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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,047 2,462 3,456
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.32% 19.32% 19.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.39% 21.17% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,072 1,701 2,502
10th Percentile £363 £388 £408
25th Percentile £447 £469 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £650 £744 £713
90th Percentile £775 £850 £824
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 18
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.78
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.04 £48.03
Median % change year-on-year +69.06% -18.71% -26.11%
75th Percentile £73.13 £55.75 £63.44
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.00 £70.53
England median hourly rate £66.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +5.60% +7.20% -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 14,942 11,630 15,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.82% 91.27% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,020 7,810 11,431
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 342
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -19.47%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.18 £69.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -1 379 £550 -4.76% 245
South London +9 74 £513 -4.25% 23
West London -3 54 £500 +25.00% 49
East London +1 29 £525 +1.20% 35
North London 0 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
1 287 (9.42%) Confluence
2 65 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 61 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.15%) CMS
6 30 (0.98%) Apache
7 19 (0.62%) nginx
8 16 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.33%) Camunda
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.30%) IIS
11 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.30%) SAS
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
14 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 46 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.36%) Trello
8 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.33%) Sketch
9 5 (0.16%) Notion
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.098%) InVision
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.066%) InDesign
12 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 47 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.69%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.39%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.36%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.30%) Shopify
9 8 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (0.23%) Findur
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 757 (24.84%) Azure
2 615 (20.18%) AWS
3 274 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
4 230 (7.55%) GitHub
5 220 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 193 (6.33%) GCP
7 150 (4.92%) Serverless
8 114 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
9 97 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 92 (3.02%) Amazon S3
11 90 (2.95%) SaaS
12 83 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 80 (2.63%) Snowflake
14 71 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
15 66 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 60 (1.97%) Figma
16 60 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
17 48 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
18 45 (1.48%) PowerApps
19 44 (1.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.74%) Firewall
2 32 (1.05%) WAN
3 25 (0.82%) Network Security
4 22 (0.72%) SD-WAN
5 20 (0.66%) HTTP
6 19 (0.62%) VPN
7 17 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.43%) Internet
9 12 (0.39%) DNS
10 10 (0.33%) LAN
11 7 (0.23%) BGP
12 6 (0.20%) DMZ
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) Broadband
13 5 (0.16%) MPLS
13 5 (0.16%) SMS
13 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.13%) DHCP
14 4 (0.13%) FTP
14 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (5.15%) Power BI
2 131 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
3 122 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 115 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 101 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 65 (2.13%) Tableau
8 60 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 50 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 49 (1.61%) Metadata
11 47 (1.54%) Data Lake
12 44 (1.44%) Big Data
13 38 (1.25%) BigQuery
14 37 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
15 33 (1.08%) Delta Lake
16 26 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
18 23 (0.75%) DynamoDB
18 23 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 22 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 538 (17.66%) JIRA
2 297 (9.75%) Git
3 171 (5.61%) Jenkins
4 99 (3.25%) GitLab
5 62 (2.03%) JUnit
6 58 (1.90%) Selenium
7 44 (1.44%) Cucumber
7 44 (1.44%) Postman
8 41 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 38 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 32 (1.05%) SpecFlow
11 29 (0.95%) Mockito
12 22 (0.72%) REST Assured
13 21 (0.69%) JMeter
14 18 (0.59%) Maven
15 14 (0.46%) Gradle
15 14 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.43%) Zephyr
17 12 (0.39%) TestRail
18 10 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 1,148 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 1,033 (33.90%) Finance
3 498 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (13.36%) Public Sector
5 371 (12.18%) Banking
6 160 (5.25%) Front Office
7 100 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 91 (2.99%) Retail
9 89 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
10 84 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 82 (2.69%) Legal
12 77 (2.53%) Marketing
13 74 (2.43%) Investment Banking
13 74 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
14 44 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (0.98%) Back Office
17 30 (0.98%) Manufacturing
18 27 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 542 (17.79%) Developer
2 473 (15.52%) Analyst
3 451 (14.80%) Senior
4 366 (12.01%) Business Analyst
5 263 (8.63%) Lead
6 260 (8.53%) Project Manager
7 208 (6.83%) Architect
8 145 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 132 (4.33%) Data Engineer
10 100 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
11 98 (3.22%) Java Developer
12 95 (3.12%) Consultant
13 88 (2.89%) Designer
13 88 (2.89%) Senior Manager
14 82 (2.69%) Senior Developer
15 80 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
16 71 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
17 69 (2.26%) Product Manager
17 69 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
18 60 (1.97%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (8.27%) React
2 212 (6.96%) REST
3 189 (6.20%) Node.js
4 179 (5.87%) Kafka
5 142 (4.66%) .NET
5 142 (4.66%) RESTful
6 140 (4.59%) AngularJS
7 118 (3.87%) HTML
8 113 (3.71%) Spring
9 108 (3.54%) CSS
10 99 (3.25%) Playwright
11 94 (3.09%) Spring Boot
12 89 (2.92%) PySpark
13 74 (2.43%) GraphQL
13 74 (2.43%) JSON
14 69 (2.26%) Middleware
15 65 (2.13%) SOAP
16 59 (1.94%) XML
17 56 (1.84%) Redux
18 55 (1.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 301 (9.88%) Product Ownership
2 215 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 79 (2.59%) Fixed Income
4 74 (2.43%) Onboarding
5 71 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 69 (2.26%) Derivative
7 67 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 61 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 55 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
12 44 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 43 (1.41%) AI Agents
13 43 (1.41%) Equities
14 39 (1.28%) Management Information System
15 38 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 38 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 37 (1.21%) Mobile App
17 35 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 139 (4.56%) Linux
2 85 (2.79%) Windows
3 80 (2.63%) Unix
4 28 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.89%) Android
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.30%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.16%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.098%) AIX
12 2 (0.066%) Solaris
13 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Rocky
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (25.11%) DevOps
2 693 (22.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 685 (22.48%) CI/CD
4 621 (20.38%) Scrum
5 603 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
6 461 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 383 (12.57%) AI
8 356 (11.68%) Project Management
9 350 (11.49%) Test Automation
10 347 (11.39%) Data Modelling
11 335 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 326 (10.70%) Analytics
13 316 (10.37%) Migration
14 311 (10.21%) Software Engineering
15 307 (10.08%) Roadmaps
16 289 (9.48%) Decision-Making
17 286 (9.39%) Project Delivery
17 286 (9.39%) Waterfall
18 284 (9.32%) User Stories
19 283 (9.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 615 (20.18%) SQL
2 568 (18.64%) Python
3 375 (12.31%) Java
4 325 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 278 (9.12%) TypeScript
6 221 (7.25%) C#
7 76 (2.49%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.81%) Scala
9 52 (1.71%) Go
10 42 (1.38%) C++
11 32 (1.05%) Bash
11 32 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 32 (1.05%) Ruby
12 27 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 24 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 24 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 24 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.72%) Bicep
15 18 (0.59%) R
16 17 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 653 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 583 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 307 (10.08%) Degree
4 136 (4.46%) PMI Certification
5 127 (4.17%) PMP
6 94 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 58 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.41%) CBAP
11 40 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 40 (1.31%) ISTQB
12 33 (1.08%) CISSP
13 28 (0.92%) CISM
14 27 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.89%) IIBA
15 14 (0.46%) ISEB
15 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (9.65%) QA
2 163 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 148 (4.86%) Accessibility
4 121 (3.97%) GDPR
5 99 (3.25%) PMO
6 47 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.41%) WCAG
8 38 (1.25%) NIST
9 34 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.66%) SLA
11 19 (0.62%) GRC
12 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.49%) MiFID
14 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.43%) NCSC
15 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.33%) PERC
16 9 (0.30%) Basel III
17 8 (0.26%) PSD2
18 7 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 316 (10.37%) Docker
2 34 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.066%) RACF
7 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) IAG
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 317 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 216 (7.09%) Terraform
3 56 (1.84%) Ansible
4 41 (1.35%) Grafana
5 30 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.53%) Argo
8 14 (0.46%) Packer
9 12 (0.39%) Consul
9 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
11 9 (0.30%) Rancher
11 9 (0.30%) SCCM
12 8 (0.26%) Puppet
13 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.20%) WSUS
14 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.13%) Control-M
16 3 (0.098%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 388 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 199 (6.53%) Oracle
3 136 (4.46%) Databricks
4 126 (4.14%) Salesforce
4 126 (4.14%) ServiceNow
5 98 (3.22%) SAP
6 62 (2.03%) Google
7 48 (1.58%) Adobe
8 39 (1.28%) Splunk
9 31 (1.02%) Workday
10 28 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 24 (0.79%) Bloomberg
11 24 (0.79%) IBM
12 23 (0.75%) Cisco
13 22 (0.72%) Informatica
14 21 (0.69%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.69%) VMware
15 19 (0.62%) Murex
16 18 (0.59%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.53%) Foundry