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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,557 2,986 3,482
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.56% 21.85% 21.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.69% 23.66% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,390 2,092 2,532
10th Percentile £390 £368 £400
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £731
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 18
10th Percentile £51.60 £26.94 £31.20
25th Percentile £54.75 £34.48 £32.47
Median hourly rate £66.20 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.10% -12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £96.63 £91.25 £72.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -2.31% -

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 18,064 12,618 14,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,886 8,438 10,119
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.59 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -16.31% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -5 371 £565 -5.83% 302
West London -1 95 £608 +52.00% 53
South London +7 78 £513 -18.00% 25
East London -3 15 £585 +8.33% 35
North London +2 7 £550 - 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
1 307 (8.63%) Confluence
2 90 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.69%) CMS
5 59 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 47 (1.32%) Apache
7 29 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.42%) IIS
9 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.37%) SAS
10 12 (0.34%) Camunda
11 9 (0.25%) Appian
12 8 (0.22%) JBoss
12 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.17%) Kentico
13 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 98 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
3 48 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
9 6 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.056%) Windchill
12 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.028%) Mingle
12 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 24 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.31%) Findur
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.22%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.17%) Endur
9 6 (0.17%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.17%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.14%) Actimize
10 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 940 (26.43%) Azure
2 727 (20.44%) AWS
3 333 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
4 290 (8.15%) GitHub
4 290 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 247 (6.94%) GCP
6 179 (5.03%) Serverless
7 161 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
8 130 (3.65%) Amazon S3
9 122 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
10 95 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
11 94 (2.64%) Snowflake
12 87 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
13 84 (2.36%) Power Automate
13 84 (2.36%) PowerApps
14 74 (2.08%) SaaS
15 72 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
16 71 (2.00%) dbt
17 68 (1.91%) Entra ID
18 64 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.38%) Firewall
2 27 (0.76%) Network Security
3 24 (0.67%) WAN
4 22 (0.62%) VPN
5 20 (0.56%) DNS
6 18 (0.51%) Internet
7 15 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) HTTP
8 13 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.28%) DMZ
10 9 (0.25%) Wireless
11 8 (0.22%) BGP
11 8 (0.22%) MPLS
11 8 (0.22%) OSPF
12 7 (0.20%) Intranet
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 6 (0.17%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.17%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) VoIP
13 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (6.33%) Power BI
2 156 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 102 (2.87%) NoSQL
6 92 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 82 (2.31%) Metadata
8 70 (1.97%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (1.74%) Tableau
11 57 (1.60%) MongoDB
12 49 (1.38%) DynamoDB
13 42 (1.18%) Big Data
13 42 (1.18%) BigQuery
14 37 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 37 (1.04%) Delta Lake
15 32 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (0.76%) Oracle Database
17 22 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 584 (16.42%) JIRA
2 316 (8.88%) Git
3 245 (6.89%) Jenkins
4 127 (3.57%) GitLab
5 54 (1.52%) JUnit
6 50 (1.41%) Selenium
7 41 (1.15%) Postman
8 38 (1.07%) Gradle
9 35 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 35 (0.98%) Cypress.io
9 35 (0.98%) Mockito
10 26 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.67%) Maven
11 24 (0.67%) Visual Studio
12 22 (0.62%) JMeter
12 22 (0.62%) REST Assured
13 18 (0.51%) Zephyr
14 17 (0.48%) Gatling
15 16 (0.45%) Liquibase
15 16 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,321 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 1,185 (33.31%) Finance
3 573 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
4 558 (15.69%) Public Sector
5 465 (13.07%) Banking
6 213 (5.99%) Retail
7 162 (4.55%) Front Office
8 149 (4.19%) Marketing
9 113 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 109 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 102 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 81 (2.28%) Legal
13 71 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
15 62 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 45 (1.27%) Local Government
17 43 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.18%) Retail Banking
19 41 (1.15%) Financial Institution
20 40 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 626 (17.60%) Developer
2 516 (14.51%) Senior
3 471 (13.24%) Analyst
4 366 (10.29%) Lead
5 326 (9.17%) Business Analyst
6 300 (8.43%) Project Manager
7 256 (7.20%) Architect
8 179 (5.03%) Software Engineer
9 161 (4.53%) Data Engineer
10 136 (3.82%) Delivery Manager
11 124 (3.49%) Java Developer
12 121 (3.40%) Designer
13 110 (3.09%) Senior Developer
14 106 (2.98%) Senior Manager
15 105 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
16 85 (2.39%) Product Owner
17 83 (2.33%) Product Manager
18 82 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
19 76 (2.14%) Programme Manager
20 75 (2.11%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (7.82%) REST
2 268 (7.53%) React
3 212 (5.96%) .NET
4 172 (4.84%) RESTful
5 168 (4.72%) Kafka
6 165 (4.64%) Spring
7 148 (4.16%) Node.js
8 139 (3.91%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.65%) AngularJS
10 123 (3.46%) HTML
11 108 (3.04%) CSS
12 90 (2.53%) PySpark
13 80 (2.25%) SOAP
14 76 (2.14%) JSON
15 74 (2.08%) Redux
16 66 (1.86%) Playwright
17 64 (1.80%) Middleware
18 63 (1.77%) GraphQL
19 60 (1.69%) Web Services
20 57 (1.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 475 (13.35%) Product Ownership
2 278 (7.82%) Cloud Native
3 139 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 119 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.28%) Fixed Income
7 76 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 68 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 65 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 62 (1.74%) NHS
12 61 (1.71%) Derivative
13 57 (1.60%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 55 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
15 52 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
16 50 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 45 (1.27%) Data Centre
18 42 (1.18%) Mobile App
19 41 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 112 (3.15%) Linux
2 77 (2.16%) Windows
3 42 (1.18%) Unix
4 34 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 33 (0.93%) Android
6 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.056%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.028%) AIX
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.028%) Solaris
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,011 (28.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 983 (27.64%) DevOps
3 941 (26.45%) CI/CD
4 777 (21.84%) Scrum
5 646 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 631 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 591 (16.62%) AI
8 499 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 439 (12.34%) Analytics
10 415 (11.67%) Roadmaps
11 395 (11.10%) Software Engineering
12 393 (11.05%) Data Modelling
13 383 (10.77%) Decision-Making
14 378 (10.63%) Test Automation
15 375 (10.54%) Migration
16 373 (10.49%) User Stories
17 372 (10.46%) Project Management
18 346 (9.73%) Microservices
19 330 (9.28%) Waterfall
20 288 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 641 (18.02%) SQL
2 624 (17.54%) Python
3 446 (12.54%) Java
4 320 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 250 (7.03%) TypeScript
6 234 (6.58%) C#
7 68 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 51 (1.43%) Apex Code
10 44 (1.24%) Bash
10 44 (1.24%) Go
11 43 (1.21%) Kotlin
12 41 (1.15%) Scala
13 40 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 26 (0.73%) Korn
15 23 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (0.65%) Groovy
16 21 (0.59%) Bicep
17 18 (0.51%) Ruby
17 18 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 804 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 704 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 273 (7.68%) Degree
4 147 (4.13%) PMP
5 136 (3.82%) PMI Certification
6 94 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 94 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 74 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 41 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 31 (0.87%) CISSP
12 26 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 21 (0.59%) CISM
16 18 (0.51%) IIBA
17 14 (0.39%) CBAP
18 12 (0.34%) CCNP
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (9.39%) QA
2 238 (6.69%) Data Quality
3 151 (4.25%) Accessibility
4 120 (3.37%) PMO
5 112 (3.15%) GDPR
6 51 (1.43%) WCAG
7 50 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 38 (1.07%) NIST
9 37 (1.04%) GRC
10 30 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.65%) SLA
12 22 (0.62%) NCSC
13 17 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.45%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.22%) SEPA
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
16 7 (0.20%) HL7
16 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 291 (8.18%) Docker
2 54 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.25%) IAG
6 8 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.084%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.084%) Postfix
8 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.028%) Ceph
9 1 (0.028%) HDFS
9 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.028%) Squid
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 328 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 276 (7.76%) Terraform
3 80 (2.25%) Ansible
4 57 (1.60%) Grafana
5 53 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.51%) Control-M
8 13 (0.37%) Packer
9 12 (0.34%) Kibana
10 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.25%) Puppet
10 9 (0.25%) SCCM
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.14%) Argo
13 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 452 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 191 (5.37%) Salesforce
3 174 (4.89%) Oracle
4 148 (4.16%) ServiceNow
5 118 (3.32%) Google
6 110 (3.09%) Databricks
7 105 (2.95%) SAP
8 56 (1.57%) Splunk
9 54 (1.52%) Adobe
10 41 (1.15%) IBM
11 30 (0.84%) Workday
12 27 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 27 (0.76%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.73%) Informatica
13 26 (0.73%) VMware
14 25 (0.70%) Cisco
15 23 (0.65%) Bloomberg
16 20 (0.56%) Okta
16 20 (0.56%) Pega
17 19 (0.53%) CyberArk