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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,003 2,564 3,512
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.20% 18.93% 19.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.23% 20.87% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,057 1,694 2,544
10th Percentile £363 £388 £402
25th Percentile £431 £472 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 20
10th Percentile £38.41 - £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £31.93
Median hourly rate £59.47 £39.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% -23.90% -18.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £41.91 £72.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.00 £79.88
England median hourly rate £60.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.60% -3.85%

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 14,143 12,286 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.69% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 7,897 11,628
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 343
10th Percentile £18.21 £20.23 £16.02
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.73 £19.53
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 0 375 £550 -4.35% 225
South London +10 72 £513 +7.61% 43
West London -1 67 £500 +28.21% 50
East London -1 28 £525 -0.47% 47
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 8
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
1 276 (9.19%) Confluence
2 57 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 35 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.10%) Apache
6 31 (1.03%) CMS
7 20 (0.67%) nginx
8 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.30%) Camunda
12 8 (0.27%) IIS
13 6 (0.20%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.20%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) SAS
14 5 (0.17%) Appian
15 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 112 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.83%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.43%) Trello
8 11 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.33%) Sketch
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.100%) InVision
13 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.067%) InDesign
13 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 49 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.97%) Aladdin
3 27 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 26 (0.87%) Endur
5 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.30%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.23%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 720 (23.98%) Azure
2 557 (18.55%) AWS
3 251 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (7.76%) Power Platform
5 221 (7.36%) GitHub
6 209 (6.96%) GCP
7 152 (5.06%) Serverless
8 107 (3.56%) SaaS
9 106 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
10 96 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 86 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 81 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
13 80 (2.66%) Snowflake
14 72 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
15 64 (2.13%) Figma
16 57 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
17 50 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
17 50 (1.67%) PowerApps
18 49 (1.63%) Power Automate
19 46 (1.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.53%) Firewall
2 24 (0.80%) Network Security
3 23 (0.77%) WAN
4 22 (0.73%) HTTP
4 22 (0.73%) VPN
5 16 (0.53%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.47%) DNS
8 12 (0.40%) Internet
9 8 (0.27%) LAN
10 5 (0.17%) 5G
10 5 (0.17%) BGP
10 5 (0.17%) Broadband
10 5 (0.17%) FTP
10 5 (0.17%) SMS
10 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.13%) DHCP
11 4 (0.13%) DMZ
11 4 (0.13%) IPsec
11 4 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.59%) Power BI
2 123 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 105 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 103 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 80 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 64 (2.13%) Tableau
8 54 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
9 53 (1.76%) MongoDB
10 52 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 46 (1.53%) Metadata
12 44 (1.47%) Big Data
13 40 (1.33%) BigQuery
14 39 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (0.90%) Oracle Database
15 27 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
16 26 (0.87%) Delta Lake
17 24 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 23 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
19 22 (0.73%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 525 (17.48%) JIRA
2 282 (9.39%) Git
3 176 (5.86%) Jenkins
4 103 (3.43%) GitLab
5 59 (1.96%) Selenium
6 57 (1.90%) JUnit
7 45 (1.50%) Postman
8 42 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 42 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 37 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 31 (1.03%) SpecFlow
11 22 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 20 (0.67%) JMeter
13 19 (0.63%) Mockito
14 17 (0.57%) ERwin
14 17 (0.57%) Maven
15 15 (0.50%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.43%) TestRail
17 11 (0.37%) Gradle
17 11 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,176 (39.16%) Social Skills
2 973 (32.40%) Finance
3 472 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 368 (12.25%) Public Sector
5 357 (11.89%) Banking
6 140 (4.66%) Front Office
7 88 (2.93%) Retail
8 87 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
9 83 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 83 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 81 (2.70%) Marketing
11 80 (2.66%) Investment Banking
12 74 (2.46%) Legal
13 69 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.47%) Financial Institution
14 44 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 43 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 35 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 34 (1.13%) Back Office
18 29 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 514 (17.12%) Developer
2 463 (15.42%) Analyst
3 461 (15.35%) Senior
4 359 (11.95%) Business Analyst
5 269 (8.96%) Lead
6 234 (7.79%) Project Manager
7 195 (6.49%) Architect
8 135 (4.50%) Software Engineer
9 121 (4.03%) Data Engineer
10 99 (3.30%) Java Developer
11 95 (3.16%) Consultant
12 87 (2.90%) Designer
13 85 (2.83%) Senior Manager
14 81 (2.70%) Senior Developer
15 79 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
16 74 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
16 74 (2.46%) Product Manager
17 67 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
18 66 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
18 66 (2.20%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (7.79%) React
2 216 (7.19%) REST
3 176 (5.86%) Node.js
4 169 (5.63%) Kafka
5 150 (5.00%) RESTful
6 140 (4.66%) .NET
7 122 (4.06%) AngularJS
8 118 (3.93%) CSS
9 116 (3.86%) HTML
10 109 (3.63%) Playwright
11 108 (3.60%) Spring
12 95 (3.16%) Spring Boot
13 82 (2.73%) PySpark
14 75 (2.50%) JSON
15 74 (2.46%) GraphQL
16 71 (2.36%) SOAP
17 64 (2.13%) Middleware
18 63 (2.10%) XML
19 62 (2.06%) Web Services
20 42 (1.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 302 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 208 (6.93%) Cloud Native
3 67 (2.23%) Derivative
4 65 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
4 65 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 61 (2.03%) Fixed Income
6 59 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 58 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 57 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 55 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.67%) Mobile App
11 49 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 48 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.57%) Management Information System
14 46 (1.53%) AI Agents
15 45 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
16 42 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
16 42 (1.40%) Virtual Team
17 40 (1.33%) Equities
17 40 (1.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 149 (4.96%) Linux
2 85 (2.83%) Windows
3 83 (2.76%) Unix
4 35 (1.17%) Android
4 35 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.37%) VMS
7 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.13%) zOS
10 2 (0.067%) AIX
10 2 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.033%) Solaris
11 1 (0.033%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (24.31%) DevOps
2 672 (22.38%) CI/CD
3 652 (21.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 648 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
5 625 (20.81%) Scrum
6 425 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 370 (12.32%) AI
8 356 (11.85%) Test Automation
9 335 (11.16%) Project Management
10 329 (10.96%) Analytics
11 322 (10.72%) Data Modelling
12 318 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 309 (10.29%) Software Engineering
14 290 (9.66%) Migration
15 289 (9.62%) Roadmaps
16 288 (9.59%) Microservices
17 281 (9.36%) User Stories
18 275 (9.16%) Waterfall
19 273 (9.09%) Project Delivery
20 260 (8.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 578 (19.25%) SQL
2 563 (18.75%) Python
3 364 (12.12%) Java
4 316 (10.52%) JavaScript
5 265 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 214 (7.13%) C#
7 80 (2.66%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.93%) C++
9 56 (1.86%) Scala
10 45 (1.50%) Go
11 40 (1.33%) Bash
12 29 (0.97%) Ruby
13 28 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 27 (0.90%) Bicep
15 24 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.77%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.73%) Shell Script
18 21 (0.70%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.60%) R
19 18 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 584 (19.45%) Security Cleared
2 517 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 343 (11.42%) Degree
4 133 (4.43%) PMI Certification
5 114 (3.80%) PMP
6 96 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 68 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 60 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.57%) CBAP
11 43 (1.43%) DV Cleared
12 38 (1.27%) ISTQB
13 30 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.90%) CISSP
14 27 (0.90%) IIBA
15 25 (0.83%) CISM
16 17 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.47%) ISEB
18 11 (0.37%) CSPO
18 11 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (9.59%) QA
2 155 (5.16%) Accessibility
3 150 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 126 (4.20%) GDPR
5 91 (3.03%) PMO
6 46 (1.53%) WCAG
7 39 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (1.07%) NIST
8 32 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.57%) GRC
9 17 (0.57%) MiFID
9 17 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.37%) SLA
13 10 (0.33%) Basel III
13 10 (0.33%) PERC
13 10 (0.33%) PSD2
14 9 (0.30%) EMIR
15 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 342 (11.39%) Docker
2 36 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.100%) Squid
6 3 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.033%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.033%) etcd
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) IAG
8 1 (0.033%) KVM
8 1 (0.033%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 323 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 207 (6.89%) Terraform
3 51 (1.70%) Ansible
4 41 (1.37%) Grafana
5 26 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 21 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.60%) Argo
8 13 (0.43%) Packer
9 12 (0.40%) Consul
10 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.27%) Puppet
12 7 (0.23%) Rancher
12 7 (0.23%) SCCM
13 5 (0.17%) Control-M
13 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.13%) Kibana
14 4 (0.13%) Nessus
15 3 (0.100%) WSUS
Vendors
1 374 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 192 (6.39%) Oracle
3 134 (4.46%) Databricks
4 125 (4.16%) Salesforce
5 123 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 97 (3.23%) SAP
7 77 (2.56%) Google
8 48 (1.60%) Adobe
9 38 (1.27%) Splunk
10 26 (0.87%) Workday
11 25 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 22 (0.73%) Informatica
13 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg
14 20 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 19 (0.63%) Cisco
16 18 (0.60%) OpenAI
16 18 (0.60%) VMware
17 17 (0.57%) IBM
17 17 (0.57%) Sybase
18 16 (0.53%) Murex