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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 498 527
Rank change year-on-year +68 +29 +57
Contract jobs citing Agile Project Management 93 92 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.25% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 47 127
10th Percentile £291 £341 £412
25th Percentile £401 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £523 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +2.12% -4.65%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £638
90th Percentile £575 £610 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £475 £503
% change year-on-year -6.63% -5.47% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 11
10th Percentile - £21.10 -
25th Percentile - £31.71 £22.16
Median hourly rate £60.00 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -12.00% -11.24%
75th Percentile - £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 26,732 37,140 52,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.25% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,209 23,924 36,124
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,088 2,439 1,724
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%
75th Percentile £60.25 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +8.57% +75.00%

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 10 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
Top 15 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 10 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 +82 85 £500 -9.09% 71
UK excluding London +72 51 £444 -6.63% 45
Work from Home +51 36 £506 +6.53% 47
London +41 35 £500 -13.04% 40
North of England +32 19 £423 -15.50% 17
Midlands +28 18 £514 +2.78% 2
West Midlands +28 14 £512 +2.48% 1
North West +22 12 £425 -26.09% 12
South West +37 6 £438 -18.60% 4
Yorkshire - 5 £275 - 4
South East +37 4 £444 +30.06% 17
East Midlands +11 3 £538 - 1
East of England +30 2 £400 -46.67% 1
Scotland +9 2 £385 -14.44% 3
North East -2 2 £519 +59.62% 2

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 33 (35.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Trello
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.30%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.15%) SAP CO
3 2 (2.15%) SAP FI
3 2 (2.15%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.05%) Azure
2 13 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.45%) AWS
5 4 (4.30%) BigCommerce
5 4 (4.30%) IBM Blueworks
6 3 (3.23%) SaaS
7 2 (2.15%) Asana
7 2 (2.15%) GitHub
7 2 (2.15%) Miro
7 2 (2.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.08%) IaaS
8 1 (1.08%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Power BI
2 6 (6.45%) Big Data
2 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.38%) Tableau
4 2 (2.15%) Cognos Query Studio
5 1 (1.08%) Looker
5 1 (1.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (48.39%) JIRA
2 4 (4.30%) Cypress.io
2 4 (4.30%) Postman
2 4 (4.30%) Selenium
2 4 (4.30%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.15%) Git
4 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.08%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (1.08%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.81%) Finance
3 10 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.38%) Banking
5 4 (4.30%) Automotive
5 4 (4.30%) Marketing
5 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.23%) Military
7 2 (2.15%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.15%) Law
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
7 2 (2.15%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Publishing
7 2 (2.15%) Retail
7 2 (2.15%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.28%) Project Manager
2 14 (15.05%) Analyst
3 9 (9.68%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.68%) Lead
4 8 (8.60%) Engagement Manager
5 7 (7.53%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.45%) Scrum Master
7 5 (5.38%) Engineering Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Technical Manager
8 4 (4.30%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (4.30%) Process Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Product Owner
8 4 (4.30%) QA Tester
8 4 (4.30%) Tester
9 3 (3.23%) Data Manager
9 3 (3.23%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 3 (3.23%) Technical Programme Manager
10 2 (2.15%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) ADO
2 2 (2.15%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (2.15%) Yocto
3 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.58%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.45%) PMI
3 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.15%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.15%) STB
5 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.08%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.08%) Equities
5 1 (1.08%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.08%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.08%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Agile
1 93 (100.00%) Project Management
2 28 (30.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 28 (30.11%) Scrum
3 23 (24.73%) DevOps
4 22 (23.66%) Coaching
4 22 (23.66%) Project Delivery
5 18 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (19.35%) Sprint Planning
6 17 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (16.13%) Decision-Making
7 15 (16.13%) Roadmaps
8 14 (15.05%) Analytics
9 13 (13.98%) Sprint Retrospective
10 11 (11.83%) Process Improvement
10 11 (11.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 10 (10.75%) Budget Management
11 10 (10.75%) Data Analysis
11 10 (10.75%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.75%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.53%) SQL
2 6 (6.45%) Java
3 4 (4.30%) Python
4 2 (2.15%) R
4 2 (2.15%) VBA
5 1 (1.08%) Bash
5 1 (1.08%) Bicep
5 1 (1.08%) C
5 1 (1.08%) C++
5 1 (1.08%) Go
5 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.20%) Degree
4 9 (9.68%) PMI Certification
5 8 (8.60%) PMP
6 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.08%) CBAP
8 1 (1.08%) CFA
8 1 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.98%) QA
2 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
3 2 (2.15%) PMBOK
3 2 (2.15%) PMO
4 1 (1.08%) MiFID
4 1 (1.08%) P3O
4 1 (1.08%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.15%) Terraform
2 1 (1.08%) Ansible
2 1 (1.08%) Consul
2 1 (1.08%) MOM
2 1 (1.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.53%) SAP
3 6 (6.45%) Oracle
4 4 (4.30%) IBM
4 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.23%) Palantir
6 2 (2.15%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.15%) Ariba
6 2 (2.15%) Cognos
6 2 (2.15%) Informatica
6 2 (2.15%) Workday
6 2 (2.15%) Wrike
7 1 (1.08%) Aderant
7 1 (1.08%) Adobe
7 1 (1.08%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.08%) iManage
7 1 (1.08%) Rockwell
7 1 (1.08%) Siemens
7 1 (1.08%) SimCorp