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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,118 3,036 4,374
As % of all contract jobs in London 22.23% 19.31% 21.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.06% 21.65% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,178 2,046 3,162
10th Percentile £363 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 21
10th Percentile £26.83 £30.92 £45.00
25th Percentile £40.31 £34.04 £55.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £35.00 £69.10
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -49.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £87.81 £40.46 £77.50
90th Percentile £101.07 £55.45 £90.00
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.85% - -

All Process and 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 12,961 14,023 18,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.17% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,517 9,049 13,046
10th Percentile £331 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +0.76% -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 0 444 £560 -4.27% 762
West London 0 58 £438 -4.37% 83
South London -1 42 £553 +16.32% 29
East London -1 31 £540 +13.68% 55
North London +5 4 £550 - 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
1 303 (9.72%) Confluence
2 86 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (2.37%) Apache
4 48 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 37 (1.19%) CMS
6 35 (1.12%) Apache Spark
7 33 (1.06%) nginx
8 13 (0.42%) IIS
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.22%) Camunda
13 6 (0.19%) Appian
13 6 (0.19%) WordPress
14 5 (0.16%) CICS
14 5 (0.16%) JBoss
14 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 84 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 41 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.93%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.58%) Trello
8 12 (0.38%) Sketch
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.064%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.032%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.032%) InDesign
13 1 (0.032%) InVision
13 1 (0.032%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 52 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 42 (1.35%) Endur
4 26 (0.83%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 11 (0.35%) Temenos T24
8 10 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
9 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.26%) Shopify
11 7 (0.22%) SAP GTS
12 6 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
12 6 (0.19%) Magento
12 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
12 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
13 5 (0.16%) thinkFolio
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 677 (21.71%) Azure
2 651 (20.88%) AWS
3 262 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (7.76%) GCP
5 212 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 205 (6.57%) GitHub
7 157 (5.04%) Serverless
8 110 (3.53%) SaaS
9 100 (3.21%) Snowflake
10 88 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
11 85 (2.73%) dbt
12 79 (2.53%) Amazon S3
13 76 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
14 70 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
15 69 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
16 68 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
17 61 (1.96%) Power Automate
17 61 (1.96%) PowerApps
18 57 (1.83%) Figma
19 52 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.51%) Firewall
2 24 (0.77%) VPN
3 23 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 21 (0.67%) DNS
5 20 (0.64%) HTTP
6 19 (0.61%) SSL
7 18 (0.58%) Internet
7 18 (0.58%) WAN
8 17 (0.55%) Network Security
9 12 (0.38%) BGP
9 12 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.29%) OSPF
11 7 (0.22%) LAN
11 7 (0.22%) MPLS
12 5 (0.16%) 5G
12 5 (0.16%) DHCP
12 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.16%) SMS
12 5 (0.16%) Wireless
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (4.75%) Power BI
3 116 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 99 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
5 95 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 90 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
9 60 (1.92%) Tableau
10 59 (1.89%) MongoDB
11 55 (1.76%) Apache Arrow
11 55 (1.76%) Apache Iceberg
11 55 (1.76%) Dremio
12 45 (1.44%) Metadata
13 44 (1.41%) Big Data
14 38 (1.22%) Oracle Database
15 37 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
16 36 (1.15%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.09%) Apache Ignite
18 32 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 544 (17.45%) JIRA
2 306 (9.81%) Git
3 183 (5.87%) Jenkins
4 85 (2.73%) GitLab
5 66 (2.12%) JUnit
6 58 (1.86%) Selenium
7 50 (1.60%) Bitbucket
8 47 (1.51%) Postman
9 45 (1.44%) Cypress.io
10 44 (1.41%) Cucumber
11 32 (1.03%) Maven
12 29 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 25 (0.80%) Mockito
14 24 (0.77%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.64%) ERwin
15 20 (0.64%) REST Assured
16 19 (0.61%) ER Studio
16 19 (0.61%) webpack
17 15 (0.48%) Liquibase
17 15 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 1,228 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 1,031 (33.07%) Finance
3 472 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 424 (13.60%) Banking
5 332 (10.65%) Public Sector
6 202 (6.48%) Front Office
7 139 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 101 (3.24%) Retail
9 91 (2.92%) Marketing
10 80 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 74 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
12 72 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 68 (2.18%) Back Office
14 60 (1.92%) Legal
15 59 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 56 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
17 53 (1.70%) Telecoms
18 45 (1.44%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.22%) Manufacturing
20 33 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 637 (20.43%) Developer
2 464 (14.88%) Analyst
3 454 (14.56%) Senior
4 361 (11.58%) Business Analyst
5 280 (8.98%) Lead
6 210 (6.74%) Project Manager
7 196 (6.29%) Architect
8 187 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 134 (4.30%) Java Developer
10 112 (3.59%) Consultant
11 109 (3.50%) Senior Developer
12 89 (2.85%) Data Engineer
13 80 (2.57%) Product Owner
14 79 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
15 76 (2.44%) Product Manager
16 74 (2.37%) Python Engineer
17 70 (2.25%) Python Developer
18 69 (2.21%) Full-Stack Developer
19 63 (2.02%) Senior Software Engineer
20 62 (1.99%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (9.20%) React
2 256 (8.21%) REST
3 198 (6.35%) Kafka
4 187 (6.00%) Node.js
5 180 (5.77%) .NET
6 174 (5.58%) RESTful
7 163 (5.23%) HTML
8 151 (4.84%) AngularJS
9 148 (4.75%) CSS
10 132 (4.23%) Spring
11 109 (3.50%) SOAP
12 103 (3.30%) JSON
13 94 (3.01%) Spring Boot
14 84 (2.69%) GraphQL
15 78 (2.50%) Web Services
16 77 (2.47%) Playwright
17 68 (2.18%) Pandas
18 67 (2.15%) XML
19 63 (2.02%) HTML5
20 62 (1.99%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 332 (10.65%) Product Ownership
2 193 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 133 (4.27%) Fixed Income
4 127 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 103 (3.30%) Equities
6 98 (3.14%) Derivative
7 74 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 66 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 62 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 59 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
11 59 (1.89%) Mobile App
11 59 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 55 (1.76%) Onboarding
13 53 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
13 53 (1.70%) Hedge funds
14 51 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
14 51 (1.64%) Reinsurance
15 42 (1.35%) PMI
16 41 (1.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 180 (5.77%) Linux
2 94 (3.01%) Unix
3 80 (2.57%) Windows
4 48 (1.54%) Android
5 39 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.29%) VMS
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.13%) zOS
9 2 (0.064%) CentOS
9 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.032%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.032%) Debian
10 1 (0.032%) tvOS
10 1 (0.032%) watchOS
10 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (24.53%) DevOps
2 705 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
3 681 (21.84%) Scrum
4 661 (21.20%) CI/CD
5 549 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 376 (12.06%) Software Engineering
7 352 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 346 (11.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 337 (10.81%) Microservices
10 333 (10.68%) Test Automation
11 320 (10.26%) Project Management
12 312 (10.01%) Roadmaps
13 297 (9.53%) Analytics
14 288 (9.24%) AI
15 273 (8.76%) User Stories
16 256 (8.21%) Data Modelling
17 254 (8.15%) Migration
17 254 (8.15%) SDLC
18 249 (7.99%) Waterfall
19 229 (7.34%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 612 (19.63%) Python
2 589 (18.89%) SQL
3 486 (15.59%) Java
4 406 (13.02%) JavaScript
5 301 (9.65%) TypeScript
6 229 (7.34%) C#
7 92 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 70 (2.25%) C++
9 57 (1.83%) Go
10 53 (1.70%) Bash
11 39 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 39 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 33 (1.06%) Scala
14 25 (0.80%) Ruby
15 24 (0.77%) Groovy
16 22 (0.71%) Apex Code
16 22 (0.71%) Bicep
17 18 (0.58%) Korn
18 16 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 553 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 472 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 358 (11.48%) Degree
4 128 (4.11%) PMI Certification
5 103 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 103 (3.30%) PMP
6 60 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 47 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 46 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (0.93%) CISSP
10 29 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 27 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.71%) CBAP
13 18 (0.58%) CISM
14 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.32%) MCP
16 10 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (9.27%) QA
2 138 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 106 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 90 (2.89%) GDPR
5 77 (2.47%) PMO
6 33 (1.06%) MiFID
7 32 (1.03%) WCAG
8 20 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.61%) EMIR
10 14 (0.45%) GRC
11 13 (0.42%) NIST
12 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.32%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.29%) SLA
14 9 (0.29%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.26%) PSD2
16 7 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 330 (10.58%) Docker
2 46 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.064%) Postfix
6 2 (0.064%) Squid
6 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.032%) etcd
7 1 (0.032%) GPFS
7 1 (0.032%) IAG
7 1 (0.032%) KVM
7 1 (0.032%) Lustre
7 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 288 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 210 (6.74%) Terraform
3 61 (1.96%) Ansible
4 41 (1.31%) Grafana
5 33 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.74%) Consul
7 23 (0.74%) Packer
8 17 (0.55%) Puppet
9 13 (0.42%) Argo
10 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.29%) Kibana
12 7 (0.22%) SCCM
13 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.16%) Rancher
14 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.13%) Istio
14 4 (0.13%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 356 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 206 (6.61%) Oracle
3 131 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 112 (3.59%) Google
4 112 (3.59%) ServiceNow
5 107 (3.43%) SAP
6 90 (2.89%) Databricks
7 40 (1.28%) Splunk
8 37 (1.19%) Adobe
9 30 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 28 (0.90%) Workday
11 27 (0.87%) MuleSoft
12 22 (0.71%) Sybase
13 21 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
13 21 (0.67%) Murex
14 20 (0.64%) Foundry
14 20 (0.64%) HP
14 20 (0.64%) OpenLink
15 18 (0.58%) Cisco
15 18 (0.58%) Dynatrace