Agile Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Agile Software Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,111 2,648 5,753
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.30% 17.22% 22.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.40% 19.61% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 1,925 4,241
10th Percentile £367 £381 £409
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -2.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £703 £644 £660
90th Percentile £838 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 142
10th Percentile £35.00 £17.68 £35.25
25th Percentile £48.99 £23.75 £45.31
Median hourly rate £64.00 £46.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% -28.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +30.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Agile falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,023 13,505 23,232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.03% 87.83% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,195 9,015 16,421
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 573 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Agile
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Agile
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Agile over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Agile over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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
1 148 (7.01%) Confluence
2 103 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (4.26%) Apache
4 52 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 48 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.18%) CMS
7 12 (0.57%) Drupal
8 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.38%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.24%) NetWeaver
11 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.19%) nginx
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.19%) WordPress
13 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.14%) MTS
Applications
1 46 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (1.18%) Trello
5 19 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.43%) Sketch
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.095%) InVision
10 1 (0.047%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.047%) CATIA
10 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.047%) Notepad++
10 1 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 37 (1.75%) Aladdin
2 31 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.66%) thinkFolio
5 8 (0.38%) Primavera
6 6 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 4 (0.19%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.14%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.14%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.14%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.14%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.095%) iTrent
9 2 (0.095%) Misys Midas
9 2 (0.095%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.095%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 458 (21.70%) AWS
2 432 (20.46%) Azure
3 178 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (7.86%) GCP
5 123 (5.83%) Serverless
6 107 (5.07%) Power Platform
7 104 (4.93%) dbt
8 88 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 82 (3.88%) GitHub
10 67 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (3.17%) SaaS
11 65 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (2.75%) Amazon S3
13 50 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
14 49 (2.32%) PowerApps
15 46 (2.18%) Snowflake
16 42 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.89%) Power Automate
18 39 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
18 39 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.71%) Firewall
2 27 (1.28%) DNS
3 26 (1.23%) HTTP
4 19 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.85%) SSL
6 12 (0.57%) Network Security
6 12 (0.57%) VPN
7 10 (0.47%) DHCP
8 9 (0.43%) SMTP
9 8 (0.38%) NGFW
10 7 (0.33%) HTTPS
10 7 (0.33%) IPsec
10 7 (0.33%) SNMP
11 6 (0.28%) BGP
11 6 (0.28%) LAN
11 6 (0.28%) WAN
12 5 (0.24%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.24%) FTP
12 5 (0.24%) Internet
12 5 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (7.15%) Data Lake
2 147 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
4 109 (5.16%) Relational Database
5 104 (4.93%) Apache Iceberg
6 102 (4.83%) Dremio
7 91 (4.31%) Apache Arrow
8 86 (4.07%) MongoDB
9 68 (3.22%) Apache Ignite
9 68 (3.22%) Power BI
10 66 (3.13%) SQL Server
11 40 (1.89%) NoSQL
12 39 (1.85%) DB2
13 37 (1.75%) MySQL
14 36 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
16 31 (1.47%) Big Data
17 21 (0.99%) DynamoDB
18 20 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
19 17 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 313 (14.83%) JIRA
2 170 (8.05%) Git
3 132 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 66 (3.13%) GitLab
5 61 (2.89%) JUnit
6 37 (1.75%) Selenium
7 34 (1.61%) Postman
8 32 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 31 (1.47%) Artifactory
10 26 (1.23%) Visual Studio
11 23 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 21 (0.99%) JMeter
13 18 (0.85%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.81%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.81%) Gradle
15 16 (0.76%) Maven
16 15 (0.71%) Mockito
17 12 (0.57%) Appium
17 12 (0.57%) LoadRunner
17 12 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 690 (32.69%) Finance
2 670 (31.74%) Social Skills
3 337 (15.96%) Front Office
4 309 (14.64%) Analytical Skills
5 265 (12.55%) Public Sector
6 257 (12.17%) Banking
7 115 (5.45%) Investment Banking
8 60 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 52 (2.46%) Marketing
9 52 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (2.42%) Retail
11 44 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 43 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.18%) Legal
16 23 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (0.95%) Back Office
17 20 (0.95%) Military
18 19 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 521 (24.68%) Developer
2 251 (11.89%) Analyst
3 248 (11.75%) Senior
