Agile Project Manager Contract Job Trends

Agile Project Manager
UK

The median Agile Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £597, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 540 586
Rank change year-on-year +7 +46 +67
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Project Manager 21 42 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 58
10th Percentile £446 £464 £409
25th Percentile £502 £489 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% +0.91% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £693 £743 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,872 35,916 47,573
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 93.03% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,867 22,646 32,740
10th Percentile £281 £300 £302
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,559 1,837 1,480
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.16 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.04 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.33 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.95 £39.55
% change year-on-year -42.78% +11.13% +83.95%

Agile Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Agile Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Project Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Project Manager job vacancies in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Agile Project Manager in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Project Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Project Manager job vacancies in the UK

Agile Project Manager
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -3 17 £600 +4.35% 3
London +12 13 £625 +13.64% 2
UK excluding London -10 7 £475 -17.39% 2
Work from Home +25 5 £547 -5.89% 2
Scotland -3 3 £438 -4.11%
South West +26 2 £569 -4.01%
South East +14 2 £475 -23.23% 2

Agile Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 September 2025, Agile Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Agile Project Manager in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Scrum
3 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (42.86%) JIRA
3 9 (42.86%) Project Management
4 8 (38.10%) Project Delivery
5 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 6 (28.57%) Kanban
7 5 (23.81%) Azure
7 5 (23.81%) SaaS
7 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
7 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
8 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
8 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
8 4 (19.05%) Degree
8 4 (19.05%) Finance
8 4 (19.05%) Confluence
8 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
8 4 (19.05%) DevOps
9 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (14.29%) Migration
9 3 (14.29%) PMI Certification
9 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
9 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
9 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (9.52%) PMO

Agile Project Manager Skill Set
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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) SaaS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Apple Pay
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Contentstack
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Google Pay
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Publishing
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ADO
2 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) PMI
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Scrum
3 9 (42.86%) Project Management
3 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (38.10%) Project Delivery
5 6 (28.57%) Kanban
6 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
7 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
8 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
9 2 (9.52%) Business Analysis
9 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (9.52%) Change Management
9 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
9 2 (9.52%) Project Planning
9 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 2 (9.52%) PMP
4 1 (4.76%) CISA
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.52%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) SCCM
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Apple
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) SAP