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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,578 2,995 3,428
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.59% 22.30% 21.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.78% 24.08% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,407 2,068 2,406
10th Percentile £391 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £640 £695 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 18
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.17 £29.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.38 £33.55
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +23.53% -37.04%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £88.75 £97.43 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

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 18,089 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,828 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 251 180
10th Percentile £16.68 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -4 386 £550 -4.35% 431
West London -2 101 £680 +70.00% 144
South London +3 59 £525 -15.80% 28
East London -2 17 £590 +9.26% 42
North London +6 11 £550 - 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
1 303 (8.47%) Confluence
2 91 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 65 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 61 (1.70%) CMS
6 53 (1.48%) Apache
7 33 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.48%) Camunda
9 15 (0.42%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.25%) Appian
14 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.17%) Headless CMS
15 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.17%) Kentico
16 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.17%) Sketch
11 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.084%) Windchill
13 2 (0.056%) Mingle
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 59 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 9 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.22%) Endur
8 8 (0.22%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 6 (0.17%) Findur
11 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
11 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 927 (25.91%) Azure
2 715 (19.98%) AWS
3 340 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
4 314 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 303 (8.47%) GitHub
6 234 (6.54%) GCP
7 191 (5.34%) Serverless
8 164 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
9 135 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 131 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 114 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
12 106 (2.96%) Snowflake
13 96 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
14 94 (2.63%) Power Automate
14 94 (2.63%) PowerApps
15 79 (2.21%) dbt
16 77 (2.15%) SaaS
17 68 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 68 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
18 66 (1.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.34%) Firewall
2 25 (0.70%) Network Security
3 24 (0.67%) VPN
4 22 (0.61%) DNS
5 19 (0.53%) WAN
6 18 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.48%) HTTP
8 16 (0.45%) Internet
9 11 (0.31%) Wireless
10 10 (0.28%) DMZ
10 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.22%) 4G
13 7 (0.20%) 5G
13 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.20%) VoIP
14 6 (0.17%) LAN
14 6 (0.17%) SMS
14 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (6.68%) Power BI
2 164 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
3 138 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (3.52%) SQL Server
5 107 (2.99%) Metadata
6 104 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 102 (2.85%) Relational Database
8 79 (2.21%) Data Lake
9 70 (1.96%) MongoDB
10 62 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
11 51 (1.43%) Tableau
12 46 (1.29%) DynamoDB
13 45 (1.26%) Delta Lake
14 41 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (1.12%) BigQuery
16 37 (1.03%) Oracle Database
17 36 (1.01%) Big Data
18 31 (0.87%) MySQL
19 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
19 24 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 582 (16.27%) JIRA
2 336 (9.39%) Git
3 262 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 140 (3.91%) GitLab
5 69 (1.93%) Selenium
6 54 (1.51%) JUnit
7 49 (1.37%) Gradle
8 40 (1.12%) Postman
9 38 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.01%) Maven
11 33 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 32 (0.89%) Mockito
13 30 (0.84%) Cucumber
14 28 (0.78%) REST Assured
15 27 (0.75%) Visual Studio
16 21 (0.59%) JMeter
16 21 (0.59%) SonarQube
17 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.42%) Gatling
17 15 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 1,425 (39.83%) Social Skills
2 1,169 (32.67%) Finance
3 566 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 555 (15.51%) Public Sector
5 495 (13.83%) Banking
6 222 (6.20%) Retail
7 150 (4.19%) Marketing
8 136 (3.80%) Front Office
9 125 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
10 116 (3.24%) Investment Banking
11 101 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 80 (2.24%) Legal
13 64 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 64 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 64 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 51 (1.43%) Local Government
15 44 (1.23%) Law
15 44 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.20%) Retail Banking
17 42 (1.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 599 (16.74%) Developer
2 549 (15.34%) Senior
3 464 (12.97%) Analyst
4 362 (10.12%) Lead
5 326 (9.11%) Business Analyst
6 297 (8.30%) Project Manager
7 270 (7.55%) Architect
8 165 (4.61%) Data Engineer
9 137 (3.83%) Software Engineer
10 134 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
11 119 (3.33%) Designer
12 118 (3.30%) Java Developer
13 112 (3.13%) Senior Developer
14 111 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
15 110 (3.07%) Senior Manager
16 109 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
17 99 (2.77%) Product Manager
18 88 (2.46%) Product Owner
19 76 (2.12%) Full-Stack Developer
20 73 (2.04%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (8.80%) REST
2 298 (8.33%) Terraform
3 243 (6.79%) React
4 211 (5.90%) .NET
5 184 (5.14%) RESTful
6 172 (4.81%) Spring
7 171 (4.78%) Kafka
8 157 (4.39%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.63%) HTML
10 122 (3.41%) CSS
11 113 (3.16%) Node.js
12 110 (3.07%) AngularJS
13 95 (2.66%) PySpark
14 84 (2.35%) SOAP
15 77 (2.15%) JSON
16 72 (2.01%) Web Services
17 65 (1.82%) Django
18 60 (1.68%) Playwright
19 59 (1.65%) Middleware
20 56 (1.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 530 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 293 (8.19%) Cloud Native
3 146 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 122 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 95 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 74 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 69 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (1.68%) NHS
11 57 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 57 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 53 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 46 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 44 (1.23%) Fixed Income
15 44 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 40 (1.12%) Derivative
17 39 (1.09%) Data Centre
17 39 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 132 (3.69%) Linux
2 78 (2.18%) Windows
3 53 (1.48%) Unix
4 35 (0.98%) Android
5 34 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.17%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.056%) zOS
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.028%) Rocky
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (32.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,016 (28.40%) DevOps
3 976 (27.28%) CI/CD
4 807 (22.55%) Scrum
5 686 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 681 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 642 (17.94%) AI
8 531 (14.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 467 (13.05%) Roadmaps
10 454 (12.69%) Analytics
11 405 (11.32%) Decision-Making
11 405 (11.32%) Test Automation
12 404 (11.29%) User Stories
13 385 (10.76%) Software Engineering
14 378 (10.56%) Data Modelling
15 376 (10.51%) Project Management
16 371 (10.37%) Migration
17 343 (9.59%) Microservices
18 337 (9.42%) Waterfall
19 313 (8.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 665 (18.59%) SQL
2 633 (17.69%) Python
3 430 (12.02%) Java
4 286 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 220 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 214 (5.98%) C#
7 78 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 70 (1.96%) Bash
9 54 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 50 (1.40%) Scala
11 46 (1.29%) Apex Code
12 45 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 38 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 30 (0.84%) Korn
15 28 (0.78%) Groovy
16 24 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 22 (0.61%) Bicep
17 22 (0.61%) Go
18 20 (0.56%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 871 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 752 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 294 (8.22%) Degree
4 160 (4.47%) PMP
5 153 (4.28%) PMI Certification
6 112 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 108 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 81 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 55 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 37 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 21 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (0.53%) CISSP
15 19 (0.53%) IIBA
16 16 (0.45%) CBAP
17 14 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 14 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 13 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (10.34%) QA
2 272 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 145 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.33%) PMO
5 98 (2.74%) GDPR
6 54 (1.51%) WCAG
7 39 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.92%) GRC
9 32 (0.89%) NIST
10 26 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (0.45%) SLA
13 15 (0.42%) NCSC
14 14 (0.39%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.28%) SEPA
16 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
17 8 (0.22%) IFRS
18 7 (0.20%) P3O
19 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 314 (8.78%) Docker
2 56 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.25%) IAG
4 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.084%) Postfix
7 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.056%) RACF
7 2 (0.056%) Squid
7 2 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.028%) Ceph
8 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 337 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 83 (2.32%) Grafana
3 75 (2.10%) Ansible
4 66 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.56%) Control-M
5 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.53%) Kibana
7 12 (0.34%) Packer
8 10 (0.28%) SCCM
9 9 (0.25%) Puppet
10 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.20%) WSUS
11 6 (0.17%) Argo
11 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.084%) Consul
13 3 (0.084%) Istio
13 3 (0.084%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.056%) Rancher
Vendors
1 499 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 190 (5.31%) Oracle
3 182 (5.09%) Salesforce
4 143 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 136 (3.80%) Databricks
6 124 (3.47%) Google
7 99 (2.77%) SAP
8 74 (2.07%) Splunk
9 57 (1.59%) Adobe
10 45 (1.26%) IBM
11 36 (1.01%) Informatica
12 30 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 27 (0.75%) Workday
14 24 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 24 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.64%) Cisco
15 23 (0.64%) VMware
16 21 (0.59%) Bloomberg
17 20 (0.56%) UiPath
18 18 (0.50%) Atlassian