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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,853 2,563 3,635
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.97% 18.46% 19.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.90% 20.43% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,938 1,672 2,640
10th Percentile £363 £394 £408
25th Percentile £431 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £731 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £515 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.65% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 19
10th Percentile £37.89 - £23.36
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £41.51
Median hourly rate £59.47 £37.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.72% -26.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £39.04 £72.00
90th Percentile £98.64 £63.45 £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 13,030 12,548 16,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.21% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 7,991 11,538
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
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 221 154 286
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.54 £19.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.45% -14.98%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 393 £546 -6.62% 227
West London 0 67 £450 +20.00% 44
South London +6 47 £525 +10.53% 37
East London -1 24 £495 -1.00% 33
North London +3 1 £700 +71.36% 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
1 256 (8.97%) Confluence
2 53 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 52 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 46 (1.61%) Apache
5 45 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
6 31 (1.09%) CMS
7 20 (0.70%) nginx
8 13 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 13 (0.46%) IIS
9 10 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.21%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) Appian
13 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
13 4 (0.14%) WordPress
14 3 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 96 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 53 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.95%) Chatbot
7 17 (0.60%) Trello
8 8 (0.28%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.25%) Sketch
10 5 (0.18%) Notion
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.070%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.070%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.070%) InDesign
13 2 (0.070%) InVision
13 2 (0.070%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.035%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.95%) Endur
4 26 (0.91%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.32%) Shopify
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.25%) Temenos T24
10 6 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.18%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 678 (23.76%) Azure
2 502 (17.60%) AWS
3 245 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
4 238 (8.34%) Power Platform
5 204 (7.15%) GitHub
6 189 (6.62%) GCP
7 143 (5.01%) Serverless
8 102 (3.58%) SaaS
9 95 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 93 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 83 (2.91%) Snowflake
12 73 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
14 66 (2.31%) Amazon S3
14 66 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (2.28%) Power Automate
16 63 (2.21%) PowerApps
17 48 (1.68%) Figma
17 48 (1.68%) IaaS
18 47 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.79%) Firewall
2 23 (0.81%) VPN
3 22 (0.77%) Network Security
4 21 (0.74%) WAN
5 18 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.56%) HTTP
6 16 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.53%) DNS
8 10 (0.35%) BGP
9 9 (0.32%) Internet
10 8 (0.28%) OSPF
11 6 (0.21%) 5G
11 6 (0.21%) SMS
12 5 (0.18%) LAN
12 5 (0.18%) MPLS
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) DMZ
13 4 (0.14%) FTP
13 4 (0.14%) IPsec
13 4 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (5.82%) Power BI
2 117 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 107 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 98 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 81 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 57 (2.00%) Tableau
8 53 (1.86%) Data Lake
9 50 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 45 (1.58%) Big Data
11 44 (1.54%) Metadata
12 38 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
13 37 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (1.09%) Oracle Database
15 30 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.05%) BigQuery
16 24 (0.84%) Data Vault
17 23 (0.81%) Hadoop
17 23 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
18 22 (0.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 504 (17.67%) JIRA
2 260 (9.11%) Git
3 166 (5.82%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.29%) GitLab
5 59 (2.07%) Selenium
6 49 (1.72%) JUnit
7 46 (1.61%) Postman
8 44 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 41 (1.44%) Cucumber
10 36 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 31 (1.09%) SpecFlow
12 19 (0.67%) ERwin
12 19 (0.67%) Maven
13 18 (0.63%) JMeter
13 18 (0.63%) Mockito
13 18 (0.63%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.60%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.42%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.42%) Gradle
15 12 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 1,143 (40.06%) Social Skills
2 924 (32.39%) Finance
3 453 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 365 (12.79%) Banking
5 338 (11.85%) Public Sector
6 122 (4.28%) Front Office
7 90 (3.15%) Investment Banking
7 90 (3.15%) Marketing
8 86 (3.01%) Retail
9 82 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
9 82 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
10 76 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
11 64 (2.24%) Legal
12 62 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 50 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 46 (1.61%) Financial Institution
15 45 (1.58%) Back Office
16 43 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 40 (1.40%) Manufacturing
18 31 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 507 (17.77%) Developer
2 441 (15.46%) Analyst
3 423 (14.83%) Senior
4 344 (12.06%) Business Analyst
5 241 (8.45%) Lead
6 205 (7.19%) Project Manager
7 176 (6.17%) Architect
8 119 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 108 (3.79%) Data Engineer
10 102 (3.58%) Consultant
11 89 (3.12%) Java Developer
12 76 (2.66%) Product Manager
13 72 (2.52%) Senior Developer
14 70 (2.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 66 (2.31%) Senior Manager
16 64 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
17 63 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
18 62 (2.17%) Product Owner
19 59 (2.07%) Tester
20 57 (2.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (7.57%) React
2 210 (7.36%) REST
3 166 (5.82%) Node.js
4 153 (5.36%) RESTful
5 151 (5.29%) Kafka
6 141 (4.94%) .NET
7 124 (4.35%) HTML
8 118 (4.14%) CSS
9 110 (3.86%) AngularJS
10 103 (3.61%) Spring
11 97 (3.40%) Playwright
12 90 (3.15%) Spring Boot
13 82 (2.87%) JSON
14 78 (2.73%) SOAP
15 73 (2.56%) PySpark
16 69 (2.42%) XML
17 61 (2.14%) GraphQL
18 59 (2.07%) Web Services
19 46 (1.61%) Middleware
20 44 (1.54%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 295 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 200 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 66 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 65 (2.28%) Management Information System
5 61 (2.14%) Derivative
6 60 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 60 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 56 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 52 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 49 (1.72%) Onboarding
11 48 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
12 47 (1.65%) Mobile App
12 47 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 46 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 46 (1.61%) Fixed Income
13 46 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.58%) PMI
15 43 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
16 42 (1.47%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 153 (5.36%) Linux
2 85 (2.98%) Windows
3 81 (2.84%) Unix
4 32 (1.12%) Android
5 30 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.35%) VMS
8 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.21%) zOS
9 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.070%) AIX
10 2 (0.070%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.070%) 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
1 731 (25.62%) DevOps
2 663 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
3 635 (22.26%) CI/CD
4 607 (21.28%) Scrum
5 588 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 360 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 346 (12.13%) Test Automation
8 338 (11.85%) AI
9 317 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 309 (10.83%) Project Management
11 307 (10.76%) Analytics
12 290 (10.16%) Roadmaps
13 286 (10.02%) Data Modelling
14 285 (9.99%) Software Engineering
15 281 (9.85%) Microservices
16 266 (9.32%) Migration
16 266 (9.32%) User Stories
17 245 (8.59%) Waterfall
18 244 (8.55%) SDLC
19 243 (8.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 563 (19.73%) SQL
2 536 (18.79%) Python
3 350 (12.27%) Java
4 305 (10.69%) JavaScript
5 235 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 203 (7.12%) C#
7 79 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 62 (2.17%) C++
9 52 (1.82%) Scala
10 45 (1.58%) Bash
11 31 (1.09%) Go
12 30 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.98%) Ruby
14 27 (0.95%) Bicep
15 24 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 22 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.70%) R
18 19 (0.67%) Apex Code
19 17 (0.60%) T-SQL
20 16 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 553 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 483 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 349 (12.23%) Degree
4 133 (4.66%) PMI Certification
5 104 (3.65%) PMP
6 102 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 44 (1.54%) CBAP
11 43 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 35 (1.23%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.95%) CISSP
14 25 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.70%) IIBA
16 17 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.53%) CISM
18 13 (0.46%) CSPO
18 13 (0.46%) ISEB
19 11 (0.39%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (10.20%) QA
2 139 (4.87%) Data Quality
3 129 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 123 (4.31%) GDPR
5 80 (2.80%) PMO
6 35 (1.23%) WCAG
7 31 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 25 (0.88%) NIST
9 16 (0.56%) GRC
9 16 (0.56%) MiFID
10 12 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.39%) Basel III
11 11 (0.39%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.35%) PERC
13 9 (0.32%) EMIR
13 9 (0.32%) PSD2
14 8 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 329 (11.53%) Docker
2 43 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.11%) Squid
7 2 (0.070%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.070%) 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%) Lustre
8 1 (0.035%) Postfix
8 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 311 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 189 (6.62%) Terraform
3 54 (1.89%) Ansible
4 44 (1.54%) Grafana
5 28 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.63%) Argo
6 18 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.39%) Packer
8 10 (0.35%) Consul
8 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.35%) SCCM
9 9 (0.32%) Puppet
10 8 (0.28%) Rancher
11 7 (0.25%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.21%) Kibana
13 5 (0.18%) Control-M
14 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.11%) CA Endevor
15 3 (0.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 371 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 194 (6.80%) Oracle
3 130 (4.56%) Databricks
4 123 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 106 (3.72%) SAP
6 103 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 84 (2.94%) Google
8 43 (1.51%) Splunk
9 42 (1.47%) Adobe
10 31 (1.09%) Workday
11 25 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 25 (0.88%) MuleSoft
12 24 (0.84%) Cisco
13 21 (0.74%) Informatica
14 20 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 19 (0.67%) Bloomberg
16 16 (0.56%) Foundry
16 16 (0.56%) VMware
17 15 (0.53%) Dynatrace
17 15 (0.53%) Planview