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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,647 5,786 12,299
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.16% 22.23% 27.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.54% 24.74% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,918 4,262 8,957
10th Percentile £381 £410 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £625
90th Percentile £775 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 147 128
10th Percentile £17.15 £36.50 £33.56
25th Percentile £23.34 £45.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +44.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £74.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £85.00 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £59.45 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -8.53% +30.65% +10.56%

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 13,547 23,386 40,461
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.81% 89.84% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,028 16,509 29,350
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 544 541
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.18 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 April 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 25 April 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
1 164 (6.20%) Confluence
2 84 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (3.14%) Apache
4 42 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 41 (1.55%) CMS
6 30 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.45%) SAS
9 9 (0.34%) CICS
10 8 (0.30%) nginx
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.19%) IIS
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.19%) WordPress
12 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.15%) Drupal
12 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 35 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.38%) Trello
7 4 (0.15%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.076%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.076%) Sketch
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.038%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.038%) InVision
9 1 (0.038%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.038%) Simulink
9 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.038%) SPSS
9 1 (0.038%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 36 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
5 11 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.34%) Primavera
6 9 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.30%) Endur
8 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.26%) Shopify
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.19%) Maximo
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.11%) Aligne
12 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
12 3 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 586 (22.14%) Azure
2 553 (20.89%) AWS
3 207 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (6.54%) GCP
5 146 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 118 (4.46%) Serverless
7 94 (3.55%) SaaS
8 89 (3.36%) GitHub
9 80 (3.02%) dbt
10 79 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
11 66 (2.49%) Amazon S3
12 62 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
13 60 (2.27%) PaaS
14 57 (2.15%) Snowflake
15 55 (2.08%) Entra ID
16 47 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
17 43 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 42 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
19 39 (1.47%) PowerApps
20 38 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.61%) Firewall
2 57 (2.15%) DNS
3 45 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.36%) DHCP
5 34 (1.28%) VPN
6 27 (1.02%) SAN
7 19 (0.72%) HTTP
8 16 (0.60%) WAN
9 14 (0.53%) LAN
10 12 (0.45%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.42%) Internet
12 9 (0.34%) Network Security
12 9 (0.34%) Wireless
13 8 (0.30%) 4G
13 8 (0.30%) HTTPS
13 8 (0.30%) PPP
13 8 (0.30%) VLAN
14 7 (0.26%) 3G
14 7 (0.26%) ATM
14 7 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 107 (4.04%) Power BI
3 92 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 87 (3.29%) Data Lake
5 78 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
6 73 (2.76%) Apache Ignite
7 71 (2.68%) Apache Arrow
7 71 (2.68%) Dremio
8 68 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
9 65 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 55 (2.08%) NoSQL
11 45 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 41 (1.55%) MySQL
13 40 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 31 (1.17%) Big Data
15 25 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (0.83%) Oracle Database
17 22 (0.83%) Tableau
18 21 (0.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 350 (13.22%) JIRA
2 171 (6.46%) Git
3 114 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 77 (2.91%) GitLab
5 48 (1.81%) Selenium
6 45 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 37 (1.40%) Postman
8 30 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 29 (1.10%) JMeter
10 24 (0.91%) Maven
11 21 (0.79%) TeamCity
11 21 (0.79%) Visual Studio
12 19 (0.72%) JUnit
12 19 (0.72%) SpecFlow
13 17 (0.64%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.53%) TestRail
14 14 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
14 14 (0.53%) WebDriver
15 12 (0.45%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 781 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 669 (25.27%) Finance
3 363 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 287 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (9.48%) Banking
6 170 (6.42%) Front Office
7 105 (3.97%) Investment Banking
8 83 (3.14%) Marketing
9 74 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 67 (2.53%) Retail
11 57 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 56 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 49 (1.85%) Legal
15 40 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
16 37 (1.40%) Back Office
17 36 (1.36%) Electronics
18 34 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 24 (0.91%) Automotive
20 23 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 571 (21.57%) Developer
2 362 (13.68%) Senior
3 336 (12.69%) Analyst
4 256 (9.67%) Project Manager
5 242 (9.14%) Architect
6 232 (8.76%) Business Analyst
7 201 (7.59%) Lead
8 137 (5.18%) Software Engineer
9 118 (4.46%) Consultant
10 110 (4.16%) Senior Developer
11 100 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
12 93 (3.51%) Java Developer
13 83 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
14 77 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
15 76 (2.87%) Data Engineer
16 75 (2.83%) Software Developer
17 73 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
18 68 (2.57%) Python Developer
19 65 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
20 63 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (6.50%) React
2 159 (6.01%) .NET
3 136 (5.14%) REST
4 110 (4.16%) Node.js
5 108 (4.08%) CSS
6 106 (4.00%) HTML
7 103 (3.89%) XML
8 101 (3.82%) AngularJS
9 95 (3.59%) JSON
10 92 (3.48%) Kafka
11 78 (2.95%) RESTful
12 77 (2.91%) gRPC
13 76 (2.87%) Protocol Buffers
14 72 (2.72%) Pandas
15 69 (2.61%) NumPy
16 68 (2.57%) SciPy
17 67 (2.53%) Spring
18 59 (2.23%) Spring Boot
19 52 (1.96%) Web Services
20 43 (1.62%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 214 (8.08%) Product Ownership
2 123 (4.65%) Fixed Income
3 104 (3.93%) Derivative
4 96 (3.63%) Equities
5 87 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 86 (3.25%) Hedge funds
7 61 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 51 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.89%) Data Centre
11 42 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 36 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
13 34 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 34 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 34 (1.28%) Onboarding
14 32 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 29 (1.10%) Cloud Native
16 27 (1.02%) PKI
17 20 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
17 20 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 167 (6.31%) Linux
2 106 (4.00%) Windows
3 40 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.36%) Unix
5 25 (0.94%) Android
6 24 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 23 (0.87%) zOS
8 22 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.64%) Debian
9 17 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.45%) VMS
13 10 (0.38%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.26%) OpenVMS
14 7 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.26%) Solaris
15 5 (0.19%) CentOS
16 4 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
17 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (22.93%) DevOps
2 525 (19.83%) Scrum
3 381 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
4 376 (14.20%) CI/CD
5 364 (13.75%) Project Management
6 312 (11.79%) Software Engineering
7 308 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 267 (10.09%) Waterfall
9 235 (8.88%) Test Automation
10 233 (8.80%) Project Delivery
11 232 (8.76%) Analytics
12 197 (7.44%) User Stories
13 193 (7.29%) Roadmaps
14 184 (6.95%) Migration
15 183 (6.91%) Microservices
16 176 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 176 (6.65%) SDLC
17 172 (6.50%) Business Intelligence
18 162 (6.12%) Kanban
19 158 (5.97%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 428 (16.17%) Python
2 347 (13.11%) Java
3 341 (12.88%) SQL
4 309 (11.67%) JavaScript
5 211 (7.97%) TypeScript
6 202 (7.63%) C#
7 109 (4.12%) PowerShell
8 58 (2.19%) Go
9 56 (2.12%) Scala
10 52 (1.96%) Bash
11 46 (1.74%) Bicep
12 40 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 31 (1.17%) Perl
14 25 (0.94%) C++
15 23 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.87%) PHP
15 23 (0.87%) REXX
15 23 (0.87%) T-SQL
16 22 (0.83%) Ruby
17 20 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 413 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 340 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 297 (11.22%) Degree
4 98 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 84 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (2.08%) PMP
8 51 (1.93%) PMI Certification
9 37 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.28%) ISTQB
11 22 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 16 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.53%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 11 (0.42%) ISEB
17 10 (0.38%) CISSP
18 8 (0.30%) PhD
19 7 (0.26%) APMP
20 6 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (6.99%) QA
2 74 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 69 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 68 (2.57%) PMO
5 39 (1.47%) SLA
6 32 (1.21%) GDPR
7 20 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
9 16 (0.60%) NIST
10 13 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 11 (0.42%) WCAG
12 7 (0.26%) GxP
12 7 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.23%) MiFID
13 6 (0.23%) NCSC
14 5 (0.19%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 144 (5.44%) Docker
2 84 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.60%) Time Sharing Option
7 14 (0.53%) NFS
8 8 (0.30%) vSphere
9 6 (0.23%) Firmware
9 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) vCloud
10 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.11%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.038%) HDFS
12 1 (0.038%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.038%) XenApp
12 1 (0.038%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 169 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 120 (4.53%) Terraform
3 82 (3.10%) Ansible
4 42 (1.59%) Grafana
5 22 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (0.83%) SCCM
6 20 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 19 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (0.72%) Puppet
8 16 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.57%) SCOM
9 15 (0.57%) WSUS
10 14 (0.53%) Kibana
11 12 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.26%) Argo
12 7 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (0.26%) Netcool
12 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.26%) Tivoli
13 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 344 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 185 (6.99%) Oracle
3 122 (4.61%) SAP
4 61 (2.30%) Databricks
5 60 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 55 (2.08%) IBM
7 54 (2.04%) Google
7 54 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 49 (1.85%) VMware
9 39 (1.47%) Splunk
10 36 (1.36%) Atlassian
11 35 (1.32%) Adobe
12 30 (1.13%) Dell
13 27 (1.02%) Cisco
14 25 (0.94%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.60%) Brocade
15 16 (0.60%) CA
15 16 (0.60%) Remedy
16 14 (0.53%) Broadcom
16 14 (0.53%) Dynatrace