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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 4,541 6,132 10,459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 18.74% 16.68% 22.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.53% 19.44% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,145 4,294 7,636
10th Percentile £375 £380 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £690
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 215 208
10th Percentile £28.54 £23.65 £35.00
25th Percentile £47.94 £42.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.06 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -6.06% +29.01%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.25 £65.25
% change year-on-year +3.73% -7.66% +28.52%

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 22,122 31,544 42,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.81% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,378 20,598 30,002
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 2,306 1,516
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.04 £16.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 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 0 2,564 £575 - 3,276
North of England -1 614 £475 -7.95% 1,193
South East 0 480 £550 - 964
Midlands +6 379 £469 -10.67% 688
North West -3 331 £475 -9.31% 697
West Midlands +3 259 £500 -9.09% 455
Yorkshire +1 234 £483 -5.39% 358
South West -2 230 £560 +6.16% 521
East of England +9 129 £500 - 365
East Midlands +10 116 £420 -5.62% 222
North East -2 60 £475 -14.22% 146
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
1 388 (8.54%) Confluence
2 120 (2.64%) Apache
3 114 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 90 (1.98%) SharePoint
5 71 (1.56%) Apache Spark
6 43 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 41 (0.90%) CMS
8 28 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 17 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 14 (0.31%) IIS
10 14 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 12 (0.26%) JBoss
12 11 (0.24%) nginx
13 10 (0.22%) Drupal
13 10 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 8 (0.18%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 8 (0.18%) Skype for Business
14 8 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 103 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 52 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.70%) Trello
7 15 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.22%) Sketch
8 10 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.11%) InfoPath
11 4 (0.088%) Acrobat
11 4 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.066%) InVision
12 3 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
12 3 (0.066%) Revit
13 2 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.044%) Notepad++
13 2 (0.044%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.044%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 76 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 46 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 19 (0.42%) thinkFolio
5 18 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 14 (0.31%) Endur
6 14 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
7 13 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
7 13 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 13 (0.29%) Shopify
8 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.18%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.15%) Primavera
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle Payroll
13 5 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
13 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
13 5 (0.11%) SAP CO
13 5 (0.11%) SAP CRM
13 5 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 852 (18.76%) AWS
2 824 (18.15%) Azure
3 290 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
4 279 (6.14%) GCP
5 261 (5.75%) Power Platform
6 211 (4.65%) Serverless
7 200 (4.40%) GitHub
8 155 (3.41%) SaaS
9 127 (2.80%) dbt
10 121 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 105 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
12 98 (2.16%) Amazon S3
13 80 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 80 (1.76%) PowerApps
14 79 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
15 71 (1.56%) Entra ID
16 68 (1.50%) Snowflake
17 64 (1.41%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
19 57 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 120 (2.64%) Firewall
2 94 (2.07%) DNS
3 46 (1.01%) VPN
4 45 (0.99%) HTTP
5 42 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.90%) Network Security
7 32 (0.70%) SSL
8 29 (0.64%) DHCP
9 27 (0.59%) LAN
10 20 (0.44%) WAN
11 19 (0.42%) NGFW
12 15 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (0.33%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.33%) SMTP
13 13 (0.29%) SAN
13 13 (0.29%) Wireless
14 11 (0.24%) Ethernet
14 11 (0.24%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.24%) SSH
15 10 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 177 (3.90%) Power BI
3 168 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 157 (3.46%) Data Lake
5 154 (3.39%) Relational Database
6 125 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 120 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
8 113 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 108 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
10 105 (2.31%) Apache Iceberg
11 102 (2.25%) Dremio
12 95 (2.09%) Apache Arrow
13 66 (1.45%) DynamoDB
14 65 (1.43%) MySQL
15 60 (1.32%) Big Data
16 55 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
17 54 (1.19%) Apache Ignite
18 51 (1.12%) Tableau
19 50 (1.10%) Oracle Database
20 39 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 754 (16.60%) JIRA
2 382 (8.41%) Git
3 341 (7.51%) Jenkins
4 133 (2.93%) GitLab
5 110 (2.42%) JUnit
6 109 (2.40%) Selenium
7 83 (1.83%) Postman
8 75 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 73 (1.61%) Cucumber
10 66 (1.45%) Cypress.io
11 53 (1.17%) Mockito
12 49 (1.08%) Maven
13 48 (1.06%) Gradle
14 42 (0.92%) Visual Studio
15 41 (0.90%) REST Assured
16 40 (0.88%) JMeter
17 37 (0.81%) Artifactory
18 36 (0.79%) SonarQube
19 34 (0.75%) Liquibase
19 34 (0.75%) SoapUI
General
1 1,601 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 1,423 (31.34%) Finance
3 705 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 507 (11.16%) Banking
5 473 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 370 (8.15%) Front Office
7 164 (3.61%) Marketing
8 160 (3.52%) Investment Banking
9 145 (3.19%) Retail
10 137 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 119 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
12 115 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 86 (1.89%) Legal
14 84 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
15 79 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 77 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.48%) Electronics
17 67 (1.48%) Military
18 60 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
19 45 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 959 (21.12%) Developer
2 609 (13.41%) Analyst
3 575 (12.66%) Senior
4 441 (9.71%) Business Analyst
5 355 (7.82%) Project Manager
6 346 (7.62%) Architect
7 338 (7.44%) Lead
8 271 (5.97%) Software Engineer
9 171 (3.77%) Java Developer
10 156 (3.44%) Consultant
11 144 (3.17%) Senior Developer
12 128 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
13 126 (2.77%) Data Engineer
14 124 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
15 123 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
16 107 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
17 106 (2.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 104 (2.29%) Python Engineer
19 101 (2.22%) Full-Stack Developer
19 101 (2.22%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (7.73%) React
2 261 (5.75%) .NET
3 245 (5.40%) REST
4 236 (5.20%) HTML
5 235 (5.18%) Kafka
6 227 (5.00%) CSS
7 212 (4.67%) AngularJS
8 200 (4.40%) Node.js
9 196 (4.32%) RESTful
10 187 (4.12%) Web Services
11 181 (3.99%) Spring
12 140 (3.08%) Spring Boot
13 137 (3.02%) SOAP
14 93 (2.05%) JSON
15 87 (1.92%) Redux
16 86 (1.89%) XML
17 79 (1.74%) Pandas
18 77 (1.70%) NumPy
19 76 (1.67%) Vue
20 75 (1.65%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 386 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 273 (6.01%) Fixed Income
3 212 (4.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 209 (4.60%) Derivative
5 185 (4.07%) Hedge funds
6 181 (3.99%) Equities
7 100 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 95 (2.09%) Cloud Native
9 91 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 85 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 83 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 80 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 68 (1.50%) Algorithms
14 64 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 62 (1.37%) Virtual Team
16 59 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
17 57 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
17 57 (1.26%) Public Cloud
18 55 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
19 47 (1.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 278 (6.12%) Linux
2 231 (5.09%) Windows
3 82 (1.81%) Android
3 82 (1.81%) Unix
4 73 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 61 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 40 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.40%) VMS
8 16 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.22%) Solaris
11 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.15%) CentOS
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.11%) AIX
14 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.088%) Debian
15 4 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,021 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
2 971 (21.38%) DevOps
3 858 (18.89%) Scrum
4 790 (17.40%) CI/CD
5 687 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 633 (13.94%) Project Management
7 521 (11.47%) Software Engineering
8 488 (10.75%) Test Automation
9 467 (10.28%) Waterfall
10 455 (10.02%) Migration
11 448 (9.87%) Roadmaps
12 445 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 422 (9.29%) Microservices
14 399 (8.79%) Analytics
15 340 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
16 331 (7.29%) SDLC
17 316 (6.96%) Project Delivery
18 308 (6.78%) TDD
19 297 (6.54%) User Stories
20 294 (6.47%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 820 (18.06%) SQL
2 799 (17.60%) Python
3 689 (15.17%) Java
4 613 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 357 (7.86%) TypeScript
6 317 (6.98%) C#
7 208 (4.58%) PowerShell
8 91 (2.00%) Bash
9 90 (1.98%) C++
10 79 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 65 (1.43%) Go
11 65 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 62 (1.37%) Scala
13 60 (1.32%) Kotlin
14 44 (0.97%) PHP
15 43 (0.95%) Groovy
16 35 (0.77%) Perl
17 29 (0.64%) Apex Code
18 28 (0.62%) Ruby
19 25 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 876 (19.29%) Security Cleared
2 663 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 494 (10.88%) Degree
4 175 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 146 (3.22%) PMI Certification
6 145 (3.19%) PMP
7 138 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 46 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 43 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 42 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 38 (0.84%) CISSP
13 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 30 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (0.64%) CBAP
16 25 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
18 20 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 318 (7.00%) QA
2 146 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 91 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 74 (1.63%) PMO
5 65 (1.43%) GDPR
6 44 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (0.95%) MiFID
8 40 (0.88%) NIST
9 35 (0.77%) WCAG
10 25 (0.55%) SLA
11 23 (0.51%) GRC
12 19 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.37%) NCSC
14 13 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.26%) EMIR
16 11 (0.24%) GxP
17 10 (0.22%) Basel II
17 10 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 354 (7.80%) Docker
2 158 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 21 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.24%) Firmware
9 10 (0.22%) vSphere
10 8 (0.18%) Postfix
11 7 (0.15%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.13%) BitLocker
12 6 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.066%) KVM
14 3 (0.066%) Lustre
14 3 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.066%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 3 (0.066%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.066%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 352 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 314 (6.91%) Terraform
3 183 (4.03%) Ansible
4 66 (1.45%) Grafana
5 50 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 40 (0.88%) Puppet
7 38 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.75%) vCenter Server
9 27 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 22 (0.48%) SCCM
11 17 (0.37%) HP ALM
12 14 (0.31%) Kibana
12 14 (0.31%) Packer
13 12 (0.26%) Argo
13 12 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.24%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
15 9 (0.20%) Consul
Vendors
1 553 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 340 (7.49%) Oracle
3 260 (5.73%) SAP
4 168 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 140 (3.08%) Salesforce
6 101 (2.22%) Google
7 99 (2.18%) Atlassian
8 93 (2.05%) Cisco
9 91 (2.00%) Databricks
10 90 (1.98%) VMware
11 51 (1.12%) Splunk
12 48 (1.06%) Adobe
13 43 (0.95%) IBM
14 42 (0.92%) BISAM
15 38 (0.84%) MuleSoft
16 35 (0.77%) Palo Alto
17 32 (0.70%) CheckPoint
18 27 (0.59%) Citrix
19 26 (0.57%) Charles River
20 25 (0.55%) CA Agile Central