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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,386 2,898 3,684
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.15% 21.42% 21.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.28% 23.24% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,293 2,033 2,710
10th Percentile £375 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £716 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 21
10th Percentile £49.08 £28.07 £26.68
25th Percentile £56.14 £36.76 £31.71
Median hourly rate £71.25 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £90.31 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £83.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -5 357 £568 -2.99% 134
West London 0 87 £600 +33.33% 35
South London +3 67 £513 -15.08% 26
East London -2 20 £585 +8.33% 37
North London 0 6 £550 - 4
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
1 298 (8.80%) Confluence
2 89 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 51 (1.51%) CMS
5 47 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 33 (0.97%) Apache
7 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.47%) IIS
10 13 (0.38%) Camunda
10 13 (0.38%) SAS
11 9 (0.27%) JBoss
12 7 (0.21%) Appian
12 7 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.21%) Hyperledger
12 7 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.18%) Kentico
14 5 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 98 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
3 58 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.24%) Sketch
8 7 (0.21%) Notion
9 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.18%) Trello
9 6 (0.18%) UserZoom
10 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.059%) Windchill
12 1 (0.030%) InVision
12 1 (0.030%) Mingle
12 1 (0.030%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.030%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 37 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.41%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Findur
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
7 10 (0.30%) Loan IQ
8 7 (0.21%) Endur
8 7 (0.21%) Magento
9 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.18%) Shopify
9 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.15%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.12%) Actimize
11 4 (0.12%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 877 (25.90%) Azure
2 700 (20.67%) AWS
3 305 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 262 (7.74%) Power Platform
5 250 (7.38%) GitHub
6 218 (6.44%) GCP
7 173 (5.11%) Serverless
8 144 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
9 129 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 118 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
11 83 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
12 76 (2.24%) Snowflake
13 74 (2.19%) SaaS
14 73 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
15 68 (2.01%) PowerApps
16 65 (1.92%) Power Automate
17 62 (1.83%) Entra ID
18 60 (1.77%) dbt
19 59 (1.74%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.54%) Firewall
2 27 (0.80%) Network Security
3 25 (0.74%) WAN
4 22 (0.65%) VPN
5 20 (0.59%) Internet
6 18 (0.53%) HTTP
7 17 (0.50%) DNS
8 15 (0.44%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.32%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.30%) LAN
10 10 (0.30%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.21%) Intranet
11 7 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.21%) Wireless
12 6 (0.18%) BGP
12 6 (0.18%) DMZ
12 6 (0.18%) MPLS
12 6 (0.18%) OSPF
12 6 (0.18%) SMS
12 6 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (6.08%) Power BI
2 132 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 127 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 117 (3.46%) SQL Server
5 96 (2.84%) NoSQL
6 85 (2.51%) Relational Database
7 67 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 67 (1.98%) Metadata
8 63 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 63 (1.86%) Tableau
9 54 (1.59%) MongoDB
10 49 (1.45%) DynamoDB
11 44 (1.30%) Big Data
12 42 (1.24%) BigQuery
13 36 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
15 33 (0.97%) Delta Lake
16 21 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
17 20 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 567 (16.75%) JIRA
2 288 (8.51%) Git
3 218 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 110 (3.25%) GitLab
5 61 (1.80%) JUnit
6 50 (1.48%) Selenium
7 45 (1.33%) Postman
8 35 (1.03%) Mockito
9 34 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 34 (1.00%) Gradle
10 31 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.86%) Bitbucket
12 27 (0.80%) REST Assured
13 21 (0.62%) Maven
14 19 (0.56%) JMeter
15 17 (0.50%) CircleCI
16 16 (0.47%) Gatling
16 16 (0.47%) SpecFlow
17 15 (0.44%) Liquibase
18 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,216 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 1,120 (33.08%) Finance
3 510 (15.06%) Public Sector
4 493 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
5 421 (12.43%) Banking
6 194 (5.73%) Retail
7 170 (5.02%) Front Office
8 129 (3.81%) Marketing
9 108 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 99 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 97 (2.86%) Investment Banking
12 80 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 78 (2.30%) Legal
14 74 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
15 58 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 37 (1.09%) Law
17 36 (1.06%) Local Government
18 35 (1.03%) Financial Institution
19 34 (1.00%) Telecoms
20 32 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 597 (17.63%) Developer
2 494 (14.59%) Senior
3 459 (13.56%) Analyst
4 347 (10.25%) Lead
5 317 (9.36%) Business Analyst
6 291 (8.59%) Project Manager
7 250 (7.38%) Architect
8 178 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 148 (4.37%) Data Engineer
10 126 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
10 126 (3.72%) Designer
11 125 (3.69%) Java Developer
12 111 (3.28%) Senior Manager
13 108 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
14 99 (2.92%) Senior Developer
15 82 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
16 79 (2.33%) Product Owner
17 76 (2.24%) Product Manager
18 67 (1.98%) Consultant
18 67 (1.98%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (7.62%) REST
2 252 (7.44%) React
3 190 (5.61%) .NET
4 171 (5.05%) Kafka
5 165 (4.87%) RESTful
6 159 (4.70%) Spring
7 149 (4.40%) Node.js
8 136 (4.02%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.84%) AngularJS
10 114 (3.37%) HTML
11 99 (2.92%) CSS
12 82 (2.42%) SOAP
13 81 (2.39%) PySpark
14 76 (2.24%) Redux
15 73 (2.16%) Middleware
16 70 (2.07%) JSON
17 67 (1.98%) GraphQL
18 66 (1.95%) Playwright
19 54 (1.59%) .NET Framework
20 49 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 410 (12.11%) Product Ownership
2 252 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 129 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 104 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
5 96 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 91 (2.69%) Fixed Income
7 71 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 67 (1.98%) Derivative
9 64 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 58 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 55 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 54 (1.59%) NHS
13 50 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 50 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 49 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
15 47 (1.39%) Data Structures
16 43 (1.27%) AI Agents
16 43 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.21%) Equities
18 36 (1.06%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.13%) Linux
2 74 (2.19%) Windows
3 45 (1.33%) Unix
4 35 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 34 (1.00%) Android
6 13 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.21%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.12%) VMS
12 3 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.059%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.059%) zOS
14 1 (0.030%) AIX
14 1 (0.030%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.030%) Rocky
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
14 1 (0.030%) SUSE
14 1 (0.030%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (27.08%) DevOps
2 889 (26.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 873 (25.78%) CI/CD
4 731 (21.59%) Scrum
5 588 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 579 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
7 491 (14.50%) AI
8 446 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 382 (11.28%) Analytics
10 378 (11.16%) Roadmaps
11 367 (10.84%) Data Modelling
12 365 (10.78%) Software Engineering
12 365 (10.78%) Test Automation
13 360 (10.63%) Decision-Making
14 354 (10.45%) Migration
15 352 (10.40%) Project Management
16 338 (9.98%) User Stories
17 335 (9.89%) Microservices
18 323 (9.54%) Waterfall
19 266 (7.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 599 (17.69%) SQL
2 591 (17.45%) Python
3 433 (12.79%) Java
4 307 (9.07%) JavaScript
5 254 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 219 (6.47%) C#
7 67 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.54%) Go
9 48 (1.42%) Apex Code
10 44 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 41 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 38 (1.12%) Scala
13 36 (1.06%) Bash
13 36 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 22 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 21 (0.62%) Korn
17 20 (0.59%) Groovy
18 18 (0.53%) Bicep
18 18 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 768 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 672 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 278 (8.21%) Degree
4 126 (3.72%) PMP
5 111 (3.28%) PMI Certification
6 86 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 86 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 78 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.36%) AWS Certification
10 43 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 29 (0.86%) CISSP
12 25 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 21 (0.62%) CBAP
15 20 (0.59%) CISM
15 20 (0.59%) IIBA
16 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.35%) CCNP
18 11 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (9.07%) QA
2 209 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 155 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 118 (3.48%) PMO
5 111 (3.28%) GDPR
6 45 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.33%) WCAG
7 35 (1.03%) GRC
7 35 (1.03%) NIST
8 28 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 25 (0.74%) SLA
10 21 (0.62%) NCSC
11 19 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 13 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.27%) SEPA
15 8 (0.24%) PSD2
16 7 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.21%) GxP
16 7 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 267 (7.89%) Docker
2 46 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.21%) IAG
4 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.089%) Postfix
7 2 (0.059%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.059%) RACF
8 1 (0.030%) HDFS
8 1 (0.030%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.030%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.030%) Squid
Systems Management
1 307 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 259 (7.65%) Terraform
3 72 (2.13%) Ansible
4 54 (1.59%) Grafana
5 49 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.41%) Packer
8 12 (0.35%) Control-M
8 12 (0.35%) Kibana
9 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.27%) SCCM
10 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.24%) WSUS
11 7 (0.21%) Puppet
12 5 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.15%) Consul
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 405 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 186 (5.49%) Salesforce
3 185 (5.46%) Oracle
4 145 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 100 (2.95%) Databricks
6 98 (2.89%) SAP
7 95 (2.81%) Google
8 46 (1.36%) Splunk
9 40 (1.18%) Adobe
10 33 (0.97%) Workday
11 32 (0.95%) IBM
12 31 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 27 (0.80%) Informatica
14 24 (0.71%) Bloomberg
15 21 (0.62%) Dynatrace
16 20 (0.59%) Cisco
17 19 (0.56%) CyberArk
17 19 (0.56%) Murex
17 19 (0.56%) VMware
18 18 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud