Agile Delivery Lead Contracts

Agile Delivery Leader
UK

The median Agile Delivery Leader daily rate in the UK is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 647 791
Rank change year-on-year +106 +144 -104
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Delivery Lead 30 40 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.070% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.074% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 41
10th Percentile £500 £525 £515
25th Percentile £525 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £641 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% -1.46% +21.78%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile - - £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.37% +8.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Agile Delivery Lead
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Agile Delivery Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Delivery Lead in the UK

Agile Delivery Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Delivery Lead in the UK

Agile Delivery Lead
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Delivery Lead over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Delivery Lead in the UK

Agile Delivery Lead
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Delivery Lead within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +95 20 £613 -2.93% 2
London +87 14 £700 -
Work from Home +100 13 £550 -21.43%
UK excluding London +62 11 £563 -2.17% 2
Scotland +45 5 £450 -
North of England +33 3 £550 - 1
South East +33 2 £575 -2.13% 1
North West +22 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire +14 1 £595 +5.78%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Agile Delivery Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Agile Delivery Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Agile Delivery Lead in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Scrum
3 8 (26.67%) Project Management
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.00%) Kanban
4 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (16.67%) AWS
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Azure
6 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.33%) Software Delivery
6 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (13.33%) JIRA
6 4 (13.33%) Finance
6 4 (13.33%) Snowflake
7 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
7 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (10.00%) Objectives and Key Results
7 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 3 (10.00%) Supplier Management
7 3 (10.00%) QA
7 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) SDLC
8 2 (6.67%) Records Management
8 2 (6.67%) Service Design
8 2 (6.67%) Co-Creation
8 2 (6.67%) Change Control
8 2 (6.67%) Android

Agile Delivery Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Snowflake
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Asana
4 2 (6.67%) Miro
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) ADO
1 2 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Android
1 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Scrum
3 8 (26.67%) Project Management
3 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (20.00%) Kanban
4 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (13.33%) Software Delivery
7 3 (10.00%) Objectives and Key Results
7 3 (10.00%) SDLC
7 3 (10.00%) Supplier Management
8 2 (6.67%) Business Transformation
8 2 (6.67%) Change Control
8 2 (6.67%) Lean Six Sigma
8 2 (6.67%) Performance Management
8 2 (6.67%) Usability Testing
8 2 (6.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Java
1 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) GRC
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (3.33%) UiPath