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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,917 2,572 3,620
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.95% 18.43% 19.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.89% 20.38% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,986 1,686 2,639
10th Percentile £363 £399 £406
25th Percentile £431 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £663 £731 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £516 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.43% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 17
10th Percentile £39.34 - £21.72
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -29.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67.93 £39.04 £72.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £63.45 £90.00
England median hourly rate £59.47 £57.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.65% -11.73% -

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 13,327 12,620 16,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.43% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,848 8,052 11,585
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
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 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 158 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.73 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +15.40% -15.16%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £70.20 £80.23 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +1 398 £541 -6.28% 205
West London 0 68 £450 +17.65% 48
South London +7 47 £525 +9.09% 46
East London 0 28 £525 +5.00% 24
North London +5 1 £700 +71.36% 2
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
1 258 (8.84%) Confluence
2 54 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 52 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 46 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (1.47%) Apache
6 33 (1.13%) CMS
7 22 (0.75%) nginx
8 14 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 14 (0.48%) IIS
9 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.27%) Camunda
10 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.21%) SAS
13 5 (0.17%) Appian
14 4 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 4 (0.14%) Hyperledger
14 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 102 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
5 51 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.93%) Chatbot
7 15 (0.51%) Trello
8 9 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.27%) 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 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.069%) InDesign
13 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.069%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.93%) Endur
4 26 (0.89%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.31%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 8 (0.27%) Temenos T24
9 7 (0.24%) Loan IQ
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
11 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 694 (23.79%) Azure
2 519 (17.79%) AWS
3 253 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
4 239 (8.19%) Power Platform
5 208 (7.13%) GitHub
6 195 (6.68%) GCP
7 145 (4.97%) Serverless
8 102 (3.50%) SaaS
9 97 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 93 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 84 (2.88%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
13 73 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
14 69 (2.37%) Amazon S3
15 65 (2.23%) Power Automate
16 63 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
16 63 (2.16%) PowerApps
17 52 (1.78%) Figma
18 50 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
19 48 (1.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.71%) Firewall
2 24 (0.82%) Network Security
3 23 (0.79%) VPN
4 21 (0.72%) HTTP
5 19 (0.65%) WAN
6 16 (0.55%) DNS
6 16 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 16 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.31%) Internet
8 8 (0.27%) BGP
9 6 (0.21%) 5G
9 6 (0.21%) OSPF
9 6 (0.21%) SMS
10 5 (0.17%) LAN
11 4 (0.14%) Broadband
11 4 (0.14%) DHCP
11 4 (0.14%) DMZ
11 4 (0.14%) FTP
11 4 (0.14%) IPsec
11 4 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (5.73%) Power BI
2 119 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 108 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 108 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 81 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 57 (1.95%) Tableau
7 55 (1.89%) MongoDB
8 53 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 45 (1.54%) Metadata
10 42 (1.44%) Big Data
11 41 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (1.13%) BigQuery
14 32 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (1.06%) Oracle Database
16 25 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (0.82%) Data Vault
18 22 (0.75%) Hadoop
19 21 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 517 (17.72%) JIRA
2 268 (9.19%) Git
3 166 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 97 (3.33%) GitLab
5 64 (2.19%) Selenium
6 53 (1.82%) JUnit
7 51 (1.75%) Postman
8 47 (1.61%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.47%) Cucumber
10 37 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 31 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 23 (0.79%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.65%) ERwin
13 19 (0.65%) JMeter
13 19 (0.65%) Maven
14 18 (0.62%) Mockito
15 17 (0.58%) SonarQube
16 12 (0.41%) ER Studio
16 12 (0.41%) Gradle
16 12 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 1,171 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 949 (32.53%) Finance
3 459 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 375 (12.86%) Banking
5 342 (11.72%) Public Sector
6 126 (4.32%) Front Office
7 91 (3.12%) Investment Banking
8 87 (2.98%) Marketing
8 87 (2.98%) Retail
9 84 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
11 75 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
12 65 (2.23%) Legal
13 63 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 45 (1.54%) Financial Institution
16 43 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 41 (1.41%) Manufacturing
18 39 (1.34%) Back Office
19 31 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 522 (17.90%) Developer
2 450 (15.43%) Analyst
3 429 (14.71%) Senior
4 348 (11.93%) Business Analyst
5 248 (8.50%) Lead
6 211 (7.23%) Project Manager
7 180 (6.17%) Architect
8 120 (4.11%) Software Engineer
9 110 (3.77%) Data Engineer
10 103 (3.53%) Consultant
11 94 (3.22%) Java Developer
12 77 (2.64%) Product Manager
13 75 (2.57%) Senior Developer
14 72 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 68 (2.33%) Senior Manager
16 65 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
16 65 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
17 63 (2.16%) Designer
18 62 (2.13%) Product Owner
19 61 (2.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (7.58%) React
2 218 (7.47%) REST
3 166 (5.69%) Node.js
4 158 (5.42%) RESTful
5 153 (5.25%) Kafka
6 141 (4.83%) .NET
7 123 (4.22%) HTML
8 116 (3.98%) AngularJS
8 116 (3.98%) CSS
9 106 (3.63%) Spring
10 101 (3.46%) Playwright
11 95 (3.26%) Spring Boot
12 80 (2.74%) SOAP
13 79 (2.71%) JSON
14 73 (2.50%) PySpark
15 63 (2.16%) XML
16 62 (2.13%) Web Services
17 61 (2.09%) GraphQL
18 50 (1.71%) Middleware
19 46 (1.58%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 308 (10.56%) Product Ownership
2 201 (6.89%) Cloud Native
3 67 (2.30%) Management Information System
4 66 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 64 (2.19%) Derivative
6 62 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 60 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 56 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 53 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 53 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 51 (1.75%) Mobile App
11 50 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 47 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 47 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.61%) Onboarding
14 46 (1.58%) Fixed Income
15 45 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
15 45 (1.54%) PMI
16 44 (1.51%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 159 (5.45%) Linux
2 85 (2.91%) Windows
3 84 (2.88%) Unix
4 32 (1.10%) Android
5 30 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.34%) VMS
8 6 (0.21%) zOS
9 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
10 2 (0.069%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.069%) 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
1 746 (25.57%) DevOps
2 673 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
3 652 (22.35%) CI/CD
4 621 (21.29%) Scrum
5 611 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 375 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 353 (12.10%) Test Automation
8 340 (11.66%) AI
9 325 (11.14%) Project Management
10 319 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 314 (10.76%) Analytics
12 295 (10.11%) Data Modelling
13 291 (9.98%) Microservices
13 291 (9.98%) Roadmaps
14 289 (9.91%) Software Engineering
15 279 (9.56%) User Stories
16 276 (9.46%) Migration
17 261 (8.95%) Project Delivery
18 255 (8.74%) Waterfall
19 253 (8.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 576 (19.75%) SQL
2 542 (18.58%) Python
3 350 (12.00%) Java
4 304 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 242 (8.30%) TypeScript
6 208 (7.13%) C#
7 82 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 61 (2.09%) C++
9 54 (1.85%) Scala
10 45 (1.54%) Bash
11 32 (1.10%) Go
12 29 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 27 (0.93%) Bicep
13 27 (0.93%) Ruby
14 25 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 22 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.69%) R
17 18 (0.62%) Apex Code
18 17 (0.58%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 569 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 495 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 351 (12.03%) Degree
4 136 (4.66%) PMI Certification
5 108 (3.70%) PMP
6 99 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 54 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.65%) CBAP
10 46 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 46 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 36 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.93%) CISSP
13 26 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 24 (0.82%) IIBA
15 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.51%) CISM
17 13 (0.45%) CSPO
17 13 (0.45%) ISEB
18 11 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (10.28%) QA
2 139 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 136 (4.66%) Accessibility
4 125 (4.29%) GDPR
5 82 (2.81%) PMO
6 37 (1.27%) WCAG
7 32 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 26 (0.89%) NIST
10 16 (0.55%) GRC
10 16 (0.55%) MiFID
11 12 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.38%) Basel III
12 11 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.34%) PERC
14 9 (0.31%) EMIR
14 9 (0.31%) PSD2
14 9 (0.31%) SLA
15 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 342 (11.72%) Docker
2 41 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) 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 (0.034%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.034%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.034%) etcd
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) IAG
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) RACF
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 321 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 197 (6.75%) Terraform
3 53 (1.82%) Ansible
4 44 (1.51%) Grafana
5 28 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.62%) Argo
6 18 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.45%) Packer
8 12 (0.41%) Consul
9 10 (0.34%) SCCM
10 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.31%) Puppet
11 8 (0.27%) Rancher
12 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
13 6 (0.21%) Kibana
14 5 (0.17%) Control-M
15 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.14%) Nessus
16 3 (0.10%) CA Endevor
16 3 (0.10%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 379 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 199 (6.82%) Oracle
3 131 (4.49%) Databricks
4 123 (4.22%) Salesforce
5 108 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 107 (3.67%) SAP
7 87 (2.98%) Google
8 44 (1.51%) Splunk
9 43 (1.47%) Adobe
10 32 (1.10%) Workday
11 26 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 25 (0.86%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.75%) Cisco
14 21 (0.72%) Informatica
15 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
16 19 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 16 (0.55%) VMware
18 15 (0.51%) Dynatrace
18 15 (0.51%) Planview
19 14 (0.48%) CyberArk