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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,995 2,823 3,920
As % of all contract jobs in London 20.82% 18.74% 20.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.77% 20.80% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,051 1,864 2,848
10th Percentile £363 £388 £413
25th Percentile £436 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -0.67% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £720 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
England median daily rate £520 £565 £560
% change year-on-year -7.96% +0.89% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 15
10th Percentile £27.13 - £43.36
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £48.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -44.78% +16.52%
75th Percentile £66.50 £41.91 £74.33
90th Percentile £99.86 £63.45 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

All Process and 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 13,151 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 237
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +1 404 £550 -5.98% 147
West London -1 65 £403 +5.23% 56
South London +2 44 £525 -2.78% 52
East London -2 28 £525 +10.53% 31
North London +4 2 £700 +73.05% 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
1 281 (9.38%) Confluence
2 61 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (2.00%) Apache
4 50 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 44 (1.47%) Apache Spark
6 34 (1.14%) CMS
7 21 (0.70%) nginx
8 14 (0.47%) IIS
9 13 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.20%) SAS
12 6 (0.20%) WordPress
13 5 (0.17%) CICS
13 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.13%) JBoss
14 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 91 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 52 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.93%) Chatbot
6 21 (0.70%) Trello
7 7 (0.23%) Sketch
8 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.17%) Notion
8 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.067%) InDesign
11 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.033%) MadCap Flare
12 1 (0.033%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 56 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (1.44%) Endur
3 42 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 25 (0.83%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
6 11 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
10 6 (0.20%) Shopify
11 5 (0.17%) Loan IQ
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.17%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
12 4 (0.13%) Magento
12 4 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 681 (22.74%) Azure
2 538 (17.96%) AWS
3 257 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
4 232 (7.75%) Power Platform
5 203 (6.78%) GitHub
6 200 (6.68%) GCP
7 149 (4.97%) Serverless
8 104 (3.47%) SaaS
9 97 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
10 90 (3.01%) Snowflake
11 79 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
12 77 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 71 (2.37%) Power Automate
14 70 (2.34%) PowerApps
15 68 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
16 67 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
17 63 (2.10%) Amazon S3
18 58 (1.94%) dbt
19 51 (1.70%) Figma
20 49 (1.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.64%) Firewall
2 23 (0.77%) VPN
3 22 (0.73%) Network Security
4 20 (0.67%) HTTP
5 18 (0.60%) DNS
6 16 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.50%) WAN
8 14 (0.47%) Internet
9 12 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.40%) SSL
10 10 (0.33%) BGP
11 8 (0.27%) OSPF
12 6 (0.20%) SMS
13 5 (0.17%) 5G
13 5 (0.17%) DHCP
13 5 (0.17%) MPLS
14 4 (0.13%) Broadband
14 4 (0.13%) LAN
14 4 (0.13%) NX-OS
14 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (5.28%) Power BI
2 139 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (3.54%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 86 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 66 (2.20%) Tableau
8 59 (1.97%) MongoDB
9 56 (1.87%) Data Lake
10 45 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
10 45 (1.50%) Big Data
11 42 (1.40%) Oracle Database
12 41 (1.37%) Metadata
13 35 (1.17%) Apache Arrow
13 35 (1.17%) Apache Iceberg
13 35 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (1.17%) Dremio
14 31 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
15 28 (0.93%) BigQuery
16 27 (0.90%) DB2
Development Applications
1 527 (17.60%) JIRA
2 279 (9.32%) Git
3 184 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 92 (3.07%) GitLab
5 64 (2.14%) Selenium
6 58 (1.94%) JUnit
7 53 (1.77%) Postman
8 43 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 43 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 43 (1.44%) Cypress.io
9 33 (1.10%) SpecFlow
10 22 (0.73%) Maven
11 21 (0.70%) Mockito
12 20 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.63%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.57%) webpack
15 16 (0.53%) ERwin
15 16 (0.53%) JMeter
16 14 (0.47%) Appium
16 14 (0.47%) SoapUI
General
1 1,190 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 984 (32.85%) Finance
3 467 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 389 (12.99%) Banking
5 337 (11.25%) Public Sector
6 150 (5.01%) Front Office
7 113 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 95 (3.17%) Marketing
9 89 (2.97%) Retail
10 75 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 73 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 70 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.10%) Legal
14 61 (2.04%) Back Office
15 58 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
16 56 (1.87%) Telecoms
17 55 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 45 (1.50%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.27%) Manufacturing
20 30 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 557 (18.60%) Developer
2 451 (15.06%) Analyst
3 442 (14.76%) Senior
4 352 (11.75%) Business Analyst
5 245 (8.18%) Lead
6 204 (6.81%) Project Manager
7 194 (6.48%) Architect
8 148 (4.94%) Software Engineer
9 116 (3.87%) Java Developer
10 109 (3.64%) Consultant
11 97 (3.24%) Data Engineer
12 91 (3.04%) Senior Developer
13 79 (2.64%) Product Owner
14 75 (2.50%) Product Manager
15 62 (2.07%) Full-Stack Developer
15 62 (2.07%) Python Engineer
16 61 (2.04%) Senior Manager
16 61 (2.04%) Senior Software Engineer
16 61 (2.04%) Tester
17 60 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (8.21%) React
2 233 (7.78%) REST
3 189 (6.31%) Kafka
4 184 (6.14%) Node.js
5 164 (5.48%) .NET
6 163 (5.44%) RESTful
7 134 (4.47%) HTML
8 125 (4.17%) CSS
9 119 (3.97%) AngularJS
10 115 (3.84%) Spring
11 100 (3.34%) JSON
12 98 (3.27%) SOAP
13 92 (3.07%) Playwright
13 92 (3.07%) Spring Boot
14 79 (2.64%) GraphQL
15 69 (2.30%) Web Services
16 68 (2.27%) XML
17 62 (2.07%) PySpark
18 54 (1.80%) HTML5
19 47 (1.57%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 327 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 196 (6.54%) Cloud Native
3 85 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 84 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 79 (2.64%) Derivative
6 68 (2.27%) Equities
7 64 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 64 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 63 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 58 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 58 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 58 (1.94%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 56 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
11 56 (1.87%) Onboarding
12 51 (1.70%) Virtual Team
13 45 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 43 (1.44%) PMI
14 43 (1.44%) Reinsurance
15 42 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 162 (5.41%) Linux
2 87 (2.90%) Unix
3 80 (2.67%) Windows
4 37 (1.24%) Android
5 35 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.33%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.23%) zOS
9 3 (0.10%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.067%) AIX
10 2 (0.067%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.033%) CentOS
11 1 (0.033%) Debian
11 1 (0.033%) Solaris
11 1 (0.033%) tvOS
11 1 (0.033%) watchOS
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (25.41%) DevOps
2 689 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
3 664 (22.17%) CI/CD
4 650 (21.70%) Scrum
5 563 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 375 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 366 (12.22%) Test Automation
8 340 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 331 (11.05%) Software Engineering
10 324 (10.82%) Microservices
11 317 (10.58%) AI
12 305 (10.18%) Project Management
12 305 (10.18%) Roadmaps
13 303 (10.12%) Analytics
14 273 (9.12%) Data Modelling
14 273 (9.12%) User Stories
15 264 (8.81%) Migration
16 245 (8.18%) SDLC
16 245 (8.18%) Waterfall
17 231 (7.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 589 (19.67%) SQL
2 557 (18.60%) Python
3 424 (14.16%) Java
4 347 (11.59%) JavaScript
5 265 (8.85%) TypeScript
6 221 (7.38%) C#
7 83 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 67 (2.24%) C++
9 53 (1.77%) Go
10 51 (1.70%) Bash
11 50 (1.67%) Scala
12 35 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 30 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.83%) Bicep
16 24 (0.80%) Ruby
17 23 (0.77%) Apex Code
18 19 (0.63%) Groovy
19 18 (0.60%) T-SQL
20 17 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 556 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 489 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 361 (12.05%) Degree
4 127 (4.24%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 99 (3.31%) PMP
7 55 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 50 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 48 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 35 (1.17%) CBAP
12 34 (1.14%) ISTQB
13 25 (0.83%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.77%) CISSP
15 17 (0.57%) CSPO
16 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.40%) IIBA
18 11 (0.37%) MCP
19 10 (0.33%) ISEB
19 10 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (10.28%) QA
2 128 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 122 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 110 (3.67%) GDPR
5 81 (2.70%) PMO
6 31 (1.04%) WCAG
7 26 (0.87%) MiFID
8 18 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.57%) GRC
10 15 (0.50%) EMIR
11 12 (0.40%) NIST
12 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.33%) PERC
13 9 (0.30%) SLA
14 8 (0.27%) Basel III
14 8 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 330 (11.02%) Docker
2 44 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.10%) Squid
8 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.033%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.033%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.033%) etcd
9 1 (0.033%) GPFS
9 1 (0.033%) IAG
9 1 (0.033%) KVM
9 1 (0.033%) Postfix
9 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 298 (9.95%) Kubernetes
2 193 (6.44%) Terraform
3 57 (1.90%) Ansible
4 47 (1.57%) Grafana
5 30 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.60%) Argo
8 13 (0.43%) Puppet
9 12 (0.40%) Packer
10 11 (0.37%) Consul
11 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.30%) Kibana
13 8 (0.27%) Rancher
14 7 (0.23%) HP ALM
14 7 (0.23%) SCCM
15 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
15 4 (0.13%) Control-M
15 4 (0.13%) Nessus
15 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.10%) Nagios
Vendors
1 378 (12.62%) Microsoft
2 207 (6.91%) Oracle
3 128 (4.27%) Salesforce
4 119 (3.97%) Databricks
5 110 (3.67%) SAP
6 108 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 99 (3.31%) Google
8 48 (1.60%) Splunk
9 39 (1.30%) Adobe
10 34 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 30 (1.00%) Workday
12 27 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.70%) OpenAI
14 20 (0.67%) OpenLink
15 19 (0.63%) Bloomberg
15 19 (0.63%) Cisco
15 19 (0.63%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.63%) Foundry
16 18 (0.60%) Murex
16 18 (0.60%) Sybase