Agile Contracts in the City of London

Agile Software Development
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 423 856 1,169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 19.21% 23.48% 27.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.22% 25.58% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 553 883
10th Percentile £410 £422 £440
25th Percentile £469 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £701
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
Central London median daily rate £569 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -5.21% +2.13% +11.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.18
25th Percentile - - £52.56
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £60.06
90th Percentile - - £61.53
Central London median hourly rate £33.00 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - +181.25%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,347 3,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 2,259 2,945
10th Percentile £359 £355 £385
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London Bridge +2 1 £501 -19.92%
Agile
Central London

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 23 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.73%) Confluence
3 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.42%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (1.42%) CMS
5 4 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.95%) Apache
5 4 (0.95%) IIS
5 4 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.71%) MTS
7 2 (0.47%) Documentum
7 2 (0.47%) Jadu
7 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) Moodle
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) Tornado
Applications
1 16 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.47%) Sketch
6 1 (0.24%) InVision
6 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.42%) Endur
3 3 (0.71%) Aligne
3 3 (0.71%) EuroRunner
4 2 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.47%) Primavera
4 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.24%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.24%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.24%) Softmar
5 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 136 (32.15%) Azure
2 55 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (10.64%) AWS
4 34 (8.04%) Power Platform
5 21 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.31%) GitHub
6 14 (3.31%) SaaS
6 14 (3.31%) Serverless
7 13 (3.07%) GCP
8 11 (2.60%) Azure Functions
8 11 (2.60%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.65%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) Firewall
2 4 (0.95%) Internet
3 3 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.47%) Intranet
4 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.47%) VoIP
4 2 (0.47%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) LAN
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.40%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.91%) Power BI
3 17 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.31%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.36%) MySQL
7 8 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.18%) Big Data
9 5 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.95%) Siebel EIM
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.71%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (11.11%) JIRA
2 27 (6.38%) Git
3 18 (4.26%) Selenium
4 13 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.60%) GitLab
6 9 (2.13%) Postman
6 9 (2.13%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.89%) JUnit
8 6 (1.42%) Mockito
9 5 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.18%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.95%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.95%) TestNG
10 4 (0.95%) Visual Studio Team System
11 3 (0.71%) Maven
11 3 (0.71%) Subversion
11 3 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 137 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 111 (26.24%) Finance
3 47 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (10.87%) Banking
5 26 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.73%) Legal
8 16 (3.78%) Front Office
9 13 (3.07%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.84%) Retail
11 10 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.36%) Law
12 7 (1.65%) Back Office
12 7 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.42%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.95%) Automotive
15 4 (0.95%) Marketing
15 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (20.80%) Developer
2 72 (17.02%) Analyst
3 50 (11.82%) Business Analyst
4 48 (11.35%) Senior
5 39 (9.22%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.62%) Lead
7 25 (5.91%) Architect
8 21 (4.96%) Senior Developer
9 19 (4.49%) Product Owner
10 18 (4.26%) Java Developer
11 17 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (3.55%) Consultant
13 13 (3.07%) Full Stack Developer
14 12 (2.84%) Scrum Master
14 12 (2.84%) Test Analyst
15 11 (2.60%) Product Manager
16 10 (2.36%) Data Engineer
16 10 (2.36%) Insurance Business Analyst
17 9 (2.13%) Python Developer
18 8 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.69%) .NET
2 18 (4.26%) .NET Core
3 17 (4.02%) HTML
4 16 (3.78%) AngularJS
4 16 (3.78%) Web Services
5 15 (3.55%) CSS
5 15 (3.55%) React
6 14 (3.31%) Kafka
6 14 (3.31%) XML
7 13 (3.07%) REST
8 12 (2.84%) Spring
9 11 (2.60%) .NET Framework
9 11 (2.60%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.13%) ASP.NET
10 9 (2.13%) JSON
11 7 (1.65%) Blazor
11 7 (1.65%) jQuery
11 7 (1.65%) Node.js
11 7 (1.65%) RESTful
12 6 (1.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.53%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.13%) Market Risk
4 8 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.18%) Reinsurance
8 3 (0.71%) Derivative
8 3 (0.71%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.71%) PMI
8 3 (0.71%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.47%) Blog
9 2 (0.47%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.47%) PKI
9 2 (0.47%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.49%) Windows
2 16 (3.78%) Linux
3 9 (2.13%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.71%) Android
5 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.47%) CentOS
6 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (24.82%) DevOps
2 92 (21.75%) Scrum
3 78 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (15.60%) Project Management
5 65 (15.37%) CI/CD
6 56 (13.24%) Waterfall
7 49 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (9.22%) Microservices
9 36 (8.51%) SDLC
9 36 (8.51%) Test Automation
9 36 (8.51%) User Stories
10 34 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (8.04%) Project Delivery
11 33 (7.80%) Software Engineering
12 31 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (7.33%) PRINCE2
13 30 (7.09%) Analytics
13 30 (7.09%) Roadmaps
14 29 (6.86%) Migration
15 28 (6.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (15.84%) SQL
2 52 (12.29%) C#
2 52 (12.29%) Python
3 49 (11.58%) Java
4 35 (8.27%) JavaScript
4 35 (8.27%) PowerShell
5 17 (4.02%) T-SQL
6 10 (2.36%) Go
7 8 (1.89%) Bicep
7 8 (1.89%) C++
7 8 (1.89%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.42%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.95%) Scala
10 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.71%) PHP
10 3 (0.71%) R
10 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.71%) Swift
11 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.47%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 47 (11.11%) Degree
2 27 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.89%) PMP
8 5 (1.18%) ISEB
8 5 (1.18%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.47%) CCNA
10 2 (0.47%) CIMA
10 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.47%) SANS
11 1 (0.24%) CISM
11 1 (0.24%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.86%) QA
2 26 (6.15%) PMO
3 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.42%) SLA
5 4 (0.95%) NIST
5 4 (0.95%) WCAG
6 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.47%) EMIR
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (3.78%) Docker
2 11 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Ceph
4 1 (0.24%) NFS
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.84%) Terraform
3 8 (1.89%) Ansible
3 8 (1.89%) PingFederate
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.95%) Grafana
5 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.95%) Puppet
6 3 (0.71%) Kibana
6 3 (0.71%) logstash
6 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.24%) Graylog
8 1 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.24%) Mesos
8 1 (0.24%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 85 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.38%) Oracle
3 12 (2.84%) Databricks
3 12 (2.84%) SAP
4 11 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.36%) Google
6 9 (2.13%) Adobe
6 9 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.65%) Cadence
8 6 (1.42%) IBM
8 6 (1.42%) iManage
8 6 (1.42%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.18%) Splunk
10 4 (0.95%) Cisco
10 4 (0.95%) Siebel
11 3 (0.71%) Arista
11 3 (0.71%) Informatica
11 3 (0.71%) Proofpoint
11 3 (0.71%) Symantec