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 22 July 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 514 611
Rank change year-on-year +11 +97 +51
Contract jobs citing Pega 43 62 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 46 57
10th Percentile £412 £456 £447
25th Percentile £455 £503 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £591 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +18.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £555 £631 £588
90th Percentile £587 £725 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +6.50% -3.29%

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 15,541 17,915 24,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.55% 43.36% 44.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,475 11,238 16,003
10th Percentile £280 £275 £263
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 988 671
10th Percentile £14.49 £12.95 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -35.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £28.16
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.22% +42.15%

Pega
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pega in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pega in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pega over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pega in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Pega in the UK

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Top 8 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 22 July 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 +7 22 £500 -15.97% 9
Work from Home +13 18 £515 -16.73% 6
London +25 17 £500 -23.08% 6
UK excluding London +3 15 £517 -2.91% 8
Scotland +11 12 £523 +7.33% 2
South West +42 2 - -
North of England -2 1 £463 -25.22%
Yorkshire -5 1 £463 -25.22%

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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 7 (16.28%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Appian
2 2 (4.65%) nginx
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) AWS
2 5 (11.63%) Azure
3 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.98%) Serverless
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) Bitrise
5 1 (2.33%) Figma
5 1 (2.33%) Firebase
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) Slack
5 1 (2.33%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Broadband
1 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Big Data
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Tableau
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.33%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) JIRA
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.98%) Git
3 3 (6.98%) GoCD
4 1 (2.33%) Axure RP
4 1 (2.33%) Crashlytics
4 1 (2.33%) fastlane
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) JUnit
4 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.33%) XCUITest
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.88%) Finance
3 14 (32.56%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Military
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Architect
2 10 (23.26%) Pega Architect
3 9 (20.93%) Lead
4 7 (16.28%) Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Pega Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Project Manager
5 6 (13.95%) Lead Architect
6 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (9.30%) AWS Architect
7 4 (9.30%) Systems Architect
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Manager
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Project Manager
8 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
8 3 (6.98%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Analyst
9 2 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Pega Business Analyst
9 2 (4.65%) UI Developer
10 1 (2.33%) Consultant
10 1 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) HTML
2 3 (6.98%) HTML5
2 3 (6.98%) JMS
2 3 (6.98%) XML
3 2 (4.65%) CSS
3 2 (4.65%) React
3 2 (4.65%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) Android SDK
4 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.33%) CSS3
4 1 (2.33%) JAX-RS
4 1 (2.33%) JAX-WS
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) LESS
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.33%) Sass
4 1 (2.33%) SOAP
4 1 (2.33%) UIKit
4 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (6.98%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.33%) IVR
2 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.33%) NHS
2 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Android
1 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Agile
2 11 (25.58%) DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) Project Management
4 7 (16.28%) Change Management
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.28%) Scrum
4 7 (16.28%) Waterfall
5 5 (11.63%) Case Management
5 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.63%) Migration
5 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
5 5 (11.63%) SDLC
5 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (9.30%) Analytics
6 4 (9.30%) Budget Management
6 4 (9.30%) CRM
6 4 (9.30%) Customer Experience
6 4 (9.30%) Data Protection
6 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.30%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Java
2 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.65%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.33%) Python
4 1 (2.33%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Swift
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) WCAG
3 1 (2.33%) FATCA
3 1 (2.33%) MiFID
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Istio
2 1 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Adobe
1 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.65%) Informatica
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce