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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,051 2,468 3,464
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.11% 19.54% 19.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.22% 21.38% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,085 1,710 2,506
10th Percentile £364 £388 £401
25th Percentile £447 £472 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £712
90th Percentile £775 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 20
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.93
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.06% -21.92% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.13 £55.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £72.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.57% -11.54%

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 15,087 11,541 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.38% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 7,833 11,413
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 170 337
10th Percentile £18.11 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -1 369 £550 -4.35% 251
South London +7 78 £513 -12.09% 11
West London -2 59 £500 +25.00% 37
East London 0 27 £525 +1.20% 32
North London +1 1 £700 +71.36% 5
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 (9.77%) Confluence
2 63 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 62 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.05%) CMS
6 31 (1.02%) Apache
7 19 (0.62%) nginx
8 13 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.36%) Camunda
11 10 (0.33%) IIS
11 10 (0.33%) SAS
12 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
14 6 (0.20%) JBoss
15 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 111 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 43 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 11 (0.36%) Sketch
7 11 (0.36%) Trello
8 5 (0.16%) Notion
9 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.098%) InVision
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.066%) InDesign
11 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.066%) Windchill
11 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 46 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.59%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 12 (0.39%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.29%) Shopify
8 8 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.23%) Findur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 752 (24.65%) Azure
2 624 (20.45%) AWS
3 270 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
4 223 (7.31%) GitHub
5 214 (7.01%) Power Platform
6 189 (6.19%) GCP
7 148 (4.85%) Serverless
8 111 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
9 93 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 92 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 92 (3.02%) SaaS
11 83 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 71 (2.33%) Snowflake
13 70 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
14 66 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (1.97%) Figma
15 60 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
16 49 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
17 45 (1.47%) Azure AKS
18 42 (1.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.74%) Firewall
2 34 (1.11%) WAN
3 25 (0.82%) Network Security
4 23 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 22 (0.72%) HTTP
6 20 (0.66%) VPN
7 16 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.39%) DNS
8 12 (0.39%) Internet
9 10 (0.33%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) DMZ
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) 5G
12 5 (0.16%) Broadband
12 5 (0.16%) MPLS
12 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.13%) PSTN
13 4 (0.13%) SMS
13 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (4.95%) Power BI
2 127 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 110 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (3.15%) SQL Server
6 78 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 68 (2.23%) Tableau
8 58 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
9 48 (1.57%) Big Data
9 48 (1.57%) Metadata
10 47 (1.54%) Data Lake
11 45 (1.47%) MongoDB
12 38 (1.25%) BigQuery
13 36 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (1.15%) Delta Lake
15 27 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (0.82%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 22 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
19 21 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 540 (17.70%) JIRA
2 297 (9.73%) Git
3 174 (5.70%) Jenkins
4 100 (3.28%) GitLab
5 59 (1.93%) JUnit
6 58 (1.90%) Selenium
7 43 (1.41%) Postman
8 42 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 41 (1.34%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 30 (0.98%) SpecFlow
12 28 (0.92%) Mockito
13 21 (0.69%) JMeter
13 21 (0.69%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.52%) Maven
15 13 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (0.43%) Zephyr
16 12 (0.39%) Gradle
16 12 (0.39%) TestRail
17 10 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 1,137 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 1,022 (33.50%) Finance
3 504 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (13.63%) Public Sector
5 372 (12.19%) Banking
6 158 (5.18%) Front Office
7 97 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
8 91 (2.98%) Retail
9 85 (2.79%) Legal
9 85 (2.79%) Marketing
10 82 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
10 82 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
11 75 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (2.29%) Investment Banking
13 42 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 32 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 30 (0.98%) Law
18 29 (0.95%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 530 (17.37%) Developer
2 475 (15.57%) Analyst
3 456 (14.95%) Senior
4 366 (12.00%) Business Analyst
5 260 (8.52%) Lead
6 259 (8.49%) Project Manager
7 220 (7.21%) Architect
8 142 (4.65%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.29%) Data Engineer
10 106 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
11 100 (3.28%) Java Developer
12 96 (3.15%) Consultant
13 93 (3.05%) Senior Manager
14 89 (2.92%) Designer
15 82 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
16 79 (2.59%) Senior Developer
17 75 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
17 75 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
18 65 (2.13%) Product Manager
19 64 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (7.90%) React
2 210 (6.88%) REST
3 186 (6.10%) Node.js
4 178 (5.83%) Kafka
5 147 (4.82%) RESTful
6 143 (4.69%) AngularJS
7 141 (4.62%) .NET
8 116 (3.80%) HTML
9 115 (3.77%) Spring
10 105 (3.44%) CSS
11 98 (3.21%) Spring Boot
12 93 (3.05%) Playwright
13 88 (2.88%) PySpark
14 75 (2.46%) JSON
15 73 (2.39%) Middleware
16 72 (2.36%) GraphQL
17 61 (2.00%) SOAP
18 58 (1.90%) Redux
19 57 (1.87%) XML
20 54 (1.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 309 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 215 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 79 (2.59%) Onboarding
4 78 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 75 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 66 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.13%) Derivative
8 60 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 59 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 40 (1.31%) Equities
11 40 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 39 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 38 (1.25%) Management Information System
14 36 (1.18%) NHS
15 35 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
16 34 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.39%) Linux
2 83 (2.72%) Windows
3 73 (2.39%) Unix
4 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.82%) Android
6 16 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.16%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.098%) AIX
12 2 (0.066%) Solaris
13 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Rocky
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (25.04%) DevOps
2 701 (22.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 691 (22.65%) CI/CD
4 624 (20.45%) Scrum
5 601 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
6 475 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 384 (12.59%) AI
8 363 (11.90%) Project Management
9 347 (11.37%) Test Automation
10 342 (11.21%) Data Modelling
11 341 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 322 (10.55%) Analytics
13 315 (10.32%) Software Engineering
14 310 (10.16%) Roadmaps
15 308 (10.10%) Migration
16 294 (9.64%) Decision-Making
17 287 (9.41%) User Stories
18 282 (9.24%) Waterfall
19 281 (9.21%) Project Delivery
20 280 (9.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 602 (19.73%) SQL
2 567 (18.58%) Python
3 368 (12.06%) Java
4 321 (10.52%) JavaScript
5 272 (8.92%) TypeScript
6 215 (7.05%) C#
7 77 (2.52%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.77%) Scala
9 53 (1.74%) Go
10 39 (1.28%) C++
11 35 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Bash
13 29 (0.95%) Ruby
14 28 (0.92%) Apex Code
14 28 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 24 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.75%) Bicep
17 21 (0.69%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.59%) R
19 15 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 665 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 598 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 297 (9.73%) Degree
4 130 (4.26%) PMI Certification
5 123 (4.03%) PMP
6 92 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.77%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.28%) CBAP
11 39 (1.28%) ISTQB
12 34 (1.11%) CISSP
13 29 (0.95%) CISM
14 28 (0.92%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.88%) IIBA
16 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.43%) CSPO
18 12 (0.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (9.54%) QA
2 167 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 144 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 123 (4.03%) GDPR
5 104 (3.41%) PMO
6 49 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.47%) WCAG
8 39 (1.28%) NIST
9 34 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.66%) SLA
11 19 (0.62%) GRC
12 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.49%) MiFID
14 14 (0.46%) NCSC
15 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.33%) PERC
17 9 (0.29%) Basel III
17 9 (0.29%) HL7
18 8 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 310 (10.16%) Docker
2 35 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.066%) IAG
6 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.066%) RACF
6 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.033%) GPFS
7 1 (0.033%) HDFS
7 1 (0.033%) Lustre
7 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.033%) Postfix
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 314 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 224 (7.34%) Terraform
3 57 (1.87%) Ansible
4 40 (1.31%) Grafana
5 30 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.46%) Packer
8 12 (0.39%) Argo
8 12 (0.39%) Consul
8 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.29%) Rancher
10 9 (0.29%) SCCM
11 8 (0.26%) Puppet
12 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.20%) WSUS
13 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.13%) Control-M
14 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 385 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.39%) Oracle
3 137 (4.49%) Salesforce
4 131 (4.29%) Databricks
5 130 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 100 (3.28%) SAP
7 61 (2.00%) Google
8 47 (1.54%) Adobe
9 38 (1.25%) Splunk
10 29 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 29 (0.95%) Workday
11 26 (0.85%) IBM
12 24 (0.79%) Bloomberg
13 23 (0.75%) Cisco
14 22 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.69%) Informatica
15 21 (0.69%) VMware
16 19 (0.62%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.52%) Citrix
18 15 (0.49%) Murex