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iOS Mobile Engineer | £575 per day | Inside IR35 | Occasional travel to Manchest...
Posted Today by RecOps
iOS Mobile Engineer| £575 per day | Inside IR35 | Occasional travel to ManchesterWe're looking for an experienced iOS Mo...
- Rate £575 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Undetermined
- Location Manchester, UK
Java Developer (Trade Clearing) - Contract Opportunity! (London)
Posted Today by Revolution Technology Ltd
Our client, a global consultancy are looking for a Java Developer to join one of their banking projects. This will be a...
- Rate £650 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location London, UK
Lead technical Data Business Analyst - Remote - £650 a day InsideIR35
Posted Today by Eden Smith Limited
Lead Technical Data Business Analyst - Remote - £650 a day InsideIR35Are you a senior contract data professional with a...
- Rate £650 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Remote
- Location United Kingdom
Android Mobile Engineer | £575 per day | Inside IR35 | Occasional travel to Manc...
Posted Today by RecOps
Android Mobile Engineer£575 per day | Inside IR35 | Occasional travel to ManchesterWe're looking for an experienced Andr...
- Rate £575 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Undetermined
- Location Manchester, UK
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About Our Inside IR35 Agile Delivery Contract Roles
What does a agile delivery contractor do?
The Agile Delivery contractor role centres on the ability to lead, facilitate, and improve the delivery of work within agile frameworks across technology, product, and transformation programmes. The role sits at the intersection of project management, team facilitation, and continuous improvement, with contractors typically responsible for running ceremonies such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and stand-ups, removing blockers that impede team progress, coaching teams and stakeholders on agile ways of working, and ensuring delivery cadence and quality are maintained throughout a programme. Agile Delivery contractors are deployed across a wide range of sectors, with the highest concentration in technology, financial services, and central government digital programmes.
The skills expected combine deep agile methodology knowledge with strong interpersonal and stakeholder management capability. Most Agile Delivery contract roles require demonstrable experience working within Scrum, Kanban, or scaled agile frameworks such as SAFe or LeSS, and certification such as Certified Scrum Master or SAFe Agilist is widely valued. The ability to coach teams transitioning to agile ways of working, and to navigate the cultural and organisational friction that often accompanies that transition, is as important as facilitation skills. Experience using delivery tooling such as Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps is a common requirement, as is the ability to report progress clearly to senior programme stakeholders.
What is the market like for agile delivery contractors?
Agile Delivery contracting remains a solid and active market, though the period of rapid expansion seen during the wave of agile adoption in the mid-2010s has matured. Demand is now driven primarily by organisations scaling existing agile practices, running large transformation programmes that require experienced delivery leadership, or building out digital capabilities in sectors newer to agile ways of working such as financial services and the public sector. Contractors with experience in scaled agile frameworks who can operate at programme level as well as team level are in the strongest demand. The market is competitive at junior Scrum Master level but considerably less so at senior Agile Delivery Manager and Agile Coach level.
What does Inside IR35 mean?
IR35 is UK tax legislation that determines whether a contractor is genuinely self-employed or working in a manner that resembles employment. When a contract is classified as inside IR35, income tax and National Insurance are deducted at source, typically via an umbrella company or agency PAYE. Headline day rates on inside IR35 engagements are generally higher than equivalent outside IR35 roles to account for the tax and employment cost structure.
Inside IR35 determinations are made where the working arrangements are considered to resemble employment, based on factors including the level of client control, the absence of a genuine right of substitution, and the presence of mutuality of obligation. Since April 2021, the end client is responsible for making this determination for medium and large private sector organisations. Many employers in financial services, government, and professional services assess the majority of their contractor engagements as inside IR35.
On QualityContracts.co.uk, approximately 49% of roles with a stated IR35 status are classified as inside IR35, making it the most common arrangement across the contract market. The proportion varies by sector and role type. Each listing on this page displays its IR35 status where provided by the hiring organisation.
What agile delivery roles are usually Inside IR35?
Agile delivery is heavily weighted toward inside IR35, at around 80% of contracts with a stated status. The role's core activities, facilitating standups, running retrospectives, removing blockers, and maintaining continuous engagement with product and engineering teams, are inherently embedded in the client's operational rhythm. Government Digital Service, NHS Digital, and financial services agile programmes account for the bulk of this work. This is well understood in the market and rates reflect the tax treatment.
How much do agile delivery contractors usually earn when working Inside IR35?
Contract rates for agile delivery roles typically range from £450 to £850 per day, depending on the scope of the role, required expertise, and the delivery expectations of the engagement. Inside IR35 rates are typically 15% to 30% higher than equivalent outside IR35 roles to account for tax and national insurance deducted at source by the fee-payer.
How many Inside IR35 agile delivery vacancies are there on Quality Contracts?
Over the past twelve months, we have tracked over 200 agile delivery contract roles across the site. Around one third of the roles currently listed on the site fall Inside IR35. Data reviewed up to June 2026.