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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 5,324 7,242 14,538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 18.31% 16.38% 23.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.24% 18.96% 25.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,642 5,040 10,452
10th Percentile £363 £388 £413
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -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 99 181 275
10th Percentile £25.26 £21.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £41.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -10.31% +33.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £79.00 £68.88 £78.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £58.91 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.95% -9.38% +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 26,303 38,187 56,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.47% 86.38% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,080 24,813 39,276
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 £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 2,339 1,838
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.82 £11.25
25th Percentile £20.12 £16.00 £16.42
Median hourly rate £31.64 £32.50 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -11.33% +47.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.78 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.62 £31.80 £36.13
% change year-on-year -3.73% -11.97% +81.67%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 4,418 £550 - 7,823
London 0 2,471 £600 +2.13% 4,550
UK excluding London -1 2,229 £500 -4.76% 3,940
Work from Home +1 2,092 £538 +0.66% 4,170
North of England -1 595 £500 -0.50% 1,021
South East 0 514 £550 - 1,062
Scotland -1 401 £450 -10.00% 364
North West -3 350 £500 -2.20% 622
Midlands +8 329 £490 -6.67% 513
West Midlands +3 234 £500 -9.09% 319
South West -3 223 £575 +8.49% 497
Yorkshire -1 202 £500 - 298
East of England +4 116 £488 -2.35% 390
East Midlands +12 91 £436 -12.90% 183
North East +3 49 £464 -19.35% 106
Wales -4 37 £525 +1.94% 89
Northern Ireland +4 24 £425 -29.17% 73
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
1 447 (8.40%) Confluence
2 138 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 125 (2.35%) Apache
4 112 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 84 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 45 (0.85%) CMS
7 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 29 (0.54%) nginx
9 27 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 21 (0.39%) Drupal
11 14 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 13 (0.24%) IIS
12 13 (0.24%) SAS
13 12 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.23%) Skype for Business
13 12 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 10 (0.19%) MTS
15 9 (0.17%) Camunda
15 9 (0.17%) WordPress
16 8 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 134 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 84 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 63 (1.18%) 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%) 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%) Revit
14 2 (0.038%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 76 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 17 (0.32%) Endur
6 16 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 9 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.17%) SAP EWM
8 9 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 9 (0.17%) Shopify
9 8 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
9 8 (0.15%) Primavera
10 7 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.11%) thinkFolio
12 5 (0.094%) Dynamics GP
12 5 (0.094%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (20.59%) Azure
2 957 (17.98%) AWS
3 381 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
4 320 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 301 (5.65%) GCP
6 266 (5.00%) Serverless
7 203 (3.81%) GitHub
8 183 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
9 172 (3.23%) SaaS
10 169 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 134 (2.52%) Amazon S3
12 133 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
13 125 (2.35%) dbt
14 118 (2.22%) PowerApps
15 104 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 101 (1.90%) Power Automate
17 95 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
18 92 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
19 90 (1.69%) OpenShift
20 79 (1.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 109 (2.05%) Firewall
2 105 (1.97%) DNS
3 47 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 45 (0.85%) VPN
5 39 (0.73%) DHCP
6 38 (0.71%) HTTP
6 38 (0.71%) Network Security
7 32 (0.60%) SSL
8 28 (0.53%) LAN
9 24 (0.45%) WAN
10 22 (0.41%) 5G
11 21 (0.39%) NGFW
11 21 (0.39%) 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
1 278 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 231 (4.34%) Relational Database
3 227 (4.26%) Power BI
4 190 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 187 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 184 (3.46%) Data Lake
7 162 (3.04%) NoSQL
8 132 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
9 106 (1.99%) Apache Iceberg
10 103 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 103 (1.93%) Dremio
11 97 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
12 93 (1.75%) MySQL
13 87 (1.63%) Apache Arrow
14 68 (1.28%) DB2
15 64 (1.20%) Apache Ignite
16 61 (1.15%) Oracle Database
17 60 (1.13%) Big Data
18 57 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
19 54 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 839 (15.76%) JIRA
2 477 (8.96%) Git
3 363 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 181 (3.40%) GitLab
5 127 (2.39%) JUnit
6 118 (2.22%) Selenium
7 117 (2.20%) Bitbucket
8 92 (1.73%) Postman
9 85 (1.60%) Cypress.io
10 84 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 56 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 50 (0.94%) Visual Studio
13 43 (0.81%) Mockito
14 36 (0.68%) Maven
15 35 (0.66%) JMeter
16 34 (0.64%) SonarQube
17 33 (0.62%) Gradle
18 30 (0.56%) Eclipse
18 30 (0.56%) SoapUI
19 28 (0.53%) Liquibase
General
1 1,777 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 1,583 (29.73%) Finance
3 814 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 703 (13.20%) Public Sector
5 571 (10.73%) Banking
6 431 (8.10%) Front Office
7 208 (3.91%) Investment Banking
8 195 (3.66%) Marketing
9 164 (3.08%) Retail
10 161 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 138 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 125 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
13 115 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 101 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
15 96 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
16 83 (1.56%) Legal
17 65 (1.22%) Military
18 64 (1.20%) Electronics
19 57 (1.07%) Back Office
20 55 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,128 (21.19%) Developer
2 671 (12.60%) Analyst
3 647 (12.15%) Senior
4 440 (8.26%) Business Analyst
5 393 (7.38%) Architect
5 393 (7.38%) Project Manager
6 392 (7.36%) Lead
7 272 (5.11%) Software Engineer
8 221 (4.15%) Java Developer
9 193 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 167 (3.14%) Consultant
11 164 (3.08%) Data Engineer
12 157 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
13 154 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
14 152 (2.85%) Senior Developer
15 141 (2.65%) Product Manager
16 139 (2.61%) Python Engineer
17 135 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
18 125 (2.35%) Python Developer
19 105 (1.97%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (7.12%) React
2 326 (6.12%) .NET
3 297 (5.58%) Kafka
4 277 (5.20%) CSS
5 276 (5.18%) HTML
6 246 (4.62%) REST
7 240 (4.51%) AngularJS
8 237 (4.45%) RESTful
9 225 (4.23%) Spring
10 215 (4.04%) Node.js
11 173 (3.25%) Spring Boot
12 170 (3.19%) Web Services
13 132 (2.48%) SOAP
14 118 (2.22%) JSON
14 118 (2.22%) PySpark
15 104 (1.95%) XML
16 83 (1.56%) .NET Core
17 78 (1.47%) Vue
18 77 (1.45%) Redux
19 76 (1.43%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 522 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 271 (5.09%) Fixed Income
3 257 (4.83%) Derivative
4 229 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 213 (4.00%) Equities
6 194 (3.64%) Hedge funds
7 116 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 116 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 109 (2.05%) Cloud Native
9 108 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 93 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 86 (1.62%) Mobile App
12 83 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 76 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 74 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
15 66 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
16 65 (1.22%) Data Centre
17 58 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 57 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
19 50 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 384 (7.21%) Linux
2 268 (5.03%) Windows
3 112 (2.10%) Unix
4 103 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 81 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 62 (1.16%) Android
7 56 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 29 (0.54%) CentOS
9 24 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.39%) 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 1,258 (23.63%) DevOps
2 1,198 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1,000 (18.78%) CI/CD
4 946 (17.77%) Scrum
5 796 (14.95%) Project Management
6 751 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 594 (11.16%) Software Engineering
8 563 (10.57%) Roadmaps
9 558 (10.48%) Waterfall
10 530 (9.95%) Test Automation
11 511 (9.60%) Migration
12 509 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 479 (9.00%) Microservices
14 470 (8.83%) Analytics
15 414 (7.78%) SDLC
16 386 (7.25%) Project Delivery
17 382 (7.18%) User Experience
18 364 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
19 335 (6.29%) Decision-Making
19 335 (6.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 967 (18.16%) Python
2 878 (16.49%) SQL
3 772 (14.50%) Java
4 664 (12.47%) JavaScript
5 375 (7.04%) C#
5 375 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 240 (4.51%) PowerShell
7 115 (2.16%) Bash
8 109 (2.05%) C++
9 97 (1.82%) PL/SQL
9 97 (1.82%) Scala
10 85 (1.60%) Go
11 79 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 55 (1.03%) PHP
13 52 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 36 (0.68%) Ruby
15 34 (0.64%) Perl
16 29 (0.54%) R
16 29 (0.54%) T-SQL
17 27 (0.51%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 946 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 754 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 617 (11.59%) Degree
4 173 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 151 (2.84%) PMI Certification
6 144 (2.70%) PMP
7 141 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 81 (1.52%) 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%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 37 (0.69%) CISSP
15 36 (0.68%) Azure Certification
16 28 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 27 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 26 (0.49%) CCNP
18 26 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
19 23 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (6.72%) QA
2 204 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 106 (1.99%) PMO
4 96 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 65 (1.22%) GDPR
6 43 (0.81%) NIST
7 38 (0.71%) WCAG
8 37 (0.69%) 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 13 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.23%) GxP
16 10 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 8 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
17 8 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 437 (8.21%) Docker
2 184 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.80%) 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
1 473 (8.88%) Kubernetes
2 398 (7.48%) Terraform
3 249 (4.68%) Ansible
4 85 (1.60%) Grafana
5 54 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 51 (0.96%) vCenter Server
7 45 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 40 (0.75%) Puppet
9 35 (0.66%) Packer
10 31 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 26 (0.49%) SCCM
13 23 (0.43%) Kibana
14 21 (0.39%) Consul
15 16 (0.30%) Rancher
16 15 (0.28%) Argo
16 15 (0.28%) Nessus
17 13 (0.24%) FortiGate
18 12 (0.23%) Istio
19 10 (0.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 655 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 400 (7.51%) Oracle
3 287 (5.39%) SAP
4 201 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 145 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 143 (2.69%) Google
7 119 (2.24%) VMware
8 100 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 98 (1.84%) Databricks
10 91 (1.71%) Cisco
11 74 (1.39%) Splunk
12 57 (1.07%) Adobe
13 47 (0.88%) Sybase
14 45 (0.85%) IBM
15 39 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 38 (0.71%) Red Hat
17 35 (0.66%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.54%) CheckPoint
19 25 (0.47%) Infoblox
20 24 (0.45%) BISAM