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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,004 2,572 3,502
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.82% 20.51% 19.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.03% 22.24% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,030 1,803 2,556
10th Percentile £363 £390 £400
25th Percentile £446 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £725
90th Percentile £763 £850 £838
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 21
10th Percentile £32.47 £34.41 £25.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.25 £32.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £39.04 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.65% -25.64% -20.45%
75th Percentile £72.75 £60.63 £67.00
90th Percentile £91.35 £79.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 15,783 11,565 15,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.39% 92.20% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,545 7,839 11,342
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 324
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +19.13% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.95
90th Percentile £74.75 £63.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.34
% change year-on-year +50.00% -17.43% -2.19%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -3 341 £565 -3.42% 252
South London +6 80 £513 -12.09% 9
West London -1 70 £520 +30.00% 27
East London +1 27 £525 -8.70% 31
North London +1 1 - - 4
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
1 276 (9.19%) Confluence
2 77 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 72 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.17%) CMS
6 30 (1.00%) Apache
7 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.37%) Camunda
9 11 (0.37%) IIS
9 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.30%) SAS
11 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
11 7 (0.23%) nginx
12 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.30%) Trello
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.23%) Sketch
9 6 (0.20%) Notion
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.067%) InVision
11 2 (0.067%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.067%) Windchill
11 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.033%) Mingle
12 1 (0.033%) Weka
Business Applications
1 45 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 10 (0.33%) Endur
7 10 (0.33%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Findur
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 764 (25.43%) Azure
2 592 (19.71%) AWS
3 259 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (7.49%) Power Platform
5 208 (6.92%) GitHub
6 174 (5.79%) GCP
7 137 (4.56%) Serverless
8 116 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
9 100 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 86 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 84 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
12 82 (2.73%) SaaS
13 75 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
14 71 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
15 64 (2.13%) Snowflake
16 60 (2.00%) Power Automate
17 56 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 56 (1.86%) Figma
17 56 (1.86%) PowerApps
18 52 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.76%) Firewall
2 26 (0.87%) WAN
3 24 (0.80%) Network Security
4 21 (0.70%) HTTP
5 17 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 17 (0.57%) VPN
6 12 (0.40%) DNS
6 12 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.30%) LAN
8 8 (0.27%) Internet
9 7 (0.23%) DMZ
10 6 (0.20%) BGP
10 6 (0.20%) FTP
10 6 (0.20%) MPLS
10 6 (0.20%) OSPF
10 6 (0.20%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.17%) Wireless
12 4 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.56%) Power BI
2 117 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 107 (3.56%) NoSQL
5 103 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 72 (2.40%) Tableau
7 70 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 57 (1.90%) Big Data
9 56 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
10 52 (1.73%) Metadata
11 51 (1.70%) Data Lake
12 49 (1.63%) MongoDB
13 41 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 40 (1.33%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (0.93%) DynamoDB
17 26 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (0.70%) Spark SQL
19 19 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
20 18 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 522 (17.38%) JIRA
2 260 (8.66%) Git
3 176 (5.86%) Jenkins
4 91 (3.03%) GitLab
5 58 (1.93%) JUnit
6 50 (1.66%) Selenium
7 45 (1.50%) Postman
8 35 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 33 (1.10%) Mockito
10 31 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 29 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 26 (0.87%) SpecFlow
13 19 (0.63%) Gradle
13 19 (0.63%) JMeter
14 18 (0.60%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.47%) Maven
15 14 (0.47%) Zephyr
16 12 (0.40%) Liquibase
16 12 (0.40%) TestRail
17 10 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,063 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 1,057 (35.19%) Finance
3 463 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 379 (12.62%) Banking
6 152 (5.06%) Front Office
7 111 (3.70%) Retail
8 99 (3.30%) Marketing
9 97 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 86 (2.86%) Legal
11 78 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 78 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.50%) Investment Banking
13 69 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
14 45 (1.50%) Financial Institution
14 45 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 35 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.00%) Law
17 28 (0.93%) Manufacturing
18 24 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 530 (17.64%) Developer
2 455 (15.15%) Analyst
3 448 (14.91%) Senior
4 340 (11.32%) Business Analyst
5 268 (8.92%) Lead
6 257 (8.56%) Project Manager
7 214 (7.12%) Architect
8 146 (4.86%) Software Engineer
9 144 (4.79%) Data Engineer
10 105 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
11 100 (3.33%) Java Developer
12 99 (3.30%) Designer
13 94 (3.13%) Senior Manager
14 92 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
15 84 (2.80%) Senior Developer
16 79 (2.63%) Consultant
17 74 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
18 72 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
19 64 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
20 62 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (7.56%) React
2 199 (6.62%) REST
3 164 (5.46%) Kafka
4 156 (5.19%) Node.js
5 152 (5.06%) .NET
6 142 (4.73%) RESTful
7 133 (4.43%) AngularJS
8 127 (4.23%) Spring
9 120 (3.99%) HTML
10 110 (3.66%) Spring Boot
11 103 (3.43%) CSS
12 93 (3.10%) PySpark
13 79 (2.63%) Playwright
14 76 (2.53%) Middleware
15 63 (2.10%) SOAP
16 62 (2.06%) GraphQL
17 60 (2.00%) Redux
18 53 (1.76%) JSON
19 47 (1.56%) Web Services
20 46 (1.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 329 (10.95%) Product Ownership
2 231 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 91 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 77 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 74 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 73 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 70 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (2.00%) Derivative
9 59 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 58 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 50 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 41 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 39 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 39 (1.30%) Equities
16 37 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
17 33 (1.10%) NHS
18 30 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 111 (3.70%) Linux
2 76 (2.53%) Windows
3 52 (1.73%) Unix
4 29 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.87%) Android
6 14 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.27%) VMS
8 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.17%) zOS
9 4 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.100%) AIX
11 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Rocky
11 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (26.30%) DevOps
2 714 (23.77%) CI/CD
3 704 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 632 (21.04%) Scrum
5 545 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
6 491 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 389 (12.95%) AI
8 360 (11.98%) Data Modelling
9 357 (11.88%) Project Management
10 333 (11.09%) Analytics
11 329 (10.95%) Test Automation
12 321 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 317 (10.55%) Software Engineering
14 315 (10.49%) Migration
15 311 (10.35%) Roadmaps
16 308 (10.25%) Decision-Making
17 299 (9.95%) User Stories
18 290 (9.65%) Microservices
19 282 (9.39%) Waterfall
20 262 (8.72%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 573 (19.07%) SQL
2 549 (18.28%) Python
3 379 (12.62%) Java
4 306 (10.19%) JavaScript
5 246 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 215 (7.16%) C#
7 56 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.80%) Scala
9 51 (1.70%) Go
10 42 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.07%) Apex Code
13 31 (1.03%) Bash
14 27 (0.90%) C++
15 25 (0.83%) Ruby
16 23 (0.77%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.77%) R
17 22 (0.73%) Bicep
17 22 (0.73%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 650 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 572 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 277 (9.22%) Degree
4 117 (3.89%) PMP
5 115 (3.83%) PMI Certification
6 88 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.33%) CBAP
12 33 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.90%) IIBA
14 26 (0.87%) CISSP
15 25 (0.83%) AWS Certification
16 21 (0.70%) CISM
17 18 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.47%) CSPO
19 12 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (9.85%) QA
2 185 (6.16%) Data Quality
3 130 (4.33%) Accessibility
4 129 (4.29%) GDPR
5 108 (3.60%) PMO
6 52 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 42 (1.40%) WCAG
8 38 (1.26%) NIST
9 22 (0.73%) SLA
10 21 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.60%) GRC
12 17 (0.57%) NCSC
13 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.30%) Basel III
15 9 (0.30%) PSD2
16 8 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.27%) IFRS
16 8 (0.27%) PERC
System Software
1 278 (9.25%) Docker
2 32 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.100%) IAG
6 3 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.067%) Postfix
7 2 (0.067%) RACF
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
8 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 295 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 217 (7.22%) Terraform
3 60 (2.00%) Ansible
4 51 (1.70%) Grafana
5 39 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) Kibana
7 9 (0.30%) Packer
7 9 (0.30%) SCCM
8 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.27%) Puppet
9 7 (0.23%) Argo
9 7 (0.23%) Consul
9 7 (0.23%) Rancher
9 7 (0.23%) WSUS
10 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.17%) Control-M
11 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 389 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.49%) Oracle
3 150 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 129 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 117 (3.89%) Databricks
6 100 (3.33%) SAP
7 51 (1.70%) Google
8 43 (1.43%) Adobe
9 40 (1.33%) Workday
10 36 (1.20%) Splunk
11 25 (0.83%) IBM
12 24 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 23 (0.77%) Informatica
14 22 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.67%) CyberArk
16 19 (0.63%) Cisco
17 18 (0.60%) Atlassian
17 18 (0.60%) Citrix
18 17 (0.57%) Okta
18 17 (0.57%) VMware