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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,486 2,924 3,568
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.49% 21.55% 21.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.66% 23.36% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,353 2,042 2,614
10th Percentile £385 £368 £400
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £731
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 18
10th Percentile £51.60 £26.83 £31.20
25th Percentile £54.64 £33.13 £32.47
Median hourly rate £63.95 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.81% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76.00 £68.13 £71.25
90th Percentile £96.63 £88.13 £72.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -2.31% -

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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -5 365 £572 -2.22% 174
West London +1 93 £604 +34.22% 54
South London +7 77 £514 -17.80% 19
East London -3 15 £585 +8.33% 37
North London +3 7 £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 (8.55%) Confluence
2 94 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 55 (1.58%) CMS
5 49 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (1.18%) Apache
7 23 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.43%) IIS
10 13 (0.37%) SAS
11 11 (0.32%) Camunda
12 8 (0.23%) JBoss
13 7 (0.20%) Appian
13 7 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
14 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
15 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 95 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.29%) Trello
8 8 (0.23%) Notion
8 8 (0.23%) Sketch
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.057%) Windchill
11 1 (0.029%) Mingle
11 1 (0.029%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 43 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 25 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
6 11 (0.32%) Findur
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Magento
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 8 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.20%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.20%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.17%) Endur
9 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.11%) Actimize
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 908 (26.05%) Azure
2 717 (20.57%) AWS
3 314 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
4 287 (8.23%) Power Platform
5 271 (7.77%) GitHub
6 242 (6.94%) GCP
7 174 (4.99%) Serverless
8 154 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
9 129 (3.70%) Amazon S3
10 119 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 85 (2.44%) Snowflake
13 83 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
14 81 (2.32%) PowerApps
15 79 (2.27%) SaaS
16 76 (2.18%) Power Automate
17 68 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
18 65 (1.86%) dbt
18 65 (1.86%) Entra ID
19 63 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.41%) Firewall
2 28 (0.80%) WAN
3 27 (0.77%) Network Security
4 22 (0.63%) VPN
5 17 (0.49%) DNS
5 17 (0.49%) Internet
6 14 (0.40%) HTTP
6 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.32%) LAN
9 10 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 10 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.26%) Wireless
11 8 (0.23%) DMZ
11 8 (0.23%) MPLS
12 7 (0.20%) BGP
12 7 (0.20%) Intranet
12 7 (0.20%) OSPF
13 6 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (6.45%) Power BI
2 141 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 133 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 95 (2.73%) NoSQL
6 92 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 74 (2.12%) Metadata
8 68 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.89%) Tableau
10 65 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
11 58 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 50 (1.43%) DynamoDB
13 44 (1.26%) Big Data
14 41 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (0.92%) Delta Lake
18 23 (0.66%) Oracle Database
19 21 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
20 20 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 571 (16.38%) JIRA
2 297 (8.52%) Git
3 235 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 116 (3.33%) GitLab
5 54 (1.55%) JUnit
6 47 (1.35%) Selenium
7 40 (1.15%) Postman
8 36 (1.03%) Gradle
9 34 (0.98%) Mockito
10 33 (0.95%) Bitbucket
11 32 (0.92%) Cypress.io
12 28 (0.80%) Cucumber
13 23 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.60%) Maven
15 20 (0.57%) JMeter
15 20 (0.57%) Visual Studio
16 17 (0.49%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.49%) Gatling
16 17 (0.49%) Zephyr
17 15 (0.43%) Liquibase
General
1 1,258 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 1,154 (33.10%) Finance
3 541 (15.52%) Public Sector
4 536 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 438 (12.56%) Banking
6 208 (5.97%) Retail
7 172 (4.93%) Front Office
8 139 (3.99%) Marketing
9 111 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 101 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 98 (2.81%) Investment Banking
12 82 (2.35%) Legal
13 75 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
15 60 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 42 (1.20%) Law
17 36 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.03%) Retail Banking
17 36 (1.03%) Telecoms
18 35 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 622 (17.84%) Developer
2 513 (14.72%) Senior
3 457 (13.11%) Analyst
4 367 (10.53%) Lead
5 314 (9.01%) Business Analyst
6 296 (8.49%) Project Manager
7 254 (7.29%) Architect
8 184 (5.28%) Software Engineer
9 150 (4.30%) Data Engineer
10 132 (3.79%) Delivery Manager
11 128 (3.67%) Java Developer
12 125 (3.59%) Designer
13 111 (3.18%) Senior Developer
13 111 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
14 108 (3.10%) Senior Manager
15 82 (2.35%) Product Owner
