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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,011 2,472 3,441
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.32% 19.34% 18.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.40% 21.21% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,057 1,703 2,492
10th Percentile £363 £390 £408
25th Percentile £447 £473 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +1.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £712
90th Percentile £775 £850 £824
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 17
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £21.72
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.04 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +69.06% -15.23% -29.15%
75th Percentile £73.13 £55.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.00 £71.70
England median hourly rate £66.00 £62.50 £58.60
% change year-on-year +5.60% +6.65% -9.84%

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 14,757 11,654 16,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.76% 91.18% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,899 7,809 11,494
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 162 342
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £71.75 £77.25 £69.43
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

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 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 19 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 19 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 0 376 £550 -5.98% 250
South London +8 73 £513 +5.13% 22
West London -3 52 £500 +26.26% 49
East London 0 28 £533 -0.93% 34
North London 0 1 £700 +71.36% 4
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
1 282 (9.37%) Confluence
2 63 (2.09%) Apache Spark
3 61 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 36 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.16%) CMS
6 30 (1.00%) Apache
7 19 (0.63%) nginx
8 16 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 13 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.33%) Camunda
10 10 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 9 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.30%) SAS
12 8 (0.27%) IIS
13 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
14 6 (0.20%) JBoss
15 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
15 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 46 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (0.73%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.37%) Trello
8 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 10 (0.33%) Sketch
9 5 (0.17%) Notion
10 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.100%) InVision
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
12 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.066%) InDesign
12 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 47 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.06%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 21 (0.70%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 12 (0.40%) Loan IQ
7 11 (0.37%) Temenos T24
8 9 (0.30%) Shopify
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (0.23%) Findur
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 758 (25.17%) Azure
2 602 (19.99%) AWS
3 272 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (7.57%) GitHub
5 219 (7.27%) Power Platform
6 190 (6.31%) GCP
7 148 (4.92%) Serverless
8 109 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
9 98 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 90 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 90 (2.99%) SaaS
11 81 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
12 79 (2.62%) Snowflake
13 70 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
14 65 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (1.99%) Figma
16 55 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
17 48 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
18 46 (1.53%) Azure AKS
19 44 (1.46%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.69%) Firewall
2 32 (1.06%) WAN
3 25 (0.83%) Network Security
4 22 (0.73%) SD-WAN
5 20 (0.66%) HTTP
6 17 (0.56%) VPN
7 15 (0.50%) 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%) OSPF
13 5 (0.17%) Broadband
13 5 (0.17%) MPLS
13 5 (0.17%) SMS
13 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.13%) DHCP
14 4 (0.13%) DMZ
14 4 (0.13%) FTP
14 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (5.21%) Power BI
2 132 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 115 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 98 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 65 (2.16%) Tableau
8 60 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
9 50 (1.66%) MongoDB
10 48 (1.59%) Data Lake
10 48 (1.59%) Metadata
11 45 (1.49%) Big Data
12 40 (1.33%) BigQuery
13 38 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (1.10%) Delta Lake
15 24 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
16 23 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.73%) Oracle Database
17 22 (0.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 532 (17.67%) JIRA
2 294 (9.76%) Git
3 166 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 97 (3.22%) GitLab
5 61 (2.03%) JUnit
6 59 (1.96%) Selenium
7 45 (1.49%) Postman
8 44 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 37 (1.23%) Cypress.io
11 32 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 28 (0.93%) Mockito
13 22 (0.73%) JMeter
13 22 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.60%) Maven
15 14 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.43%) Gradle
16 13 (0.43%) Zephyr
17 12 (0.40%) TestRail
18 10 (0.33%) MSTest
General
1 1,136 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (33.78%) Finance
3 491 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 399 (13.25%) Public Sector
5 367 (12.19%) Banking
6 156 (5.18%) Front Office
7 97 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
8 90 (2.99%) Retail
9 87 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 82 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 82 (2.72%) Legal
11 77 (2.56%) Marketing
12 72 (2.39%) Investment Banking
13 71 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (1.20%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.00%) Back Office
16 30 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 26 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 535 (17.77%) Developer
2 464 (15.41%) Analyst
3 440 (14.61%) Senior
4 361 (11.99%) Business Analyst
5 263 (8.73%) Lead
6 257 (8.54%) Project Manager
7 204 (6.78%) Architect
8 143 (4.75%) Software Engineer
9 134 (4.45%) Data Engineer
10 98 (3.25%) Java Developer
11 97 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
12 94 (3.12%) Consultant
13 88 (2.92%) Designer
14 86 (2.86%) Senior Manager
15 80 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
16 77 (2.56%) Senior Developer
17 68 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
18 67 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
19 66 (2.19%) Product Manager
20 61 (2.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (8.24%) React
2 212 (7.04%) REST
3 187 (6.21%) Node.js
4 178 (5.91%) Kafka
5 144 (4.78%) RESTful
6 143 (4.75%) .NET
7 140 (4.65%) AngularJS
8 116 (3.85%) HTML
9 112 (3.72%) Spring
10 106 (3.52%) CSS
11 100 (3.32%) Playwright
12 93 (3.09%) Spring Boot
13 89 (2.96%) PySpark
14 74 (2.46%) GraphQL
15 73 (2.42%) JSON
16 68 (2.26%) Middleware
17 66 (2.19%) SOAP
18 59 (1.96%) XML
19 55 (1.83%) Redux
19 55 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 298 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 212 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 79 (2.62%) Fixed Income
4 72 (2.39%) Onboarding
5 70 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
6 69 (2.29%) Derivative
7 66 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
9 56 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 44 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 43 (1.43%) AI Agents
12 43 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 42 (1.39%) Equities
14 39 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 37 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 37 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.20%) Mobile App
17 35 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
17 35 (1.16%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 137 (4.55%) Linux
2 81 (2.69%) Windows
3 79 (2.62%) Unix
4 27 (0.90%) Android
4 27 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.30%) VMS
7 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.17%) zOS
9 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.100%) AIX
11 2 (0.066%) Solaris
12 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (25.17%) DevOps
2 687 (22.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 680 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 621 (20.62%) Scrum
5 596 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
6 456 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 381 (12.65%) AI
8 352 (11.69%) Project Management
9 351 (11.66%) Test Automation
10 340 (11.29%) Data Modelling
11 327 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 322 (10.69%) Analytics
13 318 (10.56%) Migration
14 312 (10.36%) Software Engineering
15 302 (10.03%) Roadmaps
16 286 (9.50%) Waterfall
17 282 (9.37%) Decision-Making
17 282 (9.37%) Project Delivery
18 281 (9.33%) Microservices
18 281 (9.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 612 (20.33%) SQL
2 566 (18.80%) Python
3 374 (12.42%) Java
4 321 (10.66%) JavaScript
5 276 (9.17%) TypeScript
6 219 (7.27%) C#
7 71 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.83%) Scala
9 52 (1.73%) Go
10 42 (1.39%) C++
11 32 (1.06%) Ruby
12 31 (1.03%) Bash
13 30 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 25 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 24 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.76%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.73%) Apex Code
17 22 (0.73%) Bicep
18 18 (0.60%) R
19 17 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 644 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 574 (19.06%) SC Cleared
3 305 (10.13%) Degree
4 135 (4.48%) PMI Certification
5 125 (4.15%) PMP
6 91 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 58 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.43%) CBAP
11 40 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 39 (1.30%) ISTQB
13 33 (1.10%) CISSP
14 28 (0.93%) CISM
15 27 (0.90%) AWS Certification
15 27 (0.90%) IIBA
16 14 (0.46%) ISEB
17 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 12 (0.40%) CSPO
18 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.73%) QA
2 161 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 147 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 121 (4.02%) GDPR
5 96 (3.19%) PMO
6 47 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.39%) WCAG
8 40 (1.33%) NIST
9 34 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.66%) SLA
11 19 (0.63%) GRC
12 18 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 15 (0.50%) MiFID
14 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.43%) NCSC
15 10 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.33%) PERC
16 9 (0.30%) Basel III
17 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 314 (10.43%) Docker
2 34 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.066%) RACF
7 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.033%) GPFS
8 1 (0.033%) HDFS
8 1 (0.033%) IAG
8 1 (0.033%) Lustre
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.033%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 316 (10.49%) Kubernetes
2 208 (6.91%) Terraform
3 56 (1.86%) Ansible
4 39 (1.30%) Grafana
5 28 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.53%) Argo
8 14 (0.46%) Packer
9 12 (0.40%) Consul
9 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.33%) HP ALM
11 9 (0.30%) Rancher
12 8 (0.27%) Puppet
13 7 (0.23%) SCCM
14 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.13%) Control-M
17 3 (0.100%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.100%) RSA Archer
17 3 (0.100%) WSUS
Vendors
1 388 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 192 (6.38%) Oracle
3 137 (4.55%) Databricks
4 125 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 121 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 96 (3.19%) SAP
7 60 (1.99%) Google
8 48 (1.59%) Adobe
9 36 (1.20%) Splunk
10 30 (1.00%) Workday
11 28 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.80%) IBM
13 23 (0.76%) Cisco
14 22 (0.73%) Bloomberg
14 22 (0.73%) Informatica
15 21 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.70%) VMware
16 19 (0.63%) Murex
17 18 (0.60%) Foundry
18 17 (0.56%) CyberArk