Agile Contracts in the City of London

Agile Software Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 395 453 783
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 21.98% 21.22% 22.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.41% 23.30% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 315 514
10th Percentile £377 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.20%
75th Percentile £693 £688 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.80 - -
25th Percentile £40.88 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.38 - -
90th Percentile £82.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £33.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.91% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in the City of London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of 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
London Bridge 0 2 - -
Moorgate - 1 £230 -
Agile
Central London

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.89%) Confluence
2 13 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.77%) Apache
4 6 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.01%) CMS
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.76%) Drupal
7 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.51%) WordPress
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (6.08%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.27%) Trello
6 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.01%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.01%) Endur
4 3 (0.76%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.76%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.51%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.25%) Maximo
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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
6 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 97 (24.56%) Azure
2 68 (17.22%) AWS
3 45 (11.39%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.06%) SaaS
6 15 (3.80%) GCP
7 14 (3.54%) GitHub
7 14 (3.54%) Serverless
8 13 (3.29%) Amazon S3
9 10 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.03%) Figma
12 7 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.77%) PaaS
13 6 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.30%) Firewall
2 14 (3.54%) DNS
3 12 (3.04%) VPN
4 7 (1.77%) NGFW
5 6 (1.52%) HTTP
6 5 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.76%) SSH
7 3 (0.76%) SSL
8 2 (0.51%) DHCP
8 2 (0.51%) FTP
8 2 (0.51%) Network Security
8 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.25%) Intranet
9 1 (0.25%) LAN
9 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.25%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.62%) Power BI
2 28 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.57%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 14 (3.54%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.04%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.53%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.03%) Big Data
9 8 (2.03%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.77%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.52%) Apache Hive
11 6 (1.52%) Tableau
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.27%) MySQL
12 5 (1.27%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.01%) DB2
13 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (18.48%) JIRA
2 28 (7.09%) Git
3 8 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.03%) Selenium
4 7 (1.77%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.52%) ScriptRunner
6 5 (1.27%) GitLab
6 5 (1.27%) Postman
7 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.76%) LoadRunner
7 3 (0.76%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) JMeter
8 2 (0.51%) JUnit
8 2 (0.51%) Maven
8 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.51%) RStudio
8 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.25%) Storybook
General
1 166 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 165 (41.77%) Finance
3 63 (15.95%) Banking
4 47 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.33%) Front Office
6 24 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 22 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (4.81%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.78%) Back Office
9 11 (2.78%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.53%) Retail
11 8 (2.03%) Legal
11 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.77%) Marketing
13 6 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.27%) Law
14 5 (1.27%) Retail Banking
15 4 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (24.05%) Developer
2 74 (18.73%) Analyst
3 56 (14.18%) Business Analyst
4 44 (11.14%) Senior
5 36 (9.11%) Project Manager
6 35 (8.86%) Lead
7 25 (6.33%) Consultant
8 20 (5.06%) Architect
9 18 (4.56%) Java Developer
10 13 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
10 13 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.04%) Product Owner
11 12 (3.04%) Python Developer
12 11 (2.78%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.53%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.28%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 9 (2.28%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.35%) React
2 28 (7.09%) Kafka
3 25 (6.33%) HTML
4 24 (6.08%) REST
5 22 (5.57%) .NET
5 22 (5.57%) CSS
6 21 (5.32%) Spring
7 18 (4.56%) RESTful
8 15 (3.80%) Spring Boot
9 13 (3.29%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.78%) ADO
11 10 (2.53%) GraphQL
11 10 (2.53%) Web Services
12 8 (2.03%) JSON
12 8 (2.03%) SOAP
13 7 (1.77%) Middleware
13 7 (1.77%) PySpark
14 6 (1.52%) XML
15 5 (1.27%) jQuery
15 5 (1.27%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.61%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.80%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.53%) Reinsurance
5 9 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.28%) Market Risk
6 7 (1.77%) Anti-Spyware
6 7 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.77%) Reference Data
6 7 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.52%) Derivative
7 6 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.01%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.01%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.01%) PMI
8 4 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.08%) Linux
2 10 (2.53%) Unix
2 10 (2.53%) Windows
3 5 (1.27%) Android
4 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.10%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (24.05%) Scrum
3 82 (20.76%) DevOps
4 63 (15.95%) CI/CD
5 57 (14.43%) Project Management
5 57 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 54 (13.67%) Analytics
7 47 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (11.65%) User Acceptance Testing
8 46 (11.65%) User Stories
9 44 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (10.13%) Microservices
11 35 (8.86%) Project Delivery
12 34 (8.61%) SDLC
12 34 (8.61%) Software Engineering
13 33 (8.35%) Migration
13 33 (8.35%) Roadmaps
14 32 (8.10%) Data Analysis
14 32 (8.10%) Data Modelling
14 32 (8.10%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 98 (24.81%) SQL
2 78 (19.75%) Python
3 53 (13.42%) Java
4 50 (12.66%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.84%) C#
6 16 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.03%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.77%) Groovy
8 7 (1.77%) Scala
9 6 (1.52%) Apex Code
9 6 (1.52%) Perl
10 5 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.01%) Go
11 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.76%) ABAP
12 3 (0.76%) C++
12 3 (0.76%) Ruby
13 2 (0.51%) Bash
13 2 (0.51%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 55 (13.92%) Degree
2 47 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 40 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.30%) PMI Certification
4 17 (4.30%) PMP
5 16 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.28%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.76%) PhD
11 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.51%) CBAP
11 2 (0.51%) CFA
11 2 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.25%) CISSP
12 1 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.59%) QA
2 16 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.78%) MiFID
3 11 (2.78%) PMO
4 9 (2.28%) EMIR
5 8 (2.03%) Basel II
5 8 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.76%) GDPR
6 3 (0.76%) GRC
6 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.76%) NIST
6 3 (0.76%) WCAG
7 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.51%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
8 1 (0.25%) UCITS
System Software
1 17 (4.30%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Lustre
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (8.35%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.10%) Terraform
3 9 (2.28%) Ansible
4 3 (0.76%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.76%) SCCM
5 2 (0.51%) Istio
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.51%) Opsgenie
5 2 (0.51%) Podman
6 1 (0.25%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Control-M
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.25%) Packer
6 1 (0.25%) WMI
Vendors
1 56 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.58%) Oracle
3 16 (4.05%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.54%) Databricks
4 14 (3.54%) SAP
5 11 (2.78%) Google
6 8 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.77%) CheckPoint
7 7 (1.77%) Infoblox
7 7 (1.77%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.27%) UiPath
10 4 (1.01%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.01%) Charles River
10 4 (1.01%) IBM
10 4 (1.01%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.01%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.76%) Citrix
11 3 (0.76%) HP
11 3 (0.76%) Murex