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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,624 6,132 11,622
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 20.50% 24.38% 30.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.22% 26.82% 32.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,663 4,485 8,497
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% +0.25% +11.35%
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 43 63
10th Percentile £25.50 £26.15 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.71 £45.06 £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 £77.75 £58.70
90th Percentile £71.25 £89.50 £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 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +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 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -1 492 £565 -5.83% 148
West London -1 88 £500 -16.67% 45
East London 0 74 £540 +2.37% 27
South London -2 59 £510 -7.27% 15
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 (7.31%) Apache
2 247 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
3 186 (5.13%) Confluence
4 87 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 61 (1.68%) CMS
6 52 (1.43%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.52%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.50%) nginx
10 17 (0.47%) SAS
11 14 (0.39%) IIS
12 12 (0.33%) Headless CMS
13 11 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.22%) MTS
15 7 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.14%) Appian
16 5 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
16 5 (0.14%) Drupal
16 5 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
16 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 61 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (0.88%) 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 22 (0.61%) Endur
4 20 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 16 (0.44%) Shopify
6 14 (0.39%) ION MarketView
7 9 (0.25%) Aligne
8 8 (0.22%) EuroRunner
8 8 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.22%) SAP BPC
8 8 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
9 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.11%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.11%) Workfront
10 3 (0.083%) Advent Geneva
10 3 (0.083%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.083%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 947 (26.13%) Azure
2 810 (22.35%) AWS
3 372 (10.26%) GCP
4 331 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
5 217 (5.99%) Power Platform
6 172 (4.75%) dbt
7 153 (4.22%) Snowflake
8 123 (3.39%) Serverless
9 113 (3.12%) GitHub
10 97 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
10 97 (2.68%) Entra ID
11 91 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
12 81 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 79 (2.18%) SaaS
14 70 (1.93%) PaaS
15 62 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
16 57 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
17 56 (1.55%) Amazon S3
18 53 (1.46%) Power Automate
19 52 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.27%) HTTP
2 45 (1.24%) Firewall
3 33 (0.91%) DNS
4 30 (0.83%) Internet
5 19 (0.52%) DHCP
6 18 (0.50%) 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%) HTTPS
10 8 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.22%) Wireless
11 7 (0.19%) VLAN
12 6 (0.17%) SAN
12 6 (0.17%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.17%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 222 (6.13%) Apache Ignite
3 212 (5.85%) Data Lake
4 185 (5.10%) Power BI
5 162 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
5 162 (4.47%) Dremio
6 159 (4.39%) Apache Arrow
7 155 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
8 127 (3.50%) NoSQL
9 122 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
10 117 (3.23%) Relational Database
11 82 (2.26%) Big Data
12 71 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 71 (1.96%) Tableau
13 60 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 49 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
15 46 (1.27%) MySQL
16 32 (0.88%) Redis
17 31 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 27 (0.75%) KDB
Development Applications
1 388 (10.71%) JIRA
2 295 (8.14%) Git
3 166 (4.58%) Jenkins
4 109 (3.01%) Cypress.io
5 97 (2.68%) Postman
6 94 (2.59%) Selenium
7 75 (2.07%) GitLab
8 56 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 55 (1.52%) JUnit
10 48 (1.32%) SpecFlow
11 44 (1.21%) Visual Studio
12 41 (1.13%) TeamCity
13 34 (0.94%) WebDriver
14 33 (0.91%) 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
19 19 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 1,160 (32.01%) Finance
2 992 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 617 (17.03%) Banking
4 469 (12.94%) Front Office
5 392 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
6 364 (10.04%) Public Sector
7 256 (7.06%) Investment Banking
8 130 (3.59%) Retail
9 126 (3.48%) Back Office
10 115 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
11 103 (2.84%) Marketing
12 100 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 99 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 54 (1.49%) Legal
15 44 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.10%) Local Government
17 36 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
18 26 (0.72%) Manufacturing
18 26 (0.72%) Publishing
19 25 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,012 (27.92%) Developer
2 599 (16.53%) Senior
3 431 (11.89%) Analyst
4 316 (8.72%) Lead
5 312 (8.61%) Architect
6 302 (8.33%) Business Analyst
7 297 (8.20%) Project Manager
8 265 (7.31%) Software Engineer
9 224 (6.18%) Senior Developer
10 183 (5.05%) Java Developer
11 167 (4.61%) Python Developer
12 152 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
13 151 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 141 (3.89%) React Developer
15 140 (3.86%) Python Engineer
16 129 (3.56%) Full Stack Developer
17 126 (3.48%) Python Software Engineer
18 123 (3.39%) Software Developer
19 101 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
20 100 (2.76%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (9.82%) .NET
2 326 (9.00%) React
3 236 (6.51%) gRPC
4 224 (6.18%) Protocol Buffers
5 184 (5.08%) HTML
6 180 (4.97%) CSS
7 178 (4.91%) REST
8 167 (4.61%) Pandas
9 162 (4.47%) NumPy
10 159 (4.39%) XML
11 156 (4.30%) AngularJS
11 156 (4.30%) Kafka
12 150 (4.14%) SciPy
13 146 (4.03%) Redux
14 142 (3.92%) .NET Core
15 131 (3.61%) Node.js
16 116 (3.20%) Spring
17 114 (3.15%) RESTful
17 114 (3.15%) Web Services
18 90 (2.48%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 374 (10.32%) Product Ownership
2 347 (9.58%) Fixed Income
3 301 (8.31%) Hedge funds
4 268 (7.40%) Derivative
5 259 (7.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 258 (7.12%) Equities
7 98 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 89 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 77 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 72 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 62 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 58 (1.60%) Data Structures
13 56 (1.55%) Algorithms
14 54 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
15 45 (1.24%) Data Centre
16 42 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
17 41 (1.13%) Public Cloud
18 39 (1.08%) Virtual Team
19 38 (1.05%) Cloud Native
20 34 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 177 (4.88%) Linux
2 102 (2.81%) 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
6 20 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.44%) Mac OS X
8 13 (0.36%) CentOS
9 8 (0.22%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) 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
1 876 (24.17%) DevOps
2 810 (22.35%) Scrum
3 580 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 530 (14.62%) Software Engineering
5 529 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
6 418 (11.53%) Project Management
7 361 (9.96%) Asset Management
8 360 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 345 (9.52%) TDD
10 325 (8.97%) Test Automation
11 316 (8.72%) Microservices
12 314 (8.66%) Analytics
13 287 (7.92%) Waterfall
14 282 (7.78%) SDLC
15 272 (7.51%) Investment Management
15 272 (7.51%) Project Delivery
16 267 (7.37%) Roadmaps
17 266 (7.34%) Migration
18 258 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
19 255 (7.04%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 704 (19.43%) Python
2 605 (16.69%) Java
3 602 (16.61%) SQL
4 516 (14.24%) JavaScript
5 435 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 412 (11.37%) C#
7 236 (6.51%) PowerShell
8 97 (2.68%) Scala
9 91 (2.51%) Bicep
10 63 (1.74%) Go
11 52 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 50 (1.38%) Kotlin
13 47 (1.30%) PL/SQL
14 39 (1.08%) C++
15 38 (1.05%) Bash
16 35 (0.97%) Perl
17 34 (0.94%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.69%) Ruby
19 24 (0.66%) C
20 21 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 417 (11.51%) Security Cleared
2 405 (11.18%) Degree
3 340 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 134 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 80 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 68 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 54 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 54 (1.49%) PMP
8 30 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 22 (0.61%) CISSP
11 22 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.55%) CISM
13 19 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 17 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.30%) ISEB
17 10 (0.28%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (5.77%) QA
2 138 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 84 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 78 (2.15%) 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 (0.41%) 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 (6.82%) Docker
2 151 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.19%) HDFS
6 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.17%) XenApp
7 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.11%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.083%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.055%) Firmware
10 2 (0.055%) NFS
10 2 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.055%) vSphere
11 1 (0.028%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.028%) Ceph
11 1 (0.028%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 282 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 159 (4.39%) Terraform
3 114 (3.15%) Ansible
4 53 (1.46%) Grafana
5 45 (1.24%) Puppet
6 44 (1.21%) 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
1 519 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 163 (4.50%) Oracle
3 137 (3.78%) Google
4 124 (3.42%) SAP
5 92 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 75 (2.07%) Databricks
7 71 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 63 (1.74%) Adobe
9 54 (1.49%) Splunk
10 41 (1.13%) Bloomberg
11 40 (1.10%) VMware
12 35 (0.97%) Cisco
13 30 (0.83%) Informatica
13 30 (0.83%) ION Trading
14 25 (0.69%) Virgin Media
15 24 (0.66%) Dell
16 23 (0.63%) IBM
17 22 (0.61%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.55%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.55%) Red Hat