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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,630 2,967 3,294
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.70% 22.18% 20.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.88% 23.99% 22.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 2,065 2,283
10th Percentile £400 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 15
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.06 £28.01
25th Percentile £52.19 £42.31 £32.68
Median hourly rate £59.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% +50.00% -48.76%
75th Percentile £73.75 £81.88 £56.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £98.64 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -4 389 £550 -4.35% 80
West London -2 98 £680 +70.00% 50
South London 0 56 £535 -14.40% 12
East London -4 16 £590 +9.26% 23
North London +5 12 £575 +4.59% 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
1 305 (8.40%) Confluence
2 77 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (1.87%) CMS
4 63 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 55 (1.52%) Apache
6 34 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 14 (0.39%) Camunda
7 14 (0.39%) SAS
7 14 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
8 13 (0.36%) IIS
9 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.25%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.22%) Appian
11 8 (0.22%) Kentico
11 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.14%) nginx
14 5 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 102 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.30%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
8 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.083%) Mingle
12 3 (0.083%) Productboard
13 2 (0.055%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.028%) Simulink
14 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 60 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.25%) Temenos T24
7 8 (0.22%) Magento
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.22%) Shopify
7 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Endur
8 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.11%) Findur
10 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 959 (26.42%) Azure
2 728 (20.06%) AWS
3 353 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
4 311 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 310 (8.54%) GitHub
6 236 (6.50%) GCP
7 196 (5.40%) Serverless
8 173 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
9 139 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 124 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
11 120 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
12 111 (3.06%) Snowflake
13 89 (2.45%) PowerApps
14 88 (2.42%) Power Automate
15 86 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
16 79 (2.18%) dbt
17 75 (2.07%) SaaS
18 74 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
19 73 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 67 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.29%) Firewall
2 31 (0.85%) Network Security
3 27 (0.74%) DNS
4 24 (0.66%) VPN
5 18 (0.50%) Internet
5 18 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.47%) WAN
7 15 (0.41%) HTTP
8 11 (0.30%) Wireless
9 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.28%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.22%) 4G
11 8 (0.22%) DMZ
11 8 (0.22%) VoIP
12 7 (0.19%) BGP
12 7 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.17%) Intranet
13 6 (0.17%) IPsec
13 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (6.50%) Power BI
2 167 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
3 152 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 143 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 114 (3.14%) Metadata
6 113 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 103 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 77 (2.12%) Data Lake
9 76 (2.09%) MongoDB
10 67 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
11 47 (1.29%) Delta Lake
12 46 (1.27%) MySQL
12 46 (1.27%) Oracle Database
13 44 (1.21%) DynamoDB
13 44 (1.21%) Tableau
14 40 (1.10%) BigQuery
15 37 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (0.80%) Redis
17 27 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
18 26 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 582 (16.03%) JIRA
2 347 (9.56%) Git
3 280 (7.71%) Jenkins
4 156 (4.30%) GitLab
5 91 (2.51%) Selenium
6 66 (1.82%) JUnit
7 56 (1.54%) Gradle
8 52 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 49 (1.35%) Postman
10 45 (1.24%) Maven
11 44 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 35 (0.96%) Mockito
13 33 (0.91%) Bitbucket
14 32 (0.88%) REST Assured
15 29 (0.80%) Visual Studio
16 25 (0.69%) JMeter
16 25 (0.69%) SonarQube
17 20 (0.55%) CircleCI
18 16 (0.44%) Gatling
19 14 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,478 (40.72%) Social Skills
2 1,200 (33.06%) Finance
3 576 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 564 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
5 529 (14.57%) Banking
6 218 (6.01%) Retail
7 140 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
8 139 (3.83%) Marketing
9 137 (3.77%) Front Office
10 125 (3.44%) Investment Banking
11 102 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 72 (1.98%) Legal
13 70 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 65 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
15 62 (1.71%) Local Government
16 59 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.24%) Law
17 45 (1.24%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 41 (1.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 608 (16.75%) Developer
2 573 (15.79%) Senior
3 453 (12.48%) Analyst
4 369 (10.17%) Lead
5 318 (8.76%) Business Analyst
6 308 (8.48%) Project Manager
7 250 (6.89%) Architect
8 168 (4.63%) Data Engineer
9 136 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
10 133 (3.66%) Software Engineer
11 125 (3.44%) Designer
12 123 (3.39%) Senior Developer
13 117 (3.22%) Java Developer
14 116 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
15 106 (2.92%) Product Manager
15 106 (2.92%) Senior Manager
16 95 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
17 94 (2.59%) Product Owner
18 77 (2.12%) Full-Stack Developer
18 77 (2.12%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (9.28%) REST
2 300 (8.26%) Terraform
3 239 (6.58%) React
4 229 (6.31%) .NET
5 195 (5.37%) Kafka
6 193 (5.32%) RESTful
7 177 (4.88%) Spring
8 162 (4.46%) Spring Boot
9 125 (3.44%) HTML
10 114 (3.14%) CSS
11 109 (3.00%) Node.js
12 103 (2.84%) AngularJS
13 92 (2.53%) PySpark
14 84 (2.31%) SOAP
15 78 (2.15%) Web Services
16 75 (2.07%) JSON
17 69 (1.90%) Playwright
18 67 (1.85%) Django
19 64 (1.76%) OAuth
20 58 (1.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 551 (15.18%) Product Ownership
2 301 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 143 (3.94%) Onboarding
4 127 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 107 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 100 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 82 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 81 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 69 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 62 (1.71%) Management Information System
11 61 (1.68%) Virtual Team
12 57 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.52%) Mobile App
13 55 (1.52%) NHS
14 48 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
15 45 (1.24%) Fixed Income
16 42 (1.16%) Data Centre
17 41 (1.13%) Derivative
17 41 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 33 (0.91%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.02%) Linux
2 75 (2.07%) Windows
3 55 (1.52%) Unix
4 37 (1.02%) Android
5 36 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.22%) VMS
9 7 (0.19%) macOS
10 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.083%) zOS
13 2 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.028%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.028%) SUSE
14 1 (0.028%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,244 (34.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,057 (29.12%) DevOps
3 1,048 (28.87%) CI/CD
4 814 (22.42%) Scrum
5 708 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 697 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
7 654 (18.02%) AI
8 545 (15.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 490 (13.50%) Roadmaps
10 463 (12.75%) Test Automation
11 456 (12.56%) Analytics
12 422 (11.63%) User Stories
13 415 (11.43%) Decision-Making
14 413 (11.38%) Software Engineering
15 384 (10.58%) Migration
16 363 (10.00%) Data Modelling
16 363 (10.00%) Project Management
17 351 (9.67%) Microservices
18 337 (9.28%) SDLC
18 337 (9.28%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 706 (19.45%) SQL
2 650 (17.91%) Python
3 435 (11.98%) Java
4 287 (7.91%) JavaScript
5 228 (6.28%) C#
6 225 (6.20%) TypeScript
7 84 (2.31%) Bash
8 77 (2.12%) PowerShell
9 50 (1.38%) PL/SQL
9 50 (1.38%) Scala
10 46 (1.27%) Kotlin
11 36 (0.99%) T-SQL
12 35 (0.96%) Apex Code
13 29 (0.80%) Go
13 29 (0.80%) Groovy
14 28 (0.77%) Korn
15 24 (0.66%) Bicep
15 24 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 23 (0.63%) Shell Script
17 17 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 899 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 783 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 315 (8.68%) Degree
4 168 (4.63%) PMP
5 162 (4.46%) PMI Certification
6 119 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 118 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 95 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (1.85%) AWS Certification
10 57 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 28 (0.77%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (0.55%) CISSP
15 20 (0.55%) IIBA
16 19 (0.52%) CBAP
17 16 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 14 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 13 (0.36%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 393 (10.83%) QA
2 278 (7.66%) Data Quality
3 167 (4.60%) Accessibility
4 106 (2.92%) PMO
5 85 (2.34%) GDPR
6 57 (1.57%) WCAG
7 39 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.83%) GRC
9 29 (0.80%) NIST
10 22 (0.61%) ISO 20022
10 22 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.41%) SLA
14 13 (0.36%) NCSC
15 10 (0.28%) SEPA
16 9 (0.25%) IFRS
16 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
17 8 (0.22%) P3O
18 7 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 345 (9.50%) Docker
2 56 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.17%) IAG
7 3 (0.083%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.083%) Postfix
7 3 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.055%) RACF
8 2 (0.055%) Squid
9 1 (0.028%) Ceph
9 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 368 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 99 (2.73%) Grafana
3 74 (2.04%) Ansible
3 74 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 23 (0.63%) Kibana
5 20 (0.55%) Control-M
6 18 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.36%) Packer
8 11 (0.30%) Puppet
9 7 (0.19%) Istio
9 7 (0.19%) SCCM
10 6 (0.17%) Argo
10 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.11%) WSUS
12 3 (0.083%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.083%) Rancher
13 2 (0.055%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 528 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 183 (5.04%) Oracle
3 163 (4.49%) Salesforce
4 153 (4.21%) Databricks
5 130 (3.58%) ServiceNow
6 122 (3.36%) Google
7 101 (2.78%) SAP
8 76 (2.09%) Splunk
9 59 (1.63%) Adobe
10 46 (1.27%) IBM
11 37 (1.02%) Informatica
12 32 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 26 (0.72%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.69%) UiPath
15 23 (0.63%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.61%) Cisco
17 21 (0.58%) Pega
17 21 (0.58%) VMware
18 20 (0.55%) Workday
19 19 (0.52%) Sitecore