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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,577 2,991 3,344
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.57% 22.36% 20.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.77% 24.17% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 2,066 2,344
10th Percentile £391 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £640 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 17
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.17 £28.67
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.38 £33.07
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +50.00% -48.15%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £97.43 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -4 387 £550 -5.98% 438
West London -2 101 £680 +70.00% 175
South London 0 58 £535 -14.40% 23
East London -2 17 £590 +9.26% 31
North London +6 11 £550 - 3
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
1 300 (8.39%) Confluence
2 87 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 70 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 63 (1.76%) CMS
6 53 (1.48%) Apache
7 34 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 16 (0.45%) Camunda
9 14 (0.39%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.25%) Appian
13 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 98 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.17%) Sketch
11 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
12 3 (0.084%) Windchill
13 2 (0.056%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.056%) Mingle
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 59 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 9 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.22%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) Shopify
8 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.20%) Endur
10 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.11%) Findur
11 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 4 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 932 (26.06%) Azure
2 715 (19.99%) AWS
3 338 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
4 314 (8.78%) Power Platform
5 300 (8.39%) GitHub
6 233 (6.51%) GCP
7 192 (5.37%) Serverless
8 163 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
9 137 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 132 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 114 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
12 107 (2.99%) Snowflake
13 93 (2.60%) Power Automate
14 92 (2.57%) PowerApps
15 91 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
16 80 (2.24%) dbt
17 78 (2.18%) SaaS
18 70 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 69 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
19 69 (1.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.26%) Firewall
2 26 (0.73%) Network Security
3 23 (0.64%) DNS
4 22 (0.62%) VPN
5 17 (0.48%) HTTP
5 17 (0.48%) WAN
6 16 (0.45%) Internet
6 16 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.31%) Wireless
8 9 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
8 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.22%) 4G
9 8 (0.22%) DMZ
10 7 (0.20%) 5G
10 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
10 7 (0.20%) VoIP
11 6 (0.17%) DHCP
11 6 (0.17%) SMS
11 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (6.71%) Power BI
2 165 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 144 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
4 123 (3.44%) SQL Server
5 108 (3.02%) Metadata
6 106 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 105 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 79 (2.21%) Data Lake
9 72 (2.01%) MongoDB
10 63 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 50 (1.40%) Tableau
12 45 (1.26%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.23%) DynamoDB
14 41 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 40 (1.12%) BigQuery
16 38 (1.06%) Oracle Database
17 35 (0.98%) MySQL
18 34 (0.95%) Big Data
19 25 (0.70%) Redis
20 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 575 (16.07%) JIRA
2 343 (9.59%) Git
3 269 (7.52%) Jenkins
4 143 (4.00%) GitLab
5 77 (2.15%) Selenium
6 61 (1.71%) JUnit
7 50 (1.40%) Gradle
8 44 (1.23%) Postman
9 41 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 38 (1.06%) Maven
11 34 (0.95%) Mockito
12 32 (0.89%) Bitbucket
13 29 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 27 (0.75%) Visual Studio
15 23 (0.64%) JMeter
15 23 (0.64%) SonarQube
16 16 (0.45%) Gatling
17 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
18 14 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 1,428 (39.92%) Social Skills
2 1,157 (32.35%) Finance
3 562 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 554 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
5 496 (13.87%) Banking
6 222 (6.21%) Retail
7 151 (4.22%) Marketing
8 135 (3.77%) Front Office
9 129 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 114 (3.19%) Investment Banking
11 99 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 78 (2.18%) Legal
13 69 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 62 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
14 62 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
15 53 (1.48%) Local Government
16 43 (1.20%) Law
16 43 (1.20%) Retail Banking
16 43 (1.20%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 596 (16.66%) Developer
2 547 (15.29%) Senior
3 452 (12.64%) Analyst
4 362 (10.12%) Lead
5 318 (8.89%) Business Analyst
6 294 (8.22%) Project Manager
7 270 (7.55%) Architect
8 168 (4.70%) Data Engineer
9 136 (3.80%) Software Engineer
10 127 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
11 123 (3.44%) Designer
12 122 (3.41%) Java Developer
13 110 (3.08%) Senior Developer
13 110 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
14 109 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
15 108 (3.02%) Senior Manager
16 98 (2.74%) Product Manager
17 91 (2.54%) Product Owner
18 73 (2.04%) Full-Stack Developer
18 73 (2.04%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (9.00%) REST
2 294 (8.22%) Terraform
3 240 (6.71%) React
4 207 (5.79%) .NET
5 186 (5.20%) RESTful
6 180 (5.03%) Kafka
7 176 (4.92%) Spring
8 160 (4.47%) Spring Boot
9 133 (3.72%) HTML
10 124 (3.47%) CSS
11 111 (3.10%) AngularJS
11 111 (3.10%) Node.js
12 93 (2.60%) PySpark
13 88 (2.46%) SOAP
14 76 (2.12%) JSON
15 74 (2.07%) Web Services
16 65 (1.82%) Django
17 62 (1.73%) Playwright
18 60 (1.68%) Middleware
19 57 (1.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 534 (14.93%) Product Ownership
2 293 (8.19%) Cloud Native
3 144 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 123 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
5 96 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 95 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 76 (2.12%) AI Agents
9 71 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (1.68%) NHS
11 57 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 55 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 55 (1.54%) Management Information System
13 53 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.29%) Mobile App
15 45 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 44 (1.23%) Fixed Income
17 40 (1.12%) Derivative
18 39 (1.09%) Data Centre
19 38 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 133 (3.72%) Linux
2 74 (2.07%) Windows
3 55 (1.54%) Unix
4 35 (0.98%) Android
5 32 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.20%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.084%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.084%) zOS
12 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (32.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,017 (28.43%) DevOps
3 996 (27.84%) CI/CD
4 813 (22.73%) Scrum
5 681 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 680 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 643 (17.98%) AI
8 530 (14.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 465 (13.00%) Roadmaps
10 450 (12.58%) Analytics
11 422 (11.80%) Test Automation
12 405 (11.32%) Decision-Making
13 400 (11.18%) User Stories
14 391 (10.93%) Software Engineering
15 376 (10.51%) Migration
16 374 (10.46%) Project Management
17 371 (10.37%) Data Modelling
18 346 (9.67%) Microservices
19 340 (9.51%) Waterfall
20 309 (8.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 671 (18.76%) SQL
2 640 (17.89%) Python
3 445 (12.44%) Java
4 290 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 219 (6.12%) TypeScript
6 212 (5.93%) C#
7 73 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 70 (1.96%) Bash
9 55 (1.54%) Scala
10 51 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 45 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 43 (1.20%) Apex Code
13 37 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.81%) Groovy
14 29 (0.81%) Korn
15 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 25 (0.70%) Go
16 22 (0.62%) Bicep
17 21 (0.59%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 882 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 762 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 295 (8.25%) Degree
4 160 (4.47%) PMP
5 152 (4.25%) PMI Certification
6 115 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 115 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 81 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 58 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 36 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 28 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 22 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.62%) CISSP
14 19 (0.53%) IIBA
15 16 (0.45%) CBAP
16 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 13 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (10.34%) QA
2 272 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 150 (4.19%) Accessibility
4 118 (3.30%) PMO
5 94 (2.63%) GDPR
6 54 (1.51%) WCAG
7 38 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.89%) GRC
9 31 (0.87%) NIST
10 25 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 17 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 16 (0.45%) SLA
14 15 (0.42%) NCSC
14 15 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.28%) SEPA
16 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
17 8 (0.22%) IFRS
18 7 (0.20%) P3O
19 6 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 324 (9.06%) Docker
2 56 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.25%) IAG
6 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.084%) Postfix
7 3 (0.084%) RACF
7 3 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.056%) Squid
9 1 (0.028%) Ceph
9 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 344 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 86 (2.40%) Grafana
3 77 (2.15%) Ansible
4 66 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 22 (0.62%) Kibana
6 20 (0.56%) Control-M
7 19 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.36%) Packer
9 9 (0.25%) Puppet
10 8 (0.22%) SCCM
11 6 (0.17%) Argo
11 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.11%) Istio
13 4 (0.11%) WSUS
14 3 (0.084%) Consul
14 3 (0.084%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.084%) Rancher
15 2 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 499 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 178 (4.98%) Oracle
3 174 (4.86%) Salesforce
4 146 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 140 (3.91%) Databricks
6 123 (3.44%) Google
7 98 (2.74%) SAP
8 75 (2.10%) Splunk
9 59 (1.65%) Adobe
10 48 (1.34%) IBM
11 37 (1.03%) Informatica
12 31 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 27 (0.75%) Workday
14 25 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.62%) Cisco
16 22 (0.62%) VMware
17 21 (0.59%) Pega
18 20 (0.56%) UiPath
19 18 (0.50%) Atlassian