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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,557 3,500 6,380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 20.58% 20.03% 24.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.32% 22.59% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,778 2,562 4,648
10th Percentile £399 £400 £439
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.34 £25.00
25th Percentile £35.75 £31.86 £43.78
Median hourly rate £42.02 £52.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% -21.93% +51.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.13 £77.56
90th Percentile £76.25 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.05 £65.50
% change year-on-year +0.73% -5.27% +30.35%

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 11,457 15,493 23,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.65% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,746 11,112 16,978
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £808 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 307 266
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.77 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.43
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.10% +0.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 0 390 £585 +4.00% 313
West London 0 43 £400 -17.95% 86
South London -8 28 £584 +14.40% 39
East London -1 20 £540 - 39
North London -3 2 £409 -3.88% 3
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
1 177 (6.92%) Confluence
2 114 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (4.03%) Apache
4 55 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 44 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 31 (1.21%) CMS
7 15 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
10 7 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.27%) IIS
10 7 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.20%) Drupal
11 5 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.16%) JBoss
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
12 4 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 66 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.78%) Trello
7 14 (0.55%) Sketch
8 9 (0.35%) Adobe XD
8 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.16%) InfoPath
10 3 (0.12%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.078%) Notepad++
11 2 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.039%) InVision
Business Applications
1 44 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 31 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.70%) thinkFolio
5 17 (0.66%) Endur
6 12 (0.47%) Shopify
7 9 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
7 9 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.20%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.16%) CA PPM
11 4 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
12 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
12 3 (0.12%) SAP EWM
12 3 (0.12%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 561 (21.94%) AWS
2 494 (19.32%) Azure
3 201 (7.86%) GCP
4 170 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
5 151 (5.91%) Power Platform
6 128 (5.01%) Serverless
7 121 (4.73%) dbt
8 112 (4.38%) GitHub
9 82 (3.21%) SaaS
10 78 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
11 66 (2.58%) Snowflake
12 55 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
13 51 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
14 50 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (1.88%) Amazon S3
16 46 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
17 44 (1.72%) Entra ID
18 39 (1.53%) PowerApps
19 38 (1.49%) Figma
19 38 (1.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.46%) Firewall
2 48 (1.88%) DNS
3 36 (1.41%) VPN
4 23 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 19 (0.74%) HTTP
5 19 (0.74%) Network Security
6 18 (0.70%) NGFW
6 18 (0.70%) SSL
7 15 (0.59%) DHCP
8 12 (0.47%) WAN
9 10 (0.39%) SSH
10 9 (0.35%) LAN
10 9 (0.35%) Wireless
11 8 (0.31%) 5G
11 8 (0.31%) SMTP
11 8 (0.31%) VoIP
12 7 (0.27%) 4G
12 7 (0.27%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.27%) LTE
12 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (6.30%) Data Lake
2 155 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (4.58%) Amazon Athena
4 111 (4.34%) Power BI
5 110 (4.30%) Apache Iceberg
6 107 (4.18%) Dremio
7 101 (3.95%) SQL Server
8 98 (3.83%) Apache Arrow
9 77 (3.01%) Relational Database
10 72 (2.82%) NoSQL
11 61 (2.39%) Apache Ignite
12 56 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
12 56 (2.19%) MongoDB
13 37 (1.45%) Redis
14 34 (1.33%) Big Data
15 33 (1.29%) Tableau
16 27 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
17 26 (1.02%) MySQL
18 25 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
19 23 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 371 (14.51%) JIRA
2 170 (6.65%) Git
3 157 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.99%) GitLab
4 51 (1.99%) JUnit
5 45 (1.76%) Postman
6 43 (1.68%) Selenium
7 35 (1.37%) Artifactory
8 33 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 27 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 23 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.90%) JMeter
11 22 (0.86%) REST Assured
12 20 (0.78%) Mockito
13 19 (0.74%) Gradle
14 17 (0.66%) SoapUI
14 17 (0.66%) webpack
15 15 (0.59%) Appium
15 15 (0.59%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.55%) Liquibase
General
1 999 (39.07%) Finance
2 888 (34.73%) Social Skills
3 407 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (15.84%) Banking
5 400 (15.64%) Front Office
6 213 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 165 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 102 (3.99%) Marketing
9 98 (3.83%) Retail
10 74 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (1.80%) Legal
14 42 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (1.45%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.21%) Local Government
17 30 (1.17%) Back Office
18 29 (1.13%) Manufacturing
19 28 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 590 (23.07%) Developer
2 382 (14.94%) Analyst
3 354 (13.84%) Senior
4 290 (11.34%) Business Analyst
5 210 (8.21%) Project Manager
6 192 (7.51%) Software Engineer
7 183 (7.16%) Lead
8 178 (6.96%) Architect
9 128 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
10 114 (4.46%) Java Developer
11 105 (4.11%) Python Engineer
12 103 (4.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 99 (3.87%) Data Engineer
14 93 (3.64%) Consultant
14 93 (3.64%) Senior Developer
15 80 (3.13%) Python Developer
16 78 (3.05%) AWS Software Engineer
17 74 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
17 74 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
18 66 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (10.32%) React
2 175 (6.84%) .NET
3 164 (6.41%) Kafka
4 134 (5.24%) AngularJS
5 122 (4.77%) Node.js
6 112 (4.38%) HTML
7 110 (4.30%) CSS
8 107 (4.18%) REST
9 101 (3.95%) Spring
10 99 (3.87%) RESTful
11 85 (3.32%) PySpark
12 81 (3.17%) Redux
13 79 (3.09%) Web Services
14 78 (3.05%) Pandas
15 77 (3.01%) NumPy
16 69 (2.70%) Spring Boot
17 67 (2.62%) SciPy
18 59 (2.31%) Vue
19 54 (2.11%) .NET Core
20 52 (2.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 294 (11.50%) Fixed Income
2 245 (9.58%) Derivative
3 231 (9.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 214 (8.37%) Hedge funds
5 212 (8.29%) Product Ownership
6 201 (7.86%) Equities
7 66 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 61 (2.39%) Cloud Native
9 45 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 42 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 41 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 39 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
14 38 (1.49%) Algorithms
15 37 (1.45%) Virtual Team
16 35 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (1.33%) Management Information System
18 31 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
19 30 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
20 29 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 101 (3.95%) Linux
2 80 (3.13%) Windows
3 44 (1.72%) Unix
4 43 (1.68%) Apple iOS
5 42 (1.64%) Android
6 18 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.35%) VMS
9 3 (0.12%) CentOS
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Rocky
9 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.078%) zOS
11 1 (0.039%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.039%) Solaris
11 1 (0.039%) SUSE
11 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (21.24%) DevOps
2 533 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
3 435 (17.01%) Scrum
4 428 (16.74%) CI/CD
5 348 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 338 (13.22%) Software Engineering
7 319 (12.48%) Project Management
8 295 (11.54%) Analytics
9 294 (11.50%) Roadmaps
10 279 (10.91%) Migration
11 267 (10.44%) Asset Management
12 265 (10.36%) Investment Management
13 223 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 221 (8.64%) Test Automation
15 219 (8.56%) Waterfall
16 203 (7.94%) SDLC
17 197 (7.70%) Business Intelligence
17 197 (7.70%) Microservices
18 185 (7.24%) Business Analysis
18 185 (7.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 566 (22.14%) Python
2 499 (19.52%) SQL
3 436 (17.05%) Java
4 397 (15.53%) JavaScript
5 271 (10.60%) TypeScript
6 218 (8.53%) C#
7 59 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 51 (1.99%) Go
9 48 (1.88%) C++
10 45 (1.76%) Scala
11 42 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 28 (1.10%) Bash
14 26 (1.02%) Groovy
15 25 (0.98%) Kotlin
16 21 (0.82%) Bicep
17 17 (0.66%) PHP
18 16 (0.63%) T-SQL
19 15 (0.59%) Apex Code
19 15 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 347 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 308 (12.05%) Degree
3 298 (11.65%) SC Cleared
4 85 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (3.21%) PMI Certification
6 76 (2.97%) PMP
7 36 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 35 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 24 (0.94%) DV Cleared
11 19 (0.74%) CISSP
12 18 (0.70%) CBAP
12 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
13 15 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
16 12 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 10 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 8 (0.31%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.12%) QA
2 91 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 48 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 44 (1.72%) GDPR
5 36 (1.41%) MiFID
6 34 (1.33%) PMO
7 26 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.98%) NIST
9 18 (0.70%) GRC
10 16 (0.63%) WCAG
11 13 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.35%) Basel II
14 8 (0.31%) EMIR
14 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.23%) SLA
16 4 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 198 (7.74%) Docker
2 44 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.12%) KVM
6 3 (0.12%) Lustre
6 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.039%) Firmware
8 1 (0.039%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.039%) RACF
8 1 (0.039%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 219 (8.56%) Kubernetes
2 174 (6.80%) Terraform
3 76 (2.97%) Ansible
4 23 (0.90%) Grafana
5 21 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.51%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.31%) SCCM
8 7 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.27%) Puppet
9 6 (0.23%) Packer
9 6 (0.23%) Perfmon
9 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.20%) Kibana
11 4 (0.16%) Istio
11 4 (0.16%) NSN NetAct
11 4 (0.16%) Podman
12 3 (0.12%) Argo
12 3 (0.12%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 285 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 179 (7.00%) Oracle
3 111 (4.34%) SAP
4 93 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 71 (2.78%) Databricks
6 60 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 47 (1.84%) Google
8 43 (1.68%) BISAM
9 41 (1.60%) Adobe
10 33 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 31 (1.21%) Splunk
12 25 (0.98%) Palo Alto
13 23 (0.90%) Charles River
14 21 (0.82%) IBM
15 20 (0.78%) Calypso
15 20 (0.78%) CheckPoint
15 20 (0.78%) SimCorp
16 18 (0.70%) Cisco
16 18 (0.70%) Sybase
16 18 (0.70%) Workday