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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,434 2,904 3,639
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.36% 21.42% 21.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.52% 23.25% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,315 2,031 2,673
10th Percentile £381 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £705 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 18
10th Percentile £51.60 £27.90 £31.20
25th Percentile £55.92 £36.49 £32.47
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87.87 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.25 £84.50 £72.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.55% -3.46% -

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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -5 360 £566 -5.63% 214
West London +2 92 £604 +30.23% 30
South London +6 73 £515 -17.40% 23
East London -2 20 £585 +8.33% 35
North London +3 7 £550 - 6
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
1 299 (8.71%) Confluence
2 92 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 53 (1.54%) CMS
5 49 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 35 (1.02%) Apache
7 20 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 16 (0.47%) IIS
10 13 (0.38%) SAS
11 12 (0.35%) Camunda
12 9 (0.26%) JBoss
13 7 (0.20%) Appian
13 7 (0.20%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.20%) Hyperledger
13 7 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 5 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.20%) Notion
8 7 (0.20%) Sketch
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.058%) Windchill
12 1 (0.029%) Mingle
12 1 (0.029%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 38 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 26 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.38%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
6 11 (0.32%) Findur
7 9 (0.26%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.23%) Magento
9 7 (0.20%) Endur
9 7 (0.20%) Fidessa
9 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.17%) Shopify
11 5 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 890 (25.92%) Azure
2 704 (20.50%) AWS
3 304 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
4 274 (7.98%) Power Platform
5 257 (7.48%) GitHub
6 223 (6.49%) GCP
7 173 (5.04%) Serverless
8 150 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
9 129 (3.76%) Amazon S3
10 117 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
12 81 (2.36%) Snowflake
13 77 (2.24%) SaaS
14 75 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
15 74 (2.15%) PowerApps
16 70 (2.04%) Power Automate
17 68 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
18 64 (1.86%) Entra ID
19 62 (1.81%) dbt
20 59 (1.72%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.46%) Firewall
2 27 (0.79%) Network Security
2 27 (0.79%) WAN
3 22 (0.64%) VPN
4 20 (0.58%) Internet
5 19 (0.55%) HTTP
6 18 (0.52%) DNS
7 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.32%) LAN
10 10 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.23%) Wireless
13 7 (0.20%) BGP
13 7 (0.20%) Intranet
13 7 (0.20%) MPLS
13 7 (0.20%) OSPF
14 6 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.17%) SMS
14 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (6.29%) Power BI
2 138 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 98 (2.85%) NoSQL
6 88 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 72 (2.10%) Metadata
8 66 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 65 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 65 (1.89%) Tableau
10 55 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 50 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 45 (1.31%) Big Data
13 40 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 33 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (0.87%) Delta Lake
17 23 (0.67%) Oracle Database
18 21 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 569 (16.57%) JIRA
2 290 (8.44%) Git
3 223 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 110 (3.20%) GitLab
5 59 (1.72%) JUnit
6 47 (1.37%) Selenium
7 40 (1.16%) Postman
8 34 (0.99%) Gradle
8 34 (0.99%) Mockito
9 31 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 30 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 30 (0.87%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 20 (0.58%) Maven
13 18 (0.52%) JMeter
14 17 (0.50%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.50%) Visual Studio
15 16 (0.47%) Gatling
15 16 (0.47%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.44%) Liquibase
General
1 1,230 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 1,134 (33.02%) Finance
3 525 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 516 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
5 427 (12.43%) Banking
6 201 (5.85%) Retail
7 170 (4.95%) Front Office
8 134 (3.90%) Marketing
9 112 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
10 99 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
11 94 (2.74%) Investment Banking
12 82 (2.39%) Legal
13 75 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 72 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
15 60 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 41 (1.19%) Law
17 37 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 36 (1.05%) Local Government
19 35 (1.02%) Financial Institution
20 33 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 610 (17.76%) Developer
2 509 (14.82%) Senior
3 465 (13.54%) Analyst
4 354 (10.31%) Lead
5 321 (9.35%) Business Analyst
6 290 (8.44%) Project Manager
7 254 (7.40%) Architect
8 179 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 143 (4.16%) Data Engineer
10 130 (3.79%) Delivery Manager
11 127 (3.70%) Designer
12 125 (3.64%) Java Developer
13 110 (3.20%) Senior Manager
14 108 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
15 107 (3.12%) Senior Developer
16 80 (2.33%) Product Owner
17 79 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
18 76 (2.21%) Product Manager
19 72 (2.10%) Programme Manager
20 68 (1.98%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (7.51%) REST
2 253 (7.37%) React
3 194 (5.65%) .NET
4 169 (4.92%) Kafka
5 167 (4.86%) RESTful
6 157 (4.57%) Spring
7 150 (4.37%) Node.js
8 133 (3.87%) Spring Boot
9 129 (3.76%) AngularJS
10 118 (3.44%) HTML
11 105 (3.06%) CSS
12 83 (2.42%) SOAP
13 81 (2.36%) PySpark
14 78 (2.27%) Redux
15 71 (2.07%) Middleware
16 70 (2.04%) JSON
17 67 (1.95%) GraphQL
18 64 (1.86%) Playwright
19 54 (1.57%) .NET Framework
19 54 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 428 (12.46%) Product Ownership
2 251 (7.31%) Cloud Native
3 133 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 105 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 98 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.71%) Fixed Income
7 73 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 63 (1.83%) Derivative
9 62 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 58 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 57 (1.66%) NHS
12 55 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
13 54 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.49%) Data Structures
15 50 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
16 49 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 45 (1.31%) AI Agents
18 41 (1.19%) Equities
18 41 (1.19%) Mobile App
19 38 (1.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 105 (3.06%) Linux
2 75 (2.18%) Windows
3 43 (1.25%) Unix
4 36 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 35 (1.02%) Android
6 13 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.12%) VMS
11 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.058%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.058%) zOS
13 1 (0.029%) AIX
13 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.029%) Rocky
13 1 (0.029%) Solaris
13 1 (0.029%) SUSE
13 1 (0.029%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (26.82%) DevOps
2 918 (26.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 882 (25.68%) CI/CD
4 746 (21.72%) Scrum
5 605 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 591 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
7 513 (14.94%) AI
8 466 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 393 (11.44%) Analytics
10 385 (11.21%) Roadmaps
11 373 (10.86%) Software Engineering
12 370 (10.77%) Decision-Making
13 369 (10.75%) Test Automation
14 367 (10.69%) Data Modelling
15 360 (10.48%) Migration
16 355 (10.34%) Project Management
17 345 (10.05%) User Stories
18 336 (9.78%) Microservices
19 333 (9.70%) Waterfall
20 274 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 601 (17.50%) SQL
2 593 (17.27%) Python
3 432 (12.58%) Java
4 309 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 254 (7.40%) TypeScript
6 219 (6.38%) C#
7 67 (1.95%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.51%) Go
9 48 (1.40%) Apex Code
10 47 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 41 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 38 (1.11%) Kotlin
12 38 (1.11%) Scala
13 34 (0.99%) Bash
14 24 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.61%) Groovy
15 21 (0.61%) Korn
16 19 (0.55%) Bicep
16 19 (0.55%) Ruby
17 18 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 768 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 673 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 276 (8.04%) Degree
4 131 (3.81%) PMP
5 120 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 91 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 88 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 75 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 47 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 42 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.87%) CISSP
13 25 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.64%) ISTQB
15 20 (0.58%) CISM
16 19 (0.55%) CBAP
16 19 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (0.52%) IIBA
18 12 (0.35%) CCNP
19 11 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (8.91%) QA
2 210 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 150 (4.37%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.47%) PMO
5 111 (3.23%) GDPR
6 45 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.31%) WCAG
7 35 (1.02%) GRC
7 35 (1.02%) NIST
8 28 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 25 (0.73%) SLA
10 21 (0.61%) NCSC
11 19 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.26%) SEPA
15 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.23%) PSD2
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
16 7 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 264 (7.69%) Docker
2 50 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) IAG
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.087%) Postfix
7 2 (0.058%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.029%) HDFS
8 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.029%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.029%) Squid
8 1 (0.029%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 305 (8.88%) Kubernetes
2 259 (7.54%) Terraform
3 75 (2.18%) Ansible
4 53 (1.54%) Grafana
5 49 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.38%) Control-M
8 12 (0.35%) Kibana
8 12 (0.35%) Packer
9 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.23%) SCCM
11 7 (0.20%) Puppet
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 5 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.087%) Consul
Vendors
1 417 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 185 (5.39%) Salesforce
3 179 (5.21%) Oracle
4 149 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 101 (2.94%) SAP
6 98 (2.85%) Databricks
6 98 (2.85%) Google
7 48 (1.40%) Splunk
8 43 (1.25%) Adobe
9 37 (1.08%) IBM
10 34 (0.99%) Workday
11 31 (0.90%) MuleSoft
12 23 (0.67%) Bloomberg
12 23 (0.67%) Cisco
12 23 (0.67%) Informatica
13 22 (0.64%) Dynatrace
14 21 (0.61%) VMware
15 18 (0.52%) CyberArk
15 18 (0.52%) Murex
15 18 (0.52%) Pega