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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,572 2,954 3,307
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.67% 22.22% 20.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.86% 24.02% 22.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,425 2,053 2,293
10th Percentile £400 £363 £375
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 16
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.06 £28.34
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.31 £32.88
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +50.00% -48.76%
75th Percentile £73.75 £81.88 £59.38
90th Percentile £88.75 £98.64 £73.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -8.85% -

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 17,983 12,296 14,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.49% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,122 9,357
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £663 £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 340 243 180
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.94 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.38%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £80.13 £64.95 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -4 384 £550 -5.17% 444
West London -2 96 £680 +70.00% 76
South London -1 56 £535 -14.40% 26
East London -3 16 £590 +9.26% 21
North London +4 11 £550 - 5
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
1 298 (8.34%) Confluence
2 79 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 74 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 66 (1.85%) CMS
6 56 (1.57%) Apache
7 34 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 14 (0.39%) Camunda
9 13 (0.36%) IIS
9 13 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 11 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.25%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.22%) Appian
13 8 (0.22%) Kentico
13 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 103 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 55 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 54 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
8 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.14%) Sketch
11 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.084%) Mingle
12 3 (0.084%) Productboard
13 2 (0.056%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.028%) Simulink
14 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 60 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 22 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 9 (0.25%) Temenos T24
7 8 (0.22%) Magento
7 8 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.22%) Shopify
7 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Endur
8 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) HFM
10 4 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 941 (26.34%) Azure
2 722 (20.21%) AWS
3 341 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
4 310 (8.68%) Power Platform
5 305 (8.54%) GitHub
6 234 (6.55%) GCP
7 193 (5.40%) Serverless
8 171 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
9 140 (3.92%) Amazon S3
10 128 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
12 108 (3.02%) Snowflake
13 89 (2.49%) PowerApps
14 88 (2.46%) Power Automate
15 84 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (2.24%) dbt
17 76 (2.13%) SaaS
18 71 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
19 69 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 67 (1.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.32%) Firewall
2 30 (0.84%) Network Security
3 26 (0.73%) DNS
4 24 (0.67%) VPN
5 17 (0.48%) Internet
5 17 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.48%) WAN
6 15 (0.42%) HTTP
7 11 (0.31%) Wireless
8 10 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.28%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.22%) 4G
10 8 (0.22%) DMZ
10 8 (0.22%) VoIP
11 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.17%) BGP
12 6 (0.17%) Intranet
12 6 (0.17%) IPsec
12 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (6.63%) Power BI
2 166 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 154 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 136 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 111 (3.11%) Metadata
6 109 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 108 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 78 (2.18%) MongoDB
9 77 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 68 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 48 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 45 (1.26%) Tableau
13 44 (1.23%) DynamoDB
14 43 (1.20%) Oracle Database
15 42 (1.18%) MySQL
16 40 (1.12%) BigQuery
17 39 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
18 31 (0.87%) Big Data
19 29 (0.81%) Redis
20 27 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 568 (15.90%) JIRA
2 348 (9.74%) Git
3 278 (7.78%) Jenkins
4 152 (4.26%) GitLab
5 88 (2.46%) Selenium
6 66 (1.85%) JUnit
7 56 (1.57%) Gradle
8 51 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 49 (1.37%) Postman
10 45 (1.26%) Maven
11 44 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 35 (0.98%) Mockito
13 33 (0.92%) Bitbucket
14 31 (0.87%) REST Assured
15 28 (0.78%) Visual Studio
16 25 (0.70%) SonarQube
17 24 (0.67%) JMeter
18 18 (0.50%) CircleCI
19 16 (0.45%) Gatling
20 14 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 1,443 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 1,170 (32.75%) Finance
3 564 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 563 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
5 517 (14.47%) Banking
6 219 (6.13%) Retail
7 138 (3.86%) Marketing
8 137 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
9 135 (3.78%) Front Office
10 122 (3.42%) Investment Banking
11 99 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 70 (1.96%) Legal
13 69 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 63 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
15 61 (1.71%) Local Government
16 58 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.26%) Law
17 45 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 40 (1.12%) Financial Institution
18 40 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 594 (16.63%) Developer
2 564 (15.79%) Senior
3 448 (12.54%) Analyst
4 365 (10.22%) Lead
5 315 (8.82%) Business Analyst
6 303 (8.48%) Project Manager
7 246 (6.89%) Architect
8 174 (4.87%) Data Engineer
9 134 (3.75%) Software Engineer
10 131 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
11 121 (3.39%) Designer
12 118 (3.30%) Senior Developer
13 116 (3.25%) Java Developer
14 112 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
15 108 (3.02%) Senior Manager
16 107 (3.00%) Product Manager
17 95 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
18 91 (2.55%) Product Owner
19 77 (2.16%) Full-Stack Developer
20 76 (2.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (9.21%) REST
2 296 (8.29%) Terraform
3 239 (6.69%) React
4 223 (6.24%) .NET
5 195 (5.46%) RESTful
6 193 (5.40%) Kafka
7 176 (4.93%) Spring
8 161 (4.51%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.64%) HTML
10 119 (3.33%) CSS
11 108 (3.02%) Node.js
12 103 (2.88%) AngularJS
13 92 (2.58%) PySpark
14 81 (2.27%) SOAP
15 79 (2.21%) Web Services
16 74 (2.07%) JSON
17 69 (1.93%) Playwright
18 65 (1.82%) Django
19 62 (1.74%) OAuth
20 57 (1.60%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 535 (14.98%) Product Ownership
2 299 (8.37%) Cloud Native
3 140 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 125 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 100 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 81 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 77 (2.16%) AI Agents
9 69 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (1.65%) Management Information System
11 57 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 56 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.54%) NHS
14 52 (1.46%) Mobile App
15 45 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
16 44 (1.23%) Fixed Income
17 41 (1.15%) Data Centre
18 40 (1.12%) Derivative
18 40 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 33 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 148 (4.14%) Linux
2 76 (2.13%) Windows
3 59 (1.65%) Unix
4 36 (1.01%) Android
5 33 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.22%) VMS
9 7 (0.20%) macOS
10 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.084%) zOS
13 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.028%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.028%) SUSE
14 1 (0.028%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,214 (33.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,028 (28.78%) DevOps
3 1,024 (28.67%) CI/CD
4 807 (22.59%) Scrum
5 690 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 690 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
6 643 (18.00%) AI
7 531 (14.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 482 (13.49%) Roadmaps
9 454 (12.71%) Analytics
10 453 (12.68%) Test Automation
11 416 (11.65%) User Stories
12 405 (11.34%) Software Engineering
13 400 (11.20%) Decision-Making
14 379 (10.61%) Migration
15 361 (10.11%) Project Management
16 360 (10.08%) Data Modelling
17 348 (9.74%) Microservices
18 337 (9.43%) Waterfall
19 325 (9.10%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 703 (19.68%) SQL
2 647 (18.11%) Python
3 439 (12.29%) Java
4 292 (8.17%) JavaScript
5 222 (6.22%) C#
5 222 (6.22%) TypeScript
6 81 (2.27%) Bash
7 77 (2.16%) PowerShell
8 56 (1.57%) Scala
9 49 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 46 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 35 (0.98%) T-SQL
12 34 (0.95%) Apex Code
13 29 (0.81%) Groovy
14 28 (0.78%) Korn
15 26 (0.73%) Go
16 24 (0.67%) Bicep
16 24 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.64%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 878 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 761 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 313 (8.76%) Degree
4 162 (4.54%) PMP
5 156 (4.37%) PMI Certification
6 121 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 116 (3.25%) DV Cleared
8 92 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 61 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 37 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 27 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.59%) IIBA
15 20 (0.56%) CISSP
16 19 (0.53%) CBAP
17 16 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 12 (0.34%) ISEB
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (10.69%) QA
2 276 (7.73%) Data Quality
3 160 (4.48%) Accessibility
4 105 (2.94%) PMO
5 85 (2.38%) GDPR
6 54 (1.51%) WCAG
7 40 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.84%) GRC
8 30 (0.84%) NIST
9 23 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 20 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.45%) SLA
14 14 (0.39%) NCSC
15 10 (0.28%) SEPA
16 9 (0.25%) IFRS
16 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
17 7 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 341 (9.55%) Docker
2 57 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.17%) IAG
7 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.084%) Postfix
8 3 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.056%) RACF
9 2 (0.056%) Squid
10 1 (0.028%) Ceph
10 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 354 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 99 (2.77%) Grafana
3 73 (2.04%) Ansible
4 72 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 28 (0.78%) Kibana
6 20 (0.56%) Control-M
7 18 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.36%) Packer
9 11 (0.31%) 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%) Istio
13 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.11%) WSUS
14 3 (0.084%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.084%) Rancher
15 2 (0.056%) Consul
Vendors
1 519 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 176 (4.93%) Oracle
3 157 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 150 (4.20%) Databricks
5 130 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 122 (3.42%) Google
7 101 (2.83%) SAP
8 80 (2.24%) Splunk
9 58 (1.62%) Adobe
10 46 (1.29%) IBM
11 37 (1.04%) Informatica
12 31 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 26 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.67%) UiPath
15 23 (0.64%) Cisco
16 22 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.62%) VMware
17 21 (0.59%) Workday
18 19 (0.53%) Pega
19 18 (0.50%) Sitecore