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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,976 2,511 3,517
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.39% 20.57% 20.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.55% 22.31% 22.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,016 1,755 2,592
10th Percentile £363 £392 £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 £644 £750 £720
90th Percentile £750 £850 £838
England median daily rate £518 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 25
10th Percentile £30.09 £28.57 £25.67
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.55 £31.71
Median hourly rate £63.00 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.23% -2.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.06
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.36% -6.42%

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 16,044 11,254 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,716 7,590 11,078
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £432 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -4 324 £574 -1.97% 253
West London 0 74 £523 +30.63% 25
South London +6 70 £505 -13.38% 9
East London 0 25 £540 -7.69% 36
North London +1 2 - - 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
1 266 (8.94%) Confluence
2 76 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 68 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.24%) CMS
6 26 (0.87%) Apache
7 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.44%) Camunda
10 12 (0.40%) IIS
11 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 8 (0.27%) SAS
13 7 (0.24%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.24%) Hyperledger
14 6 (0.20%) Appian
14 6 (0.20%) JBoss
14 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.13%) Kentico
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 102 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 36 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.30%) Notion
9 7 (0.24%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.067%) InVision
11 2 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.067%) Windchill
11 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.034%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 38 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.91%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.30%) Endur
7 9 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.27%) Findur
8 8 (0.27%) Shopify
9 7 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
12 4 (0.13%) Magento
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 754 (25.34%) Azure
2 591 (19.86%) AWS
3 249 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (7.56%) Power Platform
5 204 (6.85%) GitHub
6 166 (5.58%) GCP
7 142 (4.77%) Serverless
8 113 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
9 107 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 95 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
11 79 (2.65%) SaaS
12 77 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 77 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
13 65 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
14 64 (2.15%) Snowflake
15 61 (2.05%) Power Automate
16 59 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (1.85%) PowerApps
18 54 (1.81%) Figma
19 47 (1.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.61%) Firewall
2 26 (0.87%) WAN
3 23 (0.77%) Network Security
4 16 (0.54%) HTTP
4 16 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.50%) VPN
6 11 (0.37%) Internet
6 11 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.34%) DNS
7 10 (0.34%) LAN
8 9 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.24%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) BGP
10 6 (0.20%) MPLS
10 6 (0.20%) OSPF
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.17%) DMZ
11 5 (0.17%) FTP
11 5 (0.17%) PSTN
11 5 (0.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.65%) Power BI
2 113 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 110 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 95 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 72 (2.42%) Tableau
7 68 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 66 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 54 (1.81%) Metadata
10 52 (1.75%) Data Lake
11 50 (1.68%) Big Data
12 47 (1.58%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.31%) BigQuery
14 37 (1.24%) Delta Lake
14 37 (1.24%) DynamoDB
15 27 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.67%) Oracle Database
17 20 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 19 (0.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 510 (17.14%) JIRA
2 252 (8.47%) Git
3 175 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 91 (3.06%) GitLab
5 53 (1.78%) JUnit
6 50 (1.68%) Selenium
7 48 (1.61%) Postman
8 35 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 32 (1.08%) Cypress.io
10 31 (1.04%) Mockito
11 25 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 22 (0.74%) SpecFlow
13 20 (0.67%) Gradle
13 20 (0.67%) JMeter
14 12 (0.40%) Liquibase
14 12 (0.40%) Maven
14 12 (0.40%) Zephyr
15 11 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.34%) Gatling
General
1 1,055 (35.45%) Finance
2 1,042 (35.01%) Social Skills
3 436 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 404 (13.58%) Public Sector
5 385 (12.94%) Banking
6 151 (5.07%) Front Office
7 127 (4.27%) Retail
8 107 (3.60%) Marketing
9 92 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 83 (2.79%) Legal
11 77 (2.59%) Investment Banking
12 75 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
12 75 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
14 48 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.01%) Law
18 27 (0.91%) Manufacturing
19 23 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 523 (17.57%) Developer
2 436 (14.65%) Senior
3 431 (14.48%) Analyst
4 311 (10.45%) Business Analyst
5 278 (9.34%) Lead
6 269 (9.04%) Project Manager
7 201 (6.75%) Architect
8 143 (4.81%) Software Engineer
9 138 (4.64%) Data Engineer
10 109 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
11 103 (3.46%) Designer
12 98 (3.29%) Java Developer
12 98 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 92 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
14 83 (2.79%) Senior Developer
15 69 (2.32%) Full-Stack Developer
16 67 (2.25%) Python Developer
17 65 (2.18%) Consultant
18 64 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
19 63 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (7.43%) React
2 194 (6.52%) REST
3 157 (5.28%) Kafka
4 147 (4.94%) RESTful
5 145 (4.87%) Node.js
6 144 (4.84%) .NET
7 131 (4.40%) AngularJS
7 131 (4.40%) Spring
8 117 (3.93%) HTML
9 112 (3.76%) Spring Boot
10 102 (3.43%) CSS
11 87 (2.92%) PySpark
12 75 (2.52%) Playwright
13 71 (2.39%) Middleware
14 63 (2.12%) SOAP
15 59 (1.98%) Redux
16 57 (1.92%) GraphQL
17 50 (1.68%) JSON
18 46 (1.55%) Web Services
19 42 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 337 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 223 (7.49%) Cloud Native
3 92 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 78 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (2.55%) Fixed Income
6 71 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 71 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.02%) Derivative
8 53 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 53 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 44 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 43 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 40 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 40 (1.34%) Equities
12 38 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 37 (1.24%) NHS
14 36 (1.21%) Management Information System
15 28 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.36%) Linux
2 71 (2.39%) Windows
3 53 (1.78%) Unix
4 29 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.87%) Android
6 11 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.20%) VMS
9 5 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.13%) zOS
11 2 (0.067%) AIX
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
12 1 (0.034%) Solaris
12 1 (0.034%) SUSE
12 1 (0.034%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (25.77%) DevOps
2 721 (24.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 694 (23.32%) CI/CD
4 644 (21.64%) Scrum
5 529 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 487 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 389 (13.07%) AI
8 357 (12.00%) Project Management
9 341 (11.46%) Data Modelling
10 324 (10.89%) Test Automation
11 320 (10.75%) Roadmaps
12 316 (10.62%) Analytics
12 316 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 308 (10.35%) Migration
14 306 (10.28%) Decision-Making
15 302 (10.15%) Software Engineering
16 296 (9.95%) User Stories
17 286 (9.61%) Microservices
18 280 (9.41%) Waterfall
19 249 (8.37%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 552 (18.55%) SQL
2 537 (18.04%) Python
3 369 (12.40%) Java
4 300 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 235 (7.90%) TypeScript
6 202 (6.79%) C#
7 52 (1.75%) Scala
8 50 (1.68%) Go
9 48 (1.61%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.14%) Apex Code
12 31 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 25 (0.84%) Bash
13 25 (0.84%) Ruby
14 22 (0.74%) C++
14 22 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.71%) R
15 21 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 632 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 548 (18.41%) SC Cleared
3 272 (9.14%) Degree
4 110 (3.70%) PMP
5 102 (3.43%) PMI Certification
6 76 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 48 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 41 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 37 (1.24%) CBAP
11 30 (1.01%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.91%) CISSP
13 26 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.87%) IIBA
14 21 (0.71%) CISM
15 19 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.44%) CSPO
18 12 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (9.61%) QA
2 189 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 135 (4.54%) Accessibility
4 122 (4.10%) GDPR
5 109 (3.66%) PMO
6 51 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.55%) WCAG
8 43 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 37 (1.24%) NIST
10 23 (0.77%) SLA
11 20 (0.67%) GRC
12 19 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 18 (0.60%) NCSC
14 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.30%) IFRS
17 8 (0.27%) Basel III
18 7 (0.24%) HL7
18 7 (0.24%) PSD2
19 6 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 263 (8.84%) Docker
2 35 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.10%) IAG
5 3 (0.10%) Postfix
5 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.067%) RACF
7 1 (0.034%) HDFS
7 1 (0.034%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.034%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.034%) Squid
Systems Management
1 288 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 209 (7.02%) Terraform
3 58 (1.95%) Ansible
4 43 (1.44%) Grafana
5 37 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.34%) Kibana
8 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.24%) SCCM
10 6 (0.20%) Packer
11 5 (0.17%) Consul
11 5 (0.17%) WSUS
12 4 (0.13%) Argo
12 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 361 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 189 (6.35%) Oracle
3 156 (5.24%) Salesforce
4 129 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 107 (3.60%) Databricks
6 94 (3.16%) SAP
7 47 (1.58%) Google
8 40 (1.34%) Adobe
9 39 (1.31%) Workday
10 31 (1.04%) Splunk
11 24 (0.81%) IBM
11 24 (0.81%) Informatica
12 22 (0.74%) Cisco
12 22 (0.74%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.71%) Bloomberg
14 18 (0.60%) CyberArk
15 17 (0.57%) Okta
16 16 (0.54%) Murex
17 15 (0.50%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.47%) Temenos