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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,967 2,557 3,500
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.49% 20.58% 20.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.68% 22.32% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,006 1,778 2,562
10th Percentile £363 £399 £400
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £639 £750 £725
90th Percentile £750 £850 £838
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 23
10th Percentile £32.47 £35.00 £25.34
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.75 £31.86
Median hourly rate £63.50 £42.02 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% -19.96% -21.93%
75th Percentile £73.38 £65.00 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £62.05
% change year-on-year +12.00% +0.73% -5.27%

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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -4 325 £565 -3.42% 274
South London +7 70 £505 -13.53% 12
West London -2 67 £523 +30.63% 21
East London -1 24 £533 -1.39% 26
North London +1 2 - - 2
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
1 265 (8.93%) Confluence
2 78 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 70 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.25%) CMS
6 27 (0.91%) Apache
7 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) Camunda
9 12 (0.40%) IIS
10 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.27%) SAS
12 7 (0.24%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.24%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
14 5 (0.17%) Appian
14 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.10%) nginx
15 3 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 106 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
3 62 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 39 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.30%) Trello
8 7 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.24%) Notion
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 4 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.067%) InVision
10 2 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.067%) Windchill
10 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.034%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 42 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 13 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 9 (0.30%) Endur
8 8 (0.27%) Findur
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.27%) Shopify
9 7 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
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
1 757 (25.51%) Azure
2 588 (19.82%) AWS
3 250 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
4 225 (7.58%) Power Platform
5 204 (6.88%) GitHub
6 166 (5.59%) GCP
7 137 (4.62%) Serverless
8 114 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
9 102 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 87 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 80 (2.70%) SaaS
13 74 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
14 69 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
15 64 (2.16%) Power Automate
16 62 (2.09%) Snowflake
17 59 (1.99%) PowerApps
18 56 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
19 54 (1.82%) Figma
20 44 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.69%) Firewall
2 26 (0.88%) WAN
3 24 (0.81%) Network Security
4 17 (0.57%) HTTP
4 17 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.54%) VPN
6 11 (0.37%) DNS
6 11 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.34%) Internet
8 9 (0.30%) LAN
9 7 (0.24%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.24%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) BGP
10 6 (0.20%) MPLS
10 6 (0.20%) OSPF
11 5 (0.17%) DMZ
11 5 (0.17%) FTP
11 5 (0.17%) SMS
11 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (5.59%) Power BI
2 118 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
3 106 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 102 (3.44%) NoSQL
5 95 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 71 (2.39%) Tableau
7 67 (2.26%) Relational Database
8 62 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
9 56 (1.89%) Big Data
10 52 (1.75%) Metadata
11 51 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 49 (1.65%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.31%) BigQuery
14 38 (1.28%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.01%) DynamoDB
16 29 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
17 26 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (0.71%) Oracle Database
18 21 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 20 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 508 (17.12%) JIRA
2 250 (8.43%) Git
3 173 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 91 (3.07%) GitLab
5 53 (1.79%) JUnit
6 50 (1.69%) Selenium
7 47 (1.58%) Postman
8 31 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 30 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 30 (1.01%) Mockito
10 26 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.78%) SpecFlow
12 20 (0.67%) Gradle
12 20 (0.67%) JMeter
13 18 (0.61%) REST Assured
14 13 (0.44%) Maven
15 12 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.37%) Liquibase
16 11 (0.37%) Zephyr
17 10 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,040 (35.05%) Finance
1 1,040 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 434 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 406 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 375 (12.64%) Banking
5 150 (5.06%) Front Office
6 122 (4.11%) Retail
7 109 (3.67%) Marketing
8 93 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 81 (2.73%) Legal
10 76 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 76 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 74 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
13 47 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 44 (1.48%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.08%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.01%) Law
17 26 (0.88%) Manufacturing
18 23 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 530 (17.86%) Developer
2 444 (14.96%) Senior
3 441 (14.86%) Analyst
4 319 (10.75%) Business Analyst
5 268 (9.03%) Lead
6 260 (8.76%) Project Manager
7 203 (6.84%) Architect
8 145 (4.89%) Data Engineer
8 145 (4.89%) Software Engineer
9 107 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
10 101 (3.40%) Designer
11 100 (3.37%) Java Developer
12 96 (3.24%) Senior Manager
13 92 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
14 84 (2.83%) Senior Developer
15 70 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 70 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
16 66 (2.22%) Consultant
16 66 (2.22%) Python Developer
17 65 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (7.38%) React
2 186 (6.27%) REST
3 159 (5.36%) Kafka
4 149 (5.02%) .NET
5 145 (4.89%) RESTful
6 139 (4.68%) Node.js
7 132 (4.45%) AngularJS
8 127 (4.28%) Spring
9 118 (3.98%) HTML
10 110 (3.71%) Spring Boot
11 100 (3.37%) CSS
12 92 (3.10%) PySpark
13 73 (2.46%) Playwright
14 71 (2.39%) Middleware
15 61 (2.06%) SOAP
16 59 (1.99%) Redux
17 57 (1.92%) GraphQL
18 50 (1.69%) JSON
19 45 (1.52%) XML
20 44 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 337 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 225 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 91 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 73 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 73 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.02%) Derivative
8 52 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 50 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 46 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 45 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 41 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 39 (1.31%) Equities
15 37 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 37 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.25%) NHS
16 36 (1.21%) Management Information System
17 30 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 97 (3.27%) Linux
2 72 (2.43%) Windows
3 51 (1.72%) Unix
4 29 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.91%) Android
6 13 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.20%) VMS
9 5 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (25.92%) DevOps
2 713 (24.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 697 (23.49%) CI/CD
4 646 (21.77%) Scrum
5 527 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
6 483 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 381 (12.84%) AI
8 358 (12.07%) Project Management
9 349 (11.76%) Data Modelling
10 322 (10.85%) Analytics
11 321 (10.82%) Test Automation
12 315 (10.62%) Migration
13 314 (10.58%) Roadmaps
14 308 (10.38%) Decision-Making
15 306 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 301 (10.14%) Software Engineering
17 298 (10.04%) User Stories
18 287 (9.67%) Microservices
19 280 (9.44%) Waterfall
20 252 (8.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 555 (18.71%) SQL
2 532 (17.93%) Python
3 370 (12.47%) Java
4 296 (9.98%) JavaScript
5 232 (7.82%) TypeScript
6 208 (7.01%) C#
7 54 (1.82%) Scala
8 50 (1.69%) Go
9 49 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 40 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 34 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 25 (0.84%) C++
13 24 (0.81%) Bash
13 24 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 22 (0.74%) R
14 22 (0.74%) Ruby
15 21 (0.71%) Bicep
15 21 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 637 (21.47%) Security Cleared
2 555 (18.71%) SC Cleared
3 278 (9.37%) Degree
4 113 (3.81%) PMP
5 107 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 79 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 55 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 51 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 38 (1.28%) CBAP
12 31 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.91%) IIBA
14 26 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.88%) CISSP
15 21 (0.71%) CISM
16 19 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.44%) CSPO
19 12 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (9.37%) QA
2 187 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 136 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 126 (4.25%) GDPR
5 107 (3.61%) PMO
6 52 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.52%) WCAG
8 43 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 38 (1.28%) NIST
10 23 (0.78%) SLA
11 20 (0.67%) GRC
12 19 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.54%) NCSC
14 15 (0.51%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.30%) HL7
16 9 (0.30%) IFRS
17 7 (0.24%) Basel III
17 7 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 260 (8.76%) Docker
2 33 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.10%) IAG
5 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.067%) Postfix
6 2 (0.067%) RACF
7 1 (0.034%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.034%) HDFS
7 1 (0.034%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.034%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.034%) Squid
7 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 285 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 209 (7.04%) Terraform
3 58 (1.95%) Ansible
4 42 (1.42%) Grafana
5 36 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) Kibana
8 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.24%) SCCM
10 6 (0.20%) Argo
10 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.20%) Packer
11 5 (0.17%) WSUS
12 4 (0.13%) Consul
12 4 (0.13%) Control-M
12 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.13%) Rancher
12 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 370 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 187 (6.30%) Oracle
3 155 (5.22%) Salesforce
4 124 (4.18%) ServiceNow
5 112 (3.77%) Databricks
6 96 (3.24%) SAP
7 48 (1.62%) Google
8 40 (1.35%) Adobe
8 40 (1.35%) Workday
9 34 (1.15%) Splunk
10 24 (0.81%) IBM
11 23 (0.78%) Informatica
12 21 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 21 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.67%) Cisco
14 19 (0.64%) CyberArk
15 17 (0.57%) Murex
15 17 (0.57%) Okta
16 15 (0.51%) Citrix
16 15 (0.51%) VMware