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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 556 583
Rank change year-on-year +56 +27 -49
Contract jobs citing Agile Project Management 84 141 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 99 210
10th Percentile £337 £419 £400
25th Percentile £420 £464 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% - +5.68%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £603 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 3
10th Percentile £21.25 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £26.86 £26.25 £31.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £52.10 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.65% +57.86% -47.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £85.13 £43.38
90th Percentile - £88.55 £48.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £31.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year +92.00% -5.30% -53.51%

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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 17 June 2024.

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 17 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile Project Management in the UK

Agile Project Management
Top 14 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 17 June 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
England +31 66 £563 +2.27% 46
London +65 39 £575 +9.52% 9
UK excluding London -9 29 £500 -9.09% 37
Work from Home +70 20 £475 -9.52% 18
South East +15 9 £341 -37.06% 12
North of England -4 5 £568 +13.50% 7
Scotland +46 4 £423 -15.50% 3
South West -9 4 £600 -7.69% 6
West Midlands +16 3 £488 -9.72% 3
Midlands +15 3 £488 -9.72% 5
North West +1 3 £575 -6.28% 6
North East +9 2 £443 -
East of England 0 2 £750 +36.36% 5
Wales - 2 £160 -

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 9 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.95%) SharePoint 2013
3 4 (4.76%) CMS
3 4 (4.76%) Drupal
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.38%) Confluence
6 1 (1.19%) Joomla!
6 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.76%) Trello
3 3 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (2.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (5.95%) OCI
4 3 (3.57%) OneDrive
4 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.57%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.38%) AWS
5 2 (2.38%) Azure
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.19%) GCP
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Internet
1 2 (2.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (22.62%) JIRA
General
1 32 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Finance
4 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Local Government
6 3 (3.57%) Marketing
6 3 (3.57%) Military
6 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.38%) Banking
7 2 (2.38%) French Language
7 2 (2.38%) Games
7 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Publishing
8 1 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Front Office
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 14 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 10 (11.90%) Senior
3 10 (11.90%) Senior Manager
4 6 (7.14%) Agile Project Manager
4 6 (7.14%) Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 6 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
5 5 (5.95%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.95%) Consultant
5 5 (5.95%) Data Scientist
5 5 (5.95%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 5 (5.95%) SharePoint Project Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 4 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
6 4 (4.76%) Programme Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Web Producer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) PySpark
2 4 (4.76%) Web Services
3 1 (1.19%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.95%) PMI
3 5 (5.95%) Taxonomies
4 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.19%) CMDB
7 1 (1.19%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Agile
1 84 (100.00%) Project Management
2 25 (29.76%) Project Delivery
3 20 (23.81%) Scrum
4 18 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (15.48%) User Stories
7 11 (13.10%) Migration
8 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (11.90%) Matrix Management
8 10 (11.90%) PRINCE2
8 10 (11.90%) Project Planning
9 9 (10.71%) Kanban
9 9 (10.71%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (10.71%) Waterfall
10 8 (9.52%) Decision-Making
11 7 (8.33%) Product Backlog
11 7 (8.33%) Project Governance
11 7 (8.33%) SDLC
11 7 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.14%) Python
2 4 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (1.19%) C
3 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.71%) Degree
3 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) PMI Certification
5 5 (5.95%) PMP
6 3 (3.57%) BC Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.19%) APMG
8 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (4.76%) PMBOK
3 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.38%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (2.38%) PMO
5 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Ansible
1 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) SAP
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.14%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.57%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) Databricks
6 1 (1.19%) IFS
6 1 (1.19%) Planview
6 1 (1.19%) Progress
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow