Agile Contracts

Agile Software Development
UK

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 5,880 7,190 11,957
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 19.08% 16.66% 21.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.00% 19.54% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,060 4,994 8,671
10th Percentile £358 £375 £410
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -5.31% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 236 220
10th Percentile £28.94 £26.03 £35.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £45.66 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +19.82%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £72.80
90th Percentile £80.20 £71.25 £79.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +13.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile 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 27,997 36,800 49,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 85.25% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,653 23,447 34,408
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,376 2,552 1,712
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.78 £61.30 £64.72
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 July 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 +1 4,876 £525 -4.55% 21,021
London 0 2,762 £575 - 10,302
UK excluding London -1 2,445 £492 -5.31% 12,295
Work from Home +1 2,175 £525 -4.55% 10,685
North of England +1 671 £469 -8.04% 3,135
South East +1 524 £550 - 3,175
Scotland 0 440 £471 -0.94% 1,015
Midlands +6 403 £453 -9.40% 1,671
North West 0 362 £450 -10.00% 1,903
West Midlands +3 264 £500 -9.09% 1,018
Yorkshire +1 258 £500 -3.29% 1,020
South West -4 225 £550 +4.76% 1,473
East of England +9 140 £500 -6.37% 1,267
East Midlands +8 136 £391 -8.00% 649
North East -1 63 £488 -7.14% 217
Wales +4 51 £375 -26.83% 370
Northern Ireland -8 9 £488 -16.13% 287
Channel Islands - 3 £640 - 1

Agile
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
1 529 (9.00%) Confluence
2 133 (2.26%) Apache
3 123 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 110 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 74 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 46 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 41 (0.70%) CMS
8 30 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 26 (0.44%) WebSphere
10 23 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 20 (0.34%) IIS
11 20 (0.34%) JBoss
12 19 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 18 (0.31%) nginx
14 14 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
15 13 (0.22%) Documentum
15 13 (0.22%) Drupal
15 13 (0.22%) FileNet
16 11 (0.19%) Anypoint
16 11 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 163 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 97 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 61 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 57 (0.97%) Trello
6 21 (0.36%) Sketch
7 17 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.24%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.12%) InVision
11 5 (0.085%) Acrobat
12 4 (0.068%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.068%) Simulink
13 3 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
13 3 (0.051%) Revit
13 3 (0.051%) Stateflow
14 2 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 83 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.83%) Aladdin
4 24 (0.41%) Endur
5 19 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
5 19 (0.32%) thinkFolio
6 17 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 15 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
7 15 (0.26%) Primavera
7 15 (0.26%) Shopify
8 14 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 14 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 13 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.14%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
11 7 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.12%) SAP EWM
11 7 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,173 (19.95%) AWS
2 1,085 (18.45%) Azure
3 401 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
4 359 (6.11%) GCP
5 314 (5.34%) Power Platform
6 291 (4.95%) Serverless
7 282 (4.80%) GitHub
8 207 (3.52%) SaaS
9 165 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
10 151 (2.57%) Amazon S3
11 138 (2.35%) dbt
12 123 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
13 113 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
14 102 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 98 (1.67%) PowerApps
16 96 (1.63%) Snowflake
17 92 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
18 85 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
19 82 (1.39%) Entra ID
19 82 (1.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (2.43%) Firewall
2 104 (1.77%) DNS
