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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,969 4,647 7,458
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.24% 20.28% 24.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.11% 22.74% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,953 3,472 5,346
10th Percentile £357 £388 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +8.91%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 168 160
10th Percentile £22.75 £39.25 £31.50
25th Percentile £45.88 £53.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.75 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.30 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £76.68
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.31% +28.03% +11.58%

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 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
South East -2 837 £550 - 569
North of England 0 691 £517 -6.00% 662
Scotland -2 502 £475 -1.04% 199
South West -4 452 £528 -9.05% 351
North West 0 394 £525 -2.33% 429
Midlands -3 312 £525 +2.44% 444
Yorkshire -1 262 £513 -6.82% 169
West Midlands -3 231 £550 +1.85% 299
East of England -10 154 £500 -4.76% 200
East Midlands -8 78 £445 -3.78% 144
Wales -2 49 £508 -10.96% 62
North East +1 48 £554 -3.70% 67
Northern Ireland +3 13 £600 +37.14% 44
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
1 206 (6.94%) Confluence
2 67 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 61 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (0.84%) Apache
5 22 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.64%) SAS
8 18 (0.61%) CMS
9 16 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.40%) CICS
11 11 (0.37%) nginx
12 10 (0.34%) Drupal
13 9 (0.30%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.20%) IIS
15 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.17%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.13%) Appian
16 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.13%) JBoss
16 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 92 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 29 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 28 (0.94%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.27%) Simulink
8 6 (0.20%) Sketch
8 6 (0.20%) SPSS
8 6 (0.20%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
9 5 (0.17%) Trello
10 4 (0.13%) InVision
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.034%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 25 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 20 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.54%) Maximo
4 16 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
7 10 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
9 7 (0.24%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.20%) Primavera
11 5 (0.17%) SAP SD
12 4 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
12 4 (0.13%) Sage X3
12 4 (0.13%) SAP WM
13 3 (0.10%) Aareon QL
13 3 (0.10%) Misys Midas
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 512 (17.24%) Azure
2 344 (11.59%) AWS
3 194 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
4 126 (4.24%) Power Platform
5 116 (3.91%) GitHub
6 108 (3.64%) Serverless
7 80 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
8 79 (2.66%) GCP
9 76 (2.56%) SaaS
10 64 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 64 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
11 51 (1.72%) OpenShift
12 46 (1.55%) Entra ID
13 44 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
14 43 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (1.35%) PaaS
16 38 (1.28%) IaaS
17 37 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
18 34 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
19 31 (1.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 120 (4.04%) Firewall
2 85 (2.86%) VPN
3 80 (2.69%) DNS
4 54 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 51 (1.72%) DHCP
6 36 (1.21%) Modbus
6 36 (1.21%) RS-485
7 34 (1.15%) RS-422
8 33 (1.11%) LAN
9 30 (1.01%) WAN
10 27 (0.91%) HTTP
11 26 (0.88%) Network Security
12 21 (0.71%) Internet
12 21 (0.71%) SAN
13 20 (0.67%) SSL
14 18 (0.61%) SNMP
15 16 (0.54%) Software-Defined Radio
16 15 (0.51%) Ethernet
16 15 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
16 15 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 80 (2.69%) Relational Database
4 79 (2.66%) MySQL
5 77 (2.59%) Power BI
6 65 (2.19%) NoSQL
7 58 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 31 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (0.94%) Big Data
10 27 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
12 24 (0.81%) GIS
13 22 (0.74%) RDBMS
14 21 (0.71%) DB2
15 20 (0.67%) Tableau
16 19 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
17 17 (0.57%) Data Lake
18 16 (0.54%) Oracle Database
19 15 (0.51%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 475 (16.00%) JIRA
2 239 (8.05%) Git
3 158 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 91 (3.07%) GitLab
5 68 (2.29%) Selenium
6 56 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 49 (1.65%) JUnit
8 45 (1.52%) Visual Studio
9 44 (1.48%) Robot Framework
10 42 (1.41%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.31%) Cypress.io
12 37 (1.25%) Postman
13 32 (1.08%) GoogleTest
14 31 (1.04%) TestRail
15 29 (0.98%) Eclipse
16 27 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
17 25 (0.84%) JMeter
18 21 (0.71%) Maven
19 20 (0.67%) Subversion
20 16 (0.54%) MSI
General
1 841 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 490 (16.50%) Finance
3 426 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 366 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
6 97 (3.27%) Banking
7 88 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 78 (2.63%) Electronics
10 76 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 62 (2.09%) Marketing
12 60 (2.02%) Military
13 59 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 52 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 49 (1.65%) Legal
16 44 (1.48%) Automotive
17 43 (1.45%) Retail
18 28 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 28 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 498 (16.77%) Developer
2 347 (11.69%) Architect
3 333 (11.22%) Analyst
4 309 (10.41%) Project Manager
5 306 (10.31%) Senior
6 215 (7.24%) Lead
7 164 (5.52%) Software Engineer
8 159 (5.36%) Business Analyst
9 120 (4.04%) Java Developer
10 97 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
11 89 (3.00%) Senior Manager
12 86 (2.90%) Consultant
13 79 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
14 76 (2.56%) Full Stack Developer
15 74 (2.49%) Test Engineer
16 70 (2.36%) Technical Architect
17 67 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
18 64 (2.16%) C++ Software Engineer
19 55 (1.85%) IT Manager
20 52 (1.75%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (5.52%) React
2 153 (5.15%) REST
3 146 (4.92%) .NET
4 138 (4.65%) Spring
5 131 (4.41%) HTML
6 130 (4.38%) CSS
7 102 (3.44%) Spring Boot
8 100 (3.37%) Node.js
9 91 (3.07%) AngularJS
10 82 (2.76%) Kafka
11 80 (2.69%) XML
12 73 (2.46%) RESTful
13 71 (2.39%) JSON
14 68 (2.29%) Web Services
15 47 (1.58%) .NET Framework
15 47 (1.58%) AWS CDK
16 40 (1.35%) JPA
17 36 (1.21%) SOAP
17 36 (1.21%) YAML
18 33 (1.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 94 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 80 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (2.63%) PKI
5 62 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 50 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 46 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 45 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 43 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 41 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.11%) Onboarding
14 27 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (0.84%) Mainframe
16 22 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
17 21 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 20 (0.67%) Algorithms
18 20 (0.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 290 (9.77%) Linux
2 243 (8.18%) Windows
3 126 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 67 (2.26%) Unix
5 50 (1.68%) Android
6 46 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 37 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 36 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 29 (0.98%) zOS
10 21 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 18 (0.61%) Ubuntu
13 15 (0.51%) Debian
14 11 (0.37%) Windows 10
15 10 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
16 8 (0.27%) VMS
17 7 (0.24%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.20%) CentOS
19 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
19 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (22.53%) DevOps
2 613 (20.65%) Scrum
3 519 (17.48%) Project Management
4 417 (14.05%) CI/CD
5 411 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 402 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
7 375 (12.63%) Software Engineering
8 337 (11.35%) Waterfall
9 299 (10.07%) Test Automation
10 277 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 257 (8.66%) Project Delivery
12 220 (7.41%) Roadmaps
13 211 (7.11%) PRINCE2
14 205 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
15 203 (6.84%) SDLC
16 196 (6.60%) Microservices
17 195 (6.57%) ITIL
18 185 (6.23%) Migration
19 184 (6.20%) User Stories
20 178 (6.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 380 (12.80%) Java
2 371 (12.50%) Python
3 319 (10.74%) SQL
4 240 (8.08%) JavaScript
5 223 (7.51%) C#
6 151 (5.09%) PowerShell
7 147 (4.95%) C++
8 124 (4.18%) C
9 122 (4.11%) TypeScript
10 66 (2.22%) Bash
11 49 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 42 (1.41%) VBScript
13 36 (1.21%) PHP
14 34 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.11%) Scala
16 30 (1.01%) Bicep
17 29 (0.98%) VB
18 25 (0.84%) REXX
19 23 (0.77%) Perl
20 19 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 780 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 480 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 322 (10.85%) Degree
4 300 (10.10%) DV Cleared
5 51 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (1.48%) ISTQB
6 44 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 43 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 41 (1.38%) PMP
9 40 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 28 (0.94%) APMP
11 28 (0.94%) MCSE
12 25 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 24 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 21 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 20 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (0.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (6.43%) QA
2 100 (3.37%) PMO
3 82 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 39 (1.31%) SLA
5 35 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 31 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 29 (0.98%) MISRA
8 24 (0.81%) NIST
9 18 (0.61%) GDPR
9 18 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 16 (0.54%) ISO 9001
11 14 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.44%) MISRA C
13 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.27%) WCAG
15 7 (0.24%) GRC
15 7 (0.24%) NCSC
15 7 (0.24%) RMADS
16 5 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 156 (5.25%) Docker
2 111 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 99 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 24 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (0.81%) vSphere
7 23 (0.77%) Firmware
8 17 (0.57%) NFS
8 17 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
9 9 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.067%) LXC
13 2 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.034%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 164 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 129 (4.34%) Ansible
3 119 (4.01%) Terraform
4 86 (2.90%) Grafana
5 42 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.35%) SCCM
7 35 (1.18%) Kibana
8 28 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.88%) SCOM
11 22 (0.74%) WSUS
12 20 (0.67%) Puppet
13 19 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 17 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 17 (0.57%) WMI
15 16 (0.54%) Progress Chef
16 14 (0.47%) Argo
17 12 (0.40%) Istio
17 12 (0.40%) logstash
17 12 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 394 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.09%) Oracle
3 139 (4.68%) SAP
4 135 (4.55%) VMware
5 76 (2.56%) Google
6 70 (2.36%) Atlassian
7 61 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 49 (1.65%) IBM
10 41 (1.38%) Cisco
11 31 (1.04%) Dell
12 29 (0.98%) Splunk
13 26 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 25 (0.84%) Juniper
15 23 (0.77%) Adobe
15 23 (0.77%) Remedy
16 21 (0.71%) Talend
17 19 (0.64%) Broadcom
17 19 (0.64%) CA
18 18 (0.61%) Cadence