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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,365 2,965 4,581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.60% 13.91% 20.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.43% 16.85% 22.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,616 1,941 3,432
10th Percentile £350 £358 £384
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 209 169
10th Percentile £29.25 £26.03 £37.50
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% -5.23% +27.11%

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 12,174 17,598 20,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.58% 82.53% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,479 10,305 13,887
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £369 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,203 1,250
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.50 £11.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.50 £15.05
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £57.55 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.14% +34.62%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -1 649 £475 -7.72% 8,400
South East +1 498 £550 - 9,212
Scotland 0 422 £470 -1.57% 2,293
Midlands +7 390 £463 -8.42% 5,665
North West -1 352 £450 -11.76% 4,336
West Midlands +3 265 £500 -9.09% 3,211
Yorkshire 0 246 £491 -4.95% 3,332
South West -3 230 £550 +4.76% 3,880
East of England +9 136 £500 - 4,643
East Midlands +9 122 £402 -7.59% 2,427
North East -1 63 £475 -10.17% 741
Wales +3 48 £400 -21.95% 1,061
Northern Ireland -6 11 £425 -29.17% 710
Channel Islands - 2 £640 - 97
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
1 226 (9.56%) Confluence
2 54 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.14%) Apache
5 22 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 15 (0.63%) Tomcat
6 15 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 13 (0.55%) CMS
8 11 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.47%) IIS
8 11 (0.47%) JBoss
8 11 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.34%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.30%) Mule
11 6 (0.25%) Camunda
11 6 (0.25%) Drupal
11 6 (0.25%) NetWeaver
11 6 (0.25%) WordPress
12 5 (0.21%) Smallworld
Applications
1 68 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 68 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.47%) Trello
6 8 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.17%) Simulink
9 3 (0.13%) Revit
9 3 (0.13%) Sketch
9 3 (0.13%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.085%) InVision
10 2 (0.085%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.042%) InDesign
11 1 (0.042%) Maple
11 1 (0.042%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.042%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 34 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 11 (0.47%) Primavera
5 7 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.17%) Maximo
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.17%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP LE
9 2 (0.085%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.085%) LabWindows
9 2 (0.085%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.085%) Oracle BPM
9 2 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.085%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.085%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 379 (16.03%) Azure
2 329 (13.91%) AWS
3 130 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
4 123 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 86 (3.64%) SaaS
6 85 (3.59%) GitHub
6 85 (3.59%) Serverless
7 83 (3.51%) GCP
8 64 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
9 59 (2.49%) Amazon S3
10 50 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (2.07%) PowerApps
12 36 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (1.44%) IaaS
15 33 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
16 32 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
17 30 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
17 30 (1.27%) Power Automate
18 29 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.54%) Firewall
2 58 (2.45%) DNS
3 30 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.10%) Network Security
5 22 (0.93%) HTTP
6 21 (0.89%) DHCP
7 17 (0.72%) SAN
8 16 (0.68%) LAN
9 13 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (0.42%) Ethernet
10 10 (0.42%) SSL
10 10 (0.42%) VPN
11 9 (0.38%) 5G
12 8 (0.34%) Junos
13 7 (0.30%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (0.30%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.30%) Skype
13 7 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
13 7 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.52%) Relational Database
2 105 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 100 (4.23%) MongoDB
4 71 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 70 (2.96%) Power BI
6 68 (2.88%) SQL Server
7 51 (2.16%) DB2
8 48 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 36 (1.52%) Oracle Database
10 34 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (1.44%) MySQL
11 33 (1.40%) DynamoDB
11 33 (1.40%) RDBMS
12 27 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 23 (0.97%) Metadata
14 19 (0.80%) Tableau
15 18 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
16 16 (0.68%) Big Data
17 14 (0.59%) BigQuery
18 13 (0.55%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 413 (17.46%) JIRA
2 240 (10.15%) Git
3 214 (9.05%) Jenkins
4 110 (4.65%) JUnit
5 88 (3.72%) GitLab
6 76 (3.21%) Selenium
7 63 (2.66%) Bitbucket
8 55 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 46 (1.95%) Postman
10 45 (1.90%) Maven
11 42 (1.78%) Mockito
12 37 (1.56%) Cypress.io
13 33 (1.40%) Visual Studio
14 31 (1.31%) SonarQube
15 24 (1.01%) Gradle
16 21 (0.89%) Eclipse
17 19 (0.80%) JMeter
18 17 (0.72%) SoapUI
18 17 (0.72%) Subversion
19 16 (0.68%) REST Assured
General
1 862 (36.45%) Social Skills
2 607 (25.67%) Finance
3 373 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 343 (14.50%) Public Sector
5 183 (7.74%) Banking
6 88 (3.72%) Telecoms
7 77 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 65 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (2.75%) Marketing
8 65 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 46 (1.95%) Electronics
11 45 (1.90%) Retail
12 41 (1.73%) Legal
13 39 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (1.56%) Investment Banking
15 36 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 33 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 30 (1.27%) Front Office
17 30 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 421 (17.80%) Developer
2 303 (12.81%) Analyst
3 241 (10.19%) Senior
4 193 (8.16%) Architect
5 191 (8.08%) Lead
6 186 (7.86%) Business Analyst
7 174 (7.36%) Project Manager
8 124 (5.24%) Java Developer
9 81 (3.42%) Software Engineer
10 70 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
11 67 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
12 53 (2.24%) Senior Developer
13 52 (2.20%) Designer
13 52 (2.20%) Tester
14 49 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 49 (2.07%) Product Owner
15 46 (1.95%) Consultant
15 46 (1.95%) Test Engineer
16 45 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 44 (1.86%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (6.77%) REST
2 154 (6.51%) Spring
3 122 (5.16%) CSS
4 119 (5.03%) HTML
5 117 (4.95%) Web Services
6 114 (4.82%) Kafka
6 114 (4.82%) Spring Boot
7 111 (4.69%) React
8 110 (4.65%) RESTful
9 95 (4.02%) .NET
9 95 (4.02%) SOAP
10 86 (3.64%) AngularJS
11 80 (3.38%) Node.js
12 57 (2.41%) XML
13 50 (2.11%) JSON
13 50 (2.11%) Middleware
14 45 (1.90%) Hibernate
15 40 (1.69%) JMS
16 33 (1.40%) jQuery
17 27 (1.14%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 228 (9.64%) Product Ownership
2 68 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 65 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 58 (2.45%) Virtual Team
5 57 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 55 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 51 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 40 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 37 (1.56%) Equities
11 36 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 35 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 34 (1.44%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
15 28 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (1.14%) PKI
17 26 (1.10%) NHS
18 23 (0.97%) CMDB
19 22 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 243 (10.27%) Linux
2 182 (7.70%) Windows
3 67 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.28%) Unix
5 41 (1.73%) Android
6 29 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.47%) Solaris
10 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.38%) VMS
13 8 (0.34%) AIX
13 8 (0.34%) Debian
14 7 (0.30%) CentOS
14 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.25%) HPUX
15 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
2 505 (21.35%) DevOps
3 489 (20.68%) Scrum
4 433 (18.31%) CI/CD
5 371 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 368 (15.56%) Project Management
7 313 (13.23%) Test Automation
8 305 (12.90%) Waterfall
9 283 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 245 (10.36%) Microservices
11 219 (9.26%) Roadmaps
12 218 (9.22%) Software Engineering
13 215 (9.09%) SDLC
14 194 (8.20%) Migration
14 194 (8.20%) Project Delivery
15 171 (7.23%) TDD
16 170 (7.19%) Change Management
17 160 (6.77%) User Stories
18 158 (6.68%) Decision-Making
19 157 (6.64%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 376 (15.90%) SQL
2 346 (14.63%) Java
3 305 (12.90%) Python
4 245 (10.36%) JavaScript
5 155 (6.55%) PowerShell
6 104 (4.40%) C#
7 97 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 65 (2.75%) Shell Script
9 62 (2.62%) Bash
10 51 (2.16%) PL/SQL
11 38 (1.61%) C++
12 31 (1.31%) Perl
13 27 (1.14%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.97%) PHP
15 18 (0.76%) Go
15 18 (0.76%) Scala
16 15 (0.63%) C
16 15 (0.63%) Groovy
17 13 (0.55%) Swift
17 13 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 494 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 334 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 250 (10.57%) Degree
4 144 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 67 (2.83%) PMP
6 61 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (2.37%) PMI Certification
8 47 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 46 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 28 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.18%) ISTQB
12 24 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.80%) ISEB
14 18 (0.76%) CISSP
14 18 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.72%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.72%) Azure Certification
15 17 (0.72%) CCNP
15 17 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.96%) QA
2 66 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 52 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.16%) PMO
5 36 (1.52%) GDPR
6 28 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
7 24 (1.01%) WCAG
8 23 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.89%) NIST
10 20 (0.85%) SLA
11 16 (0.68%) NCSC
12 10 (0.42%) GxP
13 9 (0.38%) GRC
13 9 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
15 7 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.30%) PMBOK
16 6 (0.25%) RMADS
17 5 (0.21%) P3O
System Software
1 154 (6.51%) Docker
2 111 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 83 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 21 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.51%) vSphere
9 11 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.38%) Firmware
10 9 (0.38%) Postfix
11 8 (0.34%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 6 (0.25%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.21%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.085%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 2 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
18 1 (0.042%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 140 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 139 (5.88%) Terraform
3 118 (4.99%) Ansible
4 56 (2.37%) Grafana
5 36 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 33 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 30 (1.27%) Puppet
8 27 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (1.01%) SCCM
11 16 (0.68%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.42%) HP ALM
13 10 (0.42%) Kibana
14 9 (0.38%) Amdocs OSS
15 8 (0.34%) PowerCLI
16 7 (0.30%) CloudHub
16 7 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.30%) vRealize
17 6 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 339 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 172 (7.27%) Oracle
3 128 (5.41%) SAP
4 121 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 103 (4.36%) VMware
6 77 (3.26%) Cisco
7 70 (2.96%) Atlassian
8 64 (2.71%) Google
9 48 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 40 (1.69%) Splunk
11 36 (1.52%) IBM
12 34 (1.44%) Sybase
13 29 (1.23%) MuleSoft
14 24 (1.01%) Databricks
14 24 (1.01%) Red Hat
15 20 (0.85%) Citrix
15 20 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.85%) HP
16 17 (0.72%) SolarWinds
17 14 (0.59%) F5