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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,014 2,469 3,440
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.61% 19.12% 18.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.72% 21.00% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,058 1,691 2,498
10th Percentile £363 £390 £406
25th Percentile £447 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 18
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.25 £31.78
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.02 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.14% -21.96% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.13 £52.29 £66.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.75 £82.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £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 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 0 374 £550 -5.98% 320
South London +12 75 £513 +5.13% 32
West London -1 52 £475 +21.17% 59
East London +1 29 £525 +1.20% 50
North London 0 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
1 276 (9.16%) Confluence
2 61 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 60 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 34 (1.13%) CMS
5 33 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.96%) Apache
7 19 (0.63%) nginx
8 16 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.33%) Camunda
11 10 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.30%) IIS
12 9 (0.30%) SAS
13 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
14 5 (0.17%) JBoss
15 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 107 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 45 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
6 26 (0.86%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.40%) Trello
8 11 (0.36%) Sketch
9 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.100%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.100%) InVision
13 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.066%) InDesign
13 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 49 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 20 (0.66%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.40%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.33%) Shopify
8 9 (0.30%) Temenos T24
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 744 (24.68%) Azure
2 591 (19.61%) AWS
3 256 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
4 222 (7.37%) GitHub
4 222 (7.37%) Power Platform
5 199 (6.60%) GCP
6 146 (4.84%) Serverless
7 105 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
8 96 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 92 (3.05%) SaaS
10 87 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 82 (2.72%) Snowflake
12 79 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
14 63 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (2.09%) Figma
15 53 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
16 46 (1.53%) Azure AKS
17 45 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
18 44 (1.46%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.66%) Firewall
2 28 (0.93%) WAN
3 24 (0.80%) Network Security
4 20 (0.66%) HTTP
4 20 (0.66%) SD-WAN
5 17 (0.56%) VPN
6 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.43%) Internet
8 12 (0.40%) DNS
9 9 (0.30%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.17%) Broadband
12 5 (0.17%) MPLS
12 5 (0.17%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
13 4 (0.13%) Ethernet VPN
13 4 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (5.31%) Power BI
2 130 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
4 112 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 100 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 80 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 65 (2.16%) Tableau
8 57 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
9 50 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 48 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 47 (1.56%) Metadata
12 43 (1.43%) Big Data
13 40 (1.33%) BigQuery
14 38 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (0.96%) Delta Lake
16 25 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (0.80%) Oracle Database
18 23 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 21 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 526 (17.45%) JIRA
2 295 (9.79%) Git
3 167 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 101 (3.35%) GitLab
5 61 (2.02%) JUnit
5 61 (2.02%) Selenium
6 47 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 45 (1.49%) Postman
8 40 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 38 (1.26%) Bitbucket
10 33 (1.09%) SpecFlow
11 24 (0.80%) Mockito
12 22 (0.73%) JMeter
13 21 (0.70%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.56%) Maven
15 13 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.36%) ERwin
16 11 (0.36%) TestRail
17 10 (0.33%) MSTest
General
1 1,145 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 1,005 (33.34%) Finance
3 489 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 391 (12.97%) Public Sector
5 372 (12.34%) Banking
6 160 (5.31%) Front Office
7 96 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 90 (2.99%) Retail
9 89 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
10 84 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
11 81 (2.69%) Legal
12 80 (2.65%) Marketing
13 76 (2.52%) Investment Banking
14 67 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 41 (1.36%) Telecoms
17 35 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 32 (1.06%) Manufacturing
19 29 (0.96%) Back Office
20 27 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 535 (17.75%) Developer
2 467 (15.49%) Analyst
3 446 (14.80%) Senior
4 364 (12.08%) Business Analyst
5 268 (8.89%) Lead
6 253 (8.39%) Project Manager
7 206 (6.83%) Architect
8 146 (4.84%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 100 (3.32%) Java Developer
11 95 (3.15%) Consultant
12 92 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
13 87 (2.89%) Designer
14 86 (2.85%) Senior Manager
15 78 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
16 77 (2.55%) Senior Developer
17 70 (2.32%) Product Manager
18 68 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
19 67 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
20 62 (2.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (8.23%) React
2 213 (7.07%) REST
3 188 (6.24%) Node.js
4 174 (5.77%) Kafka
5 147 (4.88%) RESTful
6 145 (4.81%) .NET
7 137 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 119 (3.95%) HTML
9 110 (3.65%) CSS
10 109 (3.62%) Spring
11 101 (3.35%) Playwright
12 90 (2.99%) Spring Boot
13 85 (2.82%) PySpark
14 77 (2.55%) GraphQL
15 73 (2.42%) JSON
16 69 (2.29%) Middleware
17 67 (2.22%) SOAP
18 61 (2.02%) Web Services
19 60 (1.99%) XML
20 57 (1.89%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 300 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 207 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 81 (2.69%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.42%) Derivative
5 72 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 67 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 63 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 53 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 52 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 51 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 45 (1.49%) AI Agents
13 44 (1.46%) Equities
14 42 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
15 40 (1.33%) Mobile App
16 39 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 39 (1.29%) Management Information System
16 39 (1.29%) Virtual Team
17 36 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
17 36 (1.19%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 135 (4.48%) Linux
2 83 (2.75%) Windows
3 80 (2.65%) Unix
4 29 (0.96%) Android
4 29 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.27%) VMS
7 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.13%) zOS
10 3 (0.100%) AIX
11 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Solaris
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (24.98%) DevOps
2 688 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 674 (22.36%) CI/CD
4 626 (20.77%) Scrum
5 607 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
6 449 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 383 (12.71%) AI
8 352 (11.68%) Test Automation
9 342 (11.35%) Project Management
10 339 (11.25%) Data Modelling
11 328 (10.88%) Analytics
12 327 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 315 (10.45%) Software Engineering
14 307 (10.19%) Migration
15 298 (9.89%) Roadmaps
16 286 (9.49%) Waterfall
17 282 (9.36%) Decision-Making
17 282 (9.36%) Microservices
18 280 (9.29%) User Stories
19 275 (9.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 599 (19.87%) SQL
2 564 (18.71%) Python
3 373 (12.38%) Java
4 334 (11.08%) JavaScript
5 275 (9.12%) TypeScript
6 218 (7.23%) C#
7 71 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.82%) Scala
9 53 (1.76%) Go
10 45 (1.49%) C++
11 32 (1.06%) Ruby
12 30 (1.00%) Bash
13 29 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 24 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 23 (0.76%) Bicep
17 22 (0.73%) Apex Code
18 21 (0.70%) Shell Script
19 19 (0.63%) R
20 18 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 626 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 559 (18.55%) SC Cleared
3 315 (10.45%) Degree
4 133 (4.41%) PMI Certification
5 123 (4.08%) PMP
6 96 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 63 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.43%) CBAP
11 41 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.29%) ISTQB
13 34 (1.13%) CISSP
14 31 (1.03%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.96%) CISM
16 27 (0.90%) IIBA
17 14 (0.46%) ISEB
17 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
19 12 (0.40%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (9.85%) QA
2 162 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 149 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 125 (4.15%) GDPR
5 90 (2.99%) PMO
6 47 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.39%) WCAG
8 39 (1.29%) NIST
9 34 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 21 (0.70%) GRC
11 19 (0.63%) SLA
12 18 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.50%) MiFID
14 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.43%) NCSC
15 11 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.33%) Basel III
16 10 (0.33%) PERC
17 9 (0.30%) PSD2
18 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 318 (10.55%) Docker
2 33 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
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%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 316 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 203 (6.74%) Terraform
3 55 (1.82%) Ansible
4 39 (1.29%) Grafana
5 27 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.53%) Argo
8 14 (0.46%) Packer
9 12 (0.40%) Consul
9 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.30%) Puppet
11 8 (0.27%) Rancher
12 7 (0.23%) SCCM
13 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.17%) Control-M
15 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.100%) CASB
16 3 (0.100%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.100%) WSUS
Vendors
1 379 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 188 (6.24%) Oracle
3 137 (4.55%) Databricks
4 127 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 122 (4.05%) Salesforce
6 96 (3.19%) SAP
7 65 (2.16%) Google
8 49 (1.63%) Adobe
9 37 (1.23%) Splunk
10 29 (0.96%) Workday
11 26 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.80%) Cisco
13 23 (0.76%) Informatica
14 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg
14 21 (0.70%) IBM
14 21 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 19 (0.63%) Foundry
15 19 (0.63%) VMware
16 17 (0.56%) CyberArk
16 17 (0.56%) Murex