Agile Contracts in London

Agile Software Development
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,552 6,240 11,688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 20.28% 24.53% 30.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.97% 26.98% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 4,572 8,528
10th Percentile £400 £431 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.27% +12.86%
75th Percentile £719 £725 £688
90th Percentile £838 £825 £775
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 40 62
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 £76.69 £53.47
90th Percentile £71.25 £90.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -6.06% +28.03% +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £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 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -1 487 £565 -5.83% 112
West London -1 89 £500 -16.67% 41
East London +1 76 £540 +1.12% 23
South London -3 56 £510 -7.27% 18
North London +3 3 £425 -32.00% 4
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
1 234 (6.59%) Apache
2 219 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
3 170 (4.79%) Confluence
4 85 (2.39%) SharePoint
5 61 (1.72%) CMS
6 46 (1.30%) Apache Spark
7 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.51%) nginx
10 15 (0.42%) SAS
11 14 (0.39%) IIS
12 12 (0.34%) Headless CMS
13 11 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.25%) MTS
15 7 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
15 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.14%) Appian
16 5 (0.14%) JBoss
16 5 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
17 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 55 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 11 (0.31%) Sketch
8 8 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.14%) Trello
10 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.084%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.084%) InVision
11 3 (0.084%) Windchill
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.056%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.056%) Mingle
12 2 (0.056%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.056%) SPSS
13 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
13 1 (0.028%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 57 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 22 (0.62%) Endur
5 15 (0.42%) Shopify
6 14 (0.39%) ION MarketView
7 9 (0.25%) Aligne
7 9 (0.25%) EuroRunner
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
9 6 (0.17%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.11%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.11%) Workfront
11 3 (0.084%) ENOVIA
11 3 (0.084%) Primavera
11 3 (0.084%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 935 (26.32%) Azure
2 781 (21.99%) AWS
3 357 (10.05%) GCP
4 332 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
5 204 (5.74%) Power Platform
6 141 (3.97%) dbt
7 129 (3.63%) Snowflake
8 125 (3.52%) Serverless
9 106 (2.98%) GitHub
10 97 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
11 94 (2.65%) Entra ID
12 89 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
13 83 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 79 (2.22%) SaaS
15 66 (1.86%) PaaS
16 60 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
17 58 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
18 56 (1.58%) Amazon S3
19 52 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.27%) Firewall
2 44 (1.24%) HTTP
3 29 (0.82%) DNS
3 29 (0.82%) Internet
4 17 (0.48%) DHCP
4 17 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.45%) VPN
6 15 (0.42%) LAN
7 13 (0.37%) WAN
8 11 (0.31%) SSH
8 11 (0.31%) Wireless
9 10 (0.28%) FTP
10 8 (0.23%) BGP
10 8 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.20%) VLAN
12 6 (0.17%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.17%) SNMP
12 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 196 (5.52%) Apache Ignite
3 181 (5.10%) Data Lake
4 171 (4.81%) Power BI
5 149 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
6 135 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
7 133 (3.74%) Dremio
8 131 (3.69%) Apache Arrow
9 115 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
10 113 (3.18%) NoSQL
11 111 (3.13%) Relational Database
12 76 (2.14%) Big Data
13 69 (1.94%) MongoDB
14 61 (1.72%) Tableau
15 60 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
16 50 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
17 44 (1.24%) MySQL
18 31 (0.87%) Redis
19 29 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 28 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 375 (10.56%) JIRA
2 291 (8.19%) Git
3 164 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 111 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 94 (2.65%) Postman
6 92 (2.59%) Selenium
7 72 (2.03%) GitLab
8 55 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 52 (1.46%) JUnit
10 47 (1.32%) SpecFlow
11 42 (1.18%) Visual Studio
12 41 (1.15%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.93%) WebDriver
14 30 (0.84%) Appium
14 30 (0.84%) Maven
15 28 (0.79%) Mockito
16 27 (0.76%) JMeter
17 25 (0.70%) SoapUI
18 22 (0.62%) webpack
19 18 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,113 (31.33%) Finance
2 980 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 571 (16.08%) Banking
4 446 (12.56%) Front Office
5 398 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
6 359 (10.11%) Public Sector
7 231 (6.50%) Investment Banking
8 129 (3.63%) Back Office
9 122 (3.43%) Retail
10 112 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
11 103 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
13 96 (2.70%) Marketing
14 52 (1.46%) Legal
15 43 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 39 (1.10%) Local Government
17 34 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 28 (0.79%) Law
19 25 (0.70%) Manufacturing
19 25 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 993 (27.96%) Developer
2 587 (16.53%) Senior
3 417 (11.74%) Analyst
4 300 (8.45%) Architect
5 297 (8.36%) Business Analyst
6 296 (8.33%) Lead
7 295 (8.31%) Project Manager
8 253 (7.12%) Software Engineer
9 220 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 173 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 163 (4.59%) Python Developer
12 147 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
13 144 (4.05%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 141 (3.97%) React Developer
15 132 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
16 129 (3.63%) Python Engineer
17 118 (3.32%) Software Developer
18 117 (3.29%) Python Software Engineer
19 107 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
20 101 (2.84%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (9.94%) .NET
2 331 (9.32%) React
3 208 (5.86%) gRPC
4 198 (5.57%) Protocol Buffers
5 178 (5.01%) HTML
6 173 (4.87%) CSS
7 167 (4.70%) REST
8 162 (4.56%) AngularJS
9 155 (4.36%) Kafka
10 153 (4.31%) XML
11 150 (4.22%) Redux
12 144 (4.05%) .NET Core
13 140 (3.94%) Pandas
14 135 (3.80%) NumPy
15 133 (3.74%) Node.js
16 123 (3.46%) SciPy
17 111 (3.13%) RESTful
17 111 (3.13%) Spring
18 110 (3.10%) Web Services
19 90 (2.53%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 378 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 326 (9.18%) Fixed Income
3 279 (7.85%) Hedge funds
4 246 (6.93%) Derivative
5 235 (6.62%) Equities
6 234 (6.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 94 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 89 (2.51%) Mobile App
9 75 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 70 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 63 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
12 54 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 53 (1.49%) Algorithms
14 52 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
15 42 (1.18%) Data Centre
15 42 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 39 (1.10%) Cloud Native
17 38 (1.07%) Public Cloud
18 36 (1.01%) Virtual Team
19 34 (0.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 178 (5.01%) Linux
2 95 (2.67%) Unix
3 79 (2.22%) Windows
4 42 (1.18%) Android
5 30 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.45%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.37%) CentOS
10 10 (0.28%) VMS
11 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.14%) Solaris
13 3 (0.084%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.056%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.056%) zOS
15 1 (0.028%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (24.30%) DevOps
2 805 (22.66%) Scrum
3 564 (15.88%) CI/CD
4 520 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
5 506 (14.25%) Software Engineering
6 425 (11.97%) Project Management
7 350 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 347 (9.77%) TDD
9 335 (9.43%) Asset Management
10 318 (8.95%) Test Automation
11 305 (8.59%) Microservices
12 297 (8.36%) Analytics
13 283 (7.97%) Waterfall
14 276 (7.77%) SDLC
15 268 (7.55%) Roadmaps
16 266 (7.49%) Project Delivery
17 264 (7.43%) Investment Management
18 260 (7.32%) Migration
19 254 (7.15%) Continuous Integration
20 243 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 672 (18.92%) Python
2 578 (16.27%) SQL
3 567 (15.96%) Java
4 492 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 417 (11.74%) TypeScript
6 416 (11.71%) C#
7 229 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.65%) Scala
9 93 (2.62%) Bicep
10 66 (1.86%) Go
11 49 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 47 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 43 (1.21%) C++
14 39 (1.10%) PL/SQL
15 38 (1.07%) Bash
16 36 (1.01%) Perl
16 36 (1.01%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.62%) C
17 22 (0.62%) R
17 22 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 400 (11.26%) Security Cleared
2 388 (10.92%) Degree
3 328 (9.23%) SC Cleared
4 130 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 72 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 59 (1.66%) PMI Certification
7 59 (1.66%) PMP
8 29 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 27 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.59%) CISSP
11 21 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.56%) CISM
12 20 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 17 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.28%) CRISC
15 10 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (5.77%) QA
2 124 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 84 (2.36%) PMO
4 82 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 58 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 33 (0.93%) GDPR
7 28 (0.79%) SLA
7 28 (0.79%) WCAG
8 15 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.42%) NIST
9 10 (0.28%) MiFID
10 9 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.17%) GRC
12 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
12 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.14%) P3O
12 5 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 249 (7.01%) Docker
2 147 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.20%) HDFS
6 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.084%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.084%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.084%) XenApp
8 2 (0.056%) NFS
8 2 (0.056%) vSphere
9 1 (0.028%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.028%) Ceph
9 1 (0.028%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.028%) Firmware
9 1 (0.028%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 282 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.31%) Terraform
3 108 (3.04%) Ansible
4 53 (1.49%) Grafana
5 44 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 44 (1.24%) Puppet
6 25 (0.70%) Kibana
7 18 (0.51%) logstash
8 13 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.28%) Packer
9 10 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.25%) Consul
11 8 (0.23%) Netcool
11 8 (0.23%) PingFederate
11 8 (0.23%) Podman
12 7 (0.20%) Opsgenie
12 7 (0.20%) VxRail
13 6 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (0.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 509 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 163 (4.59%) Oracle
3 137 (3.86%) Google
4 115 (3.24%) SAP
5 81 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 73 (2.06%) Databricks
7 69 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 60 (1.69%) Adobe
9 54 (1.52%) Splunk
10 37 (1.04%) Cisco
11 36 (1.01%) VMware
12 33 (0.93%) Bloomberg
13 31 (0.87%) ION Trading
14 28 (0.79%) Informatica
15 26 (0.73%) IBM
16 24 (0.68%) Dell
17 21 (0.59%) Virgin Media
18 18 (0.51%) Atlassian
19 17 (0.48%) CyberArk
20 16 (0.45%) MuleSoft