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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,994 2,578 3,460
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.95% 20.51% 19.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.17% 22.25% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,029 1,802 2,523
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £725
90th Percentile £765 £850 £838
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 20
10th Percentile £32.47 £34.41 £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.25 £31.93
Median hourly rate £63.50 £39.02 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.74% -23.86% -22.35%
75th Percentile £72.75 £58.51 £68.06
90th Percentile £91.35 £79.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 15,622 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,456 7,858 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -3 344 £563 -3.85% 297
South London +6 79 £513 -12.09% 6
West London -1 69 £520 +30.00% 29
East London -1 26 £510 -11.30% 32
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
1 279 (9.32%) Confluence
2 76 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 70 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 38 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.24%) CMS
6 29 (0.97%) Apache
7 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) IIS
10 11 (0.37%) Camunda
10 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.30%) SAS
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 7 (0.23%) nginx
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
14 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
15 4 (0.13%) Appian
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 110 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.30%) Trello
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.23%) Sketch
9 6 (0.20%) Notion
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.067%) InVision
11 2 (0.067%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.067%) Windchill
11 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.033%) Mingle
12 1 (0.033%) Weka
Business Applications
1 43 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.37%) Endur
7 10 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 10 (0.33%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.23%) Findur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 764 (25.52%) Azure
2 589 (19.67%) AWS
3 258 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (7.58%) Power Platform
5 205 (6.85%) GitHub
6 178 (5.95%) GCP
7 135 (4.51%) Serverless
8 114 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
9 99 (3.31%) Amazon S3
10 86 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 83 (2.77%) SaaS
12 82 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
15 64 (2.14%) Snowflake
16 58 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 58 (1.94%) Figma
16 58 (1.94%) Power Automate
17 54 (1.80%) PowerApps
18 50 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.70%) Firewall
2 26 (0.87%) WAN
3 24 (0.80%) Network Security
4 21 (0.70%) HTTP
5 17 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 17 (0.57%) VPN
6 11 (0.37%) DNS
7 10 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.30%) LAN
9 7 (0.23%) DMZ
9 7 (0.23%) Internet
10 6 (0.20%) FTP
11 5 (0.17%) BGP
11 5 (0.17%) MPLS
11 5 (0.17%) OSPF
11 5 (0.17%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.13%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.13%) NX-OS
12 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (5.51%) Power BI
2 120 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 104 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
6 69 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 69 (2.30%) Tableau
7 56 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
7 56 (1.87%) Big Data
8 51 (1.70%) Data Lake
8 51 (1.70%) Metadata
9 49 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.34%) Delta Lake
11 39 (1.30%) BigQuery
12 31 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 27 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (0.70%) Spark SQL
15 21 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 524 (17.50%) JIRA
2 263 (8.78%) Git
3 173 (5.78%) Jenkins
4 86 (2.87%) GitLab
5 55 (1.84%) JUnit
6 51 (1.70%) Selenium
7 45 (1.50%) Postman
8 34 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.04%) Mockito
10 30 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 30 (1.00%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.90%) SpecFlow
12 19 (0.63%) JMeter
13 18 (0.60%) REST Assured
14 15 (0.50%) Gradle
15 14 (0.47%) Maven
15 14 (0.47%) Zephyr
16 12 (0.40%) TestRail
17 10 (0.33%) Liquibase
17 10 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,071 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 1,043 (34.84%) Finance
3 459 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 377 (12.59%) Banking
6 155 (5.18%) Front Office
7 104 (3.47%) Retail
8 98 (3.27%) Marketing
9 96 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 85 (2.84%) Legal
11 79 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
12 77 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 72 (2.40%) Investment Banking
14 68 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
15 45 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 45 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 35 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 29 (0.97%) Law
18 26 (0.87%) Manufacturing
19 25 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 532 (17.77%) Developer
2 452 (15.10%) Analyst
3 443 (14.80%) Senior
4 340 (11.36%) Business Analyst
5 267 (8.92%) Lead
6 260 (8.68%) Project Manager
7 216 (7.21%) Architect
8 143 (4.78%) Data Engineer
9 139 (4.64%) Software Engineer
10 106 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
11 99 (3.31%) Designer
11 99 (3.31%) Java Developer
12 92 (3.07%) Senior Manager
13 91 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
14 84 (2.81%) Senior Developer
15 79 (2.64%) Consultant
16 74 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
17 72 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
18 65 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
19 62 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (7.45%) React
2 197 (6.58%) REST
3 160 (5.34%) Kafka
3 160 (5.34%) Node.js
4 150 (5.01%) .NET
5 141 (4.71%) RESTful
6 133 (4.44%) AngularJS
7 123 (4.11%) Spring
8 121 (4.04%) HTML
9 107 (3.57%) Spring Boot
10 105 (3.51%) CSS
11 91 (3.04%) PySpark
12 82 (2.74%) Playwright
13 75 (2.51%) Middleware
14 66 (2.20%) GraphQL
15 62 (2.07%) SOAP
16 60 (2.00%) Redux
17 54 (1.80%) JSON
18 47 (1.57%) Web Services
19 45 (1.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 322 (10.75%) Product Ownership
2 230 (7.68%) Cloud Native
3 90 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.54%) Fixed Income
5 72 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 72 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 62 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 59 (1.97%) Derivative
9 56 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 50 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
11 41 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 40 (1.34%) AI Agents
12 40 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 40 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 39 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 37 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 37 (1.24%) Equities
15 34 (1.14%) NHS
16 31 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 110 (3.67%) Linux
2 76 (2.54%) Windows
3 53 (1.77%) Unix
4 27 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.87%) Android
6 14 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.17%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.10%) AIX
11 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (26.29%) DevOps
2 707 (23.61%) CI/CD
3 702 (23.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 632 (21.11%) Scrum
5 543 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
6 485 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 390 (13.03%) AI
8 360 (12.02%) Project Management
9 355 (11.86%) Data Modelling
10 334 (11.16%) Analytics
11 328 (10.96%) Test Automation
12 322 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 318 (10.62%) Migration
14 311 (10.39%) Software Engineering
15 309 (10.32%) Roadmaps
16 303 (10.12%) Decision-Making
17 296 (9.89%) User Stories
18 285 (9.52%) Microservices
19 282 (9.42%) Waterfall
20 263 (8.78%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 567 (18.94%) SQL
2 546 (18.24%) Python
3 375 (12.53%) Java
4 303 (10.12%) JavaScript
5 247 (8.25%) TypeScript
6 213 (7.11%) C#
7 58 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.84%) Scala
9 51 (1.70%) Go
10 43 (1.44%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.07%) Apex Code
13 31 (1.04%) Bash
14 27 (0.90%) C++
14 27 (0.90%) Ruby
15 23 (0.77%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 22 (0.73%) Bicep
16 22 (0.73%) R
17 21 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 645 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 568 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 274 (9.15%) Degree
4 118 (3.94%) PMP
5 116 (3.87%) PMI Certification
6 88 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 55 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 45 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 42 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 38 (1.27%) CBAP
12 34 (1.14%) ISTQB
13 28 (0.94%) CISSP
14 27 (0.90%) AWS Certification
15 26 (0.87%) IIBA
16 24 (0.80%) CISM
17 19 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
18 16 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
19 14 (0.47%) CSPO
20 10 (0.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.79%) QA
2 183 (6.11%) Data Quality
3 132 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 129 (4.31%) GDPR
5 105 (3.51%) PMO
6 52 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.40%) WCAG
8 40 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 38 (1.27%) NIST
10 22 (0.73%) SLA
11 21 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.60%) GRC
13 17 (0.57%) NCSC
14 14 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.30%) Basel III
15 9 (0.30%) PSD2
16 8 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.27%) HL7
16 8 (0.27%) PERC
System Software
1 279 (9.32%) Docker
2 31 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.10%) IAG
6 3 (0.10%) RACF
6 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.067%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
8 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 300 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 219 (7.31%) Terraform
3 61 (2.04%) Ansible
4 50 (1.67%) Grafana
5 38 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.30%) Packer
7 9 (0.30%) SCCM
8 8 (0.27%) Argo
8 8 (0.27%) Kibana
8 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.27%) Puppet
9 7 (0.23%) Consul
9 7 (0.23%) Rancher
9 7 (0.23%) WSUS
10 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 389 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.51%) Oracle
3 150 (5.01%) Salesforce
4 130 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 116 (3.87%) Databricks
6 99 (3.31%) SAP
7 55 (1.84%) Google
8 44 (1.47%) Adobe
9 39 (1.30%) Workday
10 34 (1.14%) Splunk
11 25 (0.84%) IBM
12 24 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 22 (0.73%) Informatica
13 22 (0.73%) MuleSoft
14 19 (0.63%) CyberArk
15 18 (0.60%) Atlassian
15 18 (0.60%) Citrix
15 18 (0.60%) VMware
16 17 (0.57%) Cisco
16 17 (0.57%) Okta