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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,901 2,601 3,607
As % of all contract jobs in London 20.26% 18.64% 20.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.18% 20.64% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,970 1,698 2,620
10th Percentile £363 £400 £411
25th Percentile £431 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £596
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +0.63% -0.63%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £519 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.04% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £37.89 - £36.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £43.65
Median hourly rate £59.47 £36.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.19% -29.76% -6.82%
75th Percentile £66.50 £39.76 £72.41
90th Percentile £98.64 £65.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £58.94 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.54% -13.27% -

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 13,078 12,600 15,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.28% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,638 8,043 11,412
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.60 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.60 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 0 396 £550 -5.98% 188
West London 0 68 £438 +16.67% 41
South London +2 47 £525 +7.69% 39
East London -1 24 £495 +1.54% 33
North London +5 1 £700 +73.05% 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
1 260 (8.96%) Confluence
2 52 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 52 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.72%) Apache
3 50 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.07%) CMS
5 20 (0.69%) nginx
6 13 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 13 (0.45%) IIS
7 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.21%) Camunda
9 6 (0.21%) SAS
10 5 (0.17%) CICS
10 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.14%) Appian
11 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
4 56 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 49 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.93%) Chatbot
7 18 (0.62%) Trello
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 6 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.069%) InDesign
13 2 (0.069%) InVision
13 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.034%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 52 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 39 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (1.00%) Endur
4 25 (0.86%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.28%) Shopify
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.24%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.17%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 675 (23.27%) Azure
2 507 (17.48%) AWS
3 242 (8.34%) Azure DevOps
4 240 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 211 (7.27%) GitHub
6 189 (6.51%) GCP
7 145 (5.00%) Serverless
8 102 (3.52%) SaaS
9 99 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
10 88 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 86 (2.96%) Snowflake
12 74 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
14 68 (2.34%) PowerApps
15 67 (2.31%) Power Automate
16 66 (2.28%) Amazon S3
17 48 (1.65%) IaaS
18 47 (1.62%) Figma
19 46 (1.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.79%) Firewall
2 24 (0.83%) Network Security
3 22 (0.76%) VPN
4 20 (0.69%) WAN
5 17 (0.59%) HTTP
5 17 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.52%) DNS
6 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.34%) BGP
8 9 (0.31%) Internet
9 8 (0.28%) OSPF
10 6 (0.21%) SMS
11 5 (0.17%) 5G
11 5 (0.17%) LAN
11 5 (0.17%) MPLS
11 5 (0.17%) SSL
12 4 (0.14%) DHCP
12 4 (0.14%) FTP
12 4 (0.14%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (5.69%) Power BI
2 120 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
3 113 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 101 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 83 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.07%) Tableau
8 55 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 53 (1.83%) MongoDB
10 48 (1.65%) Big Data
11 43 (1.48%) Metadata
12 38 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
14 34 (1.17%) Oracle Database
15 28 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 26 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (0.90%) Hadoop
17 24 (0.83%) DB2
17 24 (0.83%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 508 (17.51%) JIRA
2 268 (9.24%) Git
3 168 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.24%) GitLab
5 60 (2.07%) Selenium
6 49 (1.69%) JUnit
6 49 (1.69%) Postman
7 44 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 41 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 41 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.07%) SpecFlow
10 19 (0.65%) ERwin
11 18 (0.62%) JMeter
11 18 (0.62%) Maven
11 18 (0.62%) Mockito
11 18 (0.62%) REST Assured
11 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.41%) ER Studio
12 12 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 1,149 (39.61%) Social Skills
2 947 (32.64%) Finance
3 456 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
4 375 (12.93%) Banking
5 350 (12.06%) Public Sector
6 123 (4.24%) Front Office
7 96 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 93 (3.21%) Marketing
9 87 (3.00%) Retail
10 81 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
11 80 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
12 78 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
13 65 (2.24%) Legal
14 63 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.59%) Financial Institution
17 44 (1.52%) Back Office
17 44 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 41 (1.41%) Manufacturing
19 31 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 518 (17.86%) Developer
2 442 (15.24%) Analyst
3 431 (14.86%) Senior
4 343 (11.82%) Business Analyst
5 243 (8.38%) Lead
6 211 (7.27%) Project Manager
7 180 (6.20%) Architect
8 129 (4.45%) Software Engineer
9 103 (3.55%) Consultant
10 99 (3.41%) Data Engineer
11 93 (3.21%) Java Developer
12 78 (2.69%) Senior Developer
13 75 (2.59%) Product Manager
14 66 (2.28%) Full-Stack Developer
15 65 (2.24%) DevOps Engineer
15 65 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
15 65 (2.24%) Senior Manager
16 63 (2.17%) Product Owner
17 61 (2.10%) Senior Software Engineer
18 59 (2.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (7.69%) React
2 220 (7.58%) REST
3 166 (5.72%) Node.js
4 162 (5.58%) Kafka
5 150 (5.17%) RESTful
6 146 (5.03%) .NET
7 125 (4.31%) HTML
8 119 (4.10%) CSS
9 109 (3.76%) AngularJS
10 103 (3.55%) Spring
11 96 (3.31%) Playwright
12 88 (3.03%) Spring Boot
13 84 (2.90%) JSON
14 82 (2.83%) SOAP
15 71 (2.45%) PySpark
16 68 (2.34%) XML
17 64 (2.21%) GraphQL
18 63 (2.17%) Web Services
19 50 (1.72%) Middleware
20 44 (1.52%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 294 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 195 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 67 (2.31%) Management Information System
4 65 (2.24%) Derivative
4 65 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 64 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 58 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 57 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 56 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 53 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 52 (1.79%) Fixed Income
11 51 (1.76%) Equities
11 51 (1.76%) Onboarding
12 49 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 48 (1.65%) Mobile App
14 47 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
15 46 (1.59%) AI Agents
15 46 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
15 46 (1.59%) PMI
16 43 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 160 (5.52%) Linux
2 87 (3.00%) Windows
3 85 (2.93%) Unix
4 33 (1.14%) Android
5 31 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 24 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.34%) VMS
8 7 (0.24%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.10%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.069%) AIX
12 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.034%) Solaris
13 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (25.41%) DevOps
2 669 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
3 641 (22.10%) CI/CD
4 611 (21.06%) Scrum
5 590 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 363 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 349 (12.03%) Test Automation
8 337 (11.62%) AI
9 325 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 314 (10.82%) Project Management
11 308 (10.62%) Analytics
12 303 (10.44%) Software Engineering
13 299 (10.31%) Roadmaps
14 289 (9.96%) Microservices
15 280 (9.65%) Data Modelling
16 269 (9.27%) Migration
17 262 (9.03%) User Stories
18 253 (8.72%) Waterfall
19 244 (8.41%) SDLC
20 242 (8.34%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 567 (19.54%) SQL
2 538 (18.55%) Python
3 358 (12.34%) Java
4 309 (10.65%) JavaScript
5 243 (8.38%) TypeScript
6 210 (7.24%) C#
7 80 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 66 (2.28%) C++
9 53 (1.83%) Scala
10 47 (1.62%) Bash
11 35 (1.21%) Go
12 32 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.97%) Bicep
13 28 (0.97%) Ruby
14 25 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.69%) Apex Code
17 19 (0.65%) R
17 19 (0.65%) T-SQL
18 16 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 560 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 491 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 354 (12.20%) Degree
4 139 (4.79%) PMI Certification
5 107 (3.69%) PMP
6 104 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.76%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.48%) CBAP
11 42 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.21%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.93%) CISSP
14 26 (0.90%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (0.55%) IIBA
17 15 (0.52%) CISM
18 14 (0.48%) CSPO
19 11 (0.38%) MCP
20 10 (0.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (10.17%) QA
2 132 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 128 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 123 (4.24%) GDPR
5 80 (2.76%) PMO
6 36 (1.24%) WCAG
7 31 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 25 (0.86%) NIST
9 19 (0.65%) MiFID
10 17 (0.59%) GRC
11 12 (0.41%) EMIR
12 11 (0.38%) Basel III
12 11 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.34%) PERC
14 9 (0.31%) PSD2
14 9 (0.31%) SLA
15 8 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 332 (11.44%) Docker
2 45 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.069%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.069%) 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%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) RACF
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 312 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 193 (6.65%) Terraform
3 54 (1.86%) Ansible
4 46 (1.59%) Grafana
5 29 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.62%) Argo
8 11 (0.38%) Packer
9 10 (0.34%) Consul
9 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.34%) Puppet
10 9 (0.31%) SCCM
11 8 (0.28%) Kibana
11 8 (0.28%) Rancher
12 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
13 6 (0.21%) Control-M
14 4 (0.14%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.10%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 377 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 199 (6.86%) Oracle
3 127 (4.38%) Salesforce
4 124 (4.27%) Databricks
5 114 (3.93%) SAP
6 106 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 87 (3.00%) Google
8 45 (1.55%) Splunk
9 40 (1.38%) Adobe
10 34 (1.17%) Workday
11 30 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 25 (0.86%) MuleSoft
13 24 (0.83%) Cisco
14 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
15 19 (0.65%) Bloomberg
16 18 (0.62%) Foundry
17 17 (0.59%) Dynatrace
18 16 (0.55%) Informatica
18 16 (0.55%) VMware
19 15 (0.52%) Sybase