Business Agility Contract Job Trends in England

Business Agility
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Business Agility skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 513 582
Rank change year-on-year -9 +69 +133
Contract jobs citing Business Agility 13 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.042% 0.026% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.029% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £351 £429 £773
25th Percentile £381 £434 £806
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £850
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -45.59% +30.77%
75th Percentile £688 £569 £875
90th Percentile £780 £738 -
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £850
% change year-on-year +2.70% -45.59% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Business Agility 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 27,655 27,305 34,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.92% 87.48% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,548 16,677 23,333
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,803 1,004 1,443
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.29 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +25.71%

Business Agility
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Business Agility job vacancy trend in England

Business Agility
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Agility.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Agility

Business Agility
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Agility in England over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Agility in England

Business Agility
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Agility.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Agility

Business Agility
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 Business Agility within the England region over the 6 months to 27 November 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 +3 9 £415 -12.63% 3
North of England - 4 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
North West - 1 £475 - 1
Business Agility
UK

Business Agility
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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) SaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Billing
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum Master
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Test Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Test Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Billing Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Agile Coach
5 1 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (7.69%) Commercial Director
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OpenID
2 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Scrum
3 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
4 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (38.46%) Kanban
5 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (38.46%) SDLC
6 4 (30.77%) Change Management
6 4 (30.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (30.77%) Regression Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
6 4 (30.77%) Traceability Matrix
6 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (23.08%) Planning Poker
7 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
7 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (23.08%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) ForgeRock
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Okta
3 1 (7.69%) SAP