Agile Contracts in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 6,094 11,015 19,066
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 16.58% 22.49% 27.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.17% 24.94% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,257 7,989 13,720
10th Percentile £384 £413 £406
25th Percentile £456 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £795 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 226 222
10th Percentile £22.75 £35.00 £31.03
25th Percentile £44.19 £52.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £79.75 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £50.64
% change year-on-year -7.31% +28.37% +13.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
London -1 3,492 £575 -4.17% 1,248
South East -2 824 £550 - 489
North of England -2 699 £520 -5.45% 607
South West -3 444 £525 -8.70% 358
North West -1 398 £525 - 364
Midlands -5 328 £525 +2.44% 432
Yorkshire -2 268 £513 -6.82% 170
West Midlands -2 248 £550 +2.23% 277
East of England -5 157 £500 -4.76% 211
East Midlands -7 77 £450 -1.37% 153
North East -2 43 £533 -7.39% 77
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
1 325 (5.33%) Confluence
2 210 (3.45%) Apache
3 193 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 130 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 73 (1.20%) CMS
6 71 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 60 (0.98%) Apache Spark
8 29 (0.48%) SAS
9 27 (0.44%) nginx
10 26 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 21 (0.34%) IIS
12 20 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 16 (0.26%) Drupal
14 13 (0.21%) CICS
15 11 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
15 11 (0.18%) MTS
16 10 (0.16%) ArcGIS
17 9 (0.15%) Headless CMS
18 7 (0.11%) Appian
18 7 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 136 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 128 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 95 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 57 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 37 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 23 (0.38%) Sketch
8 15 (0.25%) Adobe XD
9 11 (0.18%) InVision
10 9 (0.15%) Trello
11 8 (0.13%) Simulink
12 7 (0.11%) SPSS
13 6 (0.098%) Stateflow
14 5 (0.082%) Chatbot
14 5 (0.082%) TargetLink
14 5 (0.082%) UserZoom
15 4 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 4 (0.066%) CINEMA 4D
16 3 (0.049%) Windchill
17 2 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 77 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 27 (0.44%) Endur
4 27 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 23 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 17 (0.28%) Loan IQ
6 17 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 16 (0.26%) Shopify
8 14 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
9 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.18%) Aligne
11 11 (0.18%) EuroRunner
11 11 (0.18%) Primavera
12 10 (0.16%) ION MarketView
12 10 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
13 8 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
13 8 (0.13%) SAP PM
13 8 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,377 (22.60%) Azure
2 1,040 (17.07%) AWS
3 504 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
4 397 (6.51%) GCP
5 307 (5.04%) Power Platform
6 213 (3.50%) Serverless
7 210 (3.45%) GitHub
8 156 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 153 (2.51%) SaaS
10 135 (2.22%) Entra ID
11 114 (1.87%) Snowflake
12 110 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 107 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 107 (1.76%) dbt
14 101 (1.66%) PaaS
15 92 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
16 90 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
17 89 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
18 84 (1.38%) Amazon S3
19 80 (1.31%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 141 (2.31%) Firewall
2 100 (1.64%) DNS
3 96 (1.58%) VPN
4 73 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 65 (1.07%) HTTP
6 63 (1.03%) DHCP
7 42 (0.69%) LAN
8 37 (0.61%) RS-485
9 35 (0.57%) Internet
9 35 (0.57%) Modbus
9 35 (0.57%) RS-422
9 35 (0.57%) SAN
9 35 (0.57%) WAN
10 31 (0.51%) Network Security
11 23 (0.38%) BGP
12 21 (0.34%) SNMP
13 20 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
13 20 (0.33%) Wireless
14 19 (0.31%) MPLS
15 18 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 242 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 240 (3.94%) Power BI
4 166 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 165 (2.71%) Data Lake
6 159 (2.61%) Relational Database
7 158 (2.59%) Apache Ignite
8 150 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
9 133 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 114 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
11 98 (1.61%) Apache Arrow
11 98 (1.61%) Dremio
11 98 (1.61%) MySQL
12 97 (1.59%) Big Data
13 88 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
14 64 (1.05%) Tableau
15 55 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 51 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 42 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
18 39 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 750 (12.31%) JIRA
2 499 (8.19%) Git
3 282 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 156 (2.56%) GitLab
5 144 (2.36%) Selenium
6 125 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 106 (1.74%) Postman
8 83 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 81 (1.33%) Visual Studio
10 74 (1.21%) JUnit
11 72 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 57 (0.94%) TeamCity
13 54 (0.89%) SpecFlow
14 51 (0.84%) Robot Framework
15 50 (0.82%) JMeter
16 47 (0.77%) Maven
17 45 (0.74%) TestRail
18 41 (0.67%) WebDriver
19 35 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
20 34 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 1,750 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 1,481 (24.30%) Finance
3 744 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 664 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 591 (9.70%) Banking
6 417 (6.84%) Front Office
7 213 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 202 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
9 173 (2.84%) Retail
10 166 (2.72%) Marketing
11 151 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
12 138 (2.26%) Back Office
12 138 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 120 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 99 (1.62%) Legal
15 95 (1.56%) Manufacturing
16 81 (1.33%) Electronics
17 76 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
18 74 (1.21%) Military
19 56 (0.92%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,353 (22.20%) Developer
2 858 (14.08%) Senior
3 676 (11.09%) Analyst
4 613 (10.06%) Architect
5 550 (9.03%) Project Manager
