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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,477 2,922 3,587
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.41% 21.52% 21.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.56% 23.33% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,347 2,038 2,634
10th Percentile £384 £369 £400
25th Percentile £450 £455 £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 £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 18
10th Percentile £51.60 £26.83 £31.20
25th Percentile £54.64 £33.13 £32.47
Median hourly rate £63.95 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.81% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76.00 £68.13 £71.25
90th Percentile £96.63 £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 17,780 12,524 14,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.22% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,742 8,379 10,498
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £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 281 240 232
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.29% -20.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%

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 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -5 360 £575 -4.17% 154
West London +1 92 £604 +34.22% 33
South London +6 77 £514 -17.60% 21
East London -2 15 £585 +8.33% 39
North London +2 7 £550 - 4
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
1 300 (8.63%) Confluence
2 93 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 53 (1.52%) CMS
5 49 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (1.21%) Apache
7 21 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.43%) IIS
10 13 (0.37%) SAS
11 11 (0.32%) Camunda
12 8 (0.23%) JBoss
13 7 (0.20%) Appian
13 7 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.12%) Mule
16 4 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 96 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.23%) Sketch
7 8 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.20%) Notion
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.058%) Windchill
11 1 (0.029%) Mingle
11 1 (0.029%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 43 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.81%) Aladdin
3 27 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
6 11 (0.32%) Findur
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.23%) Magento
8 7 (0.20%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.20%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.17%) Endur
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 907 (26.09%) Azure
2 711 (20.45%) AWS
3 313 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
4 283 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 266 (7.65%) GitHub
6 236 (6.79%) GCP
7 173 (4.98%) Serverless
8 152 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
9 129 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 119 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
12 84 (2.42%) Snowflake
13 82 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
14 81 (2.33%) SaaS
15 79 (2.27%) PowerApps
16 75 (2.16%) Power Automate
17 68 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
18 65 (1.87%) dbt
18 65 (1.87%) Entra ID
19 63 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.41%) Firewall
2 27 (0.78%) Network Security
2 27 (0.78%) WAN
3 22 (0.63%) VPN
4 17 (0.49%) DNS
4 17 (0.49%) Internet
5 14 (0.40%) HTTP
5 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.35%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.32%) LAN
8 10 (0.29%) Unified Communications
8 10 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.26%) Wireless
10 7 (0.20%) BGP
10 7 (0.20%) DMZ
10 7 (0.20%) Intranet
10 7 (0.20%) MPLS
10 7 (0.20%) OSPF
11 6 (0.17%) SMS
11 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (6.36%) Power BI
2 139 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
4 115 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 96 (2.76%) NoSQL
6 91 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 73 (2.10%) Metadata
8 66 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 65 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
10 64 (1.84%) Tableau
11 53 (1.52%) MongoDB
12 50 (1.44%) DynamoDB
13 45 (1.29%) Big Data
14 40 (1.15%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
17 31 (0.89%) Delta Lake
18 24 (0.69%) Oracle Database
19 21 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
20 20 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 566 (16.28%) JIRA
2 295 (8.48%) Git
3 230 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 114 (3.28%) GitLab
5 54 (1.55%) JUnit
6 47 (1.35%) Selenium
7 40 (1.15%) Postman
8 35 (1.01%) Gradle
9 34 (0.98%) Mockito
10 32 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.89%) Cypress.io
12 28 (0.81%) Cucumber
13 23 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.60%) Maven
15 20 (0.58%) Visual Studio
16 19 (0.55%) JMeter
17 17 (0.49%) CircleCI
17 17 (0.49%) Gatling
17 17 (0.49%) Zephyr
18 16 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,257 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 1,161 (33.39%) Finance
3 537 (15.44%) Public Sector
4 534 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
5 440 (12.65%) Banking
6 207 (5.95%) Retail
7 171 (4.92%) Front Office
8 137 (3.94%) Marketing
9 110 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 98 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
11 97 (2.79%) Investment Banking
12 84 (2.42%) Legal
13 75 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
15 60 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 42 (1.21%) Law
17 37 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.06%) Telecoms
18 36 (1.04%) Local Government
19 34 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 615 (17.69%) Developer
2 512 (14.73%) Senior
3 463 (13.32%) Analyst
4 364 (10.47%) Lead
5 320 (9.20%) Business Analyst
6 297 (8.54%) Project Manager
7 255 (7.33%) Architect
8 181 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 146 (4.20%) Data Engineer
10 130 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
11 126 (3.62%) Java Developer
12 123 (3.54%) Designer
13 112 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
14 111 (3.19%) Senior Developer
15 109 (3.13%) Senior Manager
16 82 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
16 82 (2.36%) Product Owner
17 77 (2.21%) Product Manager
18 71 (2.04%) Programme Manager
19 69 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (7.79%) REST
2 259 (7.45%) React
3 199 (5.72%) .NET
4 170 (4.89%) RESTful
5 168 (4.83%) Kafka
6 160 (4.60%) Spring
7 152 (4.37%) Node.js
8 136 (3.91%) Spring Boot
9 127 (3.65%) AngularJS
10 117 (3.36%) HTML
11 105 (3.02%) CSS
12 87 (2.50%) SOAP
13 85 (2.44%) PySpark
14 81 (2.33%) Redux
15 74 (2.13%) JSON
16 72 (2.07%) Middleware
17 66 (1.90%) GraphQL
18 64 (1.84%) Playwright
19 56 (1.61%) Web Services
20 54 (1.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 444 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 256 (7.36%) Cloud Native
3 140 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 112 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
5 100 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 95 (2.73%) Fixed Income
7 73 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 63 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.78%) Derivative
10 61 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 61 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 59 (1.70%) NHS
12 56 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 53 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
14 52 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 49 (1.41%) AI Agents
15 49 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 40 (1.15%) CMDB
16 40 (1.15%) Data Centre
16 40 (1.15%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.05%) Linux
2 77 (2.21%) Windows
3 42 (1.21%) Unix
4 36 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 34 (0.98%) Android
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.12%) VMS
11 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.058%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.058%) zOS
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
13 1 (0.029%) SUSE
13 1 (0.029%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (27.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 944 (27.15%) DevOps
3 898 (25.83%) CI/CD
4 755 (21.71%) Scrum
5 620 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 598 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
7 533 (15.33%) AI
8 477 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 406 (11.68%) Analytics
10 396 (11.39%) Roadmaps
11 384 (11.04%) Software Engineering
12 376 (10.81%) Data Modelling
13 371 (10.67%) Decision-Making
14 369 (10.61%) Test Automation
15 366 (10.53%) Migration
16 356 (10.24%) Project Management
16 356 (10.24%) User Stories
17 337 (9.69%) Microservices
18 335 (9.63%) Waterfall
19 282 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 615 (17.69%) SQL
2 601 (17.29%) Python
3 444 (12.77%) Java
4 315 (9.06%) JavaScript
5 251 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 223 (6.41%) C#
7 67 (1.93%) PowerShell
8 51 (1.47%) Apex Code
8 51 (1.47%) Go
9 49 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 41 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 39 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 39 (1.12%) Scala
12 38 (1.09%) Bash
13 24 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.63%) Groovy
14 22 (0.63%) Korn
15 20 (0.58%) Bicep
16 19 (0.55%) Ruby
17 18 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 781 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 688 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 275 (7.91%) Degree
4 134 (3.85%) PMP
5 123 (3.54%) PMI Certification
6 93 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 90 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 76 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 47 (1.35%) AWS Certification
11 43 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 31 (0.89%) CISSP
13 25 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 21 (0.60%) CISM
15 21 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.46%) CBAP
16 16 (0.46%) IIBA
17 12 (0.35%) CCNP
18 11 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (9.00%) QA
2 219 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 150 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 118 (3.39%) PMO
5 113 (3.25%) GDPR
6 47 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.35%) WCAG
7 37 (1.06%) NIST
8 35 (1.01%) GRC
9 28 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (0.69%) SLA
11 21 (0.60%) NCSC
12 20 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.26%) SEPA
16 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.23%) PSD2
17 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 7 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 271 (7.79%) Docker
2 52 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) IAG
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.086%) Postfix
7 2 (0.058%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.029%) HDFS
8 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.029%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.029%) Squid
8 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 317 (9.12%) Kubernetes
2 265 (7.62%) Terraform
3 78 (2.24%) Ansible
4 55 (1.58%) Grafana
5 52 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.37%) Control-M
7 13 (0.37%) Packer
8 12 (0.35%) Kibana
9 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.23%) SCCM
11 7 (0.20%) Puppet
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.086%) Consul
Vendors
1 423 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 189 (5.44%) Salesforce
3 177 (5.09%) Oracle
4 150 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 106 (3.05%) Google
6 105 (3.02%) SAP
7 103 (2.96%) Databricks
8 50 (1.44%) Splunk
9 46 (1.32%) Adobe
10 38 (1.09%) IBM
11 32 (0.92%) Workday
12 29 (0.83%) MuleSoft
13 25 (0.72%) Dynatrace
14 24 (0.69%) Bloomberg
14 24 (0.69%) Informatica
15 23 (0.66%) Cisco
16 22 (0.63%) VMware
17 19 (0.55%) CyberArk
17 19 (0.55%) Pega
18 18 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud