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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,885 2,513 3,607
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.55% 18.50% 19.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.50% 20.43% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,945 1,641 2,622
10th Percentile £363 £390 £405
25th Percentile £431 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £768 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 17
10th Percentile £49.93 - £21.72
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.11% -27.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69.36 £41.19 £72.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £59.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.48% -9.04% -

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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
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 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +1 385 £540 -6.09% 283
West London -1 66 £500 +30.72% 52
South London +6 50 £525 +9.95% 23
East London -1 28 £540 +10.20% 40
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 4
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
1 263 (9.12%) Confluence
2 57 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.25%) Apache
6 30 (1.04%) CMS
7 21 (0.73%) nginx
8 15 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.31%) Camunda
12 9 (0.31%) IIS
13 6 (0.21%) Ethereum
13 6 (0.21%) 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%) WordPress
Applications
1 105 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.49%) Trello
8 9 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.24%) Sketch
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
10 5 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.10%) InVision
13 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.069%) InDesign
13 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.069%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 52 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 27 (0.94%) Endur
5 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 9 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.31%) Shopify
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.21%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.14%) SAP GTS
11 4 (0.14%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 695 (24.09%) Azure
2 497 (17.23%) AWS
3 256 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
4 236 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 204 (7.07%) GitHub
6 190 (6.59%) GCP
7 136 (4.71%) Serverless
8 110 (3.81%) SaaS
9 95 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
10 94 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 82 (2.84%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
13 70 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
14 66 (2.29%) Amazon S3
15 65 (2.25%) PowerApps
16 62 (2.15%) Power Automate
17 59 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
18 53 (1.84%) Figma
19 48 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
20 47 (1.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (1.63%) Firewall
2 25 (0.87%) Network Security
3 24 (0.83%) HTTP
4 23 (0.80%) WAN
5 22 (0.76%) VPN
6 16 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.45%) DNS
9 12 (0.42%) Internet
10 8 (0.28%) LAN
11 6 (0.21%) 5G
11 6 (0.21%) 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%) OSPF
13 4 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (5.62%) Power BI
2 116 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
3 111 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 101 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 99 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 59 (2.05%) Tableau
8 54 (1.87%) MongoDB
9 48 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 45 (1.56%) Metadata
11 42 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
12 41 (1.42%) Big Data
13 38 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.18%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.04%) Oracle Database
16 24 (0.83%) Data Vault
16 24 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
17 23 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (0.80%) Delta Lake
18 21 (0.73%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 519 (17.99%) JIRA
2 270 (9.36%) Git
3 163 (5.65%) Jenkins
4 97 (3.36%) GitLab
5 59 (2.05%) Selenium
6 52 (1.80%) JUnit
7 46 (1.59%) Postman
8 41 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 34 (1.18%) Bitbucket
10 31 (1.07%) SpecFlow
11 21 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 19 (0.66%) ERwin
13 18 (0.62%) Maven
13 18 (0.62%) Mockito
13 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 16 (0.55%) JMeter
15 12 (0.42%) ER Studio
15 12 (0.42%) Gradle
15 12 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 1,158 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 941 (32.62%) Finance
3 458 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 369 (12.79%) Banking
5 330 (11.44%) Public Sector
6 121 (4.19%) Front Office
7 92 (3.19%) Retail
8 86 (2.98%) Investment Banking
9 85 (2.95%) Marketing
10 84 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
11 82 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
12 76 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
13 69 (2.39%) Legal
14 68 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.66%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.56%) Financial Institution
17 42 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 39 (1.35%) Manufacturing
19 38 (1.32%) Back Office
20 27 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 516 (17.89%) Developer
2 458 (15.88%) Analyst
3 427 (14.80%) Senior
4 356 (12.34%) Business Analyst
5 243 (8.42%) Lead
6 218 (7.56%) Project Manager
7 184 (6.38%) Architect
8 108 (3.74%) Data Engineer
8 108 (3.74%) Software Engineer
9 98 (3.40%) Consultant
10 95 (3.29%) Java Developer
11 78 (2.70%) Senior Developer
12 75 (2.60%) Senior Manager
13 73 (2.53%) Product Manager
14 72 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
15 67 (2.32%) Designer
15 67 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
16 63 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
17 60 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
18 59 (2.05%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (7.63%) REST
2 206 (7.14%) React
3 155 (5.37%) Node.js
4 151 (5.23%) Kafka
5 148 (5.13%) RESTful
6 139 (4.82%) .NET
7 112 (3.88%) AngularJS
8 110 (3.81%) HTML
9 108 (3.74%) CSS
10 102 (3.54%) Spring
11 98 (3.40%) Playwright
12 90 (3.12%) Spring Boot
13 81 (2.81%) SOAP
14 75 (2.60%) JSON
15 73 (2.53%) PySpark
16 64 (2.22%) XML
17 60 (2.08%) GraphQL
17 60 (2.08%) Web Services
18 56 (1.94%) Middleware
19 41 (1.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 297 (10.29%) Product Ownership
2 198 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 63 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 60 (2.08%) Derivative
4 60 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 59 (2.05%) Data Structures
6 57 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 54 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 53 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 51 (1.77%) Virtual Team
11 49 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 49 (1.70%) Onboarding
12 47 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 47 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
13 46 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (1.53%) PMI
16 40 (1.39%) Fixed Income
17 35 (1.21%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 152 (5.27%) Linux
2 85 (2.95%) Windows
3 82 (2.84%) Unix
4 31 (1.07%) Android
5 29 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.38%) VMS
8 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) zOS
9 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.069%) AIX
10 2 (0.069%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.035%) Solaris
11 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (24.92%) DevOps
2 658 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
3 636 (22.05%) CI/CD
4 630 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 616 (21.35%) Scrum
6 380 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 352 (12.20%) Test Automation
8 344 (11.92%) AI
9 334 (11.58%) Project Management
10 328 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 313 (10.85%) Analytics
12 299 (10.36%) Data Modelling
13 292 (10.12%) Roadmaps
14 283 (9.81%) Migration
15 275 (9.53%) Software Engineering
16 269 (9.32%) User Stories
17 267 (9.25%) Microservices
18 265 (9.19%) Project Delivery
18 265 (9.19%) Waterfall
19 250 (8.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 573 (19.86%) SQL
2 526 (18.23%) Python
3 337 (11.68%) Java
4 283 (9.81%) JavaScript
5 231 (8.01%) TypeScript
6 208 (7.21%) C#
7 85 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 59 (2.05%) C++
9 53 (1.84%) Scala
10 43 (1.49%) Bash
11 30 (1.04%) Go
12 29 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 26 (0.90%) Ruby
14 25 (0.87%) Bicep
14 25 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 21 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.69%) R
17 17 (0.59%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.59%) Korn
17 17 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 559 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 492 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 347 (12.03%) Degree
4 135 (4.68%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.81%) PMP
6 96 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.70%) CBAP
10 48 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.39%) DV Cleared
12 37 (1.28%) ISTQB
13 26 (0.90%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.87%) IIBA
15 24 (0.83%) CISSP
16 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.52%) CISM
18 13 (0.45%) ISEB
19 11 (0.38%) CSPO
20 10 (0.35%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (9.77%) QA
2 146 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 136 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 124 (4.30%) GDPR
5 85 (2.95%) PMO
6 38 (1.32%) WCAG
7 31 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 26 (0.90%) NIST
9 16 (0.55%) GRC
9 16 (0.55%) MiFID
10 12 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.42%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.38%) Basel III
11 11 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.38%) PSD2
12 10 (0.35%) PERC
12 10 (0.35%) SLA
13 9 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 325 (11.27%) Docker
2 36 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.069%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.035%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.035%) etcd
8 1 (0.035%) GPFS
8 1 (0.035%) IAG
8 1 (0.035%) KVM
8 1 (0.035%) Lustre
8 1 (0.035%) Postfix
8 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 312 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 190 (6.59%) Terraform
3 52 (1.80%) Ansible
4 41 (1.42%) Grafana
5 26 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.62%) Argo
7 16 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.45%) Packer
9 12 (0.42%) Consul
10 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.35%) SCCM
11 8 (0.28%) Puppet
11 8 (0.28%) Rancher
12 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.17%) Control-M
14 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.14%) Kibana
14 4 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 377 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 198 (6.86%) Oracle
3 136 (4.71%) Databricks
4 125 (4.33%) Salesforce
5 114 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 104 (3.60%) SAP
7 78 (2.70%) Google
8 44 (1.53%) Adobe
9 41 (1.42%) Splunk
10 31 (1.07%) Workday
11 25 (0.87%) Atlassian
12 23 (0.80%) Informatica
12 23 (0.80%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.73%) Cisco
14 20 (0.69%) Bloomberg
15 18 (0.62%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.59%) Planview
17 16 (0.55%) VMware
18 15 (0.52%) Foundry
18 15 (0.52%) Murex