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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 463 875 1,275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 19.09% 23.20% 28.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.07% 25.39% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 569 975
10th Percentile £408 £422 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.95% +8.73%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £794 £820 £780
London median daily rate £575 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.00% +12.05%
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 £53.75 £66.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +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 2,197 3,446 4,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.60% 91.36% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 2,330 3,170
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
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 23 29 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £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 £30.41 £53.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%

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 8 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 8 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 -1 423 £575 -6.16% 118
West End of London -1 14 £431 -20.14% 21
City of Westminster +3 9 £400 -36.00% 6
Camden -8 2 £675 +36.36% 14
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 (5.40%) SharePoint
2 24 (5.18%) Confluence
3 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.94%) CMS
5 8 (1.73%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.30%) Apache
6 6 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.86%) IIS
7 4 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.65%) MTS
9 2 (0.43%) Documentum
9 2 (0.43%) Jadu
9 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.43%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.22%) Drupal
10 1 (0.22%) Moodle
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.94%) 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 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.65%) Aligne
2 3 (0.65%) Endur
2 3 (0.65%) EuroRunner
3 2 (0.43%) Primavera
3 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.22%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.22%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.22%) Softmar
4 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 154 (33.26%) Azure
2 63 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (10.58%) AWS
4 42 (9.07%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (3.24%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.24%) GCP
7 15 (3.24%) SaaS
7 15 (3.24%) Serverless
8 12 (2.59%) GitHub
9 11 (2.38%) Azure Functions
9 11 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
13 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 60 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 32 (6.91%) Power BI
3 25 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (3.02%) MongoDB
6 13 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.16%) MySQL
7 10 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.30%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 6 (1.30%) 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 (10.58%) JIRA
2 29 (6.26%) Git
3 19 (4.10%) Selenium
4 13 (2.81%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.38%) GitLab
5 11 (2.38%) Postman
6 10 (2.16%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.73%) JUnit
8 6 (1.30%) Mockito
8 6 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.30%) 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%) Maven
11 3 (0.65%) Subversion
11 3 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 149 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 116 (25.05%) Finance
3 47 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (10.15%) Banking
4 33 (7.13%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (4.10%) Legal
7 16 (3.46%) Front Office
8 15 (3.24%) Back Office
9 14 (3.02%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.81%) Retail
11 12 (2.59%) Law
11 12 (2.59%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.94%) Marketing
14 8 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.30%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 99 (21.38%) Developer
2 76 (16.41%) Analyst
3 59 (12.74%) Senior
4 51 (11.02%) Business Analyst
5 41 (8.86%) Project Manager
6 31 (6.70%) Architect
7 30 (6.48%) Lead
8 25 (5.40%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.54%) Product Owner
10 19 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
10 19 (4.10%) Java Developer
11 18 (3.89%) Consultant
12 15 (3.24%) Test Analyst
13 14 (3.02%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
14 13 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.59%) Product Manager
15 12 (2.59%) Scrum Master
15 12 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.16%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.80%) .NET
2 25 (5.40%) XML
3 23 (4.97%) .NET Core
4 21 (4.54%) HTML
5 18 (3.89%) CSS
5 18 (3.89%) Web Services
6 17 (3.67%) AngularJS
7 16 (3.46%) React
8 14 (3.02%) Kafka
8 14 (3.02%) REST
9 13 (2.81%) .NET Framework
9 13 (2.81%) Spring
10 12 (2.59%) JSON
11 11 (2.38%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.38%) Spring Boot
12 8 (1.73%) jQuery
13 7 (1.51%) Blazor
13 7 (1.51%) Node.js
13 7 (1.51%) SOAP
14 6 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.17%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.59%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (1.94%) Cloud Native
4 9 (1.94%) Market Risk
5 8 (1.73%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.08%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.65%) Contactless
10 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.65%) Derivative
10 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.65%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.89%) Linux
1 18 (3.89%) Windows
2 9 (1.94%) Unix
3 5 (1.08%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (25.27%) DevOps
2 109 (23.54%) Scrum
3 80 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (15.77%) CI/CD
5 71 (15.33%) Project Management
6 54 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (11.23%) Waterfall
8 41 (8.86%) SDLC
9 40 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (8.21%) Microservices
10 38 (8.21%) User Stories
11 37 (7.99%) Migration
11 37 (7.99%) Test Automation
12 36 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (7.78%) Roadmaps
13 35 (7.56%) Project Delivery
13 35 (7.56%) Software Engineering
14 34 (7.34%) Analytics
14 34 (7.34%) User Acceptance Testing
15 33 (7.13%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.63%) SQL
2 61 (13.17%) C#
3 52 (11.23%) Python
4 49 (10.58%) Java
5 41 (8.86%) PowerShell
6 37 (7.99%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.32%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.24%) Bicep
9 12 (2.59%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.16%) Go
10 10 (2.16%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.73%) C++
12 7 (1.51%) Scala
12 7 (1.51%) XPath
13 6 (1.30%) XQuery
14 4 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.65%) R
15 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (9.94%) Degree
2 39 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.73%) PMP
8 7 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.08%) ISEB
9 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.43%) CCNA
11 2 (0.43%) CIMA
11 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.43%) SANS
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.83%) QA
2 26 (5.62%) PMO
3 10 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.51%) SLA
6 5 (1.08%) GDPR
6 5 (1.08%) WCAG
7 4 (0.86%) NIST
7 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (3.67%) Docker
2 16 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) Ceph
4 1 (0.22%) NFS
4 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.81%) Terraform
3 8 (1.73%) Ansible
3 8 (1.73%) PingFederate
4 5 (1.08%) 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%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 93 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.34%) Oracle
3 20 (4.32%) SAP
4 15 (3.24%) Databricks
4 15 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.59%) Google
6 10 (2.16%) Adobe
7 9 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.51%) Cadence
9 6 (1.30%) IBM
9 6 (1.30%) iManage
9 6 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (1.08%) Cisco
10 5 (1.08%) Splunk
11 4 (0.86%) Siebel
12 3 (0.65%) Foundry
12 3 (0.65%) Okta
12 3 (0.65%) Proofpoint
12 3 (0.65%) Symantec