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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,046 2,550 3,430
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.49% 20.06% 19.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.67% 21.82% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,084 1,768 2,478
10th Percentile £363 £399 £400
25th Percentile £447 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £725
90th Percentile £775 £850 £838
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 20
10th Percentile £30.09 £35.00 £24.18
25th Percentile £54.55 £36.00 £31.93
Median hourly rate £64.75 £39.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.86% -21.92% -23.08%
75th Percentile £72.88 £55.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £93.18 £75.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +8.00% +6.10% -9.38%

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 15,485 11,688 15,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 91.95% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,369 7,938 11,291
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £757 £802 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 334
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.94
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.13 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -1 362 £550 -5.98% 297
South London +6 81 £513 -12.09% 22
West London -2 68 £520 +30.00% 43
East London -2 27 £525 -5.83% 45
North London +1 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
1 287 (9.42%) Confluence
2 72 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 69 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.21%) CMS
6 29 (0.95%) Apache
7 19 (0.62%) nginx
8 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.33%) Camunda
11 10 (0.33%) IIS
11 10 (0.33%) SAS
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
14 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 112 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
3 64 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 40 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
6 17 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
7 10 (0.33%) Sketch
7 10 (0.33%) Trello
8 4 (0.13%) Notion
8 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.098%) InVision
10 2 (0.066%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.066%) Windchill
10 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.033%) InDesign
11 1 (0.033%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 53 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.02%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.49%) Endur
5 14 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.43%) Temenos T24
7 12 (0.39%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.30%) Shopify
9 7 (0.23%) Findur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 757 (24.85%) Azure
2 617 (20.26%) AWS
3 262 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
4 215 (7.06%) Power Platform
5 214 (7.03%) GitHub
6 180 (5.91%) GCP
7 151 (4.96%) Serverless
8 112 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
9 105 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 94 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
11 92 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (2.95%) SaaS
13 76 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
14 72 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 71 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
15 71 (2.33%) Snowflake
16 61 (2.00%) Figma
17 51 (1.67%) Azure AKS
17 51 (1.67%) Power Automate
18 50 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.48%) Firewall
2 28 (0.92%) WAN
3 24 (0.79%) Network Security
4 22 (0.72%) HTTP
5 18 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.49%) VPN
7 12 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.33%) LAN
9 9 (0.30%) DNS
10 8 (0.26%) Internet
11 7 (0.23%) DMZ
12 6 (0.20%) FTP
13 5 (0.16%) 5G
13 5 (0.16%) BGP
13 5 (0.16%) Broadband
13 5 (0.16%) OSPF
13 5 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.13%) IOS XR
14 4 (0.13%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (5.02%) Power BI
2 127 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (4.07%) NoSQL
4 114 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 73 (2.40%) Relational Database
7 67 (2.20%) Tableau
8 60 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 55 (1.81%) Metadata
10 52 (1.71%) Big Data
11 51 (1.67%) MongoDB
12 46 (1.51%) Data Lake
13 38 (1.25%) Delta Lake
14 37 (1.21%) BigQuery
15 36 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
16 30 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
17 28 (0.92%) DynamoDB
18 22 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 21 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
19 21 (0.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 527 (17.30%) JIRA
2 291 (9.55%) Git
3 173 (5.68%) Jenkins
4 93 (3.05%) GitLab
5 56 (1.84%) JUnit
6 54 (1.77%) Selenium
7 45 (1.48%) Postman
8 39 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 37 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 36 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 31 (1.02%) SpecFlow
12 30 (0.98%) Mockito
13 20 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 19 (0.62%) JMeter
15 16 (0.53%) Maven
16 15 (0.49%) Zephyr
17 13 (0.43%) Gradle
18 12 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
18 12 (0.39%) TestRail
19 11 (0.36%) Liquibase
General
1 1,110 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 1,030 (33.81%) Finance
3 492 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 412 (13.53%) Public Sector
5 369 (12.11%) Banking
6 163 (5.35%) Front Office
7 102 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 101 (3.32%) Retail
9 95 (3.12%) Marketing
10 85 (2.79%) Legal
11 79 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
12 78 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
13 75 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
14 66 (2.17%) Investment Banking
15 43 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 39 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 35 (1.15%) Telecoms
18 30 (0.98%) Manufacturing
19 27 (0.89%) Law
19 27 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 540 (17.73%) Developer
2 453 (14.87%) Analyst
3 442 (14.51%) Senior
4 349 (11.46%) Business Analyst
5 267 (8.77%) Lead
6 254 (8.34%) Project Manager
7 233 (7.65%) Architect
8 142 (4.66%) Software Engineer
9 139 (4.56%) Data Engineer
10 111 (3.64%) Java Developer
11 105 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 93 (3.05%) Designer
13 92 (3.02%) Senior Manager
14 90 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
15 89 (2.92%) Consultant
16 76 (2.50%) Senior Developer
17 73 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
18 72 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
19 67 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
20 63 (2.07%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (7.88%) React
2 209 (6.86%) REST
3 175 (5.75%) Node.js
4 168 (5.52%) Kafka
5 150 (4.92%) .NET
6 148 (4.86%) RESTful
7 142 (4.66%) AngularJS
8 121 (3.97%) HTML
9 120 (3.94%) Spring
10 108 (3.55%) CSS
11 104 (3.41%) Spring Boot
12 92 (3.02%) PySpark
13 88 (2.89%) Playwright
14 75 (2.46%) Middleware
15 73 (2.40%) JSON
16 67 (2.20%) GraphQL
17 60 (1.97%) SOAP
18 58 (1.90%) Redux
19 50 (1.64%) XML
20 48 (1.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 323 (10.60%) Product Ownership
2 226 (7.42%) Cloud Native
3 90 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 79 (2.59%) Fixed Income
5 76 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 70 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 67 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 61 (2.00%) Derivative
9 57 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 55 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 51 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 43 (1.41%) AI Agents
13 42 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 40 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
15 39 (1.28%) Management Information System
15 39 (1.28%) Virtual Team
16 38 (1.25%) NHS
17 37 (1.21%) Equities
18 34 (1.12%) Data Structures
19 30 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.04%) Linux
2 78 (2.56%) Windows
3 66 (2.17%) Unix
4 25 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.76%) Android
6 14 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.26%) VMS
8 7 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.098%) AIX
11 3 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Rocky
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (25.54%) DevOps
2 709 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 705 (23.15%) CI/CD
4 626 (20.55%) Scrum
5 571 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 484 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 393 (12.90%) AI
8 365 (11.98%) Project Management
9 362 (11.88%) Data Modelling
10 345 (11.33%) Test Automation
11 327 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 326 (10.70%) Analytics
13 319 (10.47%) Software Engineering
14 313 (10.28%) Migration
15 307 (10.08%) Decision-Making
16 305 (10.01%) Roadmaps
17 290 (9.52%) User Stories
18 285 (9.36%) Microservices
19 282 (9.26%) Waterfall
20 263 (8.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 603 (19.80%) SQL
2 562 (18.45%) Python
3 380 (12.48%) Java
4 318 (10.44%) JavaScript
5 260 (8.54%) TypeScript
6 224 (7.35%) C#
7 72 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.90%) Scala
9 52 (1.71%) Go
10 41 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 31 (1.02%) Apex Code
12 31 (1.02%) Bash
12 31 (1.02%) C++
13 27 (0.89%) Ruby
14 23 (0.76%) Bicep
15 21 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.66%) R
17 16 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 663 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 592 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 283 (9.29%) Degree
4 119 (3.91%) PMI Certification
5 116 (3.81%) PMP
6 94 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 68 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 46 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 40 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 39 (1.28%) CBAP
12 35 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 31 (1.02%) CISSP
14 27 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 27 (0.89%) CISM
15 26 (0.85%) IIBA
16 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 14 (0.46%) CSPO
18 11 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.62%) QA
2 180 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 138 (4.53%) Accessibility
4 128 (4.20%) GDPR
5 104 (3.41%) PMO
6 50 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.51%) WCAG
8 38 (1.25%) NIST
9 37 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (0.72%) SLA
11 18 (0.59%) GRC
11 18 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.53%) NCSC
13 14 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.33%) HL7
14 10 (0.33%) PERC
15 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.30%) Basel III
16 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 299 (9.82%) Docker
2 37 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.098%) IAG
5 3 (0.098%) RACF
5 3 (0.098%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.066%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.066%) Postfix
6 2 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.033%) GPFS
7 1 (0.033%) HDFS
7 1 (0.033%) Lustre
7 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.033%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 311 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 226 (7.42%) Terraform
3 56 (1.84%) Ansible
4 41 (1.35%) Grafana
5 28 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.46%) Packer
8 13 (0.43%) Consul
9 11 (0.36%) HP ALM
9 11 (0.36%) SCCM
10 10 (0.33%) Argo
10 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.26%) Puppet
11 8 (0.26%) Rancher
12 7 (0.23%) WSUS
13 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.20%) Kibana
14 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.16%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 393 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 198 (6.50%) Oracle
3 139 (4.56%) Salesforce
4 132 (4.33%) Databricks
5 129 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 103 (3.38%) SAP
7 60 (1.97%) Google
8 47 (1.54%) Adobe
9 36 (1.18%) Splunk
9 36 (1.18%) Workday
10 27 (0.89%) IBM
11 26 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 26 (0.85%) Bloomberg
12 22 (0.72%) Informatica
13 21 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 21 (0.69%) VMware
14 20 (0.66%) CyberArk
15 18 (0.59%) Citrix
16 17 (0.56%) Cisco
16 17 (0.56%) Okta