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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,561 3,011 3,420
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.59% 22.37% 20.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.80% 24.18% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,406 2,086 2,399
10th Percentile £390 £363 £377
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £640 £695 £723
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 19
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.17 £29.34
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.38 £34.04
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +50.00% -48.15%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.25 £68.13
90th Percentile £88.75 £97.43 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

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 17,985 12,452 14,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.52% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,227 9,667
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 252 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 September 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 September 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 September 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 -3 386 £550 -4.35% 398
West London -2 100 £680 +70.00% 149
South London 0 58 £530 -15.20% 20
East London -2 18 £588 +8.80% 38
North London +6 11 £550 - 2
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
1 297 (8.34%) Confluence
2 87 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 70 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 61 (1.71%) CMS
6 53 (1.49%) Apache
7 33 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 16 (0.45%) Camunda
9 15 (0.42%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.25%) Appian
14 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
15 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
16 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
16 6 (0.17%) Kentico
17 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
17 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
18 4 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 97 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.17%) Sketch
11 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.084%) Windchill
13 2 (0.056%) Mingle
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 59 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 8 (0.22%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 8 (0.22%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.20%) Endur
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.11%) Findur
11 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 927 (26.03%) Azure
2 708 (19.88%) AWS
3 339 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 313 (8.79%) Power Platform
5 300 (8.42%) GitHub
6 233 (6.54%) GCP
7 192 (5.39%) Serverless
8 163 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
9 136 (3.82%) Amazon S3
10 132 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
11 115 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
12 107 (3.00%) Snowflake
13 93 (2.61%) Power Automate
14 92 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
14 92 (2.58%) PowerApps
15 80 (2.25%) dbt
16 78 (2.19%) SaaS
17 69 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
18 68 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 68 (1.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.32%) Firewall
2 26 (0.73%) Network Security
3 24 (0.67%) VPN
4 22 (0.62%) DNS
5 18 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 18 (0.51%) WAN
6 17 (0.48%) HTTP
7 16 (0.45%) Internet
8 11 (0.31%) Wireless
9 10 (0.28%) DMZ
9 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.22%) 4G
12 7 (0.20%) 5G
12 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.20%) VoIP
13 6 (0.17%) Intranet
13 6 (0.17%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (6.71%) Power BI
2 166 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
3 140 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
4 123 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 108 (3.03%) Metadata
6 104 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 104 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 79 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 71 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 63 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
10 50 (1.40%) Tableau
11 46 (1.29%) DynamoDB
12 45 (1.26%) Delta Lake
13 41 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 40 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 38 (1.07%) Oracle Database
16 34 (0.95%) Big Data
17 32 (0.90%) MySQL
18 25 (0.70%) Redis
19 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 571 (16.03%) JIRA
2 340 (9.55%) Git
3 264 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 141 (3.96%) GitLab
5 73 (2.05%) Selenium
6 57 (1.60%) JUnit
7 49 (1.38%) Gradle
8 41 (1.15%) Postman
9 40 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.04%) Maven
11 36 (1.01%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.93%) Mockito
13 32 (0.90%) Bitbucket
14 28 (0.79%) REST Assured
15 27 (0.76%) Visual Studio
16 21 (0.59%) JMeter
16 21 (0.59%) SonarQube
17 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.42%) Gatling
18 14 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,418 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 1,154 (32.41%) Finance
3 559 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 554 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 494 (13.87%) Banking
6 222 (6.23%) Retail
7 149 (4.18%) Marketing
8 138 (3.88%) Front Office
9 127 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 117 (3.29%) Investment Banking
11 99 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
12 78 (2.19%) Legal
13 68 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 63 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
15 60 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
16 52 (1.46%) Local Government
17 43 (1.21%) Law
17 43 (1.21%) Retail Banking
17 43 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 596 (16.74%) Developer
2 547 (15.36%) Senior
3 454 (12.75%) Analyst
4 361 (10.14%) Lead
5 318 (8.93%) Business Analyst
6 293 (8.23%) Project Manager
7 267 (7.50%) Architect
8 167 (4.69%) Data Engineer
9 135 (3.79%) Software Engineer
10 129 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
11 120 (3.37%) Designer
11 120 (3.37%) Java Developer
12 112 (3.15%) Senior Developer
13 109 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
14 108 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
14 108 (3.03%) Senior Manager
15 98 (2.75%) Product Manager
16 90 (2.53%) Product Owner
17 74 (2.08%) Full-Stack Developer
18 73 (2.05%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (8.90%) REST
2 295 (8.28%) Terraform
3 241 (6.77%) React
4 207 (5.81%) .NET
5 184 (5.17%) RESTful
6 176 (4.94%) Kafka
7 174 (4.89%) Spring
8 159 (4.47%) Spring Boot
9 131 (3.68%) HTML
10 123 (3.45%) CSS
11 111 (3.12%) Node.js
12 109 (3.06%) AngularJS
13 93 (2.61%) PySpark
14 85 (2.39%) SOAP
15 76 (2.13%) JSON
16 74 (2.08%) Web Services
17 65 (1.83%) Django
18 61 (1.71%) Playwright
19 59 (1.66%) Middleware
20 56 (1.57%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 525 (14.74%) Product Ownership
2 292 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 145 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 123 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 96 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 76 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 72 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (1.68%) NHS
11 55 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 53 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 53 (1.49%) Management Information System
14 46 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 44 (1.24%) Mobile App
16 43 (1.21%) Fixed Income
17 39 (1.10%) Data Centre
17 39 (1.10%) Derivative
18 38 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (3.68%) Linux
2 77 (2.16%) Windows
3 53 (1.49%) Unix
4 35 (0.98%) Android
5 33 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.20%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.084%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.084%) zOS
12 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,166 (32.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,011 (28.39%) DevOps
3 983 (27.60%) CI/CD
4 804 (22.58%) Scrum
5 678 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 676 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
7 643 (18.06%) AI
8 527 (14.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 462 (12.97%) Roadmaps
10 451 (12.66%) Analytics
11 415 (11.65%) Test Automation
12 404 (11.35%) Decision-Making
13 397 (11.15%) User Stories
14 386 (10.84%) Software Engineering
15 373 (10.47%) Data Modelling
16 372 (10.45%) Migration
17 369 (10.36%) Project Management
18 343 (9.63%) Microservices
19 338 (9.49%) Waterfall
20 308 (8.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 664 (18.65%) SQL
2 636 (17.86%) Python
3 438 (12.30%) Java
4 287 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 220 (6.18%) TypeScript
6 211 (5.93%) C#
7 76 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 69 (1.94%) Bash
9 55 (1.54%) Scala
10 51 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 45 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 44 (1.24%) Apex Code
13 36 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.81%) Groovy
14 29 (0.81%) Korn
15 24 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 24 (0.67%) Go
16 22 (0.62%) Bicep
17 20 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 868 (24.38%) Security Cleared
2 749 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 294 (8.26%) Degree
4 157 (4.41%) PMP
5 150 (4.21%) PMI Certification
6 112 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 110 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 81 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 57 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 36 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 21 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.59%) CISSP
15 19 (0.53%) IIBA
16 16 (0.45%) CBAP
17 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
19 12 (0.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (10.33%) QA
2 272 (7.64%) Data Quality
3 145 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 117 (3.29%) PMO
5 95 (2.67%) GDPR
6 53 (1.49%) WCAG
7 38 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.90%) GRC
8 32 (0.90%) NIST
9 26 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.45%) SLA
12 15 (0.42%) NCSC
12 15 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.28%) SEPA
14 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
15 8 (0.22%) IFRS
16 7 (0.20%) P3O
17 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 317 (8.90%) Docker
2 56 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.25%) IAG
6 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.084%) Postfix
7 3 (0.084%) RACF
7 3 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.056%) Squid
9 1 (0.028%) Ceph
9 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 337 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 86 (2.42%) Grafana
3 75 (2.11%) Ansible
4 66 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 22 (0.62%) Kibana
6 20 (0.56%) Control-M
6 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.37%) Packer
8 10 (0.28%) SCCM
9 9 (0.25%) Puppet
10 7 (0.20%) WSUS
11 6 (0.17%) Argo
11 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.084%) Consul
13 3 (0.084%) Istio
13 3 (0.084%) Rancher
14 2 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.056%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 500 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 179 (5.03%) Oracle
3 174 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 146 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 140 (3.93%) Databricks
6 124 (3.48%) Google
7 98 (2.75%) SAP
8 77 (2.16%) Splunk
9 57 (1.60%) Adobe
10 46 (1.29%) IBM
11 37 (1.04%) Informatica
12 31 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 27 (0.76%) Workday
14 25 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.62%) Cisco
16 22 (0.62%) VMware
17 20 (0.56%) Bloomberg
17 20 (0.56%) UiPath
18 18 (0.51%) Atlassian