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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,117 3,019 4,253
As % of all contract jobs in London 22.11% 19.22% 21.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.97% 21.47% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,165 2,021 3,058
10th Percentile £363 £380 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £718 £711
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £520 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -7.14% -1.75% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 18
10th Percentile £30.37 £34.42 £44.66
25th Percentile £42.81 £35.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -47.29% +18.78%
75th Percentile £87.81 £41.19 £76.88
90th Percentile £101.07 £61.53 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

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 13,004 14,059 17,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 89.51% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,538 9,063 12,765
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 170 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +4.30% -8.97%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 0 449 £550 -6.78% 185
West London -1 61 £438 -2.78% 30
South London -1 42 £530 +11.58% 35
East London -1 29 £533 +12.11% 39
North London +4 4 £550 +35.97% 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
1 303 (9.72%) Confluence
2 80 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (2.37%) Apache
4 50 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 40 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 37 (1.19%) CMS
7 30 (0.96%) nginx
8 14 (0.45%) IIS
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.22%) Camunda
13 6 (0.19%) Appian
13 6 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.19%) WordPress
14 5 (0.16%) CICS
14 5 (0.16%) JBoss
14 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.16%) SAS
14 5 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 92 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 58 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 52 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (1.51%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.55%) Trello
8 12 (0.38%) Sketch
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.064%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.064%) InDesign
14 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
15 1 (0.032%) EPLAN
15 1 (0.032%) InfoPath
15 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 51 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 43 (1.38%) Endur
4 25 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.29%) Shopify
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.19%) Magento
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
10 6 (0.19%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.16%) Loan IQ
11 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 687 (22.04%) Azure
2 638 (20.47%) AWS
3 264 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 232 (7.44%) GCP
5 218 (6.99%) Power Platform
6 204 (6.54%) GitHub
7 159 (5.10%) Serverless
8 107 (3.43%) SaaS
9 100 (3.21%) Snowflake
10 94 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
11 80 (2.57%) dbt
12 77 (2.47%) Amazon S3
13 76 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
14 69 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
16 65 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 65 (2.09%) PowerApps
17 64 (2.05%) Power Automate
18 59 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
19 54 (1.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.57%) Firewall
2 24 (0.77%) TCP/IP
2 24 (0.77%) VPN
3 20 (0.64%) DNS
3 20 (0.64%) HTTP
4 19 (0.61%) Network Security
5 18 (0.58%) Internet
6 17 (0.55%) SSL
6 17 (0.55%) WAN
7 12 (0.38%) BGP
8 11 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.29%) OSPF
10 7 (0.22%) MPLS
11 6 (0.19%) DHCP
12 5 (0.16%) 5G
12 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.16%) LAN
12 5 (0.16%) SMS
12 5 (0.16%) Wireless
13 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
2 151 (4.84%) Power BI
3 115 (3.69%) SQL Server
4 107 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 93 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 73 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 63 (2.02%) MongoDB
9 59 (1.89%) Tableau
10 58 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
11 51 (1.64%) Big Data
12 49 (1.57%) Apache Arrow
12 49 (1.57%) Apache Iceberg
12 49 (1.57%) Dremio
13 46 (1.48%) Metadata
14 39 (1.25%) Oracle Database
15 37 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (1.12%) BigQuery
17 32 (1.03%) Apache Ignite
18 30 (0.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 546 (17.52%) JIRA
2 303 (9.72%) Git
3 181 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 91 (2.92%) GitLab
5 66 (2.12%) JUnit
6 60 (1.92%) Selenium
7 52 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 46 (1.48%) Postman
9 44 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 42 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 30 (0.96%) Maven
12 29 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 24 (0.77%) Mockito
14 23 (0.74%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.64%) ERwin
16 18 (0.58%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.58%) webpack
17 16 (0.51%) ER Studio
18 15 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 14 (0.45%) JMeter
General
1 1,235 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 1,014 (32.53%) Finance
3 474 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
4 410 (13.15%) Banking
5 342 (10.97%) Public Sector
6 192 (6.16%) Front Office
7 137 (4.40%) Investment Banking
8 96 (3.08%) Retail
9 94 (3.02%) Marketing
10 80 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 75 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 68 (2.18%) Back Office
14 62 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
15 61 (1.96%) Legal
16 58 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 56 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 46 (1.48%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.22%) Manufacturing
20 31 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 622 (19.96%) Developer
2 480 (15.40%) Analyst
3 463 (14.85%) Senior
4 374 (12.00%) Business Analyst
5 270 (8.66%) Lead
6 208 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 194 (6.22%) Architect
8 175 (5.61%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.20%) Java Developer
10 112 (3.59%) Consultant
11 108 (3.46%) Senior Developer
12 94 (3.02%) Data Engineer
13 79 (2.53%) Product Owner
14 77 (2.47%) Product Manager
15 74 (2.37%) AWS Engineer
16 72 (2.31%) Python Engineer
17 69 (2.21%) Full-Stack Developer
18 66 (2.12%) Python Developer
19 64 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
20 62 (1.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (8.79%) React
2 256 (8.21%) REST
3 196 (6.29%) Kafka
4 184 (5.90%) .NET
5 179 (5.74%) Node.js
6 175 (5.61%) RESTful
7 160 (5.13%) HTML
8 143 (4.59%) CSS
9 142 (4.56%) AngularJS
10 133 (4.27%) Spring
11 107 (3.43%) SOAP
12 103 (3.30%) JSON
13 96 (3.08%) Spring Boot
14 80 (2.57%) GraphQL
15 79 (2.53%) Playwright
16 76 (2.44%) Web Services
17 69 (2.21%) XML
18 62 (1.99%) Pandas
19 61 (1.96%) HTML5
20 56 (1.80%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 339 (10.88%) Product Ownership
2 203 (6.51%) Cloud Native
3 122 (3.91%) Fixed Income
4 120 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 97 (3.11%) Derivative
6 93 (2.98%) Equities
7 69 (2.21%) Data Structures
8 68 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 65 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 65 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 61 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 56 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 56 (1.80%) Onboarding
13 55 (1.76%) Virtual Team
14 54 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
15 49 (1.57%) Reinsurance
16 48 (1.54%) Hedge funds
17 43 (1.38%) PMI
18 39 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 176 (5.65%) Linux
2 90 (2.89%) Unix
3 86 (2.76%) Windows
4 47 (1.51%) Android
5 42 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.26%) VMS
9 5 (0.16%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.064%) CentOS
11 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) Debian
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) tvOS
12 1 (0.032%) watchOS
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (24.77%) DevOps
2 703 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
3 679 (21.78%) CI/CD
4 677 (21.72%) Scrum
5 554 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 366 (11.74%) Software Engineering
7 358 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 352 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 347 (11.13%) Test Automation
10 336 (10.78%) Microservices
11 321 (10.30%) Project Management
12 311 (9.98%) Roadmaps
13 307 (9.85%) Analytics
14 299 (9.59%) AI
15 280 (8.98%) User Stories
16 270 (8.66%) Data Modelling
17 263 (8.44%) Migration
18 252 (8.08%) SDLC
19 245 (7.86%) Waterfall
20 235 (7.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 604 (19.38%) Python
2 596 (19.12%) SQL
3 485 (15.56%) Java
4 393 (12.61%) JavaScript
5 290 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 237 (7.60%) C#
7 89 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.37%) C++
9 54 (1.73%) Bash
9 54 (1.73%) Go
10 38 (1.22%) Scala
11 37 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 32 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 32 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.80%) Ruby
14 23 (0.74%) Apex Code
15 22 (0.71%) Bicep
15 22 (0.71%) Groovy
16 19 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 567 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 488 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 361 (11.58%) Degree
4 126 (4.04%) PMI Certification
5 109 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 100 (3.21%) PMP
7 62 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 49 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 30 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 29 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.93%) CISSP
13 22 (0.71%) CBAP
14 18 (0.58%) CISM
15 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.40%) QA
2 138 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 111 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 96 (3.08%) GDPR
5 78 (2.50%) PMO
6 33 (1.06%) MiFID
7 30 (0.96%) WCAG
8 22 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.61%) EMIR
10 15 (0.48%) 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%) Solvency II
15 8 (0.26%) NCSC
15 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.26%) PSD2
15 8 (0.26%) SLA
16 7 (0.22%) Basel III
System Software
1 332 (10.65%) Docker
2 44 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.064%) Postfix
8 2 (0.064%) Squid
8 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.032%) GPFS
9 1 (0.032%) IAG
9 1 (0.032%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.032%) KVM
9 1 (0.032%) Lustre
9 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 296 (9.50%) Kubernetes
2 207 (6.64%) Terraform
3 58 (1.86%) Ansible
4 44 (1.41%) Grafana
5 32 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.64%) Consul
7 20 (0.64%) Packer
8 16 (0.51%) Puppet
9 15 (0.48%) Argo
10 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.29%) Kibana
12 7 (0.22%) Rancher
12 7 (0.22%) SCCM
13 6 (0.19%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
15 4 (0.13%) Istio
15 4 (0.13%) Nessus
15 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 369 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 203 (6.51%) Oracle
3 127 (4.07%) Salesforce
4 114 (3.66%) ServiceNow
5 112 (3.59%) Google
6 109 (3.50%) SAP
7 98 (3.14%) Databricks
8 45 (1.44%) Splunk
9 40 (1.28%) Adobe
10 33 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 29 (0.93%) Workday
12 27 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.67%) Foundry
13 21 (0.67%) Murex
13 21 (0.67%) Sybase
14 20 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
14 20 (0.64%) HP
14 20 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 20 (0.64%) OpenLink
15 19 (0.61%) Dynatrace