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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,538 2,966 3,460
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.52% 21.94% 21.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.65% 23.76% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,359 2,072 2,510
10th Percentile £392 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £731
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 17 16
10th Percentile £51.70 £26.94 £28.34
25th Percentile £53.38 £34.48 £32.82
Median hourly rate £65.40 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% -12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.75 £91.25 £73.13
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -

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 18,004 12,485 14,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.37% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,831 8,318 10,069
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 £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 253 197
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -4 376 £565 -5.83% 226
West London -1 96 £604 +51.00% 65
South London +4 64 £525 -15.59% 35
East London -4 14 £585 +8.33% 35
North London +2 7 £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
1 299 (8.45%) Confluence
2 91 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.70%) CMS
5 58 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 48 (1.36%) Apache
7 29 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.42%) IIS
9 14 (0.40%) SAS
10 12 (0.34%) Camunda
10 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.25%) Appian
12 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.20%) JBoss
13 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
14 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
Applications
1 101 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 51 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.057%) Windchill
14 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.028%) Mingle
14 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 47 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.31%) Findur
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Magento
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 6 (0.17%) Endur
9 6 (0.17%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.14%) Actimize
10 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 938 (26.51%) Azure
2 711 (20.10%) AWS
3 340 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
4 295 (8.34%) Power Platform
5 291 (8.22%) GitHub
6 238 (6.73%) GCP
7 180 (5.09%) Serverless
8 158 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
9 121 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 119 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
12 98 (2.77%) Snowflake
13 87 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
14 86 (2.43%) PowerApps
15 85 (2.40%) Power Automate
16 75 (2.12%) SaaS
17 71 (2.01%) Entra ID
18 67 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
18 67 (1.89%) dbt
19 65 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.44%) Firewall
2 27 (0.76%) Network Security
3 24 (0.68%) WAN
4 23 (0.65%) 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%) LAN
12 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.17%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.17%) Intranet
13 6 (0.17%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (6.44%) Power BI
2 155 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.28%) SQL Server
5 108 (3.05%) NoSQL
6 97 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 88 (2.49%) Metadata
8 70 (1.98%) Data Lake
9 59 (1.67%) MongoDB
10 58 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
10 58 (1.64%) Tableau
11 47 (1.33%) DynamoDB
12 40 (1.13%) Big Data
13 39 (1.10%) BigQuery
14 38 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (1.05%) Delta Lake
16 30 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
17 28 (0.79%) Oracle Database
18 22 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
19 19 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 577 (16.31%) JIRA
2 310 (8.76%) Git
3 241 (6.81%) Jenkins
4 123 (3.48%) GitLab
5 55 (1.55%) Selenium
6 54 (1.53%) JUnit
7 41 (1.16%) Postman
8 39 (1.10%) Gradle
9 35 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 35 (0.99%) Mockito
10 32 (0.90%) Bitbucket
11 26 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 25 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 25 (0.71%) Maven
13 21 (0.59%) REST Assured
14 20 (0.57%) JMeter
15 17 (0.48%) Zephyr
16 16 (0.45%) Liquibase
17 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,330 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 1,167 (32.98%) Finance
3 567 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 548 (15.49%) Public Sector
5 475 (13.43%) Banking
6 216 (6.11%) Retail
7 151 (4.27%) Front Office
8 150 (4.24%) Marketing
9 112 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 109 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
11 103 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
12 82 (2.32%) Legal
13 69 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 63 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
15 59 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 43 (1.22%) Local Government
16 43 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.19%) Retail Banking
18 40 (1.13%) Law
19 39 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 632 (17.86%) Developer
2 519 (14.67%) Senior
3 469 (13.26%) Analyst
4 359 (10.15%) Lead
5 329 (9.30%) Business Analyst
6 297 (8.39%) Project Manager
7 255 (7.21%) Architect
8 163 (4.61%) Software Engineer
9 160 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 133 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
11 127 (3.59%) Java Developer
12 119 (3.36%) Designer
13 112 (3.17%) Senior Developer
14 109 (3.08%) Senior Manager
15 107 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
16 87 (2.46%) Product Manager
17 85 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 85 (2.40%) Product Owner
18 79 (2.23%) Programme Manager
19 76 (2.15%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (8.20%) REST
2 256 (7.24%) React
3 215 (6.08%) .NET
4 174 (4.92%) RESTful
5 172 (4.86%) Spring
6 170 (4.80%) Kafka
7 148 (4.18%) Spring Boot
8 133 (3.76%) AngularJS
9 132 (3.73%) Node.js
10 127 (3.59%) HTML
11 110 (3.11%) CSS
12 92 (2.60%) PySpark
13 84 (2.37%) SOAP
14 74 (2.09%) JSON
15 67 (1.89%) Web Services
16 63 (1.78%) Middleware
17 62 (1.75%) Redux
18 60 (1.70%) Playwright
19 56 (1.58%) Django
19 56 (1.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 475 (13.43%) Product Ownership
2 285 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 137 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 123 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 69 (1.95%) Fixed Income
9 67 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 61 (1.72%) NHS
11 60 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
12 58 (1.64%) AI Agents
13 57 (1.61%) Virtual Team
14 55 (1.55%) Derivative
15 54 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
16 50 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 50 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
17 47 (1.33%) Data Centre
18 41 (1.16%) Management Information System
19 40 (1.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 120 (3.39%) Linux
2 79 (2.23%) Windows
3 48 (1.36%) Unix
4 35 (0.99%) Android
4 35 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.14%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.085%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.028%) AIX
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.028%) Solaris
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,043 (29.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 998 (28.21%) DevOps
3 939 (26.54%) CI/CD
4 767 (21.68%) Scrum
5 652 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 636 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 598 (16.90%) AI
8 510 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 433 (12.24%) Analytics
10 425 (12.01%) Roadmaps
11 387 (10.94%) Data Modelling
12 381 (10.77%) Software Engineering
13 378 (10.68%) Project Management
14 375 (10.60%) Migration
14 375 (10.60%) User Stories
15 372 (10.51%) Decision-Making
15 372 (10.51%) Test Automation
16 347 (9.81%) Microservices
17 330 (9.33%) Waterfall
18 288 (8.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 650 (18.37%) SQL
2 608 (17.18%) Python
3 450 (12.72%) Java
4 307 (8.68%) JavaScript
5 240 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 232 (6.56%) C#
7 69 (1.95%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.55%) PL/SQL
9 50 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 44 (1.24%) Bash
10 44 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 41 (1.16%) Scala
12 38 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 36 (1.02%) Go
14 30 (0.85%) Korn
15 24 (0.68%) Groovy
16 21 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 18 (0.51%) Bicep
17 18 (0.51%) Shell Script
18 17 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 817 (23.09%) Security Cleared
2 712 (20.12%) SC Cleared
3 270 (7.63%) Degree
4 148 (4.18%) PMP
5 136 (3.84%) PMI Certification
6 96 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 94 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 73 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 49 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 39 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 26 (0.73%) CISSP
13 25 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.62%) IIBA
16 16 (0.45%) CISM
17 15 (0.42%) CBAP
18 13 (0.37%) ISEB
19 12 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (9.36%) QA
2 237 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 144 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 122 (3.45%) PMO
5 112 (3.17%) GDPR
6 46 (1.30%) WCAG
7 43 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.99%) GRC
9 34 (0.96%) NIST
10 31 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.62%) SLA
12 21 (0.59%) NCSC
13 17 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 16 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.25%) SEPA
17 8 (0.23%) P3O
18 7 (0.20%) GxP
18 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.20%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 287 (8.11%) Docker
2 54 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.25%) IAG
5 9 (0.25%) 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%) 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
1 328 (9.27%) Kubernetes
2 276 (7.80%) Terraform
3 80 (2.26%) Ansible
4 60 (1.70%) Grafana
5 56 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.57%) Control-M
8 13 (0.37%) Packer
9 12 (0.34%) Kibana
10 10 (0.28%) Puppet
11 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.25%) SCCM
12 7 (0.20%) WSUS
13 5 (0.14%) Argo
13 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 464 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 188 (5.31%) Salesforce
3 181 (5.12%) Oracle
4 149 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 118 (3.34%) Databricks
5 118 (3.34%) Google
6 104 (2.94%) SAP
7 58 (1.64%) Splunk
8 51 (1.44%) Adobe
9 42 (1.19%) IBM
10 30 (0.85%) Informatica
11 28 (0.79%) Workday
12 27 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 25 (0.71%) Cisco
13 25 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 24 (0.68%) VMware
15 22 (0.62%) Bloomberg
16 21 (0.59%) Okta
17 20 (0.57%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.57%) Pega