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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 6,061 10,739 19,137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 16.66% 22.29% 27.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.27% 24.72% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,249 7,810 13,773
10th Percentile £385 £413 £406
25th Percentile £460 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +8.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 221 233
10th Percentile £22.98 £35.00 £31.05
25th Percentile £43.35 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.05 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +28.71% +12.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £80.00 £76.93
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.63% +29.01% +12.82%

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 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
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% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 3,486 £575 -4.17% 1,221
South East -2 816 £550 - 505
North of England -1 688 £525 -4.55% 643
South West -3 445 £525 -8.70% 358
North West -1 394 £525 -2.33% 390
Midlands -3 329 £525 +3.96% 436
Yorkshire -2 264 £513 -6.82% 175
West Midlands -1 250 £550 +2.04% 284
East of England -4 156 £500 -4.76% 184
East Midlands -8 76 £450 -1.37% 150
North East -1 43 £533 -7.39% 82
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
1 330 (5.44%) Confluence
2 226 (3.73%) Apache
3 209 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 130 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 74 (1.22%) CMS
6 73 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 59 (0.97%) Apache Spark
8 30 (0.49%) SAS
9 28 (0.46%) nginx
10 27 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 21 (0.35%) IIS
12 19 (0.31%) OpenStack
13 16 (0.26%) Drupal
14 13 (0.21%) CICS
15 12 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
15 12 (0.20%) Headless CMS
16 11 (0.18%) MTS
17 10 (0.16%) ArcGIS
18 8 (0.13%) Appian
19 7 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 134 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 128 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 95 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 60 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 56 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 37 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 22 (0.36%) Sketch
8 16 (0.26%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.16%) InVision
10 9 (0.15%) Trello
11 8 (0.13%) Simulink
12 7 (0.12%) SPSS
13 6 (0.099%) Stateflow
14 5 (0.082%) Chatbot
14 5 (0.082%) TargetLink
14 5 (0.082%) UserZoom
15 4 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 3 (0.049%) CANalyzer
16 3 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
16 3 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 78 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 26 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 26 (0.43%) Endur
5 23 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
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%) ION MarketView
11 11 (0.18%) Aligne
11 11 (0.18%) EuroRunner
11 11 (0.18%) Loan IQ
11 11 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
12 10 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
13 9 (0.15%) Primavera
14 8 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
14 8 (0.13%) SAP PM
14 8 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,362 (22.47%) Azure
2 1,035 (17.08%) AWS
3 499 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
4 409 (6.75%) GCP
5 304 (5.02%) Power Platform
6 209 (3.45%) GitHub
7 200 (3.30%) Serverless
8 153 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
9 149 (2.46%) SaaS
10 133 (2.19%) Entra ID
11 122 (2.01%) Snowflake
12 117 (1.93%) dbt
13 112 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 108 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 98 (1.62%) PaaS
16 92 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
17 89 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
18 85 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
19 78 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
20 77 (1.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.36%) Firewall
2 102 (1.68%) DNS
3 93 (1.53%) VPN
4 69 (1.14%) HTTP
5 68 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 62 (1.02%) DHCP
7 41 (0.68%) Internet
8 40 (0.66%) LAN
9 37 (0.61%) RS-485
10 35 (0.58%) Modbus
10 35 (0.58%) RS-422
11 33 (0.54%) WAN
12 30 (0.49%) Network Security
12 30 (0.49%) SAN
13 22 (0.36%) SNMP
14 20 (0.33%) BGP
15 19 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
15 19 (0.31%) SSL
16 17 (0.28%) Wireless
17 16 (0.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 245 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
3 239 (3.94%) Power BI
4 173 (2.85%) Apache Ignite
4 173 (2.85%) Data Lake
5 166 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 157 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 148 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 133 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 124 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
10 109 (1.80%) Apache Arrow
10 109 (1.80%) Dremio
11 103 (1.70%) MySQL
12 97 (1.60%) Big Data
13 89 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
14 66 (1.09%) Tableau
15 58 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
16 52 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
17 44 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
18 40 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 749 (12.36%) JIRA
2 496 (8.18%) Git
3 283 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 160 (2.64%) GitLab
5 141 (2.33%) Selenium
6 126 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 108 (1.78%) Postman
8 82 (1.35%) Visual Studio
9 77 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 75 (1.24%) JUnit
11 71 (1.17%) Bitbucket
12 52 (0.86%) JMeter
12 52 (0.86%) SpecFlow
13 51 (0.84%) TeamCity
14 50 (0.82%) Robot Framework
15 44 (0.73%) TestRail
16 40 (0.66%) WebDriver
17 39 (0.64%) Maven
18 37 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
19 32 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 1,737 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 1,493 (24.63%) Finance
3 733 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 650 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 601 (9.92%) Banking
6 427 (7.05%) Front Office
7 223 (3.68%) Investment Banking
8 202 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 170 (2.80%) Retail
10 163 (2.69%) Marketing
11 151 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
12 139 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 136 (2.24%) Back Office
14 117 (1.93%) Telecoms
15 99 (1.63%) Legal
16 96 (1.58%) Manufacturing
17 79 (1.30%) Electronics
18 75 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
19 74 (1.22%) Military
20 57 (0.94%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,336 (22.04%) Developer
2 853 (14.07%) Senior
3 667 (11.00%) Analyst
4 620 (10.23%) Architect
5 550 (9.07%) Project Manager
6 472 (7.79%) Lead
7 422 (6.96%) Software Engineer
8 418 (6.90%) Business Analyst
9 244 (4.03%) Senior Developer
10 229 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
11 228 (3.76%) Java Developer
12 185 (3.05%) Full Stack Developer
13 180 (2.97%) Python Developer
14 175 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
15 164 (2.71%) Consultant
16 148 (2.44%) Senior Manager
17 147 (2.43%) React Developer
18 143 (2.36%) Software Developer
19 141 (2.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
20 137 (2.26%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (7.97%) .NET
2 455 (7.51%) React
3 272 (4.49%) REST
4 271 (4.47%) HTML
5 269 (4.44%) CSS
6 238 (3.93%) Kafka
6 238 (3.93%) XML
7 235 (3.88%) Node.js
8 230 (3.79%) AngularJS
9 188 (3.10%) gRPC
10 180 (2.97%) Spring
11 176 (2.90%) .NET Core
12 175 (2.89%) Protocol Buffers
13 173 (2.85%) JSON
14 165 (2.72%) Web Services
15 159 (2.62%) Redux
16 158 (2.61%) RESTful
17 134 (2.21%) .NET Framework
18 126 (2.08%) Pandas
19 117 (1.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 580 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 310 (5.11%) Fixed Income
3 255 (4.21%) Hedge funds
4 235 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 232 (3.83%) Derivative
6 216 (3.56%) Equities
7 143 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 127 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 126 (2.08%) Mobile App
10 122 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 112 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 97 (1.60%) Data Structures
13 86 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
14 83 (1.37%) PKI
15 81 (1.34%) Data Centre
16 78 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
17 74 (1.22%) Algorithms
18 72 (1.19%) Cloud Native
19 67 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
20 56 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 412 (6.80%) Linux
2 296 (4.88%) Windows
3 134 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 130 (2.14%) Unix
5 97 (1.60%) Android
6 80 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (0.54%) zOS
9 32 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.38%) Mac OS X
11 22 (0.36%) Windows 10
12 20 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 19 (0.31%) CentOS
13 19 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (0.28%) Debian
15 16 (0.26%) VMS
16 14 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.099%) Kali Linux
17 6 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
17 6 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,447 (23.87%) DevOps
2 1,310 (21.61%) Scrum
3 901 (14.87%) CI/CD
4 890 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
5 856 (14.12%) Project Management
6 839 (13.84%) Software Engineering
7 703 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 567 (9.35%) Test Automation
9 563 (9.29%) Waterfall
10 518 (8.55%) Project Delivery
11 486 (8.02%) TDD
12 478 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 450 (7.42%) Microservices
14 440 (7.26%) Roadmaps
15 437 (7.21%) Continuous Integration
16 434 (7.16%) Analytics
17 411 (6.78%) SDLC
18 396 (6.53%) Migration
19 354 (5.84%) Full Stack Development
20 353 (5.82%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 953 (15.72%) Python
2 831 (13.71%) SQL
3 809 (13.35%) Java
4 689 (11.37%) JavaScript
5 632 (10.43%) C#
6 488 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 350 (5.77%) PowerShell
8 183 (3.02%) C++
9 140 (2.31%) C
10 120 (1.98%) Bicep
11 116 (1.91%) Go
12 115 (1.90%) Scala
13 91 (1.50%) Bash
14 66 (1.09%) PL/SQL
15 62 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 58 (0.96%) Kotlin
17 51 (0.84%) T-SQL
18 48 (0.79%) Perl
19 40 (0.66%) Ruby
20 35 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 1,128 (18.61%) Security Cleared
2 780 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 637 (10.51%) Degree
4 354 (5.84%) DV Cleared
5 173 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 115 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 104 (1.72%) PMI Certification
8 100 (1.65%) PMP
9 67 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 64 (1.06%) ISTQB
11 41 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 39 (0.64%) APMP
14 33 (0.54%) AWS Certification
14 33 (0.54%) CISSP
15 32 (0.53%) Azure Certification
16 30 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 29 (0.48%) CISM
17 29 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 27 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 365 (6.02%) QA
2 185 (3.05%) PMO
3 145 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 137 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 72 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 65 (1.07%) SLA
7 52 (0.86%) GDPR
8 41 (0.68%) NIST
9 33 (0.54%) WCAG
10 32 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 19 (0.31%) MISRA
12 16 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.21%) GRC
15 12 (0.20%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.16%) MiFID
18 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
19 7 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 375 (6.19%) Docker
2 239 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 100 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.35%) NFS
7 21 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
8 19 (0.31%) Firmware
8 19 (0.31%) vSphere
9 7 (0.12%) HDFS
9 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.099%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.099%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.049%) XenApp
13 2 (0.033%) LXC
13 2 (0.033%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 425 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 269 (4.44%) Terraform
3 217 (3.58%) Ansible
4 97 (1.60%) Grafana
5 72 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.01%) Puppet
7 44 (0.73%) Kibana
8 31 (0.51%) SCCM
9 30 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (0.45%) logstash
10 27 (0.45%) SCOM
11 26 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 26 (0.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 25 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.33%) WSUS
14 17 (0.28%) Packer
15 16 (0.26%) WMI
16 15 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
17 13 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 857 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 289 (4.77%) Oracle
3 252 (4.16%) SAP
4 194 (3.20%) Google
5 155 (2.56%) VMware
6 128 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 124 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 97 (1.60%) Databricks
9 86 (1.42%) Adobe
10 78 (1.29%) Splunk
11 72 (1.19%) IBM
12 69 (1.14%) Cisco
13 66 (1.09%) Atlassian
14 51 (0.84%) Dell
15 43 (0.71%) Red Hat
16 34 (0.56%) Bloomberg
16 34 (0.56%) Informatica
17 31 (0.51%) Juniper
18 30 (0.49%) ION Trading
18 30 (0.49%) Remedy