6 467 (7.66%) Lead
7 429 (7.04%) Business Analyst
8 410 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 252 (4.14%) Senior Developer
10 229 (3.76%) Java Developer
11 228 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
12 185 (3.04%) Full Stack Developer
13 180 (2.95%) Python Developer
14 171 (2.81%) Delivery Manager
15 169 (2.77%) Consultant
16 149 (2.45%) Senior Manager
17 144 (2.36%) React Developer
18 143 (2.35%) Product Owner
19 142 (2.33%) Software Developer
20 138 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (7.94%) .NET
2 457 (7.50%) React
3 285 (4.68%) REST
4 269 (4.41%) CSS
5 266 (4.36%) HTML
6 241 (3.95%) Node.js
7 240 (3.94%) AngularJS
8 236 (3.87%) XML
9 233 (3.82%) Kafka
10 187 (3.07%) Spring
11 176 (2.89%) .NET Core
11 176 (2.89%) JSON
12 173 (2.84%) gRPC
13 164 (2.69%) Web Services
14 161 (2.64%) RESTful
15 160 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
16 158 (2.59%) Redux
17 136 (2.23%) .NET Framework
18 122 (2.00%) Spring Boot
19 117 (1.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 584 (9.58%) Product Ownership
2 299 (4.91%) Fixed Income
3 241 (3.95%) Hedge funds
4 225 (3.69%) Derivative
5 224 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 203 (3.33%) Equities
7 146 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 127 (2.08%) Mobile App
9 124 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 121 (1.99%) Onboarding
11 115 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 95 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 83 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 82 (1.35%) PKI
15 81 (1.33%) Data Centre
16 78 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
17 75 (1.23%) Algorithms
17 75 (1.23%) Cloud Native
18 68 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
19 59 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 417 (6.84%) Linux
2 304 (4.99%) Windows
3 137 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 127 (2.08%) Unix
5 96 (1.58%) Android
6 80 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 50 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (0.54%) zOS
9 31 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 23 (0.38%) Mac OS X
12 21 (0.34%) CentOS
12 21 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 20 (0.33%) Debian
13 20 (0.33%) Ubuntu
14 18 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
15 16 (0.26%) VMS
16 8 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
16 8 (0.13%) Solaris
17 6 (0.098%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,459 (23.94%) DevOps
2 1,324 (21.73%) Scrum
3 907 (14.88%) CI/CD
4 891 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
5 857 (14.06%) Project Management
6 819 (13.44%) Software Engineering
7 700 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 567 (9.30%) Waterfall
9 562 (9.22%) Test Automation
10 536 (8.80%) Project Delivery
11 492 (8.07%) TDD
12 484 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 453 (7.43%) Microservices
14 446 (7.32%) Roadmaps
15 442 (7.25%) Continuous Integration
16 422 (6.92%) Analytics
17 410 (6.73%) SDLC
18 408 (6.70%) Migration
19 355 (5.83%) Full Stack Development
20 354 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 940 (15.43%) Python
2 836 (13.72%) SQL
3 810 (13.29%) Java
4 679 (11.14%) JavaScript
5 642 (10.53%) C#
6 481 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 350 (5.74%) PowerShell
8 180 (2.95%) C++
9 137 (2.25%) C
10 120 (1.97%) Bicep
11 114 (1.87%) Scala
12 113 (1.85%) Go
13 91 (1.49%) Bash
14 64 (1.05%) PL/SQL
15 62 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 59 (0.97%) Kotlin
17 49 (0.80%) T-SQL
18 48 (0.79%) Perl
19 41 (0.67%) Ruby
20 35 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,145 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 794 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 634 (10.40%) Degree
4 356 (5.84%) DV Cleared
5 172 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 115 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 106 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 104 (1.71%) PMP
9 67 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 64 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 40 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 38 (0.62%) APMP
14 32 (0.53%) Azure Certification
15 31 (0.51%) AWS Certification
15 31 (0.51%) CISSP
16 30 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 28 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 27 (0.44%) CISM
18 27 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (5.91%) QA
2 187 (3.07%) PMO
3 145 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 138 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 72 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 67 (1.10%) SLA
7 54 (0.89%) GDPR
8 42 (0.69%) NIST
9 33 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 33 (0.54%) WCAG
10 18 (0.30%) MISRA
11 17 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.21%) GRC
15 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.18%) MiFID
15 11 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 379 (6.22%) Docker
2 241 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 101 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 23 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.34%) NFS
6 21 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
7 19 (0.31%) Firmware
7 19 (0.31%) vSphere
8 7 (0.11%) HDFS
8 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.098%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.098%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.049%) XenApp
12 2 (0.033%) LXC
12 2 (0.033%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 416 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 274 (4.50%) Terraform
3 215 (3.53%) Ansible
4 94 (1.54%) Grafana
5 70 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.00%) Puppet
7 43 (0.71%) Kibana
8 32 (0.53%) SCCM
9 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 26 (0.43%) logstash
12 26 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 26 (0.43%) SCOM
13 25 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 19 (0.31%) WSUS
15 18 (0.30%) Packer
16 16 (0.26%) WMI
17 14 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
18 13 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 866 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 290 (4.76%) Oracle
3 257 (4.22%) SAP
4 189 (3.10%) Google
5 159 (2.61%) VMware
6 127 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 127 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 99 (1.62%) Databricks
8 86 (1.41%) Adobe
9 82 (1.35%) IBM
10 77 (1.26%) Splunk
11 72 (1.18%) Cisco
12 66 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 53 (0.87%) Dell
14 46 (0.75%) Red Hat
15 34 (0.56%) Informatica
16 33 (0.54%) Bloomberg
17 31 (0.51%) Remedy
18 30 (0.49%) Juniper
18 30 (0.49%) Virgin Media