Agile Contract Job Trends in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 6,543 4,674 6,261
As % of all contract jobs in England 15.24% 18.89% 16.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.90% 20.69% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,472 3,231 4,364
10th Percentile £360 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 92 224
10th Percentile £37.41 £28.48 £26.03
25th Percentile £60.00 £46.90 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83.00 £73.13 £69.16
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.78 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +12.00% +1.46% -5.23%

All Process & 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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Agile job vacancy trend in England

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 2026. 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 -2 3,124 £538 -6.52% 993
North of England 0 1,147 £480 +1.05% 980
South East -1 827 £550 - 1,020
Midlands -2 723 £475 +2.70% 576
West Midlands 0 605 £475 -5.00% 295
North West +1 522 £464 +3.06% 482
Yorkshire -1 466 £500 +1.75% 308
South West +6 425 £500 -9.09% 440
North East 0 185 £452 -4.95% 197
East of England -2 175 £525 +5.00% 549
East Midlands -8 114 £449 +11.57% 281
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 614 (9.38%) Confluence
2 145 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 111 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 92 (1.41%) SAS
5 72 (1.10%) CMS
6 64 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 55 (0.84%) Apache
8 25 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.37%) IIS
10 17 (0.26%) Camunda
11 16 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.20%) Appian
13 12 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 12 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.17%) Jupyter
15 10 (0.15%) JBoss
15 10 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
16 8 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
16 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.11%) Ethereum
Applications
1 182 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 151 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 90 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 76 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 15 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.18%) Sketch
9 11 (0.17%) Trello
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.11%) Notion
12 6 (0.092%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.092%) UserZoom
13 4 (0.061%) InVision
13 4 (0.061%) Maya
14 3 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 2 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
15 2 (0.031%) Lectora
15 2 (0.031%) Windchill
15 2 (0.031%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 59 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 26 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 20 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 14 (0.21%) Maximo
9 12 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 12 (0.18%) Temenos T24
10 11 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
10 11 (0.17%) Findur
10 11 (0.17%) Primavera
11 10 (0.15%) Loan IQ
11 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 9 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
12 9 (0.14%) Shopify
12 9 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,534 (23.44%) Azure
2 1,402 (21.43%) AWS
3 498 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
4 462 (7.06%) Power Platform
5 394 (6.02%) GitHub
6 390 (5.96%) GCP
7 288 (4.40%) Serverless
8 235 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
9 188 (2.87%) Amazon S3
10 176 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 134 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
12 132 (2.02%) SaaS
13 119 (1.82%) Entra ID
14 114 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
15 108 (1.65%) Figma
16 105 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 102 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
18 96 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
19 95 (1.45%) Snowflake
20 91 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 131 (2.00%) Firewall
2 70 (1.07%) Network Security
3 69 (1.05%) DNS
4 55 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 52 (0.79%) WAN
6 40 (0.61%) VPN
7 36 (0.55%) LAN
8 31 (0.47%) HTTP
9 28 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 24 (0.37%) BIG-IP
11 22 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (0.31%) DHCP
12 20 (0.31%) Ethernet
13 19 (0.29%) BGP
13 19 (0.29%) Wireless
14 18 (0.28%) Internet
15 17 (0.26%) 3GPP
15 17 (0.26%) MPLS
16 16 (0.24%) SSL
17 15 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (5.59%) Power BI
2 258 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 227 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
4 209 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 163 (2.49%) NoSQL
5 163 (2.49%) Relational Database
6 113 (1.73%) MongoDB
7 108 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
8 101 (1.54%) Tableau
9 97 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 97 (1.48%) Metadata
10 90 (1.38%) DynamoDB
11 82 (1.25%) Big Data
12 61 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
13 51 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
14 50 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 50 (0.76%) Pentaho
15 46 (0.70%) Oracle Database
16 45 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
17 39 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1,188 (18.16%) JIRA
2 589 (9.00%) Git
3 401 (6.13%) Jenkins
4 296 (4.52%) GitLab
5 135 (2.06%) JUnit
6 127 (1.94%) Postman
7 123 (1.88%) Selenium
8 89 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 77 (1.18%) SonarQube
10 70 (1.07%) Mockito
11 68 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 59 (0.90%) Cypress.io
13 54 (0.83%) JMeter
13 54 (0.83%) REST Assured
14 47 (0.72%) Zephyr
15 46 (0.70%) Gradle
16 41 (0.63%) Visual Studio
17 38 (0.58%) Maven
18 33 (0.50%) WebDriver
19 30 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2,238 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 1,669 (25.51%) Finance
3 1,059 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 870 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 566 (8.65%) Banking
6 249 (3.81%) Retail
7 180 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 160 (2.45%) Front Office
9 149 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
10 147 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 146 (2.23%) Legal
12 145 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 141 (2.15%) Marketing
14 123 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 104 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 91 (1.39%) Telecoms
17 86 (1.31%) Aerospace
18 82 (1.25%) Manufacturing
19 80 (1.22%) Military
20 70 (1.07%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,053 (16.09%) Developer
2 900 (13.76%) Senior
3 860 (13.14%) Analyst
4 585 (8.94%) Lead
5 567 (8.67%) Business Analyst
6 557 (8.51%) Architect
7 534 (8.16%) Project Manager
