Agile Contracts in Central London

Agile Software Development
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 465 882 1,285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 19.10% 23.01% 28.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.07% 25.19% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 574 982
10th Percentile £410 £422 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +2.04% +8.64%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £791 £818 £780
London median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 - £61.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £66.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.45% +48.31% -17.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,207 3,501 4,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.64% 91.34% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 43
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.28% +6.12% +12.47%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Central London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in Central London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Central London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Central London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Central London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 6 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
City of London -1 426 £575 -4.96% 131
West End of London 0 14 £431 -20.14% 24
City of Westminster +4 9 £400 -36.00% 9
Camden -8 2 £675 +36.36% 15
Southwark +5 1 £501 -19.92% 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 2
Agile
London

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 25 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.73%) Confluence
3 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.72%) CMS
5 6 (1.29%) Apache
5 6 (1.29%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.86%) IIS
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.65%) MTS
8 2 (0.43%) Documentum
8 2 (0.43%) Jadu
8 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.22%) Tornado
Applications
1 19 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (2.37%) MS Visio
5 10 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.43%) Sketch
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) InVision
7 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.08%) Endur
3 3 (0.65%) Aligne
3 3 (0.65%) EuroRunner
4 2 (0.43%) Primavera
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.22%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.22%) Softmar
5 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 157 (33.76%) Azure
2 65 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (10.75%) AWS
4 42 (9.03%) Power Platform
5 23 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.23%) GCP
7 15 (3.23%) SaaS
8 14 (3.01%) Serverless
9 13 (2.80%) GitHub
10 11 (2.37%) Azure Functions
10 11 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.08%) Firewall
2 4 (0.86%) Internet
3 3 (0.65%) DNS
3 3 (0.65%) VoIP
4 2 (0.43%) Intranet
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.43%) VPN
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) 4G
5 1 (0.22%) 5G
5 1 (0.22%) CTI
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.22%) SAN
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (13.12%) SQL Server
2 32 (6.88%) Power BI
3 25 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.15%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.15%) MySQL
7 10 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 6 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (1.08%) Big Data
11 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.86%) Redis
12 4 (0.86%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 49 (10.54%) JIRA
2 29 (6.24%) Git
3 19 (4.09%) Selenium
4 13 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.37%) GitLab
6 10 (2.15%) Postman
6 10 (2.15%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.72%) JUnit
8 6 (1.29%) Mockito
8 6 (1.29%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.29%) WebDriver
9 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.86%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.86%) JMeter
10 4 (0.86%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.86%) TestNG
11 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.65%) Maven
11 3 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 150 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 115 (24.73%) Finance
3 48 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.11%) Banking
5 33 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.30%) Legal
8 16 (3.44%) Front Office
9 14 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.80%) Back Office
10 13 (2.80%) Retail
11 12 (2.58%) Law
12 10 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.72%) Marketing
15 6 (1.29%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 101 (21.72%) Developer
2 77 (16.56%) Analyst
3 60 (12.90%) Senior
4 53 (11.40%) Business Analyst
5 42 (9.03%) Project Manager
6 29 (6.24%) Architect
6 29 (6.24%) Lead
7 27 (5.81%) Senior Developer
8 20 (4.30%) Product Owner
9 19 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
9 19 (4.09%) Java Developer
10 18 (3.87%) Consultant
11 14 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.01%) Test Analyst
12 13 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
12 13 (2.80%) Product Manager
12 13 (2.80%) Scrum Master
13 11 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.15%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 10 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.97%) .NET
2 25 (5.38%) XML
3 24 (5.16%) .NET Core
4 20 (4.30%) HTML
5 18 (3.87%) AngularJS
5 18 (3.87%) CSS
5 18 (3.87%) Web Services
6 16 (3.44%) React
7 15 (3.23%) REST
8 14 (3.01%) Kafka
9 13 (2.80%) .NET Framework
9 13 (2.80%) Spring
10 12 (2.58%) JSON
11 11 (2.37%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.37%) Spring Boot
12 8 (1.72%) jQuery
13 7 (1.51%) Blazor
13 7 (1.51%) Node.js
13 7 (1.51%) RESTful
13 7 (1.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.47%) Product Ownership
2 11 (2.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (2.37%) Mobile App
3 9 (1.94%) Market Risk
4 7 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (1.51%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.08%) Reinsurance
7 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.65%) Contactless
8 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.65%) Derivative
8 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.09%) Windows
2 18 (3.87%) Linux
3 9 (1.94%) Unix
4 4 (0.86%) Android
4 4 (0.86%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.43%) CentOS
6 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (25.16%) DevOps
2 108 (23.23%) Scrum
3 81 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (15.91%) Project Management
5 71 (15.27%) CI/CD
6 54 (11.61%) Waterfall
7 53 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (8.39%) Microservices
9 39 (8.39%) User Stories
10 38 (8.17%) Project Delivery
10 38 (8.17%) SDLC
11 36 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (7.74%) Migration
11 36 (7.74%) Test Automation
12 35 (7.53%) Software Engineering
13 34 (7.31%) Analytics
13 34 (7.31%) Roadmaps
13 34 (7.31%) User Acceptance Testing
14 33 (7.10%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.56%) SQL
2 62 (13.33%) C#
3 55 (11.83%) Python
4 50 (10.75%) Java
5 42 (9.03%) PowerShell
6 38 (8.17%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.52%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.23%) Bicep
9 12 (2.58%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.15%) Go
10 10 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.72%) C++
12 7 (1.51%) Scala
12 7 (1.51%) XPath
13 6 (1.29%) XQuery
14 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.65%) PHP
14 3 (0.65%) R
14 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (10.32%) Degree
2 39 (8.39%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.72%) PMP
8 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.08%) ISEB
8 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) CCNA
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.02%) QA
2 27 (5.81%) PMO
3 10 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.51%) SLA
6 5 (1.08%) GDPR
6 5 (1.08%) WCAG
7 4 (0.86%) NIST
8 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.43%) EMIR
9 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (3.66%) Active Directory
1 17 (3.66%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) Ceph
3 1 (0.22%) NFS
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.01%) Terraform
3 8 (1.72%) Ansible
3 8 (1.72%) PingFederate
4 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.86%) Grafana
5 4 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.86%) Puppet
6 3 (0.65%) Kibana
6 3 (0.65%) logstash
6 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) Consul
8 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.22%) Graylog
8 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.22%) Mesos
8 1 (0.22%) Nagios
8 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 93 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.31%) Oracle
3 19 (4.09%) SAP
4 16 (3.44%) Databricks
5 15 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.58%) Google
7 10 (2.15%) Adobe
8 9 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.51%) Cadence
10 6 (1.29%) IBM
10 6 (1.29%) iManage
10 6 (1.29%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.08%) Cisco
11 5 (1.08%) Splunk
12 4 (0.86%) Siebel
13 3 (0.65%) Arista
13 3 (0.65%) Foundry
13 3 (0.65%) Proofpoint
13 3 (0.65%) Symantec