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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,998 2,583 3,491
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.75% 20.55% 19.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.95% 22.28% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,027 1,811 2,546
10th Percentile £363 £390 £400
25th Percentile £447 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £647 £750 £725
90th Percentile £760 £850 £838
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 23
10th Percentile £34.85 £35.00 £25.34
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.50 £31.86
Median hourly rate £64.75 £39.04 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.86% -25.64% -20.45%
75th Percentile £73.19 £65.00 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 15,818 11,593 15,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.21% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,577 7,857 11,245
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £758 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 176 315
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.66 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.30
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -3 339 £564 -3.63% 267
South London +5 80 £513 -12.24% 12
West London -1 70 £520 +30.00% 23
East London -1 27 £525 -5.83% 33
North London +1 1 - - 3
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
1 276 (9.21%) Confluence
2 78 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 70 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.17%) CMS
6 28 (0.93%) Apache
7 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.37%) Camunda
9 11 (0.37%) IIS
9 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.30%) SAS
11 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 5 (0.17%) nginx
13 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 112 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 40 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.30%) Trello
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.23%) Sketch
9 6 (0.20%) Notion
10 2 (0.067%) InVision
10 2 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.067%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.067%) Windchill
10 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 44 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.30%) Endur
7 9 (0.30%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Findur
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 765 (25.52%) Azure
2 593 (19.78%) AWS
3 258 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (7.57%) Power Platform
5 207 (6.90%) GitHub
6 170 (5.67%) GCP
7 138 (4.60%) Serverless
8 115 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
9 100 (3.34%) Amazon S3
10 87 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 84 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
12 80 (2.67%) SaaS
13 76 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
14 71 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
15 65 (2.17%) Snowflake
16 63 (2.10%) Power Automate
17 59 (1.97%) PowerApps
18 56 (1.87%) Figma
19 55 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
20 53 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.80%) Firewall
2 26 (0.87%) WAN
3 24 (0.80%) Network Security
4 20 (0.67%) HTTP
5 17 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 17 (0.57%) VPN
6 12 (0.40%) DNS
6 12 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.30%) LAN
8 8 (0.27%) Internet
9 7 (0.23%) DMZ
10 6 (0.20%) BGP
10 6 (0.20%) FTP
10 6 (0.20%) MPLS
10 6 (0.20%) OSPF
10 6 (0.20%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.20%) Wireless
11 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.57%) Power BI
2 118 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 107 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 103 (3.44%) SQL Server
6 72 (2.40%) Tableau
7 70 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 57 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 57 (1.90%) Big Data
9 51 (1.70%) Data Lake
9 51 (1.70%) Metadata
10 49 (1.63%) MongoDB
11 40 (1.33%) Delta Lake
12 39 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (0.93%) DynamoDB
15 26 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (0.70%) Spark SQL
17 19 (0.63%) Oracle Database
18 18 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 519 (17.31%) JIRA
2 255 (8.51%) Git
3 175 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 93 (3.10%) GitLab
5 57 (1.90%) JUnit
6 48 (1.60%) Selenium
7 43 (1.43%) Postman
8 33 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 32 (1.07%) Mockito
10 30 (1.00%) Cypress.io
11 29 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 24 (0.80%) SpecFlow
13 19 (0.63%) Gradle
13 19 (0.63%) JMeter
14 18 (0.60%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.47%) Maven
16 12 (0.40%) Zephyr
17 11 (0.37%) Liquibase
18 10 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
18 10 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,065 (35.52%) Finance
2 1,060 (35.36%) Social Skills
3 451 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 409 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 384 (12.81%) Banking
6 151 (5.04%) Front Office
7 109 (3.64%) Retail
8 103 (3.44%) Marketing
9 96 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
10 84 (2.80%) Legal
11 77 (2.57%) Investment Banking
11 77 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
13 70 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
14 46 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 44 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.00%) Law
18 26 (0.87%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 533 (17.78%) Developer
2 457 (15.24%) Analyst
3 443 (14.78%) Senior
4 339 (11.31%) Business Analyst
5 267 (8.91%) Lead
6 260 (8.67%) Project Manager
7 210 (7.00%) Architect
8 144 (4.80%) Software Engineer
9 143 (4.77%) Data Engineer
10 104 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
11 100 (3.34%) Designer
12 99 (3.30%) Java Developer
13 93 (3.10%) Senior Manager
13 93 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
14 83 (2.77%) Senior Developer
15 75 (2.50%) Consultant
16 74 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
17 72 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
18 65 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
19 63 (2.10%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (7.57%) React
2 192 (6.40%) REST
3 163 (5.44%) Kafka
4 156 (5.20%) .NET
5 155 (5.17%) Node.js
6 144 (4.80%) RESTful
7 134 (4.47%) AngularJS
8 127 (4.24%) Spring
9 121 (4.04%) HTML
10 112 (3.74%) Spring Boot
11 104 (3.47%) CSS
12 93 (3.10%) PySpark
13 78 (2.60%) Playwright
14 76 (2.54%) Middleware
15 63 (2.10%) SOAP
16 62 (2.07%) GraphQL
17 60 (2.00%) Redux
18 48 (1.60%) JSON
19 45 (1.50%) XML
20 44 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 332 (11.07%) Product Ownership
2 232 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 94 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 77 (2.57%) Fixed Income
5 76 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 73 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 70 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 59 (1.97%) Derivative
9 55 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 54 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 43 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 41 (1.37%) Management Information System
15 39 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 39 (1.30%) Equities
16 36 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
17 33 (1.10%) NHS
18 30 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.57%) Linux
2 77 (2.57%) Windows
3 51 (1.70%) Unix
4 30 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.90%) Android
6 14 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.20%) VMS
9 5 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.10%) AIX
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (26.35%) DevOps
2 720 (24.02%) CI/CD
3 710 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 631 (21.05%) Scrum
5 546 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
6 489 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 389 (12.98%) AI
8 360 (12.01%) Project Management
9 356 (11.87%) Data Modelling
10 330 (11.01%) Analytics
11 327 (10.91%) Test Automation
12 324 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 318 (10.61%) Migration
14 311 (10.37%) Roadmaps
14 311 (10.37%) Software Engineering
15 308 (10.27%) Decision-Making
16 299 (9.97%) User Stories
17 289 (9.64%) Microservices
18 282 (9.41%) Waterfall
19 263 (8.77%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 570 (19.01%) SQL
2 541 (18.05%) Python
3 376 (12.54%) Java
4 307 (10.24%) JavaScript
5 248 (8.27%) TypeScript
6 214 (7.14%) C#
7 54 (1.80%) Scala
8 53 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 51 (1.70%) Go
10 41 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.13%) Apex Code
12 33 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 31 (1.03%) Bash
14 26 (0.87%) C++
15 24 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.77%) R
16 23 (0.77%) Ruby
17 22 (0.73%) Bicep
18 21 (0.70%) Shell Script
19 20 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 650 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 571 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 276 (9.21%) Degree
4 118 (3.94%) PMP
5 114 (3.80%) PMI Certification
6 87 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.33%) CBAP
12 32 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.90%) IIBA
14 26 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.87%) CISSP
15 21 (0.70%) CISM
16 18 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
17 17 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.47%) CSPO
19 12 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.77%) QA
2 185 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 134 (4.47%) Accessibility
4 128 (4.27%) GDPR
5 109 (3.64%) PMO
6 52 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 42 (1.40%) WCAG
8 38 (1.27%) NIST
9 22 (0.73%) SLA
10 21 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.60%) GRC
12 17 (0.57%) NCSC
13 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.30%) Basel III
15 9 (0.30%) HL7
15 9 (0.30%) PSD2
16 8 (0.27%) IFRS
17 7 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 272 (9.07%) Docker
2 33 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.10%) IAG
6 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.067%) Postfix
7 2 (0.067%) RACF
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
8 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 293 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 217 (7.24%) Terraform
3 62 (2.07%) Ansible
4 52 (1.73%) Grafana
5 40 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) Kibana
7 9 (0.30%) SCCM
8 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.27%) Puppet
9 7 (0.23%) Argo
9 7 (0.23%) Packer
9 7 (0.23%) WSUS
10 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.17%) Consul
11 5 (0.17%) Control-M
11 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.17%) Rancher
12 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 383 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 197 (6.57%) Oracle
3 152 (5.07%) Salesforce
4 129 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 116 (3.87%) Databricks
6 99 (3.30%) SAP
7 47 (1.57%) Google
8 42 (1.40%) Adobe
9 41 (1.37%) Workday
10 36 (1.20%) Splunk
11 25 (0.83%) IBM
12 23 (0.77%) Bloomberg
12 23 (0.77%) Informatica
13 22 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.67%) CyberArk
15 19 (0.63%) Cisco
16 18 (0.60%) Atlassian
16 18 (0.60%) Citrix
17 17 (0.57%) Okta
17 17 (0.57%) VMware