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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,450 2,909 3,672
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.34% 21.45% 21.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.49% 23.29% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,334 2,039 2,698
10th Percentile £381 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £709 £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 21 14 18
10th Percentile £51.50 £27.90 £31.20
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.49 £32.47
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -12.73%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £84.50 £72.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.67% -2.69% -

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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -5 366 £565 -4.64% 116
West London +2 89 £600 +29.37% 30
South London +4 73 £515 -17.20% 24
East London -2 20 £585 +8.33% 37
North London +3 7 £550 - 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
1 298 (8.64%) Confluence
2 90 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 51 (1.48%) CMS
5 49 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 34 (0.99%) Apache
7 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 16 (0.46%) IIS
10 14 (0.41%) Camunda
11 13 (0.38%) SAS
12 9 (0.26%) JBoss
13 7 (0.20%) Appian
13 7 (0.20%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.20%) Hyperledger
13 7 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 58 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.23%) Sketch
8 7 (0.20%) Notion
8 7 (0.20%) Trello
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.058%) 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 38 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 26 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.41%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.32%) Findur
7 10 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
8 9 (0.26%) Loan IQ
9 8 (0.23%) Magento
10 7 (0.20%) Endur
10 7 (0.20%) Fidessa
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 5 (0.14%) Shopify
13 4 (0.12%) Actimize
13 4 (0.12%) HFM
13 4 (0.12%) OpenText MBPM
Cloud Services
1 894 (25.91%) Azure
2 712 (20.64%) AWS
3 308 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 272 (7.88%) Power Platform
5 258 (7.48%) GitHub
6 225 (6.52%) GCP
7 175 (5.07%) Serverless
8 150 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 131 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 119 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
12 80 (2.32%) Snowflake
13 77 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
13 77 (2.23%) SaaS
14 73 (2.12%) PowerApps
15 69 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (2.00%) Power Automate
16 64 (1.86%) Entra ID
17 62 (1.80%) Figma
18 61 (1.77%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.48%) Firewall
2 28 (0.81%) Network Security
3 27 (0.78%) WAN
4 21 (0.61%) VPN
5 20 (0.58%) HTTP
5 20 (0.58%) Internet
6 17 (0.49%) DNS
7 14 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.32%) LAN
10 10 (0.29%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.23%) Wireless
13 7 (0.20%) Intranet
13 7 (0.20%) MPLS
14 6 (0.17%) BGP
14 6 (0.17%) OSPF
14 6 (0.17%) SMS
14 6 (0.17%) VoIP
15 5 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (6.23%) Power BI
2 134 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 98 (2.84%) NoSQL
6 88 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 70 (2.03%) Metadata
8 68 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 64 (1.86%) Data Lake
9 64 (1.86%) Tableau
10 57 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 51 (1.48%) DynamoDB
12 45 (1.30%) Big Data
13 40 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (0.84%) Delta Lake
17 23 (0.67%) Oracle Database
18 22 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 571 (16.55%) JIRA
2 296 (8.58%) Git
3 224 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 113 (3.28%) GitLab
5 60 (1.74%) JUnit
6 51 (1.48%) Selenium
7 45 (1.30%) Postman
8 35 (1.01%) Gradle
8 35 (1.01%) Mockito
9 34 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 31 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 31 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 28 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 21 (0.61%) Maven
13 19 (0.55%) JMeter
14 17 (0.49%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.49%) Visual Studio
15 16 (0.46%) Gatling
15 16 (0.46%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.43%) Liquibase
General
1 1,233 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 1,141 (33.07%) Finance
3 523 (15.16%) Public Sector
4 514 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
5 432 (12.52%) Banking
6 200 (5.80%) Retail
7 173 (5.01%) Front Office
8 130 (3.77%) Marketing
9 111 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
10 99 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
11 95 (2.75%) Investment Banking
12 80 (2.32%) Legal
13 77 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
15 60 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 40 (1.16%) Law
17 37 (1.07%) Telecoms
18 36 (1.04%) Local Government
19 35 (1.01%) Financial Institution
20 33 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 613 (17.77%) Developer
2 509 (14.75%) Senior
3 470 (13.62%) Analyst
4 356 (10.32%) Lead
5 325 (9.42%) Business Analyst
6 296 (8.58%) Project Manager
7 254 (7.36%) Architect
8 181 (5.25%) Software Engineer
9 143 (4.14%) Data Engineer
10 132 (3.83%) Designer
11 128 (3.71%) Delivery Manager
12 126 (3.65%) Java Developer
13 110 (3.19%) Senior Manager
13 110 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
14 107 (3.10%) Senior Developer
15 82 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
16 79 (2.29%) Product Owner
17 76 (2.20%) Product Manager
18 71 (2.06%) Programme Manager
19 69 (2.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (7.65%) REST
2 260 (7.54%) React
3 194 (5.62%) .NET
4 172 (4.99%) Kafka
5 170 (4.93%) RESTful
6 160 (4.64%) Spring
7 150 (4.35%) Node.js
8 135 (3.91%) Spring Boot
9 131 (3.80%) AngularJS
10 120 (3.48%) HTML
11 105 (3.04%) CSS
12 84 (2.43%) SOAP
13 80 (2.32%) PySpark
14 78 (2.26%) Redux
15 74 (2.14%) Middleware
16 69 (2.00%) JSON
17 67 (1.94%) GraphQL
17 67 (1.94%) Playwright
18 55 (1.59%) Web Services
19 54 (1.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 427 (12.38%) Product Ownership
2 252 (7.30%) Cloud Native
3 131 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 105 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
5 98 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 71 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 65 (1.88%) Derivative
9 63 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
10 60 (1.74%) Virtual Team
11 56 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 56 (1.62%) NHS
12 52 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 52 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 50 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
14 49 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 44 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 43 (1.25%) Mobile App
17 42 (1.22%) Equities
18 38 (1.10%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.10%) Linux
2 74 (2.14%) Windows
3 44 (1.28%) Unix
4 36 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 35 (1.01%) Android
6 13 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.20%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.12%) VMS
12 3 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.058%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.058%) zOS
14 1 (0.029%) AIX
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.029%) Rocky
14 1 (0.029%) Solaris
14 1 (0.029%) SUSE
14 1 (0.029%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (26.90%) DevOps
2 920 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 889 (25.77%) CI/CD
4 746 (21.62%) Scrum
5 602 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 596 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
7 509 (14.75%) AI
8 463 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 389 (11.28%) Analytics
10 380 (11.01%) Roadmaps
11 373 (10.81%) Software Engineering
11 373 (10.81%) Test Automation
12 370 (10.72%) Decision-Making
13 367 (10.64%) Data Modelling
14 362 (10.49%) Migration
15 357 (10.35%) Project Management
16 350 (10.14%) User Stories
17 343 (9.94%) Microservices
18 334 (9.68%) Waterfall
19 272 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 605 (17.54%) SQL
2 595 (17.25%) Python
3 436 (12.64%) Java
4 309 (8.96%) JavaScript
5 257 (7.45%) TypeScript
6 223 (6.46%) C#
7 68 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.51%) Go
9 48 (1.39%) Apex Code
10 47 (1.36%) PL/SQL
11 41 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 39 (1.13%) Scala
13 38 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 36 (1.04%) Bash
15 24 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 21 (0.61%) Groovy
16 21 (0.61%) Korn
17 20 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.55%) Ruby
19 18 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 779 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 682 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 277 (8.03%) Degree
4 132 (3.83%) PMP
5 121 (3.51%) PMI Certification
6 89 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 89 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 77 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 43 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 29 (0.84%) CISSP
12 25 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.58%) CISM
15 19 (0.55%) CBAP
16 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
17 17 (0.49%) IIBA
18 12 (0.35%) CCNP
19 11 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (8.90%) QA
2 207 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 154 (4.46%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.45%) PMO
5 112 (3.25%) GDPR
6 47 (1.36%) WCAG
7 45 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.01%) GRC
8 35 (1.01%) NIST
9 28 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 25 (0.72%) SLA
11 21 (0.61%) NCSC
12 19 (0.55%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.26%) SEPA
16 8 (0.23%) PSD2
17 7 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 7 (0.20%) HL7
System Software
1 273 (7.91%) Docker
2 49 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.23%) IAG
4 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.087%) Postfix
6 2 (0.058%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.029%) HDFS
7 1 (0.029%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.029%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.029%) Squid
Systems Management
1 312 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 261 (7.57%) Terraform
3 75 (2.17%) Ansible
4 54 (1.57%) Grafana
5 50 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.41%) Packer
8 12 (0.35%) Control-M
8 12 (0.35%) Kibana
9 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.23%) SCCM
11 7 (0.20%) Puppet
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.14%) Consul
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 416 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 186 (5.39%) Salesforce
3 182 (5.28%) Oracle
4 147 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 102 (2.96%) SAP
6 98 (2.84%) Databricks
7 96 (2.78%) Google
8 47 (1.36%) Splunk
9 41 (1.19%) Adobe
10 35 (1.01%) IBM
11 33 (0.96%) Workday
12 31 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 23 (0.67%) Bloomberg
13 23 (0.67%) Informatica
14 22 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 21 (0.61%) Cisco
16 19 (0.55%) CyberArk
16 19 (0.55%) VMware
17 18 (0.52%) Murex
17 18 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud