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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,583 5,162 12,032
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.48% 21.63% 27.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.02% 24.13% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,913 3,800 8,722
10th Percentile £381 £409 £400
25th Percentile £450 £468 £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 38 122 138
10th Percentile £17.68 £35.00 £34.67
25th Percentile £23.75 £51.25 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +40.54% +2.78%
75th Percentile £61.13 £71.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.78 £75.68 £76.08
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £65.25 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.28% +28.52% +6.88%

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 12,905 21,393 39,952
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.33% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,691 15,182 29,112
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% +6.06%
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 575 497 515
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.50 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.88 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.50
90th Percentile £74.30 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 10 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 10 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
1 157 (6.08%) Confluence
2 152 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 151 (5.85%) Apache
4 43 (1.66%) CMS
5 39 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 39 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 24 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.62%) SAS
8 12 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.43%) nginx
10 9 (0.35%) CICS
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.19%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.15%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.12%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 54 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.46%) Trello
6 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.15%) Sketch
8 4 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.077%) 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 33 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
5 9 (0.35%) Maximo
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.27%) SAP CO
7 6 (0.23%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.19%) Shopify
9 4 (0.15%) Endur
9 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.12%) Primavera
10 3 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.077%) Aligne
11 2 (0.077%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 578 (22.38%) Azure
2 571 (22.11%) AWS
3 213 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
4 207 (8.01%) GCP
5 146 (5.65%) dbt
6 142 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 118 (4.57%) Snowflake
8 95 (3.68%) Serverless
9 91 (3.52%) SaaS
10 84 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
11 80 (3.10%) GitHub
12 57 (2.21%) Amazon S3
12 57 (2.21%) PaaS
13 56 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (2.13%) Entra ID
15 49 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
16 47 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 38 (1.47%) OpenShift
18 37 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
18 37 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.75%) Firewall
2 58 (2.25%) DNS
3 40 (1.55%) DHCP
4 36 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 33 (1.28%) VPN
6 21 (0.81%) HTTP
7 17 (0.66%) SAN
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 14 (0.54%) Internet
9 14 (0.54%) LAN
10 10 (0.39%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.35%) 4G
12 8 (0.31%) 3G
12 8 (0.31%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.27%) ATM
13 7 (0.27%) VoIP
13 7 (0.27%) Wireless
14 6 (0.23%) VLAN
15 5 (0.19%) IPsec
15 5 (0.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (5.85%) Data Lake
2 148 (5.73%) SQL Server
3 138 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
4 135 (5.23%) Dremio
5 133 (5.15%) Apache Arrow
6 131 (5.07%) Apache Ignite
7 108 (4.18%) Power BI
8 87 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
9 71 (2.75%) Relational Database
10 70 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
11 53 (2.05%) MySQL
12 52 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 45 (1.74%) Big Data
14 44 (1.70%) MongoDB
15 40 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
16 37 (1.43%) Tableau
17 33 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
18 21 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
18 21 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
19 20 (0.77%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 329 (12.74%) JIRA
2 175 (6.78%) Git
3 103 (3.99%) Jenkins
4 71 (2.75%) GitLab
5 52 (2.01%) Selenium
6 45 (1.74%) Postman
7 39 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 39 (1.51%) JMeter
8 29 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 25 (0.97%) JUnit
10 19 (0.74%) SpecFlow
10 19 (0.74%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.66%) TeamCity
12 15 (0.58%) TestRail
13 14 (0.54%) WebDriver
14 13 (0.50%) Appium
15 12 (0.46%) Artifactory
16 11 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 726 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 710 (27.49%) Finance
3 328 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 307 (11.89%) Banking
5 249 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
6 236 (9.14%) Front Office
7 157 (6.08%) Investment Banking
8 81 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (2.79%) Marketing
10 69 (2.67%) Retail
11 63 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 51 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 47 (1.82%) Back Office
15 41 (1.59%) Legal
16 32 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
18 28 (1.08%) Electronics
18 28 (1.08%) Publishing
19 23 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 535 (20.71%) Developer
2 400 (15.49%) Senior
3 326 (12.62%) Analyst
4 241 (9.33%) Architect
5 238 (9.21%) Project Manager
6 214 (8.28%) Business Analyst
7 213 (8.25%) Lead
8 166 (6.43%) Software Engineer
9 122 (4.72%) Consultant
10 107 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
11 105 (4.07%) Senior Developer
12 93 (3.60%) Java Developer
13 86 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
13 86 (3.33%) Software Developer
14 84 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
15 77 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
16 76 (2.94%) Senior Manager
17 71 (2.75%) Java Engineer
17 71 (2.75%) Python Engineer
18 65 (2.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (6.89%) .NET
2 173 (6.70%) React
3 136 (5.27%) gRPC
4 135 (5.23%) REST
5 134 (5.19%) Protocol Buffers
6 126 (4.88%) Pandas
7 124 (4.80%) NumPy
7 124 (4.80%) SciPy
8 118 (4.57%) HTML
9 116 (4.49%) CSS
10 105 (4.07%) XML
11 100 (3.87%) AngularJS
12 99 (3.83%) Node.js
13 84 (3.25%) Kafka
14 83 (3.21%) JSON
15 72 (2.79%) RESTful
16 67 (2.59%) Spring
17 63 (2.44%) Web Services
18 59 (2.28%) Spring Boot
19 50 (1.94%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 221 (8.56%) Product Ownership
2 186 (7.20%) Fixed Income
3 167 (6.47%) Derivative
4 162 (6.27%) Equities
5 157 (6.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 150 (5.81%) Hedge funds
7 56 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 51 (1.97%) Mobile App
8 51 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 50 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 47 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 38 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
12 37 (1.43%) Data Structures
13 36 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 34 (1.32%) PKI
15 31 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 31 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
16 30 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
17 25 (0.97%) Mainframe
18 20 (0.77%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 152 (5.88%) Linux
2 113 (4.37%) Windows
3 46 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 45 (1.74%) Unix
5 32 (1.24%) Android
6 23 (0.89%) zOS
7 21 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.35%) Debian
11 9 (0.35%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.31%) VMS
13 5 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.19%) Solaris
14 4 (0.15%) CentOS
14 4 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (23.19%) DevOps
2 513 (19.86%) Scrum
3 378 (14.63%) CI/CD
4 372 (14.40%) Software Engineering
5 354 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
6 339 (13.12%) Project Management
7 319 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 254 (9.83%) Analytics
9 238 (9.21%) Waterfall
10 231 (8.94%) Test Automation
11 210 (8.13%) Project Delivery
12 209 (8.09%) Asset Management
13 196 (7.59%) Roadmaps
14 176 (6.81%) User Stories
15 173 (6.70%) SDLC
16 172 (6.66%) User Experience
17 171 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 170 (6.58%) Microservices
19 162 (6.27%) Migration
20 159 (6.16%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 451 (17.46%) Python
2 381 (14.75%) Java
3 355 (13.74%) JavaScript
4 347 (13.43%) SQL
5 261 (10.10%) TypeScript
6 211 (8.17%) C#
7 119 (4.61%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.52%) Go
9 62 (2.40%) Bicep
10 52 (2.01%) Bash
11 51 (1.97%) Scala
12 43 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 29 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 27 (1.05%) Perl
14 27 (1.05%) VB
15 23 (0.89%) C++
16 22 (0.85%) REXX
16 22 (0.85%) VBScript
17 20 (0.77%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.74%) C
Qualifications
1 371 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 308 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 292 (11.30%) Degree
4 94 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 87 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 57 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 46 (1.78%) PMP
8 44 (1.70%) PMI Certification
9 41 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 33 (1.28%) ISTQB
11 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 17 (0.66%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.50%) CISSP
15 13 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (0.43%) AWS Certification
18 10 (0.39%) ISEB
19 9 (0.35%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.85%) QA
2 89 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 73 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.25%) PMO
5 32 (1.24%) GDPR
5 32 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 25 (0.97%) SLA
7 16 (0.62%) WCAG
8 15 (0.58%) NIST
9 13 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
10 12 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.27%) GxP
13 6 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.23%) MiFID
14 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
15 4 (0.15%) PSD2
15 4 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 155 (6.00%) Docker
2 90 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
7 10 (0.39%) NFS
8 8 (0.31%) vSphere
9 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 3 (0.12%) vCloud
11 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.077%) HDFS
12 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.039%) Firmware
13 1 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.039%) XenApp
13 1 (0.039%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 191 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 108 (4.18%) Terraform
3 83 (3.21%) Ansible
4 57 (2.21%) Grafana
5 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.01%) SCCM
6 24 (0.93%) Puppet
7 22 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.81%) SCOM
9 20 (0.77%) WSUS
10 17 (0.66%) Kibana
11 14 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (0.27%) Argo
12 7 (0.27%) Packer
13 6 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.23%) logstash
13 6 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 337 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 164 (6.35%) Oracle
3 120 (4.65%) SAP
4 67 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.44%) Google
6 54 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 49 (1.90%) Databricks
8 44 (1.70%) Splunk
9 43 (1.66%) VMware
10 42 (1.63%) IBM
11 36 (1.39%) Adobe
12 31 (1.20%) Cisco
13 24 (0.93%) Dell
14 22 (0.85%) Atlassian
15 19 (0.74%) Dynatrace
16 18 (0.70%) Red Hat
17 17 (0.66%) Bloomberg
18 16 (0.62%) CA
19 15 (0.58%) Informatica
19 15 (0.58%) Remedy