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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 471 853 1,287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 19.63% 22.81% 28.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.66% 24.99% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 563 983
10th Percentile £406 £418 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.61% +7.36%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £701
90th Percentile £784 £800 £779
London median daily rate £575 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
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 £52.50 £67.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.64% +50.56% -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 2,175 3,413 4,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 91.28% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 2,322 3,182
10th Percentile £350 £325 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £28.98 £53.75 £55.38
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%

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 16 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 16 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 -1 431 £575 -6.92% 126
West End of London 0 14 £431 -12.88% 14
City of Westminster +6 9 £400 -33.33% 1
Camden -8 2 £675 +36.36% 13
Southwark +6 1 £501 -19.92% 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 1
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 26 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.31%) Confluence
3 10 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.91%) CMS
5 7 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (1.06%) Apache
6 5 (1.06%) IIS
7 4 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.64%) MTS
9 2 (0.42%) Documentum
9 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.42%) Jadu
9 2 (0.42%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
10 1 (0.21%) Moodle
10 1 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.42%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) InVision
Business Applications
1 10 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.64%) Aligne
2 3 (0.64%) Endur
2 3 (0.64%) EuroRunner
3 2 (0.42%) Primavera
3 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.21%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.21%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.21%) Softmar
4 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 154 (32.70%) Azure
2 65 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (10.40%) AWS
4 43 (9.13%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 15 (3.18%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.18%) Serverless
8 14 (2.97%) GCP
9 13 (2.76%) GitHub
9 13 (2.76%) SaaS
10 12 (2.55%) Azure Functions
10 12 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.70%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.06%) Firewall
1 5 (1.06%) Internet
2 4 (0.85%) VoIP
3 3 (0.64%) DNS
4 2 (0.42%) CTI
4 2 (0.42%) LAN
4 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.42%) VPN
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) 4G
5 1 (0.21%) 5G
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) Intranet
5 1 (0.21%) LTE
5 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.21%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VLAN
5 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.80%) SQL Server
2 33 (7.01%) Power BI
3 26 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.12%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.12%) MySQL
7 10 (2.12%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 6 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (1.06%) Big Data
10 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.85%) Redis
11 4 (0.85%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 51 (10.83%) JIRA
2 30 (6.37%) Git
3 19 (4.03%) Selenium
4 13 (2.76%) Postman
5 12 (2.55%) GitLab
5 12 (2.55%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.12%) SpecFlow
7 8 (1.70%) JUnit
8 7 (1.49%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.27%) Mockito
9 6 (1.27%) WebDriver
10 5 (1.06%) JMeter
10 5 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.85%) Appium
11 4 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.85%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.85%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.85%) TestNG
12 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 153 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 124 (26.33%) Finance
3 49 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.77%) Banking
5 37 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.03%) Legal
8 17 (3.61%) Back Office
9 15 (3.18%) Front Office
10 14 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.76%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.76%) Retail
12 11 (2.34%) Law
13 10 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.12%) Marketing
14 9 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.27%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.85%) Automotive
17 4 (0.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 101 (21.44%) Developer
2 79 (16.77%) Analyst
3 61 (12.95%) Senior
4 52 (11.04%) Business Analyst
5 41 (8.70%) Project Manager
6 31 (6.58%) Architect
7 30 (6.37%) Lead
8 25 (5.31%) Senior Developer
9 21 (4.46%) Product Owner
10 20 (4.25%) Delivery Manager
11 18 (3.82%) Java Developer
12 16 (3.40%) Consultant
12 16 (3.40%) Test Analyst
13 15 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (2.97%) Full Stack Developer
15 13 (2.76%) Data Engineer
16 12 (2.55%) Product Manager
16 12 (2.55%) Scrum Master
16 12 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (2.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.46%) .NET
2 27 (5.73%) XML
3 25 (5.31%) .NET Core
4 22 (4.67%) HTML
5 19 (4.03%) CSS
5 19 (4.03%) Web Services
6 17 (3.61%) AngularJS
6 17 (3.61%) React
7 14 (2.97%) Kafka
7 14 (2.97%) REST
7 14 (2.97%) Spring
8 13 (2.76%) .NET Framework
9 12 (2.55%) JSON
10 11 (2.34%) ASP.NET
10 11 (2.34%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.70%) Blazor
11 8 (1.70%) jQuery
11 8 (1.70%) Node.js
12 7 (1.49%) Middleware
12 7 (1.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (14.23%) Product Ownership
2 14 (2.97%) Mobile App
3 12 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.12%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.91%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.91%) Market Risk
6 7 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.64%) Contactless
10 3 (0.64%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.64%) Derivative
10 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.64%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.64%) IVR
10 3 (0.64%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.25%) Windows
2 17 (3.61%) Linux
3 9 (1.91%) Unix
4 7 (1.49%) Android
5 4 (0.85%) Mac OS X
5 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) CentOS
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (25.69%) DevOps
2 117 (24.84%) Scrum
3 80 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (15.92%) CI/CD
5 73 (15.50%) Project Management
6 57 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (11.04%) Waterfall
8 44 (9.34%) SDLC
9 42 (8.92%) User Stories
10 41 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (8.70%) Test Automation
11 38 (8.07%) Microservices
11 38 (8.07%) Migration
11 38 (8.07%) Roadmaps
12 36 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (7.64%) Software Engineering
12 36 (7.64%) User Acceptance Testing
13 35 (7.43%) Analytics
14 34 (7.22%) Kanban
14 34 (7.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 81 (17.20%) SQL
2 61 (12.95%) C#
3 49 (10.40%) Python
4 48 (10.19%) Java
5 42 (8.92%) PowerShell
6 41 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.46%) T-SQL
8 16 (3.40%) Bicep
9 13 (2.76%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.34%) Go
10 11 (2.34%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.91%) C++
12 7 (1.49%) Scala
12 7 (1.49%) XPath
13 6 (1.27%) XQuery
14 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.64%) PHP
16 3 (0.64%) R
16 3 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (9.55%) Degree
2 39 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.12%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (1.70%) PMP
7 7 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.06%) ISEB
8 5 (1.06%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.42%) CCNA
9 2 (0.42%) CIMA
9 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.16%) QA
2 27 (5.73%) PMO
3 10 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.49%) SLA
5 6 (1.27%) GDPR
5 6 (1.27%) WCAG
6 5 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.64%) NIST
8 2 (0.42%) EMIR
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.40%) Docker
3 3 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.42%) NFS
5 1 (0.21%) Ceph
5 1 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.76%) Terraform
3 8 (1.70%) Ansible
3 8 (1.70%) PingFederate
4 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.06%) Puppet
5 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.64%) Grafana
6 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.42%) Kibana
7 2 (0.42%) logstash
7 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.21%) Consul
8 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.21%) Graylog
8 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.21%) Mesos
8 1 (0.21%) Packer
8 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 97 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.64%) Oracle
3 22 (4.67%) SAP
4 16 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.76%) Databricks
6 11 (2.34%) Google
7 10 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.91%) Adobe
9 7 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.27%) Cadence
10 6 (1.27%) Cisco
10 6 (1.27%) iManage
11 5 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.06%) IBM
11 5 (1.06%) Splunk
12 4 (0.85%) Siebel
13 3 (0.64%) Arista
13 3 (0.64%) Genesys
13 3 (0.64%) ION Trading
13 3 (0.64%) Symantec