Agile Contracts in London

Agile Software Development
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,450 6,783 11,690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 19.36% 24.97% 30.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.88% 27.39% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,510 4,883 8,549
10th Percentile £400 £440 £425
25th Percentile £480 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £688
90th Percentile £838 £825 £775
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 41 73
10th Percentile £23.36 £25.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.86 £35.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +46.07% -17.59%
75th Percentile £69.13 £76.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £90.00 £80.40
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.38
% change year-on-year -7.69% +31.65% +9.72%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,769 24,761 35,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 91.14% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,293 17,773 26,130
10th Percentile £338 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 287 421
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.83 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.59 £50.61
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in London

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Central London -1 463 £568 -5.42% 152
West London -1 78 £500 -11.11% 37
East London +1 74 £540 +2.86% 42
South London -3 60 £513 -6.82% 18
North London +3 3 £425 -29.17% 5
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 160 (4.64%) Confluence
2 150 (4.35%) Apache
3 141 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (2.14%) SharePoint
5 57 (1.65%) CMS
6 43 (1.25%) Apache Spark
7 26 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 22 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.35%) IIS
10 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.32%) MTS
11 10 (0.29%) SAS
12 9 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
13 7 (0.20%) nginx
13 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.17%) Drupal
14 6 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.17%) JBoss
14 6 (0.17%) Tornado
15 5 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 23 (0.67%) Sketch
7 17 (0.49%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.29%) InVision
9 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) Trello
11 4 (0.12%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.087%) Windchill
12 3 (0.087%) Zeplin
13 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.058%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.058%) InDesign
13 2 (0.058%) Mingle
13 2 (0.058%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.029%) Marvel
Business Applications
1 54 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (0.87%) Endur
3 26 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 22 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
5 20 (0.58%) Loan IQ
6 16 (0.46%) Shopify
7 11 (0.32%) Aligne
7 11 (0.32%) EuroRunner
8 9 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
9 8 (0.23%) ION MarketView
9 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.12%) Teamcenter
12 3 (0.087%) ENOVIA
12 3 (0.087%) Primavera
12 3 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.087%) Summit
13 2 (0.058%) BusinessWorks
13 2 (0.058%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 886 (25.68%) Azure
2 727 (21.07%) AWS
3 312 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
4 307 (8.90%) GCP
5 184 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 139 (4.03%) Serverless
7 104 (3.01%) GitHub
8 87 (2.52%) dbt
9 86 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
10 82 (2.38%) Entra ID
11 80 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 80 (2.32%) SaaS
12 79 (2.29%) Snowflake
13 77 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
14 66 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
15 64 (1.86%) PaaS
16 63 (1.83%) Amazon S3
17 52 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
18 50 (1.45%) Azure Functions
19 48 (1.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.51%) Firewall
2 36 (1.04%) HTTP
3 34 (0.99%) DNS
4 27 (0.78%) VPN
5 26 (0.75%) Internet
6 21 (0.61%) LAN
6 21 (0.61%) WAN
7 20 (0.58%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.55%) DHCP
9 18 (0.52%) BGP
9 18 (0.52%) Wireless
10 14 (0.41%) OSPF
11 13 (0.38%) VLAN
12 12 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
12 12 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (0.32%) WLAN
14 10 (0.29%) FTP
14 10 (0.29%) Intranet
15 9 (0.26%) Kerberos
15 9 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (9.36%) SQL Server
2 147 (4.26%) Power BI
3 133 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (3.65%) Data Lake
5 125 (3.62%) Apache Ignite
6 116 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
7 107 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 91 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
9 90 (2.61%) NoSQL
10 82 (2.38%) Apache Arrow
10 82 (2.38%) Dremio
11 73 (2.12%) MongoDB
12 66 (1.91%) Big Data
13 50 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
14 45 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
15 43 (1.25%) MySQL
16 42 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 39 (1.13%) Tableau
18 35 (1.01%) DynamoDB
19 34 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 390 (11.30%) JIRA
2 283 (8.20%) Git
3 165 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 93 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 80 (2.32%) Selenium
6 75 (2.17%) Postman
7 65 (1.88%) GitLab
8 56 (1.62%) Cucumber
8 56 (1.62%) TeamCity
9 48 (1.39%) SpecFlow
10 45 (1.30%) JUnit
10 45 (1.30%) Maven
11 42 (1.22%) Visual Studio
12 33 (0.96%) webpack
13 31 (0.90%) SoapUI
13 31 (0.90%) WebDriver
14 27 (0.78%) Mockito
15 23 (0.67%) Appium
16 21 (0.61%) JMeter
17 19 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,010 (29.28%) Finance
2 977 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 480 (13.91%) Banking
4 416 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 378 (10.96%) Front Office
6 365 (10.58%) Public Sector
7 187 (5.42%) Investment Banking
8 114 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 114 (3.30%) Retail
9 113 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
10 110 (3.19%) Back Office
11 101 (2.93%) Marketing
12 99 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 52 (1.51%) Legal
14 44 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.13%) Law
15 39 (1.13%) Local Government
15 39 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 28 (0.81%) Financial Institution
16 28 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 945 (27.39%) Developer
2 531 (15.39%) Senior
3 370 (10.72%) Analyst
4 297 (8.61%) Project Manager
5 287 (8.32%) Architect
6 286 (8.29%) Business Analyst
7 271 (7.86%) Lead
8 214 (6.20%) Software Engineer
9 211 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 164 (4.75%) Java Developer
11 141 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
12 132 (3.83%) Python Developer
13 126 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
14 119 (3.45%) React Developer
15 117 (3.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 112 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
17 108 (3.13%) Consultant
18 102 (2.96%) Software Developer
19 96 (2.78%) Product Owner
20 85 (2.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (9.74%) .NET
2 310 (8.99%) React
3 178 (5.16%) REST
4 160 (4.64%) AngularJS
5 153 (4.43%) CSS
5 153 (4.43%) HTML
6 151 (4.38%) Node.js
7 144 (4.17%) Kafka
8 138 (4.00%) .NET Core
9 137 (3.97%) Redux
10 136 (3.94%) XML
11 135 (3.91%) gRPC
12 127 (3.68%) Protocol Buffers
13 109 (3.16%) Spring
14 99 (2.87%) Pandas
15 98 (2.84%) RESTful
16 94 (2.72%) Web Services
17 90 (2.61%) .NET Framework
18 88 (2.55%) NumPy
19 86 (2.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 349 (10.12%) Product Ownership
2 265 (7.68%) Fixed Income
3 205 (5.94%) Hedge funds
4 202 (5.86%) Derivative
5 180 (5.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 173 (5.01%) Equities
7 88 (2.55%) Onboarding
8 79 (2.29%) Mobile App
9 70 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 63 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 56 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 49 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 48 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 46 (1.33%) Data Centre
15 44 (1.28%) Cloud Native
16 43 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
17 36 (1.04%) Reinsurance
18 35 (1.01%) Public Cloud
19 34 (0.99%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 175 (5.07%) Linux
2 92 (2.67%) Windows
3 80 (2.32%) Unix
4 39 (1.13%) Android
5 35 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 27 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 19 (0.55%) CentOS
9 16 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 9 (0.26%) VMS
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.23%) Solaris
11 8 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.12%) OpenVMS
13 3 (0.087%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.058%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.029%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (23.77%) DevOps
2 787 (22.81%) Scrum
3 536 (15.54%) CI/CD
4 517 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
5 435 (12.61%) Software Engineering
6 429 (12.43%) Project Management
7 334 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 334 (9.68%) TDD
8 305 (8.84%) Project Delivery
9 291 (8.43%) Microservices
10 287 (8.32%) Test Automation
11 281 (8.14%) Waterfall
12 273 (7.91%) Analytics
13 266 (7.71%) Roadmaps
14 261 (7.57%) Asset Management
15 254 (7.36%) SDLC
16 247 (7.16%) Migration
17 242 (7.01%) Continuous Integration
18 233 (6.75%) Business Intelligence
19 230 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 595 (17.25%) Python
2 573 (16.61%) SQL
3 527 (15.28%) Java
4 453 (13.13%) JavaScript
5 420 (12.17%) C#
6 358 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 216 (6.26%) PowerShell
8 83 (2.41%) Bicep
9 81 (2.35%) Scala
10 56 (1.62%) Go
11 49 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 44 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 43 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 42 (1.22%) C++
15 38 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 36 (1.04%) Bash
17 34 (0.99%) Perl
18 29 (0.84%) Ruby
19 26 (0.75%) R
20 18 (0.52%) C
Qualifications
1 418 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 361 (10.46%) Degree
3 353 (10.23%) SC Cleared
4 117 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 69 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 67 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 65 (1.88%) PMP
9 28 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.67%) AWS Certification
11 20 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 18 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.49%) Azure Certification
14 17 (0.49%) CISM
15 15 (0.43%) CISSP
16 12 (0.35%) CRISC
17 11 (0.32%) ISEB
17 11 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
18 10 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.59%) QA
2 96 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 93 (2.70%) PMO
4 87 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 28 (0.81%) GDPR
7 27 (0.78%) SLA
7 27 (0.78%) WCAG
8 12 (0.35%) NIST
9 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.32%) MiFID
10 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.17%) Dodd-Frank
11 6 (0.17%) GRC
12 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.14%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.12%) ISO 31000
13 4 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 227 (6.58%) Docker
2 135 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.17%) HDFS
6 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.087%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.058%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.058%) vSphere
8 2 (0.058%) XenApp
9 1 (0.029%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.029%) Ceph
9 1 (0.029%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.029%) Firmware
9 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.029%) NFS
9 1 (0.029%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 245 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 142 (4.12%) Terraform
3 96 (2.78%) Ansible
4 48 (1.39%) Grafana
5 40 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.13%) Puppet
7 26 (0.75%) Kibana
8 21 (0.61%) logstash
9 13 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.32%) Netcool
11 10 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 8 (0.23%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
14 7 (0.20%) SCCM
14 7 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 486 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 190 (5.51%) Oracle
3 107 (3.10%) Google
4 99 (2.87%) SAP
5 78 (2.26%) Databricks
6 72 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 67 (1.94%) Adobe
8 55 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.54%) Splunk
10 43 (1.25%) Cisco
11 36 (1.04%) IBM
11 36 (1.04%) VMware
12 31 (0.90%) Bloomberg
13 26 (0.75%) Dell
14 25 (0.72%) Informatica
15 22 (0.64%) Virgin Media
16 21 (0.61%) ION Trading
17 20 (0.58%) Atlassian
18 19 (0.55%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.55%) Red Hat