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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,107 2,644 5,717
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.49% 17.45% 22.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.56% 19.85% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,587 1,929 4,187
10th Percentile £367 £380 £410
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £663
90th Percentile £838 £777 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 137
10th Percentile £34.21 £17.68 £35.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £23.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £64.50 £46.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.46% -28.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £73.13 £61.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.63 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.05% +31.16%

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 8,943 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,147 8,917 16,193
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 £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 575 527
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.04 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 (7.02%) Confluence
2 106 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (4.27%) Apache
4 50 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 50 (2.37%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.19%) CMS
6 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.47%) Drupal
8 8 (0.38%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) nginx
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) FileNet
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 46 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.14%) Trello
5 18 (0.85%) 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 40 (1.90%) Aladdin
2 28 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 22 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.76%) thinkFolio
5 8 (0.38%) Primavera
6 6 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.19%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.14%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP WM
10 2 (0.095%) Endur
10 2 (0.095%) iTrent
10 2 (0.095%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.095%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.095%) Shopify
10 2 (0.095%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 467 (22.16%) AWS
2 434 (20.60%) Azure
3 181 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (8.07%) GCP
5 126 (5.98%) Serverless
6 107 (5.08%) dbt
7 103 (4.89%) Power Platform
8 91 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
9 80 (3.80%) GitHub
10 67 (3.18%) SaaS
11 66 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
12 64 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
13 61 (2.90%) Amazon S3
14 49 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
14 49 (2.33%) Snowflake
15 47 (2.23%) PowerApps
16 41 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 40 (1.90%) Power Automate
18 38 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.66%) 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%) LAN
11 6 (0.28%) WAN
12 5 (0.24%) BGP
12 5 (0.24%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.24%) FTP
12 5 (0.24%) Internet
12 5 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.21%) Data Lake
2 150 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
3 113 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
4 107 (5.08%) Apache Iceberg
5 105 (4.98%) Dremio
6 102 (4.84%) Relational Database
7 94 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
8 83 (3.94%) MongoDB
9 69 (3.27%) Apache Ignite
10 66 (3.13%) SQL Server
11 64 (3.04%) Power BI
12 38 (1.80%) DB2
12 38 (1.80%) NoSQL
13 37 (1.76%) MySQL
14 36 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
16 30 (1.42%) Big Data
17 23 (1.09%) DynamoDB
18 20 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
19 18 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 313 (14.86%) JIRA
2 169 (8.02%) Git
3 132 (6.26%) Jenkins
4 67 (3.18%) GitLab
5 60 (2.85%) JUnit
6 37 (1.76%) Selenium
7 34 (1.61%) Postman
8 32 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 31 (1.47%) Artifactory
10 25 (1.19%) Visual Studio
11 22 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 21 (1.00%) 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
1 700 (33.22%) Finance
2 663 (31.47%) Social Skills
3 344 (16.33%) Front Office
4 305 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
5 265 (12.58%) Public Sector
6 260 (12.34%) Banking
7 116 (5.51%) Investment Banking
8 58 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 47 (2.23%) Marketing
10 47 (2.23%) Retail
11 44 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 34 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (1.09%) Legal
16 20 (0.95%) Back Office
16 20 (0.95%) Military
17 17 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 530 (25.15%) Developer
2 253 (12.01%) Senior
3 246 (11.68%) Analyst
4 178 (8.45%) Business Analyst
5 172 (8.16%) Lead
6 171 (8.12%) Software Engineer
7 146 (6.93%) Architect
8 132 (6.26%) Project Manager
9 131 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
10 113 (5.36%) Python Engineer
11 88 (4.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 88 (4.18%) Java Developer
12 87 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 78 (3.70%) Python Developer
14 69 (3.27%) Consultant
15 68 (3.23%) Data Engineer
16 67 (3.18%) AWS Software Engineer
17 65 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
18 63 (2.99%) Senior Developer
19 59 (2.80%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (9.92%) React
2 160 (7.59%) .NET
3 151 (7.17%) Kafka
4 126 (5.98%) REST
5 124 (5.89%) AngularJS
6 120 (5.70%) Node.js
7 118 (5.60%) CSS
8 102 (4.84%) HTML
9 88 (4.18%) Spring
10 78 (3.70%) Redux
11 77 (3.65%) Web Services
12 75 (3.56%) Pandas
13 74 (3.51%) NumPy
14 73 (3.46%) PySpark
15 70 (3.32%) RESTful
16 67 (3.18%) SciPy
17 62 (2.94%) Vue
18 61 (2.90%) Spring Boot
19 56 (2.66%) SOAP
20 53 (2.52%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 262 (12.43%) Fixed Income
2 213 (10.11%) Product Ownership
3 193 (9.16%) Hedge funds
4 190 (9.02%) Derivative
5 186 (8.83%) Equities
6 182 (8.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 58 (2.75%) Data Structures
8 51 (2.42%) Cloud Native
9 48 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 31 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
13 28 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.14%) Data Centre
15 24 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.04%) Algorithms
16 22 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 124 (5.89%) Linux
2 65 (3.08%) Windows
3 27 (1.28%) Unix
4 26 (1.23%) Android
5 23 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.24%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
10 3 (0.14%) CentOS
10 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.047%) AIX
12 1 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.047%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) VxWorks
12 1 (0.047%) VyOS
12 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (24.63%) DevOps
2 431 (20.46%) CI/CD
3 423 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
4 360 (17.09%) Scrum
5 306 (14.52%) Software Engineering
6 292 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (11.68%) Investment Management
8 244 (11.58%) Project Management
8 244 (11.58%) Roadmaps
9 228 (10.82%) Migration
10 222 (10.54%) Asset Management
11 196 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 193 (9.16%) Waterfall
13 190 (9.02%) Analytics
14 188 (8.92%) Test Automation
15 176 (8.35%) Microservices
16 170 (8.07%) User Experience
17 169 (8.02%) SDLC
18 141 (6.69%) Business Intelligence
19 137 (6.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 487 (23.11%) Python
2 361 (17.13%) Java
3 354 (16.80%) JavaScript
4 339 (16.09%) SQL
5 251 (11.91%) TypeScript
6 201 (9.54%) C#
7 72 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 47 (2.23%) C++
9 45 (2.14%) Go
10 43 (2.04%) Bash
10 43 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.33%) PHP
12 24 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 24 (1.14%) Scala
13 23 (1.09%) Kotlin
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
1 347 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 299 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 193 (9.16%) Degree
4 58 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 51 (2.42%) PMP
7 46 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 20 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.85%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.57%) CISSP
16 11 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
17 10 (0.47%) APMP
17 10 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (6.50%) QA
2 93 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 43 (2.04%) PMO
4 26 (1.23%) MiFID
5 24 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 18 (0.85%) GDPR
6 18 (0.85%) WCAG
7 14 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
7 14 (0.66%) NIST
8 9 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.28%) GRC
9 6 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.28%) SLA
10 5 (0.24%) Basel II
10 5 (0.24%) NCSC
11 4 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.19%) GxP
12 3 (0.14%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 193 (9.16%) Docker
2 37 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.38%) 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%) 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
1 206 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 174 (8.26%) Terraform
3 85 (4.03%) Ansible
4 37 (1.76%) Grafana
5 32 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.66%) Kibana
7 14 (0.66%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.47%) Packer
8 10 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.43%) Puppet
10 8 (0.38%) Argo
10 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.28%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.28%) Perfmon
12 4 (0.19%) Consul
12 4 (0.19%) SCCM
13 3 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
13 3 (0.14%) Rancher
13 3 (0.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 210 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.74%) Oracle
3 77 (3.65%) SAP
4 65 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 40 (1.90%) Atlassian
7 39 (1.85%) BISAM
8 38 (1.80%) Google
9 34 (1.61%) Sybase
10 33 (1.57%) VMware
11 32 (1.52%) Databricks
12 21 (1.00%) Cisco
12 21 (1.00%) IBM
13 20 (0.95%) Splunk
14 19 (0.90%) Charles River
15 17 (0.81%) Calypso
16 16 (0.76%) SimCorp
17 15 (0.71%) Palo Alto
18 14 (0.66%) Dynatrace
19 12 (0.57%) Adobe