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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,128 3,050 4,177
As % of all contract jobs in London 22.02% 19.17% 21.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.89% 21.40% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,170 2,041 3,007
10th Percentile £363 £381 £413
25th Percentile £441 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £675 £723 £712
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £520 £563 £568
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.88% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 16
10th Percentile £30.37 £34.42 £44.43
25th Percentile £42.81 £35.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £70.55
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -48.97% +17.58%
75th Percentile £87.81 £41.19 £79.77
90th Percentile £101.07 £61.53 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Process and 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 13,093 14,255 17,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 89.59% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,612 9,195 12,635
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £799
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 174 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.24 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 0 447 £550 -6.38% 185
West London -1 63 £438 +1.74% 25
South London -2 43 £530 +11.58% 17
East London -1 29 £533 +12.11% 27
North London +4 4 £550 +35.97% 7
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
1 306 (9.78%) Confluence
2 78 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (2.30%) Apache
4 49 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 43 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 36 (1.15%) CMS
7 28 (0.90%) nginx
8 15 (0.48%) IIS
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.22%) Camunda
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.19%) Appian
12 6 (0.19%) SAS
12 6 (0.19%) WordPress
13 5 (0.16%) CICS
13 5 (0.16%) JBoss
13 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 92 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 58 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 53 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 48 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.86%) Chatbot
7 19 (0.61%) Trello
8 12 (0.38%) Sketch
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.064%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.064%) InDesign
13 2 (0.064%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.032%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.032%) EPLAN
14 1 (0.032%) SPSS
14 1 (0.032%) Weka
Business Applications
1 53 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 44 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 43 (1.37%) Endur
4 26 (0.83%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 11 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.29%) Shopify
8 7 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.19%) SAP GTS
10 5 (0.16%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 694 (22.19%) Azure
2 630 (20.14%) AWS
3 266 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
4 231 (7.38%) GCP
5 221 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 209 (6.68%) GitHub
7 161 (5.15%) Serverless
8 109 (3.48%) SaaS
9 99 (3.16%) Snowflake
10 96 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
11 78 (2.49%) Amazon S3
11 78 (2.49%) dbt
12 76 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
14 67 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
15 66 (2.11%) Power Automate
15 66 (2.11%) PowerApps
16 65 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
17 63 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 53 (1.69%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.57%) Firewall
2 24 (0.77%) TCP/IP
2 24 (0.77%) VPN
3 21 (0.67%) HTTP
4 20 (0.64%) DNS
4 20 (0.64%) Network Security
5 18 (0.58%) Internet
6 17 (0.54%) SSL
6 17 (0.54%) WAN
7 12 (0.38%) BGP
8 11 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.29%) OSPF
10 7 (0.22%) MPLS
11 6 (0.19%) DHCP
12 5 (0.16%) 5G
12 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.16%) LAN
12 5 (0.16%) SMS
12 5 (0.16%) Wireless
13 4 (0.13%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
2 154 (4.92%) Power BI
3 115 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 111 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 92 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 72 (2.30%) Data Lake
8 63 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 61 (1.95%) Tableau
10 56 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
11 53 (1.69%) Big Data
12 47 (1.50%) Apache Arrow
12 47 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
12 47 (1.50%) Dremio
13 46 (1.47%) Metadata
14 40 (1.28%) Oracle Database
15 37 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (1.12%) BigQuery
17 30 (0.96%) Apache Ignite
17 30 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 553 (17.68%) JIRA
2 299 (9.56%) Git
3 182 (5.82%) Jenkins
4 94 (3.01%) GitLab
5 66 (2.11%) JUnit
6 61 (1.95%) Selenium
7 48 (1.53%) Bitbucket
8 46 (1.47%) Postman
9 44 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 43 (1.37%) Cypress.io
11 30 (0.96%) SpecFlow
12 29 (0.93%) Maven
13 23 (0.74%) Mockito
14 22 (0.70%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.64%) ERwin
16 19 (0.61%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.58%) webpack
18 16 (0.51%) ER Studio
18 16 (0.51%) JMeter
19 15 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,240 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 1,024 (32.74%) Finance
3 481 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 409 (13.08%) Banking
5 343 (10.97%) Public Sector
6 186 (5.95%) Front Office
7 133 (4.25%) Investment Banking
8 97 (3.10%) Retail
9 96 (3.07%) Marketing
10 81 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 78 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 67 (2.14%) Back Office
14 63 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
15 62 (1.98%) Legal
16 57 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 57 (1.82%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 39 (1.25%) Manufacturing
19 32 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 621 (19.85%) Developer
2 476 (15.22%) Analyst
3 464 (14.83%) Senior
4 368 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 269 (8.60%) Lead
6 212 (6.78%) Project Manager
7 199 (6.36%) Architect
8 172 (5.50%) Software Engineer
9 128 (4.09%) Java Developer
10 113 (3.61%) Consultant
11 107 (3.42%) Senior Developer
12 96 (3.07%) Data Engineer
13 79 (2.53%) Product Manager
14 77 (2.46%) Product Owner
15 72 (2.30%) AWS Engineer
16 70 (2.24%) Python Engineer
17 69 (2.21%) Full-Stack Developer
18 66 (2.11%) Python Developer
19 62 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
20 61 (1.95%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 270 (8.63%) React
2 255 (8.15%) REST
3 197 (6.30%) Kafka
4 182 (5.82%) .NET
4 182 (5.82%) Node.js
5 175 (5.59%) RESTful
6 158 (5.05%) HTML
7 141 (4.51%) CSS
8 140 (4.48%) AngularJS
9 132 (4.22%) Spring
10 107 (3.42%) SOAP
11 106 (3.39%) JSON
12 96 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 82 (2.62%) GraphQL
13 82 (2.62%) Playwright
14 72 (2.30%) Web Services
15 71 (2.27%) XML
16 61 (1.95%) HTML5
17 60 (1.92%) Pandas
18 54 (1.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 337 (10.77%) Product Ownership
2 207 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 118 (3.77%) Fixed Income
4 115 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 94 (3.01%) Derivative
6 90 (2.88%) Equities
7 71 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 69 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 65 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
9 65 (2.08%) Mobile App
10 64 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 61 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
12 57 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
13 56 (1.79%) Onboarding
14 55 (1.76%) Virtual Team
15 53 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
16 47 (1.50%) Reinsurance
17 46 (1.47%) Hedge funds
18 43 (1.37%) PMI
19 39 (1.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 173 (5.53%) Linux
2 89 (2.85%) Unix
3 87 (2.78%) Windows
4 49 (1.57%) Android
5 43 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.70%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.26%) VMS
8 6 (0.19%) zOS
9 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.064%) AIX
10 2 (0.064%) CentOS
10 2 (0.064%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.032%) Debian
11 1 (0.032%) Solaris
11 1 (0.032%) tvOS
11 1 (0.032%) watchOS
11 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (24.94%) DevOps
2 711 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 690 (22.06%) CI/CD
4 680 (21.74%) Scrum
5 562 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 365 (11.67%) Software Engineering
7 356 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 355 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 350 (11.19%) Test Automation
10 343 (10.97%) Microservices
11 322 (10.29%) Project Management
12 316 (10.10%) Roadmaps
13 308 (9.85%) Analytics
14 303 (9.69%) AI
15 280 (8.95%) User Stories
16 271 (8.66%) Data Modelling
17 267 (8.54%) Migration
18 254 (8.12%) SDLC
19 247 (7.90%) Waterfall
20 238 (7.61%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 609 (19.47%) Python
2 600 (19.18%) SQL
3 482 (15.41%) Java
4 394 (12.60%) JavaScript
5 290 (9.27%) TypeScript
6 236 (7.54%) C#
7 89 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 74 (2.37%) C++
9 54 (1.73%) Bash
10 53 (1.69%) Go
11 41 (1.31%) Scala
12 39 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 34 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 33 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 24 (0.77%) Ruby
16 23 (0.74%) Apex Code
16 23 (0.74%) Bicep
17 22 (0.70%) Groovy
18 19 (0.61%) T-SQL
19 18 (0.58%) Korn
Qualifications
1 569 (18.19%) Security Cleared
2 492 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 366 (11.70%) Degree
4 128 (4.09%) PMI Certification
5 110 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (3.29%) PMP
7 61 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 50 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 48 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 32 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 31 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.86%) CISSP
14 23 (0.74%) CBAP
15 16 (0.51%) CISM
16 12 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.35%) CSPO
17 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 10 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (9.49%) QA
2 140 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 112 (3.58%) Data Quality
4 101 (3.23%) GDPR
5 79 (2.53%) PMO
6 30 (0.96%) MiFID
6 30 (0.96%) WCAG
7 23 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.58%) EMIR
9 15 (0.48%) GRC
10 14 (0.45%) NIST
10 14 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.29%) Solvency II
13 8 (0.26%) PSD2
13 8 (0.26%) SEPA
13 8 (0.26%) SLA
14 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 333 (10.65%) Docker
2 45 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.064%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.064%) Squid
7 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.032%) etcd
8 1 (0.032%) GPFS
8 1 (0.032%) IAG
8 1 (0.032%) KVM
8 1 (0.032%) Postfix
8 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 297 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 211 (6.75%) Terraform
3 61 (1.95%) Ansible
4 44 (1.41%) Grafana
5 32 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.58%) Consul
7 18 (0.58%) Packer
8 17 (0.54%) Puppet
9 15 (0.48%) Argo
10 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.29%) Kibana
12 7 (0.22%) HP ALM
12 7 (0.22%) Rancher
12 7 (0.22%) SCCM
13 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 4 (0.13%) Control-M
13 4 (0.13%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.13%) Nessus
13 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 372 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 205 (6.55%) Oracle
3 129 (4.12%) Salesforce
4 119 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 113 (3.61%) Google
6 110 (3.52%) SAP
7 102 (3.26%) Databricks
8 47 (1.50%) Splunk
9 40 (1.28%) Adobe
10 35 (1.12%) Atlassian
11 29 (0.93%) Workday
12 28 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.70%) Murex
14 21 (0.67%) Foundry
14 21 (0.67%) HP
14 21 (0.67%) OpenAI
14 21 (0.67%) Sybase
15 20 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
15 20 (0.64%) Cisco
15 20 (0.64%) Dynatrace