Agile Contracts in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 4,508 6,086 11,408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 18.52% 16.35% 22.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.32% 18.90% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,108 4,249 8,242
10th Percentile £378 £388 £413
25th Percentile £451 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £790 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 179 235
10th Percentile £27.50 £22.33 £35.00
25th Percentile £44.51 £42.50 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +30.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £73.11
90th Percentile £77.75 £71.25 £81.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,183 32,201 45,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.14% 86.52% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,119 31,974
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,240 1,592
10th Percentile £14.67 £12.91 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 0 2,552 £600 +4.35% 2,353
North of England -2 580 £490 -4.39% 941
South East +1 513 £550 - 717
Midlands +7 356 £498 -5.24% 526
North West -3 328 £492 -6.29% 599
West Midlands +3 255 £500 -9.09% 332
South West 0 234 £563 +4.65% 407
Yorkshire -1 212 £500 - 258
East of England +3 115 £500 - 300
East Midlands +8 97 £445 -1.17% 187
North East 0 52 £475 -10.80% 88
Agile
UK

Agile
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
1 364 (8.07%) Confluence
2 125 (2.77%) Apache
3 119 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 79 (1.75%) Apache Spark
6 40 (0.89%) CMS
7 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 27 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 17 (0.38%) nginx
10 16 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 14 (0.31%) Drupal
11 14 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 11 (0.24%) IIS
13 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.20%) Headless CMS
15 8 (0.18%) JBoss
16 7 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
16 7 (0.16%) SAS
16 7 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 98 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 61 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 54 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.62%) Trello
7 16 (0.35%) Sketch
8 11 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 9 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.11%) InfoPath
11 3 (0.067%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.067%) InVision
11 3 (0.067%) Revit
12 2 (0.044%) Notepad++
12 2 (0.044%) Open Workbench
12 2 (0.044%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.044%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.022%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 78 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.80%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.33%) Endur
5 14 (0.31%) thinkFolio
6 12 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 11 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 11 (0.24%) Shopify
8 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 8 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
9 8 (0.18%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.11%) Primavera
10 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.089%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.089%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 834 (18.50%) Azure
2 818 (18.15%) AWS
3 284 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
4 260 (5.77%) GCP
5 242 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 203 (4.50%) Serverless
7 171 (3.79%) GitHub
8 155 (3.44%) SaaS
9 127 (2.82%) dbt
10 123 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
12 87 (1.93%) Amazon S3
13 86 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
14 84 (1.86%) PowerApps
15 82 (1.82%) Entra ID
16 77 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
17 70 (1.55%) Snowflake
18 68 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
19 67 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
20 66 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 99 (2.20%) Firewall
2 95 (2.11%) DNS
3 43 (0.95%) VPN
4 41 (0.91%) HTTP
5 38 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 34 (0.75%) Network Security
7 30 (0.67%) DHCP
8 26 (0.58%) SSL
9 24 (0.53%) LAN
10 22 (0.49%) 5G
11 19 (0.42%) NGFW
11 19 (0.42%) WAN
12 17 (0.38%) 4G
12 17 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
13 15 (0.33%) Wireless
14 14 (0.31%) LTE
15 13 (0.29%) 5G NR
15 13 (0.29%) SMTP
15 13 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
16 12 (0.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 182 (4.04%) Data Lake
3 165 (3.66%) Power BI
4 160 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 155 (3.44%) Relational Database
6 131 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
7 125 (2.77%) MongoDB
8 116 (2.57%) NoSQL
9 113 (2.51%) Apache Iceberg
10 110 (2.44%) Dremio
11 99 (2.20%) Apache Arrow
12 92 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
13 71 (1.57%) MySQL
14 68 (1.51%) Apache Ignite
15 60 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
15 60 (1.33%) Big Data
16 50 (1.11%) Tableau
17 49 (1.09%) Oracle Database
18 47 (1.04%) DynamoDB
19 39 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 702 (15.57%) JIRA
2 359 (7.96%) Git
3 301 (6.68%) Jenkins
4 125 (2.77%) GitLab
5 103 (2.28%) Selenium
6 88 (1.95%) JUnit
7 79 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 73 (1.62%) Postman
9 63 (1.40%) Cypress.io
10 58 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 44 (0.98%) Mockito
12 41 (0.91%) Artifactory
13 39 (0.87%) Visual Studio
14 36 (0.80%) JMeter
15 35 (0.78%) Gradle
16 31 (0.69%) Liquibase
16 31 (0.69%) Maven
16 31 (0.69%) REST Assured
16 31 (0.69%) SoapUI
17 28 (0.62%) Eclipse
General
1 1,508 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 1,396 (30.97%) Finance
3 673 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 495 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 472 (10.47%) Banking
6 417 (9.25%) Front Office
7 170 (3.77%) Marketing
8 168 (3.73%) Investment Banking
9 152 (3.37%) Telecoms
10 138 (3.06%) Retail
11 123 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
12 121 (2.68%) Manufacturing
13 90 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 85 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
15 81 (1.80%) Legal
16 77 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
17 65 (1.44%) Electronics
17 65 (1.44%) Military
18 47 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 47 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 890 (19.74%) Developer
2 585 (12.98%) Analyst
3 576 (12.78%) Senior
4 411 (9.12%) Business Analyst
5 351 (7.79%) Architect
6 340 (7.54%) Lead
7 332 (7.36%) Project Manager
8 271 (6.01%) Software Engineer
9 161 (3.57%) Java Developer
10 143 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
11 142 (3.15%) Data Engineer
12 140 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
13 137 (3.04%) Consultant
14 135 (2.99%) Senior Developer
15 130 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
16 125 (2.77%) Product Manager
17 123 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
18 120 (2.66%) Python Engineer
19 104 (2.31%) Python Developer
20 96 (2.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (7.36%) React
2 278 (6.17%) .NET
3 235 (5.21%) Kafka
4 226 (5.01%) CSS
5 223 (4.95%) HTML
6 207 (4.59%) REST
7 190 (4.21%) AngularJS
8 174 (3.86%) RESTful
9 173 (3.84%) Node.js
10 166 (3.68%) Web Services
11 155 (3.44%) Spring
12 132 (2.93%) Spring Boot
13 117 (2.60%) SOAP
14 105 (2.33%) PySpark
15 84 (1.86%) JSON
16 83 (1.84%) Redux
17 81 (1.80%) Pandas
18 79 (1.75%) NumPy
19 72 (1.60%) XML
20 70 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 432 (9.58%) Product Ownership
2 294 (6.52%) Fixed Income
3 256 (5.68%) Derivative
4 242 (5.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 218 (4.84%) Hedge funds
6 204 (4.53%) Equities
7 99 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 91 (2.02%) Cloud Native
8 91 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 75 (1.66%) Mobile App
10 73 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 67 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 66 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 65 (1.44%) Algorithms
14 61 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 61 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
15 53 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 51 (1.13%) Virtual Team
17 50 (1.11%) Data Centre
17 50 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 277 (6.14%) Linux
2 228 (5.06%) Windows
3 79 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.71%) Unix
5 63 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 57 (1.26%) Android
7 41 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (0.47%) CentOS
9 14 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.29%) VMS
11 11 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.24%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.16%) Solaris
12 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.13%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.089%) Debian
14 4 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.089%) zOS
15 3 (0.067%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
2 952 (21.12%) DevOps
3 800 (17.75%) CI/CD
4 772 (17.13%) Scrum
5 660 (14.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 623 (13.82%) Project Management
7 530 (11.76%) Software Engineering
8 498 (11.05%) Roadmaps
9 472 (10.47%) Test Automation
10 458 (10.16%) Migration
11 457 (10.14%) Waterfall
12 446 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 431 (9.56%) Analytics
14 401 (8.90%) Microservices
15 332 (7.36%) SDLC
16 316 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
17 301 (6.68%) Project Delivery
18 296 (6.57%) Asset Management
18 296 (6.57%) User Experience
19 285 (6.32%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 820 (18.19%) Python
2 748 (16.59%) SQL
3 646 (14.33%) Java
4 602 (13.35%) JavaScript
5 329 (7.30%) TypeScript
6 323 (7.17%) C#
7 208 (4.61%) PowerShell
8 95 (2.11%) C++
9 93 (2.06%) Bash
10 74 (1.64%) Go
11 71 (1.57%) Scala
12 64 (1.42%) PL/SQL
13 53 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 42 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 41 (0.91%) PHP
16 34 (0.75%) Groovy
17 31 (0.69%) Perl
18 26 (0.58%) R
19 24 (0.53%) C
19 24 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 860 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 669 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 521 (11.56%) Degree
4 150 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 143 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 134 (2.97%) PMI Certification
7 127 (2.82%) PMP
8 75 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 60 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 48 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 41 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.82%) CISSP
15 29 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 25 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.53%) CCNP
18 23 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
19 22 (0.49%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 320 (7.10%) QA
2 136 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 87 (1.93%) Data Quality
3 87 (1.93%) PMO
4 62 (1.38%) GDPR
5 32 (0.71%) MiFID
5 32 (0.71%) NIST
6 30 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (0.67%) WCAG
7 23 (0.51%) GRC
7 23 (0.51%) NCSC
7 23 (0.51%) SLA
8 22 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.24%) GxP
12 9 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
13 7 (0.16%) PMBOK
14 6 (0.13%) HL7
14 6 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 341 (7.56%) Docker
2 157 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 21 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.38%) vSphere
8 16 (0.35%) Firmware
8 16 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.11%) Postfix
12 4 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.067%) KVM
13 3 (0.067%) Lustre
13 3 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.067%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.044%) RACF
15 1 (0.022%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 364 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 310 (6.88%) Terraform
3 176 (3.90%) Ansible
4 65 (1.44%) Grafana
5 49 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 41 (0.91%) vCenter Server
7 37 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 29 (0.64%) Puppet
9 25 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (0.49%) Progress Chef
11 19 (0.42%) Packer
12 16 (0.35%) Kibana
12 16 (0.35%) SCCM
13 14 (0.31%) Argo
13 14 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.24%) Istio
14 11 (0.24%) Nessus
15 10 (0.22%) HP ALM
16 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 558 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 332 (7.36%) Oracle
3 259 (5.75%) SAP
4 156 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 123 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 108 (2.40%) Google
7 103 (2.28%) Atlassian
8 96 (2.13%) Databricks
8 96 (2.13%) VMware
9 85 (1.89%) Cisco
10 50 (1.11%) Splunk
11 48 (1.06%) Adobe
12 38 (0.84%) IBM
13 36 (0.80%) BISAM
14 34 (0.75%) MuleSoft
15 32 (0.71%) Palo Alto
16 28 (0.62%) CheckPoint
17 27 (0.60%) Apple
17 27 (0.60%) Red Hat
18 25 (0.55%) Infoblox