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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,569 2,994 3,326
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.66% 22.29% 20.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.86% 24.08% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,423 2,072 2,308
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 £644 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £819 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 16
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.06 £28.34
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.31 £32.88
Median hourly rate £61.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% +50.00% -48.76%
75th Percentile £73.75 £81.88 £59.38
90th Percentile £89.63 £98.64 £73.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
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 £664 £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 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -7.56% 445
West London -2 96 £680 +70.00% 75
South London +1 56 £535 -14.40% 33
East London -3 16 £590 +9.26% 22
North London +6 11 £550 - 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
1 294 (8.24%) Confluence
2 81 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 73 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 63 (1.77%) CMS
6 55 (1.54%) Apache
7 35 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 14 (0.39%) Camunda
9 13 (0.36%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 11 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Appian
12 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
14 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.14%) nginx
15 5 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 100 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.34%) Trello
7 9 (0.25%) Notion
8 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.14%) Sketch
11 3 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.084%) Mingle
11 3 (0.084%) Productboard
12 2 (0.056%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.028%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 61 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.78%) 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%) Findur
10 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 936 (26.23%) Azure
2 724 (20.29%) AWS
3 341 (9.55%) Azure DevOps
4 311 (8.71%) Power Platform
5 303 (8.49%) GitHub
6 232 (6.50%) GCP
7 195 (5.46%) Serverless
8 169 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
9 141 (3.95%) Amazon S3
10 130 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
12 108 (3.03%) Snowflake
13 90 (2.52%) PowerApps
14 89 (2.49%) Power Automate
15 87 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (2.24%) dbt
17 77 (2.16%) SaaS
18 71 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
19 69 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 68 (1.91%) 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%) DHCP
12 6 (0.17%) Intranet
12 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (6.64%) Power BI
2 167 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 135 (3.78%) SQL Server
5 112 (3.14%) Metadata
6 108 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 107 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 78 (2.19%) Data Lake
8 78 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 68 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
10 48 (1.34%) Delta Lake
11 46 (1.29%) Tableau
12 44 (1.23%) DynamoDB
13 43 (1.20%) Oracle Database
14 41 (1.15%) BigQuery
15 40 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (1.12%) MySQL
16 31 (0.87%) Big Data
17 30 (0.84%) Redis
18 27 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 563 (15.77%) JIRA
2 349 (9.78%) Git
3 276 (7.73%) Jenkins
4 152 (4.26%) GitLab
5 87 (2.44%) Selenium
6 65 (1.82%) JUnit
7 54 (1.51%) Gradle
8 49 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 49 (1.37%) Postman
9 44 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 44 (1.23%) Maven
10 34 (0.95%) Mockito
11 32 (0.90%) Bitbucket
12 31 (0.87%) REST Assured
13 28 (0.78%) Visual Studio
14 25 (0.70%) JMeter
15 24 (0.67%) SonarQube
16 17 (0.48%) Gatling
17 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
18 14 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 1,449 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 1,167 (32.70%) Finance
3 567 (15.89%) Public Sector
4 565 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
5 517 (14.49%) Banking
6 218 (6.11%) Retail
7 140 (3.92%) Marketing
8 136 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
9 134 (3.75%) Front Office
10 122 (3.42%) Investment Banking
11 99 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 71 (1.99%) Legal
13 67 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 63 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
15 61 (1.71%) Local Government
16 59 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (1.26%) Law
17 45 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 41 (1.15%) Retail Banking
19 39 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 592 (16.59%) Developer
2 561 (15.72%) Senior
3 446 (12.50%) Analyst
4 365 (10.23%) Lead
5 312 (8.74%) Business Analyst
6 302 (8.46%) Project Manager
7 248 (6.95%) Architect
8 175 (4.90%) Data Engineer
9 134 (3.75%) Software Engineer
10 131 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
11 119 (3.33%) Designer
12 116 (3.25%) Senior Developer
13 115 (3.22%) Java Developer
14 111 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 108 (3.03%) Product Manager
16 107 (3.00%) Senior Manager
17 95 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
18 91 (2.55%) Product Owner
19 78 (2.19%) Full-Stack Developer
20 77 (2.16%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (9.25%) REST
2 297 (8.32%) Terraform
3 242 (6.78%) React
4 218 (6.11%) .NET
5 193 (5.41%) Kafka
6 191 (5.35%) RESTful
7 174 (4.88%) Spring
8 159 (4.46%) Spring Boot
9 131 (3.67%) HTML
10 120 (3.36%) CSS
11 108 (3.03%) Node.js
12 103 (2.89%) AngularJS
13 93 (2.61%) PySpark
14 80 (2.24%) SOAP
15 78 (2.19%) Web Services
16 74 (2.07%) JSON
17 69 (1.93%) Playwright
18 64 (1.79%) Django
19 61 (1.71%) OAuth
20 58 (1.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 534 (14.96%) Product Ownership
2 296 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 141 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 123 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 100 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 100 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 76 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 70 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 60 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 58 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 57 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 55 (1.54%) NHS
13 49 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 45 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 44 (1.23%) Fixed Income
16 41 (1.15%) Data Centre
16 41 (1.15%) Derivative
16 41 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 33 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 147 (4.12%) Linux
2 76 (2.13%) Windows
3 58 (1.63%) 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
13 1 (0.028%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,215 (34.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,028 (28.80%) DevOps
3 1,022 (28.64%) CI/CD
4 803 (22.50%) Scrum
5 691 (19.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 689 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
7 641 (17.96%) AI
8 530 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 485 (13.59%) Roadmaps
10 458 (12.83%) Analytics
11 451 (12.64%) Test Automation
12 415 (11.63%) User Stories
13 402 (11.26%) Software Engineering
14 401 (11.24%) Decision-Making
15 377 (10.56%) Migration
16 363 (10.17%) Data Modelling
17 361 (10.11%) Project Management
18 348 (9.75%) Microservices
19 334 (9.36%) Waterfall
20 323 (9.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 703 (19.70%) SQL
2 649 (18.18%) Python
3 439 (12.30%) Java
4 294 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 223 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 220 (6.16%) C#
7 81 (2.27%) Bash
8 77 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 57 (1.60%) Scala
10 50 (1.40%) PL/SQL
11 45 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 36 (1.01%) Apex Code
13 35 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.81%) Groovy
14 29 (0.81%) 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 14 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 883 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 766 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 309 (8.66%) Degree
4 163 (4.57%) PMP
5 156 (4.37%) PMI Certification
6 120 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 115 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 93 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 61 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 55 (1.54%) 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 20 (0.56%) CISSP
15 19 (0.53%) CBAP
16 18 (0.50%) IIBA
17 16 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 12 (0.34%) ISEB
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (10.68%) QA
2 278 (7.79%) Data Quality
3 158 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 104 (2.91%) PMO
5 86 (2.41%) GDPR
6 51 (1.43%) WCAG
7 39 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (0.87%) GRC
9 29 (0.81%) NIST
10 24 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 20 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.45%) 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 58 (1.63%) 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
1 353 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 98 (2.75%) Grafana
3 74 (2.07%) 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
1 517 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 177 (4.96%) Oracle
3 159 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 149 (4.17%) Databricks
5 132 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 123 (3.45%) Google
7 101 (2.83%) SAP
8 80 (2.24%) Splunk
9 58 (1.63%) 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
16 22 (0.62%) Workday
17 19 (0.53%) Pega
18 18 (0.50%) Atlassian