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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,518 2,968 3,457
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.51% 22.05% 21.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.64% 23.87% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,346 2,071 2,504
10th Percentile £393 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £731
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 15
10th Percentile £51.70 £26.94 £28.01
25th Percentile £53.38 £34.48 £32.65
Median hourly rate £65.40 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% -4.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75.25 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.75 £91.25 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -4 376 £565 -5.83% 209
West London -1 96 £604 +51.00% 56
South London +3 60 £530 -14.79% 10
East London -4 14 £585 +8.33% 34
North London +2 7 £550 - 3
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
1 295 (8.39%) Confluence
2 91 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.68%) CMS
5 58 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 48 (1.36%) Apache
7 30 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.43%) IIS
8 15 (0.43%) SAS
9 12 (0.34%) Camunda
9 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.26%) Appian
11 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 7 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 6 (0.17%) JBoss
13 6 (0.17%) Kentico
13 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 99 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 51 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.60%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.26%) Notion
9 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.057%) Windchill
14 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.028%) Mingle
14 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 47 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.37%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.28%) Findur
9 8 (0.23%) Magento
9 8 (0.23%) Shopify
10 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
10 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 6 (0.17%) Endur
11 6 (0.17%) Loan IQ
11 6 (0.17%) Workday HCM
12 5 (0.14%) Actimize
12 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
12 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
12 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 936 (26.61%) Azure
2 707 (20.10%) AWS
3 340 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
4 295 (8.39%) Power Platform
5 287 (8.16%) GitHub
6 241 (6.85%) GCP
7 175 (4.97%) Serverless
8 157 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
9 119 (3.38%) Amazon S3
10 116 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
12 98 (2.79%) Snowflake
13 87 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
14 86 (2.44%) PowerApps
15 85 (2.42%) Power Automate
16 73 (2.08%) SaaS
17 71 (2.02%) Entra ID
18 67 (1.90%) dbt
19 66 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
20 63 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.45%) Firewall
2 27 (0.77%) Network Security
3 24 (0.68%) WAN
4 23 (0.65%) VPN
5 19 (0.54%) DNS
6 18 (0.51%) Internet
7 15 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.37%) HTTP
8 13 (0.37%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.28%) DMZ
10 9 (0.26%) Wireless
11 8 (0.23%) BGP
11 8 (0.23%) MPLS
11 8 (0.23%) OSPF
12 7 (0.20%) LAN
12 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.17%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.17%) Intranet
13 6 (0.17%) SMS
13 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (6.48%) Power BI
2 156 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 117 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 109 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 94 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 89 (2.53%) Metadata
8 69 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 60 (1.71%) MongoDB
10 57 (1.62%) Tableau
11 56 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
12 46 (1.31%) DynamoDB
13 39 (1.11%) Big Data
13 39 (1.11%) BigQuery
14 38 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (1.05%) Delta Lake
16 30 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
17 28 (0.80%) Oracle Database
18 22 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
19 19 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 570 (16.20%) JIRA
2 312 (8.87%) Git
3 240 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 122 (3.47%) GitLab
5 59 (1.68%) Selenium
6 53 (1.51%) JUnit
7 39 (1.11%) Gradle
7 39 (1.11%) Postman
8 35 (0.99%) Cypress.io
9 34 (0.97%) Mockito
10 32 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 26 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 24 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 24 (0.68%) Maven
13 23 (0.65%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.60%) JMeter
15 17 (0.48%) Zephyr
16 16 (0.45%) Liquibase
17 15 (0.43%) Gatling
17 15 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,325 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 1,175 (33.40%) Finance
3 562 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 542 (15.41%) Public Sector
5 485 (13.79%) Banking
6 218 (6.20%) Retail
7 151 (4.29%) Front Office
8 149 (4.24%) Marketing
9 112 (3.18%) Investment Banking
10 109 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 101 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 81 (2.30%) Legal
13 68 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 65 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
15 61 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 43 (1.22%) Local Government
16 43 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 42 (1.19%) Retail Banking
18 40 (1.14%) Financial Institution
19 39 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 635 (18.05%) Developer
2 516 (14.67%) Senior
3 461 (13.10%) Analyst
4 362 (10.29%) Lead
5 323 (9.18%) Business Analyst
6 294 (8.36%) Project Manager
7 251 (7.13%) Architect
8 160 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 159 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 132 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
