Agile Software Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 7,117 12,660 23,703
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 16.71% 22.26% 27.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.39% 24.80% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,934 9,185 16,921
10th Percentile £375 £413 £403
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 232 251
10th Percentile £22.33 £35.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £42.50 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +29.01% +12.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.90 £80.00 £75.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.92% +18.18% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the UK

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the UK

Agile
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 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 -2 6,080 £550 -4.35% 3,611
London -1 3,499 £575 -4.17% 1,363
UK excluding London 0 2,961 £525 - 2,554
Work from Home -3 2,584 £540 -1.82% 2,137
South East -1 822 £550 - 644
North of England -1 692 £525 -4.55% 655
Scotland -2 500 £488 +0.26% 172
South West -3 443 £525 -8.70% 353
North West -1 398 £525 - 394
Midlands -5 327 £525 +3.96% 445
Yorkshire -2 264 £515 -6.41% 183
West Midlands -1 248 £550 +2.23% 298
East of England -4 156 £500 -4.76% 199
East Midlands -8 76 £450 -2.70% 145
Wales -2 50 £508 -8.97% 92
North East -1 43 £533 -7.39% 82
Northern Ireland +3 13 £600 +33.33% 38

Agile
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
1 426 (5.99%) Confluence
2 236 (3.32%) Apache
3 219 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 152 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 85 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 82 (1.15%) CMS
7 70 (0.98%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.48%) SAS
9 30 (0.42%) nginx
10 29 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 21 (0.30%) IIS
11 21 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 16 (0.22%) CICS
12 16 (0.22%) Drupal
13 12 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
13 12 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 11 (0.15%) MTS
15 10 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 10 (0.14%) JBoss
16 8 (0.11%) Appian
Applications
1 151 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 151 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 102 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
3 75 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 38 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 27 (0.38%) Sketch
7 20 (0.28%) Adobe XD
8 18 (0.25%) Trello
9 13 (0.18%) InVision
10 12 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 10 (0.14%) UserZoom
12 8 (0.11%) Simulink
13 7 (0.098%) SPSS
14 6 (0.084%) Stateflow
15 5 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 5 (0.070%) TargetLink
16 4 (0.056%) CPLEX
17 3 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
17 3 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 82 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 63 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 30 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 26 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 26 (0.37%) Endur
5 23 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 20 (0.28%) Shopify
7 17 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 17 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 14 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 14 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
9 13 (0.18%) Maximo
10 12 (0.17%) ION MarketView
11 11 (0.15%) Aligne
11 11 (0.15%) EuroRunner
12 10 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
13 9 (0.13%) Loan IQ
13 9 (0.13%) Primavera
13 9 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,578 (22.17%) Azure
2 1,255 (17.63%) AWS
3 574 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
4 456 (6.41%) GCP
5 356 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 261 (3.67%) GitHub
7 256 (3.60%) Serverless
8 187 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 174 (2.44%) SaaS
10 142 (2.00%) Entra ID
11 139 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 128 (1.80%) Snowflake
13 126 (1.77%) dbt
14 124 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 118 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 117 (1.64%) PaaS
17 111 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
18 108 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
19 92 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
20 91 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 168 (2.36%) Firewall
2 114 (1.60%) DNS
3 105 (1.48%) VPN
4 78 (1.10%) HTTP
5 77 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 67 (0.94%) DHCP
7 50 (0.70%) Internet
8 45 (0.63%) LAN
9 37 (0.52%) Modbus
9 37 (0.52%) RS-485
9 37 (0.52%) WAN
10 35 (0.49%) RS-422
11 34 (0.48%) Network Security
12 32 (0.45%) SAN
13 27 (0.38%) SSL
14 23 (0.32%) SNMP
15 21 (0.30%) BGP
16 20 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
17 18 (0.25%) VSAN
18 17 (0.24%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 440 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 308 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
3 270 (3.79%) Power BI
4 199 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 188 (2.64%) Data Lake
6 179 (2.52%) NoSQL
7 176 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
8 173 (2.43%) Apache Ignite
9 154 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 133 (1.87%) MySQL
11 127 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
12 110 (1.55%) Apache Arrow
12 110 (1.55%) Dremio
13 106 (1.49%) Big Data
14 89 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
15 77 (1.08%) Tableau
16 70 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
18 53 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
19 47 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 953 (13.39%) JIRA
2 589 (8.28%) Git
3 344 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 210 (2.95%) GitLab
5 163 (2.29%) Selenium
6 156 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 137 (1.92%) Postman
8 100 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 91 (1.28%) JUnit
10 89 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 75 (1.05%) Bitbucket
12 58 (0.81%) JMeter
12 58 (0.81%) TeamCity
13 55 (0.77%) Maven
14 53 (0.74%) Robot Framework
14 53 (0.74%) SpecFlow
15 48 (0.67%) WebDriver
16 46 (0.65%) TestRail
17 42 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
18 38 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 2,041 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 1,650 (23.18%) Finance
3 865 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 853 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 663 (9.32%) Banking
6 432 (6.07%) Front Office
7 231 (3.25%) Investment Banking
8 227 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
9 187 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 186 (2.61%) Retail
11 180 (2.53%) Marketing
12 163 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 142 (2.00%) Telecoms
14 138 (1.94%) Back Office
15 114 (1.60%) Legal
15 114 (1.60%) Manufacturing
16 105 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
17 97 (1.36%) Electronics
18 73 (1.03%) Military
19 64 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,557 (21.88%) Developer
2 947 (13.31%) Senior
3 804 (11.30%) Analyst
4 705 (9.91%) Architect
5 646 (9.08%) Project Manager
6 551 (7.74%) Lead
7 494 (6.94%) Business Analyst
8 451 (6.34%) Software Engineer
9 288 (4.05%) Java Developer
10 276 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
11 269 (3.78%) Senior Developer
12 219 (3.08%) Full Stack Developer
13 217 (3.05%) Consultant
14 205 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
15 194 (2.73%) Python Developer
16 174 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
17 167 (2.35%) Senior Manager
18 159 (2.23%) Software Developer
19 156 (2.19%) React Developer
20 154 (2.16%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (7.55%) .NET
2 532 (7.48%) React
3 345 (4.85%) REST
4 335 (4.71%) CSS
5 333 (4.68%) HTML
6 280 (3.93%) AngularJS
7 268 (3.77%) Node.js
8 263 (3.70%) Kafka
9 258 (3.63%) XML
10 248 (3.48%) Spring
11 205 (2.88%) RESTful
12 196 (2.75%) JSON
13 189 (2.66%) Web Services
14 188 (2.64%) gRPC
15 185 (2.60%) .NET Core
16 175 (2.46%) Protocol Buffers
16 175 (2.46%) Spring Boot
17 163 (2.29%) Redux
18 147 (2.07%) .NET Framework
19 130 (1.83%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 676 (9.50%) Product Ownership
2 309 (4.34%) Fixed Income
3 256 (3.60%) Hedge funds
4 240 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 233 (3.27%) Derivative
6 219 (3.08%) Equities
7 173 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 140 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 139 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 137 (1.92%) Mobile App
11 134 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 112 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 111 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
14 97 (1.36%) Data Centre
14 97 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 95 (1.33%) Cloud Native
16 87 (1.22%) PKI
17 80 (1.12%) Algorithms
17 80 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
18 74 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 486 (6.83%) Linux
2 340 (4.78%) Windows
3 163 (2.29%) Unix
4 142 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 102 (1.43%) Android
6 84 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 58 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (0.55%) zOS
9 32 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (0.32%) Mac OS X
10 23 (0.32%) Windows 10
11 22 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.28%) VMS
13 19 (0.27%) CentOS
13 19 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 19 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (0.24%) Debian
15 10 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
16 7 (0.098%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,690 (23.75%) DevOps
2 1,539 (21.62%) Scrum
3 1,089 (15.30%) CI/CD
4 1,048 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
5 1,033 (14.51%) Project Management
6 932 (13.10%) Software Engineering
7 815 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 691 (9.71%) Test Automation
9 665 (9.34%) Waterfall
10 596 (8.37%) Project Delivery
11 547 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 547 (7.69%) Roadmaps
12 544 (7.64%) Microservices
13 531 (7.46%) TDD
14 513 (7.21%) Analytics
15 502 (7.05%) SDLC
16 500 (7.03%) Continuous Integration
17 469 (6.59%) Migration
18 434 (6.10%) Kanban
19 427 (6.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (15.55%) Python
2 985 (13.84%) SQL
3 940 (13.21%) Java
4 775 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 676 (9.50%) C#
6 563 (7.91%) TypeScript
7 381 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 185 (2.60%) C++
9 153 (2.15%) C
10 143 (2.01%) Scala
11 130 (1.83%) Go
12 125 (1.76%) Bicep
13 118 (1.66%) Bash
14 89 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 81 (1.14%) Shell Script
16 74 (1.04%) Perl
17 70 (0.98%) Kotlin
18 54 (0.76%) T-SQL
19 51 (0.72%) PHP
20 49 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,272 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 894 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 783 (11.00%) Degree
4 365 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 222 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 133 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 112 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 108 (1.52%) PMP
9 92 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 68 (0.96%) ISTQB
11 55 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 49 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 47 (0.66%) Azure Certification
14 42 (0.59%) APMP
15 39 (0.55%) AWS Certification
15 39 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 38 (0.53%) CISSP
17 32 (0.45%) CISM
17 32 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 29 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (6.29%) QA
2 206 (2.89%) PMO
3 194 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 154 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 84 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 77 (1.08%) SLA
7 66 (0.93%) GDPR
8 42 (0.59%) NIST
8 42 (0.59%) WCAG
9 36 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
10 35 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 23 (0.32%) MISRA
12 19 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.18%) GRC
16 12 (0.17%) GxP
16 12 (0.17%) ISO 20022
17 11 (0.15%) MISRA C
17 11 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 435 (6.11%) Docker
2 256 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 110 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 27 (0.38%) vSphere
7 26 (0.37%) Firmware
8 25 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (0.34%) NFS
9 24 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
10 11 (0.15%) Hyper-V
11 9 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.098%) HDFS
12 7 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.084%) VirtualBox
14 4 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.056%) vCloud
15 3 (0.042%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.042%) XenApp
16 2 (0.028%) LXC
Systems Management
1 483 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 315 (4.43%) Terraform
3 255 (3.58%) Ansible
4 140 (1.97%) Grafana
5 79 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 71 (1.00%) Puppet
7 58 (0.81%) Kibana
8 44 (0.62%) SCCM
9 37 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 36 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 32 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 29 (0.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 28 (0.39%) SCOM
14 27 (0.38%) logstash
15 24 (0.34%) Packer
16 20 (0.28%) WSUS
17 19 (0.27%) Argo
18 16 (0.22%) Istio
18 16 (0.22%) WMI
Vendors
1 977 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 366 (5.14%) Oracle
3 306 (4.30%) SAP
4 225 (3.16%) Google
5 174 (2.44%) VMware
6 155 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 149 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 115 (1.62%) Databricks
9 98 (1.38%) Adobe
10 96 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 96 (1.35%) Splunk
11 83 (1.17%) Cisco
11 83 (1.17%) IBM
12 60 (0.84%) Dell
13 49 (0.69%) Red Hat
14 36 (0.51%) Informatica
15 34 (0.48%) Bloomberg
16 33 (0.46%) Juniper
17 32 (0.45%) Cadence
17 32 (0.45%) Remedy