Pega Contracts

Pega
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Pega products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pega over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Pegasystems, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 523 630
Rank change year-on-year +48 +107 +41
Contract jobs citing Pega 45 59 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.32% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 55 69
10th Percentile £409 £418 £434
25th Percentile £435 £468 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £599 £598 £560
90th Percentile £688 £683 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +7.34% -0.50% -2.91%

All Vendors
UK

Pega falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Pega
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pega in the UK

Pega
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pega in the UK

Pega
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pega over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pega in the UK

Pega
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Pega in the UK

Pega
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pega within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +34 24 £503 -14.10% 89
Work from Home +27 17 £525 -10.26% 8
UK excluding London +43 15 £534 +7.34% 81
London +34 14 £500 -23.08% 18
Scotland +16 10 £530 +15.11% 3
South West - 4 £595 - 10
North of England +4 2 £700 +19.66% 17
North West +1 1 £700 +19.66% 7
North East - 1 - - 3

Pega
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 5 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (4.44%) SAS
4 1 (2.22%) Camunda
4 1 (2.22%) nginx
4 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) AWS
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.22%) Slack
3 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Big Data
1 3 (6.67%) Tableau
2 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) GoCD
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (42.22%) Finance
2 18 (40.00%) Banking
3 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Military
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Project Manager
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Pega Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Pega Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Lead Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Technical Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Pega Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Pega Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) XML
2 4 (8.89%) SOAP
3 3 (6.67%) HTML
3 3 (6.67%) J2EE
3 3 (6.67%) JMS
3 3 (6.67%) JSON
3 3 (6.67%) RESTful
4 2 (4.44%) HTML5
4 2 (4.44%) Kafka
4 2 (4.44%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.22%) CSS
5 1 (2.22%) JAX-RS
5 1 (2.22%) JAX-WS
5 1 (2.22%) React
5 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.22%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Agile
2 9 (20.00%) Project Management
3 8 (17.78%) Waterfall
4 7 (15.56%) Change Management
4 7 (15.56%) KYC
5 5 (11.11%) DevOps
5 5 (11.11%) Microservices
5 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.11%) SDLC
5 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (8.89%) Budget Management
6 4 (8.89%) Customer Experience
6 4 (8.89%) Migration
6 4 (8.89%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.89%) Scrum
6 4 (8.89%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (6.67%) Data Modelling
7 3 (6.67%) ETL
7 3 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Java
2 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.67%) SQL
3 2 (4.44%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Istio
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.22%) Podman
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.67%) Informatica
3 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) Adobe
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.22%) Teradata