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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,043 2,564 3,548
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.48% 20.92% 20.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.58% 22.67% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,065 1,788 2,617
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £719
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £515 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 24
10th Percentile £32.47 £29.61 £25.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £37.90 £31.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £97.00 £76.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.06
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.36% -6.06%

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 16,377 11,309 15,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.67% 92.27% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,582 11,066
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 194 315
10th Percentile £18.28 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +15.18% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.23 £63.60 £66.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -5 324 £563 -3.85% 103
West London 0 74 £550 +37.50% 24
South London +4 66 £505 -19.01% 9
East London -2 24 £543 -3.56% 24
North London +1 3 £650 +57.58% 6
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 (8.64%) Confluence
2 81 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 67 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (1.35%) CMS
6 28 (0.92%) Apache
7 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 14 (0.46%) Camunda
10 11 (0.36%) IIS
11 10 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 7 (0.23%) SAS
13 6 (0.20%) Appian
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.16%) Kentico
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 103 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
5 34 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.33%) Notion
8 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.23%) Sketch
9 6 (0.20%) Trello
9 6 (0.20%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.066%) InVision
10 2 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.066%) Windchill
10 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.033%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 37 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.82%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.30%) Findur
6 9 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
7 8 (0.26%) Endur
7 8 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.26%) Shopify
8 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.13%) HFM
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 774 (25.44%) Azure
2 613 (20.14%) AWS
3 256 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (7.66%) Power Platform
5 207 (6.80%) GitHub
6 168 (5.52%) GCP
7 146 (4.80%) Serverless
8 116 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
9 110 (3.61%) Amazon S3
10 99 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
11 81 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (2.56%) SaaS
13 77 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (2.30%) Snowflake
15 67 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
16 61 (2.00%) Power Automate
17 60 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
18 57 (1.87%) PowerApps
19 54 (1.77%) Figma
20 49 (1.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.68%) Firewall
2 28 (0.92%) WAN
3 24 (0.79%) Network Security
4 17 (0.56%) VPN
5 16 (0.53%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.43%) DNS
6 13 (0.43%) HTTP
6 13 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.39%) Internet
8 11 (0.36%) LAN
9 9 (0.30%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.23%) Wireless
11 6 (0.20%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) MPLS
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
11 6 (0.20%) SMS
12 5 (0.16%) DMZ
12 5 (0.16%) PSTN
12 5 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (5.72%) Power BI
2 116 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 112 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
4 102 (3.35%) SQL Server
5 98 (3.22%) NoSQL
6 72 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 71 (2.33%) Tableau
8 68 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 57 (1.87%) Metadata
10 56 (1.84%) Data Lake
11 49 (1.61%) Big Data
12 46 (1.51%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.31%) DynamoDB
14 39 (1.28%) BigQuery
15 35 (1.15%) Delta Lake
16 27 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 18 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 504 (16.56%) JIRA
2 252 (8.28%) Git
3 172 (5.65%) Jenkins
4 93 (3.06%) GitLab
5 57 (1.87%) JUnit
6 48 (1.58%) Selenium
7 47 (1.54%) Postman
8 35 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 34 (1.12%) Mockito
10 30 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 26 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 24 (0.79%) Gradle
13 23 (0.76%) REST Assured
14 19 (0.62%) SpecFlow
15 18 (0.59%) JMeter
16 14 (0.46%) Liquibase
17 13 (0.43%) Maven
18 12 (0.39%) CircleCI
19 11 (0.36%) Gatling
19 11 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,076 (35.36%) Finance
2 1,068 (35.10%) Social Skills
3 436 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 422 (13.87%) Public Sector
5 384 (12.62%) Banking
6 154 (5.06%) Front Office
7 136 (4.47%) Retail
8 109 (3.58%) Marketing
9 91 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.73%) Legal
11 81 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 78 (2.56%) Investment Banking
13 77 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
14 70 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
15 53 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (1.45%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.12%) Law
18 30 (0.99%) Telecoms
19 28 (0.92%) Manufacturing
20 25 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 531 (17.45%) Developer
2 446 (14.66%) Senior
3 441 (14.49%) Analyst
4 320 (10.52%) Business Analyst
5 286 (9.40%) Lead
6 279 (9.17%) Project Manager
7 207 (6.80%) Architect
8 147 (4.83%) Software Engineer
9 141 (4.63%) Data Engineer
10 113 (3.71%) Delivery Manager
11 102 (3.35%) Designer
12 100 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 98 (3.22%) Java Developer
14 95 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
15 84 (2.76%) Senior Developer
16 70 (2.30%) Python Developer
17 69 (2.27%) Full-Stack Developer
18 65 (2.14%) Consultant
18 65 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
19 64 (2.10%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (7.46%) React
2 198 (6.51%) REST
3 155 (5.09%) Kafka
4 151 (4.96%) .NET
4 151 (4.96%) RESTful
5 143 (4.70%) Node.js
6 135 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 135 (4.44%) Spring
7 117 (3.84%) HTML
7 117 (3.84%) Spring Boot
8 102 (3.35%) CSS
9 83 (2.73%) PySpark
10 70 (2.30%) Playwright
11 69 (2.27%) Middleware
12 62 (2.04%) SOAP
13 60 (1.97%) Redux
14 55 (1.81%) GraphQL
15 49 (1.61%) JSON
16 47 (1.54%) Web Services
17 42 (1.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 344 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 227 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 93 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 75 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 75 (2.46%) Fixed Income
6 67 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 62 (2.04%) Derivative
8 55 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 53 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 50 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
11 48 (1.58%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 42 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 40 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (1.31%) Equities
15 39 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 39 (1.28%) NHS
16 37 (1.22%) Management Information System
17 30 (0.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 102 (3.35%) Linux
2 74 (2.43%) Windows
3 51 (1.68%) Unix
4 28 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.79%) Android
6 11 (0.36%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.16%) VMS
8 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.099%) zOS
10 1 (0.033%) AIX
10 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.033%) Rocky
10 1 (0.033%) Solaris
10 1 (0.033%) SUSE
10 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (25.44%) DevOps
2 741 (24.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 713 (23.43%) CI/CD
4 661 (21.72%) Scrum
5 526 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
6 509 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 409 (13.44%) AI
8 363 (11.93%) Project Management
9 353 (11.60%) Data Modelling
10 334 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 332 (10.91%) Analytics
12 326 (10.71%) Roadmaps
13 325 (10.68%) Test Automation
14 321 (10.55%) Migration
15 317 (10.42%) Decision-Making
16 314 (10.32%) Software Engineering
17 306 (10.06%) User Stories
18 288 (9.46%) Waterfall
19 287 (9.43%) Microservices
20 255 (8.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 564 (18.53%) SQL
2 548 (18.01%) Python
3 376 (12.36%) Java
4 294 (9.66%) JavaScript
5 232 (7.62%) TypeScript
6 204 (6.70%) C#
7 52 (1.71%) Go
8 51 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 49 (1.61%) Scala
10 36 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.12%) Apex Code
12 31 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 27 (0.89%) Bash
14 26 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 25 (0.82%) Ruby
16 23 (0.76%) Kotlin
17 21 (0.69%) C++
17 21 (0.69%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.62%) Bicep
18 19 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 649 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 564 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 273 (8.97%) Degree
4 115 (3.78%) PMP
5 108 (3.55%) PMI Certification
6 74 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 67 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 58 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.12%) CBAP
12 30 (0.99%) CISSP
13 27 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 26 (0.85%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.85%) IIBA
15 22 (0.72%) CISM
16 20 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
18 12 (0.39%) CCNP
19 11 (0.36%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (9.60%) QA
2 192 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 135 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 122 (4.01%) GDPR
5 112 (3.68%) PMO
6 51 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.48%) WCAG
8 40 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 38 (1.25%) NIST
10 27 (0.89%) SLA
11 26 (0.85%) GRC
12 17 (0.56%) NCSC
12 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.33%) IFRS
16 8 (0.26%) Basel III
17 7 (0.23%) HL7
17 7 (0.23%) PSD2
18 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 262 (8.61%) Docker
2 40 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.099%) IAG
5 3 (0.099%) Postfix
5 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.066%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.066%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.066%) RACF
6 2 (0.066%) Squid
7 1 (0.033%) HDFS
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 289 (9.50%) Kubernetes
2 208 (6.84%) Terraform
3 57 (1.87%) Ansible
4 41 (1.35%) Grafana
5 36 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.33%) Kibana
8 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.23%) Packer
9 7 (0.23%) SCCM
10 5 (0.16%) Consul
10 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.16%) WSUS
11 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.099%) Control-M
12 3 (0.099%) Rancher
Vendors
1 374 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 189 (6.21%) Oracle
3 157 (5.16%) Salesforce
4 128 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 107 (3.52%) Databricks
6 98 (3.22%) SAP
7 52 (1.71%) Google
8 41 (1.35%) Adobe
9 39 (1.28%) Workday
10 28 (0.92%) Splunk
11 24 (0.79%) Informatica
12 23 (0.76%) Cisco
12 23 (0.76%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.72%) IBM
14 21 (0.69%) Bloomberg
15 18 (0.59%) Okta
15 18 (0.59%) VMware
16 17 (0.56%) CyberArk
17 15 (0.49%) Murex
18 14 (0.46%) Temenos