Agile Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Agile Software Development
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Canary Wharf requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 26 19 42
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 48.15% 29.69% 24.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 50.00% 31.67% 25.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 37
10th Percentile £405 £440 £500
25th Percentile £473 £473 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -6.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £585 £595 £594
90th Percentile £630 £675 £708
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £540 £540 £575
% change year-on-year - -6.09% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52 60 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 96.30% 93.75% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 57 144
10th Percentile £379 £429 £454
25th Percentile £450 £495 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £641 £595 £630
90th Percentile £1,000 £650 £714
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £540 £540 £575
% change year-on-year - -6.09% +8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £31.12 - -
25th Percentile £40.08 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £16.85
75th Percentile £58.75 - £18.93
90th Percentile £61.00 - -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £43.50 - £16.85

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf.

Agile job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Canary Wharf

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Camunda
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Sketch
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Endur
2 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Figma
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
2 3 (11.54%) WAN
3 2 (7.69%) DMZ
3 2 (7.69%) LAN
3 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.69%) Unified Communications
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) DNS
4 1 (3.85%) HTTP
4 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Maven
2 2 (7.69%) Axure RP
2 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Gradle
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JMeter
2 2 (7.69%) Postman
2 2 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.85%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) NeoLoad
3 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (53.85%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Banking
4 5 (19.23%) Automotive
4 5 (19.23%) Back Office
4 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
5 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.69%) Front Office
6 2 (7.69%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Technical Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Backend Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Endur Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) OpenLink Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Designer
5 2 (7.69%) Endur Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Help Desk Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Support
5 2 (7.69%) OpenLink Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) OpenLink Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) JSON
2 5 (19.23%) React
2 5 (19.23%) XML
3 4 (15.38%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
4 3 (11.54%) JPA
4 3 (11.54%) REST
4 3 (11.54%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.54%) Swagger
5 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) CSS3
5 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 2 (7.69%) HTML5
5 2 (7.69%) JSP
5 2 (7.69%) OSGi
5 2 (7.69%) Sass
6 1 (3.85%) Playwright
6 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (11.54%) Grid Computing
3 3 (11.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) AIX
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 8 (30.77%) Microservices
3 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) AI
4 5 (19.23%) BDD
4 5 (19.23%) Change Management
4 5 (19.23%) Digital Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Digital Innovation
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) TDD
4 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
4 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
5 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 4 (15.38%) ETRM
6 3 (11.54%) Batch Processing
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Korn
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 2 (7.69%) MBA
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) EMIR
2 2 (7.69%) MiFID
2 2 (7.69%) PMO
3 1 (3.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) SCCM
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) WSUS
3 1 (3.85%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) logstash
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Hitachi
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) ION Trading
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) SAP
4 2 (7.69%) Adobe
4 2 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.69%) Citrix
4 2 (7.69%) Marketo
4 2 (7.69%) OpenLink
4 2 (7.69%) Reuters
5 1 (3.85%) Calypso
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) Murex