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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,537 2,963 3,529
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.54% 21.79% 21.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.70% 23.62% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,388 2,078 2,574
10th Percentile £390 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £738
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 18
10th Percentile £51.70 £26.83 £31.20
25th Percentile £55.03 £33.13 £32.47
Median hourly rate £65.40 £48.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -18.75% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.75 £88.13 £72.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -2.31% -

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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -5 368 £568 -5.42% 299
West London -1 93 £600 +50.00% 56
South London +8 77 £514 -17.80% 30
East London -3 15 £585 +8.33% 41
North London +2 7 £550 - 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
1 306 (8.65%) Confluence
2 91 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.67%) CMS
5 56 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 44 (1.24%) Apache
7 26 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.42%) IIS
9 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.37%) SAS
10 12 (0.34%) Camunda
11 9 (0.25%) Appian
12 8 (0.23%) JBoss
12 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.17%) Kentico
13 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 98 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 47 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
9 6 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.057%) Windchill
12 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.028%) Mingle
12 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 47 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 24 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
6 11 (0.31%) Findur
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) Magento
8 8 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.17%) Endur
9 6 (0.17%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.17%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.14%) Actimize
10 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 927 (26.21%) Azure
2 727 (20.55%) AWS
3 329 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
4 288 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 285 (8.06%) GitHub
6 245 (6.93%) GCP
7 177 (5.00%) Serverless
8 158 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
9 129 (3.65%) Amazon S3
10 120 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
12 91 (2.57%) Snowflake
13 87 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
14 81 (2.29%) Power Automate
14 81 (2.29%) PowerApps
15 74 (2.09%) SaaS
16 71 (2.01%) dbt
17 70 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
18 65 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 63 (1.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.39%) Firewall
2 27 (0.76%) Network Security
3 24 (0.68%) WAN
4 22 (0.62%) VPN
5 20 (0.57%) DNS
6 18 (0.51%) Internet
7 15 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) HTTP
8 13 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.28%) DMZ
10 9 (0.25%) Wireless
11 8 (0.23%) BGP
11 8 (0.23%) MPLS
11 8 (0.23%) OSPF
12 7 (0.20%) Intranet
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 6 (0.17%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.17%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) VoIP
13 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (6.36%) Power BI
2 151 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
3 129 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 115 (3.25%) SQL Server
5 99 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 92 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 81 (2.29%) Metadata
8 69 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (1.75%) Tableau
11 57 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 49 (1.39%) DynamoDB
13 42 (1.19%) Big Data
14 41 (1.16%) BigQuery
15 35 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (0.99%) Delta Lake
16 32 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
17 27 (0.76%) Oracle Database
18 21 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 581 (16.43%) JIRA
2 309 (8.74%) Git
3 243 (6.87%) Jenkins
4 124 (3.51%) GitLab
5 54 (1.53%) JUnit
6 45 (1.27%) Selenium
7 39 (1.10%) Postman
8 38 (1.07%) Gradle
9 35 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 35 (0.99%) Mockito
10 33 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 25 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 24 (0.68%) Maven
13 22 (0.62%) JMeter
13 22 (0.62%) REST Assured
13 22 (0.62%) Visual Studio
14 18 (0.51%) Zephyr
15 17 (0.48%) Gatling
16 16 (0.45%) Liquibase
16 16 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,308 (36.98%) Social Skills
2 1,185 (33.50%) Finance
3 570 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 555 (15.69%) Public Sector
5 453 (12.81%) Banking
6 211 (5.97%) Retail
7 168 (4.75%) Front Office
8 146 (4.13%) Marketing
9 113 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 106 (3.00%) Investment Banking
11 102 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 81 (2.29%) Legal
13 71 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
15 62 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (1.24%) Local Government
17 43 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 41 (1.16%) Retail Banking
19 40 (1.13%) Financial Institution
19 40 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 626 (17.70%) Developer
2 516 (14.59%) Senior
3 474 (13.40%) Analyst
4 368 (10.40%) Lead
5 327 (9.25%) Business Analyst
6 299 (8.45%) Project Manager
7 255 (7.21%) Architect
8 184 (5.20%) Software Engineer
9 157 (4.44%) Data Engineer
10 136 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
11 126 (3.56%) Java Developer
12 121 (3.42%) Designer
13 110 (3.11%) Senior Developer
14 107 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
15 106 (3.00%) Senior Manager
16 85 (2.40%) Product Owner
17 82 (2.32%) Product Manager
18 80 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
19 77 (2.18%) Full-Stack Developer
20 75 (2.12%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (7.75%) REST
2 270 (7.63%) React
3 208 (5.88%) .NET
4 171 (4.83%) RESTful
5 170 (4.81%) Kafka
6 162 (4.58%) Spring
7 156 (4.41%) Node.js
8 136 (3.85%) Spring Boot
9 131 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 118 (3.34%) HTML
11 105 (2.97%) CSS
12 86 (2.43%) PySpark
13 82 (2.32%) Redux
13 82 (2.32%) SOAP
14 76 (2.15%) JSON
15 68 (1.92%) GraphQL
16 65 (1.84%) Middleware
17 63 (1.78%) Playwright
18 57 (1.61%) Web Services
19 56 (1.58%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 471 (13.32%) Product Ownership
2 272 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 138 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 120 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (2.52%) Fixed Income
7 75 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 68 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 67 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 61 (1.72%) NHS
12 60 (1.70%) Derivative
13 56 (1.58%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 55 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
15 51 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
16 50 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 45 (1.27%) Data Centre
18 42 (1.19%) Mobile App
19 41 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 108 (3.05%) Linux
2 78 (2.21%) Windows
3 40 (1.13%) Unix
4 35 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 34 (0.96%) Android
6 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.085%) VMS
13 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.028%) AIX
14 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.028%) Rocky
14 1 (0.028%) SUSE
14 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (28.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 970 (27.42%) DevOps
3 924 (26.12%) CI/CD
4 768 (21.71%) Scrum
5 635 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 623 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
7 583 (16.48%) AI
8 497 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 435 (12.30%) Analytics
10 413 (11.68%) Roadmaps
11 397 (11.22%) Software Engineering
12 387 (10.94%) Data Modelling
13 383 (10.83%) Decision-Making
14 374 (10.57%) Migration
15 372 (10.52%) User Stories
16 369 (10.43%) Project Management
17 365 (10.32%) Test Automation
18 344 (9.73%) Microservices
19 334 (9.44%) Waterfall
20 287 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 635 (17.95%) SQL
2 616 (17.42%) Python
3 446 (12.61%) Java
4 322 (9.10%) JavaScript
5 255 (7.21%) TypeScript
6 230 (6.50%) C#
7 66 (1.87%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.47%) Apex Code
8 52 (1.47%) Go
8 52 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 43 (1.22%) Bash
9 43 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 40 (1.13%) Scala
10 40 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 26 (0.74%) Korn
12 23 (0.65%) Groovy
13 22 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.59%) Bicep
15 18 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 802 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 703 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 273 (7.72%) Degree
4 147 (4.16%) PMP
5 136 (3.85%) PMI Certification
6 94 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 94 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 74 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (1.58%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 42 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 33 (0.93%) CISSP
12 26 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.65%) CISM
15 20 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 18 (0.51%) IIBA
17 15 (0.42%) CBAP
18 12 (0.34%) CCNP
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (9.27%) QA
2 234 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 148 (4.18%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.36%) PMO
5 114 (3.22%) GDPR
6 50 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 49 (1.39%) WCAG
8 38 (1.07%) NIST
9 36 (1.02%) GRC
10 30 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.65%) SLA
12 22 (0.62%) NCSC
13 19 (0.54%) PCI DSS
14 17 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
15 16 (0.45%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.23%) SEPA
17 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.20%) IFRS
17 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 286 (8.09%) Docker
2 53 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.25%) IAG
4 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.085%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.085%) Postfix
7 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.057%) RACF
8 1 (0.028%) Ceph
8 1 (0.028%) HDFS
8 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.028%) Squid
8 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 325 (9.19%) Kubernetes
2 270 (7.63%) Terraform
3 79 (2.23%) Ansible
4 57 (1.61%) Grafana
5 53 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.48%) Control-M
8 13 (0.37%) Packer
9 12 (0.34%) Kibana
10 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.25%) SCCM
11 8 (0.23%) Puppet
12 7 (0.20%) WSUS
13 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.14%) Argo
14 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
15 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
15 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 443 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 192 (5.43%) Salesforce
3 174 (4.92%) Oracle
4 145 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 116 (3.28%) Google
6 109 (3.08%) Databricks
7 105 (2.97%) SAP
8 54 (1.53%) Splunk
9 51 (1.44%) Adobe
10 40 (1.13%) IBM
11 30 (0.85%) Workday
12 28 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 27 (0.76%) Dynatrace
14 26 (0.74%) VMware
15 25 (0.71%) Cisco
15 25 (0.71%) Informatica
16 23 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 20 (0.57%) Pega
18 19 (0.54%) CyberArk
19 18 (0.51%) Murex