Agile Developer Contracts in England

Agile Developer
UK > England

The median Agile Developer daily rate in England is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 524 582
Rank change year-on-year +48 +58 +90
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Developer 9 18 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.048% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.052% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 54
10th Percentile £608 £490 £539
25th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £825 £838 £900
90th Percentile - - £985
UK median daily rate £750 £750 £750
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Agile Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile Developer in England

Agile Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Developer in England

Agile Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Developer in England

Agile Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile Developer in England

Agile Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +30 7 £800 +1.59%
East of England +30 1 £511 -14.83%
North of England +18 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 2
Agile Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Agile Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 7 (77.78%) Kafka
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Java
4 4 (44.44%) C++
4 4 (44.44%) .NET
4 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
4 4 (44.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (44.44%) Analytics
4 4 (44.44%) WCF
4 4 (44.44%) .NET Core
4 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 4 (44.44%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Design Thinking
5 3 (33.33%) Parallel Programming
5 3 (33.33%) Confluence
5 3 (33.33%) JIRA
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Big Data

Agile Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Coherence
1 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
1 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Grunt
2 1 (11.11%) gulp
2 1 (11.11%) Jasmine
2 1 (11.11%) Mocha
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Kafka
2 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Core
2 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
2 4 (44.44%) WCF
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 3 (33.33%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) Mustache
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (44.44%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Design Thinking
4 3 (33.33%) Parallel Programming
4 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 1 (11.11%) OO
6 1 (11.11%) OOP
6 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (11.11%) SOA
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) User Experience
6 1 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
6 1 (11.11%) Web Design
6 1 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) C++
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft