Agile Contract Job Trends in Merton

Agile Software Development
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 7 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Merton 26.92% 7.14% 10.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 41.18% 8.33% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £401 £466 £466
25th Percentile £403 £472 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +0.05% -7.14%
75th Percentile £428 £497 £497
90th Percentile £434 £499 £499
South London median daily rate £525 £562 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - -
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £66.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 24 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 65.38% 85.71% 81.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 17
10th Percentile £228 £264 £128
25th Percentile £263 £334 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £525 £497 £488
90th Percentile £535 £552 £500
South London median daily rate £511 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -4.97% +7.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 13
10th Percentile £17.98 £70.24 £32.16
25th Percentile £45.27 £72.40 £40.82
Median hourly rate £58.94 £78.40 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% +42.55% +24.69%
75th Percentile £66.50 £82.00 £65.11
90th Percentile - £82.72 £71.50
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £19.50 £46.86
% change year-on-year +202.23% -58.39% +6.23%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Merton

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Merton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Agile

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Merton region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
New Malden - 6 £400 - 2
Morden +1 1 £425 -10.53%
Agile
South London

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
1 5 (71.43%) Senior Software Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Rust Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Rust Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
4 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
3 1 (14.29%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Gantt Chart
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Rust
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox