Pega Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pega
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Pega products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pega over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Pegasystems, Inc.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 343 406
Rank change year-on-year +1 +63 +41
Contract jobs citing Pega 20 22 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.12% 0.093%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.28% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 11
10th Percentile £400 £440 £465
25th Percentile £406 £513 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £619 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.29% +23.70% -3.10%
75th Percentile £459 £628 £546
90th Percentile £513 - £588
UK median daily rate £450 £619 £550
% change year-on-year -27.24% +12.45% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Pega falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,307 7,789 9,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.34% 43.64% 45.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,504 4,553 6,425
10th Percentile £221 £220 £206
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 593 485
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.16 £14.51
25th Percentile £16.88 £15.62 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% -25.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £41.98 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.87% -27.06% +79.70%

Pega
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pega in the UK excluding London

Pega
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pega.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pega

Pega
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pega in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pega in the UK excluding London

Pega
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 Pega within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Scotland +14 8 £350 -28.21%
North of England -18 7 £456 -26.23% 5
North West -7 3 £450 -27.24% 4
North East - 3 £438 - 1
South West +23 2 - -
Midlands -10 2 £413 -33.31%
West Midlands -11 2 £413 -33.31%
South East +22 1 £425 -27.26% 2
Yorkshire -20 1 £463 -25.22%
Pega
UK

Pega
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 5 (25.00%) nginx
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (25.00%) GitHub
2 5 (25.00%) Serverless
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Redis
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Pega Architect
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Pega Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Floorwalker
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Pega Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
1 5 (25.00%) JSON
1 5 (25.00%) OAuth
1 5 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 5 (25.00%) REST
1 5 (25.00%) SOAP
1 5 (25.00%) XML
2 4 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) IVR
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) High Availability
3 5 (25.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 4 (20.00%) API Development
4 4 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 4 (20.00%) User Stories
5 3 (15.00%) CRM
6 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (10.00%) Informatica
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk