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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,073 2,527 3,403
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.91% 19.04% 18.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.97% 20.94% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,113 1,705 2,468
10th Percentile £363 £388 £407
25th Percentile £438 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £600 £579
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +3.67% -3.54%
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 15 18
10th Percentile £38.41 - £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £31.78
Median hourly rate £61.22 £39.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.97% -22.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £68.65 £48.83 £66.75
90th Percentile £82.23 £76.50 £82.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.96% -5.69%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
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% - -7.17%
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 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 0 380 £550 -5.98% 261
South London +8 74 £513 +7.33% 44
West London -1 61 £500 +28.21% 60
East London 0 29 £525 -2.33% 61
North London 0 1 £700 +71.36% 4
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
1 278 (9.05%) Confluence
2 60 (1.95%) Apache Spark
2 60 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (1.04%) CMS
5 30 (0.98%) Apache
6 19 (0.62%) nginx
7 15 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.29%) Camunda
10 9 (0.29%) IIS
10 9 (0.29%) SAS
11 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.13%) Appian
12 4 (0.13%) JBoss
12 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 108 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 46 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.81%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.39%) Trello
8 11 (0.36%) Sketch
9 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.16%) Notion
11 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.098%) InVision
13 2 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.065%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.065%) InDesign
13 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.065%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 49 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 25 (0.81%) Endur
4 22 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.42%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 9 (0.29%) Shopify
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.23%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
12 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 754 (24.54%) Azure
2 597 (19.43%) AWS
3 260 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 223 (7.26%) GitHub
6 212 (6.90%) GCP
7 147 (4.78%) Serverless
8 108 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 100 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 98 (3.19%) SaaS
11 85 (2.77%) Amazon S3
12 80 (2.60%) Snowflake
13 77 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
14 73 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
15 66 (2.15%) Figma
16 60 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 54 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
18 48 (1.56%) Power Automate
18 48 (1.56%) PowerApps
19 44 (1.43%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.63%) Firewall
2 27 (0.88%) WAN
3 24 (0.78%) Network Security
4 22 (0.72%) HTTP
5 21 (0.68%) VPN
6 19 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.39%) DNS
8 12 (0.39%) Internet
9 9 (0.29%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) Broadband
12 5 (0.16%) SMS
12 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.13%) DHCP
13 4 (0.13%) DMZ
13 4 (0.13%) FTP
13 4 (0.13%) MPLS
13 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.43%) Power BI
2 125 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (3.68%) NoSQL
5 109 (3.55%) SQL Server
6 78 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 61 (1.99%) Tableau
8 55 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 54 (1.76%) MongoDB
10 49 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 45 (1.46%) Metadata
12 43 (1.40%) Big Data
13 41 (1.33%) BigQuery
14 39 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (0.91%) Delta Lake
16 27 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
17 26 (0.85%) Oracle Database
18 25 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 21 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 539 (17.54%) JIRA
2 291 (9.47%) Git
3 171 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 104 (3.38%) GitLab
5 61 (1.99%) JUnit
6 60 (1.95%) Selenium
7 47 (1.53%) Postman
8 46 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 42 (1.37%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.20%) Bitbucket
11 35 (1.14%) SpecFlow
12 23 (0.75%) Mockito
13 22 (0.72%) JMeter
14 21 (0.68%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.59%) Maven
16 15 (0.49%) SonarQube
17 14 (0.46%) ERwin
18 12 (0.39%) TestRail
19 11 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
20 10 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 1,162 (37.81%) Social Skills
2 1,016 (33.06%) Finance
3 479 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 386 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 369 (12.01%) Banking
6 163 (5.30%) Front Office
7 92 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 87 (2.83%) Retail
9 85 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 85 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
10 83 (2.70%) Marketing
11 79 (2.57%) Investment Banking
12 77 (2.51%) Legal
13 70 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 43 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 42 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 34 (1.11%) Manufacturing
18 33 (1.07%) Back Office
19 28 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 546 (17.77%) Developer
2 466 (15.16%) Analyst
3 461 (15.00%) Senior
4 363 (11.81%) Business Analyst
5 283 (9.21%) Lead
6 250 (8.14%) Project Manager
7 194 (6.31%) Architect
8 155 (5.04%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 105 (3.42%) Java Developer
11 96 (3.12%) Consultant
12 91 (2.96%) Designer
13 89 (2.90%) Senior Manager
14 85 (2.77%) Delivery Manager
15 83 (2.70%) Senior Developer
16 82 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
17 77 (2.51%) Product Manager
18 67 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
18 67 (2.18%) Tester
19 65 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (8.30%) React
2 215 (7.00%) REST
3 198 (6.44%) Node.js
4 176 (5.73%) Kafka
5 150 (4.88%) RESTful
6 147 (4.78%) .NET
7 140 (4.56%) AngularJS
8 125 (4.07%) HTML
9 116 (3.77%) CSS
10 109 (3.55%) Playwright
11 108 (3.51%) Spring
12 94 (3.06%) Spring Boot
13 86 (2.80%) PySpark
14 83 (2.70%) GraphQL
15 74 (2.41%) JSON
16 70 (2.28%) SOAP
17 66 (2.15%) Middleware
18 63 (2.05%) XML
19 62 (2.02%) Web Services
20 58 (1.89%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 309 (10.06%) Product Ownership
2 209 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 83 (2.70%) Fixed Income
4 75 (2.44%) Derivative
5 71 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 64 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 60 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 57 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 54 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 47 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 46 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 45 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
13 45 (1.46%) Equities
13 45 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 43 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 43 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 40 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (1.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 141 (4.59%) Linux
2 85 (2.77%) Windows
3 81 (2.64%) Unix
4 33 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 32 (1.04%) Android
6 16 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.33%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.13%) zOS
11 2 (0.065%) AIX
12 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
12 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (24.63%) DevOps
2 690 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 682 (22.19%) CI/CD
4 638 (20.76%) Scrum
5 632 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
6 448 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 380 (12.37%) AI
8 354 (11.52%) Test Automation
9 346 (11.26%) Project Management
10 336 (10.93%) Data Modelling
11 334 (10.87%) Analytics
12 330 (10.74%) Software Engineering
13 326 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 304 (9.89%) Migration
15 302 (9.83%) Roadmaps
16 287 (9.34%) Microservices
17 286 (9.31%) User Stories
17 286 (9.31%) Waterfall
18 280 (9.11%) Project Delivery
19 278 (9.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 596 (19.39%) SQL
2 579 (18.84%) Python
3 379 (12.33%) Java
4 344 (11.19%) JavaScript
5 287 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 222 (7.22%) C#
7 75 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.89%) Go
9 57 (1.85%) Scala
10 50 (1.63%) C++
11 38 (1.24%) Bash
12 31 (1.01%) Ruby
13 30 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.81%) Bicep
15 25 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.68%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.62%) R
17 19 (0.62%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 624 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 555 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 323 (10.51%) Degree
4 135 (4.39%) PMI Certification
5 125 (4.07%) PMP
6 90 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 58 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 55 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.40%) CBAP
11 41 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 38 (1.24%) ISTQB
13 32 (1.04%) CISSP
14 29 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.94%) CISM
15 27 (0.88%) IIBA
16 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.46%) ISEB
18 12 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
18 12 (0.39%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (9.79%) QA
2 159 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 155 (5.04%) Accessibility
4 127 (4.13%) GDPR
5 97 (3.16%) PMO
6 44 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.43%) WCAG
7 37 (1.20%) NIST
8 33 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.59%) GRC
11 15 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 15 (0.49%) MiFID
11 15 (0.49%) SLA
12 12 (0.39%) NCSC
13 11 (0.36%) PSD2
14 10 (0.33%) Basel III
14 10 (0.33%) PERC
15 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 332 (10.80%) Docker
2 38 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.065%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) etcd
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) IAG
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) RACF
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 327 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 203 (6.61%) Terraform
3 56 (1.82%) Ansible
4 44 (1.43%) Grafana
5 29 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.59%) Argo
6 18 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.42%) Packer
8 12 (0.39%) Consul
8 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.29%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.26%) Puppet
11 7 (0.23%) Rancher
11 7 (0.23%) SCCM
12 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.16%) Control-M
14 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.098%) Nessus
15 3 (0.098%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.098%) WSUS
Vendors
1 380 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.35%) Oracle
3 138 (4.49%) Databricks
4 131 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 121 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 94 (3.06%) SAP
7 69 (2.25%) Google
8 46 (1.50%) Adobe
9 39 (1.27%) Splunk
10 28 (0.91%) Workday
11 26 (0.85%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.78%) Cisco
13 23 (0.75%) Informatica
14 22 (0.72%) Bloomberg
15 20 (0.65%) VMware
16 18 (0.59%) Foundry
16 18 (0.59%) IBM
17 17 (0.55%) Planview
18 16 (0.52%) CyberArk
18 16 (0.52%) MuleSoft