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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,527 2,941 3,472
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.60% 22.15% 21.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.76% 23.96% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,353 2,045 2,486
10th Percentile £393 £363 £394
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £731
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 23 19 17
10th Percentile £50.25 £27.17 £28.67
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.37 £33.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.25 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.75 £97.43 -
England median hourly rate £67.70 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.23% -9.62% -

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -4 371 £550 -4.35% 270
West London 0 99 £650 +62.50% 177
South London +2 61 £525 -12.77% 23
East London -2 15 £588 +8.80% 35
North London +5 9 £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
1 307 (8.70%) Confluence
2 92 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 66 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 64 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 60 (1.70%) CMS
6 52 (1.47%) Apache
7 33 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.43%) Camunda
9 14 (0.40%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Appian
13 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
14 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) JBoss
15 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 101 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
3 53 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.31%) Trello
8 9 (0.26%) Notion
9 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.11%) Sketch
12 2 (0.057%) Mingle
12 2 (0.057%) Windchill
13 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 57 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (0.60%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 12 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Findur
7 8 (0.23%) Magento
7 8 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
8 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 6 (0.17%) Endur
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%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 937 (26.57%) Azure
2 707 (20.05%) AWS
3 355 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
4 309 (8.76%) GitHub
5 306 (8.68%) Power Platform
6 234 (6.63%) GCP
7 190 (5.39%) Serverless
8 167 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 130 (3.69%) Amazon S3
10 128 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
11 111 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
12 106 (3.01%) Snowflake
13 92 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
14 90 (2.55%) PowerApps
15 87 (2.47%) Power Automate
16 76 (2.15%) SaaS
17 75 (2.13%) dbt
18 66 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
18 66 (1.87%) Entra ID
19 64 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.47%) Firewall
2 26 (0.74%) Network Security
3 24 (0.68%) VPN
4 23 (0.65%) WAN
5 22 (0.62%) DNS
6 17 (0.48%) Internet
6 17 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.45%) HTTP
8 12 (0.34%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.31%) Wireless
10 10 (0.28%) DMZ
11 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.23%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.20%) 4G
13 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) VoIP
14 6 (0.17%) Intranet
14 6 (0.17%) SMS
14 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (6.61%) Power BI
2 162 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
4 120 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 108 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 104 (2.95%) Metadata
7 98 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 74 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.87%) MongoDB
10 60 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
11 57 (1.62%) Tableau
12 47 (1.33%) DynamoDB
13 45 (1.28%) Delta Lake
14 40 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 39 (1.11%) BigQuery
16 37 (1.05%) Big Data
17 34 (0.96%) Oracle Database
18 26 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
19 25 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
19 25 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 577 (16.36%) JIRA
2 327 (9.27%) Git
3 253 (7.17%) Jenkins
4 132 (3.74%) GitLab
5 65 (1.84%) Selenium
6 53 (1.50%) JUnit
7 45 (1.28%) Gradle
8 40 (1.13%) Postman
9 36 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 36 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 35 (0.99%) Mockito
11 28 (0.79%) Maven
12 26 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 26 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 26 (0.74%) Visual Studio
13 21 (0.60%) JMeter
14 19 (0.54%) SonarQube
15 18 (0.51%) Liquibase
16 17 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 1,387 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 1,158 (32.83%) Finance
3 573 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 545 (15.45%) Public Sector
5 487 (13.81%) Banking
6 225 (6.38%) Retail
7 148 (4.20%) Marketing
8 129 (3.66%) Front Office
9 115 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 115 (3.26%) Investment Banking
10 100 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
11 78 (2.21%) Legal
12 66 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 63 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 62 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 48 (1.36%) Local Government
16 47 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 43 (1.22%) Law
17 43 (1.22%) Retail Banking
18 40 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 605 (17.15%) Developer
2 525 (14.89%) Senior
3 466 (13.21%) Analyst
4 352 (9.98%) Lead
5 325 (9.21%) Business Analyst
6 293 (8.31%) Project Manager
7 265 (7.51%) Architect
8 169 (4.79%) Data Engineer
9 138 (3.91%) Software Engineer
10 131 (3.71%) Delivery Manager
11 115 (3.26%) Designer
11 115 (3.26%) Java Developer
12 109 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 107 (3.03%) Senior Developer
13 107 (3.03%) Senior Manager
14 100 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
15 88 (2.50%) Product Manager
16 85 (2.41%) Product Owner
17 77 (2.18%) Full-Stack Developer
18 73 (2.07%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (8.73%) REST
2 291 (8.25%) Terraform
3 243 (6.89%) React
4 213 (6.04%) .NET
5 182 (5.16%) RESTful
6 175 (4.96%) Spring
7 168 (4.76%) Kafka
8 154 (4.37%) Spring Boot
9 124 (3.52%) HTML
10 115 (3.26%) CSS
11 114 (3.23%) AngularJS
12 112 (3.18%) Node.js
13 94 (2.67%) PySpark
14 84 (2.38%) SOAP
15 79 (2.24%) JSON
16 68 (1.93%) Web Services
17 63 (1.79%) Django
18 62 (1.76%) Middleware
19 58 (1.64%) Playwright
20 55 (1.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 501 (14.20%) Product Ownership
2 293 (8.31%) Cloud Native
3 138 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 121 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
5 98 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 72 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 68 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 61 (1.73%) NHS
11 57 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 56 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 48 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 47 (1.33%) Management Information System
16 45 (1.28%) Mobile App
17 43 (1.22%) Fixed Income
18 41 (1.16%) Derivative
18 41 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
19 39 (1.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 127 (3.60%) Linux
2 77 (2.18%) Windows
3 52 (1.47%) Unix
4 34 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 33 (0.94%) Android
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.23%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.085%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.057%) zOS
12 1 (0.028%) AIX
12 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.028%) Solaris
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,088 (30.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,014 (28.75%) DevOps
3 972 (27.56%) CI/CD
4 790 (22.40%) Scrum
5 672 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 671 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
7 630 (17.86%) AI
8 519 (14.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 445 (12.62%) Roadmaps
10 443 (12.56%) Analytics
11 397 (11.26%) Test Automation
12 389 (11.03%) User Stories
13 387 (10.97%) Decision-Making
14 382 (10.83%) Project Management
15 381 (10.80%) Data Modelling
16 375 (10.63%) Migration
17 372 (10.55%) Software Engineering
18 340 (9.64%) Microservices
19 327 (9.27%) Waterfall
20 311 (8.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 669 (18.97%) SQL
2 628 (17.81%) Python
3 433 (12.28%) Java
4 280 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 223 (6.32%) C#
6 213 (6.04%) TypeScript
7 78 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 59 (1.67%) Bash
9 56 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 50 (1.42%) Apex Code
11 44 (1.25%) Scala
12 42 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 39 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 30 (0.85%) Korn
15 26 (0.74%) Groovy
16 24 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 24 (0.68%) Shell Script
17 21 (0.60%) Bicep
18 20 (0.57%) Go
19 16 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 840 (23.82%) Security Cleared
2 728 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 285 (8.08%) Degree
4 145 (4.11%) PMP
5 140 (3.97%) PMI Certification
6 106 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 102 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 85 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 54 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 38 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.57%) CISSP
14 20 (0.57%) IIBA
15 16 (0.45%) CBAP
16 14 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 13 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 12 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (9.92%) QA
2 257 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 137 (3.88%) Accessibility
4 121 (3.43%) PMO
5 99 (2.81%) GDPR
6 51 (1.45%) WCAG
7 40 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.02%) GRC
9 32 (0.91%) NIST
10 27 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.57%) SLA
12 18 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 15 (0.43%) NCSC
14 14 (0.40%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.23%) ISO 15022
16 7 (0.20%) GxP
16 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.20%) P3O
16 7 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 304 (8.62%) Docker
2 55 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) IAG
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.085%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.085%) Postfix
6 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.057%) RACF
6 2 (0.057%) Squid
7 1 (0.028%) Ceph
7 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 330 (9.36%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.18%) Ansible
3 74 (2.10%) Grafana
4 63 (1.79%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.57%) Control-M
6 19 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.45%) Kibana
8 13 (0.37%) Packer
9 10 (0.28%) Puppet
10 9 (0.26%) SCCM
11 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.20%) WSUS
13 6 (0.17%) Argo
13 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
15 3 (0.085%) Consul
15 3 (0.085%) Istio
15 3 (0.085%) RSA Archer
15 3 (0.085%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 2 (0.057%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 494 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 188 (5.33%) Oracle
3 187 (5.30%) Salesforce
4 143 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 133 (3.77%) Databricks
6 119 (3.37%) Google
7 100 (2.84%) SAP
8 72 (2.04%) Splunk
9 54 (1.53%) Adobe
10 45 (1.28%) IBM
11 32 (0.91%) Informatica
12 28 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 27 (0.77%) MuleSoft
13 27 (0.77%) Workday
14 23 (0.65%) Cisco
14 23 (0.65%) VMware
15 22 (0.62%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.57%) Bloomberg
17 19 (0.54%) Atlassian
18 18 (0.51%) Murex