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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 5,477 7,172 13,549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 18.64% 16.44% 22.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.54% 19.05% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,773 4,961 9,799
10th Percentile £363 £381 £413
25th Percentile £445 £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 £798 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 190 255
10th Percentile £26.56 £22.02 £35.00
25th Percentile £39.04 £41.56 £50.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £59.45 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% -8.53% +30.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.67 £70.72 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +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 26,664 37,653 53,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.77% 86.28% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,232 24,313 37,392
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,429 1,779
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £29.04 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.03% -6.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £59.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.98 £35.90
% change year-on-year -22.17% +0.21% +79.50%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 4,532 £550 - 8,799
London 0 2,573 £600 +2.13% 4,991
UK excluding London -1 2,252 £500 -4.76% 4,557
Work from Home +1 2,123 £536 -0.33% 4,696
North of England -2 573 £496 -2.75% 1,193
South East +1 515 £550 - 1,157
Scotland -1 403 £459 -8.30% 421
Midlands +7 353 £494 -5.90% 660
North West -3 321 £500 -4.31% 731
West Midlands +3 255 £500 -9.09% 413
South West 0 237 £563 +4.65% 575
Yorkshire -1 213 £500 - 353
East of England +4 118 £500 +2.15% 416
East Midlands +7 94 £443 -1.67% 229
North East 0 51 £475 -10.80% 117
Wales 0 46 £446 -13.40% 119
Northern Ireland 0 21 £425 -29.17% 118
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
1 448 (8.18%) Confluence
2 130 (2.37%) Apache
3 129 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 121 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 86 (1.57%) Apache Spark
6 45 (0.82%) CMS
7 42 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 28 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 20 (0.37%) nginx
10 17 (0.31%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.27%) Drupal
12 14 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 13 (0.24%) Jupyter
14 11 (0.20%) IIS
15 10 (0.18%) WebLogic
16 9 (0.16%) Headless CMS
16 9 (0.16%) SAS
17 8 (0.15%) MTS
17 8 (0.15%) NetWeaver
17 8 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 144 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 90 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 66 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 54 (0.99%) Trello
7 23 (0.42%) Sketch
8 16 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 10 (0.18%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.091%) InfoPath
11 5 (0.091%) 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%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 91 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 68 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 16 (0.29%) Endur
4 16 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 14 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.26%) thinkFolio
6 12 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 12 (0.22%) Shopify
7 11 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.18%) Primavera
9 9 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 8 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
10 8 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 8 (0.15%) SAP EWM
11 6 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.11%) SAP WM
12 5 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,072 (19.57%) Azure
2 996 (18.19%) AWS
3 384 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
4 319 (5.82%) Power Platform
5 304 (5.55%) GCP
6 266 (4.86%) Serverless
7 211 (3.85%) GitHub
8 188 (3.43%) SaaS
9 172 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
10 162 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
11 130 (2.37%) Amazon S3
12 129 (2.36%) dbt
13 128 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
14 124 (2.26%) PowerApps
15 96 (1.75%) Power Automate
16 91 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
17 90 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
18 87 (1.59%) Entra ID
19 83 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
20 80 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 115 (2.10%) Firewall
2 106 (1.94%) DNS
3 49 (0.89%) HTTP
4 45 (0.82%) VPN
5 44 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.69%) Network Security
7 35 (0.64%) DHCP
8 34 (0.62%) SSL
9 26 (0.47%) LAN
10 22 (0.40%) 5G
11 21 (0.38%) WAN
12 19 (0.35%) NGFW
13 18 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
14 17 (0.31%) 4G
15 16 (0.29%) SMTP
15 16 (0.29%) Wireless
16 14 (0.26%) HTTPS
16 14 (0.26%) LTE
17 13 (0.24%) SNMP
17 13 (0.24%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
2 244 (4.45%) Relational Database
3 217 (3.96%) Power BI
4 192 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 187 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 185 (3.38%) Data Lake
7 153 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 133 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
9 114 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
10 111 (2.03%) Dremio
11 102 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
12 99 (1.81%) Apache Arrow
13 83 (1.52%) MySQL
14 80 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
15 75 (1.37%) DB2
16 68 (1.24%) Apache Ignite
17 66 (1.21%) Big Data
17 66 (1.21%) Oracle Database
18 60 (1.10%) DynamoDB
19 53 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 884 (16.14%) JIRA
2 482 (8.80%) Git
3 356 (6.50%) Jenkins
4 164 (2.99%) GitLab
5 139 (2.54%) JUnit
6 118 (2.15%) Selenium
7 97 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 92 (1.68%) Postman
9 84 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 78 (1.42%) Cypress.io
11 59 (1.08%) Mockito
12 48 (0.88%) Artifactory
13 47 (0.86%) Gradle
13 47 (0.86%) Visual Studio
14 44 (0.80%) JMeter
15 39 (0.71%) Maven
16 38 (0.69%) REST Assured
17 37 (0.68%) Liquibase
18 34 (0.62%) SoapUI
19 30 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 1,867 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 1,639 (29.93%) Finance
3 824 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 727 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 577 (10.53%) Banking
6 450 (8.22%) Front Office
7 215 (3.93%) Investment Banking
8 196 (3.58%) Marketing
9 160 (2.92%) Telecoms
10 156 (2.85%) Retail
11 143 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
12 134 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 111 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
14 110 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 95 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
16 85 (1.55%) Legal
17 71 (1.30%) Electronics
18 65 (1.19%) Military
19 58 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
19 58 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,170 (21.36%) Developer
2 715 (13.05%) Analyst
3 658 (12.01%) Senior
4 484 (8.84%) Business Analyst
5 425 (7.76%) Lead
6 411 (7.50%) Architect
7 391 (7.14%) Project Manager
8 296 (5.40%) Software Engineer
9 237 (4.33%) Java Developer
10 170 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
11 160 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
11 160 (2.92%) Consultant
11 160 (2.92%) Data Engineer
12 156 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 156 (2.85%) Senior Developer
13 149 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
14 146 (2.67%) Product Manager
15 139 (2.54%) Python Engineer
16 128 (2.34%) Python Developer
17 114 (2.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (7.43%) React
2 329 (6.01%) .NET
3 293 (5.35%) Kafka
4 287 (5.24%) CSS
5 283 (5.17%) REST
6 280 (5.11%) HTML
7 240 (4.38%) Spring
8 233 (4.25%) RESTful
9 231 (4.22%) AngularJS
10 208 (3.80%) Node.js
11 190 (3.47%) Spring Boot
12 184 (3.36%) Web Services
13 148 (2.70%) SOAP
14 117 (2.14%) JSON
15 113 (2.06%) PySpark
16 99 (1.81%) XML
17 88 (1.61%) .NET Core
18 87 (1.59%) Redux
19 82 (1.50%) Pandas
20 81 (1.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 522 (9.53%) Product Ownership
2 302 (5.51%) Fixed Income
3 272 (4.97%) Derivative
4 247 (4.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 238 (4.35%) Equities
6 219 (4.00%) Hedge funds
7 121 (2.21%) Cloud Native
8 118 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 115 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 112 (2.04%) Data Structures
11 97 (1.77%) Mobile App
12 88 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 87 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 80 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
14 80 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
15 79 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
16 74 (1.35%) Virtual Team
17 68 (1.24%) Data Centre
18 66 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
19 64 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 370 (6.76%) Linux
2 270 (4.93%) Windows
3 101 (1.84%) Unix
4 91 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 75 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 71 (1.30%) Android
7 58 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.42%) CentOS
9 17 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 16 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.27%) VMS
12 14 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 10 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.18%) Solaris
14 9 (0.16%) zOS
15 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
15 8 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.11%) HPUX
16 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
17 5 (0.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,241 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
2 1,229 (22.44%) DevOps
3 1,004 (18.33%) CI/CD
4 973 (17.77%) Scrum
5 797 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 763 (13.93%) Project Management
7 620 (11.32%) Software Engineering
8 590 (10.77%) Roadmaps
9 572 (10.44%) Test Automation
10 568 (10.37%) Waterfall
11 526 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 512 (9.35%) Migration
13 494 (9.02%) Microservices
14 481 (8.78%) Analytics
15 434 (7.92%) SDLC
16 417 (7.61%) User Experience
17 379 (6.92%) Project Delivery
18 372 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
19 356 (6.50%) User Stories
20 336 (6.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 989 (18.06%) Python
2 915 (16.71%) SQL
3 802 (14.64%) Java
4 718 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 395 (7.21%) TypeScript
6 393 (7.18%) C#
7 235 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 120 (2.19%) Bash
9 103 (1.88%) C++
10 93 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 90 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 90 (1.64%) Scala
12 80 (1.46%) Go
13 54 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 46 (0.84%) PHP
15 44 (0.80%) Groovy
16 39 (0.71%) Perl
17 32 (0.58%) Ruby
18 29 (0.53%) T-SQL
19 26 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 992 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 786 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 643 (11.74%) Degree
4 180 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (2.92%) PMI Certification
6 152 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 149 (2.72%) PMP
8 98 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 69 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 64 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 55 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 47 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 47 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.75%) CISSP
15 31 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 29 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 27 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
18 26 (0.47%) CCNP
18 26 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 369 (6.74%) QA
2 215 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 112 (2.04%) PMO
4 98 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 71 (1.30%) GDPR
6 43 (0.79%) NIST
7 42 (0.77%) WCAG
8 33 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
9 32 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 32 (0.58%) MiFID
10 30 (0.55%) GRC
11 26 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.46%) NCSC
12 25 (0.46%) SLA
13 20 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 15 (0.27%) GxP
15 12 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 419 (7.65%) Docker
2 174 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 89 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.31%) vSphere
8 16 (0.29%) Firmware
9 13 (0.24%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.11%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.091%) Postfix
11 5 (0.091%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.073%) KVM
12 4 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.055%) NFS
13 3 (0.055%) RACF
13 3 (0.055%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 463 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 377 (6.88%) Terraform
3 229 (4.18%) Ansible
4 83 (1.52%) Grafana
5 64 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 45 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 42 (0.77%) vCenter Server
8 34 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (0.60%) Puppet
10 28 (0.51%) SCCM
11 25 (0.46%) Packer
12 24 (0.44%) Kibana
13 22 (0.40%) Progress Chef
14 15 (0.27%) Argo
14 15 (0.27%) 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
1 672 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 406 (7.41%) Oracle
3 315 (5.75%) SAP
4 214 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 148 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 140 (2.56%) Google
7 118 (2.15%) Atlassian
8 110 (2.01%) VMware
9 105 (1.92%) Databricks
10 91 (1.66%) Cisco
11 66 (1.21%) Splunk
12 57 (1.04%) Adobe
13 52 (0.95%) IBM
14 49 (0.89%) Sybase
15 40 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 36 (0.66%) BISAM
17 35 (0.64%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.55%) Apple
19 29 (0.53%) Red Hat
20 28 (0.51%) CheckPoint