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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 5,314 7,233 14,398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 16.38% 23.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.20% 18.97% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,632 5,025 10,340
10th Percentile £363 £388 £413
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 178 273
10th Percentile £25.26 £21.03 £35.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £40.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +33.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.13 £67.09 £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.06% -10.31% +22.64%

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 26,313 38,138 56,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.46% 86.38% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,072 24,749 38,917
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 2,343 1,826
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.76 £11.25
25th Percentile £20.03 £15.87 £16.28
Median hourly rate £31.58 £32.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -10.41% +46.25%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.39 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.40 £31.65 £36.00
% change year-on-year -3.95% -12.08% +81.27%

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 3 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 3 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 19 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 3 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 4,409 £550 - 8,151
London 0 2,455 £600 +2.13% 4,718
UK excluding London -1 2,234 £500 -4.76% 4,121
Work from Home +1 2,091 £538 +0.66% 4,680
North of England 0 595 £500 - 1,087
South East 0 515 £550 - 1,093
Scotland -1 399 £459 -8.30% 375
North West -3 348 £500 -2.44% 661
Midlands +9 334 £493 -8.02% 537
West Midlands +3 239 £500 -9.09% 337
South West -1 226 £575 +9.52% 519
Yorkshire 0 204 £500 +2.04% 322
East of England +4 114 £500 - 411
East Midlands +11 91 £443 -11.50% 187
North East +4 49 £464 -19.35% 109
Wales -4 37 £525 +1.94% 94
Northern Ireland +4 24 £425 -29.17% 80
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Channel Islands - 1 - - 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
1 444 (8.36%) Confluence
2 138 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 124 (2.33%) Apache
4 112 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 84 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 44 (0.83%) CMS
7 40 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 28 (0.53%) nginx
9 27 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 21 (0.40%) Drupal
11 16 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 14 (0.26%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.24%) IIS
13 13 (0.24%) SAS
14 12 (0.23%) Skype for Business
15 11 (0.21%) Jupyter
16 9 (0.17%) Camunda
16 9 (0.17%) MTS
16 9 (0.17%) WordPress
17 8 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 135 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 65 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 52 (0.98%) Trello
7 20 (0.38%) Sketch
8 15 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 8 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.094%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.075%) Acrobat
12 4 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.056%) Revit
13 3 (0.056%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.038%) CATIA
14 2 (0.038%) InVision
14 2 (0.038%) Notepad++
14 2 (0.038%) Open Workbench
14 2 (0.038%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 77 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.47%) Aladdin
4 24 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 15 (0.28%) Endur
7 11 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 10 (0.19%) Primavera
8 10 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 9 (0.17%) SAP EWM
9 9 (0.17%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.17%) Shopify
10 8 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
11 7 (0.13%) SAP ERP
12 6 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
12 6 (0.11%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.11%) SAP WM
12 6 (0.11%) thinkFolio
13 5 (0.094%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (20.62%) Azure
2 954 (17.95%) AWS
3 382 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
4 316 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 302 (5.68%) GCP
6 262 (4.93%) Serverless
7 205 (3.86%) GitHub
8 183 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
9 172 (3.24%) SaaS
10 167 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
11 132 (2.48%) Amazon S3
11 132 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
12 125 (2.35%) dbt
13 118 (2.22%) PowerApps
14 103 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 101 (1.90%) Power Automate
16 94 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
17 90 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
18 87 (1.64%) OpenShift
19 79 (1.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 109 (2.05%) Firewall
2 105 (1.98%) DNS
3 47 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 45 (0.85%) VPN
5 39 (0.73%) DHCP
6 38 (0.72%) HTTP
6 38 (0.72%) Network Security
7 32 (0.60%) SSL
8 28 (0.53%) LAN
9 24 (0.45%) WAN
10 23 (0.43%) 5G
11 21 (0.40%) NGFW
11 21 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
12 20 (0.38%) 4G
13 17 (0.32%) LTE
14 16 (0.30%) 5G NR
14 16 (0.30%) SNMP
14 16 (0.30%) Wireless
15 15 (0.28%) SMTP
16 14 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
2 231 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 223 (4.20%) Power BI
4 193 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 185 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 184 (3.46%) Data Lake
7 164 (3.09%) NoSQL
8 131 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
9 106 (1.99%) Apache Iceberg
10 103 (1.94%) Dremio
11 101 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
12 96 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
13 92 (1.73%) MySQL
14 87 (1.64%) Apache Arrow
15 70 (1.32%) DB2
16 63 (1.19%) Apache Ignite
17 61 (1.15%) Oracle Database
18 60 (1.13%) Big Data
19 56 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
20 52 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 839 (15.79%) JIRA
2 476 (8.96%) Git
3 358 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 175 (3.29%) GitLab
5 129 (2.43%) JUnit
6 118 (2.22%) Selenium
7 114 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 92 (1.73%) Postman
9 85 (1.60%) Cypress.io
10 82 (1.54%) Cucumber
11 56 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 51 (0.96%) Visual Studio
13 45 (0.85%) Mockito
14 35 (0.66%) JMeter
14 35 (0.66%) Maven
15 34 (0.64%) Gradle
16 33 (0.62%) SonarQube
17 30 (0.56%) Eclipse
17 30 (0.56%) SoapUI
18 29 (0.55%) Liquibase
General
1 1,779 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 1,579 (29.71%) Finance
3 810 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 700 (13.17%) Public Sector
5 566 (10.65%) Banking
6 427 (8.04%) Front Office
7 203 (3.82%) Investment Banking
8 194 (3.65%) Marketing
9 165 (3.11%) Retail
10 162 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 137 (2.58%) Manufacturing
12 127 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 111 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 101 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
15 97 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
16 84 (1.58%) Legal
17 64 (1.20%) Electronics
17 64 (1.20%) Military
18 54 (1.02%) Back Office
19 53 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,120 (21.08%) Developer
2 666 (12.53%) Analyst
3 638 (12.01%) Senior
4 436 (8.20%) Business Analyst
5 399 (7.51%) Architect
6 391 (7.36%) Lead
6 391 (7.36%) Project Manager
7 272 (5.12%) Software Engineer
8 220 (4.14%) Java Developer
9 188 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
10 167 (3.14%) Consultant
11 164 (3.09%) Data Engineer
12 161 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
13 156 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
14 149 (2.80%) Senior Developer
15 142 (2.67%) Product Manager
16 138 (2.60%) Python Engineer
17 135 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
18 124 (2.33%) Python Developer
19 107 (2.01%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (7.15%) React
2 328 (6.17%) .NET
3 294 (5.53%) Kafka
4 276 (5.19%) CSS
5 274 (5.16%) HTML
6 246 (4.63%) REST
7 240 (4.52%) AngularJS
8 231 (4.35%) RESTful
9 226 (4.25%) Spring
10 214 (4.03%) Node.js
11 175 (3.29%) Spring Boot
12 172 (3.24%) Web Services
13 135 (2.54%) SOAP
14 118 (2.22%) PySpark
15 114 (2.15%) JSON
16 101 (1.90%) XML
17 82 (1.54%) .NET Core
18 80 (1.51%) Vue
19 76 (1.43%) Redux
20 75 (1.41%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 528 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 272 (5.12%) Fixed Income
3 258 (4.86%) Derivative
4 227 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 215 (4.05%) Equities
6 196 (3.69%) Hedge funds
7 119 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 115 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 111 (2.09%) Cloud Native
10 108 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 94 (1.77%) Public Cloud
12 88 (1.66%) Mobile App
13 81 (1.52%) Algorithms
14 77 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 74 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
16 67 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
17 65 (1.22%) Data Centre
18 60 (1.13%) Virtual Team
19 57 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
20 51 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 380 (7.15%) Linux
2 268 (5.04%) Windows
3 110 (2.07%) Unix
4 103 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 81 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 64 (1.20%) Android
7 55 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (0.53%) CentOS
9 24 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 13 (0.24%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.23%) VMS
13 10 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
13 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.15%) Solaris
16 7 (0.13%) zOS
17 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
18 5 (0.094%) AIX
19 4 (0.075%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (23.62%) DevOps
2 1,197 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
3 998 (18.78%) CI/CD
4 953 (17.93%) Scrum
5 794 (14.94%) Project Management
6 751 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 594 (11.18%) Software Engineering
8 570 (10.73%) Roadmaps
9 554 (10.43%) Waterfall
10 535 (10.07%) Test Automation
11 512 (9.63%) Migration
12 509 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 480 (9.03%) Microservices
14 472 (8.88%) Analytics
15 413 (7.77%) SDLC
16 386 (7.26%) Project Delivery
17 379 (7.13%) User Experience
18 361 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
19 336 (6.32%) User Stories
20 335 (6.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 961 (18.08%) Python
2 878 (16.52%) SQL
3 773 (14.55%) Java
4 664 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 374 (7.04%) C#
6 373 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 239 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 115 (2.16%) Bash
9 107 (2.01%) C++
10 97 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 96 (1.81%) Scala
12 83 (1.56%) Go
13 79 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 55 (1.04%) PHP
15 54 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 35 (0.66%) Perl
16 35 (0.66%) Ruby
17 29 (0.55%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.51%) Apex Code
18 27 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 944 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 752 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 617 (11.61%) Degree
4 173 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 151 (2.84%) PMI Certification
6 145 (2.73%) PMP
7 141 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 80 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 67 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 58 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 51 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 48 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 48 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (0.70%) CISSP
14 36 (0.68%) Azure Certification
15 28 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 27 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 26 (0.49%) CCNP
17 26 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
17 26 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (6.70%) QA
2 204 (3.84%) Accessibility
3 106 (1.99%) PMO
4 96 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 65 (1.22%) GDPR
6 43 (0.81%) NIST
7 38 (0.72%) WCAG
8 37 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
9 34 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 34 (0.64%) MiFID
10 27 (0.51%) GRC
11 25 (0.47%) NCSC
11 25 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 23 (0.43%) SLA
13 15 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.23%) GxP
15 10 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 8 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
16 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 432 (8.13%) Docker
2 186 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.49%) vSphere
6 24 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 20 (0.38%) Firmware
8 19 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.26%) Hyper-V
11 13 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.11%) HDFS
13 5 (0.094%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.075%) Lustre
14 4 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.075%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.056%) Postfix
15 3 (0.056%) RACF
15 3 (0.056%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 470 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 393 (7.40%) Terraform
3 245 (4.61%) Ansible
4 83 (1.56%) Grafana
5 55 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 51 (0.96%) vCenter Server
7 43 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 39 (0.73%) Puppet
9 35 (0.66%) Packer
10 32 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.51%) Progress Chef
12 26 (0.49%) SCCM
13 23 (0.43%) Kibana
14 21 (0.40%) Consul
15 15 (0.28%) Argo
15 15 (0.28%) Nessus
15 15 (0.28%) Rancher
16 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
17 12 (0.23%) Istio
18 10 (0.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 658 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 402 (7.56%) Oracle
3 286 (5.38%) SAP
4 202 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 148 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 141 (2.65%) Google
7 120 (2.26%) VMware
8 99 (1.86%) Atlassian
9 96 (1.81%) Databricks
10 91 (1.71%) Cisco
11 74 (1.39%) Splunk
12 55 (1.04%) Adobe
13 47 (0.88%) Sybase
14 45 (0.85%) IBM
15 39 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 37 (0.70%) Red Hat
17 35 (0.66%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.55%) CheckPoint
19 25 (0.47%) BISAM
19 25 (0.47%) Infoblox