Agile Contracts with Work from Home Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,644 5,708 12,352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.45% 22.32% 27.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.86% 24.86% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,929 4,183 8,995
10th Percentile £380 £410 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.01% +5.75%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £631
90th Percentile £777 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 139 128
10th Percentile £17.68 £35.00 £32.24
25th Percentile £23.75 £44.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £46.25 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +44.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £61.13 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.63 £85.00 £67.59
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.93% +10.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Agile daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile.

Agile hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Agile over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Agile hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 159 (6.01%) Confluence
2 88 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (3.25%) Apache
4 45 (1.70%) CMS
5 38 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 32 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.76%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.45%) SAS
9 11 (0.42%) nginx
10 9 (0.34%) CICS
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.19%) WordPress
12 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.15%) Drupal
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
12 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 35 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.42%) Trello
7 5 (0.19%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.076%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.038%) InDesign
10 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Simulink
10 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.038%) SPSS
10 1 (0.038%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 36 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 36 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 12 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
4 10 (0.38%) Primavera
5 9 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.30%) Endur
6 8 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.26%) Shopify
8 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.19%) Maximo
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.11%) Aligne
11 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 597 (22.58%) Azure
2 548 (20.73%) AWS
3 213 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (6.54%) GCP
5 146 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 115 (4.35%) Serverless
7 94 (3.56%) SaaS
8 90 (3.40%) GitHub
9 83 (3.14%) dbt
10 79 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
11 66 (2.50%) Amazon S3
12 64 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
12 64 (2.42%) Snowflake
13 59 (2.23%) Entra ID
13 59 (2.23%) PaaS
14 48 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
15 46 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 41 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 41 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
17 40 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.69%) Firewall
2 54 (2.04%) DNS
3 45 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.40%) DHCP
5 34 (1.29%) VPN
6 27 (1.02%) SAN
7 20 (0.76%) HTTP
8 16 (0.61%) WAN
9 14 (0.53%) LAN
10 12 (0.45%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.34%) Network Security
11 9 (0.34%) Wireless
12 8 (0.30%) 4G
12 8 (0.30%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.30%) Internet
12 8 (0.30%) PPP
12 8 (0.30%) VLAN
13 7 (0.26%) 3G
13 7 (0.26%) ATM
13 7 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (5.86%) SQL Server
2 108 (4.08%) Power BI
3 95 (3.59%) Data Lake
4 94 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
5 83 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
6 77 (2.91%) Apache Ignite
7 75 (2.84%) Apache Arrow
7 75 (2.84%) Dremio
8 67 (2.53%) Relational Database
9 65 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 55 (2.08%) NoSQL
11 47 (1.78%) MySQL
12 45 (1.70%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 32 (1.21%) Big Data
15 24 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (0.91%) Tableau
16 23 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 334 (12.63%) JIRA
2 174 (6.58%) Git
3 117 (4.43%) Jenkins
4 77 (2.91%) GitLab
5 53 (2.00%) Selenium
6 48 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.48%) Postman
8 31 (1.17%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.17%) JMeter
9 23 (0.87%) Maven
10 22 (0.83%) SpecFlow
10 22 (0.83%) Visual Studio
11 21 (0.79%) TeamCity
12 20 (0.76%) JUnit
13 17 (0.64%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.57%) WebDriver
15 14 (0.53%) TestRail
16 13 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
17 12 (0.45%) Artifactory
17 12 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 773 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 664 (25.11%) Finance
3 365 (13.80%) Public Sector
4 281 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
5 254 (9.61%) Banking
6 176 (6.66%) Front Office
7 109 (4.12%) Investment Banking
8 81 (3.06%) Marketing
9 69 (2.61%) Retail
10 68 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 57 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 51 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 45 (1.70%) Legal
14 44 (1.66%) Back Office
15 37 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
16 34 (1.29%) Electronics
17 33 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (1.06%) Automotive
19 23 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 565 (21.37%) Developer
2 375 (14.18%) Senior
3 334 (12.63%) Analyst
4 243 (9.19%) Project Manager
5 242 (9.15%) Architect
6 230 (8.70%) Business Analyst
7 206 (7.79%) Lead
8 137 (5.18%) Software Engineer
9 127 (4.80%) Consultant
10 108 (4.08%) Senior Developer
11 102 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 91 (3.44%) Java Developer
13 84 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
14 81 (3.06%) Software Developer
15 77 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
16 75 (2.84%) Full Stack Developer
17 67 (2.53%) Data Engineer
18 66 (2.50%) Python Developer
19 65 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
20 63 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (6.73%) React
2 177 (6.69%) .NET
3 136 (5.14%) REST
4 115 (4.35%) CSS
5 112 (4.24%) HTML
6 106 (4.01%) XML
7 104 (3.93%) AngularJS
7 104 (3.93%) Node.js
8 94 (3.56%) JSON
9 88 (3.33%) Kafka
10 81 (3.06%) gRPC
11 80 (3.03%) Protocol Buffers
12 77 (2.91%) RESTful
13 75 (2.84%) Pandas
14 73 (2.76%) Spring
15 72 (2.72%) NumPy
15 72 (2.72%) SciPy
16 60 (2.27%) Spring Boot
17 59 (2.23%) Web Services
18 49 (1.85%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 227 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 131 (4.95%) Fixed Income
3 115 (4.35%) Derivative
4 107 (4.05%) Equities
5 97 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 96 (3.63%) Hedge funds
7 59 (2.23%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 51 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 51 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 45 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 38 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 36 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
13 35 (1.32%) Onboarding
14 32 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 29 (1.10%) PKI
16 28 (1.06%) Cloud Native
17 24 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
18 21 (0.79%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 171 (6.47%) Linux
2 107 (4.05%) Windows
3 41 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.36%) Unix
5 31 (1.17%) Android
6 25 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 24 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.87%) zOS
9 17 (0.64%) Debian
9 17 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (0.42%) VMS
12 10 (0.38%) Windows 10
13 7 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.26%) Solaris
14 6 (0.23%) OpenVMS
15 5 (0.19%) CentOS
16 4 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
17 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (23.11%) DevOps
2 525 (19.86%) Scrum
3 389 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 382 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
5 358 (13.54%) Project Management
6 318 (12.03%) Software Engineering
7 314 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 255 (9.64%) Waterfall
9 242 (9.15%) Test Automation
10 228 (8.62%) Project Delivery
11 223 (8.43%) Analytics
12 192 (7.26%) User Stories
13 191 (7.22%) Microservices
14 190 (7.19%) Roadmaps
15 178 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 178 (6.73%) Migration
15 178 (6.73%) SDLC
16 165 (6.24%) Business Intelligence
17 162 (6.13%) User Experience
18 160 (6.05%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 429 (16.23%) Python
2 349 (13.20%) Java
3 331 (12.52%) SQL
4 311 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 219 (8.28%) TypeScript
6 217 (8.21%) C#
7 117 (4.43%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.31%) Go
9 56 (2.12%) Bicep
10 55 (2.08%) Scala
11 53 (2.00%) Bash
12 39 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 32 (1.21%) Perl
14 26 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.95%) C++
16 23 (0.87%) PHP
16 23 (0.87%) REXX
17 21 (0.79%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.72%) VB
19 18 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 415 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 343 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 304 (11.50%) Degree
4 99 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 91 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (1.97%) PMP
8 51 (1.93%) PMI Certification
9 38 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 36 (1.36%) ISTQB
11 22 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 18 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.49%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 11 (0.42%) CISSP
16 11 (0.42%) ISEB
17 9 (0.34%) APMP
18 8 (0.30%) PhD
19 7 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (6.92%) QA
2 75 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 72 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 66 (2.50%) PMO
5 39 (1.48%) SLA
6 33 (1.25%) GDPR
7 24 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
8 16 (0.61%) NIST
9 13 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 11 (0.42%) WCAG
11 7 (0.26%) GxP
11 7 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.23%) MiFID
12 6 (0.23%) NCSC
13 5 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 155 (5.86%) Docker
2 87 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.61%) Time Sharing Option
7 14 (0.53%) NFS
8 8 (0.30%) vSphere
9 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.19%) Firmware
11 3 (0.11%) vCloud
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.038%) HDFS
13 1 (0.038%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.038%) XenApp
13 1 (0.038%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 180 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 127 (4.80%) Terraform
3 83 (3.14%) Ansible
4 46 (1.74%) Grafana
5 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (0.91%) SCCM
7 22 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 19 (0.72%) Prometheus
9 19 (0.72%) Puppet
10 17 (0.64%) SCOM
10 17 (0.64%) WSUS
11 15 (0.57%) Kibana
12 12 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.26%) Argo
14 7 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 7 (0.26%) Netcool
14 7 (0.26%) Packer
14 7 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 346 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 175 (6.62%) Oracle
3 131 (4.95%) SAP
4 60 (2.27%) Databricks
5 59 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 55 (2.08%) Google
7 54 (2.04%) IBM
7 54 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.89%) VMware
9 39 (1.48%) Splunk
10 33 (1.25%) Adobe
11 30 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 30 (1.13%) Dell
12 27 (1.02%) Cisco
13 25 (0.95%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.61%) Brocade
14 16 (0.61%) CA
14 16 (0.61%) Dynatrace
14 16 (0.61%) Remedy
15 14 (0.53%) Broadcom