Agile Contracts in the South East

Agile Software Development
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 5 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 480 830 1,109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 16.21% 14.78% 19.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.74% 17.76% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 556 797
10th Percentile £375 £358 £405
25th Percentile £459 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 58 50
10th Percentile £48.99 £25.05 £28.80
25th Percentile £50.53 £37.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £57.75 £58.40 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -0.33% +21.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £74.69
90th Percentile - £71.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.06 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -6.06% +29.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,705 4,674 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.35% 83.26% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 2,697 3,437
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 448 218
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025.

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 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
Thames Valley +2 230 £550 - 352
Berkshire +3 181 £550 -4.35% 195
Hampshire +1 176 £550 -4.35% 257
Buckinghamshire -3 31 £425 -16.83% 83
Surrey -7 29 £500 -4.76% 91
West Sussex -6 19 £463 -2.63% 67
Oxfordshire -4 18 £463 +2.78% 111
Kent -4 8 £525 +1.20% 62
East Sussex -9 5 £638 +67.76% 46
Sussex +3 1 - - 55
Home Counties - 1 - -
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 32 (6.67%) Confluence
2 10 (2.08%) Apache
3 7 (1.46%) CMS
4 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.04%) Smallworld
6 4 (0.83%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.83%) Drupal
6 4 (0.83%) Mule
6 4 (0.83%) Mule ESB
6 4 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.83%) WordPress
7 3 (0.63%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.42%) IIS
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.21%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.83%) Primavera
4 3 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.42%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Maximo
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.21%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (17.50%) Azure
2 50 (10.42%) AWS
3 32 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.54%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.13%) SaaS
6 11 (2.29%) Serverless
7 10 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.88%) GitHub
9 7 (1.46%) GCP
10 6 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.04%) Azure API Management
11 5 (1.04%) Oracle CX
11 5 (1.04%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.83%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.50%) LAN
2 8 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (1.67%) Junos
2 8 (1.67%) Network Security
2 8 (1.67%) Software-Defined Radio
3 7 (1.46%) Cisco Firepower
3 7 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (1.46%) HTTP
3 7 (1.46%) SNMP
4 6 (1.25%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.04%) DNS
6 4 (0.83%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.83%) Internet
7 3 (0.63%) 4G
7 3 (0.63%) 5G
7 3 (0.63%) Broadband
7 3 (0.63%) Firewall
7 3 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.92%) Relational Database
3 13 (2.71%) MySQL
4 12 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.67%) Power BI
7 7 (1.46%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.04%) GIS
10 4 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.83%) Redis
10 4 (0.83%) Spatial Data
11 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.63%) Metadata
11 3 (0.63%) MS Access
11 3 (0.63%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (16.67%) JIRA
2 57 (11.88%) Git
3 32 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.96%) Bitbucket
5 17 (3.54%) GoogleTest
6 15 (3.13%) Robot Framework
6 15 (3.13%) Selenium
7 13 (2.71%) TestRail
8 11 (2.29%) SoapUI
9 10 (2.08%) Eclipse
10 9 (1.88%) GitLab
10 9 (1.88%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.67%) Postman
11 8 (1.67%) Subversion
12 7 (1.46%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.04%) JMeter
13 5 (1.04%) JUnit
13 5 (1.04%) MSI
General
1 132 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 91 (18.96%) Finance
3 50 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (10.42%) Telecoms
4 46 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 42 (8.75%) Manufacturing
6 24 (5.00%) Marketing
7 22 (4.58%) Electronics
8 11 (2.29%) Retail
9 10 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.67%) Billing
10 8 (1.67%) Legal
11 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Automotive
13 3 (0.63%) Aviation
13 3 (0.63%) Banking
13 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 72 (15.00%) Architect
2 70 (14.58%) Developer
3 62 (12.92%) Analyst
4 43 (8.96%) Senior
5 36 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 34 (7.08%) Business Analyst
7 31 (6.46%) Lead
8 28 (5.83%) Active Directory Architect
9 23 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 18 (3.75%) Consultant
11 17 (3.54%) Test Analyst
12 14 (2.92%) Network Engineer
12 14 (2.92%) Test Engineer
13 13 (2.71%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.50%) Embedded Engineer
14 12 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (2.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 11 (2.29%) Tester
16 10 (2.08%) Product Manager
16 10 (2.08%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.17%) Web Services
2 39 (8.13%) REST
3 31 (6.46%) SOAP
4 30 (6.25%) HTML
5 29 (6.04%) CSS
6 23 (4.79%) XML
7 22 (4.58%) RESTful
8 20 (4.17%) JSON
9 14 (2.92%) React
10 13 (2.71%) .NET
11 12 (2.50%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.50%) Kafka
12 10 (2.08%) Spring
13 9 (1.88%) jQuery
13 9 (1.88%) Middleware
13 9 (1.88%) Spring Boot
14 8 (1.67%) Ajax
14 8 (1.67%) Hibernate
15 7 (1.46%) ADO
15 7 (1.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 49 (10.21%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
4 11 (2.29%) Algorithms
4 11 (2.29%) Life Science
5 9 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.67%) IoT
6 8 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.46%) PKI
8 6 (1.25%) CMDB
9 5 (1.04%) Frameworx
9 5 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.04%) PMI
9 5 (1.04%) TM Forum
10 4 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.83%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 54 (11.25%) Windows
2 42 (8.75%) Linux
3 8 (1.67%) Unix
4 7 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.63%) CentOS
6 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (22.29%) Scrum
2 104 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 80 (16.67%) DevOps
5 78 (16.25%) Project Management
6 73 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 63 (13.13%) CI/CD
8 58 (12.08%) Waterfall
9 47 (9.79%) Software Engineering
10 46 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (9.58%) Roadmaps
11 40 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (8.33%) Migration
12 34 (7.08%) Microservices
12 34 (7.08%) PRINCE2
13 33 (6.88%) Programme Management
14 32 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 32 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (6.46%) SDLC
15 31 (6.46%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 64 (13.33%) SQL
2 47 (9.79%) Python
3 46 (9.58%) PowerShell
4 38 (7.92%) Java
5 37 (7.71%) JavaScript
6 29 (6.04%) C#
7 18 (3.75%) C++
8 14 (2.92%) PHP
8 14 (2.92%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.29%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.08%) VB
11 8 (1.67%) Go
12 6 (1.25%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.04%) Delphi
13 5 (1.04%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.04%) Rust
14 4 (0.83%) Bash
14 4 (0.83%) C
14 4 (0.83%) DataWeave
14 4 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 170 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 87 (18.13%) DV Cleared
3 83 (17.29%) SC Cleared
4 53 (11.04%) Degree
5 22 (4.58%) PMP
6 21 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.75%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.29%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 9 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.46%) CISM
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.63%) CISSP
11 3 (0.63%) ISEB
12 2 (0.42%) APMP
12 2 (0.42%) PgMP
12 2 (0.42%) VCAP
12 2 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.88%) QA
2 13 (2.71%) SLA
3 12 (2.50%) PMO
4 9 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.46%) GDPR
5 7 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.25%) NCSC
7 5 (1.04%) PMBOK
8 4 (0.83%) NIST
9 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.42%) WCAG
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.21%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 36 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.75%) Docker
3 16 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.67%) Firmware
5 4 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (4.79%) Terraform
2 21 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.17%) Ansible
4 7 (1.46%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.04%) WMI
6 4 (0.83%) CloudHub
7 3 (0.63%) Amdocs OSS
7 3 (0.63%) Grafana
7 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.42%) Kibana
8 2 (0.42%) vRealize
8 2 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.21%) Packer
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) SCCM
9 1 (0.21%) SCOM
9 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.04%) SAP
3 39 (8.13%) Oracle
4 20 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.75%) VMware
6 17 (3.54%) Google
7 15 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.92%) Cisco
9 12 (2.50%) Atlassian
10 10 (2.08%) Citrix
11 9 (1.88%) Zend
12 8 (1.67%) Juniper
13 7 (1.46%) F5
13 7 (1.46%) Intel
14 6 (1.25%) Adobe
15 5 (1.04%) Snow
16 4 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.83%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.83%) Splunk
16 4 (0.83%) Virgin Media