Agile Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,999 5,013 7,401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.64% 21.42% 24.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.34% 23.94% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,987 3,743 5,319
10th Percentile £358 £394 £384
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +5.40% +9.29%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 188 149
10th Percentile £22.33 £37.50 £31.45
25th Percentile £45.88 £52.38 £42.33
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.90 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £50.64
% change year-on-year -7.31% +28.37% +13.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK excluding London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
South East -2 824 £550 - 488
North of England -2 699 £520 -5.45% 606
Scotland -2 518 £490 +1.03% 163
South West -3 444 £525 -8.70% 357
North West -1 398 £525 - 363
Midlands -5 328 £525 +2.44% 432
Yorkshire -2 268 £513 -6.82% 170
West Midlands -2 248 £550 +2.23% 277
East of England -5 157 £500 -4.76% 213
East Midlands -7 77 £450 -1.37% 153
Wales 0 56 £515 -7.62% 94
North East -2 43 £533 -7.39% 77
Northern Ireland +6 13 £600 +33.33% 36
Agile
UK

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 217 (7.24%) Confluence
2 67 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.00%) Apache
5 25 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.57%) CMS
7 17 (0.57%) SAS
8 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) CICS
10 11 (0.37%) nginx
11 10 (0.33%) Drupal
12 7 (0.23%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.20%) IIS
14 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 103 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.27%) Simulink
7 6 (0.20%) Sketch
7 6 (0.20%) SPSS
7 6 (0.20%) Stateflow
8 5 (0.17%) InVision
8 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.067%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.067%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.067%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.033%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 30 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 15 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.40%) Maximo
6 11 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
7 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 8 (0.27%) Primavera
8 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.27%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.17%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.13%) Sage X3
11 4 (0.13%) SAP WM
12 3 (0.10%) Aareon QL
12 3 (0.10%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 503 (16.77%) Azure
2 355 (11.84%) AWS
3 202 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (4.37%) Power Platform
5 115 (3.83%) GitHub
6 108 (3.60%) Serverless
7 79 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 78 (2.60%) SaaS
9 71 (2.37%) GCP
10 60 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 60 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
12 42 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (1.37%) IaaS
14 40 (1.33%) OpenShift
15 38 (1.27%) Entra ID
16 37 (1.23%) PaaS
17 34 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
19 31 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.70%) Firewall
2 82 (2.73%) VPN
3 79 (2.63%) DNS
4 58 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.60%) DHCP
6 37 (1.23%) Modbus
6 37 (1.23%) RS-485
7 35 (1.17%) RS-422
8 30 (1.00%) Network Security
9 29 (0.97%) LAN
10 25 (0.83%) HTTP
10 25 (0.83%) SAN
11 23 (0.77%) WAN
12 19 (0.63%) Internet
13 18 (0.60%) SSL
14 17 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
14 17 (0.57%) VSAN
15 16 (0.53%) SNMP
16 15 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
17 14 (0.47%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 85 (2.83%) Power BI
3 85 (2.83%) Relational Database
4 77 (2.57%) MySQL
5 74 (2.47%) MongoDB
6 69 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (0.87%) Big Data
9 25 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 25 (0.83%) RDBMS
10 24 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 24 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (0.80%) GIS
11 23 (0.77%) DB2
12 21 (0.70%) Tableau
13 19 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (0.60%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.50%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 481 (16.04%) JIRA
2 244 (8.14%) Git
3 164 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.53%) GitLab
5 61 (2.03%) Selenium
6 53 (1.77%) Bitbucket
7 48 (1.60%) JUnit
8 45 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 45 (1.50%) Postman
8 45 (1.50%) Robot Framework
9 41 (1.37%) Visual Studio
10 37 (1.23%) Cypress.io
11 36 (1.20%) TestRail
12 27 (0.90%) Eclipse
12 27 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
13 26 (0.87%) GoogleTest
14 22 (0.73%) JMeter
15 21 (0.70%) Subversion
16 17 (0.57%) Maven
17 15 (0.50%) MSI
General
1 872 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 482 (16.07%) Finance
3 420 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 375 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
6 104 (3.47%) Banking
7 77 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (2.43%) Electronics
8 73 (2.43%) Telecoms
9 69 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 67 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 63 (2.10%) Marketing
12 58 (1.93%) Military
13 53 (1.77%) Legal
14 48 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 48 (1.60%) Retail
15 42 (1.40%) Automotive
16 27 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (0.83%) Aerospace
18 24 (0.80%) Billing
Job Titles
1 498 (16.61%) Developer
2 331 (11.04%) Analyst
3 320 (10.67%) Architect
4 317 (10.57%) Project Manager
5 316 (10.54%) Senior
6 225 (7.50%) Lead
7 159 (5.30%) Business Analyst
8 158 (5.27%) Software Engineer
9 122 (4.07%) Java Developer
10 94 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
11 86 (2.87%) Senior Manager
12 82 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
13 81 (2.70%) Consultant
14 77 (2.57%) Test Engineer
15 69 (2.30%) Full Stack Developer
16 66 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
17 64 (2.13%) Technical Architect
18 60 (2.00%) C++ Software Engineer
19 52 (1.73%) IT Manager
19 52 (1.73%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (5.40%) React
2 153 (5.10%) REST
3 142 (4.73%) Spring
4 138 (4.60%) .NET
5 132 (4.40%) CSS
6 131 (4.37%) HTML
7 111 (3.70%) Node.js
8 103 (3.43%) Spring Boot
9 91 (3.03%) AngularJS
10 87 (2.90%) Kafka
11 85 (2.83%) RESTful
12 84 (2.80%) XML
13 82 (2.73%) JSON
14 67 (2.23%) Web Services
15 43 (1.43%) AWS CDK
16 42 (1.40%) .NET Framework
17 40 (1.33%) JPA
18 39 (1.30%) SOAP
19 37 (1.23%) YAML
20 30 (1.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 235 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 98 (3.27%) Public Cloud
3 80 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 70 (2.33%) PKI
6 48 (1.60%) Cloud Native
7 46 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 43 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 42 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 42 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 24 (0.80%) Mainframe
15 23 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 22 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 21 (0.70%) Algorithms
18 20 (0.67%) Client/Server
18 20 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 292 (9.74%) Linux
2 239 (7.97%) Windows
3 119 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 60 (2.00%) Unix
5 51 (1.70%) Android
6 49 (1.63%) Apple iOS
7 36 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (0.97%) zOS
10 23 (0.77%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.67%) Debian
13 18 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
14 16 (0.53%) Windows 10
15 10 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
16 8 (0.27%) VMS
17 6 (0.20%) CentOS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (22.37%) DevOps
2 624 (20.81%) Scrum
3 538 (17.94%) Project Management
4 413 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
5 408 (13.60%) CI/CD
6 404 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 360 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 339 (11.30%) Waterfall
9 297 (9.90%) Test Automation
10 281 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 271 (9.04%) Project Delivery
12 230 (7.67%) Roadmaps
13 215 (7.17%) PRINCE2
14 213 (7.10%) Continuous Integration
15 203 (6.77%) Microservices
16 197 (6.57%) ITIL
17 196 (6.54%) SDLC
18 187 (6.24%) Migration
19 179 (5.97%) TDD
20 178 (5.94%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 364 (12.14%) Python
2 362 (12.07%) Java
3 336 (11.20%) SQL
4 227 (7.57%) JavaScript
5 223 (7.44%) C#
6 139 (4.63%) PowerShell
7 134 (4.47%) C++
8 124 (4.13%) C
9 118 (3.93%) TypeScript
10 61 (2.03%) Bash
11 46 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 39 (1.30%) PHP
13 38 (1.27%) Scala
14 33 (1.10%) VBScript
15 30 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 27 (0.90%) Perl
17 25 (0.83%) Bicep
17 25 (0.83%) REXX
18 23 (0.77%) VB
19 19 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 773 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 481 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 316 (10.54%) Degree
4 287 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 53 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.50%) ISTQB
7 43 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 43 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 43 (1.43%) PMP
8 33 (1.10%) APMP
9 28 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 27 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 26 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 25 (0.83%) MCSE
13 21 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (6.24%) QA
2 107 (3.57%) PMO
3 77 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 47 (1.57%) SLA
5 36 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 33 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 24 (0.80%) NIST
8 22 (0.73%) MISRA
9 19 (0.63%) GDPR
10 18 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 16 (0.53%) ISO 9001
12 14 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.37%) MISRA C
14 9 (0.30%) WCAG
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
15 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.23%) GRC
16 7 (0.23%) RMADS
17 6 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 153 (5.10%) Docker
2 100 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 89 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.87%) Firmware
6 23 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 21 (0.70%) vSphere
8 20 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (0.60%) NFS
10 17 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
11 9 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
14 4 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.067%) HDFS
16 2 (0.067%) LXC
17 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
17 1 (0.033%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 151 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 131 (4.37%) Ansible
3 130 (4.33%) Terraform
4 78 (2.60%) Grafana
5 38 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.17%) Kibana
6 35 (1.17%) SCCM
7 26 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 24 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (0.80%) SCOM
9 20 (0.67%) Puppet
10 19 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 19 (0.63%) WSUS
11 16 (0.53%) Argo
11 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.53%) WMI
12 15 (0.50%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.40%) Istio
14 11 (0.37%) Packer
15 10 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 405 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 152 (5.07%) Oracle
3 142 (4.73%) SAP
4 132 (4.40%) VMware
5 71 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 69 (2.30%) Atlassian
7 66 (2.20%) Google
8 54 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.57%) IBM
10 39 (1.30%) Cisco
11 33 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.03%) Dell
13 29 (0.97%) Splunk
14 26 (0.87%) Adobe
14 26 (0.87%) Remedy
15 22 (0.73%) Juniper
16 21 (0.70%) Databricks
16 21 (0.70%) Talend
17 19 (0.63%) Broadcom
17 19 (0.63%) CA