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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 5,452 7,201 13,485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 18.65% 16.52% 22.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.53% 19.14% 25.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 4,980 9,762
10th Percentile £363 £380 £413
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £790 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 194 249
10th Percentile £26.21 £22.17 £35.00
25th Percentile £39.03 £42.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +30.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.66 £84.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.58% -7.69% +22.07%

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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 0 4,508 £550 - 5,264
London 0 2,552 £600 +4.35% 2,351
UK excluding London -1 2,251 £500 -4.76% 3,259
Work from Home +1 2,111 £534 -0.74% 3,398
North of England -2 580 £490 -4.39% 942
South East +1 513 £550 - 718
Scotland -1 401 £457 -8.60% 256
Midlands +7 356 £498 -5.24% 528
North West -3 328 £492 -6.29% 599
West Midlands +3 255 £500 -9.09% 331
South West 0 234 £563 +4.65% 415
Yorkshire -1 212 £500 - 259
East of England +3 115 £500 - 301
East Midlands +8 97 £445 -1.17% 190
North East 0 52 £475 -10.80% 88
Wales 0 46 £446 -13.40% 101
Northern Ireland -1 22 £425 -29.17% 70
Channel Islands - 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
1 442 (8.11%) Confluence
2 131 (2.40%) Apache
3 127 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 120 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 86 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 42 (0.77%) CMS
7 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 28 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 20 (0.37%) nginx
10 19 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 16 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 14 (0.26%) Drupal
13 13 (0.24%) IIS
13 13 (0.24%) Jupyter
14 12 (0.22%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.17%) Headless CMS
15 9 (0.17%) JBoss
15 9 (0.17%) SAS
16 8 (0.15%) NetWeaver
16 8 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 141 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 88 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 65 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 53 (0.97%) Trello
7 23 (0.42%) Sketch
8 16 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.20%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.092%) InfoPath
11 5 (0.092%) InVision
12 4 (0.073%) Acrobat
13 3 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.055%) Revit
13 3 (0.055%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.037%) Notepad++
14 2 (0.037%) Open Workbench
14 2 (0.037%) Siemens NX
15 1 (0.018%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 91 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 60 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 15 (0.28%) Endur
6 14 (0.26%) thinkFolio
7 13 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 12 (0.22%) Shopify
9 11 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.18%) Primavera
11 9 (0.17%) SAP FI
12 8 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
12 8 (0.15%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.13%) SAP EWM
14 6 (0.11%) SAP CO
14 6 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
14 6 (0.11%) SAP WM
15 5 (0.092%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,051 (19.28%) Azure
2 995 (18.25%) AWS
3 383 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
4 310 (5.69%) Power Platform
5 296 (5.43%) GCP
6 267 (4.90%) Serverless
7 208 (3.82%) GitHub
8 187 (3.43%) SaaS
9 163 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 161 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
11 129 (2.37%) Amazon S3
12 128 (2.35%) dbt
13 120 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
14 116 (2.13%) PowerApps
15 93 (1.71%) Power Automate
16 92 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 91 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
18 88 (1.61%) Entra ID
19 82 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
20 81 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (2.15%) Firewall
2 105 (1.93%) DNS
3 49 (0.90%) HTTP
4 46 (0.84%) VPN
5 44 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.70%) Network Security
7 34 (0.62%) DHCP
7 34 (0.62%) SSL
8 26 (0.48%) LAN
9 22 (0.40%) 5G
10 21 (0.39%) WAN
11 19 (0.35%) NGFW
12 18 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
13 17 (0.31%) 4G
14 16 (0.29%) SMTP
14 16 (0.29%) Wireless
15 14 (0.26%) HTTPS
15 14 (0.26%) LTE
16 13 (0.24%) SNMP
16 13 (0.24%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
2 242 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 205 (3.76%) Power BI
4 189 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 187 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 185 (3.39%) Data Lake
7 152 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 132 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
9 113 (2.07%) Apache Iceberg
10 110 (2.02%) Dremio
11 103 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
12 99 (1.82%) Apache Arrow
13 82 (1.50%) MySQL
14 78 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
15 77 (1.41%) DB2
16 68 (1.25%) Apache Ignite
17 66 (1.21%) Big Data
18 64 (1.17%) Oracle Database
19 60 (1.10%) DynamoDB
20 54 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 874 (16.03%) JIRA
2 481 (8.82%) Git
3 358 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 162 (2.97%) GitLab
5 138 (2.53%) JUnit
6 119 (2.18%) Selenium
7 98 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 87 (1.60%) Postman
9 84 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 78 (1.43%) Cypress.io
11 59 (1.08%) Mockito
12 48 (0.88%) Artifactory
13 47 (0.86%) Gradle
14 45 (0.83%) Visual Studio
15 43 (0.79%) JMeter
16 39 (0.72%) REST Assured
17 38 (0.70%) Maven
18 37 (0.68%) Liquibase
19 33 (0.61%) SoapUI
20 29 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 1,853 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 1,629 (29.88%) Finance
3 822 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 720 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 573 (10.51%) Banking
6 444 (8.14%) Front Office
7 215 (3.94%) Investment Banking
8 186 (3.41%) Marketing
9 158 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 155 (2.84%) Retail
11 145 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
12 132 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 110 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
14 107 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 93 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
16 84 (1.54%) Legal
17 69 (1.27%) Electronics
18 65 (1.19%) Military
19 59 (1.08%) Financial Institution
20 56 (1.03%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,163 (21.33%) Developer
2 703 (12.89%) Analyst
3 657 (12.05%) Senior
4 478 (8.77%) Business Analyst
5 423 (7.76%) Lead
6 420 (7.70%) Architect
7 391 (7.17%) Project Manager
8 290 (5.32%) Software Engineer
9 236 (4.33%) Java Developer
10 173 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
11 160 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
12 159 (2.92%) Consultant
13 158 (2.90%) Data Engineer
14 154 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
15 153 (2.81%) Senior Developer
16 148 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
17 143 (2.62%) Product Manager
18 139 (2.55%) Python Engineer
19 126 (2.31%) Python Developer
20 114 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (7.45%) React
2 327 (6.00%) .NET
3 294 (5.39%) Kafka
4 288 (5.28%) CSS
4 288 (5.28%) REST
5 281 (5.15%) HTML
6 241 (4.42%) Spring
7 233 (4.27%) RESTful
8 229 (4.20%) AngularJS
9 206 (3.78%) Node.js
10 190 (3.48%) Spring Boot
11 189 (3.47%) Web Services
12 149 (2.73%) SOAP
13 116 (2.13%) JSON
14 112 (2.05%) PySpark
15 100 (1.83%) XML
16 87 (1.60%) .NET Core
17 85 (1.56%) Redux
18 82 (1.50%) Vue
19 81 (1.49%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 518 (9.50%) Product Ownership
2 298 (5.47%) Fixed Income
3 269 (4.93%) Derivative
4 244 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 236 (4.33%) Equities
6 218 (4.00%) Hedge funds
7 122 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 116 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 113 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 112 (2.05%) Data Structures
11 97 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 88 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 86 (1.58%) Public Cloud
14 82 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
15 81 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
16 78 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
17 76 (1.39%) Virtual Team
18 67 (1.23%) Data Centre
19 65 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
20 62 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 368 (6.75%) Linux
2 268 (4.92%) Windows
3 102 (1.87%) Unix
4 89 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 74 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 72 (1.32%) Android
7 56 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.42%) CentOS
9 17 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 14 (0.26%) VMS
10 14 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 14 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.18%) Solaris
12 9 (0.17%) zOS
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.11%) HPUX
15 5 (0.092%) AIX
16 4 (0.073%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,242 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
2 1,224 (22.45%) DevOps
3 1,005 (18.43%) CI/CD
4 977 (17.92%) Scrum
5 794 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 753 (13.81%) Project Management
7 613 (11.24%) Software Engineering
8 589 (10.80%) Roadmaps
9 575 (10.55%) Test Automation
10 566 (10.38%) Waterfall
11 529 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 517 (9.48%) Migration
13 497 (9.12%) Microservices
14 479 (8.79%) Analytics
15 435 (7.98%) SDLC
16 414 (7.59%) User Experience
17 377 (6.91%) Project Delivery
18 360 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
19 359 (6.58%) User Stories
20 337 (6.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 975 (17.88%) Python
2 913 (16.75%) SQL
3 807 (14.80%) Java
4 716 (13.13%) JavaScript
5 392 (7.19%) TypeScript
6 390 (7.15%) C#
7 231 (4.24%) PowerShell
8 120 (2.20%) Bash
9 101 (1.85%) C++
10 91 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 88 (1.61%) PL/SQL
12 87 (1.60%) Scala
13 80 (1.47%) Go
14 54 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 45 (0.83%) Groovy
16 44 (0.81%) PHP
17 39 (0.72%) Perl
18 32 (0.59%) Ruby
19 28 (0.51%) T-SQL
20 26 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 994 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 783 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 633 (11.61%) Degree
4 176 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 157 (2.88%) PMI Certification
6 152 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 146 (2.68%) PMP
8 98 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 69 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 64 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 63 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 55 (1.01%) ISTQB
13 48 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 46 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (0.75%) CISSP
16 31 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 27 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
19 26 (0.48%) CCNP
19 26 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (6.82%) QA
2 214 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 109 (2.00%) PMO
4 98 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 72 (1.32%) GDPR
6 43 (0.79%) NIST
7 41 (0.75%) WCAG
8 33 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 32 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 32 (0.59%) MiFID
10 30 (0.55%) GRC
11 26 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.46%) NCSC
12 25 (0.46%) SLA
13 20 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.28%) GxP
15 12 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 416 (7.63%) Docker
2 172 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 86 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 18 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.31%) vSphere
8 16 (0.29%) Firmware
8 16 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 13 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.11%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.092%) Postfix
13 4 (0.073%) KVM
13 4 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.055%) NFS
14 3 (0.055%) RACF
14 3 (0.055%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 3 (0.055%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 460 (8.44%) Kubernetes
2 373 (6.84%) Terraform
3 226 (4.15%) Ansible
4 85 (1.56%) Grafana
5 65 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 45 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 41 (0.75%) vCenter Server
8 33 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.57%) Puppet
10 26 (0.48%) SCCM
11 24 (0.44%) Packer
12 23 (0.42%) Kibana
13 22 (0.40%) Progress Chef
14 15 (0.28%) Argo
14 15 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
15 12 (0.22%) HP ALM
15 12 (0.22%) Istio
16 11 (0.20%) Consul
16 11 (0.20%) Nessus
17 10 (0.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 660 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 407 (7.47%) Oracle
3 314 (5.76%) SAP
4 215 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 149 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 133 (2.44%) Google
7 118 (2.16%) Atlassian
8 107 (1.96%) VMware
9 106 (1.94%) Databricks
10 92 (1.69%) Cisco
11 63 (1.16%) Splunk
12 57 (1.05%) Adobe
13 53 (0.97%) IBM
14 49 (0.90%) Sybase
15 40 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 36 (0.66%) BISAM
16 36 (0.66%) Palo Alto
17 30 (0.55%) Apple
18 29 (0.53%) Red Hat
19 28 (0.51%) CheckPoint