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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,564 3,005 3,373
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.53% 22.29% 20.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.74% 24.09% 23.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,418 2,077 2,352
10th Percentile £389 £363 £380
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -3.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £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 18 18
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.06 £29.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.31 £33.55
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +50.00% -48.15%
75th Percentile £73.75 £81.88 £69.69
90th Percentile £88.75 £98.64 £72.38
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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £663 £671 £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 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -4 388 £550 -5.98% 388
West London -2 101 £680 +70.00% 151
South London +2 56 £535 -14.40% 23
East London -3 17 £590 +9.26% 23
North London +6 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
1 297 (8.33%) Confluence
2 85 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 70 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 63 (1.77%) CMS
6 52 (1.46%) Apache
7 35 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.42%) Camunda
9 14 (0.39%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 9 (0.25%) Appian
11 9 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.17%) Kentico
13 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 97 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 55 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.34%) Trello
7 9 (0.25%) Notion
8 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.17%) Sketch
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.056%) Gliffy
11 2 (0.056%) Mingle
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 60 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 8 (0.22%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 8 (0.22%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.20%) Endur
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.11%) Findur
11 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 922 (25.87%) Azure
2 707 (19.84%) AWS
3 335 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
4 316 (8.87%) Power Platform
5 302 (8.47%) GitHub
6 228 (6.40%) GCP
7 191 (5.36%) Serverless
8 164 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
9 137 (3.84%) Amazon S3
10 130 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 115 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
12 110 (3.09%) Snowflake
13 94 (2.64%) Power Automate
14 92 (2.58%) PowerApps
15 90 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (2.24%) dbt
17 76 (2.13%) SaaS
18 69 (1.94%) Entra ID
19 68 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 68 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.29%) Firewall
2 27 (0.76%) Network Security
3 23 (0.65%) DNS
4 22 (0.62%) VPN
5 18 (0.51%) WAN
6 16 (0.45%) HTTP
6 16 (0.45%) Internet
6 16 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.31%) Wireless
8 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.22%) 4G
10 8 (0.22%) DMZ
11 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.20%) VoIP
12 6 (0.17%) DHCP
12 6 (0.17%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) SMS
12 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (6.79%) Power BI
2 166 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
3 149 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 107 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 106 (2.97%) Metadata
6 106 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 79 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 73 (2.05%) MongoDB
9 62 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 48 (1.35%) Tableau
11 45 (1.26%) Delta Lake
12 44 (1.23%) DynamoDB
13 42 (1.18%) BigQuery
14 41 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 38 (1.07%) Oracle Database
16 37 (1.04%) MySQL
17 32 (0.90%) Big Data
18 26 (0.73%) Redis
19 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 569 (15.97%) JIRA
2 335 (9.40%) Git
3 264 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 143 (4.01%) GitLab
5 76 (2.13%) Selenium
6 60 (1.68%) JUnit
7 50 (1.40%) Gradle
8 44 (1.23%) Postman
9 41 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.07%) Cypress.io
10 38 (1.07%) Maven
11 33 (0.93%) Mockito
12 32 (0.90%) Bitbucket
13 29 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 27 (0.76%) Visual Studio
15 23 (0.65%) JMeter
15 23 (0.65%) SonarQube
16 16 (0.45%) Gatling
17 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
18 14 (0.39%) Liquibase
General
1 1,425 (39.98%) Social Skills
2 1,154 (32.38%) Finance
3 554 (15.54%) Public Sector
4 545 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
5 501 (14.06%) Banking
6 219 (6.14%) Retail
7 149 (4.18%) Marketing
8 135 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
9 134 (3.76%) Front Office
10 113 (3.17%) Investment Banking
11 101 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (2.16%) Legal
13 68 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 63 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
15 61 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
16 53 (1.49%) Local Government
17 43 (1.21%) Retail Banking
18 42 (1.18%) Telecoms
19 41 (1.15%) Law
20 39 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 595 (16.69%) Developer
2 543 (15.24%) Senior
3 453 (12.71%) Analyst
4 360 (10.10%) Lead
5 319 (8.95%) Business Analyst
6 294 (8.25%) Project Manager
7 264 (7.41%) Architect
8 167 (4.69%) Data Engineer
9 135 (3.79%) Software Engineer
10 124 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
11 123 (3.45%) Designer
12 118 (3.31%) Java Developer
13 112 (3.14%) Senior Developer
14 109 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
15 104 (2.92%) Senior Manager
16 102 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
17 99 (2.78%) Product Manager
18 92 (2.58%) Product Owner
19 76 (2.13%) Full-Stack Developer
20 74 (2.08%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (8.92%) REST
2 291 (8.16%) Terraform
3 239 (6.71%) React
4 212 (5.95%) .NET
5 188 (5.27%) RESTful
6 179 (5.02%) Kafka
7 171 (4.80%) Spring
8 156 (4.38%) Spring Boot
9 128 (3.59%) HTML
10 119 (3.34%) CSS
11 107 (3.00%) Node.js
12 102 (2.86%) AngularJS
13 92 (2.58%) PySpark
14 87 (2.44%) SOAP
15 75 (2.10%) Web Services
16 74 (2.08%) JSON
17 65 (1.82%) Django
18 62 (1.74%) Playwright
19 61 (1.71%) Middleware
20 59 (1.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 539 (15.12%) Product Ownership
2 291 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 146 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 121 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 96 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 95 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 78 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 76 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 69 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (1.66%) NHS
11 57 (1.60%) Management Information System
12 55 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 52 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
14 51 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 47 (1.32%) Mobile App
16 45 (1.26%) Fixed Income
17 43 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 40 (1.12%) Data Centre
18 40 (1.12%) Derivative
19 37 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 134 (3.76%) Linux
2 75 (2.10%) Windows
3 55 (1.54%) Unix
4 35 (0.98%) Android
5 32 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.20%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.084%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.084%) zOS
12 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,187 (33.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,019 (28.59%) DevOps
3 993 (27.86%) CI/CD
4 805 (22.59%) Scrum
5 678 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 671 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
7 648 (18.18%) AI
8 529 (14.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 464 (13.02%) Roadmaps
10 453 (12.71%) Analytics
11 417 (11.70%) Test Automation
12 401 (11.25%) Decision-Making
13 399 (11.20%) User Stories
14 389 (10.91%) Software Engineering
15 376 (10.55%) Migration
16 374 (10.49%) Data Modelling
17 371 (10.41%) Project Management
18 344 (9.65%) Microservices
19 338 (9.48%) Waterfall
20 308 (8.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 677 (19.00%) SQL
2 637 (17.87%) Python
3 439 (12.32%) Java
4 284 (7.97%) JavaScript
5 216 (6.06%) C#
5 216 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 73 (2.05%) PowerShell
7 72 (2.02%) Bash
8 56 (1.57%) Scala
9 50 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 46 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 41 (1.15%) Apex Code
12 37 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 29 (0.81%) Korn
14 27 (0.76%) Groovy
15 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 25 (0.70%) Go
16 22 (0.62%) Bicep
17 20 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 877 (24.61%) Security Cleared
2 756 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 298 (8.36%) Degree
4 160 (4.49%) PMP
5 152 (4.26%) PMI Certification
6 116 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 114 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 84 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 58 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 28 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 22 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.62%) CISSP
15 19 (0.53%) IIBA
16 16 (0.45%) CBAP
17 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 12 (0.34%) ISEB
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 369 (10.35%) QA
2 270 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 150 (4.21%) Accessibility
4 111 (3.11%) PMO
5 95 (2.67%) GDPR
6 52 (1.46%) WCAG
7 39 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.90%) GRC
9 30 (0.84%) NIST
10 25 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 19 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.48%) SLA
14 15 (0.42%) NCSC
14 15 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.28%) SEPA
16 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
17 8 (0.22%) IFRS
18 7 (0.20%) P3O
19 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 324 (9.09%) Docker
2 56 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.20%) IAG
6 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.084%) Postfix
7 3 (0.084%) RACF
7 3 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.056%) 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
1 341 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 87 (2.44%) Grafana
3 74 (2.08%) Ansible
4 68 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 24 (0.67%) Kibana
6 20 (0.56%) Control-M
7 19 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.36%) Packer
9 9 (0.25%) Puppet
10 8 (0.22%) SCCM
11 6 (0.17%) Argo
11 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.14%) Istio
13 4 (0.11%) WSUS
14 3 (0.084%) Consul
14 3 (0.084%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.084%) Rancher
15 2 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 507 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 177 (4.97%) Oracle
3 169 (4.74%) Salesforce
4 142 (3.98%) Databricks
5 140 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 121 (3.40%) Google
7 96 (2.69%) SAP
8 76 (2.13%) Splunk
9 59 (1.66%) Adobe
10 47 (1.32%) IBM
11 36 (1.01%) Informatica
12 30 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 26 (0.73%) Workday
14 24 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 22 (0.62%) Cisco
15 22 (0.62%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.62%) UiPath
15 22 (0.62%) VMware
16 20 (0.56%) Pega
17 18 (0.51%) Bloomberg