Agile Contracts in England

Agile Software Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 6,138 10,435 19,208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 16.62% 21.86% 27.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.40% 24.29% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,291 7,625 13,803
10th Percentile £380 £413 £406
25th Percentile £456 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £653
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 217 207 226
10th Percentile £24.10 £36.50 £31.25
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £61.06 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.11 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £78.00 £75.42
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
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 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 2 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 2 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 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
London -1 3,553 £575 -4.17% 1,510
South East -2 837 £550 - 565
North of England 0 691 £517 -6.00% 661
South West -4 452 £528 -9.05% 344
North West 0 394 £525 -2.33% 428
Midlands -3 312 £525 +2.44% 446
Yorkshire -1 262 £513 -6.82% 168
West Midlands -3 231 £550 +1.85% 303
East of England -10 154 £500 -4.76% 197
East Midlands -8 78 £445 -3.78% 142
North East +1 48 £554 -3.70% 68
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
1 333 (5.43%) Confluence
2 253 (4.12%) Apache
3 235 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 137 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 76 (1.24%) CMS
5 76 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 60 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.55%) SAS
8 29 (0.47%) nginx
9 27 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 21 (0.34%) IIS
11 20 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 15 (0.24%) Drupal
13 13 (0.21%) CICS
13 13 (0.21%) Headless CMS
14 10 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 9 (0.15%) Appian
15 9 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
15 9 (0.15%) MTS
16 7 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 126 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 125 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 89 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 36 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.24%) Sketch
7 13 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.16%) Trello
9 8 (0.13%) Simulink
9 8 (0.13%) SPSS
10 7 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 6 (0.098%) Stateflow
12 5 (0.081%) InVision
12 5 (0.081%) TargetLink
13 4 (0.065%) UserZoom
14 3 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 3 (0.049%) CANalyzer
14 3 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
14 3 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 77 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 24 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 23 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 22 (0.36%) Endur
7 17 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (0.24%) Shopify
9 14 (0.23%) ION MarketView
9 14 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
10 13 (0.21%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.15%) Aligne
11 9 (0.15%) EuroRunner
11 9 (0.15%) Primavera
12 8 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 8 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
12 8 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 7 (0.11%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 1,392 (22.68%) Azure
2 1,048 (17.07%) AWS
3 500 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
4 432 (7.04%) GCP
5 313 (5.10%) Power Platform
6 216 (3.52%) GitHub
7 189 (3.08%) Serverless
8 160 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 154 (2.51%) SaaS
10 143 (2.33%) Entra ID
11 142 (2.31%) dbt
11 142 (2.31%) Snowflake
12 110 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 105 (1.71%) PaaS
14 104 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 93 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
15 93 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
16 82 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
17 78 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 77 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 150 (2.44%) Firewall
2 105 (1.71%) DNS
3 95 (1.55%) VPN
4 72 (1.17%) HTTP
5 68 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 66 (1.08%) DHCP
7 44 (0.72%) LAN
8 42 (0.68%) Internet
9 39 (0.64%) WAN
10 36 (0.59%) RS-485
11 34 (0.55%) Modbus
11 34 (0.55%) RS-422
12 28 (0.46%) Network Security
12 28 (0.46%) SAN
13 24 (0.39%) SNMP
14 20 (0.33%) BGP
15 18 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
16 16 (0.26%) Ethernet
16 16 (0.26%) Software-Defined Radio
16 16 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 251 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
3 248 (4.04%) Power BI
4 197 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 196 (3.19%) Apache Ignite
6 176 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 161 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 143 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
9 141 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
10 133 (2.17%) Dremio
11 131 (2.13%) Apache Arrow
12 117 (1.91%) MongoDB
13 107 (1.74%) MySQL
14 105 (1.71%) Big Data
15 91 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
16 83 (1.35%) Tableau
17 63 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
18 52 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
19 51 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
20 43 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 752 (12.25%) JIRA
2 515 (8.39%) Git
3 296 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 158 (2.57%) Selenium
5 149 (2.43%) GitLab
6 133 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 121 (1.97%) Postman
8 86 (1.40%) JUnit
9 85 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 84 (1.37%) Visual Studio
11 77 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 55 (0.90%) JMeter
13 51 (0.83%) SpecFlow
14 50 (0.81%) Robot Framework
15 48 (0.78%) TeamCity
16 44 (0.72%) Maven
17 39 (0.64%) TestRail
17 39 (0.64%) WebDriver
18 38 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
19 35 (0.57%) Appium
General
1 1,723 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 1,544 (25.15%) Finance
3 727 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 647 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 643 (10.48%) Banking
6 452 (7.36%) Front Office
7 239 (3.89%) Investment Banking
8 200 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
9 171 (2.79%) Retail
10 162 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
11 161 (2.62%) Marketing
12 135 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 133 (2.17%) Back Office
14 124 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 103 (1.68%) Manufacturing
16 97 (1.58%) Legal
17 84 (1.37%) Electronics
18 75 (1.22%) Military
19 71 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
20 57 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,377 (22.43%) Developer
2 870 (14.17%) Senior
3 689 (11.23%) Analyst
4 644 (10.49%) Architect
5 560 (9.12%) Project Manager
6 471 (7.67%) Lead
7 435 (7.09%) Software Engineer
8 422 (6.88%) Business Analyst
9 255 (4.15%) Senior Developer
10 240 (3.91%) Java Developer
11 237 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 186 (3.03%) Full Stack Developer
13 185 (3.01%) Python Developer
14 173 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
15 167 (2.72%) Consultant
16 155 (2.53%) React Developer
17 153 (2.49%) Senior Manager
17 153 (2.49%) Software Developer
18 146 (2.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 140 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (7.95%) .NET
2 461 (7.51%) React
3 285 (4.64%) HTML
4 283 (4.61%) REST
5 277 (4.51%) CSS
6 243 (3.96%) Kafka
7 239 (3.89%) AngularJS
8 236 (3.84%) XML
9 224 (3.65%) Node.js
10 212 (3.45%) gRPC
11 198 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
12 188 (3.06%) Spring
13 173 (2.82%) .NET Core
14 167 (2.72%) Web Services
15 161 (2.62%) JSON
15 161 (2.62%) RESTful
16 160 (2.61%) Redux
17 141 (2.30%) Pandas
18 137 (2.23%) .NET Framework
18 137 (2.23%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 579 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 327 (5.33%) Fixed Income
3 279 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 261 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 247 (4.02%) Derivative
6 235 (3.83%) Equities
7 137 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 133 (2.17%) Mobile App
9 129 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 124 (2.02%) Onboarding
11 116 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 97 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 88 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
14 86 (1.40%) PKI
15 81 (1.32%) Data Centre
16 79 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
17 73 (1.19%) Algorithms
18 71 (1.16%) Cloud Native
19 66 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
20 55 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 427 (6.96%) Linux
2 298 (4.86%) Windows
3 140 (2.28%) Unix
4 139 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 96 (1.56%) Android
6 76 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 47 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 37 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 33 (0.54%) zOS
10 24 (0.39%) Mac OS X
11 22 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (0.33%) Windows 10
12 20 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 19 (0.31%) CentOS
14 18 (0.29%) VMS
15 15 (0.24%) Debian
16 13 (0.21%) Ubuntu
17 6 (0.098%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.081%) Oracle Linux
18 5 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,467 (23.90%) DevOps
2 1,320 (21.51%) Scrum
3 918 (14.96%) CI/CD
4 880 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
5 864 (14.08%) Software Engineering
6 859 (13.99%) Project Management
7 722 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 585 (9.53%) Test Automation
9 568 (9.25%) Waterfall
10 501 (8.16%) TDD
11 498 (8.11%) Project Delivery
12 482 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 459 (7.48%) Analytics
14 458 (7.46%) Microservices
15 440 (7.17%) Roadmaps
16 432 (7.04%) Continuous Integration
17 429 (6.99%) SDLC
18 410 (6.68%) Migration
19 363 (5.91%) Kanban
20 360 (5.87%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 994 (16.19%) Python
2 860 (14.01%) Java
3 828 (13.49%) SQL
4 715 (11.65%) JavaScript
5 627 (10.22%) C#
6 500 (8.15%) TypeScript
7 367 (5.98%) PowerShell
8 191 (3.11%) C++
9 141 (2.30%) C
10 124 (2.02%) Bicep
11 117 (1.91%) Go
12 114 (1.86%) Scala
13 98 (1.60%) Bash
14 67 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 65 (1.06%) PL/SQL
16 62 (1.01%) Kotlin
17 50 (0.81%) Perl
18 44 (0.72%) T-SQL
19 40 (0.65%) VBScript
20 39 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,157 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 786 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 661 (10.77%) Degree
4 371 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 181 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 119 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 104 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 101 (1.65%) PMP
9 66 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 63 (1.03%) ISTQB
11 43 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (0.64%) Azure Certification
13 36 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 35 (0.57%) APMP
14 35 (0.57%) CISSP
15 34 (0.55%) AWS Certification
16 32 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 30 (0.49%) CISM
18 29 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 26 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (6.19%) QA
2 172 (2.80%) PMO
3 157 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 135 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 61 (0.99%) SLA
7 51 (0.83%) GDPR
8 41 (0.67%) NIST
9 34 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 33 (0.54%) WCAG
11 25 (0.41%) MISRA
12 16 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 15 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.21%) GRC
15 12 (0.20%) ISO 20022
16 11 (0.18%) HIPAA
16 11 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
17 10 (0.16%) GxP
17 10 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 397 (6.47%) Docker
2 252 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 111 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 27 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 22 (0.36%) vSphere
7 21 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
8 20 (0.33%) NFS
9 18 (0.29%) Firmware
10 8 (0.13%) HDFS
11 7 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.098%) VirtualBox
13 4 (0.065%) XenApp
14 3 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.033%) LXC
Systems Management
1 456 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 272 (4.43%) Terraform
3 227 (3.70%) Ansible
4 105 (1.71%) Grafana
5 80 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.04%) Puppet
7 48 (0.78%) Kibana
8 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.54%) SCCM
9 30 (0.49%) logstash
10 29 (0.47%) SCOM
10 29 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 26 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 25 (0.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 22 (0.36%) WSUS
15 17 (0.28%) Packer
15 17 (0.28%) WMI
16 15 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 866 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 276 (4.50%) Oracle
3 259 (4.22%) SAP
4 215 (3.50%) Google
5 164 (2.67%) VMware
6 136 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 133 (2.17%) Salesforce
8 86 (1.40%) Databricks
9 81 (1.32%) Adobe
10 75 (1.22%) Splunk
11 73 (1.19%) Cisco
12 72 (1.17%) IBM
13 71 (1.16%) Atlassian
14 50 (0.81%) Dell
15 38 (0.62%) Juniper
15 38 (0.62%) Red Hat
16 36 (0.59%) Informatica
17 33 (0.54%) Bloomberg
18 31 (0.51%) ION Trading
19 29 (0.47%) Virgin Media