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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,897 2,616 3,619
As % of all contract jobs in London 20.35% 18.54% 20.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.26% 20.54% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,975 1,714 2,630
10th Percentile £363 £400 £409
25th Percentile £433 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £594
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £573 £558
% change year-on-year -10.04% +2.63% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £37.89 - £36.00
25th Percentile £47.39 £35.00 £43.65
Median hourly rate £59.47 £36.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.19% -29.76% -6.82%
75th Percentile £66.50 £39.76 £72.41
90th Percentile £98.64 £65.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £58.94 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.54% -13.27% -

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 13,014 12,735 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.41% 90.26% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,150 11,402
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 157 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.06 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £53.75 £54.56
90th Percentile £69.42 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 0 396 £539 -7.91% 173
West London 0 68 £444 +18.33% 33
South London +3 44 £525 +7.69% 34
East London -2 24 £495 -1.00% 31
North London +4 2 £700 +73.05% 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
1 262 (9.04%) Confluence
2 52 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (1.76%) Apache
3 51 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 50 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 30 (1.04%) CMS
6 20 (0.69%) nginx
7 13 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 13 (0.45%) IIS
8 12 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.21%) Camunda
10 6 (0.21%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) CICS
11 5 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.14%) Appian
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.14%) WordPress
13 3 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 98 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 56 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
4 48 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 27 (0.93%) Chatbot
6 18 (0.62%) Trello
7 7 (0.24%) Sketch
8 6 (0.21%) Adobe XD
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
12 2 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.069%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.069%) InDesign
12 2 (0.069%) InVision
12 2 (0.069%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.035%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 56 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 40 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 31 (1.07%) Endur
4 23 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.24%) Shopify
8 7 (0.24%) Temenos T24
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.17%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 670 (23.13%) Azure
2 505 (17.43%) AWS
3 241 (8.32%) Power Platform
4 239 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
5 209 (7.21%) GitHub
6 191 (6.59%) GCP
7 143 (4.94%) Serverless
8 102 (3.52%) SaaS
9 97 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
10 86 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 84 (2.90%) Snowflake
12 79 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (2.42%) PowerApps
15 69 (2.38%) Power Automate
16 68 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
17 63 (2.17%) Amazon S3
18 48 (1.66%) dbt
18 48 (1.66%) IaaS
19 47 (1.62%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.76%) Firewall
2 24 (0.83%) Network Security
3 22 (0.76%) VPN
4 18 (0.62%) WAN
5 17 (0.59%) HTTP
6 16 (0.55%) DNS
7 15 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.35%) BGP
9 9 (0.31%) Internet
9 9 (0.31%) SSL
10 8 (0.28%) OSPF
11 6 (0.21%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) 5G
12 5 (0.17%) LAN
12 5 (0.17%) MPLS
13 4 (0.14%) Broadband
13 4 (0.14%) DHCP
13 4 (0.14%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (5.73%) Power BI
2 126 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (3.62%) NoSQL
5 103 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 84 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 60 (2.07%) Tableau
8 56 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 54 (1.86%) MongoDB
10 46 (1.59%) Big Data
11 41 (1.42%) Metadata
12 37 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 36 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (1.21%) Oracle Database
15 29 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 26 (0.90%) Apache Arrow
16 26 (0.90%) Apache Iceberg
16 26 (0.90%) Dremio
16 26 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 508 (17.54%) JIRA
2 266 (9.18%) Git
3 167 (5.76%) Jenkins
4 93 (3.21%) GitLab
5 58 (2.00%) Selenium
6 48 (1.66%) JUnit
7 47 (1.62%) Postman
8 44 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.48%) Bitbucket
10 41 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 30 (1.04%) SpecFlow
12 19 (0.66%) ERwin
13 18 (0.62%) JMeter
13 18 (0.62%) Maven
13 18 (0.62%) Mockito
13 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.59%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.45%) webpack
16 12 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 1,153 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 941 (32.48%) Finance
3 456 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 376 (12.98%) Banking
5 350 (12.08%) Public Sector
6 124 (4.28%) Front Office
7 99 (3.42%) Investment Banking
8 93 (3.21%) Marketing
9 86 (2.97%) Retail
10 81 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
10 81 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
11 77 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 63 (2.17%) Legal
13 61 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.59%) Financial Institution
16 44 (1.52%) Back Office
16 44 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 38 (1.31%) Manufacturing
18 31 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 517 (17.85%) Developer
2 442 (15.26%) Analyst
3 431 (14.88%) Senior
4 342 (11.81%) Business Analyst
5 239 (8.25%) Lead
6 210 (7.25%) Project Manager
7 185 (6.39%) Architect
8 129 (4.45%) Software Engineer
9 103 (3.56%) Consultant
10 97 (3.35%) Data Engineer
11 93 (3.21%) Java Developer
12 76 (2.62%) Senior Developer
13 74 (2.55%) Product Manager
14 66 (2.28%) Full-Stack Developer
14 66 (2.28%) Product Owner
15 65 (2.24%) DevOps Engineer
15 65 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
16 63 (2.17%) Senior Manager
17 60 (2.07%) Senior Software Engineer
18 56 (1.93%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (7.77%) React
2 219 (7.56%) REST
3 168 (5.80%) Node.js
4 160 (5.52%) Kafka
5 148 (5.11%) .NET
6 147 (5.07%) RESTful
7 128 (4.42%) HTML
8 119 (4.11%) CSS
9 115 (3.97%) AngularJS
10 100 (3.45%) Spring
11 92 (3.18%) Playwright
12 88 (3.04%) JSON
13 85 (2.93%) Spring Boot
14 83 (2.87%) SOAP
15 68 (2.35%) XML
16 67 (2.31%) Web Services
17 66 (2.28%) PySpark
18 65 (2.24%) GraphQL
19 50 (1.73%) Middleware
20 49 (1.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 298 (10.29%) Product Ownership
2 197 (6.80%) Cloud Native
3 69 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 68 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 67 (2.31%) Derivative
6 62 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 59 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (2.00%) Data Structures
9 55 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 53 (1.83%) Equities
10 53 (1.83%) Fixed Income
10 53 (1.83%) Onboarding
11 52 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 51 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 48 (1.66%) Virtual Team
14 47 (1.62%) Mobile App
15 46 (1.59%) AI Agents
15 46 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
15 46 (1.59%) PMI
16 43 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 159 (5.49%) Linux
2 85 (2.93%) Unix
3 84 (2.90%) Windows
4 33 (1.14%) Android
5 31 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.35%) VMS
8 7 (0.24%) zOS
9 6 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.10%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.069%) AIX
12 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.035%) Solaris
13 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (25.51%) DevOps
2 673 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
3 629 (21.71%) CI/CD
4 608 (20.99%) Scrum
5 585 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 371 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 348 (12.01%) Test Automation
8 334 (11.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 328 (11.32%) AI
10 309 (10.67%) Project Management
11 304 (10.49%) Analytics
11 304 (10.49%) Software Engineering
12 303 (10.46%) Roadmaps
13 293 (10.11%) Microservices
14 276 (9.53%) Data Modelling
15 271 (9.35%) Migration
16 268 (9.25%) User Stories
17 259 (8.94%) Waterfall
18 246 (8.49%) Project Delivery
19 244 (8.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 558 (19.26%) SQL
2 529 (18.26%) Python
3 359 (12.39%) Java
4 310 (10.70%) JavaScript
5 241 (8.32%) TypeScript
6 209 (7.21%) C#
7 80 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 65 (2.24%) C++
9 52 (1.79%) Scala
10 47 (1.62%) Bash
11 36 (1.24%) Go
12 31 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 28 (0.97%) Bicep
14 27 (0.93%) Ruby
15 26 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 25 (0.86%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.76%) Apex Code
18 19 (0.66%) R
19 18 (0.62%) T-SQL
20 16 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 561 (19.36%) Security Cleared
2 492 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 357 (12.32%) Degree
4 140 (4.83%) PMI Certification
5 109 (3.76%) PMP
6 105 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (1.48%) CBAP
11 35 (1.21%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.93%) CISSP
13 25 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.55%) IIBA
16 15 (0.52%) CISM
16 15 (0.52%) CSPO
17 11 (0.38%) MCP
18 10 (0.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (10.08%) QA
2 129 (4.45%) Accessibility
3 126 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 122 (4.21%) GDPR
5 83 (2.87%) PMO
6 35 (1.21%) WCAG
7 29 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 28 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.83%) NIST
10 23 (0.79%) MiFID
11 17 (0.59%) GRC
12 15 (0.52%) EMIR
13 11 (0.38%) Basel III
14 10 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.35%) PERC
14 10 (0.35%) SLA
15 9 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.31%) PSD2
16 8 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 327 (11.29%) Docker
2 43 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.17%) 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%) Postfix
8 1 (0.035%) RACF
8 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 306 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 192 (6.63%) Terraform
3 54 (1.86%) Ansible
4 46 (1.59%) Grafana
5 29 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.62%) Argo
8 11 (0.38%) Packer
8 11 (0.38%) Puppet
9 10 (0.35%) Consul
9 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.28%) Kibana
10 8 (0.28%) Rancher
10 8 (0.28%) SCCM
11 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
12 6 (0.21%) Control-M
13 4 (0.14%) CA Endevor
13 4 (0.14%) Nessus
13 4 (0.14%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.10%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 382 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 198 (6.83%) Oracle
3 128 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 121 (4.18%) Databricks
5 110 (3.80%) SAP
6 104 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 88 (3.04%) Google
8 45 (1.55%) Splunk
9 41 (1.42%) Adobe
10 31 (1.07%) Atlassian
10 31 (1.07%) Workday
11 25 (0.86%) MuleSoft
12 22 (0.76%) Cisco
13 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
14 18 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 18 (0.62%) Foundry
15 17 (0.59%) Dynatrace
16 15 (0.52%) HP
16 15 (0.52%) Informatica
16 15 (0.52%) VMware