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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,514 2,952 3,564
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.51% 21.70% 21.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.67% 23.54% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 2,069 2,601
10th Percentile £390 £367 £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 £731
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 22 16 18
10th Percentile £51.60 £26.83 £31.20
25th Percentile £54.64 £33.13 £32.47
Median hourly rate £63.95 £48.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.18% -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £96.63 £88.13 £72.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.08% -

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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £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 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -4 365 £574 -4.42% 179
West London +1 94 £600 +41.18% 57
South London +8 76 £515 -17.60% 21
East London -3 15 £585 +8.33% 40
North London +2 7 £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
1 296 (8.42%) Confluence
2 89 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 56 (1.59%) CMS
5 53 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 43 (1.22%) 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 7 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.17%) Kentico
13 6 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
14 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.88%) 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 10 (0.28%) 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 44 (1.25%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 921 (26.21%) Azure
2 726 (20.66%) AWS
3 322 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
4 292 (8.31%) Power Platform
5 282 (8.03%) GitHub
6 244 (6.94%) GCP
7 178 (5.07%) Serverless
8 159 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
9 129 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 119 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (2.56%) Snowflake
12 87 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
13 85 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
14 81 (2.31%) PowerApps
15 80 (2.28%) Power Automate
16 74 (2.11%) SaaS
17 71 (2.02%) dbt
18 68 (1.94%) 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 (0.63%) VPN
5 18 (0.51%) DNS
6 17 (0.48%) Internet
7 14 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) HTTP
8 13 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.26%) Wireless
10 8 (0.23%) DMZ
10 8 (0.23%) MPLS
11 7 (0.20%) BGP
11 7 (0.20%) Intranet
11 7 (0.20%) LAN
11 7 (0.20%) OSPF
12 6 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.17%) SMS
12 6 (0.17%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (6.55%) Power BI
2 149 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
3 137 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 117 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 97 (2.76%) NoSQL
6 92 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 77 (2.19%) Metadata
8 69 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 66 (1.88%) Tableau
10 64 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
11 58 (1.65%) MongoDB
12 51 (1.45%) DynamoDB
13 44 (1.25%) Big Data
14 42 (1.20%) BigQuery
15 36 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (0.91%) Delta Lake
18 25 (0.71%) Oracle Database
19 21 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
19 21 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 569 (16.19%) JIRA
2 302 (8.59%) Git
3 238 (6.77%) Jenkins
4 120 (3.41%) GitLab
5 54 (1.54%) JUnit
6 45 (1.28%) Selenium
7 40 (1.14%) Postman
8 37 (1.05%) Gradle
9 35 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 35 (1.00%) Mockito
10 33 (0.94%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 23 (0.65%) Visual Studio
13 22 (0.63%) JMeter
13 22 (0.63%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.60%) Maven
15 18 (0.51%) Zephyr
16 17 (0.48%) CircleCI
16 17 (0.48%) Gatling
17 16 (0.46%) Liquibase
General
1 1,283 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 1,174 (33.41%) Finance
3 556 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 548 (15.59%) Public Sector
5 446 (12.69%) Banking
6 212 (6.03%) Retail
7 171 (4.87%) Front Office
8 143 (4.07%) Marketing
9 112 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 103 (2.93%) Investment Banking
11 98 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
12 82 (2.33%) Legal
13 74 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 69 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
15 60 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 40 (1.14%) Law
17 39 (1.11%) Local Government
18 38 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 38 (1.08%) Retail Banking
19 37 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 631 (17.96%) Developer
2 517 (14.71%) Senior
3 465 (13.23%) Analyst
4 366 (10.42%) Lead
5 321 (9.13%) Business Analyst
6 289 (8.22%) Project Manager
7 255 (7.26%) Architect
8 185 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 156 (4.44%) Data Engineer
10 136 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
11 127 (3.61%) Java Developer
12 126 (3.59%) Designer
13 109 (3.10%) Senior Developer
13 109 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
14 104 (2.96%) Senior Manager
15 85 (2.42%) Product Owner
16 79 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
17 78 (2.22%) Product Manager
18 77 (2.19%) Full-Stack Developer
19 71 (2.02%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (7.83%) REST
2 273 (7.77%) React
3 206 (5.86%) .NET
4 173 (4.92%) RESTful
5 168 (4.78%) Kafka
6 162 (4.61%) Spring
7 161 (4.58%) Node.js
8 137 (3.90%) Spring Boot
9 133 (3.78%) AngularJS
10 120 (3.41%) HTML
11 107 (3.04%) CSS
12 88 (2.50%) PySpark
13 84 (2.39%) Redux
14 83 (2.36%) SOAP
15 75 (2.13%) JSON
16 67 (1.91%) GraphQL
16 67 (1.91%) Middleware
17 64 (1.82%) Playwright
18 57 (1.62%) Web Services
19 56 (1.59%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 455 (12.95%) Product Ownership
2 269 (7.66%) Cloud Native
3 139 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 118 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 75 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 62 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 61 (1.74%) Derivative
11 60 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 59 (1.68%) NHS
13 56 (1.59%) Virtual Team
14 52 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 52 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
15 51 (1.45%) AI Agents
16 48 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 43 (1.22%) Data Centre
18 42 (1.20%) Mobile App
19 40 (1.14%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.04%) Linux
2 79 (2.25%) Windows
3 42 (1.20%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Android
4 35 (1.00%) 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
12 2 (0.057%) zOS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (27.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 958 (27.26%) DevOps
3 922 (26.24%) CI/CD
4 760 (21.63%) Scrum
5 637 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 618 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
7 562 (15.99%) AI
8 485 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 433 (12.32%) Analytics
10 399 (11.35%) Roadmaps
11 397 (11.30%) Software Engineering
12 391 (11.13%) Data Modelling
13 388 (11.04%) Decision-Making
14 370 (10.53%) Test Automation
15 364 (10.36%) Migration
16 361 (10.27%) User Stories
17 355 (10.10%) Project Management
18 348 (9.90%) Microservices
19 329 (9.36%) Waterfall
20 294 (8.37%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 627 (17.84%) SQL
2 617 (17.56%) Python
3 447 (12.72%) Java
4 326 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 261 (7.43%) TypeScript
6 229 (6.52%) C#
7 65 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.48%) Go
9 51 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 51 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 44 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 43 (1.22%) Bash
12 42 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 41 (1.17%) 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
1 796 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 701 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 273 (7.77%) Degree
4 136 (3.87%) PMP
5 127 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 94 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 93 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 77 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 47 (1.34%) AWS Certification
11 41 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 32 (0.91%) CISSP
13 25 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.63%) 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%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 327 (9.31%) QA
2 229 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 154 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.39%) PMO
5 113 (3.22%) GDPR
6 48 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.37%) 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 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
14 14 (0.40%) 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
1 281 (8.00%) Docker
2 53 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) IAG
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.085%) Postfix
7 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.057%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.057%) RACF
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
1 324 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 268 (7.63%) Terraform
3 76 (2.16%) Ansible
4 58 (1.65%) Grafana
5 55 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 23 (0.65%) 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
1 429 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 189 (5.38%) Salesforce
3 173 (4.92%) Oracle
4 146 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 111 (3.16%) Google
6 106 (3.02%) Databricks
7 104 (2.96%) SAP
8 53 (1.51%) Splunk
9 49 (1.39%) Adobe
10 38 (1.08%) IBM
11 31 (0.88%) Workday
12 28 (0.80%) MuleSoft
13 27 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 25 (0.71%) Informatica
15 24 (0.68%) Cisco
15 24 (0.68%) VMware
16 23 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 20 (0.57%) Pega
18 19 (0.54%) CyberArk
19 18 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud