Agile Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 8,316 19,731 24,369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 18.53% 25.70% 27.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.93% 28.51% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,890 13,867 17,737
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £477 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £625
90th Percentile £750 £760 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £535 £488
% change year-on-year -1.87% +9.74% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 270 193
10th Percentile £45.00 £33.82 £24.75
25th Percentile £57.50 £46.61 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +30.95%
75th Percentile £74.01 £70.30 £67.80
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.84 £78.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +20.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile 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 39,726 69,214 81,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.51% 90.15% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,590 47,923 56,854
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +5.26% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £623
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,525 1,676 1,999
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.41 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.56 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.73 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +35.08% +80.56% -20.00%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 6,893 £563 -2.11% 4,441
London 0 4,053 £600 - 1,762
UK excluding London -2 3,327 £525 -1.87% 3,028
Work from Home -2 3,279 £550 - 2,890
South East 0 861 £550 - 813
North of England -1 756 £525 -4.55% 822
Scotland -2 626 £500 +2.41% 211
South West -1 489 £550 -4.35% 362
North West -5 391 £525 - 464
Midlands -7 346 £525 - 516
Yorkshire -1 344 £545 -0.91% 272
West Midlands -4 265 £525 -2.78% 365
East of England -4 227 £525 -8.70% 253
East Midlands -10 79 £489 -2.20% 148
Wales -2 66 £508 -7.73% 93
North East 0 45 £550 -4.35% 90
Northern Ireland -6 18 £536 +7.17% 35
Isle of Man - 3 £475 -

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
1 600 (7.22%) Confluence
2 168 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 132 (1.59%) Apache
4 89 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 86 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 68 (0.82%) CMS
7 53 (0.64%) nginx
8 27 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 26 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
10 20 (0.24%) IIS
10 20 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 19 (0.23%) Drupal
11 19 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 16 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 15 (0.18%) SAS
14 14 (0.17%) Mendix
14 14 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
15 12 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 10 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 10 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 181 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 130 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 124 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 116 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 39 (0.47%) Sketch
7 35 (0.42%) Trello
8 24 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 23 (0.28%) InVision
10 18 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 12 (0.14%) Chatbot
12 11 (0.13%) Zeplin
13 7 (0.084%) PlantUML
13 7 (0.084%) UXPin
14 5 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
14 5 (0.060%) Adobe Premiere
14 5 (0.060%) CINEMA 4D
15 4 (0.048%) CATIA
15 4 (0.048%) Lectora
16 3 (0.036%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 91 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 72 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 35 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 28 (0.34%) Endur
5 19 (0.23%) Shopify
6 17 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 15 (0.18%) ION MarketView
8 14 (0.17%) Magento
8 14 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 13 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
10 12 (0.14%) Aladdin
11 10 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (0.12%) Primavera
12 9 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
12 9 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
12 9 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 7 (0.084%) Aligne
13 7 (0.084%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,720 (20.68%) Azure
2 1,473 (17.71%) AWS
3 488 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
4 413 (4.97%) GCP
5 358 (4.30%) Serverless
6 356 (4.28%) Power Platform
7 277 (3.33%) GitHub
8 233 (2.80%) SaaS
9 207 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
10 182 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
11 166 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 162 (1.95%) Amazon S3
13 135 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 132 (1.59%) PaaS
15 118 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 108 (1.30%) Azure Functions
17 104 (1.25%) IaaS
18 99 (1.19%) OpenShift
19 94 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
20 93 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 190 (2.28%) Firewall
2 123 (1.48%) DNS
3 79 (0.95%) VPN
4 74 (0.89%) WAN
5 68 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 65 (0.78%) HTTP
7 64 (0.77%) DHCP
8 63 (0.76%) LAN
9 60 (0.72%) Network Security
10 50 (0.60%) Internet
11 46 (0.55%) SAN
12 44 (0.53%) VLAN
13 37 (0.44%) Wireless
14 35 (0.42%) BGP
14 35 (0.42%) Modbus
15 34 (0.41%) RS-422
15 34 (0.41%) RS-485
16 33 (0.40%) IPv4
17 30 (0.36%) SSL
18 26 (0.31%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (4.59%) SQL Server
2 286 (3.44%) Power BI
3 282 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 282 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 201 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 195 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 173 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 146 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 139 (1.67%) MySQL
9 138 (1.66%) Big Data
10 129 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 90 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 87 (1.05%) Tableau
13 77 (0.93%) DynamoDB
14 73 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
15 69 (0.83%) RDBMS
16 66 (0.79%) Oracle Database
17 55 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
18 54 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,155 (13.89%) JIRA
2 682 (8.20%) Git
3 467 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 169 (2.03%) Selenium
5 156 (1.88%) GitLab
6 141 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 139 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 127 (1.53%) Postman
9 107 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 89 (1.07%) TeamCity
11 68 (0.82%) JUnit
12 65 (0.78%) Maven
13 61 (0.73%) Visual Studio
14 60 (0.72%) Robot Framework
15 57 (0.69%) SoapUI
16 56 (0.67%) webpack
17 55 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
17 55 (0.66%) SpecFlow
17 55 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
18 43 (0.52%) Eclipse
General
1 2,303 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 1,860 (22.37%) Finance
3 1,138 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 908 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 734 (8.83%) Banking
6 288 (3.46%) Front Office
7 240 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
8 215 (2.59%) Marketing
9 203 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 188 (2.26%) Retail
11 179 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 169 (2.03%) Investment Banking
13 150 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 147 (1.77%) Legal
15 124 (1.49%) Law
16 123 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
17 117 (1.41%) Manufacturing
18 100 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
19 95 (1.14%) Back Office
20 86 (1.03%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,748 (21.02%) Developer
2 1,094 (13.16%) Analyst
3 1,040 (12.51%) Senior
4 768 (9.24%) Project Manager
5 766 (9.21%) Business Analyst
6 714 (8.59%) Architect
7 565 (6.79%) Lead
8 343 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 289 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
10 284 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
11 266 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 266 (3.20%) Senior Developer
12 263 (3.16%) Java Developer
13 197 (2.37%) Full Stack Developer
14 181 (2.18%) Product Owner
15 179 (2.15%) Data Engineer
15 179 (2.15%) Designer
16 173 (2.08%) Consultant
17 168 (2.02%) Senior Manager
18 159 (1.91%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (7.14%) .NET
2 517 (6.22%) React
3 440 (5.29%) REST
4 422 (5.07%) HTML
5 367 (4.41%) CSS
6 362 (4.35%) Node.js
7 358 (4.30%) AngularJS
8 278 (3.34%) Kafka
9 267 (3.21%) Spring
10 227 (2.73%) RESTful
11 223 (2.68%) JSON
12 193 (2.32%) XML
13 184 (2.21%) Web Services
14 179 (2.15%) Spring Boot
15 167 (2.01%) Redux
16 160 (1.92%) .NET Core
17 149 (1.79%) .NET Framework
18 132 (1.59%) SOAP
19 131 (1.58%) ASP.NET
20 122 (1.47%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 746 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 189 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 185 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
4 173 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 165 (1.98%) Cloud Native
6 156 (1.88%) Derivative
7 147 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 140 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 133 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 117 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 115 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
12 112 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 108 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
14 105 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 94 (1.13%) Hedge funds
16 92 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 91 (1.09%) PKI
18 86 (1.03%) Data Structures
18 86 (1.03%) Equities
19 78 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 681 (8.19%) Linux
2 440 (5.29%) Windows
3 159 (1.91%) Unix
4 150 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 79 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 70 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 62 (0.75%) Android
8 56 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 42 (0.51%) Solaris
10 27 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
11 26 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (0.29%) Windows 10
13 23 (0.28%) Debian
14 21 (0.25%) VMS
15 19 (0.23%) Mac OS
15 19 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
16 18 (0.22%) CentOS
17 12 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
18 9 (0.11%) AIX
19 8 (0.096%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,810 (21.77%) DevOps
2 1,664 (20.01%) Scrum
3 1,144 (13.76%) CI/CD
4 1,138 (13.68%) Project Management
5 1,053 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
6 1,036 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 923 (11.10%) Waterfall
8 848 (10.20%) Test Automation
9 746 (8.97%) Software Engineering
10 722 (8.68%) Roadmaps
11 680 (8.18%) Project Delivery
12 621 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 613 (7.37%) SDLC
14 603 (7.25%) Microservices
15 601 (7.23%) TDD
16 585 (7.03%) Analytics
17 556 (6.69%) Migration
18 546 (6.57%) Continuous Integration
19 530 (6.37%) User Stories
20 511 (6.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (13.82%) Python
2 1,118 (13.44%) SQL
3 1,023 (12.30%) Java
4 922 (11.09%) JavaScript
5 677 (8.14%) C#
6 494 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 294 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 251 (3.02%) C++
9 186 (2.24%) C
10 169 (2.03%) Bash
11 165 (1.98%) Go
12 143 (1.72%) Scala
13 119 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 103 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 103 (1.24%) T-SQL
15 81 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 78 (0.94%) Perl
17 71 (0.85%) PHP
18 67 (0.81%) Ruby
19 42 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 1,453 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 1,109 (13.34%) SC Cleared
3 758 (9.11%) Degree
4 316 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 174 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 115 (1.38%) PMP
8 100 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 98 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 76 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 76 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 73 (0.88%) ISTQB
12 60 (0.72%) CISSP
13 50 (0.60%) CISM
14 48 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 44 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
16 43 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 39 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 35 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (5.38%) QA
2 244 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 210 (2.53%) PMO
4 151 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 72 (0.87%) SLA
6 67 (0.81%) GDPR
7 64 (0.77%) NIST
8 54 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 47 (0.57%) WCAG
10 39 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 37 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 30 (0.36%) NCSC
13 25 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 22 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 22 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 21 (0.25%) GRC
16 19 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 18 (0.22%) EMIR
17 18 (0.22%) MiFID
18 15 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 560 (6.73%) Docker
2 244 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 166 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (0.58%) vSphere
6 37 (0.44%) Firmware
7 33 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 31 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 30 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 22 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 13 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
13 11 (0.13%) HDFS
14 8 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.084%) Samba
16 6 (0.072%) NFS
16 6 (0.072%) ProxySG
17 4 (0.048%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 4 (0.048%) Varnish
17 4 (0.048%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 553 (6.65%) Kubernetes
2 486 (5.84%) Terraform
3 285 (3.43%) Ansible
4 136 (1.64%) Grafana
5 84 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 76 (0.91%) Puppet
7 62 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 62 (0.75%) Packer
8 59 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 57 (0.69%) SCCM
10 49 (0.59%) Kibana
11 35 (0.42%) Consul
12 34 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 31 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 23 (0.28%) SCOM
14 23 (0.28%) WSUS
15 22 (0.26%) Nagios
16 19 (0.23%) HAProxy
16 19 (0.23%) HP ALM
17 17 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 978 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 502 (6.04%) Oracle
3 305 (3.67%) SAP
4 230 (2.77%) VMware
5 213 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 207 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 173 (2.08%) Google
8 171 (2.06%) Atlassian
9 158 (1.90%) Databricks
10 121 (1.46%) IBM
11 120 (1.44%) Red Hat
12 117 (1.41%) Cisco
13 78 (0.94%) Splunk
14 69 (0.83%) MuleSoft
15 67 (0.81%) Adobe
16 50 (0.60%) Virgin Media
17 45 (0.54%) HP
18 44 (0.53%) Palo Alto
19 42 (0.51%) Cadence
20 39 (0.47%) Citrix