16 80 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
17 77 (2.21%) Product Manager
18 71 (2.04%) Programme Manager
19 69 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (7.86%) REST
2 266 (7.63%) React
3 200 (5.74%) .NET
4 171 (4.91%) RESTful
5 169 (4.85%) Kafka
6 161 (4.62%) Spring
7 152 (4.36%) Node.js
8 136 (3.90%) Spring Boot
9 129 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 120 (3.44%) HTML
11 107 (3.07%) CSS
12 86 (2.47%) PySpark
12 86 (2.47%) SOAP
13 83 (2.38%) Redux
14 74 (2.12%) JSON
15 70 (2.01%) Middleware
16 66 (1.89%) GraphQL
17 64 (1.84%) Playwright
18 56 (1.61%) Web Services
19 54 (1.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 443 (12.71%) Product Ownership
2 258 (7.40%) Cloud Native
3 140 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 114 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 95 (2.73%) Fixed Income
7 75 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 63 (1.81%) Derivative
8 63 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 62 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 62 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 59 (1.69%) NHS
11 56 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
13 50 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 50 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 50 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 42 (1.20%) Data Centre
15 41 (1.18%) Equities
16 40 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.07%) Linux
2 79 (2.27%) Windows
3 41 (1.18%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 34 (0.98%) Android
6 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) VMS
11 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.057%) zOS
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
13 1 (0.029%) SUSE
13 1 (0.029%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (27.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 947 (27.17%) DevOps
3 904 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 754 (21.63%) Scrum
5 618 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 600 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
7 539 (15.46%) AI
8 477 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 414 (11.88%) Analytics
10 396 (11.36%) Roadmaps
11 387 (11.10%) Software Engineering
12 377 (10.81%) Data Modelling
13 374 (10.73%) Decision-Making
14 372 (10.67%) Test Automation
15 368 (10.56%) Migration
16 359 (10.30%) Project Management
17 351 (10.07%) User Stories
18 338 (9.70%) Microservices
19 334 (9.58%) Waterfall
20 286 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 618 (17.73%) SQL
2 608 (17.44%) Python
3 446 (12.79%) Java
4 319 (9.15%) JavaScript
5 252 (7.23%) TypeScript
6 222 (6.37%) C#
7 68 (1.95%) PowerShell
8 51 (1.46%) Apex Code
8 51 (1.46%) Go
9 50 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 41 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 41 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 40 (1.15%) Scala
12 39 (1.12%) Bash
13 24 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.63%) Groovy
14 22 (0.63%) Korn
15 20 (0.57%) Bicep
16 19 (0.55%) Ruby
17 18 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 784 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 690 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 275 (7.89%) Degree
4 135 (3.87%) PMP
5 124 (3.56%) PMI Certification
6 94 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 91 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 76 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (1.52%) Azure Certification
10 47 (1.35%) AWS Certification
11 42 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 31 (0.89%) CISSP
13 25 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.60%) CISM
14 21 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 17 (0.49%) IIBA
17 15 (0.43%) CBAP
18 12 (0.34%) CCNP
19 11 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (9.09%) QA
2 220 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 150 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 117 (3.36%) PMO
5 113 (3.24%) GDPR
6 47 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.35%) WCAG
7 37 (1.06%) NIST
8 36 (1.03%) GRC
9 28 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.66%) SLA
11 21 (0.60%) NCSC
12 20 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.26%) SEPA
15 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.23%) PSD2
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
16 7 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 274 (7.86%) Docker
2 52 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) IAG
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.086%) Postfix
7 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.057%) RACF
8 1 (0.029%) HDFS
8 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.029%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.029%) Squid
8 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 317 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 265 (7.60%) Terraform
3 78 (2.24%) Ansible
4 56 (1.61%) Grafana
5 53 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.43%) Control-M
8 13 (0.37%) Kibana
8 13 (0.37%) Packer
9 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.23%) Puppet
10 8 (0.23%) SCCM
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 5 (0.14%) Argo
12 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 424 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 188 (5.39%) Salesforce
3 174 (4.99%) Oracle
4 149 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 110 (3.16%) Google
6 104 (2.98%) Databricks
7 103 (2.95%) SAP
8 52 (1.49%) Splunk
9 48 (1.38%) Adobe
10 38 (1.09%) IBM
11 31 (0.89%) Workday
12 29 (0.83%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.75%) Dynatrace
14 24 (0.69%) Bloomberg
14 24 (0.69%) Cisco
14 24 (0.69%) Informatica
15 23 (0.66%) VMware
16 19 (0.55%) CyberArk
16 19 (0.55%) Pega
17 18 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud