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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,048 2,554 3,576
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.41% 21.04% 20.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.50% 22.80% 23.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,072 1,775 2,629
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £514 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -3.65% -3.01% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 24
10th Percentile £49.08 £29.61 £25.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £37.90 £31.71
Median hourly rate £65.25 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% +5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £81.31 £65.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £97.50 £76.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £62.05
% change year-on-year +12.00% +0.73% -4.54%

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 16,474 11,204 15,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.30% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,987 7,490 11,076
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 196 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.50 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -4 332 £564 -3.63% 281
West London 0 74 £550 +25.34% 32
South London +1 62 £505 -19.01% 13
East London -2 23 £545 -3.11% 30
North London +1 3 £650 +57.58% 7
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
1 261 (8.56%) Confluence
2 80 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 62 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 44 (1.44%) CMS
5 28 (0.92%) Apache
6 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 14 (0.46%) Camunda
9 13 (0.43%) SAS
10 12 (0.39%) IIS
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) Appian
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) Kentico
14 5 (0.16%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 94 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.23%) Sketch
8 6 (0.20%) Notion
8 6 (0.20%) Trello
8 6 (0.20%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.066%) InVision
9 2 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.066%) Windchill
9 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.033%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 35 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.82%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.36%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.33%) Findur
5 10 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.26%) Endur
6 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.26%) Shopify
7 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.13%) Actimize
9 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 772 (25.33%) Azure
2 627 (20.57%) AWS
3 254 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 229 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 214 (7.02%) GitHub
6 166 (5.45%) GCP
7 149 (4.89%) Serverless
8 122 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
9 113 (3.71%) Amazon S3
10 104 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
11 83 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
12 73 (2.40%) SaaS
13 70 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
13 70 (2.30%) Snowflake
14 62 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
15 58 (1.90%) Power Automate
16 54 (1.77%) PowerApps
17 53 (1.74%) Figma
18 51 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.77%) Firewall
2 28 (0.92%) WAN
3 22 (0.72%) Network Security
4 21 (0.69%) VPN
5 16 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.49%) DNS
7 14 (0.46%) HTTP
7 14 (0.46%) Internet
8 11 (0.36%) LAN
9 9 (0.30%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.23%) DMZ
10 7 (0.23%) SMS
10 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.23%) Wireless
11 6 (0.20%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) MPLS
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) PSTN
12 5 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (5.71%) Power BI
2 117 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 105 (3.44%) SQL Server
5 94 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 72 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 69 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 66 (2.17%) Tableau
9 59 (1.94%) Data Lake
10 56 (1.84%) Metadata
11 48 (1.57%) Big Data
12 47 (1.54%) MongoDB
13 42 (1.38%) DynamoDB
14 39 (1.28%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.15%) Delta Lake
16 29 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
18 22 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 17 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 497 (16.31%) JIRA
2 252 (8.27%) Git
3 168 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 96 (3.15%) GitLab
5 56 (1.84%) JUnit
6 47 (1.54%) Postman
6 47 (1.54%) Selenium
7 33 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.08%) Mockito
8 31 (1.02%) Cypress.io
9 28 (0.92%) Gradle
10 26 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.79%) REST Assured
12 19 (0.62%) JMeter
13 18 (0.59%) SpecFlow
14 15 (0.49%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.46%) Liquibase
15 14 (0.46%) Maven
16 11 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 1,064 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 1,061 (34.81%) Finance
3 442 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 435 (14.27%) Analytical Skills
5 380 (12.47%) Banking
6 155 (5.09%) Front Office
7 145 (4.76%) Retail
8 113 (3.71%) Marketing
9 90 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.72%) Legal
11 80 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 79 (2.59%) Investment Banking
12 79 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
13 69 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (1.38%) Financial Institution
16 34 (1.12%) Law
17 30 (0.98%) Telecoms
18 28 (0.92%) Manufacturing
19 24 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 534 (17.52%) Developer
2 451 (14.80%) Senior
3 444 (14.57%) Analyst
4 322 (10.56%) Business Analyst
5 294 (9.65%) Lead
6 273 (8.96%) Project Manager
7 211 (6.92%) Architect
8 148 (4.86%) Software Engineer
9 138 (4.53%) Data Engineer
10 118 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
11 102 (3.35%) Senior Manager
12 101 (3.31%) Designer
13 100 (3.28%) Java Developer
14 96 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
15 88 (2.89%) Senior Developer
16 69 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
17 68 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
18 66 (2.17%) Python Developer
19 64 (2.10%) Senior Analyst
20 62 (2.03%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (7.48%) React
2 206 (6.76%) REST
3 156 (5.12%) Kafka
4 155 (5.09%) .NET
5 153 (5.02%) RESTful
6 137 (4.49%) Spring
7 136 (4.46%) Node.js
8 133 (4.36%) AngularJS
9 121 (3.97%) Spring Boot
10 118 (3.87%) HTML
11 104 (3.41%) CSS
12 81 (2.66%) PySpark
13 72 (2.36%) Middleware
14 67 (2.20%) Playwright
15 64 (2.10%) Redux
16 63 (2.07%) SOAP
17 52 (1.71%) GraphQL
18 50 (1.64%) JSON
19 47 (1.54%) Web Services
20 44 (1.44%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 340 (11.15%) Product Ownership
2 233 (7.64%) Cloud Native
3 101 (3.31%) Onboarding
4 80 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 79 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 77 (2.53%) Fixed Income
7 68 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 63 (2.07%) Derivative
9 56 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 54 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 49 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 49 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
12 48 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 41 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.35%) Equities
14 40 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.21%) NHS
16 36 (1.18%) AI Agents
16 36 (1.18%) Management Information System
17 31 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 101 (3.31%) Linux
2 78 (2.56%) Windows
3 50 (1.64%) Unix
4 31 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.85%) Android
6 10 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.16%) VMS
8 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.098%) zOS
10 1 (0.033%) AIX
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.033%) Rocky
10 1 (0.033%) Solaris
10 1 (0.033%) SUSE
10 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (25.49%) DevOps
2 751 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 718 (23.56%) CI/CD
4 667 (21.88%) Scrum
5 519 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
6 504 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 404 (13.25%) AI
8 354 (11.61%) Data Modelling
9 348 (11.42%) Project Management
10 336 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 328 (10.76%) Test Automation
12 326 (10.70%) Analytics
12 326 (10.70%) Roadmaps
13 321 (10.53%) Migration
14 316 (10.37%) Software Engineering
15 313 (10.27%) Decision-Making
16 305 (10.01%) User Stories
17 291 (9.55%) Microservices
18 288 (9.45%) Waterfall
19 260 (8.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 564 (18.50%) SQL
2 543 (17.81%) Python
3 377 (12.37%) Java
4 293 (9.61%) JavaScript
5 230 (7.55%) TypeScript
6 208 (6.82%) C#
7 57 (1.87%) PowerShell
8 48 (1.57%) Go
9 42 (1.38%) Scala
10 40 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 32 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.85%) Bash
13 26 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 26 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.75%) Ruby
15 21 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.66%) C++
17 19 (0.62%) R
18 17 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 665 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 578 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 264 (8.66%) Degree
4 112 (3.67%) PMP
5 106 (3.48%) PMI Certification
6 73 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 61 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 38 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 30 (0.98%) CISSP
12 29 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.92%) CBAP
14 27 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.75%) IIBA
16 22 (0.72%) CISM
17 21 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
19 12 (0.39%) CCNP
20 10 (0.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.61%) QA
2 187 (6.14%) Data Quality
3 141 (4.63%) Accessibility
4 121 (3.97%) GDPR
5 106 (3.48%) PMO
6 52 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.48%) WCAG
8 40 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 38 (1.25%) NIST
10 29 (0.95%) GRC
11 26 (0.85%) SLA
12 19 (0.62%) NCSC
12 19 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.30%) IFRS
16 8 (0.26%) PSD2
17 7 (0.23%) Basel III
17 7 (0.23%) HL7
18 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 252 (8.27%) Docker
2 41 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.098%) IAG
6 3 (0.098%) Postfix
7 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.066%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.066%) RACF
7 2 (0.066%) Squid
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 286 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 213 (6.99%) Terraform
3 58 (1.90%) Ansible
4 42 (1.38%) Grafana
5 36 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.36%) Kibana
8 10 (0.33%) SCCM
9 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.26%) Packer
10 8 (0.26%) WSUS
11 7 (0.23%) Control-M
11 7 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.16%) Consul
12 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 2 (0.066%) Puppet
Vendors
1 363 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 183 (6.00%) Oracle
3 158 (5.18%) Salesforce
4 129 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 100 (3.28%) Databricks
6 96 (3.15%) SAP
7 56 (1.84%) Google
8 40 (1.31%) Adobe
9 36 (1.18%) Workday
10 28 (0.92%) Splunk
11 25 (0.82%) Bloomberg
12 24 (0.79%) Informatica
12 24 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 23 (0.75%) Cisco
14 22 (0.72%) IBM
15 19 (0.62%) VMware
16 18 (0.59%) Murex
16 18 (0.59%) Okta
17 17 (0.56%) CyberArk
18 15 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud