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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,047 2,466 3,465
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.04% 19.53% 19.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.14% 21.37% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,083 1,708 2,507
10th Percentile £364 £388 £400
25th Percentile £447 £473 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £712
90th Percentile £775 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 20
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.93
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.06% -21.92% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.13 £55.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £72.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.57% -11.54%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -1 367 £550 -4.35% 251
South London +7 79 £513 -12.09% 11
West London -2 62 £509 +27.25% 37
East London -1 27 £525 -2.78% 32
North London +1 1 £700 +71.36% 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
1 295 (9.68%) Confluence
2 62 (2.03%) Apache Spark
2 62 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (1.18%) CMS
4 31 (1.02%) Apache
5 19 (0.62%) nginx
6 13 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 11 (0.36%) Camunda
9 10 (0.33%) IIS
9 10 (0.33%) SAS
10 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 110 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 43 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
6 19 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 11 (0.36%) Sketch
7 11 (0.36%) Trello
8 5 (0.16%) Notion
9 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.098%) InVision
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.066%) InDesign
11 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.066%) Windchill
11 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 46 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.59%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 12 (0.39%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.30%) Shopify
8 8 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.23%) Findur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 754 (24.75%) Azure
2 626 (20.54%) AWS
3 270 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (7.38%) GitHub
5 213 (6.99%) Power Platform
6 188 (6.17%) GCP
7 148 (4.86%) Serverless
8 112 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
9 93 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 92 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 91 (2.99%) SaaS
12 83 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (2.33%) Snowflake
14 70 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
15 66 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 60 (1.97%) Figma
16 60 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
17 49 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
18 45 (1.48%) Azure AKS
19 42 (1.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.74%) Firewall
2 34 (1.12%) WAN
3 25 (0.82%) Network Security
4 23 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 22 (0.72%) HTTP
6 20 (0.66%) VPN
7 16 (0.53%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.39%) DNS
8 12 (0.39%) Internet
9 10 (0.33%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) DMZ
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) 5G
12 5 (0.16%) Broadband
12 5 (0.16%) MPLS
12 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.13%) Ethernet VPN
13 4 (0.13%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.13%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (4.92%) Power BI
2 128 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 112 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
5 98 (3.22%) SQL Server
6 78 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 68 (2.23%) Tableau
8 58 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
9 49 (1.61%) Metadata
10 48 (1.58%) Big Data
11 47 (1.54%) Data Lake
12 45 (1.48%) MongoDB
13 38 (1.25%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (1.15%) Delta Lake
16 27 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (0.82%) DynamoDB
18 23 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 22 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
20 21 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 538 (17.66%) JIRA
2 298 (9.78%) Git
3 174 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 100 (3.28%) GitLab
5 59 (1.94%) Selenium
6 58 (1.90%) JUnit
7 45 (1.48%) Postman
8 42 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 41 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 30 (0.98%) SpecFlow
12 28 (0.92%) Mockito
13 21 (0.69%) JMeter
13 21 (0.69%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.53%) Maven
15 14 (0.46%) Zephyr
16 13 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
17 12 (0.39%) Gradle
17 12 (0.39%) TestRail
18 10 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 1,134 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (33.38%) Finance
3 503 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (13.55%) Public Sector
5 373 (12.24%) Banking
6 158 (5.19%) Front Office
7 96 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 91 (2.99%) Retail
9 90 (2.95%) Marketing
10 83 (2.72%) Legal
11 82 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
12 81 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
13 75 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
14 69 (2.26%) Investment Banking
15 42 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 32 (1.05%) Manufacturing
19 30 (0.98%) Law
20 29 (0.95%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 529 (17.36%) Developer
2 470 (15.43%) Analyst
3 453 (14.87%) Senior
4 359 (11.78%) Business Analyst
5 262 (8.60%) Lead
6 258 (8.47%) Project Manager
7 221 (7.25%) Architect
8 143 (4.69%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.30%) Data Engineer
10 106 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
11 101 (3.31%) Java Developer
12 94 (3.09%) Consultant
13 93 (3.05%) Senior Manager
14 90 (2.95%) Designer
15 83 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
16 79 (2.59%) Senior Developer
17 75 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
18 73 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
19 64 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
19 64 (2.10%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (7.84%) React
2 208 (6.83%) REST
3 185 (6.07%) Node.js
4 175 (5.74%) Kafka
5 148 (4.86%) RESTful
6 142 (4.66%) .NET
6 142 (4.66%) AngularJS
7 115 (3.77%) HTML
8 114 (3.74%) Spring
9 104 (3.41%) CSS
10 97 (3.18%) Spring Boot
11 93 (3.05%) Playwright
12 88 (2.89%) PySpark
13 75 (2.46%) JSON
14 74 (2.43%) Middleware
15 72 (2.36%) GraphQL
16 59 (1.94%) SOAP
17 58 (1.90%) Redux
18 57 (1.87%) XML
19 53 (1.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 309 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 216 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 78 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 76 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 65 (2.13%) Derivative
5 65 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 59 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 50 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 40 (1.31%) AI Agents
10 40 (1.31%) Equities
10 40 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.21%) NHS
13 35 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 34 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 132 (4.33%) Linux
2 84 (2.76%) Windows
3 73 (2.40%) Unix
4 27 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.82%) Android
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.30%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.16%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.098%) AIX
12 2 (0.066%) Solaris
13 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Rocky
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (25.21%) DevOps
2 705 (23.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 691 (22.68%) CI/CD
4 623 (20.45%) Scrum
5 598 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
6 480 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 387 (12.70%) AI
8 363 (11.91%) Project Management
9 349 (11.45%) Test Automation
10 346 (11.36%) Data Modelling
11 338 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 318 (10.44%) Analytics
13 315 (10.34%) Software Engineering
14 310 (10.17%) Roadmaps
15 306 (10.04%) Migration
16 294 (9.65%) Decision-Making
17 285 (9.35%) User Stories
18 283 (9.29%) Microservices
19 280 (9.19%) Waterfall
20 279 (9.16%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 600 (19.69%) SQL
2 565 (18.54%) Python
3 369 (12.11%) Java
4 319 (10.47%) JavaScript
5 272 (8.93%) TypeScript
6 215 (7.06%) C#
7 78 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.71%) Go
8 52 (1.71%) Scala
9 38 (1.25%) C++
10 35 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 32 (1.05%) Bash
12 29 (0.95%) Apex Code
12 29 (0.95%) Ruby
13 28 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 23 (0.75%) Bicep
14 23 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 21 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 18 (0.59%) R
17 15 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 666 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 597 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 296 (9.71%) Degree
4 129 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 124 (4.07%) PMP
6 92 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.77%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 40 (1.31%) ISTQB
11 39 (1.28%) CBAP
12 35 (1.15%) CISSP
13 30 (0.98%) CISM
14 28 (0.92%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.89%) IIBA
16 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.43%) CSPO
18 12 (0.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (9.68%) QA
2 168 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 144 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 121 (3.97%) GDPR
5 104 (3.41%) PMO
6 49 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.48%) WCAG
8 39 (1.28%) NIST
9 34 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.66%) SLA
11 19 (0.62%) GRC
12 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.46%) NCSC
14 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.43%) MiFID
15 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.33%) HL7
15 10 (0.33%) PERC
16 9 (0.30%) Basel III
17 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 309 (10.14%) Docker
2 35 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.098%) RACF
7 2 (0.066%) IAG
7 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 313 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 224 (7.35%) Terraform
3 57 (1.87%) Ansible
4 40 (1.31%) Grafana
5 30 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.46%) Packer
8 12 (0.39%) Argo
8 12 (0.39%) Consul
8 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.36%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.30%) Rancher
10 9 (0.30%) SCCM
11 8 (0.26%) Puppet
12 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.20%) WSUS
13 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.13%) Control-M
14 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 386 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.40%) Oracle
3 136 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 130 (4.27%) Databricks
4 130 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 100 (3.28%) SAP
6 61 (2.00%) Google
7 47 (1.54%) Adobe
8 38 (1.25%) Splunk
9 29 (0.95%) Workday
10 27 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 26 (0.85%) IBM
12 24 (0.79%) Bloomberg
13 23 (0.75%) Cisco
14 22 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.69%) Informatica
15 21 (0.69%) VMware
16 20 (0.66%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.53%) Citrix
18 15 (0.49%) Murex