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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,522 2,989 3,524
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.53% 21.77% 21.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.69% 23.61% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,386 2,097 2,576
10th Percentile £389 £368 £400
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £732
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 18
10th Percentile £51.70 £26.83 £31.20
25th Percentile £55.03 £33.13 £32.47
Median hourly rate £65.40 £48.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -18.75% -12.73%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.75 £88.13 £72.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -2.31% -

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 17,889 12,658 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.21% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,794 8,473 10,216
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 250 195
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.15
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.54 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £29.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -16.90% -12.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -4 366 £572 -4.67% 277
West London 0 94 £600 +50.00% 62
South London +8 75 £514 -17.80% 25
East London -3 15 £585 +8.33% 41
North London +2 7 £550 - 5
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
1 300 (8.52%) Confluence
2 89 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 56 (1.59%) CMS
5 55 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (1.28%) Apache
7 23 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.43%) IIS
9 13 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.37%) SAS
10 12 (0.34%) Camunda
11 8 (0.23%) Appian
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
12 6 (0.17%) Kentico
12 6 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
3 49 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.31%) Trello
8 8 (0.23%) Notion
8 8 (0.23%) Sketch
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.057%) Windchill
12 1 (0.028%) Mingle
12 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 24 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Findur
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.23%) Magento
7 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 8 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Endur
8 6 (0.17%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.17%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.14%) Actimize
9 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 928 (26.35%) Azure
2 732 (20.78%) AWS
3 324 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
4 294 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 282 (8.01%) GitHub
6 246 (6.98%) GCP
7 179 (5.08%) Serverless
8 159 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
9 130 (3.69%) Amazon S3
10 120 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (2.61%) Snowflake
12 90 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
13 85 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
14 81 (2.30%) PowerApps
15 80 (2.27%) Power Automate
16 74 (2.10%) SaaS
17 71 (2.02%) dbt
18 69 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
19 64 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
19 64 (1.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.39%) Firewall
2 27 (0.77%) Network Security
3 24 (0.68%) WAN
4 22 (0.62%) VPN
5 19 (0.54%) DNS
6 18 (0.51%) Internet
7 15 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) HTTP
8 13 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.26%) DMZ
9 9 (0.26%) Wireless
10 8 (0.23%) BGP
10 8 (0.23%) MPLS
10 8 (0.23%) OSPF
11 7 (0.20%) Intranet
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.17%) SMS
12 6 (0.17%) VoIP
12 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (6.56%) Power BI
2 151 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 118 (3.35%) SQL Server
5 96 (2.73%) NoSQL
6 91 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 77 (2.19%) Metadata
8 69 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.87%) Tableau
10 65 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
11 58 (1.65%) MongoDB
12 50 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 43 (1.22%) Big Data
14 40 (1.14%) BigQuery
15 37 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
16 33 (0.94%) Delta Lake
17 25 (0.71%) Oracle Database
18 21 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 576 (16.35%) JIRA
2 303 (8.60%) Git
3 242 (6.87%) Jenkins
4 121 (3.44%) GitLab
5 54 (1.53%) JUnit
6 46 (1.31%) Selenium
7 40 (1.14%) Postman
8 38 (1.08%) Gradle
9 35 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 35 (0.99%) Mockito
10 33 (0.94%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 22 (0.62%) JMeter
12 22 (0.62%) Maven
12 22 (0.62%) REST Assured
12 22 (0.62%) Visual Studio
13 18 (0.51%) Zephyr
14 17 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.48%) Gatling
15 16 (0.45%) Liquibase
General
1 1,288 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 1,178 (33.45%) Finance
3 558 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 548 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 451 (12.81%) Banking
6 211 (5.99%) Retail
7 173 (4.91%) Front Office
8 143 (4.06%) Marketing
9 114 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
10 105 (2.98%) Investment Banking
11 98 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
12 81 (2.30%) Legal
13 74 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
15 60 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 40 (1.14%) Law
17 39 (1.11%) Financial Institution
17 39 (1.11%) Local Government
18 38 (1.08%) Retail Banking
19 37 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 628 (17.83%) Developer
2 519 (14.74%) Senior
3 469 (13.32%) Analyst
4 373 (10.59%) Lead
5 325 (9.23%) Business Analyst
6 288 (8.18%) Project Manager
7 254 (7.21%) Architect
8 188 (5.34%) Software Engineer
9 158 (4.49%) Data Engineer
10 136 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
11 126 (3.58%) Designer
11 126 (3.58%) Java Developer
12 109 (3.09%) Senior Developer
13 108 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 104 (2.95%) Senior Manager
15 85 (2.41%) Product Owner
16 80 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
16 80 (2.27%) Product Manager
17 77 (2.19%) Full-Stack Developer
18 71 (2.02%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (7.84%) REST
2 274 (7.78%) React
3 207 (5.88%) .NET
4 171 (4.86%) RESTful
5 170 (4.83%) Kafka
6 163 (4.63%) Spring
7 161 (4.57%) Node.js
8 138 (3.92%) Spring Boot
9 134 (3.80%) AngularJS
10 120 (3.41%) HTML
11 107 (3.04%) CSS
12 90 (2.56%) PySpark
13 84 (2.39%) Redux
14 82 (2.33%) SOAP
15 75 (2.13%) JSON
16 68 (1.93%) GraphQL
17 66 (1.87%) Middleware
18 64 (1.82%) Playwright
19 56 (1.59%) .NET Framework
19 56 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 465 (13.20%) Product Ownership
2 270 (7.67%) Cloud Native
3 138 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 120 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.64%) Fixed Income
7 75 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 65 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 62 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 62 (1.76%) Derivative
9 62 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 59 (1.68%) NHS
11 56 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 53 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 53 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 49 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 44 (1.25%) Data Centre
16 42 (1.19%) Mobile App
17 41 (1.16%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.04%) Linux
2 78 (2.21%) Windows
3 41 (1.16%) Unix
4 35 (0.99%) Android
4 35 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.28%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.085%) VMS
12 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 979 (27.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 964 (27.37%) DevOps
3 928 (26.35%) CI/CD
4 764 (21.69%) Scrum
5 638 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 621 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
7 566 (16.07%) AI
8 490 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 435 (12.35%) Analytics
10 401 (11.39%) Software Engineering
11 400 (11.36%) Roadmaps
12 390 (11.07%) Data Modelling
13 387 (10.99%) Decision-Making
14 367 (10.42%) Migration
14 367 (10.42%) Test Automation
14 367 (10.42%) User Stories
15 355 (10.08%) Project Management
16 348 (9.88%) Microservices
17 331 (9.40%) Waterfall
18 293 (8.32%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 631 (17.92%) SQL
2 618 (17.55%) Python
3 446 (12.66%) Java
4 329 (9.34%) JavaScript
5 261 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 229 (6.50%) C#
7 65 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.48%) Go
9 51 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 51 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 45 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 43 (1.22%) Bash
12 42 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 40 (1.14%) Scala
14 25 (0.71%) Korn
15 24 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 23 (0.65%) Groovy
17 20 (0.57%) Bicep
18 19 (0.54%) Ruby
19 18 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 798 (22.66%) Security Cleared
2 701 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 274 (7.78%) Degree
4 137 (3.89%) PMP
5 127 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 94 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 92 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 77 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 47 (1.33%) AWS Certification
11 42 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 32 (0.91%) CISSP
13 25 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.62%) CISM
16 20 (0.57%) ISTQB
17 17 (0.48%) IIBA
18 15 (0.43%) CBAP
19 12 (0.34%) CCNP
20 11 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (9.31%) QA
2 232 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 154 (4.37%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.38%) PMO
5 113 (3.21%) GDPR
6 48 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.36%) WCAG
7 38 (1.08%) NIST
8 36 (1.02%) GRC
9 28 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.65%) SLA
11 21 (0.60%) NCSC
12 20 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
14 15 (0.43%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.23%) SEPA
16 7 (0.20%) HL7
16 7 (0.20%) IFRS
16 7 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 285 (8.09%) Docker
2 53 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) IAG
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.085%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.085%) Postfix
7 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.057%) RACF
8 1 (0.028%) Ceph
8 1 (0.028%) HDFS
8 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.028%) Squid
8 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 328 (9.31%) Kubernetes
2 269 (7.64%) Terraform
3 77 (2.19%) Ansible
4 58 (1.65%) Grafana
5 55 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.48%) Control-M
8 13 (0.37%) Kibana
8 13 (0.37%) Packer
9 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.26%) SCCM
10 8 (0.23%) Puppet
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.14%) Argo
13 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 432 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 189 (5.37%) Salesforce
3 174 (4.94%) Oracle
4 146 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 111 (3.15%) Google
6 108 (3.07%) Databricks
7 104 (2.95%) SAP
8 54 (1.53%) Splunk
9 49 (1.39%) Adobe
10 39 (1.11%) IBM
11 31 (0.88%) Workday
12 28 (0.80%) MuleSoft
13 27 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 25 (0.71%) Cisco
14 25 (0.71%) Informatica
14 25 (0.71%) VMware
15 23 (0.65%) Bloomberg
16 19 (0.54%) CyberArk
16 19 (0.54%) Okta
16 19 (0.54%) Pega