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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,614 6,143 11,625
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 20.44% 24.43% 30.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.15% 26.87% 32.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,663 4,491 8,496
10th Percentile £400 £431 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +0.13% +11.49%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £694
90th Percentile £850 £825 £775
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 41 63
10th Percentile £25.50 £25.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.71 £43.86 £39.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +51.69% -19.09%
75th Percentile £68.06 £76.25 £58.70
90th Percentile £71.25 £90.00 £73.10
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +30.00% -

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 15,610 22,863 35,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,175 16,559 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £446 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +8.33% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

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 11 June 2024.

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 11 June 2024.

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 11 June 2024. 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 -1 495 £565 -5.83% 167
West London -1 88 £500 -16.67% 49
East London 0 75 £540 +1.50% 29
South London -1 57 £510 -7.27% 17
North London +3 3 £425 -32.00% 2
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
1 265 (7.33%) Apache
2 247 (6.83%) Apache Airflow
3 183 (5.06%) Confluence
4 86 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 61 (1.69%) CMS
6 51 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.50%) nginx
10 17 (0.47%) SAS
11 14 (0.39%) IIS
12 11 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.30%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.22%) MTS
14 7 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.14%) Drupal
15 5 (0.14%) JBoss
15 5 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
15 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 58 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.39%) Adobe XD
7 12 (0.33%) Sketch
8 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.11%) InVision
9 4 (0.11%) Trello
9 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.083%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.083%) Windchill
11 2 (0.055%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.055%) Mingle
11 2 (0.055%) SPSS
12 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
12 1 (0.028%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 56 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (0.58%) Endur
4 20 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.44%) Shopify
6 14 (0.39%) ION MarketView
7 8 (0.22%) Aligne
7 8 (0.22%) EuroRunner
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.22%) SAP BPC
7 8 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.11%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.11%) Workfront
9 3 (0.083%) ENOVIA
9 3 (0.083%) Primavera
9 3 (0.083%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 945 (26.15%) Azure
2 812 (22.47%) AWS
3 371 (10.27%) GCP
4 330 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
5 213 (5.89%) Power Platform
6 172 (4.76%) dbt
7 153 (4.23%) Snowflake
8 123 (3.40%) Serverless
9 111 (3.07%) GitHub
10 97 (2.68%) Entra ID
11 96 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 91 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
13 81 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 79 (2.19%) SaaS
15 70 (1.94%) PaaS
16 59 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
17 58 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
18 55 (1.52%) Amazon S3
19 53 (1.47%) Power Automate
20 52 (1.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.25%) Firewall
2 44 (1.22%) HTTP
3 32 (0.89%) DNS
4 30 (0.83%) Internet
5 18 (0.50%) DHCP
6 17 (0.47%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.36%) VPN
8 11 (0.30%) LAN
8 11 (0.30%) SSH
9 10 (0.28%) FTP
9 10 (0.28%) WAN
10 8 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.22%) Wireless
11 7 (0.19%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.19%) VLAN
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) SAN
12 6 (0.17%) SNMP
12 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 222 (6.14%) Apache Ignite
3 211 (5.84%) Data Lake
4 181 (5.01%) Power BI
5 162 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
5 162 (4.48%) Dremio
6 159 (4.40%) Apache Arrow
7 155 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
8 125 (3.46%) NoSQL
9 120 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
10 117 (3.24%) Relational Database
11 82 (2.27%) Big Data
12 71 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 71 (1.96%) Tableau
13 60 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 49 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
15 47 (1.30%) MySQL
16 32 (0.89%) Redis
17 30 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 27 (0.75%) KDB
Development Applications
1 383 (10.60%) JIRA
2 296 (8.19%) Git
3 164 (4.54%) Jenkins
4 109 (3.02%) Cypress.io
5 96 (2.66%) Postman
6 93 (2.57%) Selenium
7 75 (2.08%) GitLab
8 55 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 54 (1.49%) JUnit
10 48 (1.33%) SpecFlow
11 44 (1.22%) Visual Studio
12 39 (1.08%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.91%) WebDriver
14 31 (0.86%) Maven
15 30 (0.83%) Appium
15 30 (0.83%) JMeter
16 29 (0.80%) Mockito
17 25 (0.69%) SoapUI
18 20 (0.55%) Bitbucket
18 20 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 1,157 (32.01%) Finance
2 989 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 612 (16.93%) Banking
4 470 (13.00%) Front Office
5 391 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
6 362 (10.02%) Public Sector
7 256 (7.08%) Investment Banking
8 129 (3.57%) Retail
9 127 (3.51%) Back Office
10 115 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
11 100 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 100 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
11 100 (2.77%) Marketing
12 54 (1.49%) Legal
13 45 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 39 (1.08%) Local Government
15 35 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (0.75%) Publishing
17 26 (0.72%) Manufacturing
18 25 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,012 (28.00%) Developer
2 599 (16.57%) Senior
3 430 (11.90%) Analyst
4 315 (8.72%) Lead
5 310 (8.58%) Architect
6 303 (8.38%) Business Analyst
7 292 (8.08%) Project Manager
8 265 (7.33%) Software Engineer
9 225 (6.23%) Senior Developer
10 182 (5.04%) Java Developer
11 167 (4.62%) Python Developer
12 154 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
13 151 (4.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 140 (3.87%) Python Engineer
14 140 (3.87%) React Developer
15 131 (3.62%) Full Stack Developer
16 126 (3.49%) Python Software Engineer
17 124 (3.43%) Software Developer
18 104 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
19 100 (2.77%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (9.82%) .NET
2 325 (8.99%) React
3 236 (6.53%) gRPC
4 224 (6.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 184 (5.09%) HTML
6 179 (4.95%) CSS
7 176 (4.87%) REST
8 167 (4.62%) Pandas
9 162 (4.48%) NumPy
10 159 (4.40%) XML
11 157 (4.34%) Kafka
12 155 (4.29%) AngularJS
13 150 (4.15%) SciPy
14 146 (4.04%) Redux
15 142 (3.93%) .NET Core
16 131 (3.62%) Node.js
17 116 (3.21%) Spring
18 114 (3.15%) RESTful
19 113 (3.13%) Web Services
20 90 (2.49%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 377 (10.43%) Product Ownership
2 348 (9.63%) Fixed Income
3 302 (8.36%) Hedge funds
4 269 (7.44%) Derivative
5 260 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 258 (7.14%) Equities
7 97 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 89 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 77 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 63 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 58 (1.60%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.55%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.19%) Data Centre
16 42 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
17 41 (1.13%) Public Cloud
18 38 (1.05%) Cloud Native
19 37 (1.02%) Virtual Team
20 34 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 176 (4.87%) Linux
2 102 (2.82%) Unix
3 84 (2.32%) Windows
4 43 (1.19%) Android
5 28 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (0.53%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.44%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.36%) CentOS
10 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 8 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.14%) Solaris
11 5 (0.14%) zOS
12 1 (0.028%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (24.18%) DevOps
2 810 (22.41%) Scrum
3 579 (16.02%) CI/CD
4 531 (14.69%) Software Engineering
5 525 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
6 417 (11.54%) Project Management
7 362 (10.02%) Asset Management
8 357 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 344 (9.52%) TDD
10 324 (8.97%) Test Automation
11 314 (8.69%) Microservices
12 311 (8.61%) Analytics
13 285 (7.89%) Waterfall
14 283 (7.83%) SDLC
15 273 (7.55%) Investment Management
16 271 (7.50%) Roadmaps
17 270 (7.47%) Project Delivery
18 265 (7.33%) Migration
19 257 (7.11%) Continuous Integration
20 254 (7.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 701 (19.40%) Python
2 602 (16.66%) Java
3 599 (16.57%) SQL
4 516 (14.28%) JavaScript
5 436 (12.06%) TypeScript
6 413 (11.43%) C#
7 234 (6.47%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.68%) Scala
9 91 (2.52%) Bicep
10 63 (1.74%) Go
11 51 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.38%) Kotlin
13 46 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 41 (1.13%) C++
15 38 (1.05%) Bash
16 35 (0.97%) Perl
17 33 (0.91%) T-SQL
18 24 (0.66%) C
18 24 (0.66%) Ruby
19 22 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 410 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 402 (11.12%) Degree
3 333 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 134 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 71 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 57 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 57 (1.58%) PMP
8 28 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 28 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 22 (0.61%) CISSP
10 22 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 20 (0.55%) CISM
12 19 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 17 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.30%) ISEB
16 10 (0.28%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (5.76%) QA
2 137 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 84 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 78 (2.16%) PMO
5 55 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 30 (0.83%) GDPR
7 29 (0.80%) WCAG
8 28 (0.77%) SLA
9 16 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 15 (0.42%) NIST
11 10 (0.28%) MiFID
12 9 (0.25%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.22%) GRC
14 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
15 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.14%) P3O
15 5 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 247 (6.83%) Docker
2 150 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.19%) HDFS
6 5 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.14%) XenApp
7 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.083%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 3 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (0.083%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.055%) Firmware
9 2 (0.055%) NFS
9 2 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.055%) vSphere
10 1 (0.028%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.028%) Ceph
10 1 (0.028%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 282 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 157 (4.34%) Terraform
3 113 (3.13%) Ansible
4 53 (1.47%) Grafana
5 45 (1.25%) Puppet
6 44 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.69%) Kibana
8 18 (0.50%) logstash
9 14 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.28%) Packer
10 10 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.25%) Consul
12 8 (0.22%) Netcool
12 8 (0.22%) PingFederate
12 8 (0.22%) Podman
13 7 (0.19%) Opsgenie
13 7 (0.19%) VxRail
14 6 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
14 6 (0.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 516 (14.28%) Microsoft
2 162 (4.48%) Oracle
3 135 (3.74%) Google
4 123 (3.40%) SAP
5 92 (2.55%) ServiceNow
6 73 (2.02%) Databricks
7 71 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 63 (1.74%) Adobe
9 54 (1.49%) Splunk
10 42 (1.16%) Bloomberg
11 38 (1.05%) VMware
12 35 (0.97%) Cisco
13 30 (0.83%) Informatica
13 30 (0.83%) ION Trading
14 24 (0.66%) Dell
15 23 (0.64%) IBM
15 23 (0.64%) Virgin Media
16 22 (0.61%) CyberArk
17 19 (0.53%) Atlassian
17 19 (0.53%) Red Hat