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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,121 3,025 4,087
As % of all contract jobs in London 21.72% 19.15% 21.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.67% 21.32% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,021 2,935
10th Percentile £360 £381 £413
25th Percentile £435 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £675 £723 £706
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £520 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.44% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 18
10th Percentile £27.13 £34.42 £43.61
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.00 £68.05
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -47.10% +13.42%
75th Percentile £69.36 £41.19 £76.88
90th Percentile £99.86 £61.53 £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 13,188 14,190 17,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.79% 89.85% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,704 9,175 12,401
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 166 233
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.81
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.63 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 0 440 £550 -6.18% 154
West London -1 64 £438 +12.18% 30
South London -1 44 £525 -6.50% 15
East London -2 30 £525 +10.53% 27
North London +5 4 £550 +35.97% 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
1 306 (9.80%) Confluence
2 71 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.15%) Apache
4 47 (1.51%) SharePoint
5 42 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 36 (1.15%) CMS
7 27 (0.87%) nginx
8 16 (0.51%) IIS
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.22%) Camunda
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.19%) SAS
12 6 (0.19%) WordPress
13 5 (0.16%) Appian
13 5 (0.16%) CICS
13 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 100 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 58 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
4 50 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.87%) Chatbot
6 20 (0.64%) Trello
7 12 (0.38%) Sketch
8 10 (0.32%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.16%) Notion
9 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.064%) InDesign
12 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.032%) Autodesk Smoke
13 1 (0.032%) MadCap Flare
13 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 54 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 44 (1.41%) Endur
4 25 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 13 (0.42%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.26%) Shopify
9 7 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
10 6 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
10 6 (0.19%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.16%) Loan IQ
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.13%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 686 (21.98%) Azure
2 601 (19.26%) AWS
3 260 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (7.31%) Power Platform
5 219 (7.02%) GCP
6 205 (6.57%) GitHub
7 153 (4.90%) Serverless
8 111 (3.56%) SaaS
9 99 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
10 98 (3.14%) Snowflake
11 75 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
12 73 (2.34%) Amazon S3
13 70 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
14 69 (2.21%) PowerApps
15 68 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 68 (2.18%) Power Automate
16 67 (2.15%) dbt
17 65 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
18 58 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
19 55 (1.76%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.57%) Firewall
2 24 (0.77%) VPN
3 22 (0.70%) HTTP
3 22 (0.70%) Network Security
4 20 (0.64%) DNS
5 19 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.54%) Internet
6 17 (0.54%) WAN
7 15 (0.48%) SSL
8 12 (0.38%) BGP
9 11 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.29%) OSPF
11 7 (0.22%) MPLS
12 6 (0.19%) DHCP
13 5 (0.16%) 5G
13 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.16%) LAN
13 5 (0.16%) SMS
13 5 (0.16%) Wireless
14 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (5.13%) Power BI
2 159 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
3 112 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 105 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
5 102 (3.27%) NoSQL
6 91 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 67 (2.15%) Tableau
8 63 (2.02%) Data Lake
8 63 (2.02%) MongoDB
9 52 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 52 (1.67%) Big Data
10 43 (1.38%) Apache Arrow
10 43 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
10 43 (1.38%) Dremio
10 43 (1.38%) Oracle Database
11 42 (1.35%) Metadata
12 34 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 33 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (1.03%) BigQuery
15 31 (0.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 562 (18.01%) JIRA
2 295 (9.45%) Git
3 191 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 90 (2.88%) GitLab
5 64 (2.05%) Selenium
6 63 (2.02%) JUnit
7 49 (1.57%) Postman
8 47 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 44 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 43 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 33 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 24 (0.77%) Maven
12 24 (0.77%) Mockito
13 22 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 19 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.58%) webpack
16 17 (0.54%) ERwin
17 16 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (0.51%) JMeter
18 14 (0.45%) Appium
General
1 1,239 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 1,028 (32.94%) Finance
3 471 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 412 (13.20%) Banking
5 341 (10.93%) Public Sector
6 174 (5.58%) Front Office
7 127 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 94 (3.01%) Retail
9 93 (2.98%) Marketing
10 81 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 77 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 67 (2.15%) Back Office
14 64 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
15 62 (1.99%) Legal
16 57 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 56 (1.79%) Telecoms
18 48 (1.54%) Financial Institution
19 40 (1.28%) Manufacturing
20 32 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 599 (19.19%) Developer
2 474 (15.19%) Analyst
3 464 (14.87%) Senior
4 367 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 264 (8.46%) Lead
6 217 (6.95%) Project Manager
7 201 (6.44%) Architect
8 165 (5.29%) Software Engineer
9 129 (4.13%) Java Developer
10 112 (3.59%) Consultant
11 102 (3.27%) Senior Developer
12 96 (3.08%) Data Engineer
13 78 (2.50%) Product Owner
14 77 (2.47%) Product Manager
15 69 (2.21%) AWS Engineer
16 68 (2.18%) Python Engineer
17 64 (2.05%) Full-Stack Developer
18 63 (2.02%) Senior Software Engineer
19 62 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
20 61 (1.95%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (8.65%) React
2 257 (8.23%) REST
3 198 (6.34%) Kafka
4 185 (5.93%) Node.js
5 179 (5.74%) .NET
6 172 (5.51%) RESTful
7 148 (4.74%) HTML
8 141 (4.52%) AngularJS
9 134 (4.29%) CSS
10 128 (4.10%) Spring
11 107 (3.43%) SOAP
12 105 (3.36%) JSON
13 99 (3.17%) Spring Boot
14 88 (2.82%) Playwright
15 80 (2.56%) GraphQL
16 71 (2.27%) Web Services
17 70 (2.24%) XML
18 60 (1.92%) HTML5
19 55 (1.76%) Pandas
19 55 (1.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 347 (11.12%) Product Ownership
2 207 (6.63%) Cloud Native
3 107 (3.43%) Fixed Income
4 101 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 91 (2.92%) Derivative
6 82 (2.63%) Equities
7 68 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
7 68 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 65 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 65 (2.08%) Mobile App
9 63 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 59 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 58 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
13 57 (1.83%) Onboarding
14 54 (1.73%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.51%) Reinsurance
16 45 (1.44%) Hedge funds
17 41 (1.31%) AI Agents
17 41 (1.31%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 171 (5.48%) Linux
2 86 (2.76%) Unix
3 84 (2.69%) Windows
4 46 (1.47%) Android
5 43 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) VMS
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.19%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.064%) AIX
11 2 (0.064%) CentOS
11 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.032%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Debian
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) watchOS
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (24.77%) DevOps
2 705 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
3 690 (22.11%) CI/CD
4 680 (21.79%) Scrum
5 562 (18.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 363 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 356 (11.41%) Software Engineering
8 354 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 352 (11.28%) Test Automation
10 344 (11.02%) Microservices
11 319 (10.22%) Project Management
12 314 (10.06%) Roadmaps
13 312 (10.00%) AI
14 300 (9.61%) Analytics
15 280 (8.97%) User Stories
16 270 (8.65%) Data Modelling
17 267 (8.55%) Migration
18 261 (8.36%) SDLC
19 247 (7.91%) Waterfall
20 237 (7.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 594 (19.03%) Python
2 588 (18.84%) SQL
3 470 (15.06%) Java
4 384 (12.30%) JavaScript
5 282 (9.04%) TypeScript
6 230 (7.37%) C#
7 80 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 67 (2.15%) C++
9 53 (1.70%) Go
10 52 (1.67%) Bash
11 48 (1.54%) Scala
12 37 (1.19%) PL/SQL
13 32 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 30 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.80%) Bicep
15 25 (0.80%) Ruby
16 23 (0.74%) Apex Code
17 20 (0.64%) Groovy
18 19 (0.61%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 569 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 493 (15.80%) SC Cleared
3 371 (11.89%) Degree
4 127 (4.07%) PMI Certification
5 111 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (3.30%) PMP
7 59 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 51 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.57%) Master's Degree
10 46 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.09%) ISTQB
12 30 (0.96%) CBAP
13 27 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.80%) CISSP
15 14 (0.45%) CISM
15 14 (0.45%) CSPO
16 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.35%) MCP
19 10 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (9.80%) QA
2 135 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 116 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 105 (3.36%) GDPR
5 82 (2.63%) PMO
6 31 (0.99%) WCAG
7 29 (0.93%) MiFID
8 21 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.51%) GRC
10 15 (0.48%) EMIR
10 15 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.42%) NIST
12 10 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.32%) SLA
13 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.29%) PERC
14 8 (0.26%) Basel III
14 8 (0.26%) PSD2
14 8 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 336 (10.77%) Docker
2 44 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.064%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.064%) Squid
7 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.032%) etcd
8 1 (0.032%) GPFS
8 1 (0.032%) KVM
8 1 (0.032%) Lustre
8 1 (0.032%) Postfix
8 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 303 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 207 (6.63%) Terraform
3 60 (1.92%) Ansible
4 44 (1.41%) Grafana
5 28 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.58%) Packer
8 17 (0.54%) Consul
9 16 (0.51%) Argo
10 14 (0.45%) Puppet
11 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.29%) Kibana
13 8 (0.26%) HP ALM
13 8 (0.26%) Rancher
14 7 (0.22%) SCCM
15 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
15 4 (0.13%) Control-M
15 4 (0.13%) Nessus
15 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.096%) Nagios
Vendors
1 379 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 212 (6.79%) Oracle
3 132 (4.23%) Salesforce
4 119 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 113 (3.62%) SAP
6 111 (3.56%) Google
7 107 (3.43%) Databricks
8 46 (1.47%) Splunk
9 41 (1.31%) Adobe
10 33 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 31 (0.99%) Workday
12 28 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.70%) HP
14 21 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 20 (0.64%) Cisco
15 20 (0.64%) Foundry
15 20 (0.64%) Murex
15 20 (0.64%) OpenLink
15 20 (0.64%) Sybase
16 18 (0.58%) Dynatrace