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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,032 5,207 7,567
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.68% 21.59% 24.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.32% 24.12% 27.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,026 3,880 5,468
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £609 £620 £588
90th Percentile £688 £694 £660
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 199 140
10th Percentile £22.20 £37.64 £31.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.22% +17.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.93% +10.32%

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 17,509 21,592 27,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,972 19,224
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 1,320 1,373
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 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
South East -2 826 £550 - 515
North of England -1 712 £511 -7.05% 580
Scotland -1 554 £500 +2.56% 181
South West -4 430 £538 -6.52% 347
North West -1 415 £524 -0.24% 362
Midlands -6 314 £525 - 386
Yorkshire -1 263 £500 -9.09% 163
West Midlands -3 240 £550 +1.85% 251
East of England -6 155 £500 -4.76% 235
East Midlands -10 71 £450 - 135
Wales 0 64 £515 -6.36% 86
North East -1 44 £533 -8.39% 60
Northern Ireland +7 14 £600 +41.18% 30
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
1 221 (7.29%) Confluence
2 78 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (1.06%) Apache
5 27 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 18 (0.59%) CMS
7 18 (0.59%) SAS
8 15 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.43%) nginx
10 12 (0.40%) CICS
11 10 (0.33%) Drupal
12 9 (0.30%) IIS
13 7 (0.23%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.23%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.16%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.13%) Skype for Business
15 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 113 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 25 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.26%) Simulink
8 7 (0.23%) InVision
8 7 (0.23%) Sketch
9 6 (0.20%) SPSS
9 6 (0.20%) Stateflow
10 5 (0.16%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.16%) TargetLink
11 3 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.066%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.066%) Trello
12 2 (0.066%) UserZoom
12 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 26 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 16 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.40%) Maximo
6 12 (0.40%) Primavera
7 11 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
8 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 8 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.16%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.13%) Sage X3
11 4 (0.13%) SAP WM
12 3 (0.099%) Aareon QL
12 3 (0.099%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.099%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.099%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 516 (17.02%) Azure
2 378 (12.47%) AWS
3 201 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (4.32%) Power Platform
5 120 (3.96%) Serverless
6 110 (3.63%) GitHub
7 83 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (2.41%) SaaS
9 72 (2.37%) Amazon S3
10 70 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (2.31%) GCP
11 52 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (1.55%) OpenShift
13 42 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
13 42 (1.39%) IaaS
14 36 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (1.19%) Entra ID
14 36 (1.19%) PaaS
15 34 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
16 31 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.69%) Firewall
2 84 (2.77%) VPN
3 83 (2.74%) DNS
4 54 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 50 (1.65%) DHCP
6 37 (1.22%) Modbus
7 36 (1.19%) RS-422
7 36 (1.19%) RS-485
8 30 (0.99%) Network Security
9 29 (0.96%) LAN
10 27 (0.89%) SAN
11 25 (0.82%) HTTP
12 23 (0.76%) WAN
13 20 (0.66%) Internet
14 19 (0.63%) VSAN
15 18 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
16 17 (0.56%) SSL
17 15 (0.49%) BGP
17 15 (0.49%) MPLS
18 14 (0.46%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 83 (2.74%) Power BI
3 83 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 76 (2.51%) MongoDB
5 70 (2.31%) MySQL
5 70 (2.31%) NoSQL
6 35 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 28 (0.92%) Big Data
9 24 (0.79%) GIS
10 23 (0.76%) RDBMS
11 22 (0.73%) DB2
11 22 (0.73%) Tableau
12 21 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (0.63%) Oracle Database
15 18 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.59%) Data Lake
16 14 (0.46%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 466 (15.37%) JIRA
2 237 (7.82%) Git
3 164 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 110 (3.63%) GitLab
5 56 (1.85%) Selenium
6 50 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 47 (1.55%) JUnit
8 46 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 44 (1.45%) Robot Framework
10 43 (1.42%) Postman
11 41 (1.35%) Cypress.io
12 37 (1.22%) TestRail
13 27 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
14 24 (0.79%) Visual Studio
15 22 (0.73%) Subversion
16 20 (0.66%) JMeter
16 20 (0.66%) Maven
17 19 (0.63%) Eclipse
18 18 (0.59%) GoogleTest
19 14 (0.46%) MSI
General
1 882 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 475 (15.67%) Finance
3 438 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 374 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (3.20%) Banking
5 97 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
6 76 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
6 76 (2.51%) Telecoms
7 72 (2.37%) Electronics
8 69 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
9 64 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 61 (2.01%) Marketing
11 54 (1.78%) Legal
12 51 (1.68%) Military
12 51 (1.68%) Retail
13 49 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 42 (1.39%) Automotive
15 26 (0.86%) Billing
16 23 (0.76%) Law
17 22 (0.73%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 513 (16.92%) Developer
2 339 (11.18%) Analyst
3 334 (11.02%) Senior
4 328 (10.82%) Project Manager
5 319 (10.52%) Architect
6 231 (7.62%) Lead
7 170 (5.61%) Business Analyst
8 133 (4.39%) Software Engineer
9 122 (4.02%) Java Developer
10 100 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
11 91 (3.00%) Senior Manager
12 86 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
13 77 (2.54%) Full Stack Developer
14 75 (2.47%) Consultant
15 69 (2.28%) Technical Architect
15 69 (2.28%) Test Engineer
16 64 (2.11%) DevOps Engineer
17 57 (1.88%) Designer
18 56 (1.85%) IT Manager
18 56 (1.85%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (5.57%) React
2 164 (5.41%) REST
3 144 (4.75%) Spring
4 142 (4.68%) CSS
5 139 (4.58%) HTML
6 125 (4.12%) .NET
7 110 (3.63%) Node.js
8 102 (3.36%) Spring Boot
9 97 (3.20%) AngularJS
10 88 (2.90%) Kafka
10 88 (2.90%) RESTful
11 84 (2.77%) JSON
12 81 (2.67%) XML
13 54 (1.78%) Web Services
14 49 (1.62%) AWS CDK
15 40 (1.32%) JPA
16 37 (1.22%) .NET Framework
17 36 (1.19%) SOAP
18 34 (1.12%) YAML
19 30 (0.99%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 239 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 99 (3.27%) Public Cloud
3 84 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 70 (2.31%) PKI
6 49 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 46 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 43 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 41 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 38 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 36 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 22 (0.73%) Virtual Team
16 21 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 21 (0.69%) Client/Server
16 21 (0.69%) Mainframe
17 18 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 281 (9.27%) Linux
2 234 (7.72%) Windows
3 121 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 56 (1.85%) Unix
5 49 (1.62%) Android
6 47 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 38 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (0.96%) zOS
10 26 (0.86%) Ubuntu
11 23 (0.76%) Debian
12 22 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
13 18 (0.59%) Windows 10
14 17 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
15 9 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
16 8 (0.26%) VMS
17 6 (0.20%) CentOS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (22.20%) DevOps
2 635 (20.94%) Scrum
3 545 (17.97%) Project Management
4 422 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
5 407 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 401 (13.23%) CI/CD
7 338 (11.15%) Waterfall
8 329 (10.85%) Software Engineering
9 294 (9.70%) Test Automation
10 287 (9.47%) Project Delivery
11 277 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 248 (8.18%) Roadmaps
13 218 (7.19%) PRINCE2
14 207 (6.83%) Microservices
15 205 (6.76%) Continuous Integration
16 198 (6.53%) ITIL
17 187 (6.17%) Migration
18 185 (6.10%) SDLC
19 182 (6.00%) User Stories
20 178 (5.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 370 (12.20%) Python
2 354 (11.68%) Java
3 332 (10.95%) SQL
4 237 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 211 (6.96%) C#
6 140 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 122 (4.02%) TypeScript
8 120 (3.96%) C
9 117 (3.86%) C++
10 59 (1.95%) Bash
11 44 (1.45%) PHP
12 43 (1.42%) PL/SQL
13 37 (1.22%) Scala
14 33 (1.09%) VBScript
15 30 (0.99%) Perl
16 27 (0.89%) Shell Script
17 25 (0.82%) REXX
18 24 (0.79%) Bicep
19 21 (0.69%) Go
20 18 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 779 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 494 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 313 (10.32%) Degree
4 285 (9.40%) DV Cleared
5 50 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 45 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.48%) PMP
7 44 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 42 (1.39%) ISTQB
9 40 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 29 (0.96%) APMP
10 29 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 28 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 23 (0.76%) MCSE
15 19 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 16 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.49%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (6.04%) QA
2 103 (3.40%) PMO
3 87 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 50 (1.65%) SLA
5 42 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
6 36 (1.19%) Data Quality
7 27 (0.89%) NIST
8 25 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.63%) GDPR
10 16 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.49%) MISRA
12 12 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.36%) WCAG
14 10 (0.33%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.26%) NCSC
15 8 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.23%) GRC
16 7 (0.23%) RMADS
17 5 (0.16%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 150 (4.95%) Docker
2 101 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 92 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.82%) Firmware
6 24 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 22 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (0.69%) vSphere
9 18 (0.59%) NFS
10 17 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
11 12 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (0.26%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
14 5 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.099%) HDFS
17 2 (0.066%) LXC
17 2 (0.066%) XenApp
17 2 (0.066%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 147 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 135 (4.45%) Terraform
3 132 (4.35%) Ansible
4 76 (2.51%) Grafana
5 35 (1.15%) SCCM
6 32 (1.06%) Kibana
7 31 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 26 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.79%) SCOM
11 20 (0.66%) WSUS
12 19 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 18 (0.59%) Puppet
14 17 (0.56%) Argo
15 15 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
15 15 (0.49%) WMI
16 12 (0.40%) Packer
16 12 (0.40%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.40%) vCenter Server
17 11 (0.36%) Istio
Vendors
1 413 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.78%) Oracle
3 141 (4.65%) SAP
4 136 (4.49%) VMware
5 76 (2.51%) Atlassian
6 68 (2.24%) Salesforce
7 56 (1.85%) Google
8 48 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.55%) IBM
10 41 (1.35%) Cisco
11 37 (1.22%) Red Hat
12 33 (1.09%) Adobe
13 31 (1.02%) Dell
14 25 (0.82%) Remedy
14 25 (0.82%) Splunk
15 22 (0.73%) Databricks
16 21 (0.69%) Juniper
17 19 (0.63%) Broadcom
18 18 (0.59%) CA
18 18 (0.59%) Talend