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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,897 2,551 3,617
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.47% 18.69% 19.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.45% 20.65% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,969 1,670 2,635
10th Percentile £363 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £473 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £770 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -8.48% +1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £38.41 - £20.90
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £38.00
Median hourly rate £59.47 £38.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +56.49% -25.85% -6.82%
75th Percentile £66.50 £41.19 £72.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £81.83
England median hourly rate £58.94 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.70% -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 13,506 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.78% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,992 7,845 11,870
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +1 377 £543 -5.65% 283
West London -1 67 £500 +33.33% 39
South London +7 50 £525 +10.24% 16
East London -2 28 £540 +8.00% 41
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 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
1 263 (9.08%) Confluence
2 58 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.28%) Apache
4 37 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (0.93%) CMS
6 20 (0.69%) nginx
7 15 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.31%) Camunda
12 8 (0.28%) IIS
13 6 (0.21%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.21%) Hyperledger
14 5 (0.17%) Appian
14 5 (0.17%) SAS
15 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 106 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 49 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.86%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.45%) Trello
8 10 (0.35%) Adobe XD
9 9 (0.31%) Sketch
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.10%) InVision
13 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.069%) InDesign
13 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.069%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 53 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 28 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.93%) Endur
4 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.28%) Shopify
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.21%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.14%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 705 (24.34%) Azure
2 505 (17.43%) AWS
3 257 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
4 244 (8.42%) Power Platform
5 201 (6.94%) GitHub
6 194 (6.70%) GCP
7 137 (4.73%) Serverless
8 106 (3.66%) SaaS
9 96 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 94 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (2.83%) Snowflake
12 76 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (2.35%) Amazon S3
15 66 (2.28%) PowerApps
16 64 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 59 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
18 57 (1.97%) Figma
19 50 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
20 46 (1.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.62%) Firewall
2 25 (0.86%) Network Security
3 24 (0.83%) HTTP
4 23 (0.79%) WAN
5 22 (0.76%) VPN
6 16 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.45%) DNS
9 12 (0.41%) Internet
10 8 (0.28%) LAN
11 6 (0.21%) 5G
12 5 (0.17%) BGP
12 5 (0.17%) Broadband
12 5 (0.17%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) DMZ
13 4 (0.14%) FTP
13 4 (0.14%) IPsec
13 4 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.80%) Power BI
2 113 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (3.73%) NoSQL
4 106 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 75 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 63 (2.17%) Tableau
8 55 (1.90%) MongoDB
9 49 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 44 (1.52%) Metadata
11 42 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
12 40 (1.38%) Big Data
13 38 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (1.21%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.04%) Oracle Database
16 26 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
18 23 (0.79%) Delta Lake
19 22 (0.76%) Data Vault
20 21 (0.72%) DB2
Development Applications
1 520 (17.95%) JIRA
2 264 (9.11%) Git
3 163 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 95 (3.28%) GitLab
5 61 (2.11%) Selenium
6 52 (1.79%) JUnit
7 47 (1.62%) Postman
8 42 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 35 (1.21%) Bitbucket
11 29 (1.00%) SpecFlow
12 21 (0.72%) REST Assured
13 18 (0.62%) ERwin
13 18 (0.62%) Maven
13 18 (0.62%) Mockito
14 16 (0.55%) JMeter
14 16 (0.55%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.45%) TestRail
16 12 (0.41%) Gradle
17 11 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,150 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 943 (32.55%) Finance
3 457 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 369 (12.74%) Banking
5 345 (11.91%) Public Sector
6 127 (4.38%) Front Office
7 92 (3.18%) Retail
8 85 (2.93%) Investment Banking
9 83 (2.87%) Marketing
10 81 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
11 79 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
12 78 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
13 71 (2.45%) Legal
14 67 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.62%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.48%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 40 (1.38%) Manufacturing
18 38 (1.31%) Back Office
19 28 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 515 (17.78%) Developer
2 453 (15.64%) Analyst
3 437 (15.08%) Senior
4 351 (12.12%) Business Analyst
5 253 (8.73%) Lead
6 223 (7.70%) Project Manager
7 185 (6.39%) Architect
8 113 (3.90%) Data Engineer
9 111 (3.83%) Software Engineer
10 97 (3.35%) Consultant
11 94 (3.24%) Java Developer
12 77 (2.66%) Senior Developer
12 77 (2.66%) Senior Manager
13 76 (2.62%) Designer
14 74 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
15 71 (2.45%) Product Manager
16 66 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
17 62 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
17 62 (2.14%) DevOps Engineer
17 62 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (7.70%) REST
2 208 (7.18%) React
3 156 (5.38%) Node.js
4 148 (5.11%) Kafka
5 146 (5.04%) RESTful
6 134 (4.63%) .NET
7 115 (3.97%) AngularJS
8 111 (3.83%) HTML
9 110 (3.80%) CSS
10 104 (3.59%) Spring
11 98 (3.38%) Playwright
12 93 (3.21%) Spring Boot
13 82 (2.83%) SOAP
14 77 (2.66%) PySpark
15 73 (2.52%) JSON
16 62 (2.14%) XML
17 60 (2.07%) Web Services
18 58 (2.00%) GraphQL
18 58 (2.00%) Middleware
19 40 (1.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 297 (10.25%) Product Ownership
2 197 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 65 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 64 (2.21%) Derivative
5 59 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 59 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 53 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 53 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 49 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.66%) AI Agents
10 48 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 48 (1.66%) Mobile App
11 46 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 44 (1.52%) Fixed Income
13 43 (1.48%) PMI
14 42 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (1.38%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 149 (5.14%) Linux
2 86 (2.97%) Windows
3 82 (2.83%) Unix
4 33 (1.14%) Android
5 31 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.41%) VMS
8 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
10 2 (0.069%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.035%) Solaris
11 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (24.78%) DevOps
2 652 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
3 640 (22.09%) CI/CD
4 632 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 618 (21.33%) Scrum
6 391 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 352 (12.15%) Test Automation
8 347 (11.98%) AI
9 336 (11.60%) Project Management
10 325 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 321 (11.08%) Analytics
12 302 (10.42%) Data Modelling
13 291 (10.04%) Roadmaps
14 280 (9.67%) Software Engineering
15 277 (9.56%) Migration
16 271 (9.35%) User Stories
17 269 (9.29%) Microservices
18 264 (9.11%) Project Delivery
18 264 (9.11%) Waterfall
19 250 (8.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 573 (19.78%) SQL
2 525 (18.12%) Python
3 340 (11.74%) Java
4 292 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 236 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 203 (7.01%) C#
7 84 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 59 (2.04%) C++
9 54 (1.86%) Scala
10 41 (1.42%) Bash
11 30 (1.04%) Go
11 30 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 26 (0.90%) Ruby
13 25 (0.86%) Bicep
14 24 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.69%) R
17 18 (0.62%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.62%) Korn
18 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 569 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 504 (17.40%) SC Cleared
3 345 (11.91%) Degree
4 134 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.80%) PMP
6 96 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.97%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.69%) CBAP
10 48 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.38%) DV Cleared
12 37 (1.28%) ISTQB
13 26 (0.90%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.86%) CISSP
14 25 (0.86%) IIBA
15 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.55%) CISM
17 13 (0.45%) ISEB
18 11 (0.38%) CSPO
19 10 (0.35%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (9.98%) QA
2 145 (5.01%) Accessibility
2 145 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 127 (4.38%) GDPR
4 85 (2.93%) PMO
5 39 (1.35%) WCAG
6 31 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 26 (0.90%) NIST
8 16 (0.55%) MiFID
9 15 (0.52%) GRC
10 13 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.38%) PSD2
13 10 (0.35%) Basel III
13 10 (0.35%) PERC
13 10 (0.35%) SLA
14 9 (0.31%) EMIR
14 9 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 324 (11.18%) Docker
2 36 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.069%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.035%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.035%) etcd
8 1 (0.035%) GPFS
8 1 (0.035%) IAG
8 1 (0.035%) KVM
8 1 (0.035%) Postfix
8 1 (0.035%) RACF
8 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 314 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 188 (6.49%) Terraform
3 47 (1.62%) Ansible
4 41 (1.42%) Grafana
5 27 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.62%) Argo
7 17 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.45%) Packer
9 12 (0.41%) Consul
10 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.35%) SCCM
11 8 (0.28%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.28%) Puppet
11 8 (0.28%) Rancher
12 5 (0.17%) Control-M
12 5 (0.17%) Kibana
13 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.14%) Nessus
14 3 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 383 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 192 (6.63%) Oracle
3 136 (4.69%) Databricks
4 123 (4.25%) Salesforce
5 118 (4.07%) ServiceNow
6 99 (3.42%) SAP
7 74 (2.55%) Google
8 45 (1.55%) Adobe
9 40 (1.38%) Splunk
10 27 (0.93%) Workday
11 26 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 23 (0.79%) Informatica
13 20 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 20 (0.69%) Cisco
14 19 (0.66%) MuleSoft
15 18 (0.62%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.59%) Planview
17 16 (0.55%) Sybase
17 16 (0.55%) VMware
18 15 (0.52%) Murex