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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,002 3,448 5,008
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 22.32% 21.17% 23.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.11% 23.72% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,080 2,419 3,658
10th Percentile £363 £381 £418
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £696 £725 £715
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 29
10th Percentile £27.17 £29.00 £43.84
25th Percentile £42.38 £33.55 £52.97
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -37.04% +15.63%
75th Percentile £76.25 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £97.43 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Process and 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 12,450 14,539 19,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.59% 89.26% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,698 14,258
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 180 225
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 0 443 £575 - 457
West London 0 57 £400 -20.00% 39
South London -5 37 £625 +25.00% 26
East London -1 32 £540 +12.50% 29
North London -2 3 £550 -
Agile
England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 275 (9.16%) Confluence
2 105 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (2.96%) Apache
4 55 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 29 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 28 (0.93%) CMS
7 19 (0.63%) nginx
8 13 (0.43%) IIS
9 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 7 (0.23%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.20%) Appian
13 6 (0.20%) CICS
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
14 5 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 83 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.70%) Trello
7 15 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.43%) Sketch
9 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.13%) InfoPath
11 3 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.067%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.033%) InVision
13 1 (0.033%) MadCap Flare
13 1 (0.033%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.033%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 50 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (1.43%) Aladdin
4 36 (1.20%) Endur
5 20 (0.67%) thinkFolio
6 14 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
6 14 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
7 12 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
8 11 (0.37%) Shopify
8 11 (0.37%) Temenos T24
9 10 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle Payroll
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
13 4 (0.13%) CA PPM
13 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
13 4 (0.13%) Magento
13 4 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 652 (21.72%) AWS
2 632 (21.05%) Azure
3 254 (8.46%) GCP
4 236 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
5 208 (6.93%) Power Platform
6 162 (5.40%) GitHub
7 140 (4.66%) Serverless
8 115 (3.83%) dbt
9 109 (3.63%) SaaS
10 94 (3.13%) Snowflake
11 75 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
12 72 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
13 70 (2.33%) PowerApps
14 66 (2.20%) Power Automate
15 65 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
16 62 (2.07%) Amazon S3
17 60 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
18 50 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
18 50 (1.67%) Entra ID
19 49 (1.63%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 57 (1.90%) Firewall
2 29 (0.97%) DNS
3 28 (0.93%) HTTP
4 25 (0.83%) VPN
5 23 (0.77%) SSL
6 19 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.43%) Network Security
8 10 (0.33%) Internet
8 10 (0.33%) WAN
9 9 (0.30%) BGP
10 7 (0.23%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) NGFW
10 7 (0.23%) OSPF
10 7 (0.23%) SMTP
10 7 (0.23%) SSH
11 6 (0.20%) FTP
11 6 (0.20%) MPLS
11 6 (0.20%) Wireless
12 5 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.17%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
2 148 (4.93%) Power BI
3 114 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 97 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 89 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 88 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
7 84 (2.80%) Apache Arrow
7 84 (2.80%) Apache Iceberg
7 84 (2.80%) Dremio
8 76 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
9 72 (2.40%) NoSQL
10 56 (1.87%) Big Data
10 56 (1.87%) MongoDB
11 50 (1.67%) Tableau
12 48 (1.60%) Apache Ignite
13 39 (1.30%) Metadata
14 38 (1.27%) Redis
15 33 (1.10%) DB2
16 31 (1.03%) BigQuery
17 30 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 517 (17.22%) JIRA
2 237 (7.89%) Git
3 184 (6.13%) Jenkins
4 72 (2.40%) GitLab
5 69 (2.30%) JUnit
6 55 (1.83%) Selenium
7 51 (1.70%) Postman
8 40 (1.33%) Cucumber
9 37 (1.23%) Bitbucket
9 37 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 30 (1.00%) Mockito
11 29 (0.97%) Maven
12 26 (0.87%) Gradle
12 26 (0.87%) REST Assured
13 24 (0.80%) SonarQube
14 22 (0.73%) SpecFlow
14 22 (0.73%) webpack
15 21 (0.70%) Liquibase
16 18 (0.60%) SoapUI
17 17 (0.57%) ER Studio
General
1 1,157 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 1,092 (36.38%) Finance
3 483 (16.09%) Banking
4 425 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
5 284 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 276 (9.19%) Front Office
7 162 (5.40%) Investment Banking
8 110 (3.66%) Marketing
9 99 (3.30%) Retail
10 81 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 63 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 62 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 60 (2.00%) Back Office
15 55 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
16 52 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
17 48 (1.60%) Financial Institution
18 43 (1.43%) Legal
19 35 (1.17%) Manufacturing
20 33 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 664 (22.12%) Developer
2 473 (15.76%) Analyst
3 456 (15.19%) Senior
4 375 (12.49%) Business Analyst
5 255 (8.49%) Lead
6 232 (7.73%) Software Engineer
7 219 (7.30%) Project Manager
8 181 (6.03%) Architect
9 148 (4.93%) Java Developer
10 110 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
11 108 (3.60%) Senior Developer
12 95 (3.16%) Python Engineer
13 93 (3.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 90 (3.00%) Java Engineer
15 88 (2.93%) Consultant
16 87 (2.90%) AWS Software Engineer
17 84 (2.80%) Data Engineer
18 79 (2.63%) Python Software Engineer
19 75 (2.50%) Java Software Engineer
20 74 (2.47%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (10.03%) React
2 201 (6.70%) REST
3 186 (6.20%) Kafka
4 174 (5.80%) Node.js
5 172 (5.73%) .NET
6 166 (5.53%) HTML
7 155 (5.16%) AngularJS
8 148 (4.93%) RESTful
9 142 (4.73%) Spring
10 141 (4.70%) CSS
11 103 (3.43%) SOAP
12 101 (3.36%) Spring Boot
13 97 (3.23%) Pandas
14 93 (3.10%) NumPy
15 85 (2.83%) JSON
16 84 (2.80%) GraphQL
16 84 (2.80%) SciPy
17 80 (2.66%) Redux
18 77 (2.56%) Web Services
19 68 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 290 (9.66%) Product Ownership
2 211 (7.03%) Fixed Income
3 170 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 152 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 145 (4.83%) Equities
6 134 (4.46%) Derivative
7 102 (3.40%) Hedge funds
8 72 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 71 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 71 (2.37%) Management Information System
10 66 (2.20%) Virtual Team
11 63 (2.10%) Mobile App
11 63 (2.10%) Onboarding
12 51 (1.70%) Pricing Data
13 50 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
14 48 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
15 43 (1.43%) Reinsurance
16 38 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
17 37 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 146 (4.86%) Linux
2 79 (2.63%) Windows
3 61 (2.03%) Unix
4 59 (1.97%) Android
5 47 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.40%) VMS
8 11 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.17%) zOS
11 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.067%) CentOS
12 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Debian
13 1 (0.033%) tvOS
13 1 (0.033%) watchOS
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (22.72%) DevOps
2 675 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
3 662 (22.05%) Scrum
4 594 (19.79%) CI/CD
5 471 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 397 (13.22%) Software Engineering
7 324 (10.79%) Project Management
8 319 (10.63%) Microservices
9 308 (10.26%) Analytics
10 301 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 300 (9.99%) Roadmaps
12 290 (9.66%) Test Automation
13 284 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 262 (8.73%) User Stories
15 254 (8.46%) SDLC
16 243 (8.09%) Migration
17 233 (7.76%) Waterfall
18 227 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
19 225 (7.50%) User Experience
20 217 (7.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 619 (20.62%) Python
2 588 (19.59%) SQL
3 512 (17.06%) Java
4 461 (15.36%) JavaScript
5 332 (11.06%) TypeScript
6 212 (7.06%) C#
7 73 (2.43%) PowerShell
8 63 (2.10%) Go
9 57 (1.90%) C++
10 51 (1.70%) Bash
11 44 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 41 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 37 (1.23%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.03%) Groovy
15 29 (0.97%) Scala
16 28 (0.93%) Bicep
17 20 (0.67%) Apex Code
18 19 (0.63%) Ruby
19 14 (0.47%) R
20 13 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 460 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 384 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 359 (11.96%) Degree
4 111 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 105 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (3.26%) PMP
7 51 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 49 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 37 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 33 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 22 (0.73%) CISSP
13 18 (0.60%) CBAP
13 18 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
15 11 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.33%) CISM
16 10 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (8.56%) QA
2 119 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 95 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 79 (2.63%) GDPR
5 66 (2.20%) PMO
6 29 (0.97%) MiFID
7 24 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (0.73%) WCAG
9 20 (0.67%) EMIR
10 12 (0.40%) GRC
10 12 (0.40%) SLA
11 11 (0.37%) Basel II
11 11 (0.37%) NIST
11 11 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.27%) Basel III
13 8 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.27%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 259 (8.63%) Docker
2 48 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.100%) KVM
4 3 (0.100%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.067%) Postfix
5 2 (0.067%) Squid
5 2 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.033%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.033%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.033%) etcd
6 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 238 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 186 (6.20%) Terraform
3 58 (1.93%) Ansible
4 36 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
5 32 (1.07%) Grafana
6 24 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.50%) Puppet
8 13 (0.43%) Consul
8 13 (0.43%) Kibana
8 13 (0.43%) Packer
9 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.27%) SCCM
11 5 (0.17%) CA Endevor
11 5 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 4 (0.13%) Istio
12 4 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.100%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 347 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 202 (6.73%) Oracle
3 123 (4.10%) Salesforce
4 120 (4.00%) SAP
5 95 (3.16%) Google
5 95 (3.16%) ServiceNow
6 82 (2.73%) Databricks
7 34 (1.13%) Adobe
8 33 (1.10%) Splunk
9 30 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 30 (1.00%) Workday
10 25 (0.83%) BISAM
11 24 (0.80%) Charles River
11 24 (0.80%) MuleSoft
12 23 (0.77%) HP
13 21 (0.70%) Calypso
13 21 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 20 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
14 20 (0.67%) OpenLink
14 20 (0.67%) Sybase