Agile Contracts in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 6,232 10,210 19,048
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 16.63% 21.70% 27.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.47% 24.14% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,353 7,451 13,708
10th Percentile £375 £413 £406
25th Percentile £455 £481 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £655
90th Percentile £800 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 209 230
10th Percentile £25.21 £37.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £67.95 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £78.00 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -6.92% +28.03% +6.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,009 42,303 63,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 89.91% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,803 29,700 45,505
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,367 1,525 1,690
10th Percentile £12.80 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in England.

Daily rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in England.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in England

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in England

Agile
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the England region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 3,614 £575 -4.17% 1,263
South East -2 844 £550 - 537
North of England 0 701 £519 -5.73% 646
South West -4 453 £525 -9.40% 325
North West 0 398 £525 -2.33% 411
Midlands -3 320 £519 -1.14% 397
Yorkshire 0 261 £517 -6.00% 176
West Midlands -4 230 £550 +1.85% 262
East of England -10 153 £517 -1.52% 210
East Midlands -6 87 £445 -1.11% 133
North East +1 55 £533 -7.39% 63
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 355 (5.70%) Confluence
2 284 (4.56%) Apache
3 264 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
4 139 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 77 (1.24%) CMS
6 73 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 66 (1.06%) Apache Spark
8 40 (0.64%) SAS
9 29 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 27 (0.43%) nginx
11 21 (0.34%) IIS
12 20 (0.32%) OpenStack
13 16 (0.26%) Drupal
14 13 (0.21%) CICS
15 12 (0.19%) Headless CMS
15 12 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
16 9 (0.14%) Appian
16 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
17 8 (0.13%) MTS
18 7 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 132 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 126 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 59 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 54 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 35 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 17 (0.27%) Sketch
8 15 (0.24%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.19%) Trello
10 8 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 8 (0.13%) Simulink
10 8 (0.13%) SPSS
11 6 (0.096%) InVision
11 6 (0.096%) Stateflow
12 5 (0.080%) TargetLink
13 4 (0.064%) UserZoom
14 3 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
14 3 (0.048%) CANalyzer
14 3 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 75 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 24 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 22 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 21 (0.34%) Endur
7 20 (0.32%) Aladdin
8 16 (0.26%) Shopify
9 14 (0.22%) ION MarketView
9 14 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
9 14 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
10 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.14%) Primavera
12 8 (0.13%) Aligne
12 8 (0.13%) EuroRunner
12 8 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 8 (0.13%) SAP BPC
12 8 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
12 8 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 7 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,408 (22.59%) Azure
2 1,072 (17.20%) AWS
3 505 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
4 445 (7.14%) GCP
5 319 (5.12%) Power Platform
6 221 (3.55%) GitHub
7 189 (3.03%) Serverless
8 174 (2.79%) dbt
9 167 (2.68%) Snowflake
10 160 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
11 154 (2.47%) SaaS
12 145 (2.33%) Entra ID
13 109 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
14 108 (1.73%) PaaS
15 102 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 94 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
17 93 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
18 81 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
19 80 (1.28%) Power Automate
19 80 (1.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 149 (2.39%) Firewall
2 106 (1.70%) DNS
3 91 (1.46%) VPN
4 72 (1.16%) HTTP
5 66 (1.06%) DHCP
6 65 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 42 (0.67%) Internet
8 39 (0.63%) LAN
9 36 (0.58%) RS-485
10 35 (0.56%) WAN
11 33 (0.53%) Modbus
11 33 (0.53%) RS-422
12 28 (0.45%) Network Security
13 27 (0.43%) SAN
14 25 (0.40%) SNMP
15 18 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
16 17 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
17 16 (0.26%) BGP
17 16 (0.26%) Ethernet
17 16 (0.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 256 (4.11%) Power BI
3 255 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 227 (3.64%) Data Lake
5 222 (3.56%) Apache Ignite
6 187 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 169 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
8 166 (2.66%) Relational Database
9 162 (2.60%) Dremio
10 159 (2.55%) Apache Arrow
11 146 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
12 120 (1.93%) MySQL
13 118 (1.89%) MongoDB
14 110 (1.77%) Big Data
15 93 (1.49%) Tableau
16 88 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
17 64 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 63 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
19 52 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
20 44 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 776 (12.45%) JIRA
2 530 (8.50%) Git
3 297 (4.77%) Jenkins
4 163 (2.62%) Selenium
5 150 (2.41%) GitLab
6 133 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 124 (1.99%) Postman
8 92 (1.48%) JUnit
9 88 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 85 (1.36%) Visual Studio
11 79 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 60 (0.96%) JMeter
13 52 (0.83%) SpecFlow
14 51 (0.82%) Robot Framework
15 48 (0.77%) Maven
16 46 (0.74%) TeamCity
17 39 (0.63%) GoogleTest
17 39 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
17 39 (0.63%) WebDriver
18 38 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 1,752 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 1,588 (25.48%) Finance
3 726 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 689 (11.06%) Banking
5 658 (10.56%) Public Sector
6 476 (7.64%) Front Office
7 264 (4.24%) Investment Banking
8 212 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 184 (2.95%) Retail
10 168 (2.70%) Marketing
11 166 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 132 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 131 (2.10%) Back Office
13 131 (2.10%) Telecoms
14 108 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 96 (1.54%) Legal
16 88 (1.41%) Electronics
17 71 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
18 68 (1.09%) Military
19 58 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,404 (22.53%) Developer
2 883 (14.17%) Senior
3 700 (11.23%) Analyst
4 652 (10.46%) Architect
5 565 (9.07%) Project Manager
6 494 (7.93%) Lead
7 460 (7.38%) Software Engineer
8 426 (6.84%) Business Analyst
9 261 (4.19%) Senior Developer
10 255 (4.09%) Java Developer
11 243 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
12 189 (3.03%) Python Developer
13 180 (2.89%) Full Stack Developer
14 171 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
15 165 (2.65%) Consultant
16 162 (2.60%) Software Developer
17 155 (2.49%) React Developer
18 153 (2.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 150 (2.41%) Senior Manager
20 144 (2.31%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 491 (7.88%) .NET
2 455 (7.30%) React
3 299 (4.80%) REST
4 293 (4.70%) HTML
5 286 (4.59%) CSS
6 249 (4.00%) XML
7 242 (3.88%) Kafka
8 239 (3.84%) gRPC
9 229 (3.67%) AngularJS
10 224 (3.59%) Protocol Buffers
11 223 (3.58%) Node.js
12 188 (3.02%) Spring
13 171 (2.74%) Web Services
14 169 (2.71%) .NET Core
15 168 (2.70%) Pandas
15 168 (2.70%) RESTful
16 166 (2.66%) JSON
17 164 (2.63%) NumPy
18 157 (2.52%) Redux
19 150 (2.41%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 577 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 349 (5.60%) Fixed Income
3 302 (4.85%) Hedge funds
4 294 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 270 (4.33%) Derivative
6 258 (4.14%) Equities
7 134 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 132 (2.12%) Mobile App
9 130 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 129 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 116 (1.86%) Public Cloud
12 104 (1.67%) Data Structures
13 90 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
14 82 (1.32%) PKI
15 80 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 75 (1.20%) Algorithms
17 74 (1.19%) Data Centre
18 72 (1.16%) Cloud Native
19 71 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
20 56 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 418 (6.71%) Linux
2 307 (4.93%) Windows
3 148 (2.37%) Unix
4 143 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 97 (1.56%) Android
6 74 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 47 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 30 (0.48%) zOS
10 24 (0.39%) Mac OS X
11 22 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
13 19 (0.30%) Windows 10
14 18 (0.29%) CentOS
15 15 (0.24%) VMS
16 14 (0.22%) Debian
17 12 (0.19%) Ubuntu
18 5 (0.080%) Oracle Linux
18 5 (0.080%) Solaris
19 4 (0.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,485 (23.83%) DevOps
2 1,342 (21.53%) Scrum
3 943 (15.13%) CI/CD
4 912 (14.63%) Software Engineering
5 891 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
6 847 (13.59%) Project Management
7 719 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 600 (9.63%) Test Automation
9 567 (9.10%) Waterfall
10 507 (8.14%) Project Delivery
11 503 (8.07%) TDD
12 486 (7.80%) Analytics
13 479 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 468 (7.51%) Microservices
15 447 (7.17%) Roadmaps
16 446 (7.16%) Continuous Integration
17 435 (6.98%) SDLC
18 418 (6.71%) Migration
19 387 (6.21%) Asset Management
20 376 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (16.37%) Python
2 914 (14.67%) Java
3 863 (13.85%) SQL
4 741 (11.89%) JavaScript
5 629 (10.09%) C#
6 525 (8.42%) TypeScript
7 375 (6.02%) PowerShell
8 195 (3.13%) C++
9 135 (2.17%) C
10 123 (1.97%) Bicep
11 119 (1.91%) Scala
12 110 (1.77%) Go
13 96 (1.54%) Bash
14 79 (1.27%) PL/SQL
15 69 (1.11%) Shell Script
16 65 (1.04%) Kotlin
17 49 (0.79%) Perl
18 41 (0.66%) Ruby
18 41 (0.66%) T-SQL
19 40 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,157 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 776 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 680 (10.91%) Degree
4 373 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 188 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 123 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 105 (1.68%) PMI Certification
8 102 (1.64%) PMP
9 64 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 61 (0.98%) ISTQB
11 40 (0.64%) Azure Certification
11 40 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 35 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 33 (0.53%) APMP
13 33 (0.53%) CISSP
14 32 (0.51%) AWS Certification
14 32 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 30 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 29 (0.47%) CISM
17 28 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (6.16%) QA
2 173 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 163 (2.62%) PMO
4 137 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 68 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 59 (0.95%) SLA
7 44 (0.71%) GDPR
8 36 (0.58%) NIST
9 35 (0.56%) WCAG
10 33 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 32 (0.51%) MISRA
12 18 (0.29%) GRC
12 18 (0.29%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.19%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.16%) MiFID
16 10 (0.16%) MISRA C
16 10 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 391 (6.27%) Docker
2 256 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 110 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 26 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.34%) vSphere
8 18 (0.29%) Firmware
9 13 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
10 12 (0.19%) NFS
11 8 (0.13%) HDFS
11 8 (0.13%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.096%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 6 (0.096%) VirtualBox
12 6 (0.096%) XenApp
13 5 (0.080%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.064%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.048%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 455 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 276 (4.43%) Terraform
3 229 (3.67%) Ansible
4 117 (1.88%) Grafana
5 80 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.01%) Puppet
7 49 (0.79%) Kibana
8 33 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.50%) logstash
9 31 (0.50%) SCCM
10 29 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.43%) SCOM
12 26 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 25 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 22 (0.35%) WSUS
15 18 (0.29%) WMI
16 16 (0.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 15 (0.24%) Packer
18 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
18 14 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 868 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 280 (4.49%) Oracle
3 273 (4.38%) SAP
4 220 (3.53%) Google
5 158 (2.54%) VMware
6 154 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 133 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 86 (1.38%) Databricks
9 85 (1.36%) Adobe
10 77 (1.24%) Splunk
11 73 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 69 (1.11%) Cisco
13 60 (0.96%) IBM
14 42 (0.67%) Bloomberg
14 42 (0.67%) Red Hat
15 40 (0.64%) Dell
16 39 (0.63%) Informatica
17 35 (0.56%) Talend
18 34 (0.55%) Juniper
19 31 (0.50%) Virgin Media