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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 7,122 13,025 23,915
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.66% 22.39% 27.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.32% 24.93% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,926 9,449 17,095
10th Percentile £375 £413 £403
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 238 243
10th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £31.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.25 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +28.52% +12.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.13 £80.75 £76.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% +22.22%

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 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 17 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 13 May 2024. 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 6,059 £550 -4.35% 3,650
London -1 3,478 £575 -4.17% 1,343
UK excluding London 0 2,970 £525 - 2,492
Work from Home -3 2,598 £538 -2.18% 2,142
South East -2 819 £550 - 541
North of England -2 690 £524 -4.77% 644
Scotland -2 514 £495 +2.59% 178
South West -3 442 £525 -8.70% 372
North West -1 394 £525 - 379
Midlands -5 326 £525 +2.69% 451
Yorkshire -2 266 £515 -6.41% 183
West Midlands -2 248 £550 +2.23% 291
East of England -5 156 £500 -4.76% 216
East Midlands -7 75 £450 -1.37% 158
Wales -1 50 £513 -6.82% 92
North East -2 43 £533 -7.39% 85
Northern Ireland +6 13 £600 +33.33% 46

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
1 425 (5.97%) Confluence
2 227 (3.19%) Apache
3 211 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 151 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 83 (1.17%) CMS
5 83 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 69 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 32 (0.45%) SAS
8 29 (0.41%) nginx
9 27 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 21 (0.29%) IIS
10 21 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 17 (0.24%) Drupal
12 16 (0.22%) CICS
13 11 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
13 11 (0.15%) MTS
14 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 10 (0.14%) JBoss
15 9 (0.13%) Headless CMS
16 7 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 154 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 152 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 78 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 28 (0.39%) Sketch
8 20 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 17 (0.24%) Trello
10 13 (0.18%) InVision
11 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
12 10 (0.14%) UserZoom
13 8 (0.11%) Simulink
14 7 (0.098%) SPSS
15 6 (0.084%) Stateflow
16 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 5 (0.070%) TargetLink
17 4 (0.056%) CINEMA 4D
18 3 (0.042%) CPLEX
18 3 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 80 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 66 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 28 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 27 (0.38%) Endur
6 23 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 19 (0.27%) Shopify
8 18 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 17 (0.24%) Loan IQ
9 17 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 14 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
11 13 (0.18%) Maximo
12 11 (0.15%) Aligne
12 11 (0.15%) EuroRunner
13 10 (0.14%) ION MarketView
13 10 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
14 9 (0.13%) Primavera
14 9 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,576 (22.13%) Azure
2 1,256 (17.64%) AWS
3 571 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
4 448 (6.29%) GCP
5 352 (4.94%) Power Platform
6 264 (3.71%) GitHub
7 261 (3.66%) Serverless
8 186 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 180 (2.53%) SaaS
10 141 (1.98%) Entra ID
11 139 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 125 (1.76%) Snowflake
13 124 (1.74%) Amazon S3
14 119 (1.67%) dbt
15 118 (1.66%) PaaS
16 114 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 108 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
18 105 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
19 90 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
19 90 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 166 (2.33%) Firewall
2 112 (1.57%) DNS
3 105 (1.47%) VPN
4 79 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 75 (1.05%) HTTP
6 67 (0.94%) DHCP
7 46 (0.65%) LAN
8 44 (0.62%) Internet
9 38 (0.53%) WAN
10 37 (0.52%) Modbus
10 37 (0.52%) RS-485
11 35 (0.49%) RS-422
11 35 (0.49%) SAN
12 33 (0.46%) Network Security
13 24 (0.34%) SSL
14 22 (0.31%) BGP
15 21 (0.29%) SNMP
16 20 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
16 20 (0.28%) Wireless
17 18 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 301 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 268 (3.76%) Power BI
4 197 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 182 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.49%) NoSQL
7 175 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 166 (2.33%) Apache Ignite
9 154 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 130 (1.83%) MySQL
11 120 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 104 (1.46%) Big Data
13 102 (1.43%) Apache Arrow
13 102 (1.43%) Dremio
14 88 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
15 72 (1.01%) Tableau
16 67 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
18 50 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
19 48 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 953 (13.38%) JIRA
2 594 (8.34%) Git
3 354 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 207 (2.91%) GitLab
5 166 (2.33%) Selenium
6 158 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 140 (1.97%) Postman
8 112 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 95 (1.33%) JUnit
10 88 (1.24%) Visual Studio
11 76 (1.07%) Bitbucket
12 63 (0.88%) Maven
12 63 (0.88%) TeamCity
13 55 (0.77%) JMeter
13 55 (0.77%) SpecFlow
14 52 (0.73%) Robot Framework
15 49 (0.69%) WebDriver
16 47 (0.66%) TestRail
17 42 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
18 38 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 2,061 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 1,625 (22.82%) Finance
3 871 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 860 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 660 (9.27%) Banking
6 426 (5.98%) Front Office
7 228 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
8 225 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 187 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 185 (2.60%) Retail
11 181 (2.54%) Marketing
12 161 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 139 (1.95%) Back Office
13 139 (1.95%) Telecoms
14 114 (1.60%) Legal
15 113 (1.59%) Manufacturing
16 107 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
17 97 (1.36%) Electronics
18 73 (1.02%) Military
19 63 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,558 (21.88%) Developer
2 952 (13.37%) Senior
3 806 (11.32%) Analyst
4 695 (9.76%) Architect
5 643 (9.03%) Project Manager
6 546 (7.67%) Lead
7 501 (7.03%) Business Analyst
8 444 (6.23%) Software Engineer
9 300 (4.21%) Java Developer
10 275 (3.86%) Senior Developer
11 274 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
12 222 (3.12%) Consultant
13 217 (3.05%) Full Stack Developer
14 202 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
15 190 (2.67%) Python Developer
16 175 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
17 168 (2.36%) Senior Manager
18 158 (2.22%) React Developer
18 158 (2.22%) Software Developer
19 157 (2.20%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (7.47%) React
2 531 (7.46%) .NET
3 361 (5.07%) REST
4 332 (4.66%) CSS
5 325 (4.56%) HTML
6 283 (3.97%) AngularJS
7 276 (3.88%) Node.js
8 265 (3.72%) Kafka
9 262 (3.68%) Spring
10 253 (3.55%) XML
11 206 (2.89%) RESTful
12 199 (2.79%) JSON
13 187 (2.63%) Spring Boot
14 186 (2.61%) Web Services
15 184 (2.58%) .NET Core
16 181 (2.54%) gRPC
17 168 (2.36%) Protocol Buffers
18 163 (2.29%) Redux
19 146 (2.05%) .NET Framework
20 124 (1.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 681 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 305 (4.28%) Fixed Income
3 248 (3.48%) Hedge funds
4 230 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 228 (3.20%) Derivative
6 212 (2.98%) Equities
7 177 (2.49%) Management Information System
8 139 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 139 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 138 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 137 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 109 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 109 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 100 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 96 (1.35%) Data Centre
14 95 (1.33%) Cloud Native
15 85 (1.19%) PKI
16 81 (1.14%) Algorithms
17 78 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
18 77 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 495 (6.95%) Linux
2 346 (4.86%) Windows
3 156 (2.19%) Unix
4 142 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 101 (1.42%) Android
6 84 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 60 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.55%) zOS
9 31 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 23 (0.32%) Mac OS X
11 23 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 23 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 21 (0.29%) CentOS
13 20 (0.28%) VMS
14 18 (0.25%) Debian
14 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 10 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
16 9 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
17 8 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,690 (23.73%) DevOps
2 1,537 (21.58%) Scrum
3 1,088 (15.28%) CI/CD
4 1,042 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
5 1,037 (14.56%) Project Management
6 912 (12.81%) Software Engineering
7 802 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 683 (9.59%) Test Automation
9 665 (9.34%) Waterfall
10 611 (8.58%) Project Delivery
11 557 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 549 (7.71%) Roadmaps
13 547 (7.68%) Microservices
14 530 (7.44%) TDD
15 509 (7.15%) Continuous Integration
16 498 (6.99%) Analytics
17 494 (6.94%) SDLC
18 474 (6.66%) Migration
19 425 (5.97%) User Stories
20 423 (5.94%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,082 (15.19%) Python
2 980 (13.76%) SQL
3 952 (13.37%) Java
4 762 (10.70%) JavaScript
5 676 (9.49%) C#
6 554 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 381 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 181 (2.54%) C++
9 149 (2.09%) C
10 144 (2.02%) Scala
11 127 (1.78%) Go
12 123 (1.73%) Bicep
13 118 (1.66%) Bash
14 87 (1.22%) PL/SQL
15 77 (1.08%) Shell Script
16 75 (1.05%) Perl
17 71 (1.00%) Kotlin
18 52 (0.73%) PHP
18 52 (0.73%) T-SQL
19 49 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,284 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 904 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 765 (10.74%) Degree
4 361 (5.07%) DV Cleared
5 215 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 112 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 109 (1.53%) PMP
9 92 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 67 (0.94%) ISTQB
11 52 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 47 (0.66%) Azure Certification
12 47 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 42 (0.59%) APMP
14 37 (0.52%) AWS Certification
14 37 (0.52%) CISSP
14 37 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
15 32 (0.45%) CISM
15 32 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 28 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (6.22%) QA
2 211 (2.96%) PMO
3 193 (2.71%) Accessibility
4 152 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 83 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 80 (1.12%) SLA
7 67 (0.94%) GDPR
8 43 (0.60%) NIST
9 41 (0.58%) WCAG
10 35 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 34 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 22 (0.31%) MISRA
13 20 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.22%) ISO 9001
15 15 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 13 (0.18%) GRC
16 13 (0.18%) ISO 20022
17 12 (0.17%) GxP
17 12 (0.17%) NCSC
18 11 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 439 (6.16%) Docker
2 252 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 111 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 27 (0.38%) vSphere
7 26 (0.37%) Firmware
8 24 (0.34%) NFS
8 24 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
8 24 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.11%) HDFS
11 7 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
13 4 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.056%) vCloud
14 3 (0.042%) XenApp
15 2 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 471 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 320 (4.49%) Terraform
3 255 (3.58%) Ansible
4 133 (1.87%) Grafana
5 77 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 71 (1.00%) Puppet
7 61 (0.86%) Kibana
8 41 (0.58%) SCCM
9 37 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 31 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 26 (0.37%) logstash
12 26 (0.37%) SCOM
13 25 (0.35%) Packer
14 19 (0.27%) WSUS
15 18 (0.25%) Argo
16 16 (0.22%) WMI
17 15 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 979 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 367 (5.15%) Oracle
3 306 (4.30%) SAP
4 218 (3.06%) Google
5 176 (2.47%) VMware
6 157 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 146 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 117 (1.64%) Databricks
9 97 (1.36%) Adobe
10 96 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 96 (1.35%) Splunk
11 92 (1.29%) IBM
12 84 (1.18%) Cisco
13 62 (0.87%) Dell
14 50 (0.70%) Red Hat
15 36 (0.51%) Informatica
16 34 (0.48%) Remedy
17 33 (0.46%) Bloomberg
17 33 (0.46%) HP
18 30 (0.42%) Juniper