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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,975 4,566 7,459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.10% 20.10% 24.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.03% 22.56% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,948 3,409 5,338
10th Percentile £358 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +2.44% +9.04%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £590
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 209 172 162
10th Percentile £22.75 £40.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £45.88 £53.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.30 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £76.64
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
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 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
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 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -2 838 £550 - 484
North of England 0 698 £517 -6.00% 633
Scotland -2 485 £483 -0.16% 177
South West -4 459 £525 -9.40% 324
North West 0 395 £525 -2.33% 405
Midlands -5 317 £519 -1.14% 400
Yorkshire 0 261 £515 -6.41% 172
West Midlands -4 230 £550 +1.85% 263
East of England -10 153 £534 +1.71% 192
East Midlands -7 84 £445 -1.11% 135
North East +1 55 £533 -7.39% 61
Wales -1 50 £508 -10.57% 58
Northern Ireland +1 13 £600 +37.14% 41
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
1 209 (7.03%) Confluence
2 66 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.77%) Apache
4 23 (0.77%) SAS
5 22 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.71%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.64%) CMS
8 16 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) CICS
10 10 (0.34%) Drupal
11 9 (0.30%) nginx
12 8 (0.27%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.20%) IIS
14 5 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.13%) Appian
15 4 (0.13%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.13%) JBoss
15 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 94 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 27 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 24 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.27%) Simulink
7 8 (0.27%) Trello
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 6 (0.20%) SPSS
9 6 (0.20%) Stateflow
10 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
11 4 (0.13%) InVision
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.10%) CANalyzer
13 2 (0.067%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.067%) EngageOne
14 1 (0.034%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 26 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 21 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.54%) Maximo
4 16 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.50%) 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%) Misys Midas
12 4 (0.13%) Sage X3
12 4 (0.13%) SAP WM
13 3 (0.10%) Aareon QL
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
13 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 509 (17.11%) Azure
2 339 (11.39%) AWS
3 197 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
4 124 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 121 (4.07%) GitHub
6 110 (3.70%) Serverless
7 78 (2.62%) GCP
7 78 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
8 77 (2.59%) SaaS
9 66 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 64 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (1.82%) OpenShift
12 46 (1.55%) Entra ID
13 45 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
14 44 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 39 (1.31%) PaaS
16 38 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
17 37 (1.24%) IaaS
18 35 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
19 31 (1.04%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.90%) Firewall
2 84 (2.82%) VPN
3 77 (2.59%) DNS
4 51 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 49 (1.65%) DHCP
6 37 (1.24%) RS-485
7 36 (1.21%) Modbus
8 34 (1.14%) RS-422
9 32 (1.08%) LAN
10 29 (0.97%) WAN
11 27 (0.91%) HTTP
12 25 (0.84%) Network Security
13 21 (0.71%) Internet
14 20 (0.67%) SAN
15 19 (0.64%) SNMP
15 19 (0.64%) SSL
16 17 (0.57%) Software-Defined Radio
17 15 (0.50%) Ethernet
17 15 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
18 13 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (2.89%) MySQL
3 85 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 78 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 75 (2.52%) Power BI
6 64 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 60 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 34 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (0.97%) Big Data
11 27 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (0.77%) GIS
13 21 (0.71%) RDBMS
13 21 (0.71%) Tableau
14 20 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.61%) DB2
16 17 (0.57%) Data Lake
17 15 (0.50%) Couchbase
18 14 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 481 (16.17%) JIRA
2 245 (8.24%) Git
3 155 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 89 (2.99%) GitLab
5 71 (2.39%) Selenium
6 56 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 49 (1.65%) JUnit
8 45 (1.51%) Robot Framework
9 44 (1.48%) Visual Studio
10 41 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 40 (1.34%) Cucumber
12 39 (1.31%) GoogleTest
13 34 (1.14%) Postman
14 30 (1.01%) Eclipse
14 30 (1.01%) TestRail
15 28 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
16 27 (0.91%) JMeter
17 23 (0.77%) Maven
18 20 (0.67%) Subversion
19 16 (0.54%) MSI
General
1 838 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 480 (16.13%) Finance
3 427 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 371 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
6 100 (3.36%) Banking
7 88 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 83 (2.79%) Telecoms
9 80 (2.69%) Electronics
10 78 (2.62%) Manufacturing
11 61 (2.05%) Marketing
12 59 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
13 58 (1.95%) Military
14 49 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 46 (1.55%) Legal
16 45 (1.51%) Automotive
17 44 (1.48%) Retail
18 29 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
19 28 (0.94%) Aerospace
20 21 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 497 (16.71%) Developer
2 350 (11.76%) Architect
3 332 (11.16%) Analyst
4 308 (10.35%) Project Manager
5 307 (10.32%) Senior
6 214 (7.19%) Lead
7 177 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 157 (5.28%) Business Analyst
9 124 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 98 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
11 90 (3.03%) Senior Manager
12 83 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
13 82 (2.76%) Consultant
14 73 (2.45%) Full Stack Developer
15 72 (2.42%) Test Engineer
16 70 (2.35%) Technical Architect
17 68 (2.29%) C++ Software Engineer
18 65 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
19 57 (1.92%) IT Manager
20 54 (1.82%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (5.41%) React
2 151 (5.08%) REST
3 146 (4.91%) .NET
4 135 (4.54%) HTML
5 132 (4.44%) CSS
6 127 (4.27%) Spring
7 100 (3.36%) Node.js
8 98 (3.29%) Spring Boot
9 85 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 84 (2.82%) XML
11 78 (2.62%) Kafka
12 73 (2.45%) RESTful
13 71 (2.39%) JSON
14 69 (2.32%) Web Services
15 48 (1.61%) .NET Framework
15 48 (1.61%) AWS CDK
16 39 (1.31%) JPA
17 36 (1.21%) SOAP
18 35 (1.18%) Middleware
19 33 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 228 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 90 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 79 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
4 76 (2.55%) PKI
5 60 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 51 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 44 (1.48%) Cloud Native
7 44 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 43 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 40 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 33 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 28 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
14 25 (0.84%) Mainframe
15 21 (0.71%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.67%) Client/Server
17 19 (0.64%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 288 (9.68%) Linux
2 244 (8.20%) Windows
3 126 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 68 (2.29%) Unix
5 50 (1.68%) Android
6 46 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 38 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 36 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.94%) zOS
10 21 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (0.57%) Ubuntu
13 14 (0.47%) Debian
14 10 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.30%) Windows 10
16 8 (0.27%) VMS
17 7 (0.24%) Mac OS X
18 5 (0.17%) CentOS
18 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
18 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (22.55%) DevOps
2 626 (21.04%) Scrum
3 511 (17.18%) Project Management
4 425 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 407 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 400 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
7 395 (13.28%) Software Engineering
8 328 (11.03%) Waterfall
9 306 (10.29%) Test Automation
10 281 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 262 (8.81%) Project Delivery
12 219 (7.36%) Roadmaps
13 214 (7.19%) Continuous Integration
14 210 (7.06%) PRINCE2
15 203 (6.82%) SDLC
16 196 (6.59%) ITIL
17 192 (6.45%) Microservices
18 188 (6.32%) Migration
19 185 (6.22%) Analytics
20 180 (6.05%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 385 (12.94%) Java
2 365 (12.27%) Python
3 322 (10.82%) SQL
4 240 (8.07%) JavaScript
5 228 (7.66%) C#
6 154 (5.18%) C++
7 152 (5.11%) PowerShell
8 126 (4.24%) TypeScript
9 116 (3.90%) C
10 66 (2.22%) Bash
11 50 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 42 (1.41%) VBScript
13 36 (1.21%) PHP
14 35 (1.18%) Scala
15 33 (1.11%) Shell Script
16 31 (1.04%) Bicep
17 30 (1.01%) VB
18 24 (0.81%) REXX
19 22 (0.74%) Perl
20 19 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 773 (25.98%) Security Cleared
2 468 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 324 (10.89%) Degree
4 302 (10.15%) DV Cleared
5 56 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 45 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 44 (1.48%) PMP
9 43 (1.45%) ISTQB
10 39 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 28 (0.94%) APMP
13 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 24 (0.81%) MCSE
15 24 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 21 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 21 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 18 (0.61%) MCSA
18 13 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (6.39%) QA
2 98 (3.29%) PMO
3 83 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 36 (1.21%) MISRA
5 33 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
6 32 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 32 (1.08%) SLA
7 21 (0.71%) NIST
8 18 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 15 (0.50%) GDPR
11 14 (0.47%) MISRA C
11 14 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.30%) GRC
12 9 (0.30%) WCAG
13 8 (0.27%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.24%) RMADS
15 5 (0.17%) GxP
15 5 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 150 (5.04%) Docker
2 109 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 96 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.84%) vSphere
6 24 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 23 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (0.74%) Firmware
9 14 (0.47%) NFS
9 14 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
10 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (0.10%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.034%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 163 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 130 (4.37%) Ansible
3 122 (4.10%) Terraform
4 97 (3.26%) Grafana
5 42 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.28%) SCCM
7 33 (1.11%) Kibana
8 27 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (0.84%) SCOM
10 22 (0.74%) WSUS
11 18 (0.61%) Puppet
12 17 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (0.57%) WMI
13 16 (0.54%) Progress Chef
14 15 (0.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 14 (0.47%) Argo
16 13 (0.44%) logstash
16 13 (0.44%) vRealize
17 11 (0.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 388 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.08%) Oracle
3 142 (4.77%) SAP
4 128 (4.30%) VMware
5 83 (2.79%) Google
6 74 (2.49%) Atlassian
7 59 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 44 (1.48%) IBM
10 40 (1.34%) Cisco
11 30 (1.01%) Splunk
12 28 (0.94%) Talend
13 27 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 26 (0.87%) Dell
15 25 (0.84%) Juniper
16 22 (0.74%) Adobe
16 22 (0.74%) Denodo
16 22 (0.74%) Remedy
17 20 (0.67%) Cadence
18 19 (0.64%) CA