Agile Contracts in the South East

Agile Software Development
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 834 1,213 1,847
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 15.02% 20.87% 23.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.71% 23.38% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 867 1,290
10th Percentile £363 £406 £395
25th Percentile £425 £455 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £517
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +8.84%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 55 36
10th Percentile £22.40 £25.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £37.88 £42.50 £42.05
Median hourly rate £58.30 £55.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +6.80% -1.76%
75th Percentile £64.49 £73.11 £63.69
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.65% +10.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,709 5,189 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.80% 89.30% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,741 3,601 4,704
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the South East

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the South East

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Thames Valley -3 355 £550 +1.57% 164
Hampshire -1 275 £563 +0.09% 144
Berkshire -7 250 £575 +9.52% 70
Surrey -1 106 £525 -4.98% 71
Buckinghamshire 0 82 £550 - 54
West Sussex +7 66 £450 -5.26% 37
Oxfordshire -1 23 £450 -16.28% 41
East Sussex 0 19 £490 -21.60% 26
Kent -6 12 £488 -10.34% 18
Sussex 0 4 £400 -33.33% 6
Middlesex -1 2 - - 3
M4 Corridor - 1 £598 -
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 86 (10.31%) Confluence
2 33 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.92%) Apache
4 15 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 11 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.20%) SAS
8 6 (0.72%) Drupal
8 6 (0.72%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.60%) CICS
10 3 (0.36%) Appian
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.24%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Jadu
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.72%) SPSS
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.24%) Sketch
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.12%) InVision
7 1 (0.12%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (1.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 14 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (1.20%) SAP Hybris
4 8 (0.96%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.48%) SAP WM
5 4 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.36%) Primavera
6 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.24%) VisionPLUS
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HRMS
8 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MII
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 147 (17.63%) Azure
2 71 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (6.59%) AWS
4 34 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 33 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
6 29 (3.48%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (2.76%) SaaS
9 22 (2.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 22 (2.64%) Serverless
10 20 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (2.40%) GitHub
11 16 (1.92%) Azure Storage
12 13 (1.56%) Azure Functions
13 12 (1.44%) IaaS
13 12 (1.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 11 (1.32%) OpenShift
14 11 (1.32%) PaaS
15 9 (1.08%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.68%) DNS
2 33 (3.96%) DHCP
3 22 (2.64%) Firewall
4 21 (2.52%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.16%) Radio Access Network
6 17 (2.04%) SAN
7 14 (1.68%) BGP
7 14 (1.68%) SNMP
7 14 (1.68%) VPN
8 13 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
9 12 (1.44%) LAN
10 11 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (1.32%) MPLS
11 7 (0.84%) Network Security
12 5 (0.60%) VSAN
13 4 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (0.36%) HTTP
14 3 (0.36%) Internet
14 3 (0.36%) IOS XR
14 3 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.24%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 30 (3.60%) NoSQL
4 24 (2.88%) Power BI
5 23 (2.76%) MongoDB
6 20 (2.40%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.92%) MySQL
8 11 (1.32%) Tableau
9 10 (1.20%) Couchbase
10 7 (0.84%) Big Data
11 6 (0.72%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.72%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.60%) DB2
12 5 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.48%) GIS
13 4 (0.48%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 131 (15.71%) JIRA
2 82 (9.83%) Git
3 44 (5.28%) Robot Framework
4 37 (4.44%) GitLab
5 36 (4.32%) TestRail
6 27 (3.24%) Jenkins
7 23 (2.76%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.56%) Eclipse
9 13 (1.56%) GoogleTest
9 13 (1.56%) MSI
10 10 (1.20%) Selenium
11 8 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.60%) JUnit
12 5 (0.60%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.48%) ClearCase
13 4 (0.48%) ClearQuest
13 4 (0.48%) JMeter
13 4 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 202 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 112 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (10.67%) Finance
4 53 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 26 (3.12%) Telecoms
6 24 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (2.52%) Retail
8 20 (2.40%) Automotive
9 19 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.28%) Marketing
9 19 (2.28%) Military
10 16 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.80%) Legal
12 14 (1.68%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.20%) Billing
15 8 (0.96%) Banking
16 6 (0.72%) Publishing
17 5 (0.60%) German Language
17 5 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 147 (17.63%) Developer
2 98 (11.75%) Analyst
2 98 (11.75%) Architect
3 89 (10.67%) Project Manager
4 85 (10.19%) Senior
5 53 (6.35%) Lead
6 39 (4.68%) Software Engineer
7 33 (3.96%) Test Analyst
8 29 (3.48%) Business Analyst
8 29 (3.48%) Full Stack Developer
8 29 (3.48%) Test Engineer
9 24 (2.88%) Consultant
10 23 (2.76%) Infrastructure Architect
10 23 (2.76%) Senior Manager
11 22 (2.64%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
11 22 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (2.52%) Network Architect
12 21 (2.52%) Python Developer
13 20 (2.40%) Product Owner
13 20 (2.40%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.04%) CSS
1 42 (5.04%) REST
2 41 (4.92%) HTML
3 39 (4.68%) .NET
4 31 (3.72%) AngularJS
5 25 (3.00%) SOAP
6 23 (2.76%) React
7 21 (2.52%) Kafka
8 19 (2.28%) Node.js
8 19 (2.28%) RESTful
9 17 (2.04%) Spring
10 16 (1.92%) ARM Templates
10 16 (1.92%) XML
11 14 (1.68%) YANG
12 13 (1.56%) JSON
12 13 (1.56%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.44%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (1.44%) Web Services
14 11 (1.32%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 65 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 52 (6.24%) PKI
3 20 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.04%) Client/Server
6 14 (1.68%) Robotics
7 12 (1.44%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.44%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.08%) CCTV
9 9 (1.08%) PMI
10 6 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.72%) Mainframe
10 6 (0.72%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 117 (14.03%) Linux
2 114 (13.67%) Windows
3 61 (7.31%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (2.16%) Debian
7 15 (1.80%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.96%) Unix
9 8 (0.96%) VMS
10 5 (0.60%) Android
11 4 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.48%) zOS
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.12%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (22.30%) Scrum
2 176 (21.10%) DevOps
3 118 (14.15%) Test Automation
4 112 (13.43%) Project Management
5 100 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (11.03%) CI/CD
7 89 (10.67%) Software Engineering
8 77 (9.23%) ITIL
9 74 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 73 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (8.75%) Waterfall
11 72 (8.63%) Project Delivery
12 60 (7.19%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 58 (6.95%) Analytics
14 57 (6.83%) Kanban
14 57 (6.83%) Prototyping
15 49 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
16 48 (5.76%) Migration
17 45 (5.40%) Decision-Making
18 43 (5.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 122 (14.63%) Python
2 85 (10.19%) SQL
3 75 (8.99%) PowerShell
4 64 (7.67%) JavaScript
5 61 (7.31%) C#
6 58 (6.95%) Java
7 50 (6.00%) C++
8 31 (3.72%) VBScript
9 23 (2.76%) C
10 19 (2.28%) Bash
11 18 (2.16%) VB
12 16 (1.92%) Bicep
13 14 (1.68%) Go
13 14 (1.68%) PHP
14 13 (1.56%) ABAP
15 10 (1.20%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.08%) Scala
17 6 (0.72%) R
18 5 (0.60%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 303 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 155 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 137 (16.43%) DV Cleared
4 89 (10.67%) Degree
5 34 (4.08%) ISTQB
6 26 (3.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 22 (2.64%) PMI Certification
8 20 (2.40%) PMP
9 17 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 13 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.44%) MCSE
12 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.08%) MCSA
14 7 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.72%) VCAP
16 5 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.60%) CIPD
16 5 (0.60%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.32%) QA
2 27 (3.24%) PMO
3 13 (1.56%) ISO 9001
4 12 (1.44%) SLA
5 8 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.84%) RMADS
7 5 (0.60%) NIST
8 4 (0.48%) NCSC
8 4 (0.48%) PMBOK
9 3 (0.36%) COBIT
9 3 (0.36%) GDPR
9 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.24%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MISRA
11 1 (0.12%) MISRA C
System Software
1 65 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 56 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.68%) Docker
4 23 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.80%) vSphere
7 13 (1.56%) Firmware
8 8 (0.96%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.72%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 66 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.52%) Ansible
3 35 (4.20%) Terraform
4 20 (2.40%) SCCM
4 20 (2.40%) SCOM
5 18 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (2.16%) WSUS
6 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.80%) WMI
8 9 (1.08%) vRealize
9 8 (0.96%) Kibana
10 6 (0.72%) Packer
10 6 (0.72%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.60%) Argo
11 5 (0.60%) Grafana
11 5 (0.60%) Istio
11 5 (0.60%) Rancher
12 4 (0.48%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.36%) MOM
14 2 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 132 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 88 (10.55%) VMware
3 49 (5.88%) SAP
4 44 (5.28%) Oracle
5 25 (3.00%) Adobe
5 25 (3.00%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.64%) Atlassian
7 16 (1.92%) Juniper
8 15 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.68%) Google
10 12 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.08%) Cisco
12 7 (0.84%) Databricks
13 6 (0.72%) HP
13 6 (0.72%) IBM
14 5 (0.60%) Arqiva
14 5 (0.60%) Veritas
14 5 (0.60%) Virgin Media
15 4 (0.48%) Sparx
15 4 (0.48%) Workday