Agile Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,969 5,060 7,491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.57% 21.53% 24.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.23% 24.03% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,953 3,782 5,408
10th Percentile £358 £397 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 190 136
10th Percentile £22.33 £37.50 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £52.13 £42.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +23.22% +17.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.25 £49.54
% change year-on-year -8.05% +31.71% +10.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 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
South East -2 815 £550 - 542
North of England -1 699 £517 -6.00% 649
Scotland -2 511 £492 +0.92% 177
South West -3 439 £531 -7.61% 391
North West -1 405 £525 - 391
Midlands -4 321 £525 +0.96% 495
Yorkshire -2 261 £513 -6.82% 187
West Midlands -2 245 £550 +1.85% 328
East of England -5 156 £500 -3.85% 235
East Midlands -10 74 £448 -1.92% 165
Wales -1 55 £515 -6.36% 92
North East -2 43 £533 -7.39% 77
Northern Ireland +7 13 £600 +33.33% 48
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
1 214 (7.21%) Confluence
2 67 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (1.11%) Apache
5 27 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.61%) CMS
8 17 (0.57%) SAS
9 15 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.40%) CICS
11 11 (0.37%) nginx
12 10 (0.34%) Drupal
13 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.17%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
16 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 106 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.27%) Simulink
7 6 (0.20%) Sketch
7 6 (0.20%) SPSS
7 6 (0.20%) Stateflow
8 5 (0.17%) InVision
8 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.067%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.067%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 30 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.40%) Maximo
7 11 (0.37%) Primavera
7 11 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
8 10 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.27%) SAP PM
10 7 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.17%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.13%) Sage X3
12 4 (0.13%) SAP WM
13 3 (0.10%) Aareon QL
13 3 (0.10%) SAP CO
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 489 (16.47%) Azure
2 351 (11.82%) AWS
3 199 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 110 (3.70%) GitHub
5 110 (3.70%) Serverless
6 79 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
7 77 (2.59%) SaaS
8 66 (2.22%) GCP
9 63 (2.12%) Amazon S3
9 63 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 44 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (1.38%) IaaS
13 40 (1.35%) OpenShift
14 37 (1.25%) PaaS
15 36 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (1.21%) Entra ID
16 29 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
16 29 (0.98%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.67%) Firewall
2 81 (2.73%) VPN
3 76 (2.56%) DNS
4 56 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.58%) DHCP
6 37 (1.25%) Modbus
7 36 (1.21%) RS-485
8 35 (1.18%) RS-422
9 29 (0.98%) LAN
9 29 (0.98%) Network Security
10 27 (0.91%) SAN
11 24 (0.81%) HTTP
12 23 (0.77%) WAN
13 19 (0.64%) Internet
14 18 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
15 17 (0.57%) VSAN
16 16 (0.54%) SSL
17 15 (0.51%) BGP
17 15 (0.51%) MPLS
17 15 (0.51%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.86%) Power BI
4 83 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 74 (2.49%) MongoDB
5 74 (2.49%) MySQL
6 71 (2.39%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (0.91%) Big Data
9 26 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 25 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (0.81%) DB2
11 24 (0.81%) GIS
11 24 (0.81%) RDBMS
12 21 (0.71%) Tableau
13 20 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (0.64%) Oracle Database
15 18 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 15 (0.51%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 470 (15.83%) JIRA
2 239 (8.05%) Git
3 162 (5.46%) Jenkins
4 107 (3.60%) GitLab
5 54 (1.82%) Selenium
6 51 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 49 (1.65%) JUnit
8 45 (1.52%) Postman
8 45 (1.52%) Robot Framework
9 44 (1.48%) Cucumber
10 37 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 35 (1.18%) TestRail
12 27 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
13 25 (0.84%) Eclipse
14 23 (0.77%) GoogleTest
15 21 (0.71%) JMeter
15 21 (0.71%) Subversion
16 20 (0.67%) Maven
17 14 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 864 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 470 (15.83%) Finance
3 418 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 370 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (3.60%) Banking
6 104 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
7 75 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 72 (2.43%) Electronics
10 69 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
11 65 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 63 (2.12%) Marketing
13 56 (1.89%) Military
14 54 (1.82%) Legal
15 51 (1.72%) Retail
16 48 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 41 (1.38%) Automotive
18 28 (0.94%) Billing
19 26 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
20 24 (0.81%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 491 (16.54%) Developer
2 329 (11.08%) Analyst
3 320 (10.78%) Senior
4 319 (10.74%) Architect
5 310 (10.44%) Project Manager
6 225 (7.58%) Lead
7 160 (5.39%) Business Analyst
8 151 (5.09%) Software Engineer
9 120 (4.04%) Java Developer
10 94 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
11 86 (2.90%) Senior Manager
12 82 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
13 78 (2.63%) Consultant
14 73 (2.46%) Test Engineer
15 68 (2.29%) Full Stack Developer
16 66 (2.22%) Technical Architect
17 63 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
18 57 (1.92%) C++ Software Engineer
19 54 (1.82%) Senior Developer
20 53 (1.79%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (5.52%) React
2 155 (5.22%) REST
3 141 (4.75%) Spring
4 135 (4.55%) CSS
5 134 (4.51%) .NET
6 133 (4.48%) HTML
7 109 (3.67%) Node.js
8 102 (3.44%) Spring Boot
9 93 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 87 (2.93%) Kafka
11 85 (2.86%) RESTful
12 82 (2.76%) JSON
13 81 (2.73%) XML
14 66 (2.22%) Web Services
15 44 (1.48%) AWS CDK
16 41 (1.38%) .NET Framework
17 40 (1.35%) JPA
18 37 (1.25%) SOAP
19 35 (1.18%) YAML
20 30 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 232 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 103 (3.47%) Public Cloud
3 80 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 69 (2.32%) PKI
6 48 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 42 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 41 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 36 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 33 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 24 (0.81%) Mainframe
13 23 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.67%) Client/Server
14 20 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.64%) Algorithms
15 19 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 285 (9.60%) Linux
2 232 (7.81%) Windows
3 117 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 54 (1.82%) Unix
5 51 (1.72%) Android
6 49 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (0.98%) zOS
10 25 (0.84%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.74%) Debian
12 20 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
13 18 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
14 16 (0.54%) Windows 10
15 10 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
16 8 (0.27%) VMS
17 6 (0.20%) CentOS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (22.16%) DevOps
2 620 (20.88%) Scrum
3 531 (17.88%) Project Management
4 411 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
5 402 (13.54%) CI/CD
6 397 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 351 (11.82%) Software Engineering
8 334 (11.25%) Waterfall
9 293 (9.87%) Test Automation
10 278 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 272 (9.16%) Project Delivery
12 231 (7.78%) Roadmaps
13 213 (7.17%) PRINCE2
14 210 (7.07%) Continuous Integration
15 203 (6.84%) Microservices
16 196 (6.60%) ITIL
17 186 (6.26%) SDLC
18 180 (6.06%) TDD
19 177 (5.96%) Migration
19 177 (5.96%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 359 (12.09%) Python
2 350 (11.79%) Java
3 333 (11.22%) SQL
4 228 (7.68%) JavaScript
5 218 (7.34%) C#
6 135 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 129 (4.34%) C++
8 122 (4.11%) C
9 116 (3.91%) TypeScript
10 59 (1.99%) Bash
11 43 (1.45%) PL/SQL
12 39 (1.31%) PHP
13 36 (1.21%) Scala
14 33 (1.11%) VBScript
15 27 (0.91%) Perl
15 27 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 25 (0.84%) Bicep
16 25 (0.84%) REXX
17 21 (0.71%) VB
18 19 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 771 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 482 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 317 (10.68%) Degree
4 285 (9.60%) DV Cleared
5 54 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (1.48%) ISTQB
6 44 (1.48%) PMI Certification
6 44 (1.48%) PMP
7 43 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 33 (1.11%) APMP
10 26 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 26 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 26 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 23 (0.77%) MCSE
12 18 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 17 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 15 (0.51%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (6.13%) QA
2 106 (3.57%) PMO
3 79 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 51 (1.72%) SLA
5 35 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 33 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 23 (0.77%) NIST
8 20 (0.67%) MISRA
9 18 (0.61%) GDPR
9 18 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.54%) ISO 9001
11 13 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.37%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.30%) WCAG
14 8 (0.27%) NCSC
14 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.24%) GRC
15 7 (0.24%) RMADS
16 5 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 149 (5.02%) Docker
2 97 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 89 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.84%) Firmware
6 23 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.71%) vSphere
8 18 (0.61%) NFS
9 17 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
10 9 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
13 5 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.10%) HDFS
14 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.067%) LXC
16 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.034%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 146 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 129 (4.34%) Ansible
2 129 (4.34%) Terraform
3 75 (2.53%) Grafana
4 35 (1.18%) SCCM
5 34 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.04%) Kibana
7 26 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 24 (0.81%) SCOM
10 19 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 19 (0.64%) WSUS
11 17 (0.57%) Puppet
12 16 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
13 15 (0.51%) Argo
13 15 (0.51%) WMI
14 12 (0.40%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.37%) Istio
15 11 (0.37%) Packer
16 10 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 405 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 147 (4.95%) Oracle
3 139 (4.68%) SAP
4 132 (4.45%) VMware
5 70 (2.36%) Atlassian
5 70 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 62 (2.09%) Google
7 54 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 47 (1.58%) IBM
9 39 (1.31%) Cisco
10 35 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 31 (1.04%) Dell
12 26 (0.88%) Adobe
12 26 (0.88%) Remedy
13 25 (0.84%) Splunk
14 23 (0.77%) Talend
15 21 (0.71%) Databricks
16 20 (0.67%) Juniper
17 19 (0.64%) Broadcom
17 19 (0.64%) CA