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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,930 2,560 3,508
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.31% 18.83% 19.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.28% 20.79% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,994 1,679 2,545
10th Percentile £363 £388 £400
25th Percentile £433 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -8.69% +2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 18
10th Percentile £38.41 - £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £31.78
Median hourly rate £59.47 £38.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.49% -24.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £66.50 £41.19 £70.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £78.56
England median hourly rate £60.00 £61.50 £63.91
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.76% -1.68%

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 13,766 12,313 16,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.57% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,152 7,857 11,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.75 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.25 £51.25
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 0 374 £550 -4.35% 195
West London -1 68 £500 +33.33% 30
South London +6 53 £520 +9.19% 15
East London -1 29 £533 +6.50% 36
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 7
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
1 264 (9.01%) Confluence
2 58 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (1.30%) Apache
6 28 (0.96%) CMS
7 20 (0.68%) nginx
8 15 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.31%) Camunda
12 8 (0.27%) IIS
13 6 (0.20%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.20%) Hyperledger
14 5 (0.17%) Appian
14 5 (0.17%) SAS
15 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
16 3 (0.10%) Anypoint
Applications
1 107 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 65 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 50 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.85%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.44%) Trello
7 11 (0.38%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.34%) Sketch
9 5 (0.17%) Notion
10 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
10 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.10%) InVision
12 2 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.068%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.068%) InDesign
12 2 (0.068%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.068%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 50 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.99%) Aladdin
2 29 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.92%) Endur
4 15 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.31%) Shopify
7 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.20%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 707 (24.13%) Azure
2 525 (17.92%) AWS
3 251 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 232 (7.92%) Power Platform
5 211 (7.20%) GitHub
6 199 (6.79%) GCP
7 138 (4.71%) Serverless
8 107 (3.65%) SaaS
9 98 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
10 96 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 84 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
13 70 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
14 69 (2.35%) Amazon S3
15 62 (2.12%) Figma
16 53 (1.81%) PowerApps
17 52 (1.77%) Power Automate
18 51 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
19 49 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
20 46 (1.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.57%) Firewall
2 25 (0.85%) Network Security
3 24 (0.82%) HTTP
4 23 (0.78%) WAN
5 22 (0.75%) VPN
6 16 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.44%) DNS
9 12 (0.41%) Internet
10 8 (0.27%) LAN
11 6 (0.20%) 5G
12 5 (0.17%) BGP
12 5 (0.17%) Broadband
12 5 (0.17%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) DMZ
13 4 (0.14%) FTP
13 4 (0.14%) IPsec
13 4 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.73%) Power BI
2 113 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
4 107 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 100 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 75 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 62 (2.12%) Tableau
8 55 (1.88%) MongoDB
9 51 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 46 (1.57%) Metadata
11 44 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
12 42 (1.43%) Big Data
13 39 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 38 (1.30%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.02%) Oracle Database
16 26 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
16 26 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (0.82%) Delta Lake
18 22 (0.75%) Data Vault
18 22 (0.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 518 (17.68%) JIRA
2 270 (9.22%) Git
3 167 (5.70%) Jenkins
4 99 (3.38%) GitLab
5 62 (2.12%) Selenium
6 51 (1.74%) JUnit
7 47 (1.60%) Postman
8 43 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.37%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 29 (0.99%) SpecFlow
12 22 (0.75%) REST Assured
13 20 (0.68%) JMeter
14 18 (0.61%) ERwin
14 18 (0.61%) Maven
14 18 (0.61%) Mockito
15 17 (0.58%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.48%) TestRail
17 12 (0.41%) Gradle
18 11 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 1,145 (39.08%) Social Skills
2 959 (32.73%) Finance
3 460 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 364 (12.42%) Banking
5 343 (11.71%) Public Sector
6 136 (4.64%) Front Office
7 94 (3.21%) Retail
8 84 (2.87%) Investment Banking
9 83 (2.83%) Marketing
10 81 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 81 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 77 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
12 72 (2.46%) Legal
13 66 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 44 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 42 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 40 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 39 (1.33%) Back Office
19 30 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 501 (17.10%) Developer
2 455 (15.53%) Analyst
3 449 (15.32%) Senior
4 353 (12.05%) Business Analyst
5 258 (8.81%) Lead
6 226 (7.71%) Project Manager
7 192 (6.55%) Architect
8 125 (4.27%) Software Engineer
9 116 (3.96%) Data Engineer
10 97 (3.31%) Consultant
11 93 (3.17%) Java Developer
12 83 (2.83%) Designer
13 80 (2.73%) Senior Manager
14 77 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
15 75 (2.56%) Senior Developer
16 72 (2.46%) Product Manager
17 67 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
18 64 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
18 64 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
18 64 (2.18%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (7.51%) React
2 216 (7.37%) REST
3 169 (5.77%) Node.js
4 157 (5.36%) Kafka
5 147 (5.02%) RESTful
6 136 (4.64%) .NET
7 117 (3.99%) AngularJS
8 114 (3.89%) CSS
8 114 (3.89%) HTML
9 104 (3.55%) Playwright
10 101 (3.45%) Spring
11 91 (3.11%) Spring Boot
12 78 (2.66%) PySpark
13 76 (2.59%) SOAP
14 74 (2.53%) JSON
15 67 (2.29%) GraphQL
16 62 (2.12%) Middleware
16 62 (2.12%) XML
17 60 (2.05%) Web Services
18 41 (1.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 296 (10.10%) Product Ownership
2 201 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 66 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 66 (2.25%) Derivative
4 60 (2.05%) Data Structures
5 59 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 53 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 53 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 53 (1.81%) Mobile App
7 53 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 52 (1.77%) Fixed Income
8 52 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 49 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 48 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 47 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 43 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (1.37%) PMI
15 39 (1.33%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 149 (5.09%) Linux
2 84 (2.87%) Unix
3 83 (2.83%) Windows
4 34 (1.16%) Android
4 34 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 21 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.38%) VMS
7 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.14%) zOS
9 2 (0.068%) AIX
9 2 (0.068%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.034%) Solaris
10 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (24.40%) DevOps
2 658 (22.46%) CI/CD
3 648 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
4 629 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 623 (21.26%) Scrum
6 401 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 364 (12.42%) Test Automation
8 359 (12.25%) AI
9 340 (11.60%) Project Management
10 327 (11.16%) Analytics
11 321 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 310 (10.58%) Data Modelling
13 293 (10.00%) Software Engineering
14 290 (9.90%) Roadmaps
15 279 (9.52%) Migration
16 275 (9.39%) User Stories
17 272 (9.28%) Microservices
18 270 (9.22%) Waterfall
19 263 (8.98%) Project Delivery
20 250 (8.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 576 (19.66%) SQL
2 541 (18.46%) Python
3 352 (12.01%) Java
4 302 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 247 (8.43%) TypeScript
6 204 (6.96%) C#
7 82 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 59 (2.01%) C++
9 55 (1.88%) Scala
10 41 (1.40%) Bash
11 39 (1.33%) Go
12 30 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 27 (0.92%) Bicep
13 27 (0.92%) Ruby
14 25 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.65%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.61%) Korn
17 18 (0.61%) Swift
17 18 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 559 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 495 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 346 (11.81%) Degree
4 133 (4.54%) PMI Certification
5 112 (3.82%) PMP
6 96 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 59 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.60%) CBAP
11 41 (1.40%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.33%) ISTQB
13 28 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.85%) CISSP
14 25 (0.85%) IIBA
15 19 (0.65%) CISM
16 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.44%) ISEB
18 11 (0.38%) CSPO
19 10 (0.34%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (9.86%) QA
2 153 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 148 (5.05%) Data Quality
4 124 (4.23%) GDPR
5 86 (2.94%) PMO
6 44 (1.50%) WCAG
7 35 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 30 (1.02%) NIST
10 18 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 17 (0.58%) GRC
12 16 (0.55%) MiFID
13 13 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.34%) Basel III
14 10 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.34%) PERC
14 10 (0.34%) SLA
15 9 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.31%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.31%) PSD2
System Software
1 332 (11.33%) Docker
2 34 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.068%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.068%) 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%) HDFS
8 1 (0.034%) IAG
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 321 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 196 (6.69%) Terraform
3 48 (1.64%) Ansible
4 41 (1.40%) Grafana
5 27 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.61%) Argo
6 18 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.44%) Packer
8 12 (0.41%) Consul
9 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.27%) Puppet
9 8 (0.27%) Rancher
9 8 (0.27%) SCCM
10 5 (0.17%) Control-M
10 5 (0.17%) Kibana
11 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.14%) Nessus
12 3 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 370 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 192 (6.55%) Oracle
3 136 (4.64%) Databricks
4 121 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 113 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 101 (3.45%) SAP
7 73 (2.49%) Google
8 48 (1.64%) Adobe
9 40 (1.37%) Splunk
10 27 (0.92%) Workday
11 26 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 23 (0.78%) Informatica
13 21 (0.72%) Bloomberg
14 20 (0.68%) Cisco
14 20 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 18 (0.61%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.55%) Planview
16 16 (0.55%) VMware
17 15 (0.51%) Murex
17 15 (0.51%) Sybase