Agile Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Agile Software Development
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing Agile 8 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 18.18% 22.03% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.51% 23.21% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £314 £429 -
25th Percentile £350 £509 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £288
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +95.65% -61.02%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £306
90th Percentile £620 £605 -
Central London median daily rate £561 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -4.47% -2.08% +2.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 56 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 88.64% 94.92% 77.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 36
10th Percentile £350 £408 £309
25th Percentile £450 £443 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £900
90th Percentile £708 £788 £1,044
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £19.59 - -
25th Percentile £20.68 - -
Median hourly rate £22.49 - £26.00
75th Percentile £24.30 - -
90th Percentile £25.39 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Agile job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in the City of Westminster

Agile
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 17 November 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
Paddington 0 6 £413 -28.26%
Westminster -2 2 £600 +10.09% 3
Agile
Central London

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
1 1 (12.50%) Datadog
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
1 1 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Mocha
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 2 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) NHS Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lean Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Fastify
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) Jest
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Swagger
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (12.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk