Business Agility Contracts

Business Agility
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Business Agility skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Agility over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 534 643
Rank change year-on-year -4 +109 +162
Contract jobs citing Business Agility 15 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.036% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.042% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 12
10th Percentile £362 £407 £478
25th Percentile £377 £626 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £782 £730
Median % change year-on-year -43.61% +7.12% +12.31%
75th Percentile £503 £855 £756
90th Percentile £661 £875 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate - £588 £730
% change year-on-year - -19.52% +16.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Agility 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 29,828 33,271 46,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.47% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,585 21,269 32,050
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,712 1,831 1,512
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.43 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

Business Agility
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Agility as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Agility in the UK

Business Agility
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Agility.

Daily rate trend for Business Agility in the UK

Business Agility
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Agility over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Agility in the UK

Business Agility
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Agility.

Hourly rate trend for Business Agility in the UK

Business Agility
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Agility within the UK over the 6 months to 14 August 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 +15 13 £431 -47.50% 17
London +22 10 £407 -52.12% 15
Work from Home +25 7 £475 -19.15% 8
UK excluding London +3 2 - - 5
North of England - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1

Business Agility
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 6 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Billing
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Italian Language
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
1 6 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum Master
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Billing Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) PMO Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (60.00%) Scrum
2 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (53.33%) SDLC
4 7 (46.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 7 (46.67%) Change Management
4 7 (46.67%) Regression Testing
4 7 (46.67%) Scenario Testing
4 7 (46.67%) Test Strategy
4 7 (46.67%) Traceability Matrix
4 7 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (40.00%) Change Control
5 6 (40.00%) Integration Testing
5 6 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (40.00%) TDD
5 6 (40.00%) Test Planning
5 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle