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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,212 2,695 3,652
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.79% 21.41% 20.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.89% 23.18% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,184 1,884 2,684
10th Percentile £369 £384 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 23
10th Percentile £51.81 £30.15 £25.34
25th Percentile £54.87 £39.04 £31.71
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% +5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £87.87 £65.00 £69.13
90th Percentile £97.25 £85.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £62.50
% 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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -5 350 £563 -6.25% 125
West London -2 75 £550 +22.22% 29
South London +4 61 £505 -19.20% 12
East London -2 23 £543 -7.26% 26
North London +1 4 £550 - 4
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 (8.69%) Confluence
2 81 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.46%) CMS
5 45 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.90%) Apache
7 18 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.47%) Camunda
9 14 (0.44%) IIS
10 13 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.40%) SAS
11 9 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.22%) Appian
12 7 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.22%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.19%) JBoss
13 6 (0.19%) Kentico
13 6 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 6 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.22%) Notion
8 6 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.19%) Sketch
8 6 (0.19%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.16%) Trello
10 3 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.062%) Windchill
12 1 (0.031%) InVision
12 1 (0.031%) Mingle
12 1 (0.031%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 31 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Findur
4 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.34%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.31%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.25%) Shopify
7 6 (0.19%) Endur
7 6 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 831 (25.87%) Azure
2 681 (21.20%) AWS
3 281 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
4 250 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 226 (7.04%) GitHub
6 189 (5.88%) GCP
7 168 (5.23%) Serverless
8 134 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 127 (3.95%) Amazon S3
10 120 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
12 75 (2.33%) SaaS
13 74 (2.30%) Snowflake
14 70 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 59 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
16 59 (1.84%) Power Automate
17 57 (1.77%) PowerApps
18 56 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 56 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.74%) Firewall
2 29 (0.90%) Network Security
2 29 (0.90%) WAN
3 23 (0.72%) VPN
4 19 (0.59%) Internet
5 16 (0.50%) DNS
5 16 (0.50%) HTTP
5 16 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.34%) LAN
8 10 (0.31%) Unified Communications
9 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.22%) DMZ
10 7 (0.22%) Wireless
11 6 (0.19%) BGP
11 6 (0.19%) MPLS
11 6 (0.19%) OSPF
11 6 (0.19%) SMS
11 6 (0.19%) VoIP
12 5 (0.16%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (6.16%) Power BI
2 126 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 115 (3.58%) SQL Server
5 101 (3.14%) NoSQL
6 89 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 71 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 69 (2.15%) Tableau
9 66 (2.05%) Data Lake
10 59 (1.84%) Metadata
11 53 (1.65%) MongoDB
12 48 (1.49%) Big Data
13 47 (1.46%) DynamoDB
14 38 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 36 (1.12%) Delta Lake
16 35 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
17 33 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 22 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 19 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 537 (16.72%) JIRA
2 269 (8.37%) Git
3 184 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 109 (3.39%) GitLab
5 60 (1.87%) JUnit
6 45 (1.40%) Postman
7 44 (1.37%) Selenium
8 37 (1.15%) Mockito
9 33 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 31 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 30 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 30 (0.93%) Gradle
12 25 (0.78%) REST Assured
13 20 (0.62%) JMeter
14 17 (0.53%) Maven
15 16 (0.50%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.47%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.47%) Liquibase
17 13 (0.40%) Visual Studio
18 12 (0.37%) Gatling
General
1 1,145 (35.65%) Social Skills
2 1,090 (33.94%) Finance
3 484 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 446 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 417 (12.98%) Banking
6 173 (5.39%) Retail
7 167 (5.20%) Front Office
8 118 (3.67%) Marketing
9 94 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 94 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
10 93 (2.90%) Investment Banking
11 91 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
12 82 (2.55%) Legal
13 66 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 40 (1.25%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.18%) Law
17 31 (0.97%) Local Government
17 31 (0.97%) Manufacturing
18 30 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 557 (17.34%) Developer
2 472 (14.69%) Senior
3 453 (14.10%) Analyst
4 326 (10.15%) Lead
5 321 (9.99%) Business Analyst
6 282 (8.78%) Project Manager
7 227 (7.07%) Architect
8 171 (5.32%) Software Engineer
9 148 (4.61%) Data Engineer
10 119 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
11 109 (3.39%) Java Developer
12 103 (3.21%) Designer
13 102 (3.18%) Senior Manager
14 101 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
15 95 (2.96%) Senior Developer
16 77 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (2.18%) Product Owner
18 67 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
19 66 (2.05%) Python Developer
19 66 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (7.63%) React
2 223 (6.94%) REST
3 168 (5.23%) Kafka
4 164 (5.11%) .NET
5 160 (4.98%) RESTful
6 153 (4.76%) Spring
7 137 (4.27%) Node.js
8 135 (4.20%) Spring Boot
9 133 (4.14%) AngularJS
10 118 (3.67%) HTML
11 103 (3.21%) CSS
12 92 (2.86%) PySpark
13 73 (2.27%) Middleware
13 73 (2.27%) Redux
13 73 (2.27%) SOAP
14 60 (1.87%) Playwright
15 56 (1.74%) JSON
16 52 (1.62%) GraphQL
17 49 (1.53%) .NET Framework
18 45 (1.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 368 (11.46%) Product Ownership
2 244 (7.60%) Cloud Native
3 111 (3.46%) Onboarding
4 93 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 88 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 87 (2.71%) Fixed Income
7 66 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 66 (2.05%) Derivative
8 62 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 54 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 53 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 53 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 48 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.43%) NHS
13 44 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 44 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.28%) Equities
15 38 (1.18%) AI Agents
16 36 (1.12%) Management Information System
17 35 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 109 (3.39%) Linux
2 80 (2.49%) Windows
3 50 (1.56%) Unix
4 31 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.81%) Android
6 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.12%) VMS
11 3 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.062%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.062%) zOS
13 1 (0.031%) AIX
13 1 (0.031%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.031%) Rocky
13 1 (0.031%) Solaris
13 1 (0.031%) SUSE
13 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 862 (26.84%) DevOps
2 828 (25.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 800 (24.91%) CI/CD
4 696 (21.67%) Scrum
5 540 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
6 537 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 461 (14.35%) AI
8 388 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 364 (11.33%) Data Modelling
10 358 (11.15%) Analytics
11 351 (10.93%) Software Engineering
12 350 (10.90%) Decision-Making
12 350 (10.90%) Roadmaps
13 344 (10.71%) Project Management
14 339 (10.55%) Test Automation
15 336 (10.46%) Migration
16 315 (9.81%) Microservices
16 315 (9.81%) User Stories
17 298 (9.28%) Waterfall
18 262 (8.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 591 (18.40%) SQL
2 577 (17.96%) Python
3 403 (12.55%) Java
4 306 (9.53%) JavaScript
5 240 (7.47%) TypeScript
6 217 (6.76%) C#
7 59 (1.84%) PowerShell
8 53 (1.65%) Go
9 41 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 39 (1.21%) Apex Code
11 38 (1.18%) Scala
12 37 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 29 (0.90%) Bash
14 27 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 26 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 21 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.62%) Ruby
18 19 (0.59%) R
19 18 (0.56%) Bicep
19 18 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 703 (21.89%) Security Cleared
2 613 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 278 (8.66%) Degree
4 120 (3.74%) PMP
5 111 (3.46%) PMI Certification
6 77 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 76 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 61 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 37 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 32 (1.00%) CISSP
13 27 (0.84%) CBAP
13 27 (0.84%) ISTQB
14 26 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.72%) CISM
16 22 (0.68%) IIBA
17 15 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.40%) CCNP
19 11 (0.34%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (9.25%) QA
2 205 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 146 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 122 (3.80%) GDPR
5 111 (3.46%) PMO
6 55 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.31%) NIST
8 41 (1.28%) WCAG
9 39 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (0.97%) GRC
11 29 (0.90%) SLA
12 22 (0.68%) NCSC
13 21 (0.65%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.47%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.28%) IFRS
16 9 (0.28%) PSD2
17 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.22%) GxP
17 7 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 263 (8.19%) Docker
2 44 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) IAG
7 3 (0.093%) Postfix
8 2 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.062%) RACF
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.031%) Squid
Systems Management
1 304 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 244 (7.60%) Terraform
3 67 (2.09%) Ansible
4 43 (1.34%) Grafana
5 39 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.34%) Kibana
7 11 (0.34%) Packer
7 11 (0.34%) SCCM
8 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.25%) WSUS
10 7 (0.22%) Control-M
11 6 (0.19%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.16%) Consul
12 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.12%) Puppet
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 373 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 187 (5.82%) Oracle
3 177 (5.51%) Salesforce
4 142 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 101 (3.14%) Databricks
6 100 (3.11%) SAP
7 67 (2.09%) Google
8 38 (1.18%) Workday
9 37 (1.15%) Adobe
10 32 (1.00%) Informatica
11 30 (0.93%) Splunk
12 27 (0.84%) IBM
12 27 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.81%) Bloomberg
14 25 (0.78%) Cisco
15 21 (0.65%) VMware
16 18 (0.56%) Dynatrace
16 18 (0.56%) Murex
16 18 (0.56%) Okta
16 18 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud