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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,987 2,515 3,516
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.51% 20.55% 20.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.68% 22.29% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,024 1,750 2,584
10th Percentile £363 £395 £400
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £750 £725
90th Percentile £750 £850 £838
England median daily rate £518 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 24
10th Percentile £32.47 £35.00 £25.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.50 £31.71
Median hourly rate £63.50 £39.04 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.65% -23.82% -24.07%
75th Percentile £73.38 £60.63 £68.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £60.25 £61.00
% change year-on-year +16.18% -1.23% -6.87%

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 15,989 11,284 15,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.22% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,696 7,602 11,075
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 184 305
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.25 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +23.16% -25.52%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -4 326 £572 -2.22% 175
West London 0 74 £523 +30.63% 28
South London +5 71 £505 -13.38% 15
East London 0 25 £540 -7.69% 39
North London +1 2 - - 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
1 269 (9.01%) Confluence
2 75 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 69 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 38 (1.27%) CMS
6 26 (0.87%) Apache
7 15 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) Camunda
10 11 (0.37%) IIS
10 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.27%) SAS
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.17%) Appian
15 4 (0.13%) Kentico
15 4 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.10%) nginx
Applications
1 103 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
3 59 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
5 37 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.33%) Trello
8 9 (0.30%) Notion
9 7 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.23%) Sketch
10 4 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.067%) InVision
11 2 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.067%) Windchill
11 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.033%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.033%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 38 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 12 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 11 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 10 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.30%) Endur
8 9 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.27%) Findur
9 8 (0.27%) Shopify
10 7 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
13 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
13 4 (0.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 752 (25.18%) Azure
2 592 (19.82%) AWS
3 246 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
4 222 (7.43%) Power Platform
5 204 (6.83%) GitHub
6 165 (5.52%) GCP
7 141 (4.72%) Serverless
8 112 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
9 108 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
11 80 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 79 (2.64%) SaaS
13 76 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
14 65 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
15 63 (2.11%) Snowflake
16 61 (2.04%) Power Automate
17 59 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (1.84%) PowerApps
19 54 (1.81%) Figma
20 47 (1.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.61%) Firewall
2 26 (0.87%) WAN
3 23 (0.77%) Network Security
4 16 (0.54%) HTTP
4 16 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.50%) VPN
6 11 (0.37%) Internet
6 11 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.33%) DNS
7 10 (0.33%) LAN
8 9 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.23%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) BGP
10 6 (0.20%) MPLS
10 6 (0.20%) OSPF
10 6 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.17%) DMZ
11 5 (0.17%) PSTN
11 5 (0.17%) SMS
11 5 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (5.52%) Power BI
2 118 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 109 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 98 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 95 (3.18%) SQL Server
6 72 (2.41%) Tableau
7 68 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 66 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
9 54 (1.81%) Metadata
10 53 (1.77%) Big Data
10 53 (1.77%) Data Lake
11 48 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 38 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 37 (1.24%) Delta Lake
14 36 (1.21%) DynamoDB
15 27 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (0.67%) Oracle Database
18 19 (0.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 513 (17.17%) JIRA
2 252 (8.44%) Git
3 174 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 91 (3.05%) GitLab
5 52 (1.74%) JUnit
5 52 (1.74%) Selenium
6 48 (1.61%) Postman
7 34 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.07%) Cypress.io
9 30 (1.00%) Mockito
10 25 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.77%) SpecFlow
12 20 (0.67%) JMeter
12 20 (0.67%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.64%) Gradle
14 13 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
15 12 (0.40%) Maven
15 12 (0.40%) Zephyr
16 11 (0.37%) Liquibase
17 10 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,053 (35.25%) Finance
2 1,052 (35.22%) Social Skills
3 440 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (13.63%) Public Sector
5 382 (12.79%) Banking
6 152 (5.09%) Front Office
7 127 (4.25%) Retail
8 107 (3.58%) Marketing
9 92 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 86 (2.88%) Legal
11 78 (2.61%) Investment Banking
12 75 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 75 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
13 68 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
14 48 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.04%) Law
18 27 (0.90%) Manufacturing
19 23 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 523 (17.51%) Developer
2 441 (14.76%) Senior
3 435 (14.56%) Analyst
4 313 (10.48%) Business Analyst
5 275 (9.21%) Lead
6 266 (8.91%) Project Manager
7 202 (6.76%) Architect
8 144 (4.82%) Software Engineer
9 141 (4.72%) Data Engineer
10 109 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
11 103 (3.45%) Designer
12 98 (3.28%) Senior Manager
13 96 (3.21%) Java Developer
14 92 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
15 82 (2.75%) Senior Developer
16 69 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
17 68 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
18 66 (2.21%) Python Developer
19 65 (2.18%) Consultant
20 64 (2.14%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (7.37%) React
2 191 (6.39%) REST
3 155 (5.19%) Kafka
4 147 (4.92%) RESTful
5 144 (4.82%) Node.js
6 143 (4.79%) .NET
7 132 (4.42%) AngularJS
8 130 (4.35%) Spring
9 118 (3.95%) HTML
10 113 (3.78%) Spring Boot
11 102 (3.41%) CSS
12 89 (2.98%) PySpark
13 74 (2.48%) Playwright
14 70 (2.34%) Middleware
15 62 (2.08%) SOAP
16 59 (1.98%) Redux
17 57 (1.91%) GraphQL
18 49 (1.64%) JSON
19 44 (1.47%) Web Services
20 43 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 337 (11.28%) Product Ownership
2 223 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 92 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 76 (2.54%) Fixed Income
4 76 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
5 73 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 72 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.01%) Derivative
8 53 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 53 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 45 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 44 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 40 (1.34%) Equities
14 38 (1.27%) AI Agents
14 38 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 38 (1.27%) NHS
15 37 (1.24%) Management Information System
16 28 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.35%) Linux
2 71 (2.38%) Windows
3 53 (1.77%) Unix
4 29 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.87%) Android
6 11 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.20%) VMS
9 5 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.13%) zOS
11 2 (0.067%) AIX
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
12 1 (0.033%) SUSE
12 1 (0.033%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (25.58%) DevOps
2 719 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 695 (23.27%) CI/CD
4 646 (21.63%) Scrum
5 529 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 486 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 387 (12.96%) AI
8 357 (11.95%) Project Management
9 345 (11.55%) Data Modelling
10 321 (10.75%) Test Automation
11 319 (10.68%) Analytics
11 319 (10.68%) Roadmaps
12 318 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 315 (10.55%) Migration
14 312 (10.45%) Decision-Making
15 301 (10.08%) Software Engineering
16 298 (9.98%) User Stories
17 286 (9.57%) Microservices
18 277 (9.27%) Waterfall
19 250 (8.37%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 555 (18.58%) SQL
2 534 (17.88%) Python
3 367 (12.29%) Java
4 300 (10.04%) JavaScript
5 234 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 203 (6.80%) C#
7 52 (1.74%) Scala
8 50 (1.67%) Go
9 49 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 40 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 34 (1.14%) Apex Code
12 32 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 25 (0.84%) Bash
13 25 (0.84%) Ruby
14 22 (0.74%) C++
14 22 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.70%) R
15 21 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 635 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 552 (18.48%) SC Cleared
3 279 (9.34%) Degree
4 111 (3.72%) PMP
5 103 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 78 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (1.91%) DV Cleared
9 48 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 41 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 37 (1.24%) CBAP
12 30 (1.00%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.90%) CISSP
14 26 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 26 (0.87%) IIBA
15 21 (0.70%) CISM
16 19 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.44%) CSPO
19 12 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (9.57%) QA
2 189 (6.33%) Data Quality
3 136 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 124 (4.15%) GDPR
5 109 (3.65%) PMO
6 51 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.54%) WCAG
8 43 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 37 (1.24%) NIST
10 23 (0.77%) SLA
11 20 (0.67%) GRC
12 19 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 18 (0.60%) NCSC
14 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.30%) IFRS
17 8 (0.27%) HL7
18 7 (0.23%) Basel III
18 7 (0.23%) PSD2
19 6 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 263 (8.80%) Docker
2 35 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.10%) IAG
5 3 (0.10%) Postfix
5 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.067%) RACF
7 1 (0.033%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.033%) HDFS
7 1 (0.033%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 287 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 207 (6.93%) Terraform
3 58 (1.94%) Ansible
4 43 (1.44%) Grafana
5 37 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.33%) Kibana
8 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.23%) SCCM
11 6 (0.20%) Packer
12 5 (0.17%) Consul
12 5 (0.17%) WSUS
13 4 (0.13%) Argo
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.13%) Control-M
13 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 364 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 188 (6.29%) Oracle
3 156 (5.22%) Salesforce
4 129 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 110 (3.68%) Databricks
6 94 (3.15%) SAP
7 46 (1.54%) Google
8 40 (1.34%) Adobe
9 39 (1.31%) Workday
10 35 (1.17%) Splunk
11 25 (0.84%) IBM
12 24 (0.80%) Informatica
13 22 (0.74%) Cisco
14 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg
14 21 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 18 (0.60%) CyberArk
16 17 (0.57%) Okta
17 16 (0.54%) Murex
18 15 (0.50%) Atlassian
19 14 (0.47%) Temenos