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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 398 487 838
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 20.96% 20.34% 22.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.41% 22.45% 25.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 338 553
10th Percentile £406 £406 £417
25th Percentile £469 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -5.83% +2.56%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £725
90th Percentile £813 £775 £800
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +5.00% -25.93% +51.69%

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 1,776 2,169 3,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.52% 90.60% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,532 2,253
10th Percentile £355 £350 £326
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £797 £818
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 28
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £31.19 £53.19
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -28.21% +9.86%

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 6 June 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
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 6 June 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 0 363 £600 +4.35% 195
West End of London -3 9 £450 -2.70% 46
City of Westminster -2 6 £550 -4.35% 12
Camden +7 4 £450 -33.33% 3
Kensington and Chelsea +1 1 - - 1
Southwark -3 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 36 (9.05%) Confluence
2 15 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.26%) Apache
4 7 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.25%) Camunda
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
7 1 (0.25%) MTS
7 1 (0.25%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 23 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.26%) Trello
5 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.01%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.01%) Endur
3 4 (1.01%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.75%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.75%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.25%) HFM
6 1 (0.25%) Maximo
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.25%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.25%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 97 (24.37%) Azure
2 62 (15.58%) AWS
3 45 (11.31%) Power Platform
4 26 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (5.28%) SaaS
6 15 (3.77%) GCP
6 15 (3.77%) GitHub
7 11 (2.76%) Serverless
8 9 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.01%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.76%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (1.76%) PaaS
11 6 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.51%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.26%) Figma
12 5 (1.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.27%) Firewall
2 15 (3.77%) DNS
3 11 (2.76%) VPN
4 7 (1.76%) NGFW
5 6 (1.51%) HTTP
6 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.01%) SSH
8 3 (0.75%) DHCP
8 3 (0.75%) SSL
9 2 (0.50%) FTP
9 2 (0.50%) Network Security
9 2 (0.50%) SMTP
10 1 (0.25%) BGP
10 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.25%) Intranet
10 1 (0.25%) LAN
10 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.55%) Power BI
2 29 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.03%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 15 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.51%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.01%) Apache Hive
9 8 (2.01%) Big Data
9 8 (2.01%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.76%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.51%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.26%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.26%) MySQL
12 5 (1.26%) Tableau
13 4 (1.01%) DB2
13 4 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (17.09%) JIRA
2 29 (7.29%) Git
3 13 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.01%) Postman
4 8 (2.01%) Selenium
5 7 (1.76%) GitLab
6 6 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.51%) JUnit
6 6 (1.51%) REST Assured
6 6 (1.51%) ScriptRunner
7 5 (1.26%) Maven
7 5 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.01%) RStudio
8 4 (1.01%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.01%) Xcode
9 3 (0.75%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.75%) Mockito
9 3 (0.75%) Subversion
9 3 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 171 (42.96%) Social Skills
2 149 (37.44%) Finance
3 61 (15.33%) Banking
4 54 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.77%) Front Office
8 17 (4.27%) Investment Banking
9 16 (4.02%) Retail
10 14 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.76%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.51%) Back Office
13 9 (2.26%) Legal
14 8 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (2.01%) Marketing
14 8 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.26%) Law
16 5 (1.26%) Local Government
17 4 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (23.12%) Developer
2 78 (19.60%) Analyst
3 59 (14.82%) Business Analyst
4 45 (11.31%) Senior
5 40 (10.05%) Project Manager
6 34 (8.54%) Lead
7 25 (6.28%) Consultant
8 21 (5.28%) Java Developer
9 18 (4.52%) Architect
10 16 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.27%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (2.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 11 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.51%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.51%) Python Developer
15 9 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (2.26%) Data Business Analyst
15 9 (2.26%) Product Owner
15 9 (2.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.79%) React
2 28 (7.04%) HTML
3 26 (6.53%) Kafka
3 26 (6.53%) Spring
4 25 (6.28%) REST
5 24 (6.03%) CSS
6 23 (5.78%) .NET
7 20 (5.03%) Spring Boot
8 16 (4.02%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.77%) RESTful
9 15 (3.77%) Web Services
10 12 (3.02%) ADO
11 11 (2.76%) SOAP
12 9 (2.26%) GraphQL
12 9 (2.26%) JSON
12 9 (2.26%) PySpark
13 8 (2.01%) HTML5
14 6 (1.51%) Swagger
14 6 (1.51%) XML
14 6 (1.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 11 (2.76%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.26%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.26%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.26%) Reference Data
5 8 (2.01%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.01%) Market Risk
5 8 (2.01%) Reinsurance
6 7 (1.76%) Anti-Spyware
6 7 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.76%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.51%) PMI
8 5 (1.26%) CMDB
8 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.78%) Linux
2 12 (3.02%) Unix
3 9 (2.26%) Windows
4 5 (1.26%) Android
5 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (21.86%) Scrum
3 85 (21.36%) DevOps
4 66 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 63 (15.83%) Project Management
6 55 (13.82%) CI/CD
7 48 (12.06%) Analytics
8 45 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (10.55%) Business Intelligence
9 42 (10.55%) Microservices
10 40 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
11 37 (9.30%) Migration
11 37 (9.30%) Project Delivery
11 37 (9.30%) User Stories
12 36 (9.05%) Decision-Making
12 36 (9.05%) Roadmaps
13 34 (8.54%) SDLC
14 33 (8.29%) Waterfall
15 32 (8.04%) Test Automation
16 31 (7.79%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (24.37%) SQL
2 74 (18.59%) Python
3 55 (13.82%) Java
4 54 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.04%) C#
6 12 (3.02%) Shell Script
6 12 (3.02%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.51%) Groovy
8 9 (2.26%) Scala
9 6 (1.51%) Perl
10 5 (1.26%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.26%) Bash
11 4 (1.01%) Go
11 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.75%) ABAP
12 3 (0.75%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.75%) Ruby
12 3 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.81%) Degree
3 44 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.28%) PMI Certification
5 19 (4.77%) PMP
6 15 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 6 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.01%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.75%) CBAP
12 3 (0.75%) PhD
13 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.50%) CFA
13 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.25%) CAPM
14 1 (0.25%) CISSP
14 1 (0.25%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.53%) QA
2 18 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.02%) PMO
4 11 (2.76%) MiFID
5 9 (2.26%) EMIR
6 8 (2.01%) Basel II
7 7 (1.76%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.26%) GDPR
9 3 (0.75%) GRC
9 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.75%) NIST
10 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 2 (0.50%) WCAG
11 1 (0.25%) UCITS
System Software
1 21 (5.28%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 40 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.29%) Terraform
3 9 (2.26%) Ansible
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.75%) SCCM
5 2 (0.50%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.50%) Istio
5 2 (0.50%) Opsgenie
5 2 (0.50%) Podman
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.25%) Control-M
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.79%) Oracle
3 22 (5.53%) SAP
4 17 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.52%) Databricks
6 9 (2.26%) Google
7 8 (2.01%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.01%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.76%) Infoblox
9 6 (1.51%) Splunk
10 5 (1.26%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.26%) IBM
10 5 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.01%) Charles River
11 4 (1.01%) OpenLink
11 4 (1.01%) UiPath
12 3 (0.75%) Broadcom
12 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft