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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,976 2,554 3,517
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.16% 19.05% 19.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.22% 20.99% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,045 1,701 2,546
10th Percentile £363 £388 £406
25th Percentile £431 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 20
10th Percentile £38.41 - £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £31.93
Median hourly rate £59.47 £39.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% -23.90% -21.15%
75th Percentile £66.50 £41.91 £72.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.00 £79.88
England median hourly rate £60.31 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% - -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 14,026 12,165 16,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.28% 90.72% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,387 7,830 11,626
10th Percentile £350 £350 £339
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
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 217 156 348
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.21 £25.94 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 0 371 £550 -4.35% 195
South London +10 72 £513 +7.61% 24
West London -1 63 £500 +28.21% 45
East London 0 27 £525 -0.47% 47
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 8
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
1 275 (9.24%) Confluence
2 57 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 56 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 35 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.11%) Apache
6 30 (1.01%) CMS
7 20 (0.67%) nginx
8 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.27%) Camunda
11 8 (0.27%) IIS
11 8 (0.27%) SAS
12 6 (0.20%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.20%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.17%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 3 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 110 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (1.81%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.44%) Trello
8 11 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.34%) Sketch
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.10%) InVision
13 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.067%) InDesign
13 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 49 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 26 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 25 (0.84%) Endur
5 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 9 (0.30%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.24%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 704 (23.66%) Azure
2 555 (18.65%) AWS
3 244 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (7.66%) Power Platform
5 218 (7.33%) GitHub
6 203 (6.82%) GCP
7 146 (4.91%) Serverless
8 105 (3.53%) SaaS
9 104 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
10 96 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 87 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 80 (2.69%) Snowflake
13 79 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
14 71 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
15 66 (2.22%) Figma
16 58 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 51 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
18 49 (1.65%) PowerApps
19 47 (1.58%) Power Automate
20 44 (1.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.51%) Firewall
2 23 (0.77%) HTTP
2 23 (0.77%) WAN
3 22 (0.74%) Network Security
3 22 (0.74%) VPN
4 16 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 14 (0.47%) DNS
7 12 (0.40%) Internet
8 8 (0.27%) LAN
9 5 (0.17%) 5G
9 5 (0.17%) Broadband
9 5 (0.17%) FTP
9 5 (0.17%) SMS
9 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.13%) BGP
10 4 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
10 4 (0.13%) DHCP
10 4 (0.13%) DMZ
10 4 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (5.48%) Power BI
2 122 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 102 (3.43%) NoSQL
5 101 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 78 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 63 (2.12%) Tableau
8 54 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
9 51 (1.71%) Data Lake
9 51 (1.71%) MongoDB
10 47 (1.58%) Metadata
11 45 (1.51%) Big Data
12 40 (1.34%) BigQuery
13 39 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 27 (0.91%) Oracle Database
14 27 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
15 26 (0.87%) Delta Lake
16 24 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 524 (17.61%) JIRA
2 278 (9.34%) Git
3 168 (5.65%) Jenkins
4 101 (3.39%) GitLab
5 60 (2.02%) Selenium
6 56 (1.88%) JUnit
7 45 (1.51%) Postman
8 42 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 42 (1.41%) Cypress.io
9 37 (1.24%) Bitbucket
10 32 (1.08%) SpecFlow
11 22 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 21 (0.71%) JMeter
13 19 (0.64%) Mockito
14 17 (0.57%) ERwin
15 15 (0.50%) Maven
16 14 (0.47%) SonarQube
17 13 (0.44%) TestRail
18 11 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
19 10 (0.34%) Xcode
General
1 1,159 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 963 (32.36%) Finance
3 468 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 369 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 353 (11.86%) Banking
6 135 (4.54%) Front Office
7 90 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
8 88 (2.96%) Retail
9 87 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
10 84 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
11 80 (2.69%) Marketing
12 77 (2.59%) Investment Banking
13 74 (2.49%) Legal
14 68 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
15 44 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.44%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 35 (1.18%) Manufacturing
19 34 (1.14%) Back Office
20 29 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 499 (16.77%) Developer
2 461 (15.49%) Analyst
3 457 (15.36%) Senior
4 361 (12.13%) Business Analyst
5 263 (8.84%) Lead
6 236 (7.93%) Project Manager
7 193 (6.49%) Architect
8 132 (4.44%) Software Engineer
9 120 (4.03%) Data Engineer
10 94 (3.16%) Consultant
11 92 (3.09%) Java Developer
12 90 (3.02%) Designer
13 86 (2.89%) Senior Manager
14 78 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
14 78 (2.62%) Senior Developer
15 76 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
16 75 (2.52%) Product Manager
17 67 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
18 66 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
18 66 (2.22%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (7.76%) React
2 214 (7.19%) REST
3 173 (5.81%) Node.js
4 164 (5.51%) Kafka
5 145 (4.87%) RESTful
6 135 (4.54%) .NET
7 122 (4.10%) AngularJS
8 116 (3.90%) CSS
9 114 (3.83%) HTML
10 108 (3.63%) Playwright
11 103 (3.46%) Spring
12 92 (3.09%) Spring Boot
13 83 (2.79%) PySpark
14 73 (2.45%) JSON
15 71 (2.39%) SOAP
16 70 (2.35%) GraphQL
17 66 (2.22%) Middleware
18 62 (2.08%) Web Services
18 62 (2.08%) XML
19 41 (1.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 299 (10.05%) Product Ownership
2 203 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 66 (2.22%) Derivative
4 63 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 60 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 59 (1.98%) Fixed Income
8 58 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 56 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 55 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
11 48 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 47 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 45 (1.51%) AI Agents
13 45 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 44 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
15 41 (1.38%) Virtual Team
16 40 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
16 40 (1.34%) PMI
17 39 (1.31%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 143 (4.81%) Linux
2 85 (2.86%) Windows
3 82 (2.76%) Unix
4 33 (1.11%) Android
4 33 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.37%) VMS
7 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.13%) zOS
10 2 (0.067%) AIX
10 2 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.034%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (24.06%) DevOps
2 660 (22.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 654 (21.98%) CI/CD
4 634 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
5 621 (20.87%) Scrum
6 423 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 369 (12.40%) AI
8 351 (11.79%) Test Automation
9 338 (11.36%) Project Management
10 327 (10.99%) Analytics
11 323 (10.85%) Data Modelling
12 317 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 299 (10.05%) Software Engineering
14 294 (9.88%) Migration
15 288 (9.68%) Roadmaps
16 282 (9.48%) User Stories
17 280 (9.41%) Microservices
18 275 (9.24%) Waterfall
19 273 (9.17%) Project Delivery
20 264 (8.87%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 571 (19.19%) SQL
2 554 (18.62%) Python
3 354 (11.90%) Java
4 313 (10.52%) JavaScript
5 257 (8.64%) TypeScript
6 206 (6.92%) C#
7 79 (2.65%) PowerShell
8 56 (1.88%) Scala
9 55 (1.85%) C++
10 44 (1.48%) Go
11 40 (1.34%) Bash
12 29 (0.97%) Ruby
13 28 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 27 (0.91%) Bicep
15 24 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.77%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 20 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.60%) R
18 18 (0.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 589 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 523 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 339 (11.39%) Degree
4 135 (4.54%) PMI Certification
5 117 (3.93%) PMP
6 94 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 59 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.58%) CBAP
11 43 (1.44%) DV Cleared
12 37 (1.24%) ISTQB
13 29 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.91%) CISSP
14 27 (0.91%) IIBA
15 25 (0.84%) CISM
16 17 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.47%) ISEB
18 11 (0.37%) CSPO
18 11 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (9.61%) QA
2 158 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 151 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 125 (4.20%) GDPR
5 91 (3.06%) PMO
6 46 (1.55%) WCAG
7 40 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (1.11%) NIST
8 33 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.57%) GRC
11 15 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.50%) MiFID
12 13 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.40%) SLA
14 10 (0.34%) Basel III
14 10 (0.34%) PERC
14 10 (0.34%) PSD2
15 8 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 333 (11.19%) Docker
2 34 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.067%) Squid
7 2 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.034%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.034%) etcd
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) HDFS
8 1 (0.034%) IAG
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) RACF
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 314 (10.55%) Kubernetes
2 203 (6.82%) Terraform
3 49 (1.65%) Ansible
4 41 (1.38%) Grafana
5 26 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.60%) Argo
8 13 (0.44%) Packer
9 12 (0.40%) Consul
10 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.27%) Puppet
12 7 (0.24%) Rancher
12 7 (0.24%) SCCM
13 5 (0.17%) Control-M
13 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.13%) Nessus
15 3 (0.10%) Kibana
15 3 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 369 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 192 (6.45%) Oracle
3 134 (4.50%) Databricks
4 127 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 124 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 96 (3.23%) SAP
7 74 (2.49%) Google
8 47 (1.58%) Adobe
9 38 (1.28%) Splunk
10 26 (0.87%) Workday
11 25 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 22 (0.74%) Informatica
13 20 (0.67%) Bloomberg
14 19 (0.64%) Cisco
14 19 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 19 (0.64%) VMware
15 17 (0.57%) IBM
16 16 (0.54%) Foundry
16 16 (0.54%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.54%) Sybase