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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,910 2,525 3,585
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.40% 18.76% 19.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.37% 20.72% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,978 1,653 2,605
10th Percentile £363 £388 £400
25th Percentile £433 £472 £480
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 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -8.48% +1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 18
10th Percentile £38.41 - £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £31.78
Median hourly rate £59.47 £38.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.49% -24.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £41.19 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £78.56
England median hourly rate £59.47 £61.50 £63.20
% change year-on-year -3.30% -2.69% -2.77%

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 13,620 12,187 16,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.80% 90.56% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,063 7,736 11,780
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 208 150 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.23 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.48 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.63 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.08 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +1 375 £550 -4.35% 197
West London -1 67 £500 +33.33% 44
South London +6 50 £525 +10.24% 25
East London -2 28 £540 +8.00% 51
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 3
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
1 267 (9.18%) Confluence
2 59 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.27%) Apache
6 27 (0.93%) CMS
7 20 (0.69%) nginx
8 15 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.31%) Camunda
13 8 (0.27%) IIS
14 6 (0.21%) Ethereum
14 6 (0.21%) Hyperledger
15 5 (0.17%) Appian
15 5 (0.17%) SAS
16 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
16 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 49 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.86%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.45%) Trello
8 10 (0.34%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.31%) Sketch
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.10%) InVision
13 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.069%) InDesign
13 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.069%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.96%) Aladdin
3 27 (0.93%) Endur
3 27 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.31%) Shopify
7 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.21%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.14%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 707 (24.30%) Azure
2 515 (17.70%) AWS
3 257 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
4 235 (8.08%) Power Platform
5 203 (6.98%) GitHub
6 195 (6.70%) GCP
7 137 (4.71%) Serverless
8 106 (3.64%) SaaS
9 95 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 94 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
11 83 (2.85%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (2.37%) Amazon S3
13 69 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (2.06%) Figma
15 56 (1.92%) Power Automate
15 56 (1.92%) PowerApps
16 53 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
17 50 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
18 46 (1.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.62%) Firewall
2 25 (0.86%) Network Security
3 24 (0.82%) HTTP
4 23 (0.79%) WAN
5 22 (0.76%) VPN
6 16 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.45%) DNS
9 12 (0.41%) Internet
10 8 (0.27%) LAN
11 6 (0.21%) 5G
12 5 (0.17%) BGP
12 5 (0.17%) Broadband
12 5 (0.17%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) DMZ
13 4 (0.14%) FTP
13 4 (0.14%) IPsec
13 4 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.74%) Power BI
2 113 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (3.71%) NoSQL
3 108 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 74 (2.54%) Relational Database
6 64 (2.20%) Tableau
7 54 (1.86%) MongoDB
8 50 (1.72%) Data Lake
9 45 (1.55%) Metadata
10 42 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (1.37%) Big Data
12 38 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (1.24%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.03%) Oracle Database
15 26 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
16 25 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (0.79%) Delta Lake
18 22 (0.76%) Data Vault
19 21 (0.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 525 (18.04%) JIRA
2 264 (9.07%) Git
3 162 (5.57%) Jenkins
4 95 (3.26%) GitLab
5 61 (2.10%) Selenium
6 51 (1.75%) JUnit
7 47 (1.62%) Postman
8 42 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.37%) Cypress.io
10 35 (1.20%) Bitbucket
11 29 (1.00%) SpecFlow
12 21 (0.72%) REST Assured
13 18 (0.62%) ERwin
13 18 (0.62%) JMeter
13 18 (0.62%) Maven
13 18 (0.62%) Mockito
14 16 (0.55%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.45%) TestRail
16 12 (0.41%) Gradle
17 11 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,142 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 950 (32.65%) Finance
3 460 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 367 (12.61%) Banking
5 344 (11.82%) Public Sector
6 135 (4.64%) Front Office
7 93 (3.20%) Retail
8 84 (2.89%) Investment Banking
9 83 (2.85%) Marketing
10 80 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
11 78 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 76 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 71 (2.44%) Legal
14 66 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
15 46 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.55%) Financial Institution
17 41 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 40 (1.37%) Manufacturing
19 38 (1.31%) Back Office
20 30 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 510 (17.53%) Developer
2 454 (15.60%) Analyst
3 437 (15.02%) Senior
4 352 (12.10%) Business Analyst
5 258 (8.87%) Lead
6 223 (7.66%) Project Manager
7 188 (6.46%) Architect
8 121 (4.16%) Software Engineer
9 114 (3.92%) Data Engineer
10 99 (3.40%) Consultant
11 93 (3.20%) Java Developer
12 80 (2.75%) Designer
13 78 (2.68%) Senior Manager
14 76 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
15 74 (2.54%) Senior Developer
16 72 (2.47%) Product Manager
17 67 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
18 63 (2.16%) DevOps Engineer
18 63 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
19 62 (2.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (7.66%) REST
2 217 (7.46%) React
3 165 (5.67%) Node.js
4 155 (5.33%) Kafka
5 144 (4.95%) RESTful
6 133 (4.57%) .NET
7 117 (4.02%) AngularJS
8 112 (3.85%) HTML
9 111 (3.81%) CSS
10 101 (3.47%) Spring
11 100 (3.44%) Playwright
12 91 (3.13%) Spring Boot
13 82 (2.82%) SOAP
14 77 (2.65%) PySpark
15 73 (2.51%) JSON
16 66 (2.27%) GraphQL
17 62 (2.13%) XML
18 60 (2.06%) Web Services
19 59 (2.03%) Middleware
20 40 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 297 (10.21%) Product Ownership
2 198 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 66 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 66 (2.27%) Derivative
4 59 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 59 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 53 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 53 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 52 (1.79%) Fixed Income
8 50 (1.72%) Mobile App
8 50 (1.72%) Onboarding
9 47 (1.62%) AI Agents
9 47 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 47 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
10 43 (1.48%) PMI
10 43 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 39 (1.34%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 146 (5.02%) Linux
2 86 (2.96%) Windows
3 81 (2.78%) Unix
4 33 (1.13%) Android
5 32 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.38%) VMS
8 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
10 2 (0.069%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.034%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (24.64%) DevOps
2 649 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
3 641 (22.03%) CI/CD
4 630 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 621 (21.34%) Scrum
6 395 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 352 (12.10%) Test Automation
8 351 (12.06%) AI
9 336 (11.55%) Project Management
10 325 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 323 (11.10%) Analytics
12 304 (10.45%) Data Modelling
13 291 (10.00%) Roadmaps
14 288 (9.90%) Software Engineering
15 278 (9.55%) Migration
16 272 (9.35%) Waterfall
17 271 (9.31%) User Stories
18 266 (9.14%) Microservices
19 264 (9.07%) Project Delivery
20 250 (8.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 575 (19.76%) SQL
2 532 (18.28%) Python
3 346 (11.89%) Java
4 303 (10.41%) JavaScript
5 245 (8.42%) TypeScript
6 201 (6.91%) C#
7 84 (2.89%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.99%) C++
9 54 (1.86%) Scala
10 41 (1.41%) Bash
11 39 (1.34%) Go
12 30 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 26 (0.89%) Ruby
14 25 (0.86%) Bicep
15 24 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 21 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.69%) R
18 19 (0.65%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.62%) Korn
20 17 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 564 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 500 (17.18%) SC Cleared
3 345 (11.86%) Degree
4 134 (4.60%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.78%) PMP
6 97 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.68%) CBAP
10 40 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.31%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.89%) CISSP
14 25 (0.86%) IIBA
15 18 (0.62%) CISM
16 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.45%) ISEB
18 11 (0.38%) CSPO
19 10 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (9.83%) QA
2 149 (5.12%) Accessibility
3 145 (4.98%) Data Quality
4 126 (4.33%) GDPR
5 86 (2.96%) PMO
6 42 (1.44%) WCAG
7 34 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 29 (1.00%) NIST
10 17 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.55%) GRC
11 16 (0.55%) MiFID
12 13 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.41%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.38%) PSD2
15 10 (0.34%) Basel III
15 10 (0.34%) PERC
15 10 (0.34%) SLA
16 9 (0.31%) EMIR
16 9 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 323 (11.10%) Docker
2 36 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.069%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.034%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.034%) etcd
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) IAG
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 313 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 188 (6.46%) Terraform
3 47 (1.62%) Ansible
4 41 (1.41%) Grafana
5 27 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.62%) Argo
7 17 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.45%) Packer
9 12 (0.41%) Consul
10 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.34%) SCCM
11 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.27%) Puppet
11 8 (0.27%) Rancher
12 5 (0.17%) Control-M
12 5 (0.17%) Kibana
13 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.14%) Nessus
14 3 (0.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 373 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 191 (6.56%) Oracle
3 136 (4.67%) Databricks
4 122 (4.19%) Salesforce
5 118 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 98 (3.37%) SAP
7 73 (2.51%) Google
8 46 (1.58%) Adobe
9 40 (1.37%) Splunk
10 26 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 25 (0.86%) Workday
12 23 (0.79%) Informatica
13 20 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 20 (0.69%) Cisco
13 20 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 17 (0.58%) OpenAI
14 17 (0.58%) Planview
15 16 (0.55%) VMware
16 15 (0.52%) Murex
16 15 (0.52%) Sybase