 (2.56%) Data Engineer
19 66 (2.52%) Python Developer
20 62 (2.37%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (6.95%) .NET
2 171 (6.53%) React
3 131 (5.00%) REST
4 106 (4.05%) CSS
5 105 (4.01%) XML
6 103 (3.93%) HTML
7 102 (3.89%) AngularJS
7 102 (3.89%) Node.js
8 92 (3.51%) JSON
9 89 (3.40%) gRPC
9 89 (3.40%) Kafka
10 88 (3.36%) Protocol Buffers
11 82 (3.13%) Pandas
12 79 (3.02%) NumPy
12 79 (3.02%) SciPy
13 75 (2.86%) RESTful
14 71 (2.71%) Spring
15 63 (2.41%) Web Services
16 57 (2.18%) Spring Boot
17 52 (1.99%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 226 (8.63%) Product Ownership
2 139 (5.31%) Fixed Income
3 121 (4.62%) Derivative
4 113 (4.31%) Equities
5 103 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 101 (3.86%) Hedge funds
7 59 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 51 (1.95%) Data Centre
10 50 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.79%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 37 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
15 34 (1.30%) Onboarding
16 33 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
17 28 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (1.07%) PKI
18 26 (0.99%) Cloud Native
19 22 (0.84%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 169 (6.45%) Linux
2 106 (4.05%) Windows
3 39 (1.49%) Unix
4 38 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.15%) Android
6 23 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 23 (0.88%) zOS
7 17 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.61%) Debian
8 16 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.42%) VMS
10 9 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 7 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.27%) Solaris
12 6 (0.23%) OpenVMS
13 5 (0.19%) CentOS
14 4 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (22.95%) DevOps
2 523 (19.97%) Scrum
3 385 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
4 379 (14.47%) CI/CD
5 355 (13.55%) Project Management
6 329 (12.56%) Software Engineering
7 311 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 252 (9.62%) Waterfall
9 237 (9.05%) Test Automation
10 231 (8.82%) Analytics
11 221 (8.44%) Project Delivery
12 188 (7.18%) Roadmaps
13 186 (7.10%) User Stories
14 184 (7.03%) Microservices
15 176 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 175 (6.68%) SDLC
17 174 (6.64%) Migration
18 167 (6.38%) Asset Management
19 166 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
20 162 (6.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 426 (16.27%) Python
2 347 (13.25%) Java
3 330 (12.60%) SQL
4 312 (11.91%) JavaScript
5 218 (8.32%) C#
5 218 (8.32%) TypeScript
6 117 (4.47%) PowerShell
7 61 (2.33%) Go
8 57 (2.18%) Bicep
9 54 (2.06%) Scala
10 52 (1.99%) Bash
11 39 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 31 (1.18%) Perl
13 26 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.95%) C++
15 23 (0.88%) REXX
16 21 (0.80%) VB
17 20 (0.76%) PHP
17 20 (0.76%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 407 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 336 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 301 (11.49%) Degree
4 96 (3.67%) DV Cleared
5 92 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (1.99%) PMP
8 50 (1.91%) PMI Certification
9 42 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 35 (1.34%) ISTQB
11 22 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.57%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.42%) CISSP
15 11 (0.42%) ISEB
15 11 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.34%) APMP
17 8 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (7.03%) QA
2 75 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 63 (2.41%) PMO
5 39 (1.49%) SLA
6 35 (1.34%) GDPR
7 27 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.61%) NIST
9 14 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
10 12 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.42%) WCAG
12 7 (0.27%) GxP
12 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.23%) MiFID
13 6 (0.23%) NCSC
14 4 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
14 4 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 152 (5.80%) Docker
2 84 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
7 14 (0.53%) NFS
8 8 (0.31%) vSphere
9 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.19%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) vCloud
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.038%) HDFS
12 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 180 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 119 (4.54%) Terraform
3 82 (3.13%) Ansible
4 42 (1.60%) Grafana
5 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.88%) SCCM
7 21 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 19 (0.73%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.73%) Puppet
10 16 (0.61%) SCOM
10 16 (0.61%) WSUS
11 15 (0.57%) Kibana
12 12 (0.46%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
14 7 (0.27%) Netcool
14 7 (0.27%) Packer
14 7 (0.27%) Tivoli
15 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 352 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 177 (6.76%) Oracle
3 129 (4.93%) SAP
4 60 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 59 (2.25%) Databricks
6 58 (2.21%) Google
7 56 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 54 (2.06%) IBM
9 48 (1.83%) VMware
10 40 (1.53%) Splunk
11 34 (1.30%) Adobe
12 30 (1.15%) Cisco
12 30 (1.15%) Dell
13 28 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 24 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.61%) Brocade
15 16 (0.61%) CA
15 16 (0.61%) Dynatrace
15 16 (0.61%) Remedy
16 14 (0.53%) Broadcom