Agile Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Agile Software Development
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Agile 9 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 15.79% - 19.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.65% - 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £680 - £636
90th Percentile - - £673
West London median daily rate £550 £439 £500
% change year-on-year +25.34% -12.24% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51 4 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 89.47% 57.14% 80.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 4 31
10th Percentile £400 £236 £225
25th Percentile £520 £283 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £339 £575
Median % change year-on-year +77.86% -41.09% +27.78%
75th Percentile £638 £412 £591
90th Percentile £682 £487 £625
West London median daily rate £550 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +37.50% -15.79% -15.93%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

Agile job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Richmond upon Thames

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Richmond upon Thames over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Richmond upon Thames

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Richmond upon Thames

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Richmond upon Thames region over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. 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
Twickenham - 1 - - 1
Agile
West London

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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 3 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Collibra
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Delta Lake
1 5 (55.56%) Metadata
1 5 (55.56%) Parquet
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Product Owner
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Product Owner
2 3 (33.33%) Digital Programme Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Programme Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Agile Development Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Development Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Development Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Software Development Programme Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Product Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (55.56%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (55.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Roadmaps
1 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (55.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
3 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 5 (55.56%) Epics
3 5 (55.56%) ETL
3 5 (55.56%) Metadata Management
3 5 (55.56%) Observability
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (55.56%) Product Backlog
3 5 (55.56%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Content Management
4 3 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft