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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,288 2,815 3,712
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.02% 21.48% 21.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.14% 23.30% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,235 1,974 2,725
10th Percentile £375 £376 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 22
10th Percentile £51.78 £27.90 £27.01
25th Percentile £54.87 £35.62 £31.86
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% - -23.64%
75th Percentile £87.87 £65.00 £70.19
90th Percentile £97.25 £84.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +12.00% -1.96% -1.92%

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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -5 354 £568 -5.42% 280
West London -1 81 £600 +50.00% 33
South London +3 61 £513 -15.08% 9
East London -3 20 £565 -3.42% 25
North London +2 4 £550 - 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
1 291 (8.85%) Confluence
2 88 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.46%) CMS
5 44 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
6 28 (0.85%) Apache
7 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 16 (0.49%) IIS
9 14 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.40%) Camunda
10 13 (0.40%) SAS
11 9 (0.27%) JBoss
12 7 (0.21%) Appian
12 7 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.21%) Hyperledger
12 7 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
13 6 (0.18%) Kentico
14 5 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
3 58 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
5 35 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.21%) Notion
8 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Sketch
8 6 (0.18%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.15%) Trello
10 3 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.061%) Windchill
12 1 (0.030%) InVision
12 1 (0.030%) Mingle
12 1 (0.030%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.030%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 34 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 23 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.43%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.33%) Findur
7 10 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 9 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
9 8 (0.24%) Endur
10 7 (0.21%) Shopify
11 6 (0.18%) Fidessa
11 6 (0.18%) Magento
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.18%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
13 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
13 4 (0.12%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 846 (25.73%) Azure
2 683 (20.77%) AWS
3 286 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 252 (7.66%) Power Platform
5 230 (7.00%) GitHub
6 196 (5.96%) GCP
7 169 (5.14%) Serverless
8 135 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
9 126 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 116 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
12 77 (2.34%) Snowflake
13 74 (2.25%) SaaS
14 68 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
16 64 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
17 61 (1.86%) Power Automate
18 60 (1.82%) PowerApps
19 56 (1.70%) Entra ID
19 56 (1.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.64%) Firewall
2 28 (0.85%) Network Security
2 28 (0.85%) WAN
3 22 (0.67%) VPN
4 20 (0.61%) Internet
5 16 (0.49%) HTTP
6 15 (0.46%) DNS
6 15 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.30%) LAN
8 10 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.21%) Wireless
10 6 (0.18%) BGP
10 6 (0.18%) DMZ
10 6 (0.18%) MPLS
10 6 (0.18%) OSPF
10 6 (0.18%) SMS
10 6 (0.18%) VoIP
11 5 (0.15%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (5.96%) Power BI
2 131 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
4 115 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 84 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 67 (2.04%) Tableau
8 66 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
9 63 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.82%) Metadata
11 53 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 48 (1.46%) DynamoDB
13 46 (1.40%) Big Data
14 38 (1.16%) Delta Lake
15 37 (1.13%) BigQuery
16 36 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 35 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
19 21 (0.64%) Oracle Database
19 21 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 552 (16.79%) JIRA
2 275 (8.36%) Git
3 207 (6.30%) Jenkins
4 108 (3.28%) GitLab
5 61 (1.86%) JUnit
6 49 (1.49%) Selenium
7 47 (1.43%) Postman
8 35 (1.06%) Mockito
9 31 (0.94%) Cucumber
10 30 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 29 (0.88%) Gradle
12 28 (0.85%) Bitbucket
13 27 (0.82%) REST Assured
14 20 (0.61%) JMeter
15 17 (0.52%) SpecFlow
16 16 (0.49%) Maven
17 15 (0.46%) CircleCI
17 15 (0.46%) Liquibase
17 15 (0.46%) Visual Studio
18 14 (0.43%) Gatling
General
1 1,169 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 1,111 (33.79%) Finance
3 491 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 467 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 422 (12.83%) Banking
6 186 (5.66%) Retail
7 172 (5.23%) Front Office
8 124 (3.77%) Marketing
9 103 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 100 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 98 (2.98%) Investment Banking
12 84 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 80 (2.43%) Legal
14 66 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
15 55 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 38 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.09%) Law
18 35 (1.06%) Manufacturing
19 33 (1.00%) Local Government
20 30 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 578 (17.58%) Developer
2 475 (14.45%) Senior
3 457 (13.90%) Analyst
4 334 (10.16%) Lead
5 321 (9.76%) Business Analyst
6 286 (8.70%) Project Manager
7 240 (7.30%) Architect
8 172 (5.23%) Software Engineer
9 148 (4.50%) Data Engineer
10 119 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
10 119 (3.62%) Java Developer
11 109 (3.32%) Designer
12 106 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
13 103 (3.13%) Senior Manager
14 98 (2.98%) Senior Developer
15 75 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
15 75 (2.28%) Product Owner
16 69 (2.10%) Product Manager
17 67 (2.04%) Python Developer
18 65 (1.98%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (7.54%) React
2 239 (7.27%) REST
3 176 (5.35%) .NET
4 169 (5.14%) Kafka
5 164 (4.99%) RESTful
6 158 (4.81%) Spring
7 147 (4.47%) Node.js
8 134 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.95%) AngularJS
10 112 (3.41%) HTML
11 97 (2.95%) CSS
12 86 (2.62%) PySpark
13 80 (2.43%) SOAP
14 74 (2.25%) Redux
15 73 (2.22%) Middleware
16 66 (2.01%) Playwright
17 65 (1.98%) GraphQL
18 61 (1.86%) JSON
19 53 (1.61%) .NET Framework
20 48 (1.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 386 (11.74%) Product Ownership
2 250 (7.60%) Cloud Native
3 120 (3.65%) Onboarding
4 97 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
5 93 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 91 (2.77%) Fixed Income
7 68 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 67 (2.04%) Derivative
9 63 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 56 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 54 (1.64%) NHS
12 52 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 52 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 48 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
14 47 (1.43%) Data Structures
14 47 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 43 (1.31%) Equities
16 41 (1.25%) Mobile App
17 40 (1.22%) AI Agents
18 34 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 106 (3.22%) Linux
2 78 (2.37%) Windows
3 47 (1.43%) Unix
4 32 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 29 (0.88%) Android
6 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.12%) VMS
11 3 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.061%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.061%) zOS
13 1 (0.030%) AIX
13 1 (0.030%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.030%) Rocky
13 1 (0.030%) Solaris
13 1 (0.030%) SUSE
13 1 (0.030%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (26.86%) DevOps
2 858 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 835 (25.40%) CI/CD
4 716 (21.78%) Scrum
5 554 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 552 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
7 474 (14.42%) AI
8 416 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 369 (11.22%) Data Modelling
10 368 (11.19%) Analytics
11 366 (11.13%) Roadmaps
12 356 (10.83%) Software Engineering
13 355 (10.80%) Decision-Making
14 353 (10.74%) Project Management
15 350 (10.64%) Test Automation
16 337 (10.25%) Migration
17 322 (9.79%) Microservices
18 321 (9.76%) User Stories
19 304 (9.25%) Waterfall
20 261 (7.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 599 (18.22%) SQL
2 579 (17.61%) Python
3 414 (12.59%) Java
4 305 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 250 (7.60%) TypeScript
6 219 (6.66%) C#
7 60 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 51 (1.55%) Go
9 44 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 43 (1.31%) Apex Code
11 42 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 38 (1.16%) Scala
13 32 (0.97%) Bash
14 30 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 22 (0.67%) Shell Script
17 20 (0.61%) Ruby
18 19 (0.58%) Bicep
18 19 (0.58%) Korn
19 18 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 732 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 640 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 281 (8.55%) Degree
4 120 (3.65%) PMP
5 109 (3.32%) PMI Certification
6 82 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 75 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 73 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 42 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 38 (1.16%) AWS Certification
12 29 (0.88%) CISSP
13 26 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (0.76%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.70%) CBAP
16 22 (0.67%) IIBA
17 20 (0.61%) CISM
18 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (0.40%) CCNP
20 11 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (9.22%) QA
2 206 (6.27%) Data Quality
3 151 (4.59%) Accessibility
4 117 (3.56%) PMO
5 116 (3.53%) GDPR
6 49 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (1.25%) WCAG
8 35 (1.06%) NIST
9 31 (0.94%) GRC
10 29 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (0.88%) SLA
11 21 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.61%) NCSC
13 13 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.21%) GxP
15 7 (0.21%) HL7
15 7 (0.21%) PSD2
16 6 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 264 (8.03%) Docker
2 44 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.15%) IAG
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.091%) Postfix
7 2 (0.061%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.061%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.061%) RACF
8 1 (0.030%) HDFS
8 1 (0.030%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.030%) Squid
Systems Management
1 307 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 251 (7.63%) Terraform
3 69 (2.10%) Ansible
4 47 (1.43%) Grafana
5 41 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.36%) Packer
8 11 (0.33%) Kibana
9 10 (0.30%) SCCM
10 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.24%) Control-M
11 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.24%) WSUS
12 5 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.15%) Consul
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.12%) Puppet
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 388 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 186 (5.66%) Oracle
3 183 (5.57%) Salesforce
4 145 (4.41%) ServiceNow
5 104 (3.16%) Databricks
6 102 (3.10%) SAP
7 73 (2.22%) Google
8 38 (1.16%) Splunk
9 37 (1.13%) Adobe
10 36 (1.09%) Workday
11 30 (0.91%) IBM
12 29 (0.88%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.79%) Bloomberg
13 26 (0.79%) Informatica
14 25 (0.76%) Cisco
15 20 (0.61%) Dynatrace
15 20 (0.61%) VMware
16 19 (0.58%) Murex
17 18 (0.55%) Okta
17 18 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud