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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,071 2,490 3,455
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.96% 19.63% 19.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.08% 21.46% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,100 1,725 2,488
10th Percentile £363 £396 £400
25th Percentile £447 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £713
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 20 13 20
10th Percentile £27.66 £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 £72.81 £55.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.57% -11.54%

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 15,294 11,605 15,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.42% 91.50% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,270 7,873 11,381
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £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 £753 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 169 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%
75th Percentile £56.50 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -1 373 £550 -4.35% 251
South London +8 80 £513 -12.09% 11
West London -2 62 £509 +27.25% 37
East London -1 28 £533 -1.39% 32
North London +1 1 £700 +71.36% 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
1 290 (9.44%) Confluence
2 64 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 63 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 39 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.17%) CMS
6 32 (1.04%) Apache
7 19 (0.62%) nginx
8 14 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.33%) Camunda
10 10 (0.33%) IIS
10 10 (0.33%) SAS
11 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
14 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 111 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 43 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (0.68%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 11 (0.36%) Sketch
8 10 (0.33%) Trello
9 5 (0.16%) Notion
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.098%) InVision
12 2 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.065%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.065%) InDesign
12 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.065%) Windchill
12 2 (0.065%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 47 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.59%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 12 (0.39%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.29%) Shopify
8 7 (0.23%) Findur
8 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 752 (24.49%) Azure
2 622 (20.25%) AWS
3 266 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
4 222 (7.23%) GitHub
5 220 (7.16%) Power Platform
6 183 (5.96%) GCP
7 154 (5.01%) Serverless
8 114 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
9 97 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 95 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 89 (2.90%) SaaS
12 87 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (2.38%) Snowflake
14 72 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
15 70 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 63 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
17 59 (1.92%) Figma
18 50 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
19 47 (1.53%) Azure AKS
20 46 (1.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.56%) Firewall
2 29 (0.94%) WAN
3 24 (0.78%) Network Security
4 23 (0.75%) HTTP
5 18 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.49%) VPN
7 14 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.39%) Internet
9 10 (0.33%) DNS
9 10 (0.33%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) DMZ
11 6 (0.20%) FTP
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.16%) 5G
12 5 (0.16%) Broadband
12 5 (0.16%) MPLS
12 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.13%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (5.01%) Power BI
2 129 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (3.78%) NoSQL
4 112 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 100 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 70 (2.28%) Tableau
8 61 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
9 50 (1.63%) Metadata
10 49 (1.60%) Big Data
11 47 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 45 (1.47%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.27%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.17%) Delta Lake
15 35 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
16 28 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (0.85%) DynamoDB
18 23 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
18 23 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 21 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 533 (17.36%) JIRA
2 297 (9.67%) Git
3 167 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 95 (3.09%) GitLab
5 58 (1.89%) JUnit
5 58 (1.89%) Selenium
6 44 (1.43%) Postman
7 40 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 40 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 38 (1.24%) Cypress.io
9 30 (0.98%) SpecFlow
10 29 (0.94%) Mockito
11 21 (0.68%) JMeter
11 21 (0.68%) REST Assured
12 16 (0.52%) Maven
13 15 (0.49%) Zephyr
14 13 (0.42%) Gradle
15 12 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
15 12 (0.39%) TestRail
16 11 (0.36%) Liquibase
General
1 1,136 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 1,032 (33.60%) Finance
3 506 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 379 (12.34%) Banking
6 160 (5.21%) Front Office
7 99 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
8 97 (3.16%) Retail
9 92 (3.00%) Marketing
10 86 (2.80%) Legal
11 83 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 83 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 77 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
13 70 (2.28%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 32 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 30 (0.98%) Law
19 27 (0.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 534 (17.39%) Developer
2 472 (15.37%) Analyst
3 459 (14.95%) Senior
4 362 (11.79%) Business Analyst
5 268 (8.73%) Lead
6 260 (8.47%) Project Manager
7 230 (7.49%) Architect
8 144 (4.69%) Software Engineer
9 134 (4.36%) Data Engineer
10 105 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
11 103 (3.35%) Java Developer
12 97 (3.16%) Consultant
13 96 (3.13%) Senior Manager
14 88 (2.87%) Designer
15 87 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
16 78 (2.54%) Senior Developer
17 75 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
17 75 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
18 66 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
19 64 (2.08%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (7.91%) React
2 211 (6.87%) REST
3 182 (5.93%) Node.js
4 175 (5.70%) Kafka
5 148 (4.82%) RESTful
6 145 (4.72%) .NET
7 141 (4.59%) AngularJS
8 116 (3.78%) HTML
8 116 (3.78%) Spring
9 105 (3.42%) CSS
10 99 (3.22%) Spring Boot
11 91 (2.96%) Playwright
12 90 (2.93%) PySpark
13 74 (2.41%) JSON
13 74 (2.41%) Middleware
14 69 (2.25%) GraphQL
15 60 (1.95%) SOAP
16 58 (1.89%) Redux
17 55 (1.79%) XML
18 52 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 315 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 220 (7.16%) Cloud Native
3 81 (2.64%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.57%) Fixed Income
5 76 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
6 65 (2.12%) Derivative
6 65 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 60 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 52 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 40 (1.30%) Equities
14 39 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 38 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 38 (1.24%) NHS
16 37 (1.20%) Management Information System
17 36 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
18 34 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 129 (4.20%) Linux
2 81 (2.64%) Windows
3 70 (2.28%) Unix
4 27 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.81%) Android
6 16 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) 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 (0.065%) Solaris
13 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (25.20%) DevOps
2 718 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 695 (22.63%) CI/CD
4 625 (20.35%) Scrum
5 592 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
6 489 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 397 (12.93%) AI
8 370 (12.05%) Project Management
9 351 (11.43%) Data Modelling
10 347 (11.30%) Test Automation
11 337 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 325 (10.58%) Analytics
13 321 (10.45%) Software Engineering
14 313 (10.19%) Roadmaps
15 310 (10.09%) Migration
16 299 (9.74%) Decision-Making
17 285 (9.28%) Microservices
17 285 (9.28%) User Stories
17 285 (9.28%) Waterfall
18 275 (8.95%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 602 (19.60%) SQL
2 564 (18.37%) Python
3 371 (12.08%) Java
4 320 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 270 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 218 (7.10%) C#
7 76 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 53 (1.73%) Go
9 52 (1.69%) Scala
10 37 (1.20%) C++
11 36 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 33 (1.07%) Bash
13 30 (0.98%) Apex Code
13 30 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.94%) Ruby
15 23 (0.75%) Bicep
15 23 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 22 (0.72%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.62%) R
18 14 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 667 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 600 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 297 (9.67%) Degree
4 127 (4.14%) PMI Certification
5 124 (4.04%) PMP
6 93 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 49 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.27%) ISTQB
12 38 (1.24%) CBAP
13 35 (1.14%) CISSP
14 30 (0.98%) CISM
15 27 (0.88%) IIBA
16 26 (0.85%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.46%) CSPO
17 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
19 11 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (9.64%) QA
2 172 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 142 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 125 (4.07%) GDPR
5 106 (3.45%) PMO
6 49 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.47%) WCAG
8 38 (1.24%) NIST
9 35 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.65%) SLA
11 18 (0.59%) GRC
12 17 (0.55%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.46%) NCSC
14 13 (0.42%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.42%) MiFID
15 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.33%) HL7
15 10 (0.33%) PERC
16 9 (0.29%) Basel III
17 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 308 (10.03%) Docker
2 37 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.098%) RACF
5 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.065%) IAG
6 2 (0.065%) Job Entry Subsystem
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%) Postfix
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 317 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 223 (7.26%) Terraform
3 54 (1.76%) Ansible
4 38 (1.24%) Grafana
5 28 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 20 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.46%) Packer
8 12 (0.39%) Argo
8 12 (0.39%) Consul
8 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.36%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.29%) Rancher
10 9 (0.29%) SCCM
11 8 (0.26%) Puppet
12 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.20%) WSUS
13 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.13%) Control-M
14 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 391 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 199 (6.48%) Oracle
3 144 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 131 (4.27%) Databricks
5 130 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 103 (3.35%) SAP
7 62 (2.02%) Google
8 48 (1.56%) Adobe
9 39 (1.27%) Splunk
10 31 (1.01%) Workday
11 26 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 26 (0.85%) IBM
12 24 (0.78%) Bloomberg
13 22 (0.72%) Informatica
13 22 (0.72%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.68%) VMware
15 20 (0.65%) CyberArk
16 19 (0.62%) Cisco
17 16 (0.52%) Citrix
17 16 (0.52%) Okta