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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,508 6,411 11,768
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 20.07% 24.64% 30.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.66% 27.11% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 4,669 8,561
10th Percentile £400 £440 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £725 £730 £688
90th Percentile £838 £825 £775
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 39 66
10th Percentile £25.34 £25.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.86 £43.81 £39.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +51.69% -17.59%
75th Percentile £69.13 £80.25 £60.34
90th Percentile £71.25 £90.00 £76.17
England median hourly rate £61.06 £65.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -6.78% +30.35% +11.67%

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 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -1 476 £563 -6.25% 145
West London -1 87 £500 -16.67% 40
East London 0 76 £540 +2.37% 225
South London -3 60 £511 -7.18% 20
North London +3 3 £425 -29.17% 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
1 213 (6.07%) Apache
2 201 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 170 (4.85%) Confluence
4 79 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 58 (1.65%) CMS
6 48 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 19 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 17 (0.48%) nginx
10 14 (0.40%) IIS
11 12 (0.34%) SAS
12 11 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 11 (0.31%) Headless CMS
12 11 (0.31%) MTS
13 8 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
14 7 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.17%) JBoss
16 5 (0.14%) Appian
16 5 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
17 4 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 56 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.46%) Sketch
6 14 (0.40%) Adobe XD
7 9 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.14%) InVision
8 5 (0.14%) Trello
9 4 (0.11%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.086%) Windchill
11 2 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.057%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.057%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.057%) InDesign
11 2 (0.057%) Mingle
11 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.029%) Marvel
12 1 (0.029%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 57 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 26 (0.74%) Endur
4 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 17 (0.48%) Shopify
6 12 (0.34%) ION MarketView
7 11 (0.31%) Aligne
7 11 (0.31%) EuroRunner
7 11 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
8 9 (0.26%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.14%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.11%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.086%) ENOVIA
11 3 (0.086%) Primavera
11 3 (0.086%) SAP CO
11 3 (0.086%) SAP FI
11 3 (0.086%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.086%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 923 (26.31%) Azure
2 765 (21.81%) AWS
3 351 (10.01%) GCP
4 326 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
5 194 (5.53%) Power Platform
6 133 (3.79%) Serverless
7 122 (3.48%) dbt
8 112 (3.19%) Snowflake
9 102 (2.91%) GitHub
10 94 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 93 (2.65%) Entra ID
12 88 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
13 85 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 74 (2.11%) SaaS
15 64 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
16 63 (1.80%) PaaS
17 56 (1.60%) Amazon S3
17 56 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
18 54 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
19 49 (1.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.28%) Firewall
2 42 (1.20%) HTTP
3 29 (0.83%) DNS
4 27 (0.77%) Internet
5 18 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.51%) VPN
6 17 (0.48%) DHCP
7 14 (0.40%) LAN
8 13 (0.37%) WAN
9 11 (0.31%) Wireless
10 10 (0.29%) FTP
11 9 (0.26%) SSH
12 8 (0.23%) BGP
12 8 (0.23%) VLAN
12 8 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.20%) Intranet
13 7 (0.20%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.20%) SAN
14 6 (0.17%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 181 (5.16%) Apache Ignite
3 164 (4.68%) Data Lake
4 159 (4.53%) Power BI
5 143 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 121 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
7 117 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
8 114 (3.25%) Apache Arrow
8 114 (3.25%) Dremio
9 106 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 98 (2.79%) NoSQL
11 71 (2.02%) Big Data
12 68 (1.94%) MongoDB
13 53 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
14 48 (1.37%) Tableau
15 47 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
16 43 (1.23%) MySQL
17 29 (0.83%) DynamoDB
17 29 (0.83%) Redis
17 29 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 375 (10.69%) JIRA
2 285 (8.12%) Git
3 157 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 113 (3.22%) Cypress.io
5 87 (2.48%) Postman
6 86 (2.45%) Selenium
7 69 (1.97%) GitLab
8 55 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 48 (1.37%) JUnit
9 48 (1.37%) SpecFlow
10 43 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 43 (1.23%) Visual Studio
11 34 (0.97%) WebDriver
12 32 (0.91%) Maven
13 28 (0.80%) Appium
13 28 (0.80%) JMeter
14 27 (0.77%) Mockito
15 26 (0.74%) webpack
16 25 (0.71%) SoapUI
17 19 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,086 (30.96%) Finance
2 987 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 542 (15.45%) Banking
4 434 (12.37%) Front Office
5 400 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
6 365 (10.40%) Public Sector
7 218 (6.21%) Investment Banking
8 131 (3.73%) Back Office
9 123 (3.51%) Retail
10 110 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
11 107 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 98 (2.79%) Marketing
13 96 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.43%) Legal
15 42 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 40 (1.14%) Local Government
17 35 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
18 33 (0.94%) Law
19 27 (0.77%) Retail Banking
20 25 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 963 (27.45%) Developer
2 571 (16.28%) Senior
3 405 (11.55%) Analyst
4 303 (8.64%) Architect
5 295 (8.41%) Business Analyst
6 291 (8.30%) Project Manager
7 289 (8.24%) Lead
8 248 (7.07%) Software Engineer
9 212 (6.04%) Senior Developer
10 165 (4.70%) Java Developer
11 164 (4.68%) Python Developer
12 144 (4.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 144 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
13 139 (3.96%) React Developer
14 135 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
15 120 (3.42%) Python Engineer
16 113 (3.22%) Software Developer
17 109 (3.11%) Python Software Engineer
18 105 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
19 103 (2.94%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (10.03%) .NET
2 333 (9.49%) React
3 192 (5.47%) gRPC
4 183 (5.22%) Protocol Buffers
5 169 (4.82%) HTML
6 165 (4.70%) CSS
7 163 (4.65%) REST
8 159 (4.53%) AngularJS
9 151 (4.30%) Redux
9 151 (4.30%) XML
10 147 (4.19%) .NET Core
11 145 (4.13%) Kafka
12 134 (3.82%) Node.js
13 125 (3.56%) Pandas
14 118 (3.36%) NumPy
15 108 (3.08%) SciPy
15 108 (3.08%) Web Services
16 105 (2.99%) Spring
17 97 (2.77%) RESTful
18 90 (2.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 380 (10.83%) Product Ownership
2 314 (8.95%) Fixed Income
3 263 (7.50%) Hedge funds
4 233 (6.64%) Derivative
5 224 (6.39%) Equities
6 218 (6.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 93 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 85 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 74 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 70 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
11 61 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 56 (1.60%) Data Structures
13 53 (1.51%) Algorithms
14 51 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 43 (1.23%) Data Centre
16 42 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 40 (1.14%) Cloud Native
18 37 (1.05%) Public Cloud
19 34 (0.97%) Reinsurance
20 33 (0.94%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 178 (5.07%) Linux
2 88 (2.51%) Unix
3 82 (2.34%) Windows
4 42 (1.20%) Android
5 32 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.46%) Mac OS X
9 13 (0.37%) CentOS
10 8 (0.23%) VMS
11 7 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.17%) Solaris
13 3 (0.086%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.057%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.057%) zOS
15 1 (0.029%) tvOS
15 1 (0.029%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (24.17%) DevOps
2 790 (22.52%) Scrum
3 556 (15.85%) CI/CD
4 519 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
5 493 (14.05%) Software Engineering
6 423 (12.06%) Project Management
7 347 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 337 (9.61%) TDD
9 320 (9.12%) Asset Management
10 312 (8.89%) Test Automation
11 295 (8.41%) Microservices
12 281 (8.01%) Analytics
12 281 (8.01%) Waterfall
13 280 (7.98%) Project Delivery
14 267 (7.61%) Roadmaps
15 262 (7.47%) Continuous Integration
15 262 (7.47%) SDLC
16 257 (7.33%) Migration
17 254 (7.24%) Investment Management
18 242 (6.90%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 653 (18.61%) Python
2 573 (16.33%) SQL
3 543 (15.48%) Java
4 481 (13.71%) JavaScript
5 423 (12.06%) C#
6 411 (11.72%) TypeScript
7 224 (6.39%) PowerShell
8 94 (2.68%) Bicep
9 89 (2.54%) Scala
10 63 (1.80%) Go
11 44 (1.25%) C++
11 44 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 44 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 41 (1.17%) T-SQL
13 38 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 36 (1.03%) Bash
14 36 (1.03%) Perl
15 26 (0.74%) Ruby
16 24 (0.68%) R
17 20 (0.57%) C
Qualifications
1 390 (11.12%) Security Cleared
2 372 (10.60%) Degree
3 326 (9.29%) SC Cleared
4 127 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 70 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 61 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 59 (1.68%) PMP
9 28 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (0.71%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.60%) CISM
11 21 (0.60%) CISSP
11 21 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 20 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 19 (0.54%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.29%) CRISC
16 10 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.64%) QA
2 112 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 91 (2.59%) PMO
4 85 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 57 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 33 (0.94%) GDPR
7 28 (0.80%) SLA
7 28 (0.80%) WCAG
8 15 (0.43%) NIST
9 13 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.29%) MiFID
11 9 (0.26%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.17%) GRC
12 6 (0.17%) P3O
12 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
13 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
14 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 234 (6.67%) Docker
2 145 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.14%) HDFS
6 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.086%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.086%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.057%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.057%) NFS
8 2 (0.057%) vSphere
8 2 (0.057%) XenApp
9 1 (0.029%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.029%) Ceph
9 1 (0.029%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.029%) Firmware
9 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 258 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 146 (4.16%) Terraform
3 99 (2.82%) Ansible
4 48 (1.37%) Grafana
5 41 (1.17%) Puppet
6 39 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 25 (0.71%) Kibana
8 18 (0.51%) logstash
9 15 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.29%) Packer
10 10 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.26%) Consul
11 9 (0.26%) Netcool
12 8 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.20%) Opsgenie
13 7 (0.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (0.20%) VxRail
14 6 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 501 (14.28%) Microsoft
2 172 (4.90%) Oracle
3 131 (3.73%) Google
4 108 (3.08%) SAP
5 78 (2.22%) Databricks
6 75 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 63 (1.80%) Adobe
8 57 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 57 (1.62%) Splunk
9 36 (1.03%) Cisco
10 34 (0.97%) Bloomberg
10 34 (0.97%) VMware
11 29 (0.83%) ION Trading
12 28 (0.80%) IBM
13 26 (0.74%) Informatica
14 25 (0.71%) Dell
15 22 (0.63%) Virgin Media
16 18 (0.51%) Atlassian
17 17 (0.48%) MuleSoft
18 16 (0.46%) CyberArk