8 305 (4.66%) Software Engineer
9 282 (4.31%) Data Engineer
10 275 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
11 264 (4.03%) Java Developer
12 210 (3.21%) Senior Manager
13 208 (3.18%) Designer
14 207 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
15 190 (2.90%) Product Manager
16 175 (2.67%) Senior Developer
17 156 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
18 151 (2.31%) Product Owner
19 141 (2.15%) Scrum Master
20 131 (2.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (6.94%) REST
2 400 (6.11%) React
3 309 (4.72%) .NET
4 304 (4.65%) RESTful
5 289 (4.42%) Spring
6 278 (4.25%) Kafka
7 265 (4.05%) Node.js
8 258 (3.94%) Spring Boot
9 251 (3.84%) AngularJS
10 214 (3.27%) HTML
11 194 (2.97%) CSS
12 145 (2.22%) SOAP
13 127 (1.94%) Middleware
14 116 (1.77%) JSON
14 116 (1.77%) Playwright
15 115 (1.76%) Web Services
16 106 (1.62%) PySpark
17 86 (1.31%) Redux
17 86 (1.31%) XML
18 82 (1.25%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 799 (12.21%) Product Ownership
2 436 (6.66%) Cloud Native
3 194 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 184 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
5 159 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 130 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 125 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 119 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 117 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 111 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 106 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 95 (1.45%) NHS
13 82 (1.25%) Fixed Income
14 76 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
15 73 (1.12%) Data Centre
16 69 (1.05%) Mobile App
17 64 (0.98%) Derivative
18 57 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
19 53 (0.81%) AI Agents
20 52 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 298 (4.55%) Linux
2 242 (3.70%) Windows
3 105 (1.60%) Unix
4 46 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 44 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 43 (0.66%) Android
7 39 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 10 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.15%) VMS
10 10 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.15%) zOS
11 8 (0.12%) AIX
12 6 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.076%) CentOS
13 5 (0.076%) Rocky
13 5 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,684 (25.74%) DevOps
2 1,583 (24.19%) CI/CD
3 1,563 (23.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 1,421 (21.72%) Scrum
5 1,202 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 1,176 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 844 (12.90%) Test Automation
8 786 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 760 (11.62%) Roadmaps
10 727 (11.11%) AI
11 670 (10.24%) Analytics
12 665 (10.16%) Software Engineering
13 657 (10.04%) Project Management
14 655 (10.01%) Decision-Making
15 645 (9.86%) Microservices
16 636 (9.72%) Migration
17 615 (9.40%) Data Modelling
18 603 (9.22%) Waterfall
19 553 (8.45%) User Stories
20 529 (8.08%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1,049 (16.03%) SQL
2 968 (14.79%) Python
3 812 (12.41%) Java
4 554 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 384 (5.87%) C#
6 350 (5.35%) TypeScript
7 162 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 99 (1.51%) Bash
9 84 (1.28%) Go
10 81 (1.24%) PL/SQL
11 66 (1.01%) Scala
12 65 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 65 (0.99%) C++
13 50 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 48 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 45 (0.69%) Bicep
16 35 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 33 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 31 (0.47%) R
19 28 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 1,877 (28.69%) Security Cleared
2 1,461 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 608 (9.29%) Degree
4 302 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 242 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 211 (3.22%) PMP
7 197 (3.01%) PMI Certification
8 140 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 87 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 86 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 84 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 82 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 75 (1.15%) CISSP
14 69 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
15 52 (0.79%) CISM
16 40 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
17 36 (0.55%) IIBA
18 35 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 34 (0.52%) CBAP
19 34 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 586 (8.96%) QA
2 346 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 333 (5.09%) Data Quality
4 195 (2.98%) GDPR
5 177 (2.71%) PMO
6 123 (1.88%) WCAG
7 96 (1.47%) NIST
8 88 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 65 (0.99%) SLA
10 62 (0.95%) NCSC
11 55 (0.84%) PCI DSS
12 49 (0.75%) GRC
13 48 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 26 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 20 (0.31%) ISO 20022
16 19 (0.29%) PSD2
17 14 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 13 (0.20%) COBIT
18 13 (0.20%) HIPAA
19 12 (0.18%) HL7
System Software
1 591 (9.03%) Docker
2 117 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 60 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (0.28%) NFS
6 15 (0.23%) vSphere
7 14 (0.21%) GPFS
8 13 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.17%) Postfix
9 11 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (0.15%) Firmware
11 8 (0.12%) vCloud
12 7 (0.11%) RACF
13 6 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
14 5 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
14 5 (0.076%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.061%) HDFS
15 4 (0.061%) Squid
16 3 (0.046%) IAG
Systems Management
1 632 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 500 (7.64%) Terraform
3 190 (2.90%) Ansible
4 155 (2.37%) Grafana
5 113 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 59 (0.90%) Argo
7 43 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (0.41%) Control-M
8 27 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 23 (0.35%) Kibana
10 22 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 19 (0.29%) Packer
11 19 (0.29%) Puppet
11 19 (0.29%) SCCM
12 16 (0.24%) HP ALM
12 16 (0.24%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.24%) Nessus
12 16 (0.24%) vCenter Server
12 16 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 734 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 399 (6.10%) Oracle
3 312 (4.77%) ServiceNow
4 247 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 198 (3.03%) SAP
6 164 (2.51%) Databricks
7 152 (2.32%) Google
8 90 (1.38%) VMware
9 85 (1.30%) IBM
10 73 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 68 (1.04%) Talend
12 64 (0.98%) Informatica
13 61 (0.93%) Splunk
14 59 (0.90%) Adobe
15 57 (0.87%) Atlassian
15 57 (0.87%) Cisco
16 50 (0.76%) Workday
17 48 (0.73%) Denodo
18 42 (0.64%) Dynatrace
19 39 (0.60%) MuleSoft