Agile Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Software Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,989 4,562 7,419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.02% 20.10% 24.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.95% 22.58% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,965 3,417 5,314
10th Percentile £358 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +2.44% +8.47%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £591
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 206 170 166
10th Percentile £26.03 £39.75 £32.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £67.76 £70.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £60.75 £65.25 £51.14
% change year-on-year -6.90% +27.60% +7.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
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 £586
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 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -2 844 £550 - 524
North of England 0 701 £519 -5.73% 643
Scotland -2 482 £482 +0.05% 186
South West -4 458 £525 -9.40% 327
North West -1 400 £519 -3.49% 403
Midlands -4 319 £522 -0.57% 406
Yorkshire 0 259 £517 -6.00% 179
West Midlands -4 229 £550 +1.85% 265
East of England -11 153 £517 -1.52% 197
East Midlands -6 87 £445 -2.47% 139
North East +1 55 £533 -7.39% 65
Wales -1 51 £513 -10.09% 59
Northern Ireland -3 13 £600 +33.33% 42
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
1 212 (7.09%) Confluence
2 67 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 60 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.77%) Apache
4 23 (0.77%) SAS
5 22 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.64%) CMS
8 18 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) CICS
10 10 (0.33%) 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%) OpenStack
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 93 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 27 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 24 (0.80%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.27%) Simulink
7 8 (0.27%) Trello
8 7 (0.23%) 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 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 25 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 20 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 19 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.54%) Maximo
6 12 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
7 11 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
8 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.23%) SAP PM
9 7 (0.23%) 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%) Dynamics GP
13 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 520 (17.40%) Azure
2 341 (11.41%) AWS
3 204 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (4.05%) GitHub
4 121 (4.05%) Power Platform
5 112 (3.75%) Serverless
6 79 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
7 78 (2.61%) GCP
8 76 (2.54%) SaaS
9 69 (2.31%) Amazon S3
10 64 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (1.94%) OpenShift
12 47 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 44 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
14 41 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
15 39 (1.30%) PaaS
16 36 (1.20%) IaaS
17 35 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
18 32 (1.07%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 117 (3.91%) Firewall
2 84 (2.81%) VPN
3 78 (2.61%) DNS
4 51 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 50 (1.67%) DHCP
6 36 (1.20%) RS-485
7 35 (1.17%) Modbus
8 33 (1.10%) RS-422
9 32 (1.07%) LAN
10 28 (0.94%) WAN
11 27 (0.90%) HTTP
12 26 (0.87%) Network Security
13 20 (0.67%) SAN
14 19 (0.64%) Internet
14 19 (0.64%) SNMP
14 19 (0.64%) SSL
15 17 (0.57%) Software-Defined Radio
16 15 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
17 14 (0.47%) Ethernet
18 13 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (2.91%) MySQL
3 84 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 77 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 75 (2.51%) Power BI
6 64 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 59 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 36 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (0.97%) Big Data
11 27 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (0.77%) GIS
13 22 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (0.74%) Tableau
14 20 (0.67%) RDBMS
15 18 (0.60%) DB2
16 17 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 17 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 486 (16.26%) JIRA
2 245 (8.20%) Git
3 155 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 86 (2.88%) GitLab
5 72 (2.41%) Selenium
6 57 (1.91%) Bitbucket
7 50 (1.67%) JUnit
8 45 (1.51%) Robot Framework
9 44 (1.47%) Visual Studio
10 43 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 43 (1.44%) GoogleTest
11 41 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 34 (1.14%) Postman
13 30 (1.00%) Eclipse
13 30 (1.00%) TestRail
14 28 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
15 27 (0.90%) JMeter
16 25 (0.84%) Maven
17 19 (0.64%) Subversion
18 17 (0.57%) MSI
General
1 844 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 480 (16.06%) Finance
3 432 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 369 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
6 101 (3.38%) Banking
7 90 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 83 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 81 (2.71%) Electronics
10 80 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 65 (2.17%) Marketing
12 58 (1.94%) Military
12 58 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 48 (1.61%) Retail
15 46 (1.54%) Legal
16 44 (1.47%) Automotive
17 29 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
18 28 (0.94%) Aerospace
19 20 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 508 (17.00%) Developer
2 349 (11.68%) Architect
3 326 (10.91%) Analyst
4 314 (10.51%) Project Manager
5 304 (10.17%) Senior
6 214 (7.16%) Lead
7 182 (6.09%) Software Engineer
8 152 (5.09%) Business Analyst
9 125 (4.18%) Java Developer
10 98 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
11 85 (2.84%) Senior Manager
12 81 (2.71%) Consultant
13 78 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
14 74 (2.48%) Full Stack Developer
15 71 (2.38%) Test Engineer
16 69 (2.31%) C++ Software Engineer
17 68 (2.28%) Technical Architect
18 65 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
19 59 (1.97%) IT Manager
19 59 (1.97%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (5.45%) React
2 155 (5.19%) REST
3 148 (4.95%) .NET
4 134 (4.48%) HTML
5 132 (4.42%) CSS
6 126 (4.22%) Spring
7 101 (3.38%) Node.js
8 97 (3.25%) Spring Boot
9 88 (2.94%) XML
10 87 (2.91%) AngularJS
11 78 (2.61%) Kafka
12 76 (2.54%) RESTful
13 73 (2.44%) JSON
14 70 (2.34%) Web Services
15 49 (1.64%) .NET Framework
16 48 (1.61%) AWS CDK
17 39 (1.30%) JPA
18 37 (1.24%) SOAP
19 35 (1.17%) Middleware
20 33 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 228 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 90 (3.01%) Public Cloud
3 80 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (2.61%) PKI
5 59 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 52 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 49 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 44 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 43 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 36 (1.20%) Data Centre
11 36 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (0.84%) Mainframe
16 24 (0.80%) Virtual Team
17 20 (0.67%) Client/Server
18 19 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 284 (9.50%) Linux
2 248 (8.30%) Windows
3 128 (4.28%) Windows Server
4 69 (2.31%) Unix
5 50 (1.67%) Android
6 46 (1.54%) Apple iOS
7 40 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (0.74%) zOS
10 19 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.57%) Ubuntu
12 14 (0.47%) Debian
13 10 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.30%) Windows 10
15 7 (0.23%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.23%) VMS
16 5 (0.17%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (23.02%) DevOps
2 630 (21.08%) Scrum
3 510 (17.06%) Project Management
4 433 (14.49%) CI/CD
5 409 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
6 406 (13.58%) Software Engineering
7 398 (13.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 330 (11.04%) Waterfall
9 312 (10.44%) Test Automation
10 283 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 265 (8.87%) Project Delivery
12 221 (7.39%) Roadmaps
13 212 (7.09%) Continuous Integration
14 211 (7.06%) PRINCE2
15 202 (6.76%) SDLC
16 198 (6.62%) ITIL
16 198 (6.62%) Microservices
17 189 (6.32%) Analytics
18 187 (6.26%) Migration
19 178 (5.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 399 (13.35%) Java
2 368 (12.31%) Python
3 332 (11.11%) SQL
4 241 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 231 (7.73%) C#
6 157 (5.25%) C++
7 156 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 129 (4.32%) TypeScript
9 116 (3.88%) C
10 64 (2.14%) Bash
11 54 (1.81%) PL/SQL
12 43 (1.44%) VBScript
13 36 (1.20%) PHP
14 35 (1.17%) Scala
15 33 (1.10%) Shell Script
16 32 (1.07%) Bicep
17 31 (1.04%) VB
18 22 (0.74%) Perl
19 20 (0.67%) REXX
20 19 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 769 (25.73%) Security Cleared
2 463 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 327 (10.94%) Degree
4 305 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 55 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 46 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 45 (1.51%) PMP
9 39 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 38 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 28 (0.94%) APMP
12 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 24 (0.80%) MCSE
14 24 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 22 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 21 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
17 18 (0.60%) MCSA
18 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (6.29%) QA
2 97 (3.25%) PMO
3 84 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 40 (1.34%) MISRA
5 34 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 33 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
7 31 (1.04%) SLA
8 20 (0.67%) NIST
9 18 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 18 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 14 (0.47%) GDPR
10 14 (0.47%) MISRA C
11 11 (0.37%) 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 (0.23%) RMADS
15 5 (0.17%) AUTOSAR
15 5 (0.17%) PMBOK
System Software
1 151 (5.05%) Docker
2 113 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 96 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 23 (0.77%) vSphere
7 22 (0.74%) Firmware
8 8 (0.27%) NFS
8 8 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 3 (0.10%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.033%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 169 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 125 (4.18%) Ansible
3 118 (3.95%) Terraform
4 100 (3.35%) Grafana
5 44 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.30%) SCCM
7 34 (1.14%) Kibana
8 28 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 26 (0.87%) SCOM
10 23 (0.77%) WSUS
11 18 (0.60%) Puppet
11 18 (0.60%) WMI
12 17 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.54%) Argo
13 16 (0.54%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.43%) Istio
14 13 (0.43%) logstash
15 12 (0.40%) vRealize
16 9 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 392 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 155 (5.19%) Oracle
3 143 (4.78%) SAP
4 127 (4.25%) VMware
5 87 (2.91%) Google
6 75 (2.51%) Atlassian
7 59 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 58 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.27%) Cisco
9 38 (1.27%) IBM
10 31 (1.04%) Splunk
11 29 (0.97%) Talend
12 27 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 24 (0.80%) Adobe
13 24 (0.80%) Juniper
14 22 (0.74%) Denodo
14 22 (0.74%) Remedy
15 20 (0.67%) Dell
16 19 (0.64%) Cadence
17 18 (0.60%) Avaloq