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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,868 2,588 3,646
As % of all contract jobs in London 20.24% 18.68% 20.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.17% 20.70% 22.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,948 1,690 2,644
10th Percentile £363 £400 £410
25th Percentile £431 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £515 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -10.12% +4.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £37.89 - £36.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £43.65
Median hourly rate £59.47 £36.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.19% -29.76% -6.82%
75th Percentile £66.50 £39.76 £72.41
90th Percentile £98.64 £65.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £58.94 £55.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -15.00% -

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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 13 January 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 0 391 £550 -5.98% 179
West London 0 68 £438 +16.67% 41
South London 0 46 £525 +7.69% 37
East London -2 24 £495 +1.54% 37
North London +5 1 £700 +73.05% 1
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
1 256 (8.93%) Confluence
2 51 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.74%) Apache
3 50 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.05%) CMS
5 20 (0.70%) nginx
6 13 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.45%) IIS
7 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.21%) Camunda
9 6 (0.21%) SAS
10 5 (0.17%) CICS
10 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) Appian
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.14%) WordPress
12 3 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 98 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 55 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.94%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.63%) Trello
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 6 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.070%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.070%) InDesign
13 2 (0.070%) InVision
13 2 (0.070%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.035%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 52 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.98%) Endur
4 23 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.24%) Shopify
7 7 (0.24%) Temenos T24
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.17%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 666 (23.22%) Azure
2 501 (17.47%) AWS
3 240 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
4 238 (8.30%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.25%) GitHub
6 187 (6.52%) GCP
7 145 (5.06%) Serverless
8 102 (3.56%) SaaS
9 97 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
10 86 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 85 (2.96%) Snowflake
12 74 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
14 68 (2.37%) PowerApps
15 67 (2.34%) Power Automate
16 66 (2.30%) Amazon S3
17 48 (1.67%) IaaS
18 47 (1.64%) Figma
19 46 (1.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.78%) Firewall
2 24 (0.84%) Network Security
3 21 (0.73%) VPN
4 19 (0.66%) WAN
5 17 (0.59%) HTTP
6 16 (0.56%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.52%) DNS
7 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.35%) BGP
9 9 (0.31%) Internet
10 8 (0.28%) OSPF
11 6 (0.21%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) 5G
12 5 (0.17%) LAN
12 5 (0.17%) MPLS
12 5 (0.17%) SSL
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) FTP
13 4 (0.14%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (5.72%) Power BI
2 120 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 99 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 81 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.06%) Tableau
8 54 (1.88%) Data Lake
9 53 (1.85%) MongoDB
10 47 (1.64%) Big Data
11 42 (1.46%) Metadata
12 38 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
14 34 (1.19%) Oracle Database
15 28 (0.98%) BigQuery
16 25 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (0.87%) Hadoop
17 24 (0.84%) DB2
17 24 (0.84%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 500 (17.43%) JIRA
2 264 (9.21%) Git
3 168 (5.86%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.28%) GitLab
5 60 (2.09%) Selenium
6 49 (1.71%) JUnit
6 49 (1.71%) Postman
7 44 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 41 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 41 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.08%) SpecFlow
10 19 (0.66%) ERwin
11 18 (0.63%) JMeter
11 18 (0.63%) Maven
11 18 (0.63%) Mockito
11 18 (0.63%) REST Assured
11 18 (0.63%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.42%) ER Studio
12 12 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 1,140 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 934 (32.57%) Finance
3 449 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 372 (12.97%) Banking
5 347 (12.10%) Public Sector
6 121 (4.22%) Front Office
7 95 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 92 (3.21%) Marketing
9 86 (3.00%) Retail
10 81 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 79 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
12 77 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 64 (2.23%) Legal
14 61 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (1.81%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.57%) Financial Institution
17 44 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 43 (1.50%) Back Office
19 41 (1.43%) Manufacturing
20 31 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 512 (17.85%) Developer
2 435 (15.17%) Analyst
3 426 (14.85%) Senior
4 335 (11.68%) Business Analyst
5 241 (8.40%) Lead
6 205 (7.15%) Project Manager
7 180 (6.28%) Architect
8 128 (4.46%) Software Engineer
9 103 (3.59%) Consultant
10 97 (3.38%) Data Engineer
11 92 (3.21%) Java Developer
12 76 (2.65%) Senior Developer
13 75 (2.62%) Product Manager
14 66 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
15 65 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
16 64 (2.23%) Senior Manager
17 62 (2.16%) Product Owner
18 60 (2.09%) Senior Software Engineer
19 58 (2.02%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (7.67%) React
2 217 (7.57%) REST
3 164 (5.72%) Node.js
4 160 (5.58%) Kafka
5 147 (5.13%) RESTful
6 145 (5.06%) .NET
7 123 (4.29%) HTML
8 117 (4.08%) CSS
9 109 (3.80%) AngularJS
10 102 (3.56%) Spring
11 95 (3.31%) Playwright
12 88 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 84 (2.93%) JSON
14 81 (2.82%) SOAP
15 67 (2.34%) PySpark
15 67 (2.34%) XML
16 64 (2.23%) GraphQL
17 62 (2.16%) Web Services
18 50 (1.74%) Middleware
19 44 (1.53%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 290 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 195 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 67 (2.34%) Management Information System
4 65 (2.27%) Derivative
5 63 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 63 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 57 (1.99%) Data Structures
6 57 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
7 55 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 53 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 51 (1.78%) Equities
9 51 (1.78%) Fixed Income
9 51 (1.78%) Onboarding
10 49 (1.71%) Virtual Team
11 48 (1.67%) Mobile App
12 47 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 46 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
13 46 (1.60%) PMI
14 43 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 158 (5.51%) Linux
2 86 (3.00%) Windows
3 84 (2.93%) Unix
4 33 (1.15%) Android
5 31 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.35%) VMS
8 7 (0.24%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.10%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.070%) AIX
12 2 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.035%) Solaris
13 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (25.49%) DevOps
2 663 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
3 633 (22.07%) CI/CD
4 605 (21.09%) Scrum
5 580 (20.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 359 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 348 (12.13%) Test Automation
8 332 (11.58%) AI
9 322 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 310 (10.81%) Project Management
11 303 (10.56%) Analytics
12 300 (10.46%) Software Engineering
13 294 (10.25%) Roadmaps
14 285 (9.94%) Microservices
15 274 (9.55%) Data Modelling
16 269 (9.38%) Migration
17 259 (9.03%) User Stories
18 250 (8.72%) Waterfall
19 239 (8.33%) Project Delivery
19 239 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 556 (19.39%) SQL
2 529 (18.44%) Python
3 357 (12.45%) Java
4 306 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 240 (8.37%) TypeScript
6 208 (7.25%) C#
7 80 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.27%) C++
9 52 (1.81%) Scala
10 47 (1.64%) Bash
11 35 (1.22%) Go
12 32 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.98%) Bicep
14 27 (0.94%) Ruby
15 25 (0.87%) Kotlin
16 24 (0.84%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 19 (0.66%) R
18 19 (0.66%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 552 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 483 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 351 (12.24%) Degree
4 137 (4.78%) PMI Certification
5 105 (3.66%) PMP
6 103 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.50%) CBAP
11 42 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.22%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.94%) CISSP
14 26 (0.91%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.56%) IIBA
17 15 (0.52%) CISM
18 14 (0.49%) CSPO
19 11 (0.38%) MCP
20 10 (0.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (10.22%) QA
2 130 (4.53%) Data Quality
3 127 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 123 (4.29%) GDPR
5 80 (2.79%) PMO
6 35 (1.22%) WCAG
7 31 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 25 (0.87%) NIST
9 19 (0.66%) MiFID
10 17 (0.59%) GRC
11 12 (0.42%) EMIR
12 11 (0.38%) Basel III
12 11 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.35%) PERC
14 9 (0.31%) PSD2
15 8 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 328 (11.44%) Docker
2 44 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.070%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.035%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.035%) etcd
8 1 (0.035%) GPFS
8 1 (0.035%) IAG
8 1 (0.035%) KVM
8 1 (0.035%) Postfix
8 1 (0.035%) RACF
8 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 309 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 190 (6.62%) Terraform
3 54 (1.88%) Ansible
4 46 (1.60%) Grafana
5 29 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.63%) Argo
8 11 (0.38%) Packer
9 10 (0.35%) Consul
9 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.35%) Puppet
10 8 (0.28%) Kibana
10 8 (0.28%) Rancher
10 8 (0.28%) SCCM
11 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.21%) Control-M
13 4 (0.14%) CA Endevor
13 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.14%) Nessus
14 3 (0.10%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 373 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.80%) Oracle
3 125 (4.36%) Salesforce
4 122 (4.25%) Databricks
5 111 (3.87%) SAP
6 105 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 87 (3.03%) Google
8 45 (1.57%) Splunk
9 39 (1.36%) Adobe
10 31 (1.08%) Workday
11 30 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 25 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 23 (0.80%) Cisco
14 20 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 18 (0.63%) Bloomberg
15 18 (0.63%) Foundry
16 17 (0.59%) Dynatrace
17 15 (0.52%) Informatica
17 15 (0.52%) Sybase
17 15 (0.52%) VMware