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 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 463 915 1,276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 18.82% 23.62% 28.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.79% 25.77% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 592 983
10th Percentile £410 £422 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £783 £825 £786
London median daily rate £583 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -2.92% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.18
25th Percentile - - £52.56
Median hourly rate £33.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £60.06
90th Percentile - - £61.53
London median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +46.07% -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 2,227 3,551 4,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.66% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 2,404 3,185
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.22 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £28.75 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.28% +8.33% +11.73%

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 26 April 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 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
City of London -1 425 £575 -4.17% 120
West End of London -1 15 £431 -20.14% 21
City of Westminster +2 9 £400 -37.25% 7
Camden -8 2 £675 +30.43% 14
Southwark +5 1 £501 -19.92% 2
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 21 (4.54%) Confluence
3 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.73%) CMS
5 6 (1.30%) Apache
5 6 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.86%) IIS
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.65%) MTS
8 2 (0.43%) Documentum
8 2 (0.43%) Jadu
8 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) Drupal
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.02%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (2.38%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.43%) Sketch
7 1 (0.22%) InVision
7 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.30%) Endur
3 3 (0.65%) Aligne
3 3 (0.65%) EuroRunner
4 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.43%) Primavera
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.22%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.22%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.22%) Softmar
5 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 151 (32.61%) Azure
2 60 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (10.80%) AWS
4 42 (9.07%) Power Platform
5 23 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.46%) SaaS
7 14 (3.02%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.02%) GCP
7 14 (3.02%) GitHub
7 14 (3.02%) Serverless
8 12 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (2.38%) Azure Functions
10 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.51%) Azure Storage
12 7 (1.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.08%) Firewall
2 4 (0.86%) Internet
3 3 (0.65%) DNS
4 2 (0.43%) Intranet
4 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.43%) VoIP
4 2 (0.43%) VPN
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) 4G
5 1 (0.22%) 5G
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) LAN
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 56 (12.10%) SQL Server
2 32 (6.91%) Power BI
3 25 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (3.02%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (2.16%) Data Lake
5 10 (2.16%) MySQL
5 10 (2.16%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.30%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 6 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (1.08%) Big Data
9 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.86%) Metadata
10 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.86%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 51 (11.02%) JIRA
2 29 (6.26%) Git
3 18 (3.89%) Selenium
4 13 (2.81%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.38%) GitLab
6 9 (1.94%) Postman
6 9 (1.94%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.73%) JUnit
8 6 (1.30%) Mockito
9 5 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.08%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.86%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.86%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.86%) TestNG
10 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio Team System
11 3 (0.65%) Appium
11 3 (0.65%) Gradle
11 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
General
1 152 (32.83%) Social Skills
2 116 (25.05%) Finance
3 52 (11.23%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.15%) Banking
5 30 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.32%) Legal
8 16 (3.46%) Front Office
9 13 (2.81%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.59%) Law
10 12 (2.59%) Retail
11 10 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.94%) Back Office
12 9 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.73%) Marketing
14 7 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.30%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 96 (20.73%) Developer
2 80 (17.28%) Analyst
3 56 (12.10%) Business Analyst
4 53 (11.45%) Senior
5 41 (8.86%) Project Manager
6 31 (6.70%) Lead
7 29 (6.26%) Architect
8 24 (5.18%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.32%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (4.32%) Product Owner
10 18 (3.89%) Consultant
10 18 (3.89%) Java Developer
11 15 (3.24%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.02%) Full Stack Developer
13 13 (2.81%) Product Manager
13 13 (2.81%) Scrum Master
14 12 (2.59%) Test Analyst
15 10 (2.16%) Insurance Business Analyst
15 10 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (1.94%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.15%) .NET
2 23 (4.97%) XML
3 22 (4.75%) .NET Core
4 18 (3.89%) HTML
5 17 (3.67%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.46%) CSS
6 16 (3.46%) Kafka
6 16 (3.46%) React
6 16 (3.46%) Web Services
7 15 (3.24%) REST
8 12 (2.59%) .NET Framework
8 12 (2.59%) JSON
8 12 (2.59%) Spring
9 11 (2.38%) Spring Boot
10 10 (2.16%) ASP.NET
11 8 (1.73%) jQuery
11 8 (1.73%) PySpark
12 7 (1.51%) Blazor
12 7 (1.51%) Node.js
12 7 (1.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.59%) Cloud Native
2 12 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 9 (1.94%) Market Risk
5 7 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.08%) Reinsurance
8 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.65%) Contactless
9 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.65%) PMI
9 3 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.10%) Windows
2 16 (3.46%) Linux
3 9 (1.94%) Unix
4 4 (0.86%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.65%) Android
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
7 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (24.19%) DevOps
2 105 (22.68%) Scrum
3 80 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (16.63%) Project Management
5 71 (15.33%) CI/CD
6 57 (12.31%) Waterfall
7 53 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (8.64%) Microservices
8 40 (8.64%) Project Delivery
9 39 (8.42%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (8.42%) SDLC
9 39 (8.42%) User Stories
10 36 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (7.78%) Test Automation
11 35 (7.56%) Software Engineering
12 34 (7.34%) Analytics
13 33 (7.13%) Migration
13 33 (7.13%) Roadmaps
13 33 (7.13%) User Acceptance Testing
14 32 (6.91%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 78 (16.85%) SQL
2 57 (12.31%) C#
3 56 (12.10%) Python
4 49 (10.58%) Java
5 39 (8.42%) PowerShell
6 37 (7.99%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.75%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.59%) Bicep
8 12 (2.59%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.16%) Go
10 9 (1.94%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.73%) C++
12 7 (1.51%) XPath
13 6 (1.30%) XQuery
14 5 (1.08%) Scala
15 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.65%) PHP
15 3 (0.65%) R
15 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (10.37%) Degree
2 36 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.05%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.94%) PMP
8 5 (1.08%) ISEB
8 5 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) CCNA
10 2 (0.43%) CIMA
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.43%) SANS
11 1 (0.22%) CISM
11 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.26%) PMO
1 29 (6.26%) QA
2 10 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.30%) SLA
5 5 (1.08%) WCAG
6 4 (0.86%) GDPR
6 4 (0.86%) NIST
7 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.43%) EMIR
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (3.46%) Active Directory
1 16 (3.46%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) Ceph
3 1 (0.22%) NFS
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.81%) Terraform
3 8 (1.73%) Ansible
3 8 (1.73%) PingFederate
4 6 (1.30%) 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%) 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%) Nagios
8 1 (0.22%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.22%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 94 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.56%) Oracle
3 19 (4.10%) SAP
4 15 (3.24%) Databricks
5 14 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.38%) Google
7 10 (2.16%) Adobe
8 9 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.51%) Cadence
10 6 (1.30%) IBM
10 6 (1.30%) iManage
10 6 (1.30%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.08%) Splunk
12 4 (0.86%) Cisco
12 4 (0.86%) Informatica
12 4 (0.86%) Siebel
13 3 (0.65%) Foundry
13 3 (0.65%) Proofpoint
13 3 (0.65%) Symantec