Agile Contracts with Work from Home 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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,580 5,146 12,037
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.49% 21.55% 27.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.05% 24.05% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 3,793 8,721
10th Percentile £381 £411 £400
25th Percentile £450 £469 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £825 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 120 141
10th Percentile £21.14 £35.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £30.84 £50.94 £39.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61.75 £72.81 £65.25
90th Percentile £77.05 £75.78 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £60.75 £65.25 £51.14
% change year-on-year -6.90% +27.60% +7.65%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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
1 160 (6.20%) Apache Airflow
2 158 (6.12%) Apache
3 155 (6.01%) Confluence
4 44 (1.71%) CMS
5 40 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 39 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 24 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.62%) SAS
9 12 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.43%) nginx
11 9 (0.35%) CICS
12 7 (0.27%) Headless CMS
13 6 (0.23%) Appian
13 6 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.16%) WebLogic
16 3 (0.12%) IIS
16 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.47%) Trello
6 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.16%) Sketch
8 4 (0.16%) UserZoom
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.078%) InVision
11 1 (0.039%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.039%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.039%) InDesign
11 1 (0.039%) Simulink
11 1 (0.039%) SPSS
11 1 (0.039%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 31 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 31 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 12 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
4 9 (0.35%) Maximo
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.23%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
7 5 (0.19%) Shopify
8 4 (0.16%) Endur
8 4 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.12%) Primavera
9 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.078%) Aligne
10 2 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 589 (22.83%) Azure
2 577 (22.36%) AWS
3 220 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
4 208 (8.06%) GCP
5 154 (5.97%) dbt
6 142 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 125 (4.84%) Snowflake
8 98 (3.80%) Serverless
9 90 (3.49%) SaaS
10 85 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
11 82 (3.18%) GitHub
12 57 (2.21%) Amazon S3
12 57 (2.21%) Entra ID
12 57 (2.21%) PaaS
13 56 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
15 47 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 42 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
17 41 (1.59%) OpenShift
18 39 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.79%) Firewall
2 59 (2.29%) DNS
3 41 (1.59%) DHCP
4 36 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 33 (1.28%) VPN
6 23 (0.89%) HTTP
7 17 (0.66%) SAN
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 14 (0.54%) LAN
10 13 (0.50%) Internet
11 11 (0.43%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.35%) 4G
13 8 (0.31%) 3G
13 8 (0.31%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.27%) ATM
14 7 (0.27%) VoIP
14 7 (0.27%) Wireless
15 6 (0.23%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.23%) VLAN
16 5 (0.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (6.16%) Data Lake
2 147 (5.70%) SQL Server
3 146 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
4 143 (5.54%) Dremio
5 140 (5.43%) Apache Arrow
6 138 (5.35%) Apache Ignite
7 111 (4.30%) Power BI
8 88 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
9 71 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
9 71 (2.75%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.05%) MySQL
11 52 (2.02%) NoSQL
12 45 (1.74%) MongoDB
13 44 (1.71%) Big Data
14 38 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
14 38 (1.47%) Tableau
15 34 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
17 21 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
18 20 (0.78%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 328 (12.71%) JIRA
2 174 (6.74%) Git
3 104 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 70 (2.71%) GitLab
5 54 (2.09%) Selenium
6 47 (1.82%) Postman
7 39 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.51%) JMeter
8 31 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 28 (1.09%) JUnit
10 20 (0.78%) SpecFlow
11 19 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 18 (0.70%) TeamCity
13 17 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.58%) TestRail
14 15 (0.58%) WebDriver
15 13 (0.50%) Appium
16 12 (0.47%) Artifactory
16 12 (0.47%) Maven
16 12 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 726 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 704 (27.29%) Finance
3 325 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 314 (12.17%) Banking
5 246 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
6 243 (9.42%) Front Office
7 162 (6.28%) Investment Banking
8 81 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (2.95%) Marketing
10 71 (2.75%) Retail
11 63 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.82%) Telecoms
14 46 (1.78%) Back Office
15 41 (1.59%) Legal
16 31 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 29 (1.12%) Electronics
18 28 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
19 25 (0.97%) Publishing
20 23 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 547 (21.20%) Developer
2 398 (15.43%) Senior
3 319 (12.36%) Analyst
4 241 (9.34%) Architect
5 239 (9.26%) Project Manager
6 214 (8.29%) Lead
7 208 (8.06%) Business Analyst
8 167 (6.47%) Software Engineer
9 122 (4.73%) Consultant
10 108 (4.19%) Senior Developer
10 108 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (3.68%) Java Developer
12 88 (3.41%) Software Developer
13 87 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
14 79 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
15 77 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
16 74 (2.87%) Python Engineer
17 72 (2.79%) Java Engineer
18 71 (2.75%) Senior Manager
19 67 (2.60%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (6.94%) .NET
2 173 (6.71%) React
3 142 (5.50%) gRPC
4 141 (5.47%) Protocol Buffers
5 136 (5.27%) REST
6 134 (5.19%) Pandas
7 132 (5.12%) NumPy
7 132 (5.12%) SciPy
8 118 (4.57%) HTML
9 117 (4.53%) CSS
10 107 (4.15%) XML
11 100 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 99 (3.84%) Node.js
13 83 (3.22%) JSON
14 82 (3.18%) Kafka
15 73 (2.83%) RESTful
16 68 (2.64%) Spring
17 63 (2.44%) Web Services
18 61 (2.36%) Spring Boot
19 51 (1.98%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 218 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 192 (7.44%) Fixed Income
3 173 (6.71%) Derivative
4 168 (6.51%) Equities
5 164 (6.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 156 (6.05%) Hedge funds
7 54 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 51 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 51 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 51 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 46 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 39 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
11 36 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 35 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 35 (1.36%) PKI
13 31 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 31 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (0.97%) Mainframe
15 23 (0.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 148 (5.74%) Linux
2 113 (4.38%) Windows
3 47 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 42 (1.63%) Unix
5 33 (1.28%) Android
6 22 (0.85%) zOS
7 21 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.35%) Debian
11 8 (0.31%) VMS
11 8 (0.31%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.19%) Solaris
13 4 (0.16%) CentOS
13 4 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (23.41%) DevOps
2 512 (19.84%) Scrum
3 382 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 379 (14.69%) Software Engineering
5 356 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
6 340 (13.18%) Project Management
7 316 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 257 (9.96%) Analytics
9 235 (9.11%) Waterfall
10 234 (9.07%) Test Automation
11 217 (8.41%) Asset Management
12 211 (8.18%) Project Delivery
13 195 (7.56%) Roadmaps
14 174 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 173 (6.71%) Microservices
15 173 (6.71%) SDLC
16 171 (6.63%) User Stories
17 170 (6.59%) User Experience
18 165 (6.40%) Migration
19 162 (6.28%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 458 (17.75%) Python
2 389 (15.08%) Java
3 362 (14.03%) JavaScript
4 358 (13.88%) SQL
5 269 (10.43%) TypeScript
6 213 (8.26%) C#
7 121 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 63 (2.44%) Bicep
9 62 (2.40%) Go
10 52 (2.02%) Bash
10 52 (2.02%) Scala
11 45 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 30 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.09%) VB
14 27 (1.05%) Perl
15 23 (0.89%) C++
15 23 (0.89%) VBScript
16 21 (0.81%) REXX
17 19 (0.74%) C
18 17 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 370 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 308 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 289 (11.20%) Degree
4 90 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 85 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 56 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 45 (1.74%) PMP
8 43 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 40 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 31 (1.20%) ISTQB
11 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 18 (0.70%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.47%) CISSP
16 12 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (0.43%) AWS Certification
18 10 (0.39%) ISEB
19 8 (0.31%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.71%) QA
2 92 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 73 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 57 (2.21%) PMO
5 31 (1.20%) GDPR
5 31 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 24 (0.93%) SLA
7 16 (0.62%) WCAG
8 13 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 13 (0.50%) NIST
9 11 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.27%) GxP
11 7 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.23%) MiFID
13 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
14 4 (0.16%) GRC
14 4 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (5.81%) Docker
2 92 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
7 9 (0.35%) NFS
7 9 (0.35%) vSphere
8 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.12%) vCloud
10 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.078%) HDFS
11 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.039%) Firmware
12 1 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.039%) XenApp
12 1 (0.039%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 192 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 108 (4.19%) Terraform
3 82 (3.18%) Ansible
4 59 (2.29%) Grafana
5 27 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (1.01%) SCCM
7 24 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.93%) Puppet
8 23 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 22 (0.85%) SCOM
10 21 (0.81%) WSUS
11 19 (0.74%) Kibana
12 14 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 9 (0.35%) Argo
15 8 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
16 7 (0.27%) Istio
16 7 (0.27%) Packer
17 6 (0.23%) PingFederate
17 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 341 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.20%) Oracle
3 120 (4.65%) SAP
4 68 (2.64%) ServiceNow
5 60 (2.33%) Google
6 54 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 49 (1.90%) Databricks
8 44 (1.71%) Splunk
8 44 (1.71%) VMware
9 41 (1.59%) IBM
10 36 (1.40%) Adobe
11 30 (1.16%) Cisco
12 23 (0.89%) Dell
13 21 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 20 (0.78%) Bloomberg
15 19 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.74%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.58%) CA
16 15 (0.58%) CyberArk
16 15 (0.58%) Informatica