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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,936 2,546 3,548
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.40% 18.85% 19.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.38% 20.81% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 1,670 2,576
10th Percentile £363 £388 £400
25th Percentile £433 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -8.48% +1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 18
10th Percentile £38.41 - £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £31.78
Median hourly rate £59.47 £38.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.49% -24.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £66.50 £41.19 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £78.56
England median hourly rate £59.47 £61.50 £63.91
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.76% -1.68%

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 13,733 12,232 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.75% 90.57% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,140 7,798 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.42
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.97 £55.25 £50.50
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +1 378 £550 -4.35% 207
West London -1 68 £500 +33.33% 60
South London +7 51 £525 +10.24% 34
East London -1 29 £533 +6.50% 57
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 3
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
1 268 (9.13%) Confluence
2 59 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (1.29%) Apache
6 28 (0.95%) CMS
7 20 (0.68%) nginx
8 15 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.31%) Camunda
13 8 (0.27%) IIS
14 6 (0.20%) Ethereum
14 6 (0.20%) Hyperledger
15 5 (0.17%) Appian
15 5 (0.17%) SAS
16 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
16 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
17 3 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 109 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.85%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.44%) Trello
8 11 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 10 (0.34%) Sketch
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.10%) InVision
13 2 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.068%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.068%) InDesign
13 2 (0.068%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.068%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.99%) Aladdin
3 28 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 27 (0.92%) Endur
5 15 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.31%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.20%) Temenos T24
11 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 715 (24.35%) Azure
2 521 (17.75%) AWS
3 260 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (8.04%) Power Platform
5 206 (7.02%) GitHub
6 197 (6.71%) GCP
7 137 (4.67%) Serverless
8 107 (3.64%) SaaS
9 97 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
10 95 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 84 (2.86%) Snowflake
12 76 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
13 69 (2.35%) Amazon S3
13 69 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
14 62 (2.11%) Figma
15 58 (1.98%) Power Automate
15 58 (1.98%) PowerApps
16 54 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
17 50 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
18 46 (1.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.60%) Firewall
2 25 (0.85%) Network Security
3 24 (0.82%) HTTP
4 23 (0.78%) WAN
5 22 (0.75%) VPN
6 16 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.44%) DNS
9 12 (0.41%) Internet
10 8 (0.27%) LAN
11 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 5 (0.17%) 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%) DMZ
13 4 (0.14%) FTP
13 4 (0.14%) IPsec
13 4 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.72%) Power BI
2 113 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
4 108 (3.68%) NoSQL
5 99 (3.37%) SQL Server
6 75 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 64 (2.18%) Tableau
8 54 (1.84%) MongoDB
9 50 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 46 (1.57%) Metadata
11 43 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
12 42 (1.43%) Big Data
13 38 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 38 (1.29%) BigQuery
14 30 (1.02%) Oracle Database
15 26 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
15 26 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (0.78%) Delta Lake
17 22 (0.75%) Data Vault
17 22 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 529 (18.02%) JIRA
2 267 (9.09%) Git
3 165 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 97 (3.30%) GitLab
5 62 (2.11%) Selenium
6 51 (1.74%) JUnit
7 48 (1.63%) Postman
8 43 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.36%) Cypress.io
10 35 (1.19%) Bitbucket
11 29 (0.99%) SpecFlow
12 21 (0.72%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.65%) JMeter
14 18 (0.61%) ERwin
14 18 (0.61%) Maven
14 18 (0.61%) Mockito
15 16 (0.54%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.48%) TestRail
17 12 (0.41%) Gradle
18 11 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,151 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 963 (32.80%) Finance
3 463 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 369 (12.57%) Banking
5 345 (11.75%) Public Sector
6 136 (4.63%) Front Office
7 94 (3.20%) Retail
8 85 (2.90%) Investment Banking
9 83 (2.83%) Marketing
10 81 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 80 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
12 77 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
13 72 (2.45%) Legal
14 66 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.60%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.53%) Financial Institution
17 41 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 40 (1.36%) Manufacturing
19 39 (1.33%) Back Office
20 30 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 513 (17.47%) Developer
2 459 (15.63%) Analyst
3 444 (15.12%) Senior
4 356 (12.13%) Business Analyst
5 259 (8.82%) Lead
6 225 (7.66%) Project Manager
7 190 (6.47%) Architect
8 121 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 114 (3.88%) Data Engineer
10 99 (3.37%) Consultant
11 93 (3.17%) Java Developer
12 81 (2.76%) Designer
13 80 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 76 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
15 74 (2.52%) Senior Developer
16 72 (2.45%) Product Manager
17 68 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
18 64 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
19 63 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
20 62 (2.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (7.63%) REST
2 217 (7.39%) React
3 166 (5.65%) Node.js
4 155 (5.28%) Kafka
5 146 (4.97%) RESTful
6 134 (4.56%) .NET
7 117 (3.99%) AngularJS
8 113 (3.85%) HTML
9 112 (3.81%) CSS
10 104 (3.54%) Playwright
11 101 (3.44%) Spring
12 91 (3.10%) Spring Boot
13 82 (2.79%) SOAP
14 77 (2.62%) PySpark
15 74 (2.52%) JSON
16 67 (2.28%) GraphQL
17 62 (2.11%) XML
18 60 (2.04%) Web Services
19 59 (2.01%) Middleware
20 40 (1.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 300 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 199 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 66 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 66 (2.25%) Derivative
4 60 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 59 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 53 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 53 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 52 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 52 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 50 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 48 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 48 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 47 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 46 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 43 (1.46%) PMI
14 42 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (1.33%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 147 (5.01%) Linux
2 87 (2.96%) Windows
3 81 (2.76%) Unix
4 34 (1.16%) Android
5 33 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.37%) VMS
8 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.068%) AIX
10 2 (0.068%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.034%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (24.59%) DevOps
2 653 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
3 650 (22.14%) CI/CD
4 635 (21.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 629 (21.42%) Scrum
6 399 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 357 (12.16%) AI
7 357 (12.16%) Test Automation
8 338 (11.51%) Project Management
9 328 (11.17%) Analytics
10 327 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 310 (10.56%) Data Modelling
12 292 (9.95%) Roadmaps
13 290 (9.88%) Software Engineering
14 279 (9.50%) Migration
15 273 (9.30%) User Stories
16 272 (9.26%) Waterfall
17 268 (9.13%) Microservices
18 264 (8.99%) Project Delivery
19 249 (8.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 577 (19.65%) SQL
2 536 (18.26%) Python
3 349 (11.89%) Java
4 305 (10.39%) JavaScript
5 247 (8.41%) TypeScript
6 203 (6.91%) C#
7 84 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.98%) C++
9 55 (1.87%) Scala
10 41 (1.40%) Bash
11 40 (1.36%) Go
12 30 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 26 (0.89%) Ruby
14 25 (0.85%) Bicep
14 25 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.68%) R
17 19 (0.65%) Apex Code
18 18 (0.61%) Korn
19 17 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 565 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 501 (17.06%) SC Cleared
3 350 (11.92%) Degree
4 136 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 112 (3.81%) PMP
6 98 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.21%) Azure Certification
8 59 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.67%) CBAP
10 40 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.33%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.92%) AWS Certification
12 27 (0.92%) CISSP
13 25 (0.85%) IIBA
14 19 (0.65%) CISM
15 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.44%) ISEB
17 11 (0.37%) CSPO
18 10 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (9.88%) QA
2 150 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 146 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 126 (4.29%) GDPR
5 86 (2.93%) PMO
6 43 (1.46%) WCAG
7 35 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 30 (1.02%) NIST
10 18 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.58%) GRC
12 16 (0.54%) MiFID
13 13 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.41%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.37%) PSD2
16 10 (0.34%) Basel III
16 10 (0.34%) PERC
16 10 (0.34%) SLA
17 9 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.31%) EMIR
System Software
1 327 (11.14%) Docker
2 37 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.068%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.034%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.034%) etcd
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) HDFS
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 317 (10.80%) Kubernetes
2 190 (6.47%) Terraform
3 47 (1.60%) Ansible
4 41 (1.40%) Grafana
5 27 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.61%) Argo
7 17 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.44%) Packer
9 12 (0.41%) Consul
10 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.34%) SCCM
11 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.27%) Puppet
11 8 (0.27%) Rancher
12 5 (0.17%) Control-M
12 5 (0.17%) Kibana
13 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.14%) Nessus
14 3 (0.10%) Istio
Vendors
1 378 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 191 (6.51%) Oracle
3 136 (4.63%) Databricks
4 121 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 118 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 99 (3.37%) SAP
7 73 (2.49%) Google
8 47 (1.60%) Adobe
9 40 (1.36%) Splunk
10 27 (0.92%) Workday
11 26 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 23 (0.78%) Informatica
13 21 (0.72%) Bloomberg
14 20 (0.68%) Cisco
14 20 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 18 (0.61%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.58%) Planview
17 16 (0.54%) VMware
18 15 (0.51%) Foundry
18 15 (0.51%) Sybase