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

6 months to
21 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 3,034 4,288
As % of all contract jobs in London 22.01% 19.31% 21.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.85% 21.63% 24.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,171 2,041 3,094
10th Percentile £363 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 20
10th Percentile £26.83 £31.15 £44.89
25th Percentile £40.31 £34.52 £55.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £35.00 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -48.76% +24.18%
75th Percentile £87.81 £45.18 £75.63
90th Percentile £101.07 £65.38 £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 13,068 14,030 17,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 89.29% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 9,056 12,811
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £655 £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 259 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 0 448 £560 -4.88% 774
West London -1 60 £431 -4.17% 50
South London -2 42 £530 +11.58% 33
East London -1 29 £533 +10.94% 42
North London +3 4 £550 - 5
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
1 311 (9.98%) Confluence
2 82 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (2.41%) Apache
4 50 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 37 (1.19%) CMS
6 35 (1.12%) Apache Spark
7 33 (1.06%) nginx
8 14 (0.45%) IIS
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.22%) Camunda
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.19%) Appian
12 6 (0.19%) WordPress
13 5 (0.16%) CICS
13 5 (0.16%) JBoss
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.16%) SAS
13 5 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 90 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 45 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.90%) 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 49 (1.57%) 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%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 10 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
8 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.29%) Shopify
9 6 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
9 6 (0.19%) Magento
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.19%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 679 (21.78%) Azure
2 639 (20.50%) AWS
3 262 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
4 234 (7.51%) GCP
5 215 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 204 (6.54%) GitHub
7 158 (5.07%) Serverless
8 109 (3.50%) SaaS
9 100 (3.21%) Snowflake
10 92 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (2.63%) dbt
12 76 (2.44%) Amazon S3
13 75 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
14 69 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 68 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
16 63 (2.02%) PowerApps
17 62 (1.99%) Power Automate
18 57 (1.83%) Figma
19 54 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.51%) Firewall
2 24 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 23 (0.74%) VPN
4 21 (0.67%) DNS
5 20 (0.64%) HTTP
6 18 (0.58%) Internet
6 18 (0.58%) Network Security
7 17 (0.55%) SSL
8 16 (0.51%) WAN
9 12 (0.38%) BGP
10 10 (0.32%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.29%) OSPF
12 7 (0.22%) MPLS
13 6 (0.19%) DHCP
14 5 (0.16%) 5G
14 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.16%) LAN
14 5 (0.16%) SMS
14 5 (0.16%) Wireless
15 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (4.78%) Power BI
3 117 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 98 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 93 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 89 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 71 (2.28%) Data Lake
8 60 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
8 60 (1.92%) MongoDB
9 58 (1.86%) Tableau
10 51 (1.64%) Apache Arrow
10 51 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
10 51 (1.64%) Dremio
11 48 (1.54%) Big Data
12 45 (1.44%) Metadata
13 38 (1.22%) Oracle Database
14 37 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
15 34 (1.09%) BigQuery
16 32 (1.03%) Apache Ignite
17 31 (0.99%) DB2
Development Applications
1 552 (17.71%) JIRA
2 304 (9.75%) Git
3 182 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 88 (2.82%) GitLab
5 65 (2.09%) JUnit
6 58 (1.86%) Selenium
7 52 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 46 (1.48%) Postman
9 43 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 43 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 30 (0.96%) Maven
11 29 (0.93%) SpecFlow
12 23 (0.74%) Mockito
12 23 (0.74%) SonarQube
13 20 (0.64%) ERwin
14 19 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.58%) webpack
16 16 (0.51%) ER Studio
17 14 (0.45%) Liquibase
17 14 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 1,232 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 1,022 (32.79%) Finance
3 472 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 420 (13.47%) Banking
5 338 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 193 (6.19%) Front Office
7 137 (4.40%) Investment Banking
8 97 (3.11%) Retail
9 93 (2.98%) Marketing
10 79 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 74 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
12 73 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 69 (2.21%) Back Office
14 61 (1.96%) Legal
15 60 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
16 58 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 56 (1.80%) Telecoms
18 47 (1.51%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.22%) Manufacturing
20 33 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 631 (20.24%) Developer
2 473 (15.17%) Analyst
3 451 (14.47%) Senior
4 374 (12.00%) Business Analyst
5 272 (8.73%) Lead
6 209 (6.71%) Project Manager
7 195 (6.26%) Architect
8 182 (5.84%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.20%) Java Developer
10 110 (3.53%) Consultant
11 108 (3.46%) Senior Developer
12 90 (2.89%) Data Engineer
13 80 (2.57%) Product Owner
14 77 (2.47%) Product Manager
15 75 (2.41%) AWS Engineer
16 71 (2.28%) Python Engineer
17 69 (2.21%) Full-Stack Developer
17 69 (2.21%) Python Developer
18 62 (1.99%) Senior Software Engineer
19 61 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (8.92%) React
2 253 (8.12%) REST
3 194 (6.22%) Kafka
4 185 (5.94%) Node.js
5 184 (5.90%) .NET
6 173 (5.55%) RESTful
7 160 (5.13%) HTML
8 144 (4.62%) CSS
9 143 (4.59%) AngularJS
10 130 (4.17%) Spring
11 106 (3.40%) SOAP
12 103 (3.30%) JSON
13 93 (2.98%) Spring Boot
14 82 (2.63%) GraphQL
15 80 (2.57%) Playwright
16 76 (2.44%) Web Services
17 69 (2.21%) XML
18 64 (2.05%) Pandas
19 61 (1.96%) HTML5
20 58 (1.86%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 338 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 199 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 125 (4.01%) Fixed Income
4 124 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 97 (3.11%) Derivative
5 97 (3.11%) Equities
6 73 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 67 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 66 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 64 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 62 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 60 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
12 56 (1.80%) Onboarding
12 56 (1.80%) Virtual Team
13 54 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
14 53 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
15 50 (1.60%) Reinsurance
16 49 (1.57%) Hedge funds
17 43 (1.38%) PMI
18 39 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 182 (5.84%) Linux
2 92 (2.95%) Unix
3 86 (2.76%) Windows
4 51 (1.64%) Android
5 43 (1.38%) 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
2 698 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
3 684 (21.94%) Scrum
4 670 (21.50%) CI/CD
5 552 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 374 (12.00%) Software Engineering
7 354 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 348 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 342 (10.97%) Test Automation
10 340 (10.91%) Microservices
11 320 (10.27%) Project Management
12 317 (10.17%) Roadmaps
13 300 (9.62%) Analytics
14 297 (9.53%) AI
15 282 (9.05%) User Stories
16 262 (8.41%) Data Modelling
17 254 (8.15%) Migration
17 254 (8.15%) SDLC
18 245 (7.86%) Waterfall
19 232 (7.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 604 (19.38%) Python
2 589 (18.90%) SQL
3 488 (15.66%) Java
4 399 (12.80%) JavaScript
5 295 (9.46%) TypeScript
6 236 (7.57%) C#
7 89 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 73 (2.34%) C++
9 55 (1.76%) Go
10 54 (1.73%) Bash
11 39 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 35 (1.12%) Kotlin
13 34 (1.09%) Scala
13 34 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.80%) Ruby
15 23 (0.74%) Groovy
16 22 (0.71%) Apex Code
16 22 (0.71%) Bicep
17 18 (0.58%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 565 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 482 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 359 (11.52%) Degree
4 126 (4.04%) PMI Certification
5 107 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 100 (3.21%) PMP
7 66 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 48 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 46 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 45 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 29 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 29 (0.93%) CISSP
11 29 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 22 (0.71%) CBAP
13 18 (0.58%) CISM
14 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.32%) CSPO
15 10 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 10 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (9.46%) QA
2 139 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 108 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 93 (2.98%) GDPR
5 78 (2.50%) PMO
6 33 (1.06%) MiFID
7 31 (0.99%) WCAG
8 21 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.61%) EMIR
10 15 (0.48%) GRC
11 12 (0.38%) NIST
12 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 8 (0.26%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.26%) NCSC
14 8 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.26%) PSD2
14 8 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 333 (10.68%) Docker
2 44 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.064%) Postfix
7 2 (0.064%) Squid
7 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.032%) etcd
8 1 (0.032%) GPFS
8 1 (0.032%) IAG
8 1 (0.032%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.032%) KVM
8 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 295 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 211 (6.77%) Terraform
3 59 (1.89%) Ansible
4 44 (1.41%) Grafana
5 32 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 29 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.74%) Consul
7 23 (0.74%) Packer
8 17 (0.55%) Puppet
9 14 (0.45%) Argo
10 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.29%) Kibana
12 7 (0.22%) Rancher
12 7 (0.22%) SCCM
13 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.13%) Control-M
14 4 (0.13%) Nessus
14 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 363 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 206 (6.61%) Oracle
3 128 (4.11%) Salesforce
4 115 (3.69%) ServiceNow
5 110 (3.53%) Google
6 109 (3.50%) SAP
7 92 (2.95%) Databricks
8 41 (1.32%) Splunk
9 39 (1.25%) Adobe
10 33 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 29 (0.93%) Workday
12 27 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.71%) Foundry
14 21 (0.67%) Murex
14 21 (0.67%) Sybase
15 20 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
15 20 (0.64%) OpenAI
15 20 (0.64%) OpenLink
16 19 (0.61%) Dynatrace
16 19 (0.61%) HP