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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,893 2,545 3,640
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.65% 18.44% 19.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.60% 20.38% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,954 1,664 2,648
10th Percentile £363 £391 £406
25th Percentile £431 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 17
10th Percentile £49.93 - £21.72
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.11% -27.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69.36 £41.19 £72.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.90% -11.15% -

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 13,393 12,486 16,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.95% 90.46% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 7,905 11,829
10th Percentile £350 £350 £342
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.08 £25.23 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +1 387 £540 -6.09% 292
West London -1 66 £500 +30.72% 51
South London +6 49 £525 +10.24% 24
East London -1 28 £540 +10.20% 42
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 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
1 264 (9.13%) Confluence
2 57 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.28%) Apache
6 30 (1.04%) CMS
7 22 (0.76%) nginx
8 15 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.31%) Camunda
11 9 (0.31%) IIS
11 9 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.21%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.17%) Appian
13 5 (0.17%) SAS
14 4 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 107 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 60 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 52 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.48%) Trello
7 9 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 5 (0.17%) Notion
9 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.10%) InVision
12 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.069%) InDesign
12 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.069%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 53 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (1.00%) Aladdin
4 27 (0.93%) Endur
5 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.31%) Shopify
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.21%) Temenos T24
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 698 (24.13%) Azure
2 505 (17.46%) AWS
3 256 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
4 239 (8.26%) Power Platform
5 205 (7.09%) GitHub
6 190 (6.57%) GCP
7 139 (4.80%) Serverless
8 110 (3.80%) SaaS
9 94 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 94 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
10 83 (2.87%) Snowflake
11 77 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
12 72 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (2.32%) Amazon S3
14 65 (2.25%) PowerApps
15 62 (2.14%) Power Automate
16 60 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
17 53 (1.83%) Figma
18 49 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
19 47 (1.62%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.62%) Firewall
2 25 (0.86%) Network Security
3 24 (0.83%) HTTP
4 23 (0.80%) WAN
5 22 (0.76%) VPN
6 16 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.45%) DNS
9 12 (0.41%) Internet
10 8 (0.28%) LAN
11 6 (0.21%) 5G
11 6 (0.21%) BGP
12 5 (0.17%) Broadband
12 5 (0.17%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) FTP
13 4 (0.14%) IPsec
13 4 (0.14%) OSPF
13 4 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (5.67%) Power BI
2 117 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 101 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 98 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.04%) Tableau
8 54 (1.87%) MongoDB
9 49 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 47 (1.62%) Metadata
11 42 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
12 40 (1.38%) Big Data
13 38 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (1.07%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.04%) Oracle Database
16 25 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (0.83%) Data Vault
17 24 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
18 22 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 21 (0.73%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 523 (18.08%) JIRA
2 270 (9.33%) Git
3 163 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 96 (3.32%) GitLab
5 61 (2.11%) Selenium
6 53 (1.83%) JUnit
7 47 (1.62%) Postman
8 42 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 42 (1.45%) Cypress.io
9 35 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 31 (1.07%) SpecFlow
11 22 (0.76%) REST Assured
12 19 (0.66%) ERwin
13 18 (0.62%) Maven
13 18 (0.62%) Mockito
13 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.59%) JMeter
15 12 (0.41%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.41%) Gradle
15 12 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 1,169 (40.41%) Social Skills
2 945 (32.67%) Finance
3 460 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 372 (12.86%) Banking
5 332 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 123 (4.25%) Front Office
7 91 (3.15%) Retail
8 86 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 86 (2.97%) Marketing
9 85 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
11 76 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.35%) Legal
12 68 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 44 (1.52%) Financial Institution
15 42 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 39 (1.35%) Back Office
16 39 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 27 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 515 (17.80%) Developer
2 460 (15.90%) Analyst
3 425 (14.69%) Senior
4 358 (12.37%) Business Analyst
5 244 (8.43%) Lead
6 216 (7.47%) Project Manager
7 187 (6.46%) Architect
8 110 (3.80%) Software Engineer
9 108 (3.73%) Data Engineer
10 100 (3.46%) Consultant
11 94 (3.25%) Java Developer
12 77 (2.66%) Senior Developer
13 74 (2.56%) Senior Manager
14 73 (2.52%) Product Manager
15 71 (2.45%) Full-Stack Developer
16 67 (2.32%) Designer
17 66 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
18 63 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
19 60 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
20 59 (2.04%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (7.64%) REST
2 209 (7.22%) React
3 155 (5.36%) Node.js
4 153 (5.29%) Kafka
5 151 (5.22%) RESTful
6 139 (4.80%) .NET
7 116 (4.01%) AngularJS
8 113 (3.91%) HTML
9 110 (3.80%) CSS
10 104 (3.59%) Spring
11 98 (3.39%) Playwright
12 94 (3.25%) Spring Boot
13 82 (2.83%) SOAP
14 75 (2.59%) JSON
15 73 (2.52%) PySpark
16 65 (2.25%) XML
17 60 (2.07%) GraphQL
18 59 (2.04%) Web Services
19 56 (1.94%) Middleware
20 41 (1.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 303 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 200 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 64 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 61 (2.11%) Derivative
5 60 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 59 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 58 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 56 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 55 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 51 (1.76%) Virtual Team
12 49 (1.69%) Mobile App
12 49 (1.69%) Onboarding
13 48 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
14 47 (1.62%) AI Agents
15 46 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
15 46 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
16 44 (1.52%) PMI
17 42 (1.45%) Fixed Income
18 38 (1.31%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 152 (5.25%) Linux
2 84 (2.90%) Windows
3 82 (2.83%) Unix
4 31 (1.07%) Android
5 29 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.38%) VMS
8 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
10 2 (0.069%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.035%) Solaris
11 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (25.13%) DevOps
2 665 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
3 642 (22.19%) CI/CD
4 632 (21.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 618 (21.36%) Scrum
6 382 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 352 (12.17%) Test Automation
8 343 (11.86%) AI
9 333 (11.51%) Project Management
10 327 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 314 (10.85%) Analytics
12 298 (10.30%) Data Modelling
13 293 (10.13%) Roadmaps
14 283 (9.78%) Migration
15 276 (9.54%) Software Engineering
16 274 (9.47%) Microservices
17 271 (9.37%) User Stories
18 266 (9.19%) Waterfall
19 265 (9.16%) Project Delivery
20 248 (8.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 575 (19.88%) SQL
2 528 (18.25%) Python
3 342 (11.82%) Java
4 288 (9.96%) JavaScript
5 235 (8.12%) TypeScript
6 207 (7.16%) C#
7 85 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 58 (2.00%) C++
9 52 (1.80%) Scala
10 43 (1.49%) Bash
11 30 (1.04%) Go
12 29 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 26 (0.90%) Ruby
14 25 (0.86%) Bicep
14 25 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 21 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.69%) R
17 17 (0.59%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.59%) Korn
17 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 561 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 491 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 349 (12.06%) Degree
4 135 (4.67%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.80%) PMP
6 97 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.69%) CBAP
10 47 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 41 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 36 (1.24%) ISTQB
13 26 (0.90%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.86%) IIBA
15 24 (0.83%) CISSP
16 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.52%) CISM
18 13 (0.45%) ISEB
19 11 (0.38%) CSPO
20 10 (0.35%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (9.96%) QA
2 145 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 136 (4.70%) Accessibility
4 124 (4.29%) GDPR
5 86 (2.97%) PMO
6 38 (1.31%) WCAG
7 31 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 26 (0.90%) NIST
9 16 (0.55%) GRC
9 16 (0.55%) MiFID
10 12 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.38%) Basel III
11 11 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.38%) PSD2
12 10 (0.35%) PERC
12 10 (0.35%) SLA
13 9 (0.31%) EMIR
13 9 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 330 (11.41%) Docker
2 36 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.38%) 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 (0.035%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.035%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.035%) etcd
8 1 (0.035%) GPFS
8 1 (0.035%) IAG
8 1 (0.035%) KVM
8 1 (0.035%) Postfix
8 1 (0.035%) RACF
8 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 315 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 193 (6.67%) Terraform
3 53 (1.83%) Ansible
4 41 (1.42%) Grafana
5 26 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.62%) Argo
7 16 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.45%) Packer
9 12 (0.41%) Consul
10 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.35%) SCCM
11 8 (0.28%) Puppet
11 8 (0.28%) Rancher
12 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.17%) Control-M
14 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 379 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 197 (6.81%) Oracle
3 135 (4.67%) Databricks
4 125 (4.32%) Salesforce
5 114 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 107 (3.70%) SAP
7 80 (2.77%) Google
8 44 (1.52%) Adobe
9 41 (1.42%) Splunk
10 33 (1.14%) Workday
11 25 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.83%) MuleSoft
13 23 (0.80%) Informatica
14 21 (0.73%) Cisco
15 20 (0.69%) Bloomberg
16 18 (0.62%) OpenAI
17 17 (0.59%) Planview
18 16 (0.55%) VMware
19 15 (0.52%) Murex
20 14 (0.48%) Sybase