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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,403 2,902 3,697
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.13% 21.32% 21.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.24% 23.13% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,305 2,035 2,711
10th Percentile £375 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 21
10th Percentile £49.08 £28.07 £26.68
25th Percentile £56.14 £36.76 £31.71
Median hourly rate £71.25 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £90.31 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £83.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -

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 17,691 12,549 15,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.03% 92.21% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,395 11,020
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £768 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.84 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -5 358 £566 -4.43% 218
West London 0 87 £588 +46.88% 209
South London +3 67 £513 -15.08% 25
East London -2 20 £585 +8.33% 37
North London 0 6 £550 - 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
1 302 (8.87%) Confluence
2 90 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 50 (1.47%) CMS
5 45 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 30 (0.88%) Apache
7 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.47%) IIS
9 15 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.38%) Camunda
10 13 (0.38%) SAS
11 9 (0.26%) JBoss
12 7 (0.21%) Appian
12 7 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.21%) Hyperledger
12 7 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.18%) Kentico
14 5 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 97 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.21%) Notion
7 7 (0.21%) Sketch
8 6 (0.18%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.15%) Trello
10 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.059%) Windchill
12 1 (0.029%) InVision
12 1 (0.029%) Mingle
12 1 (0.029%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.029%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 37 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 23 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.41%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Findur
6 11 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
7 10 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.24%) Endur
9 7 (0.21%) Magento
10 6 (0.18%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.18%) Shopify
10 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
11 5 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.12%) Actimize
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 876 (25.74%) Azure
2 708 (20.81%) AWS
3 298 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
4 266 (7.82%) Power Platform
5 246 (7.23%) GitHub
6 208 (6.11%) GCP
7 174 (5.11%) Serverless
8 140 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
9 131 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 120 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
12 76 (2.23%) Snowflake
13 74 (2.17%) SaaS
14 73 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
15 70 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
16 68 (2.00%) PowerApps
17 66 (1.94%) Power Automate
18 63 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
19 61 (1.79%) Entra ID
20 59 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.56%) Firewall
2 27 (0.79%) Network Security
2 27 (0.79%) WAN
3 23 (0.68%) VPN
4 20 (0.59%) Internet
5 18 (0.53%) HTTP
6 16 (0.47%) DNS
7 15 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.38%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.29%) LAN
9 10 (0.29%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.21%) Intranet
10 7 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.21%) Wireless
11 6 (0.18%) BGP
11 6 (0.18%) DMZ
11 6 (0.18%) MPLS
11 6 (0.18%) OSPF
11 6 (0.18%) SMS
11 6 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (6.14%) Power BI
2 132 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 128 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 117 (3.44%) SQL Server
5 101 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 86 (2.53%) Relational Database
7 69 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
8 66 (1.94%) Metadata
8 66 (1.94%) Tableau
9 63 (1.85%) Data Lake
10 54 (1.59%) MongoDB
11 49 (1.44%) DynamoDB
12 46 (1.35%) Big Data
13 39 (1.15%) Delta Lake
14 38 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 36 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (0.62%) Oracle Database
18 21 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 574 (16.87%) JIRA
2 287 (8.43%) Git
3 218 (6.41%) Jenkins
4 111 (3.26%) GitLab
5 63 (1.85%) JUnit
6 50 (1.47%) Selenium
7 47 (1.38%) Postman
8 35 (1.03%) Mockito
9 34 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 34 (1.00%) Gradle
10 31 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 28 (0.82%) REST Assured
13 20 (0.59%) Maven
14 19 (0.56%) JMeter
15 17 (0.50%) SpecFlow
16 16 (0.47%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.44%) Gatling
17 15 (0.44%) Liquibase
18 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,216 (35.73%) Social Skills
2 1,135 (33.35%) Finance
3 511 (15.02%) Public Sector
4 490 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
5 429 (12.61%) Banking
6 193 (5.67%) Retail
7 172 (5.05%) Front Office
8 127 (3.73%) Marketing
9 107 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 99 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 97 (2.85%) Investment Banking
12 81 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 78 (2.29%) Legal
14 76 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
15 58 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 37 (1.09%) Law
17 36 (1.06%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.06%) Local Government
18 34 (1.00%) Manufacturing
19 32 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 606 (17.81%) Developer
2 497 (14.60%) Senior
3 468 (13.75%) Analyst
4 347 (10.20%) Lead
5 329 (9.67%) Business Analyst
6 297 (8.73%) Project Manager
7 249 (7.32%) Architect
8 176 (5.17%) Software Engineer
9 152 (4.47%) Data Engineer
10 127 (3.73%) Java Developer
11 124 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
12 120 (3.53%) Designer
13 110 (3.23%) Senior Manager
14 108 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
15 102 (3.00%) Senior Developer
16 79 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
17 78 (2.29%) Product Owner
18 74 (2.17%) Product Manager
19 69 (2.03%) Full-Stack Developer
20 67 (1.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (7.55%) React
2 256 (7.52%) REST
3 187 (5.50%) .NET
4 177 (5.20%) Kafka
5 173 (5.08%) RESTful
6 167 (4.91%) Spring
7 154 (4.53%) Node.js
8 142 (4.17%) Spring Boot
9 132 (3.88%) AngularJS
10 118 (3.47%) HTML
11 103 (3.03%) CSS
12 88 (2.59%) PySpark
13 83 (2.44%) SOAP
14 76 (2.23%) Redux
15 73 (2.15%) Middleware
16 69 (2.03%) JSON
16 69 (2.03%) Playwright
17 67 (1.97%) GraphQL
18 54 (1.59%) .NET Framework
19 50 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 412 (12.11%) Product Ownership
2 254 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 127 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 101 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 98 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 71 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 68 (2.00%) Derivative
9 63 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 58 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 54 (1.59%) NHS
12 53 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
13 52 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 50 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
15 49 (1.44%) Data Structures
15 49 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
16 43 (1.26%) Equities
16 43 (1.26%) Mobile App
17 40 (1.18%) AI Agents
18 35 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 108 (3.17%) Linux
2 76 (2.23%) Windows
3 46 (1.35%) Unix
4 32 (0.94%) Android
4 32 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.12%) VMS
10 3 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.059%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.059%) zOS
12 1 (0.029%) AIX
12 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.029%) Rocky
12 1 (0.029%) Solaris
12 1 (0.029%) SUSE
12 1 (0.029%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (26.92%) DevOps
2 896 (26.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 877 (25.77%) CI/CD
4 736 (21.63%) Scrum
5 581 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 578 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
7 488 (14.34%) AI
8 442 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 380 (11.17%) Analytics
10 376 (11.05%) Roadmaps
11 375 (11.02%) Data Modelling
12 366 (10.76%) Software Engineering
13 361 (10.61%) Decision-Making
13 361 (10.61%) Test Automation
14 354 (10.40%) Migration
14 354 (10.40%) Project Management
15 340 (9.99%) Microservices
16 335 (9.84%) User Stories
17 323 (9.49%) Waterfall
18 268 (7.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 612 (17.98%) SQL
2 596 (17.51%) Python
3 436 (12.81%) Java
4 312 (9.17%) JavaScript
5 257 (7.55%) TypeScript
6 222 (6.52%) C#
7 62 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.53%) Go
9 48 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 45 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 42 (1.23%) T-SQL
12 39 (1.15%) Scala
13 35 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 32 (0.94%) Bash
15 24 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 22 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 21 (0.62%) Korn
18 19 (0.56%) Groovy
18 19 (0.56%) Ruby
19 18 (0.53%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 772 (22.69%) Security Cleared
2 675 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 283 (8.32%) Degree
4 127 (3.73%) PMP
5 113 (3.32%) PMI Certification
6 86 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 84 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 79 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 43 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 41 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.85%) CISSP
13 26 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 21 (0.62%) CBAP
15 21 (0.62%) IIBA
16 20 (0.59%) CISM
17 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.38%) CCNP
19 11 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (8.99%) QA
2 209 (6.14%) Data Quality
3 154 (4.53%) Accessibility
4 118 (3.47%) PMO
5 114 (3.35%) GDPR
6 49 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.23%) WCAG
8 36 (1.06%) NIST
9 33 (0.97%) GRC
10 30 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 27 (0.79%) SLA
12 21 (0.62%) NCSC
13 20 (0.59%) PCI DSS
14 16 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.26%) SEPA
17 8 (0.24%) PSD2
18 7 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
18 7 (0.21%) GxP
18 7 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 270 (7.93%) Docker
2 47 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.18%) IAG
6 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.088%) Postfix
8 2 (0.059%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.059%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.059%) RACF
9 1 (0.029%) HDFS
9 1 (0.029%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.029%) Squid
Systems Management
1 313 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 258 (7.58%) Terraform
3 69 (2.03%) Ansible
4 51 (1.50%) Grafana
5 46 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.38%) Packer
8 12 (0.35%) Control-M
8 12 (0.35%) Kibana
9 10 (0.29%) SCCM
10 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.24%) WSUS
12 5 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.15%) Consul
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.12%) Puppet
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 406 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 189 (5.55%) Oracle
2 189 (5.55%) Salesforce
3 144 (4.23%) ServiceNow
4 104 (3.06%) Databricks
5 99 (2.91%) SAP
6 82 (2.41%) Google
7 44 (1.29%) Splunk
8 38 (1.12%) Adobe
9 36 (1.06%) Workday
10 32 (0.94%) IBM
11 31 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 26 (0.76%) Informatica
13 25 (0.73%) Bloomberg
14 21 (0.62%) Cisco
14 21 (0.62%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.59%) CyberArk
15 20 (0.59%) Murex
15 20 (0.59%) VMware
16 18 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud