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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,079 2,494 3,439
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.75% 19.71% 19.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.90% 21.50% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,109 1,722 2,477
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £713
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 21 13 19
10th Percentile £27.71 £35.00 £23.36
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.86
Median hourly rate £63.50 £39.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.65% -21.92% -23.08%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £71.25
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 15,475 11,601 15,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.22% 91.69% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,379 7,867 11,338
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £803 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 333
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -1 371 £550 -4.35% 251
South London +6 81 £513 -12.09% 11
West London -2 66 £520 +30.00% 37
East London -1 27 £525 -5.83% 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
1 293 (9.52%) Confluence
2 67 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.20%) CMS
5 29 (0.94%) Apache
6 19 (0.62%) nginx
7 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.32%) Camunda
10 10 (0.32%) IIS
10 10 (0.32%) SAS
11 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.19%) JBoss
12 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
13 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 113 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 40 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.32%) Sketch
7 10 (0.32%) Trello
8 5 (0.16%) Notion
9 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.097%) InVision
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.065%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.065%) InDesign
11 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.065%) Windchill
11 2 (0.065%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 49 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.58%) Endur
5 14 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.42%) Temenos T24
7 12 (0.39%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.29%) Shopify
9 7 (0.23%) Findur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 757 (24.59%) Azure
2 629 (20.43%) AWS
3 264 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 221 (7.18%) Power Platform
5 220 (7.15%) GitHub
6 181 (5.88%) GCP
7 149 (4.84%) Serverless
8 111 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 95 (3.09%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 91 (2.96%) SaaS
12 85 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
14 72 (2.34%) Snowflake
15 70 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 66 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
17 56 (1.82%) Figma
18 50 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
19 49 (1.59%) Azure AKS
20 48 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.56%) Firewall
2 29 (0.94%) WAN
3 25 (0.81%) Network Security
4 23 (0.75%) HTTP
5 18 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.49%) VPN
7 13 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.36%) Internet
9 10 (0.32%) DNS
9 10 (0.32%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 6 (0.19%) DMZ
11 6 (0.19%) FTP
11 6 (0.19%) 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%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.13%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (5.10%) Power BI
2 129 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (3.93%) NoSQL
4 111 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 100 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 70 (2.27%) Tableau
8 58 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (1.69%) Metadata
10 49 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.53%) MongoDB
12 46 (1.49%) Big Data
13 38 (1.23%) BigQuery
14 37 (1.20%) Delta Lake
15 35 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (0.81%) DynamoDB
18 23 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
19 22 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 21 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 534 (17.34%) JIRA
2 290 (9.42%) Git
3 166 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.05%) GitLab
5 58 (1.88%) JUnit
6 57 (1.85%) Selenium
7 45 (1.46%) Postman
8 40 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 39 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 33 (1.07%) Cypress.io
11 30 (0.97%) SpecFlow
12 29 (0.94%) Mockito
13 21 (0.68%) JMeter
13 21 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 15 (0.49%) Maven
14 15 (0.49%) Zephyr
15 13 (0.42%) Gradle
16 12 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.39%) TestRail
17 11 (0.36%) Liquibase
General
1 1,140 (37.03%) Social Skills
2 1,038 (33.71%) Finance
3 514 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 417 (13.54%) Public Sector
5 375 (12.18%) Banking
6 159 (5.16%) Front Office
7 99 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
8 98 (3.18%) Marketing
8 98 (3.18%) Retail
9 87 (2.83%) Legal
10 84 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
11 80 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
12 74 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
13 69 (2.24%) Investment Banking
14 44 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 31 (1.01%) Manufacturing
18 30 (0.97%) Law
19 24 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 539 (17.51%) Developer
2 467 (15.17%) Analyst
3 457 (14.84%) Senior
4 356 (11.56%) Business Analyst
5 267 (8.67%) Lead
6 262 (8.51%) Project Manager
7 234 (7.60%) Architect
8 145 (4.71%) Software Engineer
9 134 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 107 (3.48%) Java Developer
11 105 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
12 94 (3.05%) Senior Manager
13 93 (3.02%) Consultant
14 90 (2.92%) Designer
15 88 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
16 78 (2.53%) Senior Developer
17 75 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
18 73 (2.37%) Full-Stack Developer
19 67 (2.18%) Azure Engineer
20 65 (2.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (7.63%) React
2 213 (6.92%) REST
3 179 (5.81%) Node.js
4 174 (5.65%) Kafka
5 151 (4.90%) .NET
6 146 (4.74%) RESTful
7 143 (4.64%) AngularJS
8 120 (3.90%) Spring
9 116 (3.77%) HTML
10 103 (3.35%) CSS
10 103 (3.35%) Spring Boot
11 91 (2.96%) PySpark
12 86 (2.79%) Playwright
13 75 (2.44%) Middleware
14 72 (2.34%) JSON
15 66 (2.14%) GraphQL
16 62 (2.01%) SOAP
17 57 (1.85%) Redux
18 52 (1.69%) Web Services
18 52 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 317 (10.30%) Product Ownership
2 222 (7.21%) Cloud Native
3 85 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.57%) Fixed Income
4 79 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 65 (2.11%) Derivative
6 64 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 64 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 62 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 52 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
10 45 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 43 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 40 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 40 (1.30%) NHS
14 39 (1.27%) Equities
15 38 (1.23%) Data Structures
16 37 (1.20%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 124 (4.03%) Linux
2 81 (2.63%) Windows
3 68 (2.21%) Unix
4 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.81%) 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 (0.097%) AIX
12 2 (0.065%) Solaris
13 1 (0.032%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (25.27%) DevOps
2 725 (23.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 701 (22.77%) CI/CD
4 627 (20.36%) Scrum
5 602 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
6 497 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 397 (12.89%) AI
8 371 (12.05%) Project Management
9 358 (11.63%) Data Modelling
10 345 (11.20%) Test Automation
11 336 (10.91%) Analytics
12 332 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 317 (10.30%) Software Engineering
14 314 (10.20%) Migration
14 314 (10.20%) Roadmaps
15 309 (10.04%) Decision-Making
16 289 (9.39%) Microservices
17 288 (9.35%) Waterfall
18 287 (9.32%) User Stories
19 275 (8.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 601 (19.52%) SQL
2 566 (18.38%) Python
3 377 (12.24%) Java
4 311 (10.10%) JavaScript
5 259 (8.41%) TypeScript
6 223 (7.24%) C#
7 78 (2.53%) PowerShell
8 53 (1.72%) Go
8 53 (1.72%) Scala
9 36 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 34 (1.10%) Bash
10 34 (1.10%) C++
11 31 (1.01%) Apex Code
12 30 (0.97%) Ruby
12 30 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 24 (0.78%) Bicep
14 22 (0.71%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 19 (0.62%) R
16 16 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 682 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 610 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 293 (9.52%) Degree
4 126 (4.09%) PMI Certification
5 125 (4.06%) PMP
6 92 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 39 (1.27%) CBAP
10 39 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 38 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 33 (1.07%) CISSP
13 28 (0.91%) CISM
14 27 (0.88%) IIBA
15 26 (0.84%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.45%) CSPO
18 13 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
19 11 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (9.61%) QA
2 178 (5.78%) Data Quality
3 142 (4.61%) Accessibility
4 125 (4.06%) GDPR
5 106 (3.44%) PMO
6 49 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.46%) WCAG
8 37 (1.20%) NIST
9 35 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 21 (0.68%) SLA
11 20 (0.65%) GRC
12 17 (0.55%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.49%) NCSC
14 14 (0.45%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.32%) HL7
15 10 (0.32%) MiFID
15 10 (0.32%) PERC
16 9 (0.29%) Basel III
17 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 303 (9.84%) Docker
2 39 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.097%) IAG
5 3 (0.097%) RACF
5 3 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.065%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.032%) GPFS
7 1 (0.032%) HDFS
7 1 (0.032%) Lustre
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.032%) Postfix
7 1 (0.032%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.032%) Squid
Systems Management
1 319 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 224 (7.28%) Terraform
3 55 (1.79%) Ansible
4 36 (1.17%) Grafana
5 29 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.45%) Packer
8 13 (0.42%) Consul
9 12 (0.39%) Argo
10 11 (0.36%) HP ALM
10 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.29%) Rancher
11 9 (0.29%) SCCM
12 8 (0.26%) Puppet
13 6 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.19%) WSUS
14 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.13%) Control-M
15 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 397 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.33%) Oracle
3 142 (4.61%) Salesforce
4 131 (4.25%) Databricks
4 131 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 105 (3.41%) SAP
6 59 (1.92%) Google
7 48 (1.56%) Adobe
8 39 (1.27%) Splunk
9 35 (1.14%) Workday
10 27 (0.88%) IBM
11 26 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.78%) Bloomberg
13 22 (0.71%) Informatica
13 22 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.68%) VMware
15 20 (0.65%) CyberArk
16 19 (0.62%) Cisco
17 16 (0.52%) Citrix
17 16 (0.52%) Okta