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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,562 2,971 3,294
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.59% 22.32% 20.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.80% 24.11% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 2,047 2,287
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 £716
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 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% -49.35%
75th Percentile £73.75 £81.88 £59.38
90th Percentile £88.75 £98.64 £73.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.07% -10.77% -

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 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 6 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 6 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 -4 385 £550 -6.78% 456
West London -3 95 £680 +70.00% 73
South London -1 54 £535 -14.40% 29
East London -3 16 £585 +8.33% 22
North London +6 11 £550 - 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
1 294 (8.25%) Confluence
2 84 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 72 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (1.88%) Apache Spark
5 62 (1.74%) CMS
6 54 (1.52%) Apache
7 34 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 14 (0.39%) Camunda
9 13 (0.36%) IIS
9 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.31%) SAS
10 11 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
11 8 (0.22%) Appian
11 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.17%) Kentico
12 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 100 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 3 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.084%) Mingle
13 2 (0.056%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.056%) Productboard
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 26 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 22 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.28%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 8 (0.22%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.20%) Endur
10 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
11 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
11 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.11%) Findur
12 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
12 4 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 939 (26.36%) Azure
2 712 (19.99%) AWS
3 343 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
4 315 (8.84%) Power Platform
5 306 (8.59%) GitHub
6 234 (6.57%) GCP
7 192 (5.39%) Serverless
8 167 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
9 138 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 127 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 115 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
12 109 (3.06%) Snowflake
13 90 (2.53%) Power Automate
14 89 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
14 89 (2.50%) PowerApps
15 79 (2.22%) dbt
15 79 (2.22%) SaaS
16 70 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
16 70 (1.97%) Entra ID
17 68 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.35%) Firewall
2 30 (0.84%) Network Security
3 25 (0.70%) DNS
4 22 (0.62%) VPN
5 17 (0.48%) Internet
5 17 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.48%) WAN
6 14 (0.39%) 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%) DHCP
12 6 (0.17%) Intranet
12 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (6.82%) Power BI
2 165 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
3 151 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 128 (3.59%) SQL Server
5 107 (3.00%) Metadata
5 107 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 107 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 79 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 79 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 65 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (1.29%) Tableau
9 45 (1.26%) Delta Lake
10 43 (1.21%) DynamoDB
11 42 (1.18%) BigQuery
12 41 (1.15%) Oracle Database
13 39 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 39 (1.09%) MySQL
14 31 (0.87%) Big Data
15 28 (0.79%) Redis
16 27 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 567 (15.92%) JIRA
2 348 (9.77%) Git
3 272 (7.64%) Jenkins
4 148 (4.15%) GitLab
5 81 (2.27%) Selenium
6 63 (1.77%) JUnit
7 53 (1.49%) Gradle
8 47 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 45 (1.26%) Postman
10 43 (1.21%) Maven
11 38 (1.07%) Cypress.io
12 33 (0.93%) Bitbucket
12 33 (0.93%) Mockito
13 31 (0.87%) REST Assured
14 27 (0.76%) Visual Studio
15 24 (0.67%) JMeter
15 24 (0.67%) SonarQube
16 17 (0.48%) Gatling
17 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
18 14 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,440 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 1,169 (32.82%) Finance
3 560 (15.72%) Public Sector
4 554 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
5 513 (14.40%) Banking
6 218 (6.12%) Retail
7 143 (4.01%) Marketing
8 135 (3.79%) Front Office
9 134 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
10 121 (3.40%) Investment Banking
11 100 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.05%) Legal
13 65 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 61 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
15 59 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
16 56 (1.57%) Local Government
17 45 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.18%) Law
19 41 (1.15%) Retail Banking
20 40 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 592 (16.62%) Developer
2 552 (15.50%) Senior
3 445 (12.49%) Analyst
4 354 (9.94%) Lead
5 310 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 303 (8.51%) Project Manager
7 251 (7.05%) Architect
8 172 (4.83%) Data Engineer
9 138 (3.87%) Software Engineer
10 127 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
11 123 (3.45%) Designer
12 116 (3.26%) Java Developer
13 112 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
13 112 (3.14%) Senior Developer
14 109 (3.06%) Senior Manager
15 106 (2.98%) Product Manager
16 97 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
17 91 (2.55%) Product Owner
18 76 (2.13%) Full-Stack Developer
18 76 (2.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (9.01%) REST
2 293 (8.23%) Terraform
3 240 (6.74%) React
4 216 (6.06%) .NET
5 192 (5.39%) RESTful
6 191 (5.36%) Kafka
7 174 (4.88%) Spring
8 159 (4.46%) Spring Boot
9 132 (3.71%) HTML
10 122 (3.43%) CSS
11 108 (3.03%) Node.js
12 104 (2.92%) AngularJS
13 90 (2.53%) PySpark
14 80 (2.25%) SOAP
15 75 (2.11%) Web Services
16 74 (2.08%) JSON
17 64 (1.80%) Django
17 64 (1.80%) Playwright
18 61 (1.71%) OAuth
19 58 (1.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 531 (14.91%) Product Ownership
2 297 (8.34%) Cloud Native
3 142 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 122 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
5 99 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 99 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 80 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 78 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 68 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 57 (1.60%) NHS
11 55 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 54 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 49 (1.38%) Mobile App
14 46 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
15 44 (1.24%) Fixed Income
16 42 (1.18%) Derivative
17 41 (1.15%) Data Centre
17 41 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 35 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 142 (3.99%) Linux
2 74 (2.08%) Windows
3 57 (1.60%) Unix
4 35 (0.98%) Android
5 31 (0.87%) 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 5 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.084%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.084%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.084%) zOS
12 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,205 (33.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,027 (28.83%) DevOps
3 1,015 (28.50%) CI/CD
4 795 (22.32%) Scrum
5 688 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
6 682 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 642 (18.02%) AI
8 533 (14.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 477 (13.39%) Roadmaps
10 452 (12.69%) Analytics
11 436 (12.24%) Test Automation
12 406 (11.40%) User Stories
13 401 (11.26%) Decision-Making
14 400 (11.23%) Software Engineering
15 375 (10.53%) Migration
16 365 (10.25%) Project Management
17 363 (10.19%) Data Modelling
18 349 (9.80%) Microservices
19 338 (9.49%) Waterfall
20 313 (8.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 697 (19.57%) SQL
2 649 (18.22%) Python
3 442 (12.41%) Java
4 288 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 219 (6.15%) C#
5 219 (6.15%) TypeScript
6 82 (2.30%) Bash
7 74 (2.08%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.63%) Scala
9 50 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 44 (1.24%) Kotlin
11 36 (1.01%) Apex Code
11 36 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 29 (0.81%) Korn
13 27 (0.76%) Groovy
14 26 (0.73%) Go
15 25 (0.70%) Bicep
15 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 23 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 13 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 883 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 761 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 307 (8.62%) Degree
4 164 (4.60%) PMP
5 158 (4.44%) PMI Certification
6 118 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 116 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 91 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 61 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 56 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 36 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 28 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 22 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (0.56%) CBAP
15 20 (0.56%) CISSP
16 18 (0.51%) IIBA
17 16 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 12 (0.34%) ISEB
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (10.56%) QA
2 274 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 157 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 108 (3.03%) PMO
5 87 (2.44%) GDPR
6 53 (1.49%) WCAG
7 39 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.90%) GRC
9 29 (0.81%) NIST
10 24 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.48%) SLA
14 16 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.42%) NCSC
16 10 (0.28%) SEPA
17 9 (0.25%) IFRS
17 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
18 7 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 338 (9.49%) Docker
2 57 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.20%) 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
1 353 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 98 (2.75%) Grafana
3 75 (2.11%) Ansible
4 73 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.73%) Kibana
6 20 (0.56%) Control-M
7 18 (0.51%) 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%) WSUS
14 3 (0.084%) Consul
14 3 (0.084%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.084%) Rancher
Vendors
1 514 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 171 (4.80%) Oracle
3 157 (4.41%) Salesforce
4 148 (4.15%) Databricks
5 133 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 123 (3.45%) Google
7 98 (2.75%) SAP
8 78 (2.19%) Splunk
9 58 (1.63%) Adobe
10 47 (1.32%) IBM
11 36 (1.01%) Informatica
12 31 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 25 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.67%) Workday
15 23 (0.65%) Cisco
16 22 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.62%) UiPath
16 22 (0.62%) VMware
17 19 (0.53%) Pega
18 18 (0.51%) Bloomberg