Agile Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,251 3,068 5,208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.67% 14.76% 21.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.55% 17.41% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 2,041 3,876
10th Percentile £356 £358 £394
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 170 197
10th Percentile £26.44 £22.30 £37.60
25th Percentile £48.99 £43.35 £52.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% -7.69% +22.07%
75th Percentile £74.38 £65.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.47 £70.00 £78.50
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,515 17,619 21,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.40% 84.74% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,242 10,546 14,950
10th Percentile £235 £246 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 823 2,041 1,307
10th Percentile £14.22 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.76 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
North of England -2 580 £490 -4.39% 941
South East +1 513 £550 - 717
Scotland -1 401 £457 -8.60% 255
Midlands +7 356 £498 -5.24% 526
North West -3 328 £492 -6.29% 599
West Midlands +3 255 £500 -9.09% 332
South West 0 234 £563 +4.65% 407
Yorkshire -1 212 £500 - 258
East of England +3 115 £500 - 300
East Midlands +8 97 £445 -1.17% 187
North East 0 52 £475 -10.80% 88
Wales 0 46 £446 -13.40% 100
Northern Ireland -1 22 £425 -29.17% 71
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 199 (8.84%) Confluence
2 67 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 19 (0.84%) Apache
6 12 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.53%) Tomcat
6 12 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.44%) CMS
7 10 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 7 (0.31%) NetWeaver
9 6 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.22%) Camunda
10 5 (0.22%) Drupal
10 5 (0.22%) JBoss
10 5 (0.22%) WordPress
11 4 (0.18%) IIS
11 4 (0.18%) Mule
11 4 (0.18%) nginx
11 4 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 71 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.36%) Trello
8 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.13%) Revit
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 3 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.089%) InVision
10 2 (0.089%) Open Workbench
10 2 (0.089%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.044%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.044%) CATIA
11 1 (0.044%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.044%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.044%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 43 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 8 (0.36%) Primavera
5 5 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
5 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.18%) iTrent
6 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.13%) SAP LE
8 2 (0.089%) BASE24
8 2 (0.089%) LabWindows
8 2 (0.089%) Misys Midas
8 2 (0.089%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.089%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 418 (18.57%) Azure
2 290 (12.88%) AWS
3 142 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
4 135 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 100 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 91 (4.04%) SaaS
7 86 (3.82%) Serverless
8 71 (3.15%) GCP
9 59 (2.62%) GitHub
10 55 (2.44%) PowerApps
11 52 (2.31%) Amazon S3
12 51 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
14 36 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (1.60%) Entra ID
15 35 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 35 (1.55%) IaaS
15 35 (1.55%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.42%) OpenShift
17 28 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.27%) DNS
2 48 (2.13%) Firewall
3 21 (0.93%) HTTP
4 18 (0.80%) DHCP
5 17 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.67%) LAN
7 14 (0.62%) Network Security
8 13 (0.58%) Software-Defined Radio
9 11 (0.49%) 5G
9 11 (0.49%) SAN
10 9 (0.40%) SNMP
11 7 (0.31%) 4G
11 7 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (0.31%) Internet
11 7 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
11 7 (0.31%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.31%) SSL
12 6 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.27%) Junos
12 6 (0.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.93%) Relational Database
2 99 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 94 (4.18%) MongoDB
4 79 (3.51%) Power BI
5 71 (3.15%) SQL Server
6 60 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 49 (2.18%) DB2
8 41 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 40 (1.78%) Oracle Database
10 39 (1.73%) RDBMS
11 38 (1.69%) MySQL
12 28 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.02%) DynamoDB
14 19 (0.84%) Big Data
14 19 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
15 17 (0.76%) Tableau
16 16 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.71%) Metadata
17 14 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (0.58%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 393 (17.46%) JIRA
2 221 (9.82%) Git
3 158 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 77 (3.42%) JUnit
5 75 (3.33%) GitLab
6 71 (3.15%) Selenium
7 63 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 44 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 32 (1.42%) Cypress.io
10 30 (1.33%) Postman
11 29 (1.29%) Visual Studio
12 28 (1.24%) Mockito
13 22 (0.98%) Eclipse
13 22 (0.98%) GoogleTest
13 22 (0.98%) Maven
14 19 (0.84%) TestRail
15 16 (0.71%) Robot Framework
15 16 (0.71%) Subversion
16 15 (0.67%) Gradle
16 15 (0.67%) JMeter
General
1 786 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 544 (24.17%) Finance
3 359 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 344 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
5 139 (6.18%) Banking
6 101 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 92 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 74 (3.29%) Marketing
9 57 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 49 (2.18%) Electronics
12 47 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (1.78%) Retail
14 38 (1.69%) Investment Banking
15 35 (1.55%) Legal
16 31 (1.38%) Automotive
17 29 (1.29%) Military
17 29 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (1.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 395 (17.55%) Developer
2 285 (12.66%) Analyst
3 222 (9.86%) Senior
4 205 (9.11%) Architect
5 180 (8.00%) Lead
6 171 (7.60%) Business Analyst
7 163 (7.24%) Project Manager
8 104 (4.62%) Java Developer
9 90 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 83 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
11 63 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
12 51 (2.27%) Test Engineer
13 50 (2.22%) Designer
14 44 (1.95%) Data Engineer
15 43 (1.91%) Tester
16 42 (1.87%) DevOps Engineer
16 42 (1.87%) Technical Manager
17 41 (1.82%) Scrum Master
17 41 (1.82%) Senior Developer
18 40 (1.78%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (5.86%) REST
2 131 (5.82%) CSS
3 125 (5.55%) HTML
4 108 (4.80%) Spring
5 105 (4.66%) React
6 95 (4.22%) .NET
7 94 (4.18%) Kafka
8 90 (4.00%) RESTful
9 89 (3.95%) Web Services
10 88 (3.91%) Spring Boot
11 77 (3.42%) AngularJS
12 71 (3.15%) Node.js
12 71 (3.15%) SOAP
13 58 (2.58%) XML
14 53 (2.35%) JSON
15 47 (2.09%) Middleware
16 33 (1.47%) JMS
17 27 (1.20%) HTML5
18 26 (1.16%) Hibernate
18 26 (1.16%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 207 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 65 (2.89%) Data Structures
3 59 (2.62%) Management Information System
4 50 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 44 (1.95%) Cloud Native
6 41 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 40 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 36 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 36 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 34 (1.51%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.42%) Equities
12 30 (1.33%) IoT
13 29 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 29 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 28 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
15 27 (1.20%) CMDB
15 27 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
16 26 (1.16%) NHS
17 24 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 232 (10.31%) Linux
2 177 (7.86%) Windows
3 66 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.31%) Unix
5 28 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.20%) Android
7 22 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.71%) CentOS
8 16 (0.71%) Ubuntu
9 14 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.49%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.36%) Solaris
12 7 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.27%) HPUX
13 6 (0.27%) VMS
13 6 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.22%) AIX
15 4 (0.18%) Debian
15 4 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
2 459 (20.39%) DevOps
3 419 (18.61%) Scrum
4 391 (17.37%) CI/CD
5 361 (16.04%) Project Management
6 352 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 295 (13.11%) Waterfall
8 287 (12.75%) Test Automation
9 248 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 219 (9.73%) Microservices
11 214 (9.51%) Roadmaps
11 214 (9.51%) Software Engineering
12 209 (9.28%) SDLC
13 185 (8.22%) Migration
14 174 (7.73%) Project Delivery
15 166 (7.37%) Change Management
16 152 (6.75%) Decision-Making
17 145 (6.44%) User Stories
18 141 (6.26%) ITIL
19 137 (6.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 354 (15.73%) SQL
2 313 (13.90%) Python
3 285 (12.66%) Java
4 236 (10.48%) JavaScript
5 147 (6.53%) PowerShell
6 108 (4.80%) C#
7 89 (3.95%) TypeScript
8 66 (2.93%) Bash
9 58 (2.58%) PL/SQL
10 53 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 46 (2.04%) C++
12 28 (1.24%) Perl
13 24 (1.07%) PHP
14 19 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.76%) Go
16 16 (0.71%) C
17 15 (0.67%) Scala
18 14 (0.62%) Groovy
18 14 (0.62%) VBScript
19 11 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 483 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 340 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 255 (11.33%) Degree
4 124 (5.51%) DV Cleared
5 67 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (2.71%) PMP
7 57 (2.53%) PMI Certification
8 53 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 52 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.55%) ISTQB
11 29 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 25 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (0.93%) CCNP
14 21 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 19 (0.84%) AWS Certification
15 19 (0.84%) CISSP
16 18 (0.80%) ISEB
17 17 (0.76%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.89%) QA
2 69 (3.07%) PMO
3 57 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 33 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 27 (1.20%) GDPR
7 20 (0.89%) NCSC
8 18 (0.80%) NIST
9 17 (0.76%) SLA
10 14 (0.62%) WCAG
11 11 (0.49%) GRC
11 11 (0.49%) GxP
12 9 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 8 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
14 7 (0.31%) PMBOK
15 6 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.18%) MISRA
16 4 (0.18%) MISRA C
System Software
1 121 (5.38%) Docker
2 111 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.07%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.76%) vSphere
6 15 (0.67%) Firmware
6 15 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.27%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.22%) Postfix
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.044%) GPFS
15 1 (0.044%) NFS
Systems Management
1 132 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.06%) Terraform
3 91 (4.04%) Ansible
4 40 (1.78%) Grafana
4 40 (1.78%) vCenter Server
5 25 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (1.02%) Puppet
7 21 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.80%) SCCM
10 16 (0.71%) Kibana
10 16 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.40%) Nessus
13 8 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
14 7 (0.31%) Packer
14 7 (0.31%) PowerCLI
14 7 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 315 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 182 (8.09%) Oracle
3 143 (6.35%) SAP
4 115 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 93 (4.13%) VMware
6 72 (3.20%) Atlassian
7 68 (3.02%) Google
8 65 (2.89%) Cisco
9 35 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 33 (1.47%) Databricks
11 29 (1.29%) Splunk
11 29 (1.29%) Sybase
12 26 (1.16%) IBM
13 19 (0.84%) MuleSoft
14 16 (0.71%) Apple
14 16 (0.71%) Red Hat
15 15 (0.67%) HP
16 12 (0.53%) Adobe
16 12 (0.53%) Dynatrace
17 11 (0.49%) Dell