Agile Project Management Contracts

Agile Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Agile Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 491 529
Rank change year-on-year +68 +38 +57
Contract jobs citing Agile Project Management 97 91 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 132
10th Percentile £263 £382 £413
25th Percentile £400 £456 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £521
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.56% -1.43%
75th Percentile £519 £594 £638
90th Percentile £575 £638 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £470 £503
% change year-on-year -4.79% -6.47% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 11
10th Percentile £21.48 £21.10 -
25th Percentile £21.81 £31.71 £22.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -12.00% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £72.35
90th Percentile - - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year - +144.90% -25.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile Project Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Agile Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Project Management.

Daily rate trend for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Project Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Project Management.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile Project Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +74 87 £500 -13.04% 64
UK excluding London +81 53 £448 -4.79% 37
Work from Home +55 37 £512 +7.79% 42
London +30 34 £500 -13.04% 31
North of England +34 20 £402 -19.60% 20
Midlands +38 18 £514 - 3
West Midlands +27 14 £512 - 2
North West +26 13 £407 -29.17% 14
South West +43 6 £438 -18.60% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £275 - 5
South East +41 4 £444 +60.34% 8
East Midlands +12 3 £538 - 1
East of England +31 2 £400 - 1
Scotland +8 2 £385 -14.44% 2
North East +1 2 £519 +59.62% 2
Wales 0 1 - -

Agile Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (27.84%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) SAS
4 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Trello
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (11.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.06%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.06%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.06%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.43%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.19%) AWS
5 4 (4.12%) BigCommerce
5 4 (4.12%) IBM Blueworks
6 3 (3.09%) SaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Asana
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) Miro
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Power BI
2 6 (6.19%) Big Data
2 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (6.19%) Tableau
3 2 (2.06%) Cognos Query Studio
4 1 (1.03%) Looker
4 1 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 39 (40.21%) JIRA
2 4 (4.12%) Cypress.io
2 4 (4.12%) Postman
2 4 (4.12%) Selenium
2 4 (4.12%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.06%) Git
4 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (1.03%) Vagrant
General
1 58 (59.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.74%) Finance
3 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Automotive
6 9 (9.28%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.15%) Marketing
8 4 (4.12%) Banking
8 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.09%) Military
9 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Retail
10 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.06%) Law
10 2 (2.06%) Legal
10 2 (2.06%) Multimedia
10 2 (2.06%) Publishing
10 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.03%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 16 (16.49%) Project Manager
2 15 (15.46%) Analyst
3 9 (9.28%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.28%) Lead
4 8 (8.25%) Engagement Manager
5 7 (7.22%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.19%) Scrum Master
7 5 (5.15%) Technical Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Process Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Product Owner
8 4 (4.12%) QA Tester
8 4 (4.12%) Tester
9 3 (3.09%) Data Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Technical Programme Manager
10 2 (2.06%) SAP FI Consultant
10 2 (2.06%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) ADO
2 2 (2.06%) PySpark
2 2 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (2.06%) Yocto
3 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.22%) Industry 4.0
2 7 (7.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 6 (6.19%) PMI
4 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.06%) Digital TV
5 2 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) STB
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) Equities
6 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.03%) NHS
6 1 (1.03%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) Agile
1 97 (100.00%) Project Management
2 27 (27.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (23.71%) Scrum
5 22 (22.68%) Analytics
5 22 (22.68%) Roadmaps
6 21 (21.65%) Project Delivery
7 18 (18.56%) DevOps
8 17 (17.53%) Coaching
8 17 (17.53%) Sprint Planning
8 17 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (16.49%) Decision-Making
9 16 (16.49%) Mentoring
10 13 (13.40%) ERP
10 13 (13.40%) Sprint Retrospective
11 12 (12.37%) Data Analysis
11 12 (12.37%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (11.34%) Computer Science
12 11 (11.34%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.25%) SQL
2 6 (6.19%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) R
3 2 (2.06%) VBA
4 1 (1.03%) Bash
4 1 (1.03%) Bicep
4 1 (1.03%) C
4 1 (1.03%) C++
4 1 (1.03%) Go
4 1 (1.03%) Java
4 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 22 (22.68%) Degree
4 11 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.28%) PMI Certification
6 8 (8.25%) Master's Degree
6 8 (8.25%) PMP
7 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.03%) CBAP
8 1 (1.03%) CFA
8 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.06%) GDPR
4 2 (2.06%) PMBOK
4 2 (2.06%) PMO
5 1 (1.03%) MiFID
5 1 (1.03%) P3O
5 1 (1.03%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) MOM
2 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) Consul
3 1 (1.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) SAP
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.22%) Rockwell
3 7 (7.22%) Siemens
4 6 (6.19%) Oracle
5 4 (4.12%) IBM
5 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.09%) Palantir
7 2 (2.06%) Adobe
7 2 (2.06%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.06%) Ariba
7 2 (2.06%) Cognos
7 2 (2.06%) Informatica
7 2 (2.06%) Workday
7 2 (2.06%) Wrike
8 1 (1.03%) Aderant
8 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.03%) iManage
8 1 (1.03%) SimCorp