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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,121 3,036 4,315
As % of all contract jobs in London 22.05% 19.20% 21.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.90% 21.48% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,172 2,041 3,114
10th Percentile £363 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £793 £838 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 20
10th Percentile £26.83 £32.60 £44.89
25th Percentile £40.31 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £35.00 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -48.76% +24.18%
75th Percentile £87.81 £48.46 £75.63
90th Percentile £101.07 £67.30 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

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 13,057 14,136 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 89.39% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,585 9,131 12,920
10th Percentile £334 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 170 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.76
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +0.89% -4.39%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £68.06 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 0 450 £553 -6.36% 727
West London -1 61 £438 -2.78% 54
South London -1 41 £530 +11.58% 38
East London -1 29 £533 +10.94% 53
North London +4 4 £550 +35.97% 6
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
1 307 (9.84%) Confluence
2 82 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (2.40%) Apache
4 51 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 38 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 37 (1.19%) CMS
7 31 (0.99%) nginx
8 14 (0.45%) IIS
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.22%) Camunda
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.22%) WordPress
12 6 (0.19%) Appian
13 5 (0.16%) CICS
13 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.16%) SAS
13 5 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 93 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 59 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 52 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.54%) Trello
8 12 (0.38%) Sketch
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.064%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.064%) InDesign
14 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
15 1 (0.032%) EPLAN
15 1 (0.032%) SPSS
15 1 (0.032%) Weka
Business Applications
1 52 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 43 (1.38%) Endur
4 25 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.29%) Shopify
8 7 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
9 6 (0.19%) Magento
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.19%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.16%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 689 (22.08%) Azure
2 639 (20.47%) AWS
3 266 (8.52%) Azure DevOps
4 235 (7.53%) GCP
5 218 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 206 (6.60%) GitHub
7 159 (5.09%) Serverless
8 109 (3.49%) SaaS
9 100 (3.20%) Snowflake
10 94 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (2.63%) dbt
12 76 (2.44%) Amazon S3
13 75 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
14 71 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
15 69 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
16 66 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
17 65 (2.08%) PowerApps
18 64 (2.05%) Power Automate
19 57 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
20 56 (1.79%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.57%) Firewall
2 24 (0.77%) TCP/IP
2 24 (0.77%) VPN
3 21 (0.67%) DNS
4 20 (0.64%) HTTP
5 19 (0.61%) Network Security
6 18 (0.58%) Internet
7 17 (0.54%) SSL
7 17 (0.54%) WAN
8 12 (0.38%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.29%) OSPF
11 7 (0.22%) MPLS
12 6 (0.19%) DHCP
13 5 (0.16%) 5G
13 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.16%) LAN
13 5 (0.16%) SMS
13 5 (0.16%) Wireless
14 4 (0.13%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (4.84%) Power BI
3 116 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 101 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
5 95 (3.04%) NoSQL
6 94 (3.01%) Relational Database
7 71 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 61 (1.95%) MongoDB
9 60 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
10 59 (1.89%) Tableau
11 51 (1.63%) Apache Arrow
11 51 (1.63%) Apache Iceberg
11 51 (1.63%) Dremio
12 48 (1.54%) Big Data
13 46 (1.47%) Metadata
14 38 (1.22%) Oracle Database
15 37 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (1.12%) BigQuery
17 32 (1.03%) Apache Ignite
18 31 (0.99%) DB2
Development Applications
1 551 (17.65%) JIRA
2 306 (9.80%) Git
3 181 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 89 (2.85%) GitLab
5 66 (2.11%) JUnit
6 58 (1.86%) Selenium
7 52 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 46 (1.47%) Postman
9 43 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 42 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 30 (0.96%) Maven
12 29 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 24 (0.77%) Mockito
14 23 (0.74%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.64%) ERwin
16 18 (0.58%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.58%) webpack
17 16 (0.51%) ER Studio
18 15 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 14 (0.45%) JMeter
General
1 1,232 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 1,022 (32.75%) Finance
3 470 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (13.39%) Banking
5 338 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 194 (6.22%) Front Office
7 137 (4.39%) Investment Banking
8 98 (3.14%) Retail
9 94 (3.01%) Marketing
10 79 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 75 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 69 (2.21%) Back Office
14 61 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
15 60 (1.92%) Legal
16 59 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 55 (1.76%) Telecoms
18 47 (1.51%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.22%) Manufacturing
20 31 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 630 (20.19%) Developer
2 475 (15.22%) Analyst
3 457 (14.64%) Senior
4 374 (11.98%) Business Analyst
5 272 (8.72%) Lead
6 212 (6.79%) Project Manager
7 194 (6.22%) Architect
8 179 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 133 (4.26%) Java Developer
10 113 (3.62%) Consultant
11 109 (3.49%) Senior Developer
12 93 (2.98%) Data Engineer
13 80 (2.56%) Product Owner
14 77 (2.47%) Product Manager
15 76 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
16 73 (2.34%) Python Engineer
17 70 (2.24%) Full-Stack Developer
18 69 (2.21%) Python Developer
19 61 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
19 61 (1.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (8.94%) React
2 255 (8.17%) REST
3 197 (6.31%) Kafka
4 185 (5.93%) .NET
5 183 (5.86%) Node.js
6 173 (5.54%) RESTful
7 160 (5.13%) HTML
8 145 (4.65%) AngularJS
9 144 (4.61%) CSS
10 131 (4.20%) Spring
11 107 (3.43%) SOAP
12 103 (3.30%) JSON
13 94 (3.01%) Spring Boot
14 80 (2.56%) GraphQL
14 80 (2.56%) Playwright
15 76 (2.44%) Web Services
16 69 (2.21%) XML
17 64 (2.05%) Pandas
18 61 (1.95%) HTML5
19 58 (1.86%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 341 (10.93%) Product Ownership
2 201 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 126 (4.04%) Fixed Income
4 124 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 97 (3.11%) Derivative
5 97 (3.11%) Equities
6 72 (2.31%) Data Structures
7 67 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 66 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 63 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 62 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
10 62 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 57 (1.83%) Virtual Team
12 56 (1.79%) Onboarding
13 54 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
14 53 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
15 50 (1.60%) Reinsurance
16 49 (1.57%) Hedge funds
17 43 (1.38%) PMI
18 39 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 179 (5.74%) Linux
2 91 (2.92%) Unix
3 86 (2.76%) Windows
4 49 (1.57%) Android
5 42 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.16%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.064%) CentOS
11 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Debian
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (24.90%) DevOps
2 699 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
3 681 (21.82%) Scrum
4 675 (21.63%) CI/CD
5 557 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 372 (11.92%) Software Engineering
7 358 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 349 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 344 (11.02%) Test Automation
10 335 (10.73%) Microservices
11 324 (10.38%) Project Management
12 314 (10.06%) Roadmaps
13 301 (9.64%) Analytics
14 297 (9.52%) AI
15 282 (9.04%) User Stories
16 267 (8.55%) Data Modelling
17 257 (8.23%) Migration
18 252 (8.07%) SDLC
19 249 (7.98%) Waterfall
20 235 (7.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 609 (19.51%) Python
2 589 (18.87%) SQL
3 486 (15.57%) Java
4 398 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 294 (9.42%) TypeScript
6 236 (7.56%) C#
7 89 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.37%) C++
9 55 (1.76%) Go
10 54 (1.73%) Bash
11 37 (1.19%) Scala
12 36 (1.15%) PL/SQL
13 34 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 33 (1.06%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.80%) Ruby
16 23 (0.74%) Groovy
17 22 (0.70%) Apex Code
17 22 (0.70%) Bicep
18 17 (0.54%) Korn
18 17 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 569 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 487 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 357 (11.44%) Degree
4 128 (4.10%) PMI Certification
5 107 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 102 (3.27%) PMP
7 66 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 49 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 30 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 29 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.93%) CISSP
13 22 (0.70%) CBAP
14 18 (0.58%) CISM
15 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (9.29%) QA
2 137 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 112 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 94 (3.01%) GDPR
5 79 (2.53%) PMO
6 33 (1.06%) MiFID
7 30 (0.96%) WCAG
8 22 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.61%) EMIR
10 15 (0.48%) GRC
11 13 (0.42%) NIST
12 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 8 (0.26%) NCSC
14 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.26%) PSD2
14 8 (0.26%) SLA
15 7 (0.22%) Basel III
System Software
1 333 (10.67%) Docker
2 44 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.064%) Postfix
6 2 (0.064%) Squid
6 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.032%) etcd
7 1 (0.032%) GPFS
7 1 (0.032%) IAG
7 1 (0.032%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.032%) KVM
7 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 295 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 210 (6.73%) Terraform
3 59 (1.89%) Ansible
4 44 (1.41%) Grafana
5 32 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.67%) Consul
7 21 (0.67%) Packer
8 17 (0.54%) Puppet
9 15 (0.48%) Argo
10 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.29%) Kibana
12 7 (0.22%) Rancher
12 7 (0.22%) SCCM
13 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.13%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.13%) Nessus
14 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 370 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 203 (6.50%) Oracle
3 128 (4.10%) Salesforce
4 115 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 111 (3.56%) Google
6 109 (3.49%) SAP
7 95 (3.04%) Databricks
8 41 (1.31%) Splunk
9 39 (1.25%) Adobe
10 33 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 29 (0.93%) Workday
12 27 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.70%) Foundry
14 21 (0.67%) Murex
14 21 (0.67%) Sybase
15 20 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
15 20 (0.64%) OpenAI
15 20 (0.64%) OpenLink
16 19 (0.61%) Cisco
16 19 (0.61%) Dynatrace