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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,556 2,961 3,432
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.63% 22.25% 21.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.79% 24.06% 24.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,382 2,054 2,441
10th Percentile £391 £363 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £645 £695 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 17
10th Percentile £50.13 £27.17 £28.67
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.37 £33.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% +5.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.25 £71.25
90th Percentile £96.63 £97.43 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -

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 17,968 12,305 14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.45% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 8,146 9,703
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 185
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -4 370 £550 -4.35% 258
West London -2 101 £650 +52.94% 165
South London +3 61 £525 -12.77% 15
East London -2 18 £603 +11.57% 32
North London +4 10 £538 -2.27% 2
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
1 305 (8.58%) Confluence
2 90 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 70 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.69%) CMS
6 55 (1.55%) Apache
7 33 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.48%) Camunda
9 15 (0.42%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.25%) Appian
12 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) JBoss
15 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 102 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 2 (0.056%) Mingle
12 2 (0.056%) Windchill
13 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 56 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.22%) Findur
7 8 (0.22%) Magento
7 8 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) Endur
8 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 933 (26.24%) Azure
2 709 (19.94%) AWS
3 354 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
4 309 (8.69%) GitHub
5 303 (8.52%) Power Platform
6 233 (6.55%) GCP
7 192 (5.40%) Serverless
8 167 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
9 132 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 131 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
11 110 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
12 104 (2.92%) Snowflake
13 93 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
14 90 (2.53%) PowerApps
15 87 (2.45%) Power Automate
16 79 (2.22%) dbt
17 75 (2.11%) SaaS
18 67 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 66 (1.86%) Entra ID
20 65 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.43%) Firewall
2 26 (0.73%) Network Security
3 24 (0.67%) VPN
4 23 (0.65%) WAN
5 22 (0.62%) DNS
6 17 (0.48%) Internet
6 17 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.45%) HTTP
8 12 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.31%) Wireless
10 10 (0.28%) DMZ
11 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.20%) 4G
12 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 7 (0.20%) VoIP
13 6 (0.17%) Intranet
13 6 (0.17%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (6.50%) Power BI
2 164 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 134 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 124 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 109 (3.07%) Metadata
6 107 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 97 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 77 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 69 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 62 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
11 55 (1.55%) Tableau
12 48 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 48 (1.35%) DynamoDB
13 41 (1.15%) BigQuery
14 40 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (1.04%) Big Data
16 35 (0.98%) Oracle Database
17 28 (0.79%) MySQL
18 26 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
19 25 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 583 (16.39%) JIRA
2 333 (9.36%) Git
3 255 (7.17%) Jenkins
4 135 (3.80%) GitLab
5 67 (1.88%) Selenium
6 56 (1.57%) JUnit
7 47 (1.32%) Gradle
8 40 (1.12%) Postman
9 37 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 36 (1.01%) Mockito
11 30 (0.84%) Maven
12 27 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 26 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 26 (0.73%) Visual Studio
14 22 (0.62%) JMeter
15 20 (0.56%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.51%) Liquibase
17 17 (0.48%) Zephyr
18 16 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,396 (39.26%) Social Skills
2 1,164 (32.73%) Finance
3 579 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 550 (15.47%) Public Sector
5 491 (13.81%) Banking
6 227 (6.38%) Retail
7 150 (4.22%) Marketing
8 128 (3.60%) Front Office
9 114 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
9 114 (3.21%) Investment Banking
10 101 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
11 82 (2.31%) Legal
12 68 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 62 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 59 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (1.38%) Local Government
16 48 (1.35%) Telecoms
17 45 (1.27%) Law
18 43 (1.21%) Retail Banking
19 39 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 611 (17.18%) Developer
2 535 (15.04%) Senior
3 467 (13.13%) Analyst
4 355 (9.98%) Lead
5 325 (9.14%) Business Analyst
6 295 (8.30%) Project Manager
7 266 (7.48%) Architect
8 170 (4.78%) Data Engineer
9 138 (3.88%) Software Engineer
10 132 (3.71%) Delivery Manager
11 117 (3.29%) Java Developer
12 115 (3.23%) Designer
13 109 (3.07%) Senior Developer
13 109 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 107 (3.01%) Senior Manager
15 100 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
16 89 (2.50%) Product Manager
17 86 (2.42%) Product Owner
18 78 (2.19%) Full-Stack Developer
19 75 (2.11%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (8.75%) REST
2 292 (8.21%) Terraform
3 248 (6.97%) React
4 211 (5.93%) .NET
5 183 (5.15%) RESTful
6 175 (4.92%) Spring
7 173 (4.87%) Kafka
8 155 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 127 (3.57%) HTML
10 119 (3.35%) CSS
11 113 (3.18%) AngularJS
12 110 (3.09%) Node.js
13 96 (2.70%) PySpark
14 84 (2.36%) SOAP
15 80 (2.25%) JSON
16 67 (1.88%) Web Services
17 65 (1.83%) Django
18 62 (1.74%) Middleware
19 57 (1.60%) Playwright
20 55 (1.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 506 (14.23%) Product Ownership
2 292 (8.21%) Cloud Native
3 142 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 120 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 96 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 75 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 67 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 60 (1.69%) NHS
10 57 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 55 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 55 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 48 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 48 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 45 (1.27%) Mobile App
14 41 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 41 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 40 (1.12%) Derivative
16 39 (1.10%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 129 (3.63%) Linux
2 78 (2.19%) Windows
3 52 (1.46%) Unix
4 34 (0.96%) Android
4 34 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.084%) zOS
11 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.028%) Solaris
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (31.13%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,011 (28.43%) DevOps
3 965 (27.14%) CI/CD
4 795 (22.36%) Scrum
5 682 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 678 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 634 (17.83%) AI
8 521 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 445 (12.51%) Roadmaps
10 442 (12.43%) Analytics
11 397 (11.16%) Decision-Making
11 397 (11.16%) Test Automation
12 392 (11.02%) User Stories
13 388 (10.91%) Project Management
14 382 (10.74%) Data Modelling
15 376 (10.57%) Migration
15 376 (10.57%) Software Engineering
16 345 (9.70%) Microservices
17 333 (9.36%) Waterfall
18 313 (8.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 671 (18.87%) SQL
2 628 (17.66%) Python
3 432 (12.15%) Java
4 285 (8.01%) JavaScript
5 221 (6.21%) C#
6 218 (6.13%) TypeScript
7 76 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 64 (1.80%) Bash
9 57 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 48 (1.35%) Apex Code
11 45 (1.27%) Scala
12 44 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 39 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 30 (0.84%) Korn
15 27 (0.76%) Groovy
16 23 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 23 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.56%) Bicep
18 19 (0.53%) Go
19 16 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 855 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 740 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 286 (8.04%) Degree
4 148 (4.16%) PMP
5 142 (3.99%) PMI Certification
6 107 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 106 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 83 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 53 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 38 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.56%) CISSP
14 20 (0.56%) IIBA
15 16 (0.45%) CBAP
16 14 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (10.10%) QA
2 263 (7.40%) Data Quality
3 140 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 125 (3.52%) PMO
5 98 (2.76%) GDPR
6 52 (1.46%) WCAG
7 40 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.01%) GRC
9 32 (0.90%) NIST
10 26 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 19 (0.53%) SLA
13 16 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.42%) NCSC
15 14 (0.39%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
16 9 (0.25%) SEPA
17 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 307 (8.63%) Docker
2 57 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.25%) IAG
4 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.084%) Postfix
7 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.056%) RACF
7 2 (0.056%) Squid
7 2 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.028%) Ceph
8 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 330 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 76 (2.14%) Ansible
3 74 (2.08%) Grafana
4 63 (1.77%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.56%) Control-M
6 19 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.45%) Kibana
8 12 (0.34%) Packer
9 10 (0.28%) SCCM
10 9 (0.25%) Puppet
11 8 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.20%) WSUS
13 6 (0.17%) Argo
13 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
15 3 (0.084%) Consul
15 3 (0.084%) RSA Archer
15 3 (0.084%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 2 (0.056%) Bosun
16 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 497 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 187 (5.26%) Oracle
3 180 (5.06%) Salesforce
4 145 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 134 (3.77%) Databricks
6 121 (3.40%) Google
7 102 (2.87%) SAP
8 72 (2.02%) Splunk
9 55 (1.55%) Adobe
10 48 (1.35%) IBM
11 35 (0.98%) Informatica
12 29 (0.82%) Dynatrace
13 27 (0.76%) Workday
14 24 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 24 (0.67%) VMware
15 23 (0.65%) Cisco
16 22 (0.62%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.56%) Bloomberg
18 19 (0.53%) Atlassian
19 17 (0.48%) Pega