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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,036 2,486 3,463
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.05% 19.55% 19.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.16% 21.39% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,071 1,726 2,505
10th Percentile £363 £388 £401
25th Percentile £447 £469 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +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 19 13 20
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.93
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.06% -21.92% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.13 £55.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £72.00
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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £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 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -1 370 £550 -4.35% 251
South London +6 78 £513 -12.09% 11
West London -2 57 £500 +25.00% 37
East London 0 27 £525 +5.00% 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
1 294 (9.68%) Confluence
2 63 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 62 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 36 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.09%) CMS
6 31 (1.02%) Apache
7 19 (0.63%) nginx
8 12 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 11 (0.36%) Camunda
10 10 (0.33%) SAS
11 9 (0.30%) IIS
12 8 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
14 6 (0.20%) JBoss
15 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 111 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.65%) MS Visio
5 44 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 11 (0.36%) Sketch
7 11 (0.36%) Trello
8 5 (0.16%) Notion
9 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.099%) InVision
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.066%) InDesign
11 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.066%) Windchill
11 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 46 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.96%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 18 (0.59%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.40%) Loan IQ
6 12 (0.40%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.30%) Shopify
8 8 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.23%) Findur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
11 5 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 755 (24.87%) Azure
2 624 (20.55%) AWS
3 273 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (7.41%) GitHub
5 213 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 189 (6.23%) GCP
7 148 (4.87%) Serverless
8 112 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
9 93 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 92 (3.03%) Amazon S3
11 91 (3.00%) SaaS
12 83 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (2.34%) Snowflake
14 69 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
15 66 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 61 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
17 60 (1.98%) Figma
18 49 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
19 45 (1.48%) Azure AKS
20 42 (1.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (1.78%) Firewall
2 34 (1.12%) WAN
3 25 (0.82%) Network Security
4 23 (0.76%) SD-WAN
5 21 (0.69%) HTTP
6 20 (0.66%) VPN
7 17 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.43%) Internet
9 12 (0.40%) DNS
10 10 (0.33%) LAN
11 7 (0.23%) BGP
12 6 (0.20%) DMZ
12 6 (0.20%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) 5G
13 5 (0.16%) Broadband
13 5 (0.16%) MPLS
13 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.13%) IOS XR
14 4 (0.13%) NX-OS
14 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (4.94%) Power BI
2 126 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
3 115 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 110 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 97 (3.19%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 67 (2.21%) Tableau
8 58 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
9 48 (1.58%) Big Data
10 47 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 47 (1.55%) MongoDB
11 46 (1.52%) Metadata
12 38 (1.25%) BigQuery
13 36 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.12%) Delta Lake
15 27 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
16 25 (0.82%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 22 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
19 21 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 536 (17.65%) JIRA
2 295 (9.72%) Git
3 174 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 99 (3.26%) GitLab
5 59 (1.94%) JUnit
6 58 (1.91%) Selenium
7 43 (1.42%) Postman
8 42 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.25%) Cypress.io
11 31 (1.02%) SpecFlow
12 28 (0.92%) Mockito
13 21 (0.69%) JMeter
13 21 (0.69%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.53%) Maven
15 13 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (0.43%) Zephyr
16 12 (0.40%) Gradle
16 12 (0.40%) TestRail
17 10 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 1,134 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 1,022 (33.66%) Finance
3 503 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 412 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 369 (12.15%) Banking
6 157 (5.17%) Front Office
7 97 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 90 (2.96%) Retail
9 84 (2.77%) Legal
10 83 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
10 83 (2.73%) Marketing
11 81 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
12 75 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
13 69 (2.27%) Investment Banking
14 41 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 32 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 30 (0.99%) Law
19 29 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 530 (17.46%) Developer
2 474 (15.61%) Analyst
3 458 (15.09%) Senior
4 364 (11.99%) Business Analyst
5 259 (8.53%) Project Manager
6 257 (8.47%) Lead
7 216 (7.11%) Architect
8 142 (4.68%) Software Engineer
9 131 (4.31%) Data Engineer
10 106 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
11 100 (3.29%) Java Developer
12 96 (3.16%) Consultant
13 93 (3.06%) Senior Manager
14 88 (2.90%) Designer
15 81 (2.67%) Senior Developer
16 80 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
17 75 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
18 66 (2.17%) Product Manager
19 63 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (7.87%) React
2 209 (6.88%) REST
3 185 (6.09%) Node.js
4 178 (5.86%) Kafka
5 146 (4.81%) RESTful
6 142 (4.68%) AngularJS
7 141 (4.64%) .NET
8 115 (3.79%) HTML
8 115 (3.79%) Spring
9 104 (3.43%) CSS
10 98 (3.23%) Spring Boot
11 95 (3.13%) Playwright
12 88 (2.90%) PySpark
13 74 (2.44%) JSON
14 72 (2.37%) GraphQL
15 71 (2.34%) Middleware
16 59 (1.94%) SOAP
17 57 (1.88%) Redux
17 57 (1.88%) XML
18 54 (1.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 304 (10.01%) Product Ownership
2 214 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 78 (2.57%) Fixed Income
3 78 (2.57%) Onboarding
4 74 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 65 (2.14%) Derivative
7 61 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 60 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 50 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
10 49 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 40 (1.32%) Equities
11 40 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 39 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 39 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 38 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 36 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 36 (1.19%) NHS
15 34 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 137 (4.51%) Linux
2 85 (2.80%) Windows
3 76 (2.50%) Unix
4 27 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 25 (0.82%) Android
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.30%) 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 (0.099%) AIX
12 2 (0.066%) Solaris
13 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.033%) Rocky
13 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (25.16%) DevOps
2 695 (22.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 689 (22.69%) CI/CD
4 618 (20.36%) Scrum
5 600 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
6 472 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 380 (12.52%) AI
8 360 (11.86%) Project Management
9 348 (11.46%) Test Automation
10 338 (11.13%) Data Modelling
10 338 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 320 (10.54%) Analytics
12 314 (10.34%) Software Engineering
13 308 (10.14%) Roadmaps
14 307 (10.11%) Migration
15 292 (9.62%) Decision-Making
16 285 (9.39%) User Stories
17 282 (9.29%) Waterfall
18 281 (9.26%) Microservices
19 278 (9.16%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 600 (19.76%) SQL
2 566 (18.64%) Python
3 367 (12.09%) Java
4 319 (10.51%) JavaScript
5 271 (8.93%) TypeScript
6 217 (7.15%) C#
7 75 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 54 (1.78%) Scala
9 53 (1.75%) Go
10 39 (1.28%) C++
11 34 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 32 (1.05%) Bash
13 29 (0.96%) Ruby
14 28 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 27 (0.89%) Apex Code
16 24 (0.79%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.72%) Bicep
18 21 (0.69%) Kotlin
19 18 (0.59%) R
20 15 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 662 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 595 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 298 (9.82%) Degree
4 130 (4.28%) PMI Certification
5 123 (4.05%) PMP
6 92 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 55 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.28%) CBAP
11 39 (1.28%) ISTQB
12 34 (1.12%) CISSP
13 29 (0.96%) AWS Certification
13 29 (0.96%) CISM
14 27 (0.89%) IIBA
15 14 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.43%) CSPO
16 13 (0.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 289 (9.52%) QA
2 165 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 145 (4.78%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.92%) GDPR
5 103 (3.39%) PMO
6 47 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (1.45%) WCAG
8 38 (1.25%) NIST
9 34 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.66%) SLA
11 19 (0.63%) GRC
12 17 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.49%) MiFID
14 14 (0.46%) NCSC
15 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.33%) PERC
17 9 (0.30%) Basel III
17 9 (0.30%) HL7
18 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 311 (10.24%) Docker
2 35 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.066%) IAG
6 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.066%) RACF
6 2 (0.066%) 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
1 313 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 223 (7.35%) Terraform
3 57 (1.88%) Ansible
4 40 (1.32%) Grafana
5 30 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.46%) Packer
8 12 (0.40%) Argo
8 12 (0.40%) Consul
8 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.30%) Rancher
10 9 (0.30%) 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
1 384 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 196 (6.46%) Oracle
3 132 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 131 (4.31%) Databricks
5 128 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 100 (3.29%) SAP
7 61 (2.01%) Google
8 46 (1.52%) Adobe
9 38 (1.25%) Splunk
10 29 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 29 (0.96%) Workday
11 26 (0.86%) IBM
12 24 (0.79%) Bloomberg
13 23 (0.76%) Cisco
13 23 (0.76%) MuleSoft
14 22 (0.72%) Informatica
15 21 (0.69%) VMware
16 18 (0.59%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.53%) Citrix
18 15 (0.49%) Murex