11 126 (3.58%) Java Developer
12 117 (3.33%) Designer
13 112 (3.18%) Senior Developer
14 107 (3.04%) Senior Manager
15 105 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
16 87 (2.47%) Product Manager
17 86 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
17 86 (2.44%) Product Owner
18 79 (2.25%) Programme Manager
19 77 (2.19%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (8.33%) REST
2 255 (7.25%) React
3 216 (6.14%) .NET
4 174 (4.95%) RESTful
5 171 (4.86%) Kafka
6 170 (4.83%) Spring
7 147 (4.18%) Spring Boot
8 131 (3.72%) AngularJS
8 131 (3.72%) Node.js
9 125 (3.55%) HTML
10 108 (3.07%) CSS
11 92 (2.62%) PySpark
12 83 (2.36%) SOAP
13 75 (2.13%) JSON
14 64 (1.82%) Web Services
15 62 (1.76%) Playwright
15 62 (1.76%) Redux
16 61 (1.73%) Middleware
17 60 (1.71%) Django
18 56 (1.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 478 (13.59%) Product Ownership
2 285 (8.10%) Cloud Native
3 136 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 123 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 104 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 71 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 69 (1.96%) Fixed Income
9 67 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 60 (1.71%) NHS
11 59 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
12 58 (1.65%) AI Agents
13 57 (1.62%) Virtual Team
14 54 (1.53%) Derivative
15 53 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
16 50 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 50 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
17 47 (1.34%) Data Centre
18 43 (1.22%) Management Information System
19 41 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 122 (3.47%) Linux
2 79 (2.25%) Windows
3 50 (1.42%) Unix
4 35 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 34 (0.97%) Android
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.14%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.085%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.028%) AIX
13 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,046 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 994 (28.25%) DevOps
3 943 (26.81%) CI/CD
4 771 (21.92%) Scrum
5 654 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 639 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
7 596 (16.94%) AI
8 510 (14.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 434 (12.34%) Analytics
10 424 (12.05%) Roadmaps
11 381 (10.83%) Data Modelling
11 381 (10.83%) Software Engineering
12 378 (10.74%) Project Management
12 378 (10.74%) Test Automation
13 377 (10.72%) Migration
14 374 (10.63%) User Stories
15 371 (10.55%) Decision-Making
16 341 (9.69%) Microservices
17 328 (9.32%) Waterfall
18 288 (8.19%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 652 (18.53%) SQL
2 608 (17.28%) Python
3 451 (12.82%) Java
4 303 (8.61%) JavaScript
5 236 (6.71%) TypeScript
6 234 (6.65%) C#
7 69 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 56 (1.59%) PL/SQL
9 50 (1.42%) Apex Code
10 45 (1.28%) Bash
11 44 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.14%) Scala
13 38 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 35 (0.99%) Go
15 30 (0.85%) Korn
16 23 (0.65%) Groovy
17 20 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 18 (0.51%) Bicep
19 17 (0.48%) Ruby
19 17 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 812 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 709 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 272 (7.73%) Degree
4 147 (4.18%) PMP
5 137 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 96 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 91 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 72 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (1.45%) Azure Certification
10 48 (1.36%) AWS Certification
11 39 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 28 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 25 (0.71%) CISSP
13 25 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (0.63%) IIBA
15 17 (0.48%) CBAP
16 15 (0.43%) CISM
17 14 (0.40%) ISEB
18 12 (0.34%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (9.61%) QA
2 238 (6.77%) Data Quality
3 142 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 118 (3.35%) PMO
5 106 (3.01%) GDPR
6 48 (1.36%) WCAG
7 42 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.99%) GRC
9 34 (0.97%) NIST
10 29 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.63%) SLA
12 21 (0.60%) NCSC
13 18 (0.51%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 9 (0.26%) SEPA
17 8 (0.23%) P3O
18 7 (0.20%) GxP
18 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.20%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 286 (8.13%) Docker
2 53 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.26%) IAG
5 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.085%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.085%) Postfix
7 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.057%) RACF
8 1 (0.028%) Ceph
8 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.028%) Squid
8 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 329 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 273 (7.76%) Terraform
3 78 (2.22%) Ansible
4 61 (1.73%) Grafana
5 57 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.57%) Control-M
8 13 (0.37%) Packer
9 12 (0.34%) Kibana
10 10 (0.28%) Puppet
11 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.26%) SCCM
12 7 (0.20%) WSUS
13 5 (0.14%) Argo
13 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 461 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 184 (5.23%) Salesforce
3 177 (5.03%) Oracle
4 145 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 118 (3.35%) Databricks
5 118 (3.35%) Google
6 103 (2.93%) SAP
7 61 (1.73%) Splunk
8 52 (1.48%) Adobe
9 40 (1.14%) IBM
10 30 (0.85%) Informatica
11 28 (0.80%) Workday
12 27 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 25 (0.71%) Cisco
13 25 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 24 (0.68%) VMware
15 22 (0.63%) Bloomberg
16 21 (0.60%) Okta
17 20 (0.57%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.57%) Pega