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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,586 2,997 3,475
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.63% 22.20% 21.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.82% 23.98% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,402 2,076 2,457
10th Percentile £391 £363 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £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 20 18
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.29 £29.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.31 £33.02
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +23.53% -37.04%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.63 £69.69
90th Percentile £88.75 £96.21 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.20 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.67% -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 18,096 12,500 14,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.57% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,259 9,770
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 257 182
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -4 379 £550 -4.35% 249
West London -2 101 £650 +44.44% 125
South London +3 63 £525 -15.59% 21
East London -2 18 £603 +11.57% 37
North London +4 11 £550 - 2
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
1 304 (8.48%) Confluence
2 93 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 69 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 59 (1.65%) CMS
6 55 (1.53%) Apache
7 32 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.47%) Camunda
9 15 (0.42%) IIS
10 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.33%) SAS
11 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.25%) Appian
13 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 103 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.33%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 2 (0.056%) Mingle
12 2 (0.056%) Windchill
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 56 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.53%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.28%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 8 (0.22%) Endur
9 8 (0.22%) Findur
9 8 (0.22%) Magento
9 8 (0.22%) Shopify
10 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
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%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 938 (26.16%) Azure
2 713 (19.88%) AWS
3 352 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
4 311 (8.67%) Power Platform
5 309 (8.62%) GitHub
6 237 (6.61%) GCP
7 193 (5.38%) Serverless
8 169 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
9 132 (3.68%) Amazon S3
9 132 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
10 110 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
11 106 (2.96%) Snowflake
12 97 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
13 92 (2.57%) PowerApps
14 89 (2.48%) Power Automate
15 79 (2.20%) dbt
16 77 (2.15%) SaaS
17 68 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 66 (1.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.39%) Firewall
2 26 (0.73%) Network Security
3 24 (0.67%) VPN
4 22 (0.61%) DNS
4 22 (0.61%) WAN
5 17 (0.47%) Internet
5 17 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.45%) HTTP
7 12 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.31%) Wireless
9 10 (0.28%) DMZ
10 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.20%) 4G
11 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.20%) VoIP
12 6 (0.17%) Intranet
12 6 (0.17%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) SMS
12 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (6.61%) Power BI
2 164 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
3 135 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 109 (3.04%) Metadata
6 106 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 98 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 78 (2.18%) Data Lake
9 71 (1.98%) MongoDB
10 63 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 55 (1.53%) Tableau
12 48 (1.34%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.28%) DynamoDB
14 41 (1.14%) BigQuery
15 40 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
16 37 (1.03%) Big Data
16 37 (1.03%) Oracle Database
17 30 (0.84%) MySQL
18 25 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
18 25 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 585 (16.31%) JIRA
2 334 (9.31%) Git
3 259 (7.22%) Jenkins
4 137 (3.82%) GitLab
5 70 (1.95%) Selenium
6 59 (1.65%) JUnit
7 48 (1.34%) Gradle
8 40 (1.12%) Postman
9 38 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.03%) Mockito
11 35 (0.98%) Bitbucket
12 32 (0.89%) Maven
13 30 (0.84%) Cucumber
14 29 (0.81%) REST Assured
15 26 (0.73%) Visual Studio
16 21 (0.59%) JMeter
16 21 (0.59%) SonarQube
17 17 (0.47%) Liquibase
18 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 1,414 (39.43%) Social Skills
2 1,172 (32.68%) Finance
3 579 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 560 (15.62%) Public Sector
5 494 (13.78%) Banking
6 224 (6.25%) Retail
7 149 (4.16%) Marketing
8 130 (3.63%) Front Office
9 118 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 115 (3.21%) Investment Banking
11 101 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 83 (2.31%) Legal
13 67 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
14 66 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 61 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 50 (1.39%) Local Government
17 45 (1.25%) Telecoms
18 44 (1.23%) Law
18 44 (1.23%) Retail Banking
19 41 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 612 (17.07%) Developer
2 544 (15.17%) Senior
3 474 (13.22%) Analyst
4 360 (10.04%) Lead
5 331 (9.23%) Business Analyst
6 301 (8.39%) Project Manager
7 264 (7.36%) Architect
8 173 (4.82%) Data Engineer
9 137 (3.82%) Software Engineer
10 131 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
11 119 (3.32%) Java Developer
12 118 (3.29%) Designer
13 112 (3.12%) Senior Developer
14 109 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 108 (3.01%) Senior Manager
16 101 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
17 93 (2.59%) Product Manager
18 88 (2.45%) Product Owner
19 78 (2.18%) Full-Stack Developer
20 73 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (8.76%) REST
2 293 (8.17%) Terraform
3 249 (6.94%) React
4 212 (5.91%) .NET
5 187 (5.21%) RESTful
6 178 (4.96%) Kafka
7 175 (4.88%) Spring
8 158 (4.41%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.63%) HTML
10 121 (3.37%) CSS
11 114 (3.18%) AngularJS
12 113 (3.15%) Node.js
13 96 (2.68%) PySpark
14 85 (2.37%) SOAP
15 80 (2.23%) JSON
16 70 (1.95%) Web Services
17 66 (1.84%) Django
18 61 (1.70%) Playwright
19 60 (1.67%) Middleware
20 56 (1.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 515 (14.36%) Product Ownership
2 296 (8.25%) Cloud Native
3 142 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 119 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
5 98 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 75 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 71 (1.98%) AI Agents
10 59 (1.65%) NHS
11 57 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
11 57 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 55 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
13 53 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 47 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 45 (1.25%) Mobile App
16 42 (1.17%) Fixed Income
17 39 (1.09%) Data Centre
17 39 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
18 38 (1.06%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.63%) Linux
2 78 (2.18%) Windows
3 53 (1.48%) Unix
4 34 (0.95%) Android
4 34 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.084%) zOS
11 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.028%) Solaris
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,134 (31.62%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,021 (28.47%) DevOps
3 977 (27.24%) CI/CD
4 808 (22.53%) Scrum
5 694 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 683 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 638 (17.79%) AI
8 526 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 458 (12.77%) Roadmaps
10 448 (12.49%) Analytics
11 406 (11.32%) Test Automation
12 403 (11.24%) Decision-Making
13 399 (11.13%) User Stories
14 390 (10.88%) Project Management
15 383 (10.68%) Software Engineering
16 381 (10.62%) Data Modelling
17 379 (10.57%) Migration
18 351 (9.79%) Microservices
19 340 (9.48%) Waterfall
20 319 (8.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 675 (18.82%) SQL
2 637 (17.76%) Python
3 434 (12.10%) Java
4 288 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 223 (6.22%) TypeScript
6 218 (6.08%) C#
7 77 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 65 (1.81%) Bash
9 57 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 47 (1.31%) Apex Code
10 47 (1.31%) Scala
11 45 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 39 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 30 (0.84%) Korn
14 28 (0.78%) Groovy
15 23 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 21 (0.59%) Bicep
16 21 (0.59%) Go
17 16 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 868 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 750 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 289 (8.06%) Degree
4 156 (4.35%) PMP
5 150 (4.18%) PMI Certification
6 112 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 106 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 82 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 56 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 29 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 20 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (0.56%) IIBA
14 19 (0.53%) CISSP
15 16 (0.45%) CBAP
16 14 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 13 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (10.21%) QA
2 268 (7.47%) Data Quality
3 142 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 129 (3.60%) PMO
5 98 (2.73%) GDPR
6 53 (1.48%) WCAG
7 38 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.98%) GRC
9 30 (0.84%) 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 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 7 (0.20%) IFRS
17 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 313 (8.73%) Docker
2 58 (1.62%) 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%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 337 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.15%) Grafana
3 76 (2.12%) Ansible
4 65 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.56%) Control-M
6 19 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.45%) Kibana
8 12 (0.33%) Packer
9 10 (0.28%) SCCM
10 9 (0.25%) Puppet
11 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 6 (0.17%) Argo
12 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.084%) Consul
14 3 (0.084%) Rancher
14 3 (0.084%) RSA Archer
15 2 (0.056%) Bosun
15 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 502 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 192 (5.35%) Oracle
3 179 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 145 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 138 (3.85%) Databricks
6 124 (3.46%) Google
7 102 (2.84%) SAP
8 71 (1.98%) Splunk
9 54 (1.51%) Adobe
10 47 (1.31%) IBM
11 36 (1.00%) 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%) Atlassian
18 17 (0.47%) Pega