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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,952 2,685 3,714
As % of all contract jobs in London 20.47% 18.53% 20.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.37% 20.54% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,013 1,764 2,699
10th Percentile £363 £390 £408
25th Percentile £431 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £668 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.65% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 16
10th Percentile £36.43 - £36.00
25th Percentile £45.00 £35.00 £43.65
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -34.55% -
75th Percentile £66.50 £39.76 £72.41
90th Percentile £99.86 £65.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 13,198 13,072 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.53% 90.20% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,726 8,366 11,677
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 163 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £54.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 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 2 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 2 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 0 403 £540 -7.69% 263
West London -1 66 £438 +16.67% 145
South London 0 43 £525 +0.91% 81
East London -2 28 £520 +6.67% 67
North London +4 2 £700 +73.05% 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
1 264 (8.94%) Confluence
2 55 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (1.80%) Apache
4 50 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 49 (1.66%) Apache Spark
6 31 (1.05%) CMS
7 20 (0.68%) nginx
8 13 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 13 (0.44%) IIS
9 12 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.20%) Camunda
11 6 (0.20%) SAS
12 5 (0.17%) CICS
12 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.14%) Appian
13 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
14 3 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 94 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 55 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.91%) Chatbot
6 17 (0.58%) Trello
7 8 (0.27%) Sketch
8 6 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.17%) Notion
10 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.068%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.068%) InDesign
12 2 (0.068%) InVision
12 2 (0.068%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.034%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 56 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 36 (1.22%) Endur
4 25 (0.85%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.27%) Temenos T24
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
10 6 (0.20%) Shopify
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 681 (23.07%) Azure
2 514 (17.41%) AWS
3 247 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
4 246 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.05%) GitHub
6 194 (6.57%) GCP
7 145 (4.91%) Serverless
8 101 (3.42%) SaaS
9 98 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
10 88 (2.98%) Snowflake
11 86 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 78 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (2.37%) Power Automate
14 70 (2.37%) PowerApps
15 68 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
16 64 (2.17%) Amazon S3
17 52 (1.76%) dbt
18 48 (1.63%) Figma
18 48 (1.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.63%) Firewall
2 23 (0.78%) Network Security
3 22 (0.75%) VPN
4 19 (0.64%) HTTP
5 17 (0.58%) DNS
6 16 (0.54%) WAN
7 15 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.44%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.34%) BGP
9 10 (0.34%) Internet
9 10 (0.34%) SSL
10 8 (0.27%) OSPF
11 6 (0.20%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) 5G
12 5 (0.17%) LAN
12 5 (0.17%) MPLS
13 4 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
13 4 (0.14%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (5.83%) Power BI
2 132 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 87 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 65 (2.20%) Tableau
8 58 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 58 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 45 (1.52%) Big Data
10 43 (1.46%) Metadata
11 40 (1.36%) Oracle Database
12 39 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
15 29 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
15 29 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
15 29 (0.98%) BigQuery
15 29 (0.98%) Dremio
16 25 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 512 (17.34%) JIRA
2 277 (9.38%) Git
3 175 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.18%) GitLab
5 60 (2.03%) Selenium
6 52 (1.76%) Postman
7 51 (1.73%) JUnit
8 46 (1.56%) Cypress.io
9 44 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 42 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 31 (1.05%) SpecFlow
12 22 (0.75%) Maven
13 20 (0.68%) Mockito
13 20 (0.68%) REST Assured
13 20 (0.68%) SonarQube
14 18 (0.61%) ERwin
14 18 (0.61%) JMeter
15 16 (0.54%) webpack
16 13 (0.44%) Gradle
16 13 (0.44%) SoapUI
General
1 1,169 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 957 (32.42%) Finance
3 463 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (12.94%) Banking
5 355 (12.03%) Public Sector
6 126 (4.27%) Front Office
7 104 (3.52%) Investment Banking
8 93 (3.15%) Marketing
9 87 (2.95%) Retail
10 83 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
11 78 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 73 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
13 66 (2.24%) Legal
14 60 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (1.76%) Telecoms
16 50 (1.69%) Back Office
17 48 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 46 (1.56%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.29%) Manufacturing
20 31 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 537 (18.19%) Developer
2 448 (15.18%) Analyst
3 438 (14.84%) Senior
4 345 (11.69%) Business Analyst
5 239 (8.10%) Lead
6 209 (7.08%) Project Manager
7 188 (6.37%) Architect
8 132 (4.47%) Software Engineer
9 105 (3.56%) Consultant
10 98 (3.32%) Data Engineer
10 98 (3.32%) Java Developer
11 81 (2.74%) Senior Developer
12 74 (2.51%) Product Manager
13 69 (2.34%) Full-Stack Developer
13 69 (2.34%) Product Owner
14 64 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 63 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
16 62 (2.10%) Senior Manager
17 61 (2.07%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (2.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (8.03%) React
2 229 (7.76%) REST
3 169 (5.72%) Node.js
4 168 (5.69%) Kafka
5 153 (5.18%) .NET
5 153 (5.18%) RESTful
6 141 (4.78%) HTML
7 132 (4.47%) CSS
8 121 (4.10%) AngularJS
9 104 (3.52%) Spring
10 94 (3.18%) JSON
11 93 (3.15%) Playwright
12 88 (2.98%) SOAP
12 88 (2.98%) Spring Boot
13 72 (2.44%) Web Services
14 70 (2.37%) XML
15 69 (2.34%) PySpark
16 66 (2.24%) GraphQL
17 56 (1.90%) HTML5
18 50 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 306 (10.37%) Product Ownership
2 197 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 77 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 73 (2.47%) Derivative
5 70 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 61 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 61 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 58 (1.96%) Equities
8 57 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 57 (1.93%) Fixed Income
8 57 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 55 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 54 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
10 54 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 49 (1.66%) Mobile App
12 48 (1.63%) Virtual Team
13 46 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
14 45 (1.52%) AI Agents
15 44 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.49%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 159 (5.39%) Linux
2 88 (2.98%) Unix
3 82 (2.78%) Windows
4 35 (1.19%) Android
5 33 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.34%) VMS
8 7 (0.24%) zOS
9 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.10%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.068%) AIX
11 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.034%) Solaris
12 1 (0.034%) tvOS
12 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.034%) watchOS
12 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (25.54%) DevOps
2 686 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
3 646 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 619 (20.97%) Scrum
5 582 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 369 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 358 (12.13%) Test Automation
8 342 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 335 (11.35%) AI
10 310 (10.50%) Software Engineering
11 309 (10.47%) Analytics
12 308 (10.43%) Roadmaps
13 307 (10.40%) Project Management
14 305 (10.33%) Microservices
15 279 (9.45%) Data Modelling
16 274 (9.28%) Migration
17 264 (8.94%) User Stories
18 256 (8.67%) Waterfall
19 246 (8.33%) SDLC
20 245 (8.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 577 (19.55%) SQL
2 545 (18.46%) Python
3 378 (12.80%) Java
4 329 (11.14%) JavaScript
5 250 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 215 (7.28%) C#
7 80 (2.71%) PowerShell
8 64 (2.17%) C++
9 52 (1.76%) Scala
10 47 (1.59%) Bash
11 37 (1.25%) Go
12 34 (1.15%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 27 (0.91%) Bicep
15 26 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 26 (0.88%) Ruby
16 23 (0.78%) Apex Code
17 21 (0.71%) R
18 18 (0.61%) Groovy
18 18 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 563 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 494 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 350 (11.86%) Degree
4 135 (4.57%) PMI Certification
5 106 (3.59%) PMP
6 104 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 55 (1.86%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 45 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.29%) CBAP
12 34 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.91%) CISSP
14 25 (0.85%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.58%) CSPO
15 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.51%) CISM
17 14 (0.47%) IIBA
18 11 (0.37%) MCP
19 10 (0.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (10.03%) QA
2 133 (4.51%) Accessibility
3 132 (4.47%) Data Quality
4 120 (4.07%) GDPR
5 83 (2.81%) PMO
6 35 (1.19%) WCAG
7 28 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 27 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.81%) MiFID
10 22 (0.75%) NIST
11 17 (0.58%) GRC
12 15 (0.51%) EMIR
13 12 (0.41%) Basel III
14 10 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.34%) PERC
15 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.30%) PSD2
16 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 7 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 333 (11.28%) Docker
2 41 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.068%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.034%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.034%) etcd
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) IAG
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 310 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 191 (6.47%) Terraform
3 54 (1.83%) Ansible
4 47 (1.59%) Grafana
5 30 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.61%) Argo
8 11 (0.37%) Packer
8 11 (0.37%) Puppet
9 10 (0.34%) Consul
9 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.30%) Kibana
11 8 (0.27%) Rancher
11 8 (0.27%) SCCM
12 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
13 6 (0.20%) Control-M
14 4 (0.14%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.14%) Nessus
14 4 (0.14%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.10%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 383 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 208 (7.05%) Oracle
3 133 (4.51%) Salesforce
4 126 (4.27%) Databricks
5 111 (3.76%) SAP
6 102 (3.46%) ServiceNow
7 94 (3.18%) Google
8 47 (1.59%) Splunk
9 40 (1.36%) Adobe
10 35 (1.19%) Workday
11 32 (1.08%) Atlassian
12 25 (0.85%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.64%) Bloomberg
14 19 (0.64%) Cisco
14 19 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 18 (0.61%) Foundry
16 16 (0.54%) HP
16 16 (0.54%) OpenLink
17 15 (0.51%) Informatica