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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,023 2,466 3,443
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.45% 19.15% 18.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.56% 21.02% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,067 1,703 2,497
10th Percentile £363 £391 £407
25th Percentile £447 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £704
90th Percentile £775 £850 £815
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 17
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £21.72
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.02 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +69.14% -15.28% -30.22%
75th Percentile £73.13 £52.29 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.75 £71.70
England median hourly rate £66.00 £62.50 £58.60
% change year-on-year +5.60% +6.65% -9.84%

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 14,705 11,729 16,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.08% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,847 11,501
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 163 342
10th Percentile £18.11 £20.09 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.89 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +19.00% -17.37%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.00 £77.00 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 0 375 £550 -5.58% 282
South London +9 74 £513 +5.13% 47
West London -4 52 £500 +26.26% 84
East London +1 29 £525 +1.20% 65
North London 0 1 £700 +71.36% 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
1 277 (9.16%) Confluence
2 64 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 61 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 34 (1.12%) CMS
6 32 (1.06%) Apache
7 19 (0.63%) nginx
8 16 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.30%) Camunda
12 9 (0.30%) IIS
12 9 (0.30%) SAS
13 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
14 6 (0.20%) JBoss
15 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 108 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 46 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.83%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.40%) Trello
8 11 (0.36%) Sketch
9 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.099%) InVision
13 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
13 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.066%) InDesign
13 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 48 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 23 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.66%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.40%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.33%) Shopify
7 10 (0.33%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.17%) Findur
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 755 (24.98%) Azure
2 595 (19.68%) AWS
3 270 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (7.51%) GitHub
5 221 (7.31%) Power Platform
6 192 (6.35%) GCP
7 150 (4.96%) Serverless
8 109 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 100 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 93 (3.08%) SaaS
11 89 (2.94%) Amazon S3
12 80 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (2.61%) Snowflake
14 70 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
15 63 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 62 (2.05%) Figma
17 54 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
18 47 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
19 46 (1.52%) Azure AKS
20 44 (1.46%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.65%) Firewall
2 31 (1.03%) WAN
3 25 (0.83%) Network Security
4 22 (0.73%) SD-WAN
5 20 (0.66%) HTTP
6 17 (0.56%) VPN
7 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.43%) Internet
9 12 (0.40%) DNS
10 9 (0.30%) LAN
11 7 (0.23%) BGP
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
13 5 (0.17%) Broadband
13 5 (0.17%) MPLS
13 5 (0.17%) SMS
13 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.13%) DHCP
14 4 (0.13%) DMZ
14 4 (0.13%) FTP
14 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (5.29%) Power BI
2 134 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 114 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 100 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 80 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 67 (2.22%) Tableau
8 59 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 49 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 49 (1.62%) MongoDB
10 48 (1.59%) Metadata
11 44 (1.46%) Big Data
12 41 (1.36%) BigQuery
13 39 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (1.06%) Delta Lake
15 24 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (0.79%) Oracle Database
15 24 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 526 (17.40%) JIRA
2 297 (9.82%) Git
3 167 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 97 (3.21%) GitLab
5 62 (2.05%) JUnit
6 59 (1.95%) Selenium
7 45 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 44 (1.46%) Postman
9 40 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.26%) Cypress.io
11 32 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 28 (0.93%) Mockito
13 22 (0.73%) JMeter
13 22 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.56%) Maven
15 13 (0.43%) Gradle
15 13 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.36%) TestRail
16 11 (0.36%) Zephyr
17 10 (0.33%) MSTest
General
1 1,144 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 1,009 (33.38%) Finance
3 494 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 401 (13.26%) Public Sector
5 366 (12.11%) Banking
6 157 (5.19%) Front Office
7 95 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
8 90 (2.98%) Retail
9 88 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
10 82 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
10 82 (2.71%) Legal
11 79 (2.61%) Marketing
12 72 (2.38%) Investment Banking
13 69 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.26%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 32 (1.06%) Manufacturing
18 29 (0.96%) Back Office
19 28 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 540 (17.86%) Developer
2 463 (15.32%) Analyst
3 443 (14.65%) Senior
4 360 (11.91%) Business Analyst
5 265 (8.77%) Lead
6 257 (8.50%) Project Manager
7 203 (6.72%) Architect
8 146 (4.83%) Software Engineer
9 136 (4.50%) Data Engineer
10 99 (3.27%) Java Developer
11 93 (3.08%) Consultant
12 92 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
13 89 (2.94%) Designer
14 86 (2.84%) Senior Manager
15 78 (2.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 78 (2.58%) Senior Developer
16 69 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
17 67 (2.22%) Product Manager
18 65 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
19 62 (2.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (8.34%) React
2 213 (7.05%) REST
3 187 (6.19%) Node.js
4 181 (5.99%) Kafka
5 146 (4.83%) RESTful
6 144 (4.76%) .NET
7 139 (4.60%) AngularJS
8 119 (3.94%) HTML
9 113 (3.74%) Spring
10 109 (3.61%) CSS
11 101 (3.34%) Playwright
12 94 (3.11%) Spring Boot
13 90 (2.98%) PySpark
14 76 (2.51%) GraphQL
15 74 (2.45%) JSON
16 69 (2.28%) Middleware
17 68 (2.25%) SOAP
18 60 (1.98%) XML
19 57 (1.89%) Web Services
20 55 (1.82%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 296 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 212 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 80 (2.65%) Fixed Income
4 71 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 71 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 70 (2.32%) Derivative
6 67 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 53 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 50 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 46 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.46%) AI Agents
12 43 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
13 42 (1.39%) Equities
14 39 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 39 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 38 (1.26%) Mobile App
15 38 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 35 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 35 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.47%) Linux
2 82 (2.71%) Windows
3 81 (2.68%) Unix
4 28 (0.93%) Android
5 27 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.30%) VMS
8 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) zOS
10 3 (0.099%) AIX
10 3 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Solaris
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (25.04%) DevOps
2 694 (22.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 681 (22.53%) CI/CD
4 629 (20.81%) Scrum
5 603 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
6 454 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 384 (12.70%) AI
8 355 (11.74%) Test Automation
9 352 (11.64%) Project Management
10 343 (11.35%) Data Modelling
11 330 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 324 (10.72%) Analytics
13 319 (10.55%) Software Engineering
14 318 (10.52%) Migration
15 301 (9.96%) Roadmaps
16 288 (9.53%) Microservices
17 286 (9.46%) Waterfall
18 285 (9.43%) Decision-Making
19 281 (9.30%) Project Delivery
20 280 (9.26%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 615 (20.34%) SQL
2 571 (18.89%) Python
3 378 (12.50%) Java
4 328 (10.85%) JavaScript
5 277 (9.16%) TypeScript
6 220 (7.28%) C#
7 71 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.82%) Scala
9 53 (1.75%) Go
10 43 (1.42%) C++
11 32 (1.06%) Ruby
12 31 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 30 (0.99%) Bash
14 25 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 24 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.76%) Bicep
16 23 (0.76%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.73%) Apex Code
18 19 (0.63%) R
19 18 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 637 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 568 (18.79%) SC Cleared
3 312 (10.32%) Degree
4 135 (4.47%) PMI Certification
5 125 (4.13%) PMP
6 94 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.02%) Azure Certification
8 58 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.42%) CBAP
11 42 (1.39%) DV Cleared
12 40 (1.32%) ISTQB
13 33 (1.09%) CISSP
14 29 (0.96%) AWS Certification
15 28 (0.93%) CISM
15 28 (0.93%) IIBA
16 14 (0.46%) ISEB
17 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.40%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (9.79%) QA
2 165 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 147 (4.86%) Accessibility
4 123 (4.07%) GDPR
5 96 (3.18%) PMO
6 47 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.39%) WCAG
8 39 (1.29%) NIST
9 34 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.66%) GRC
10 20 (0.66%) SLA
11 18 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.50%) MiFID
13 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 13 (0.43%) NCSC
14 11 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.33%) PERC
16 9 (0.30%) Basel III
17 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 319 (10.55%) Docker
2 35 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.066%) RACF
7 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) IAG
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 317 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 205 (6.78%) Terraform
3 54 (1.79%) Ansible
4 40 (1.32%) Grafana
5 28 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.53%) Argo
8 14 (0.46%) Packer
9 12 (0.40%) Consul
9 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
11 9 (0.30%) Puppet
11 9 (0.30%) Rancher
12 7 (0.23%) SCCM
13 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.17%) Control-M
15 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.099%) CASB
16 3 (0.099%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.099%) WSUS
Vendors
1 390 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 191 (6.32%) Oracle
3 139 (4.60%) Databricks
4 127 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 122 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.21%) SAP
7 61 (2.02%) Google
8 48 (1.59%) Adobe
9 36 (1.19%) Splunk
10 30 (0.99%) Workday
11 28 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 23 (0.76%) Cisco
12 23 (0.76%) IBM
12 23 (0.76%) Informatica
13 21 (0.69%) Bloomberg
13 21 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 19 (0.63%) Foundry
14 19 (0.63%) VMware
15 17 (0.56%) Murex
16 16 (0.53%) CyberArk