4 175 (8.29%) Business Analyst
5 174 (8.24%) Lead
6 164 (7.77%) Software Engineer
7 145 (6.87%) Architect
8 128 (6.06%) Project Manager
9 127 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
10 112 (5.31%) Python Engineer
11 89 (4.22%) Java Developer
12 87 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 83 (3.93%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 77 (3.65%) Python Developer
15 70 (3.32%) Data Engineer
16 66 (3.13%) Consultant
17 64 (3.03%) AWS Software Engineer
17 64 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
18 63 (2.98%) Senior Developer
19 57 (2.70%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (9.57%) React
2 160 (7.58%) .NET
3 152 (7.20%) Kafka
4 124 (5.87%) REST
5 122 (5.78%) AngularJS
6 117 (5.54%) Node.js
7 116 (5.50%) CSS
8 100 (4.74%) HTML
9 90 (4.26%) Spring
10 77 (3.65%) Web Services
11 75 (3.55%) Redux
12 74 (3.51%) PySpark
13 72 (3.41%) Pandas
14 71 (3.36%) NumPy
15 70 (3.32%) RESTful
16 64 (3.03%) SciPy
17 62 (2.94%) Spring Boot
18 59 (2.79%) Vue
19 56 (2.65%) SOAP
20 50 (2.37%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 251 (11.89%) Fixed Income
2 216 (10.23%) Product Ownership
3 186 (8.81%) Hedge funds
4 184 (8.72%) Derivative
5 180 (8.53%) Equities
6 175 (8.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 59 (2.79%) Data Structures
8 51 (2.42%) Cloud Native
9 46 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 36 (1.71%) Management Information System
11 33 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
14 27 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 25 (1.18%) Public Cloud
16 24 (1.14%) Data Centre
16 24 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
17 23 (1.09%) Algorithms
18 21 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 124 (5.87%) Linux
2 66 (3.13%) Windows
3 28 (1.33%) Unix
4 24 (1.14%) Android
5 22 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.24%) zOS
8 3 (0.14%) CentOS
8 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.047%) AIX
9 1 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.047%) Solaris
9 1 (0.047%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.047%) VyOS
9 1 (0.047%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (24.63%) DevOps
2 434 (20.56%) CI/CD
3 433 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
4 360 (17.05%) Scrum
5 302 (14.31%) Software Engineering
6 294 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 250 (11.84%) Project Management
8 249 (11.80%) Roadmaps
9 236 (11.18%) Investment Management
10 233 (11.04%) Migration
11 213 (10.09%) Asset Management
12 196 (9.28%) Waterfall
13 193 (9.14%) Analytics
14 191 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 190 (9.00%) Test Automation
16 177 (8.38%) Microservices
17 173 (8.20%) User Experience
18 171 (8.10%) SDLC
19 141 (6.68%) Business Intelligence
20 134 (6.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 482 (22.83%) Python
2 359 (17.01%) Java
3 347 (16.44%) JavaScript
4 337 (15.96%) SQL
5 240 (11.37%) TypeScript
6 199 (9.43%) C#
7 73 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 47 (2.23%) C++
9 44 (2.08%) Go
9 44 (2.08%) Shell Script
10 42 (1.99%) Bash
11 28 (1.33%) PHP
12 27 (1.28%) Scala
13 23 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 23 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.71%) Groovy
15 13 (0.62%) ABAP
16 11 (0.52%) Ruby
16 11 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 346 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 299 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 202 (9.57%) Degree
4 61 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.42%) PMP
7 50 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 20 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 20 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.76%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 12 (0.57%) CISSP
15 10 (0.47%) CCNA
15 10 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
16 9 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (6.49%) QA
2 91 (4.31%) Accessibility
3 44 (2.08%) PMO
4 26 (1.23%) MiFID
5 25 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.90%) GDPR
7 18 (0.85%) WCAG
8 14 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
8 14 (0.66%) NIST
9 10 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.28%) GRC
11 6 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.28%) SLA
12 5 (0.24%) NCSC
13 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 3 (0.14%) Basel II
14 3 (0.14%) GxP
14 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 194 (9.19%) Docker
2 36 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.24%) Firmware
8 3 (0.14%) RACF
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.095%) NFS
9 2 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.047%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.047%) HDFS
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) KVM
10 1 (0.047%) Microcode
10 1 (0.047%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 209 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 175 (8.29%) Terraform
3 86 (4.07%) Ansible
4 37 (1.75%) Grafana
5 32 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.66%) Kibana
7 14 (0.66%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.47%) Packer
8 10 (0.47%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.47%) Puppet
9 8 (0.38%) Argo
9 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.28%) Perfmon
11 5 (0.24%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.19%) Consul
12 4 (0.19%) SCCM
13 3 (0.14%) MOM
13 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 3 (0.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 211 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 141 (6.68%) Oracle
3 80 (3.79%) SAP
4 65 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 42 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 40 (1.89%) Atlassian
7 39 (1.85%) Google
8 36 (1.71%) BISAM
9 35 (1.66%) Sybase
10 34 (1.61%) Databricks
11 33 (1.56%) VMware
12 22 (1.04%) Cisco
13 21 (0.99%) IBM
13 21 (0.99%) Splunk
14 17 (0.81%) Charles River
15 15 (0.71%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.66%) Calypso
16 14 (0.66%) Dynatrace
16 14 (0.66%) SimCorp
17 12 (0.57%) Adobe