The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Agile Software Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Software Development over the 6 months to 17 January 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
Agile Software Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills
34,928
62,346
86,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
86.24%
85.58%
87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted
23,555
41,676
58,409
Median daily rate
£475
£475
£475
10th Percentile
£300
£281
£300
90th Percentile
£650
£650
£650
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£433
£425
% change year-on-year
-1.73%
+1.76%
+5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted
1,139
1,915
2,115
Median hourly rate
£27.00
£21.00
£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57%
-4.55%
+2.33%
10th Percentile
£11.87
£11.88
£11.25
90th Percentile
£60.00
£53.00
£50.00
Median hourly rate
£24.00
£19.75
£21.00
% change year-on-year
+21.50%
-5.94%
-2.33%
Agile Software Development Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Agile Software Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Agile Software Development Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Software Development.
Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Software Development over the 6 months to 17 January 2021.
Agile Software Development Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Software Development.
Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile Software Development over the 6 months to 17 January 2021.
Agile Software Development Top 18 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the UK over the 6 months to 17 January 2021. 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
Agile Software Development Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills
For the 6 months to 17 January 2021, IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Agile Software Development.
Agile Software Development Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
