Agile Contract Job Trends in London

Agile Software Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,024 2,492 3,533
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.48% 20.62% 20.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.62% 22.36% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,049 1,741 2,604
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £719
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £517 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.79% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 25
10th Percentile £32.47 £28.57 £25.67
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.55 £31.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -2.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £73.38 £65.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.06
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.36% -6.42%

All Process & 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 16,241 11,146 15,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.51% 92.25% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,846 7,494 11,093
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 187 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.60 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% +10.33% -29.54%
75th Percentile £58.84 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £63.10 £66.98
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Agile job vacancy trend in London

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in London

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Agile

Agile
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Agile in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

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 28 May 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
Central London -4 327 £566 -3.21% 269
West London 0 74 £536 +34.06% 24
South London +4 68 £505 -13.38% 15
East London -2 24 £543 -3.56% 34
North London +1 3 £650 +57.58% 5
Agile
England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 262 (8.66%) Confluence
2 78 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 67 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (1.32%) CMS
6 27 (0.89%) Apache
7 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 14 (0.46%) Camunda
10 11 (0.36%) IIS
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 7 (0.23%) SAS
13 6 (0.20%) Appian
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.17%) Kentico
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 102 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
3 58 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.33%) Notion
8 8 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.23%) Sketch
10 6 (0.20%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.066%) InVision
11 2 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.066%) Windchill
11 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.033%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 37 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.89%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.30%) Endur
6 9 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
7 8 (0.26%) Findur
7 8 (0.26%) Shopify
8 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.13%) HFM
10 4 (0.13%) Magento
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 768 (25.40%) Azure
2 606 (20.04%) AWS
3 255 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
4 232 (7.67%) Power Platform
5 205 (6.78%) GitHub
6 170 (5.62%) GCP
7 144 (4.76%) Serverless
8 114 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
9 109 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 98 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
11 79 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 77 (2.55%) SaaS
14 70 (2.31%) Snowflake
15 64 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
16 60 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
16 60 (1.98%) Power Automate
17 56 (1.85%) PowerApps
18 54 (1.79%) Figma
19 49 (1.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.65%) Firewall
2 28 (0.93%) WAN
3 23 (0.76%) Network Security
4 17 (0.56%) VPN
5 16 (0.53%) SD-WAN
6 14 (0.46%) HTTP
7 12 (0.40%) DNS
7 12 (0.40%) Internet
7 12 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.36%) LAN
9 9 (0.30%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.23%) Wireless
11 6 (0.20%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) MPLS
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
11 6 (0.20%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) FTP
12 5 (0.17%) PSTN
12 5 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (5.79%) Power BI
2 113 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
3 111 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 101 (3.34%) SQL Server
5 100 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 73 (2.41%) Tableau
7 71 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 67 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 57 (1.88%) Metadata
10 56 (1.85%) Data Lake
11 49 (1.62%) Big Data
12 46 (1.52%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.32%) BigQuery
13 40 (1.32%) DynamoDB
14 34 (1.12%) Delta Lake
15 27 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 19 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 502 (16.60%) JIRA
2 255 (8.43%) Git
3 175 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 90 (2.98%) GitLab
5 54 (1.79%) JUnit
6 49 (1.62%) Selenium
7 48 (1.59%) Postman
8 36 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 33 (1.09%) Mockito
10 31 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 25 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 23 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 21 (0.69%) Gradle
13 21 (0.69%) SpecFlow
14 18 (0.60%) JMeter
15 13 (0.43%) Liquibase
15 13 (0.43%) Maven
16 12 (0.40%) Zephyr
17 11 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,073 (35.48%) Finance
2 1,064 (35.19%) Social Skills
3 435 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (13.76%) Public Sector
5 382 (12.63%) Banking
6 155 (5.13%) Front Office
7 132 (4.37%) Retail
8 109 (3.60%) Marketing
9 90 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.74%) Legal
11 81 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 78 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
13 77 (2.55%) Investment Banking
14 69 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
15 51 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 42 (1.39%) Financial Institution
17 33 (1.09%) Law
18 30 (0.99%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.86%) Manufacturing
20 25 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 528 (17.46%) Developer
2 441 (14.58%) Analyst
3 440 (14.55%) Senior
4 319 (10.55%) Business Analyst
5 285 (9.42%) Lead
6 277 (9.16%) Project Manager
7 202 (6.68%) Architect
8 147 (4.86%) Software Engineer
9 138 (4.56%) Data Engineer
10 110 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
11 103 (3.41%) Designer
12 100 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 99 (3.27%) Java Developer
14 94 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
15 82 (2.71%) Senior Developer
16 70 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
17 68 (2.25%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.18%) Consultant
18 66 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
19 65 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (7.51%) React
2 197 (6.51%) REST
3 156 (5.16%) Kafka
4 148 (4.89%) .NET
4 148 (4.89%) RESTful
5 143 (4.73%) Node.js
6 134 (4.43%) AngularJS
7 132 (4.37%) Spring
8 118 (3.90%) HTML
9 114 (3.77%) Spring Boot
10 104 (3.44%) CSS
11 83 (2.74%) PySpark
12 73 (2.41%) Playwright
13 69 (2.28%) Middleware
14 63 (2.08%) SOAP
15 60 (1.98%) Redux
16 55 (1.82%) GraphQL
17 49 (1.62%) JSON
18 47 (1.55%) Web Services
19 42 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 343 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 225 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 92 (3.04%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (2.55%) Fixed Income
6 74 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
7 69 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 63 (2.08%) Derivative
9 54 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 54 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 53 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 48 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 42 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 40 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 40 (1.32%) Equities
15 38 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.26%) NHS
16 37 (1.22%) Management Information System
17 28 (0.93%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 102 (3.37%) Linux
2 75 (2.48%) Windows
3 52 (1.72%) Unix
4 27 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.73%) Android
6 10 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.20%) VMS
9 5 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.099%) zOS
11 1 (0.033%) AIX
11 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Rocky
11 1 (0.033%) Solaris
11 1 (0.033%) SUSE
11 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (25.53%) DevOps
2 738 (24.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 704 (23.28%) CI/CD
4 657 (21.73%) Scrum
5 524 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
6 506 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 399 (13.19%) AI
8 364 (12.04%) Project Management
9 351 (11.61%) Data Modelling
10 329 (10.88%) Analytics
11 326 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 325 (10.75%) Test Automation
13 322 (10.65%) Roadmaps
14 315 (10.42%) Decision-Making
15 314 (10.38%) Migration
15 314 (10.38%) Software Engineering
16 303 (10.02%) User Stories
17 284 (9.39%) Waterfall
18 283 (9.36%) Microservices
19 253 (8.37%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 559 (18.49%) SQL
2 544 (17.99%) Python
3 376 (12.43%) Java
4 294 (9.72%) JavaScript
5 233 (7.71%) TypeScript
6 203 (6.71%) C#
7 52 (1.72%) Go
7 52 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 51 (1.69%) Scala
9 36 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 34 (1.12%) Apex Code
11 30 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 27 (0.89%) Bash
13 26 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 25 (0.83%) Ruby
15 22 (0.73%) C++
16 21 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 21 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 19 (0.63%) Bicep
17 19 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 643 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 559 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 279 (9.23%) Degree
4 114 (3.77%) PMP
5 108 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 78 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 58 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 40 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.19%) CBAP
12 29 (0.96%) CISSP
13 28 (0.93%) ISTQB
14 26 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.86%) IIBA
15 21 (0.69%) CISM
16 20 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.40%) CCNP
18 12 (0.40%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (9.52%) QA
2 193 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 135 (4.46%) Accessibility
4 125 (4.13%) GDPR
5 110 (3.64%) PMO
6 51 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.52%) WCAG
8 41 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 38 (1.26%) NIST
10 27 (0.89%) SLA
11 25 (0.83%) GRC
12 18 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 17 (0.56%) NCSC
14 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.33%) IFRS
17 8 (0.26%) Basel III
18 7 (0.23%) HL7
18 7 (0.23%) PSD2
19 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 261 (8.63%) Docker
2 39 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.099%) IAG
5 3 (0.099%) Postfix
5 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.066%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.066%) RACF
6 2 (0.066%) Squid
7 1 (0.033%) HDFS
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 289 (9.56%) Kubernetes
2 209 (6.91%) Terraform
3 58 (1.92%) Ansible
4 41 (1.36%) Grafana
5 36 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.33%) Kibana
8 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.26%) Packer
10 7 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.23%) SCCM
11 6 (0.20%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.17%) Consul
12 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.17%) WSUS
13 4 (0.13%) Argo
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.099%) Rancher
Vendors
1 366 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 186 (6.15%) Oracle
3 158 (5.22%) Salesforce
4 128 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 104 (3.44%) Databricks
6 97 (3.21%) SAP
7 53 (1.75%) Google
8 41 (1.36%) Adobe
9 39 (1.29%) Workday
10 28 (0.93%) Splunk
11 25 (0.83%) Informatica
12 22 (0.73%) Cisco
12 22 (0.73%) IBM
12 22 (0.73%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.69%) Bloomberg
14 18 (0.60%) Okta
14 18 (0.60%) VMware
15 16 (0.53%) CyberArk
16 15 (0.50%) Murex
17 14 (0.46%) Temenos