Agile Contracts in Central London

Agile Software Development
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 430 501 833
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 21.62% 21.16% 22.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.09% 23.21% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 349 546
10th Percentile £375 £404 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +5.69%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £820
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £26.41 - -
25th Percentile £27.41 - -
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% - -
75th Percentile £58.91 - -
90th Percentile £76.81 - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year - -23.64% +54.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,862 2,159 3,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.61% 91.17% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,511 2,267
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 27
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%

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 3 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 July 2025. 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 0 395 £600 +4.35% 957
West End of London -3 9 £450 -7.69% 126
City of Westminster -5 5 £550 - 117
Camden +5 4 £450 -33.33% 4
Southwark -2 2 - -
Kensington and Chelsea 0 1 - - 7
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 43 (10.00%) Confluence
2 13 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.63%) Apache
3 7 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.93%) CMS
6 3 (0.70%) Drupal
7 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) nginx
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.47%) WordPress
8 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) MTS
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.58%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.16%) Trello
6 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.93%) Endur
3 4 (0.93%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.70%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.70%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.47%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.23%) Maximo
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.23%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.23%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (23.72%) Azure
2 68 (15.81%) AWS
3 46 (10.70%) Power Platform
4 30 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (5.12%) SaaS
6 16 (3.72%) GCP
7 15 (3.49%) GitHub
8 14 (3.26%) Serverless
9 13 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.33%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.86%) Figma
11 8 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (1.63%) PaaS
13 6 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.40%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.95%) Firewall
2 14 (3.26%) DNS
3 12 (2.79%) VPN
4 7 (1.63%) NGFW
5 6 (1.40%) HTTP
6 5 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.70%) SSH
7 3 (0.70%) SSL
8 2 (0.47%) DHCP
8 2 (0.47%) FTP
8 2 (0.47%) Network Security
8 2 (0.47%) SMTP
9 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.23%) Intranet
9 1 (0.23%) LAN
9 1 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.07%) Power BI
2 31 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.12%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.49%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.33%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.86%) Big Data
9 8 (1.86%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.63%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.63%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.40%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.40%) Tableau
12 5 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.16%) MySQL
12 5 (1.16%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.93%) DB2
Development Applications
1 78 (18.14%) JIRA
2 31 (7.21%) Git
3 12 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.09%) Postman
4 9 (2.09%) Selenium
5 7 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.40%) GitLab
6 6 (1.40%) JUnit
6 6 (1.40%) REST Assured
6 6 (1.40%) ScriptRunner
7 5 (1.16%) Maven
7 5 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.93%) SoapUI
8 4 (0.93%) Xcode
9 3 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.70%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.70%) Mockito
9 3 (0.70%) Subversion
9 3 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 182 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 177 (41.16%) Finance
3 67 (15.58%) Banking
4 51 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.81%) Front Office
7 23 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (4.42%) Investment Banking
9 15 (3.49%) Retail
10 14 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.79%) Back Office
12 11 (2.56%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.09%) Legal
14 8 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.63%) Local Government
15 7 (1.63%) Marketing
16 6 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.16%) Law
17 5 (1.16%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (22.33%) Developer
2 91 (21.16%) Analyst
3 72 (16.74%) Business Analyst
4 46 (10.70%) Senior
5 39 (9.07%) Project Manager
6 37 (8.60%) Lead
7 26 (6.05%) Consultant
8 20 (4.65%) Architect
9 19 (4.42%) Java Developer
10 17 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.02%) Product Owner
11 13 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.79%) Python Developer
13 11 (2.56%) Data Engineer
14 10 (2.33%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.33%) Software Engineer
15 9 (2.09%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.09%) Senior Manager
15 9 (2.09%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.67%) React
2 31 (7.21%) Kafka
3 28 (6.51%) HTML
4 27 (6.28%) REST
5 25 (5.81%) CSS
6 24 (5.58%) Spring
7 22 (5.12%) .NET
8 18 (4.19%) RESTful
8 18 (4.19%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.72%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.02%) Web Services
11 11 (2.56%) ADO
11 11 (2.56%) SOAP
12 10 (2.33%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.86%) HTML5
13 8 (1.86%) JSON
14 7 (1.63%) Middleware
14 7 (1.63%) PySpark
15 6 (1.40%) Swagger
15 6 (1.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.56%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.56%) Reinsurance
4 10 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.09%) Market Risk
6 7 (1.63%) Anti-Spyware
6 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.63%) Reference Data
6 7 (1.63%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.40%) Derivative
8 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 4 (0.93%) PMI
8 4 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.58%) Linux
2 13 (3.02%) Unix
3 10 (2.33%) Windows
4 5 (1.16%) Android
5 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (27.67%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (23.02%) Scrum
3 85 (19.77%) DevOps
4 69 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 65 (15.12%) CI/CD
6 63 (14.65%) Project Management
7 55 (12.79%) Analytics
8 51 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (11.86%) User Stories
9 48 (11.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 45 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (10.00%) Microservices
12 39 (9.07%) Decision-Making
12 39 (9.07%) Project Delivery
13 38 (8.84%) Roadmaps
14 37 (8.60%) SDLC
15 36 (8.37%) Migration
15 36 (8.37%) Waterfall
16 34 (7.91%) Data Analysis
16 34 (7.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (23.49%) SQL
2 80 (18.60%) Python
3 57 (13.26%) Java
4 53 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.51%) C#
6 16 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 10 (2.33%) Groovy
9 7 (1.63%) Scala
10 6 (1.40%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.40%) Perl
11 5 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.93%) Go
12 4 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.70%) ABAP
13 3 (0.70%) Bash
13 3 (0.70%) C++
13 3 (0.70%) COBOL
13 3 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (12.79%) Degree
2 47 (10.93%) Security Cleared
3 40 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.65%) PMP
5 19 (4.42%) PMI Certification
6 16 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.09%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 5 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.70%) PhD
12 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.47%) CBAP
12 2 (0.47%) CFA
12 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.23%) CAPM
13 1 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.44%) QA
2 19 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.02%) PMO
4 11 (2.56%) MiFID
5 9 (2.09%) EMIR
6 8 (1.86%) Basel II
6 8 (1.86%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.70%) GDPR
7 3 (0.70%) GRC
7 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.70%) NIST
7 3 (0.70%) WCAG
8 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.47%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) UCITS
System Software
1 21 (4.88%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Lustre
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.67%) Terraform
3 9 (2.09%) Ansible
4 3 (0.70%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.70%) SCCM
5 2 (0.47%) Istio
5 2 (0.47%) Opsgenie
5 2 (0.47%) Podman
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.23%) Consul
6 1 (0.23%) Control-M
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
6 1 (0.23%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.23%) Packer
6 1 (0.23%) WMI
Vendors
1 58 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.67%) Oracle
3 24 (5.58%) SAP
4 16 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.26%) Databricks
6 12 (2.79%) Google
7 8 (1.86%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.63%) CheckPoint
8 7 (1.63%) Infoblox
8 7 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.16%) Splunk
10 5 (1.16%) UiPath
11 4 (0.93%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.93%) Charles River
11 4 (0.93%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.93%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.93%) Workday