Agile Contracts in London

Agile Software Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,783 3,695 6,084
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 21.43% 20.98% 24.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.24% 23.70% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,951 2,713 4,442
10th Percentile £380 £400 £430
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £725 £725
90th Percentile £838 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 42
10th Percentile £27.90 £27.01 £31.18
25th Percentile £35.62 £31.86 £51.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -23.64% +54.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.19 £77.88
90th Percentile £84.50 £71.25 £89.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,977 15,594 22,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.54% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,005 11,122 16,627
10th Percentile £335 £343 £372
25th Percentile £425 £448 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 302 259
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.18
Median hourly rate £32.25 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.70 £68.68 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile in London

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Agile in London

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in London

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile in London

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Agile in London

Agile
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London 0 425 £600 +5.03% 1,292
West London -1 45 £400 -20.00% 242
South London -7 32 £604 +20.70% 103
East London 0 28 £585 +8.33% 89
North London -2 3 £550 +29.41% 6
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 230 (8.26%) Confluence
2 117 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (3.67%) Apache
4 52 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 47 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.97%) CMS
7 16 (0.57%) nginx
8 14 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.29%) IIS
10 8 (0.29%) JBoss
10 8 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.18%) Drupal
12 5 (0.18%) Skype for Business
12 5 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
13 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 45 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.72%) Trello
6 10 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.36%) Sketch
7 7 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.18%) Acrobat
10 4 (0.14%) InfoPath
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.036%) InVision
Business Applications
1 48 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 38 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 24 (0.86%) Endur
5 19 (0.68%) thinkFolio
6 15 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
6 15 (0.54%) Oracle BPM
7 13 (0.47%) Shopify
8 12 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.29%) Temenos T24
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
11 6 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.22%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.14%) CA PPM
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.14%) SAP FI
13 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
13 3 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 650 (23.36%) AWS
2 547 (19.66%) Azure
3 229 (8.23%) GCP
4 203 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
5 158 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 138 (4.96%) GitHub
7 135 (4.85%) Serverless
8 129 (4.64%) dbt
9 99 (3.56%) SaaS
10 80 (2.87%) Snowflake
11 76 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (2.19%) Amazon S3
13 58 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
14 54 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 52 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
16 48 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
17 39 (1.40%) Entra ID
17 39 (1.40%) PowerApps
18 38 (1.37%) IaaS
18 38 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.55%) Firewall
2 44 (1.58%) DNS
3 38 (1.37%) VPN
4 26 (0.93%) SSL
5 24 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 22 (0.79%) HTTP
7 18 (0.65%) NGFW
8 17 (0.61%) WAN
9 13 (0.47%) Network Security
10 12 (0.43%) DHCP
10 12 (0.43%) LAN
11 10 (0.36%) Internet
12 9 (0.32%) SSH
13 8 (0.29%) SMTP
13 8 (0.29%) Wireless
14 7 (0.25%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.25%) VoIP
15 6 (0.22%) FTP
16 5 (0.18%) Kerberos
16 5 (0.18%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (4.53%) Data Lake
3 118 (4.24%) Power BI
4 113 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
5 107 (3.84%) Apache Iceberg
6 104 (3.74%) Dremio
7 102 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 100 (3.59%) Apache Arrow
9 84 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 75 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 63 (2.26%) NoSQL
12 53 (1.90%) Apache Ignite
13 50 (1.80%) MongoDB
14 45 (1.62%) Big Data
15 37 (1.33%) Tableau
16 35 (1.26%) Redis
17 32 (1.15%) DynamoDB
18 29 (1.04%) MySQL
19 25 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
19 25 (0.90%) DB2
Development Applications
1 454 (16.31%) JIRA
2 205 (7.37%) Git
3 173 (6.22%) Jenkins
4 69 (2.48%) JUnit
5 56 (2.01%) GitLab
6 50 (1.80%) Selenium
7 40 (1.44%) Postman
8 32 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 31 (1.11%) Artifactory
9 31 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 27 (0.97%) Mockito
11 26 (0.93%) REST Assured
12 23 (0.83%) Gradle
13 22 (0.79%) JMeter
14 21 (0.75%) Maven
15 19 (0.68%) Liquibase
15 19 (0.68%) SpecFlow
16 17 (0.61%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 1,079 (38.77%) Finance
2 1,031 (37.05%) Social Skills
3 449 (16.13%) Banking
4 426 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
5 373 (13.40%) Front Office
6 204 (7.33%) Public Sector
7 169 (6.07%) Investment Banking
8 112 (4.02%) Retail
9 104 (3.74%) Marketing
10 76 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (1.98%) Legal
12 50 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 49 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 48 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
15 42 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.47%) Back Office
17 32 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 30 (1.08%) Manufacturing
19 29 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 670 (24.07%) Developer
2 441 (15.85%) Analyst
3 409 (14.70%) Senior
4 348 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 228 (8.19%) Software Engineer
6 225 (8.08%) Project Manager
7 213 (7.65%) Lead
8 187 (6.72%) Architect
9 136 (4.89%) Java Developer
10 125 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
11 124 (4.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 110 (3.95%) Senior Developer
13 102 (3.67%) Consultant
14 95 (3.41%) Python Engineer
15 94 (3.38%) Data Engineer
16 89 (3.20%) AWS Software Engineer
17 85 (3.05%) Python Developer
18 81 (2.91%) Java Engineer
19 74 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
20 70 (2.52%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (10.38%) React
2 188 (6.76%) .NET
3 178 (6.40%) Kafka
4 159 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 147 (5.28%) REST
6 145 (5.21%) Node.js
7 131 (4.71%) HTML
8 123 (4.42%) Spring
9 120 (4.31%) CSS
10 104 (3.74%) RESTful
11 96 (3.45%) Redux
12 86 (3.09%) Pandas
13 84 (3.02%) NumPy
14 78 (2.80%) Web Services
15 76 (2.73%) Spring Boot
16 73 (2.62%) SciPy
17 72 (2.59%) Vue
18 71 (2.55%) SOAP
19 68 (2.44%) PySpark
20 63 (2.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 279 (10.03%) Fixed Income
2 230 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 201 (7.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 191 (6.86%) Derivative
5 169 (6.07%) Equities
6 165 (5.93%) Hedge funds
7 87 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 69 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 57 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 56 (2.01%) Mobile App
11 53 (1.90%) Virtual Team
12 46 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
13 45 (1.62%) Public Cloud
14 43 (1.55%) Algorithms
15 42 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
16 41 (1.47%) Management Information System
17 40 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
17 40 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
18 37 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
19 33 (1.19%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 126 (4.53%) Linux
2 85 (3.05%) Windows
3 58 (2.08%) Android
4 52 (1.87%) Unix
5 43 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.32%) VMS
8 6 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.11%) Rocky
11 2 (0.072%) CentOS
11 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.072%) zOS
12 1 (0.036%) Debian
12 1 (0.036%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.036%) Solaris
12 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (20.88%) DevOps
2 579 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
3 553 (19.87%) Scrum
4 481 (17.28%) CI/CD
5 400 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 377 (13.55%) Software Engineering
7 342 (12.29%) Project Management
8 305 (10.96%) Analytics
9 267 (9.59%) Roadmaps
10 254 (9.13%) Asset Management
11 248 (8.91%) Migration
12 246 (8.84%) Microservices
13 245 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 245 (8.80%) Test Automation
14 242 (8.70%) Investment Management
15 235 (8.44%) SDLC
16 234 (8.41%) Waterfall
17 214 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
18 210 (7.55%) User Stories
19 202 (7.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 608 (21.85%) Python
2 559 (20.09%) SQL
3 525 (18.86%) Java
4 440 (15.81%) JavaScript
5 319 (11.46%) TypeScript
6 235 (8.44%) C#
7 66 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.19%) Go
9 49 (1.76%) C++
10 46 (1.65%) Scala
11 44 (1.58%) PL/SQL
12 42 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.26%) Bash
14 34 (1.22%) Kotlin
15 33 (1.19%) Groovy
16 20 (0.72%) Bicep
17 18 (0.65%) Ruby
18 17 (0.61%) PHP
18 17 (0.61%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 390 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 323 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 321 (11.53%) Degree
4 97 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (3.23%) PMI Certification
6 84 (3.02%) PMP
7 40 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.11%) Azure Certification
11 26 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.75%) CISSP
13 19 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
14 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.57%) CBAP
15 16 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 15 (0.54%) CISM
17 12 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 10 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
19 9 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (8.37%) QA
2 95 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 61 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 45 (1.62%) PMO
5 42 (1.51%) GDPR
6 33 (1.19%) MiFID
7 26 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.75%) NIST
9 17 (0.61%) GRC
10 15 (0.54%) WCAG
11 14 (0.50%) EMIR
12 12 (0.43%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.40%) Basel II
13 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.32%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.29%) SLA
16 7 (0.25%) NCSC
17 6 (0.22%) Solvency II
18 4 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.14%) Basel III
System Software
1 215 (7.73%) Docker
2 44 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.11%) KVM
6 3 (0.11%) Lustre
6 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.036%) Postfix
8 1 (0.036%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 219 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 197 (7.08%) Terraform
3 63 (2.26%) Ansible
4 27 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (0.75%) Grafana
6 15 (0.54%) Packer
6 15 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.47%) Consul
8 12 (0.43%) Puppet
9 9 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.29%) SCCM
11 7 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.22%) Perfmon
13 5 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.18%) Kibana
13 5 (0.18%) Podman
14 3 (0.11%) Argo
14 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 302 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 199 (7.15%) Oracle
3 119 (4.28%) SAP
4 97 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 79 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 68 (2.44%) Databricks
7 60 (2.16%) Google
8 40 (1.44%) Adobe
8 40 (1.44%) BISAM
9 33 (1.19%) Atlassian
10 29 (1.04%) Charles River
10 29 (1.04%) Splunk
11 24 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 22 (0.79%) Calypso
13 21 (0.75%) SimCorp
13 21 (0.75%) Sybase
13 21 (0.75%) Workday
14 20 (0.72%) CheckPoint
14 20 (0.72%) IBM
14 20 (0.72%) Murex