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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,017 2,528 3,553
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.45% 20.95% 20.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.54% 22.69% 22.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,053 1,761 2,617
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £719
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £515 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 24
10th Percentile £49.08 £29.61 £25.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £37.90 £31.71
Median hourly rate £65.25 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% +5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £81.31 £65.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £97.50 £76.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.06
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.36% -6.06%

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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -5 325 £563 -3.85% 281
West London 0 72 £550 +37.50% 30
South London +3 62 £505 -18.81% 17
East London -2 23 £545 -3.11% 28
North London +1 3 £650 +57.58% 6
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
1 260 (8.62%) Confluence
2 80 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 65 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (1.39%) CMS
6 28 (0.93%) Apache
7 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 14 (0.46%) Camunda
10 12 (0.40%) IIS
10 12 (0.40%) SAS
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) Appian
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.17%) Kentico
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 96 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.23%) Notion
7 7 (0.23%) Sketch
8 6 (0.20%) Trello
8 6 (0.20%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.066%) InVision
9 2 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.066%) Windchill
9 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.033%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 35 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.33%) Findur
5 10 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.27%) Endur
6 8 (0.27%) Shopify
7 7 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.13%) HFM
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 773 (25.62%) Azure
2 612 (20.29%) AWS
3 255 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (7.62%) Power Platform
5 207 (6.86%) GitHub
6 166 (5.50%) GCP
7 147 (4.87%) Serverless
8 116 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
9 112 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 101 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
11 80 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
12 75 (2.49%) SaaS
13 74 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (2.32%) Snowflake
15 64 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
16 61 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
17 58 (1.92%) Power Automate
18 54 (1.79%) PowerApps
19 53 (1.76%) Figma
20 48 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.66%) Firewall
2 28 (0.93%) WAN
3 22 (0.73%) Network Security
4 17 (0.56%) VPN
5 16 (0.53%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.43%) DNS
6 13 (0.43%) HTTP
6 13 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.40%) Internet
8 11 (0.36%) LAN
9 9 (0.30%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.23%) Wireless
11 6 (0.20%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) MPLS
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
11 6 (0.20%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) DMZ
12 5 (0.17%) PSTN
12 5 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (5.77%) Power BI
2 119 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 102 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 96 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 71 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 68 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
8 66 (2.19%) Tableau
9 59 (1.96%) Data Lake
10 57 (1.89%) Metadata
11 48 (1.59%) Big Data
12 45 (1.49%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.33%) DynamoDB
14 38 (1.26%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.16%) Delta Lake
16 29 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
18 22 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 18 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 495 (16.41%) JIRA
2 251 (8.32%) Git
3 163 (5.40%) Jenkins
4 92 (3.05%) GitLab
5 56 (1.86%) JUnit
6 48 (1.59%) Postman
7 47 (1.56%) Selenium
8 33 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 33 (1.09%) Mockito
9 30 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 25 (0.83%) Gradle
11 23 (0.76%) REST Assured
12 19 (0.63%) SpecFlow
13 18 (0.60%) JMeter
14 14 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.46%) Liquibase
15 13 (0.43%) Maven
16 11 (0.36%) Gatling
16 11 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,063 (35.23%) Finance
2 1,049 (34.77%) Social Skills
3 434 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 432 (14.32%) Public Sector
5 376 (12.46%) Banking
6 154 (5.10%) Front Office
7 139 (4.61%) Retail
8 110 (3.65%) Marketing
9 91 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.75%) Legal
11 80 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 77 (2.55%) Investment Banking
12 77 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 67 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
14 52 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 43 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.16%) Law
17 30 (0.99%) Telecoms
18 28 (0.93%) Manufacturing
19 25 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 523 (17.34%) Developer
2 450 (14.92%) Senior
3 436 (14.45%) Analyst
4 317 (10.51%) Business Analyst
5 292 (9.68%) Lead
6 273 (9.05%) Project Manager
7 212 (7.03%) Architect
8 145 (4.81%) Software Engineer
9 141 (4.67%) Data Engineer
10 116 (3.84%) Delivery Manager
11 104 (3.45%) Senior Manager
12 101 (3.35%) Designer
13 96 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
14 95 (3.15%) Java Developer
15 87 (2.88%) Senior Developer
16 68 (2.25%) Full-Stack Developer
17 67 (2.22%) Python Developer
18 65 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
19 64 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
20 61 (2.02%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (7.29%) React
2 202 (6.70%) REST
3 152 (5.04%) .NET
4 151 (5.00%) Kafka
5 150 (4.97%) RESTful
6 135 (4.47%) Node.js
7 133 (4.41%) Spring
8 132 (4.38%) AngularJS
9 115 (3.81%) HTML
9 115 (3.81%) Spring Boot
10 100 (3.31%) CSS
11 83 (2.75%) PySpark
12 73 (2.42%) Middleware
13 68 (2.25%) Playwright
14 63 (2.09%) SOAP
15 60 (1.99%) Redux
16 52 (1.72%) GraphQL
17 48 (1.59%) JSON
18 46 (1.52%) Web Services
19 43 (1.43%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 339 (11.24%) Product Ownership
2 227 (7.52%) Cloud Native
3 97 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 78 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (2.52%) Fixed Income
6 74 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
7 67 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 61 (2.02%) Derivative
9 54 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 54 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 47 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 41 (1.36%) Data Structures
14 40 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (1.33%) Equities
15 39 (1.29%) NHS
16 37 (1.23%) AI Agents
16 37 (1.23%) Management Information System
17 31 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 101 (3.35%) Linux
2 76 (2.52%) Windows
3 51 (1.69%) Unix
4 29 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.83%) Android
6 11 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.17%) VMS
8 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.099%) zOS
10 1 (0.033%) AIX
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.033%) Rocky
10 1 (0.033%) Solaris
10 1 (0.033%) SUSE
10 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (25.59%) DevOps
2 743 (24.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 710 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 654 (21.68%) Scrum
5 517 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 500 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 398 (13.19%) AI
8 354 (11.73%) Data Modelling
9 351 (11.63%) Project Management
10 332 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 328 (10.87%) Analytics
12 327 (10.84%) Roadmaps
13 323 (10.71%) Test Automation
14 317 (10.51%) Migration
15 316 (10.47%) Decision-Making
16 308 (10.21%) Software Engineering
17 302 (10.01%) User Stories
18 289 (9.58%) Waterfall
19 283 (9.38%) Microservices
20 259 (8.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 561 (18.59%) SQL
2 538 (17.83%) Python
3 367 (12.16%) Java
4 288 (9.55%) JavaScript
5 226 (7.49%) TypeScript
6 207 (6.86%) C#
7 54 (1.79%) PowerShell
8 50 (1.66%) Go
9 45 (1.49%) Scala
10 36 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.13%) Apex Code
12 32 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.86%) Bash
13 26 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.76%) Ruby
16 21 (0.70%) C++
16 21 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.60%) R
18 17 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 657 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 572 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 267 (8.85%) Degree
4 111 (3.68%) PMP
5 105 (3.48%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 62 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 30 (0.99%) CBAP
11 30 (0.99%) CISSP
12 28 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 24 (0.80%) IIBA
15 22 (0.73%) CISM
16 21 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
17 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.40%) CCNP
19 10 (0.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (9.51%) QA
2 189 (6.26%) Data Quality
3 134 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 120 (3.98%) GDPR
5 107 (3.55%) PMO
6 52 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.49%) WCAG
8 40 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 38 (1.26%) NIST
10 27 (0.89%) GRC
10 27 (0.89%) SLA
11 19 (0.63%) NCSC
12 18 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.33%) IFRS
16 7 (0.23%) Basel III
16 7 (0.23%) HL7
16 7 (0.23%) PSD2
17 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 251 (8.32%) Docker
2 38 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.099%) IAG
5 3 (0.099%) Postfix
5 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.066%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.066%) RACF
6 2 (0.066%) Squid
7 1 (0.033%) HDFS
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 279 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 210 (6.96%) Terraform
3 57 (1.89%) Ansible
4 39 (1.29%) Grafana
5 34 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.33%) Kibana
8 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.27%) Packer
10 7 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.23%) SCCM
11 5 (0.17%) Consul
11 5 (0.17%) Control-M
11 5 (0.17%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.17%) WSUS
12 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (0.066%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 364 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 183 (6.07%) Oracle
3 156 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 128 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 104 (3.45%) Databricks
6 95 (3.15%) SAP
7 52 (1.72%) Google
8 40 (1.33%) Adobe
9 38 (1.26%) Workday
10 27 (0.89%) Splunk
11 24 (0.80%) Informatica
12 23 (0.76%) Cisco
12 23 (0.76%) IBM
12 23 (0.76%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg
14 19 (0.63%) VMware
15 18 (0.60%) Okta
16 17 (0.56%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.53%) Murex
18 14 (0.46%) Temenos