3 61 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 56 (0.95%) VPN
5 53 (0.90%) HTTP
6 45 (0.77%) Network Security
7 41 (0.70%) SSL
8 35 (0.60%) DHCP
9 31 (0.53%) LAN
10 25 (0.43%) WAN
11 20 (0.34%) SAN
12 19 (0.32%) NGFW
13 17 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
13 17 (0.29%) Ethernet
13 17 (0.29%) HTTPS
14 16 (0.27%) SMTP
14 16 (0.27%) Wireless
15 15 (0.26%) Internet
16 13 (0.22%) VoIP
17 12 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 233 (3.96%) Relational Database
3 212 (3.61%) Power BI
4 191 (3.25%) SQL Server
5 183 (3.11%) MongoDB
6 156 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 146 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 135 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 124 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
10 105 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
11 102 (1.73%) Dremio
12 98 (1.67%) Apache Arrow
13 86 (1.46%) MySQL
14 79 (1.34%) DB2
15 76 (1.29%) DynamoDB
16 73 (1.24%) Big Data
17 72 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.12%) Tableau
19 64 (1.09%) Oracle Database
20 51 (0.87%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 1,010 (17.18%) JIRA
2 545 (9.27%) Git
3 457 (7.77%) Jenkins
4 199 (3.38%) JUnit
5 192 (3.27%) GitLab
6 138 (2.35%) Selenium
7 113 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 112 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 98 (1.67%) Postman
10 84 (1.43%) Cypress.io
11 83 (1.41%) Mockito
12 68 (1.16%) Maven
13 67 (1.14%) Gradle
14 58 (0.99%) Visual Studio
15 50 (0.85%) REST Assured
16 47 (0.80%) Liquibase
16 47 (0.80%) SonarQube
17 44 (0.75%) JMeter
18 42 (0.71%) Artifactory
19 35 (0.60%) SoapUI
General
1 2,131 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 1,806 (30.71%) Finance
3 880 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 683 (11.62%) Public Sector
5 677 (11.51%) Banking
6 393 (6.68%) Front Office
7 225 (3.83%) Investment Banking
8 182 (3.10%) Marketing
9 171 (2.91%) Retail
10 152 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 141 (2.40%) Telecoms
12 122 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 116 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 105 (1.79%) Legal
15 102 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 98 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
17 82 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
18 74 (1.26%) Military
19 67 (1.14%) Electronics
20 60 (1.02%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,298 (22.07%) Developer
2 803 (13.66%) Analyst
3 728 (12.38%) Senior
4 577 (9.81%) Business Analyst
5 482 (8.20%) Lead
6 452 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 438 (7.45%) Architect
8 321 (5.46%) Software Engineer
9 292 (4.97%) Java Developer
10 188 (3.20%) Senior Developer
11 178 (3.03%) Consultant
12 162 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
13 159 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
14 151 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
15 138 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
16 137 (2.33%) Data Engineer
17 132 (2.24%) Full-Stack Developer
18 128 (2.18%) Python Developer
19 127 (2.16%) Python Engineer
20 118 (2.01%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (7.86%) React
2 364 (6.19%) REST
3 336 (5.71%) Kafka
4 328 (5.58%) .NET
5 318 (5.41%) Spring
6 304 (5.17%) HTML
7 299 (5.09%) CSS
8 281 (4.78%) RESTful
9 274 (4.66%) AngularJS
10 257 (4.37%) Node.js
11 231 (3.93%) Spring Boot
12 212 (3.61%) Web Services
13 192 (3.27%) SOAP
14 124 (2.11%) JSON
15 121 (2.06%) XML
16 102 (1.73%) Redux
17 96 (1.63%) Vue
18 95 (1.62%) Middleware
19 93 (1.58%) .NET Core
20 91 (1.55%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 533 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 274 (4.66%) Fixed Income
3 209 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 204 (3.47%) Derivative
5 202 (3.44%) Equities
6 174 (2.96%) Cloud Native
7 164 (2.79%) Hedge funds
8 134 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 132 (2.24%) Data Structures
10 131 (2.23%) Virtual Team
11 123 (2.09%) Mobile App
12 118 (2.01%) Management Information System
13 108 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
14 99 (1.68%) Algorithms
15 93 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
16 88 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
17 83 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
17 83 (1.41%) Public Cloud
18 82 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
19 66 (1.12%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 413 (7.02%) Linux
2 290 (4.93%) Windows
3 118 (2.01%) Unix
4 112 (1.90%) Android
5 83 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 81 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 60 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.32%) VMS
9 18 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 15 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 14 (0.24%) CentOS
12 13 (0.22%) Solaris
13 11 (0.19%) Debian
13 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.17%) zOS
15 9 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
16 8 (0.14%) AIX
17 6 (0.10%) HPUX
17 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,341 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
2 1,304 (22.18%) DevOps
3 1,230 (20.92%) Scrum
4 1,133 (19.27%) CI/CD
5 893 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 786 (13.37%) Project Management
7 666 (11.33%) Software Engineering
8 641 (10.90%) Test Automation
9 608 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 599 (10.19%) Microservices
10 599 (10.19%) Waterfall
11 549 (9.34%) Roadmaps
12 512 (8.71%) Migration
13 506 (8.61%) SDLC
14 480 (8.16%) Analytics
15 448 (7.62%) TDD
16 424 (7.21%) User Experience
17 422 (7.18%) Project Delivery
18 417 (7.09%) User Stories
19 386 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (17.53%) SQL
2 1,015 (17.26%) Python
3 984 (16.73%) Java
4 773 (13.15%) JavaScript
5 471 (8.01%) TypeScript
6 401 (6.82%) C#
7 236 (4.01%) PowerShell
8 123 (2.09%) Bash
9 110 (1.87%) Shell Script
10 99 (1.68%) PL/SQL
11 91 (1.55%) C++
12 84 (1.43%) Go
13 83 (1.41%) Scala
14 75 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 58 (0.99%) Groovy
16 49 (0.83%) Perl
17 47 (0.80%) PHP
18 40 (0.68%) Ruby
19 37 (0.63%) Apex Code
20 29 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,066 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 792 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 614 (10.44%) Degree
4 204 (3.47%) DV Cleared
5 172 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 172 (2.93%) PMI Certification
5 172 (2.93%) PMP
6 100 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 92 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 66 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 57 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 56 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 48 (0.82%) CISSP
12 47 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 41 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 38 (0.65%) CISM
15 33 (0.56%) CBAP
15 33 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 29 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 27 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (7.48%) QA
2 236 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 123 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 100 (1.70%) PMO
5 90 (1.53%) GDPR
6 62 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.04%) NIST
8 46 (0.78%) WCAG
9 39 (0.66%) MiFID
10 33 (0.56%) SLA
11 28 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 27 (0.46%) GRC
12 27 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 25 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 22 (0.37%) NCSC
15 19 (0.32%) HIPAA
16 16 (0.27%) EMIR
16 16 (0.27%) GxP
16 16 (0.27%) NIST 800
17 13 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 463 (7.87%) Docker
2 170 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 91 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 21 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (0.20%) vSphere
9 10 (0.17%) Firmware
10 9 (0.15%) Postfix
11 8 (0.14%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 5 (0.085%) VirtualBox
13 5 (0.085%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.068%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.068%) KVM
14 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.051%) Lustre
15 3 (0.051%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 462 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 424 (7.21%) Terraform
3 252 (4.29%) Ansible
4 99 (1.68%) Grafana
5 76 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 57 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 47 (0.80%) Puppet
8 33 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 31 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.53%) SCCM
10 25 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 23 (0.39%) HP ALM
11 23 (0.39%) Packer
12 14 (0.24%) Consul
12 14 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (0.24%) Kibana
13 13 (0.22%) Argo
14 12 (0.20%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
15 9 (0.15%) WMI
Vendors
1 715 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 440 (7.48%) Oracle
3 306 (5.20%) SAP
4 252 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 184 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 140 (2.38%) Google
7 116 (1.97%) VMware
8 112 (1.90%) Atlassian
9 103 (1.75%) Databricks
10 94 (1.60%) Cisco
11 74 (1.26%) Splunk
12 66 (1.12%) IBM
13 62 (1.05%) Adobe
14 55 (0.94%) MuleSoft
15 54 (0.92%) Sybase
16 44 (0.75%) HP
17 40 (0.68%) BISAM
17 40 (0.68%) Citrix
18 37 (0.63%) Dynatrace
19 36 (0.61%) Palo Alto