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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,891 2,596 3,635
As % of all contract jobs in London 20.02% 18.51% 19.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.92% 20.50% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,962 1,692 2,642
10th Percentile £363 £400 £410
25th Percentile £431 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.93% -0.92%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £515 £570 £551
% change year-on-year -9.65% +3.45% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 19
10th Percentile £37.89 - £23.36
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £41.51
Median hourly rate £59.47 £36.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.19% -28.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £39.76 £72.00
90th Percentile £98.64 £65.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £58.94 £57.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% -11.92% -

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 13,189 12,665 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,718 8,082 11,550
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 155 276
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.69
25th Percentile £24.69 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.45 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +1 398 £543 -7.26% 187
West London 0 67 £450 +20.00% 29
South London +5 47 £525 +10.53% 19
East London -1 24 £495 -1.00% 19
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 1
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
1 260 (8.99%) Confluence
2 53 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 52 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 49 (1.69%) Apache
4 49 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.07%) CMS
6 20 (0.69%) nginx
7 13 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 13 (0.45%) IIS
8 10 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.21%) Camunda
10 6 (0.21%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) Appian
12 4 (0.14%) CICS
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 98 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.93%) Chatbot
6 18 (0.62%) Trello
7 8 (0.28%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 5 (0.17%) Notion
10 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.069%) InDesign
12 2 (0.069%) InVision
12 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.035%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 51 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (1.00%) Endur
4 26 (0.90%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.31%) Shopify
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.24%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
10 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 683 (23.63%) Azure
2 514 (17.78%) AWS
3 247 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
4 239 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.19%) GitHub
6 190 (6.57%) GCP
7 145 (5.02%) Serverless
8 102 (3.53%) SaaS
9 98 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
10 92 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 86 (2.97%) Snowflake
12 73 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
12 73 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 68 (2.35%) Amazon S3
13 68 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
14 65 (2.25%) Power Automate
15 64 (2.21%) PowerApps
16 50 (1.73%) Figma
17 49 (1.69%) dbt
18 48 (1.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.76%) Firewall
2 23 (0.80%) VPN
3 22 (0.76%) Network Security
4 21 (0.73%) WAN
5 18 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 17 (0.59%) HTTP
7 16 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.52%) DNS
9 10 (0.35%) BGP
10 9 (0.31%) Internet
11 8 (0.28%) OSPF
12 6 (0.21%) 5G
12 6 (0.21%) SMS
13 5 (0.17%) LAN
13 5 (0.17%) MPLS
14 4 (0.14%) Broadband
14 4 (0.14%) DHCP
14 4 (0.14%) DMZ
14 4 (0.14%) FTP
14 4 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (5.74%) Power BI
2 116 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
3 113 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
4 106 (3.67%) NoSQL
5 101 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 83 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 58 (2.01%) Tableau
8 55 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 51 (1.76%) MongoDB
10 45 (1.56%) Big Data
11 44 (1.52%) Metadata
12 38 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (1.07%) Oracle Database
16 30 (1.04%) BigQuery
17 24 (0.83%) Apache Arrow
17 24 (0.83%) Apache Iceberg
17 24 (0.83%) Data Vault
17 24 (0.83%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 508 (17.57%) JIRA
2 266 (9.20%) Git
3 169 (5.85%) Jenkins
4 98 (3.39%) GitLab
5 60 (2.08%) Selenium
6 50 (1.73%) JUnit
7 47 (1.63%) Postman
8 44 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 42 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.31%) Bitbucket
11 31 (1.07%) SpecFlow
12 19 (0.66%) ERwin
12 19 (0.66%) Maven
13 18 (0.62%) JMeter
13 18 (0.62%) Mockito
13 18 (0.62%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.59%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.42%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.42%) Gradle
15 12 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 1,154 (39.92%) Social Skills
2 947 (32.76%) Finance
3 454 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 374 (12.94%) Banking
5 345 (11.93%) Public Sector
6 127 (4.39%) Front Office
7 97 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 91 (3.15%) Marketing
9 86 (2.97%) Retail
10 83 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 82 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
12 76 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (2.21%) Legal
14 63 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
15 50 (1.73%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.59%) Financial Institution
17 45 (1.56%) Back Office
18 43 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 40 (1.38%) Manufacturing
20 31 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 517 (17.88%) Developer
2 443 (15.32%) Analyst
3 432 (14.94%) Senior
4 345 (11.93%) Business Analyst
5 244 (8.44%) Lead
6 207 (7.16%) Project Manager
7 180 (6.23%) Architect
8 125 (4.32%) Software Engineer
9 108 (3.74%) Data Engineer
10 104 (3.60%) Consultant
11 93 (3.22%) Java Developer
12 77 (2.66%) Product Manager
12 77 (2.66%) Senior Developer
13 71 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
14 67 (2.32%) Senior Manager
15 64 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 64 (2.21%) Product Owner
15 64 (2.21%) Senior Analyst
16 60 (2.08%) Senior Software Engineer
17 59 (2.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (7.64%) React
2 215 (7.44%) REST
3 168 (5.81%) Node.js
4 156 (5.40%) Kafka
5 155 (5.36%) RESTful
6 144 (4.98%) .NET
7 126 (4.36%) HTML
8 121 (4.19%) CSS
9 112 (3.87%) AngularJS
10 107 (3.70%) Spring
11 97 (3.36%) Playwright
12 93 (3.22%) Spring Boot
13 84 (2.91%) JSON
14 79 (2.73%) SOAP
15 73 (2.53%) PySpark
16 68 (2.35%) XML
17 63 (2.18%) GraphQL
18 60 (2.08%) Web Services
19 48 (1.66%) Middleware
20 46 (1.59%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 298 (10.31%) Product Ownership
2 201 (6.95%) Cloud Native
3 67 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 66 (2.28%) Derivative
5 65 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 65 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 61 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 56 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 55 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 52 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 51 (1.76%) Fixed Income
11 50 (1.73%) Onboarding
12 49 (1.69%) Equities
13 48 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
14 47 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.63%) Mobile App
14 47 (1.63%) Virtual Team
15 46 (1.59%) AI Agents
15 46 (1.59%) PMI
16 43 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 158 (5.47%) Linux
2 87 (3.01%) Windows
3 82 (2.84%) Unix
4 32 (1.11%) Android
5 30 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.35%) VMS
8 7 (0.24%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.069%) AIX
11 2 (0.069%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.035%) Solaris
12 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (25.56%) DevOps
2 667 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
3 644 (22.28%) CI/CD
4 614 (21.24%) Scrum
5 594 (20.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 365 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 348 (12.04%) Test Automation
8 338 (11.69%) AI
9 320 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 312 (10.79%) Project Management
11 307 (10.62%) Analytics
12 294 (10.17%) Software Engineering
13 293 (10.13%) Roadmaps
14 286 (9.89%) Microservices
15 285 (9.86%) Data Modelling
16 270 (9.34%) Migration
17 266 (9.20%) User Stories
18 248 (8.58%) Waterfall
19 246 (8.51%) SDLC
20 245 (8.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 572 (19.79%) SQL
2 545 (18.85%) Python
3 363 (12.56%) Java
4 312 (10.79%) JavaScript
5 243 (8.41%) TypeScript
6 205 (7.09%) C#
7 81 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 63 (2.18%) C++
9 52 (1.80%) Scala
10 46 (1.59%) Bash
11 34 (1.18%) Go
12 30 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.97%) Ruby
14 27 (0.93%) Bicep
15 25 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.80%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.69%) R
18 19 (0.66%) Apex Code
19 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
20 16 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 555 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 485 (16.78%) SC Cleared
3 353 (12.21%) Degree
4 136 (4.70%) PMI Certification
5 106 (3.67%) PMP
6 104 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 55 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.52%) CBAP
12 35 (1.21%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.93%) CISSP
14 26 (0.90%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.69%) IIBA
16 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.52%) CISM
18 14 (0.48%) CSPO
19 13 (0.45%) ISEB
20 11 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (10.31%) QA
2 139 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 130 (4.50%) Accessibility
4 123 (4.25%) GDPR
5 80 (2.77%) PMO
6 36 (1.25%) WCAG
7 31 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 25 (0.86%) NIST
9 18 (0.62%) MiFID
10 16 (0.55%) GRC
11 12 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.38%) Basel III
12 11 (0.38%) EMIR
12 11 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.35%) PERC
14 9 (0.31%) PSD2
14 9 (0.31%) SLA
15 8 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 330 (11.41%) Docker
2 45 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.35%) 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
1 315 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 193 (6.68%) Terraform
3 55 (1.90%) Ansible
4 45 (1.56%) Grafana
5 28 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.62%) Argo
6 18 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.38%) Packer
8 10 (0.35%) Consul
8 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.35%) SCCM
9 9 (0.31%) Puppet
10 8 (0.28%) Rancher
11 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.21%) Kibana
13 5 (0.17%) Control-M
14 4 (0.14%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.10%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 375 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 197 (6.81%) Oracle
3 130 (4.50%) Databricks
4 124 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 109 (3.77%) SAP
6 104 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 86 (2.97%) Google
8 44 (1.52%) Splunk
9 43 (1.49%) Adobe
10 32 (1.11%) Workday
11 28 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 25 (0.86%) MuleSoft
13 24 (0.83%) Cisco
14 21 (0.73%) Informatica
15 20 (0.69%) Bloomberg
15 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.55%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.55%) Foundry
16 16 (0.55%) VMware
17 15 (0.52%) Sybase