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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,057 2,519 3,437
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.63% 19.89% 19.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.79% 21.66% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,090 1,737 2,475
10th Percentile £363 £389 £400
25th Percentile £447 £474 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £592
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +1.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £723
90th Percentile £775 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 20
10th Percentile £30.09 £35.00 £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.93
Median hourly rate £64.75 £39.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.86% -21.92% -23.08%
75th Percentile £72.88 £55.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £93.18 £75.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year +7.57% +7.63% -10.31%

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 15,445 11,632 15,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 91.83% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,343 7,889 11,364
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 166 338
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.98
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.64 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.80 £63.50 £66.83
England median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
% change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -1 368 £550 -5.98% 211
South London +7 81 £513 -12.09% 14
West London -2 66 £520 +30.00% 29
East London -2 27 £525 -8.70% 30
North London +1 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
1 289 (9.45%) Confluence
2 71 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 69 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (1.24%) CMS
6 29 (0.95%) Apache
7 19 (0.62%) nginx
8 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.33%) Camunda
11 10 (0.33%) IIS
11 10 (0.33%) SAS
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.13%) Appian
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 113 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 40 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.33%) Sketch
7 10 (0.33%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
8 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.098%) InVision
10 2 (0.065%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.065%) Windchill
10 2 (0.065%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 52 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.01%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.59%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
7 12 (0.39%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.29%) Shopify
9 7 (0.23%) Findur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 757 (24.76%) Azure
2 618 (20.22%) AWS
3 263 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
4 219 (7.16%) Power Platform
5 214 (7.00%) GitHub
6 179 (5.86%) GCP
7 151 (4.94%) Serverless
8 112 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
9 106 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 93 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (2.98%) SaaS
13 75 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
14 72 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 71 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
15 71 (2.32%) Snowflake
16 60 (1.96%) Figma
17 51 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
17 51 (1.67%) Azure AKS
18 50 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.47%) Firewall
2 28 (0.92%) WAN
3 24 (0.79%) Network Security
4 22 (0.72%) HTTP
5 18 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.49%) VPN
7 12 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.33%) LAN
9 9 (0.29%) DNS
10 8 (0.26%) Internet
11 7 (0.23%) DMZ
12 6 (0.20%) FTP
13 5 (0.16%) 5G
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) Broadband
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
14 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (5.10%) Power BI
2 127 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (4.02%) NoSQL
4 114 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (3.40%) SQL Server
6 75 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 69 (2.26%) Tableau
8 61 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 55 (1.80%) Metadata
10 52 (1.70%) Big Data
11 51 (1.67%) MongoDB
12 46 (1.50%) Data Lake
13 38 (1.24%) BigQuery
13 38 (1.24%) Delta Lake
14 36 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 30 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (0.92%) DynamoDB
17 22 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 21 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (0.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 530 (17.34%) JIRA
2 293 (9.58%) Git
3 175 (5.72%) Jenkins
4 93 (3.04%) GitLab
5 57 (1.86%) JUnit
6 55 (1.80%) Selenium
7 45 (1.47%) Postman
8 39 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 38 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 36 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 31 (1.01%) SpecFlow
12 30 (0.98%) Mockito
13 20 (0.65%) REST Assured
14 19 (0.62%) JMeter
15 16 (0.52%) Maven
16 15 (0.49%) Zephyr
17 13 (0.43%) Gradle
18 12 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
18 12 (0.39%) TestRail
19 11 (0.36%) Liquibase
General
1 1,118 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 1,035 (33.86%) Finance
3 498 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 373 (12.20%) Banking
6 161 (5.27%) Front Office
7 101 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 100 (3.27%) Retail
9 97 (3.17%) Marketing
10 85 (2.78%) Legal
11 81 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 80 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
13 74 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
14 67 (2.19%) Investment Banking
15 43 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 38 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 36 (1.18%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.01%) Manufacturing
19 28 (0.92%) Law
20 26 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 538 (17.60%) Developer
2 457 (14.95%) Analyst
3 444 (14.52%) Senior
4 354 (11.58%) Business Analyst
5 268 (8.77%) Lead
6 259 (8.47%) Project Manager
7 234 (7.65%) Architect
8 140 (4.58%) Software Engineer
9 139 (4.55%) Data Engineer
10 111 (3.63%) Java Developer
11 105 (3.43%) Delivery Manager
12 92 (3.01%) Senior Manager
13 91 (2.98%) Designer
13 91 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
14 90 (2.94%) Consultant
15 78 (2.55%) Senior Developer
16 73 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
17 71 (2.32%) Full-Stack Developer
18 67 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
19 61 (2.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (7.79%) React
2 212 (6.93%) REST
3 174 (5.69%) Node.js
4 168 (5.50%) Kafka
5 152 (4.97%) .NET
6 149 (4.87%) RESTful
7 143 (4.68%) AngularJS
8 121 (3.96%) HTML
9 120 (3.93%) Spring
10 108 (3.53%) CSS
11 104 (3.40%) Spring Boot
12 92 (3.01%) PySpark
13 88 (2.88%) Playwright
14 75 (2.45%) Middleware
15 73 (2.39%) JSON
16 67 (2.19%) GraphQL
17 61 (2.00%) SOAP
18 58 (1.90%) Redux
19 51 (1.67%) Web Services
20 50 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 324 (10.60%) Product Ownership
2 227 (7.43%) Cloud Native
3 89 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 78 (2.55%) Fixed Income
5 76 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 70 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 68 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 61 (2.00%) Derivative
9 56 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
10 55 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 51 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.41%) AI Agents
13 41 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 39 (1.28%) Management Information System
14 39 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 37 (1.21%) Equities
15 37 (1.21%) NHS
16 35 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 31 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 125 (4.09%) Linux
2 80 (2.62%) Windows
3 68 (2.22%) Unix
4 26 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.75%) Android
6 14 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.098%) AIX
11 3 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (25.55%) DevOps
2 720 (23.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 705 (23.06%) CI/CD
4 628 (20.54%) Scrum
5 578 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 486 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 390 (12.76%) AI
8 369 (12.07%) Project Management
9 361 (11.81%) Data Modelling
10 345 (11.29%) Test Automation
11 332 (10.86%) Analytics
12 330 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 317 (10.37%) Software Engineering
14 316 (10.34%) Migration
15 309 (10.11%) Decision-Making
16 308 (10.08%) Roadmaps
17 291 (9.52%) User Stories
18 288 (9.42%) Microservices
19 287 (9.39%) Waterfall
20 266 (8.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 605 (19.79%) SQL
2 563 (18.42%) Python
3 381 (12.46%) Java
4 316 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 260 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 224 (7.33%) C#
7 73 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.90%) Scala
9 52 (1.70%) Go
10 41 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Bash
13 31 (1.01%) Apex Code
13 31 (1.01%) C++
14 27 (0.88%) Ruby
15 24 (0.79%) Bicep
16 21 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.65%) R
18 16 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 665 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 593 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 284 (9.29%) Degree
4 120 (3.93%) PMI Certification
5 118 (3.86%) PMP
6 93 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 68 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 47 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.34%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.28%) CBAP
12 36 (1.18%) ISTQB
13 31 (1.01%) CISSP
14 27 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.88%) CISM
15 26 (0.85%) IIBA
16 16 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (0.43%) CSPO
19 11 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (9.62%) QA
2 180 (5.89%) Data Quality
3 137 (4.48%) Accessibility
4 126 (4.12%) GDPR
5 105 (3.43%) PMO
6 49 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (1.44%) WCAG
8 38 (1.24%) NIST
9 37 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (0.72%) SLA
11 18 (0.59%) GRC
12 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.52%) NCSC
14 14 (0.46%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.33%) HL7
15 10 (0.33%) PERC
16 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.29%) Basel III
17 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 300 (9.81%) Docker
2 38 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.098%) IAG
5 3 (0.098%) RACF
5 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.065%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.065%) Postfix
6 2 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.033%) GPFS
7 1 (0.033%) HDFS
7 1 (0.033%) Lustre
7 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 311 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 227 (7.43%) Terraform
3 56 (1.83%) Ansible
4 41 (1.34%) Grafana
5 28 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.46%) Packer
8 13 (0.43%) Consul
9 11 (0.36%) HP ALM
9 11 (0.36%) SCCM
10 10 (0.33%) Argo
10 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.26%) Puppet
11 8 (0.26%) Rancher
12 7 (0.23%) WSUS
13 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.20%) Kibana
14 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 396 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 199 (6.51%) Oracle
3 139 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 133 (4.35%) Databricks
5 129 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 107 (3.50%) SAP
7 61 (2.00%) Google
8 47 (1.54%) Adobe
9 36 (1.18%) Splunk
9 36 (1.18%) Workday
10 27 (0.88%) IBM
11 26 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 26 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 22 (0.72%) Informatica
13 21 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.69%) VMware
14 20 (0.65%) CyberArk
15 18 (0.59%) Cisco
15 18 (0.59%) Citrix
15 18 (0.59%) Okta