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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,116 2,605 3,624
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.53% 21.22% 20.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.62% 22.99% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,114 1,812 2,663
10th Percentile £363 £388 £400
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £730 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 24
10th Percentile £51.50 £30.15 £25.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £39.04 £31.71
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.00% -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 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -3 349 £565 -5.83% 223
West London -2 72 £550 +22.22% 38
South London +3 60 £500 -19.61% 5
East London -1 23 £545 -6.84% 32
North London +1 3 £650 +18.18% 5
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
1 274 (8.79%) Confluence
2 80 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.44%) CMS
5 44 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 27 (0.87%) Apache
7 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.45%) Camunda
9 13 (0.42%) IIS
9 13 (0.42%) SAS
10 12 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.22%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.19%) JBoss
13 6 (0.19%) Kentico
13 6 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.16%) Appian
14 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 95 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
5 33 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.22%) Notion
7 7 (0.22%) Sketch
8 6 (0.19%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.16%) Trello
10 3 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.064%) InVision
11 2 (0.064%) Windchill
11 2 (0.064%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.032%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 32 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) Findur
4 11 (0.35%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.32%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.26%) Shopify
8 7 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
8 7 (0.22%) Endur
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 5 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.13%) HFM
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 794 (25.48%) Azure
2 645 (20.70%) AWS
3 262 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (7.73%) Power Platform
5 216 (6.93%) GitHub
6 174 (5.58%) GCP
7 152 (4.88%) Serverless
8 126 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
9 117 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 108 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
12 72 (2.31%) SaaS
12 72 (2.31%) Snowflake
13 70 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
14 66 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
15 62 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
16 57 (1.83%) Power Automate
17 55 (1.77%) PowerApps
18 52 (1.67%) Entra ID
18 52 (1.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.80%) Firewall
2 29 (0.93%) WAN
3 23 (0.74%) Network Security
4 21 (0.67%) VPN
5 16 (0.51%) HTTP
5 16 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.48%) DNS
6 15 (0.48%) Internet
7 11 (0.35%) LAN
8 9 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.22%) DMZ
9 7 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.22%) Wireless
10 6 (0.19%) BGP
10 6 (0.19%) MPLS
10 6 (0.19%) OSPF
10 6 (0.19%) SMS
11 5 (0.16%) FTP
11 5 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (6.00%) Power BI
2 120 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 120 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 108 (3.47%) SQL Server
4 94 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 82 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 68 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
6 68 (2.18%) Tableau
7 65 (2.09%) Data Lake
8 55 (1.77%) Metadata
9 51 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 47 (1.51%) Big Data
11 43 (1.38%) DynamoDB
12 39 (1.25%) BigQuery
13 34 (1.09%) Delta Lake
14 32 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
15 26 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 18 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 518 (16.62%) JIRA
2 261 (8.38%) Git
3 175 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 100 (3.21%) GitLab
5 58 (1.86%) JUnit
6 45 (1.44%) Postman
6 45 (1.44%) Selenium
7 34 (1.09%) Mockito
8 32 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 29 (0.93%) Gradle
11 28 (0.90%) Bitbucket
12 25 (0.80%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.61%) JMeter
14 17 (0.55%) SpecFlow
15 16 (0.51%) Maven
16 15 (0.48%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.48%) Liquibase
17 13 (0.42%) Visual Studio
18 11 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,083 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 1,077 (34.56%) Finance
3 453 (14.54%) Public Sector
4 430 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
5 394 (12.64%) Banking
6 157 (5.04%) Front Office
7 156 (5.01%) Retail
8 110 (3.53%) Marketing
9 92 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
10 87 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
11 85 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
12 84 (2.70%) Investment Banking
13 79 (2.54%) Legal
14 69 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
15 52 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 41 (1.32%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.19%) Law
18 29 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.87%) Local Government
19 27 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 545 (17.49%) Developer
2 457 (14.67%) Senior
3 453 (14.54%) Analyst
4 324 (10.40%) Business Analyst
5 301 (9.66%) Lead
6 277 (8.89%) Project Manager
7 218 (7.00%) Architect
8 152 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 139 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 122 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
11 106 (3.40%) Java Developer
12 103 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 100 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
14 99 (3.18%) Designer
15 91 (2.92%) Senior Developer
16 70 (2.25%) DevOps Engineer
17 67 (2.15%) Full-Stack Developer
17 67 (2.15%) Python Developer
18 65 (2.09%) Product Owner
19 64 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (7.38%) React
2 215 (6.90%) REST
3 160 (5.13%) Kafka
4 155 (4.97%) .NET
5 151 (4.85%) RESTful
6 147 (4.72%) Spring
7 135 (4.33%) Node.js
8 133 (4.27%) AngularJS
9 130 (4.17%) Spring Boot
10 118 (3.79%) HTML
11 104 (3.34%) CSS
12 82 (2.63%) PySpark
13 71 (2.28%) Middleware
14 67 (2.15%) Redux
15 66 (2.12%) SOAP
16 62 (1.99%) Playwright
17 52 (1.67%) JSON
18 51 (1.64%) GraphQL
19 49 (1.57%) Web Services
20 43 (1.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 353 (11.33%) Product Ownership
2 232 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 105 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 85 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 84 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 81 (2.60%) Fixed Income
7 68 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
8 64 (2.05%) Derivative
9 60 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 50 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 50 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 50 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 48 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.32%) Equities
14 40 (1.28%) NHS
15 38 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 36 (1.16%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.43%) Linux
2 80 (2.57%) Windows
3 51 (1.64%) Unix
4 31 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.83%) Android
6 11 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.096%) zOS
12 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.032%) AIX
13 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Rocky
13 1 (0.032%) Solaris
13 1 (0.032%) SUSE
13 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (25.93%) DevOps
2 789 (25.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 748 (24.01%) CI/CD
4 687 (22.05%) Scrum
5 520 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
6 515 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 432 (13.86%) AI
8 358 (11.49%) Data Modelling
9 351 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 350 (11.23%) Project Management
11 341 (10.94%) Roadmaps
12 338 (10.85%) Analytics
13 332 (10.65%) Migration
14 329 (10.56%) Decision-Making
15 328 (10.53%) Test Automation
16 322 (10.33%) Software Engineering
17 314 (10.08%) User Stories
18 301 (9.66%) Microservices
19 293 (9.40%) Waterfall
20 262 (8.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 570 (18.29%) SQL
2 552 (17.72%) Python
3 387 (12.42%) Java
4 298 (9.56%) JavaScript
5 230 (7.38%) TypeScript
6 209 (6.71%) C#
7 58 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 48 (1.54%) Go
9 41 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 40 (1.28%) Scala
11 37 (1.19%) Apex Code
12 34 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 28 (0.90%) Bash
14 27 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 25 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.74%) Ruby
17 20 (0.64%) R
17 20 (0.64%) Shell Script
18 18 (0.58%) Bicep
18 18 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 679 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 590 (18.93%) SC Cleared
3 270 (8.66%) Degree
4 115 (3.69%) PMP
5 108 (3.47%) PMI Certification
6 72 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 63 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.09%) AWS Certification
12 30 (0.96%) CISSP
13 28 (0.90%) CBAP
14 26 (0.83%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.74%) IIBA
16 22 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 22 (0.71%) CISM
17 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.39%) CCNP
19 10 (0.32%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (9.47%) QA
2 198 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 142 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 121 (3.88%) GDPR
5 109 (3.50%) PMO
6 54 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.38%) WCAG
8 41 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 39 (1.25%) NIST
10 32 (1.03%) GRC
11 26 (0.83%) SLA
12 21 (0.67%) NCSC
12 21 (0.67%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.29%) IFRS
15 9 (0.29%) PSD2
16 7 (0.22%) Basel III
16 7 (0.22%) HL7
17 6 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 258 (8.28%) Docker
2 43 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.096%) IAG
6 3 (0.096%) Postfix
7 2 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.064%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.064%) RACF
7 2 (0.064%) Squid
8 1 (0.032%) HDFS
8 1 (0.032%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 291 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 227 (7.28%) Terraform
3 63 (2.02%) Ansible
4 42 (1.35%) Grafana
5 38 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.35%) Kibana
8 10 (0.32%) Packer
8 10 (0.32%) SCCM
9 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.26%) WSUS
11 7 (0.22%) Control-M
11 7 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.16%) Consul
12 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.096%) Puppet
Vendors
1 363 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 184 (5.91%) Oracle
3 167 (5.36%) Salesforce
4 137 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 102 (3.27%) Databricks
6 100 (3.21%) SAP
7 61 (1.96%) Google
8 38 (1.22%) Adobe
9 35 (1.12%) Workday
10 29 (0.93%) Splunk
11 28 (0.90%) Informatica
12 24 (0.77%) Bloomberg
12 24 (0.77%) IBM
12 24 (0.77%) MuleSoft
13 23 (0.74%) Cisco
14 20 (0.64%) VMware
15 18 (0.58%) Okta
16 17 (0.55%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 15 (0.48%) Pega