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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,523 2,941 3,480
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.55% 21.94% 21.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.68% 23.73% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,348 2,045 2,507
10th Percentile £393 £368 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -1.22% -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 24 17 15
10th Percentile £50.45 £26.94 £28.01
25th Percentile £52.50 £34.48 £32.65
Median hourly rate £63.95 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.81% -4.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £94.88 £91.25 -
England median hourly rate £68.70 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £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 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -3 377 £560 -4.27% 224
West London +1 98 £600 +50.00% 57
South London +4 60 £525 -15.59% 10
East London -5 14 £585 +8.33% 36
North London +2 8 £550 - 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
1 298 (8.46%) Confluence
2 95 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (1.67%) CMS
6 49 (1.39%) Apache
7 30 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.43%) IIS
9 14 (0.40%) Camunda
10 13 (0.37%) SAS
11 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 9 (0.26%) Appian
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) JBoss
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
14 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 101 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.62%) 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 53 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 22 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
4 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 12 (0.34%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.23%) Findur
6 8 (0.23%) Magento
6 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 7 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 7 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.17%) Endur
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.14%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 950 (26.97%) Azure
2 712 (20.21%) AWS
3 352 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
4 302 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 293 (8.32%) GitHub
6 241 (6.84%) GCP
7 178 (5.05%) Serverless
8 157 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
9 117 (3.32%) Amazon S3
9 117 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
11 101 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 89 (2.53%) PowerApps
13 87 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
13 87 (2.47%) Power Automate
14 73 (2.07%) Entra ID
14 73 (2.07%) SaaS
15 71 (2.02%) dbt
16 65 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
17 63 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.48%) Firewall
2 27 (0.77%) Network Security
3 25 (0.71%) WAN
4 24 (0.68%) VPN
5 19 (0.54%) DNS
6 18 (0.51%) Internet
7 15 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.34%) HTTP
10 10 (0.28%) DMZ
11 9 (0.26%) BGP
11 9 (0.26%) Wireless
12 8 (0.23%) MPLS
12 8 (0.23%) OSPF
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
13 7 (0.20%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.17%) Intranet
14 6 (0.17%) SMS
14 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (6.56%) Power BI
2 159 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 131 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
4 119 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 110 (3.12%) NoSQL
6 95 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 94 (2.67%) Metadata
8 68 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 63 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 58 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 57 (1.62%) Tableau
12 44 (1.25%) DynamoDB
13 41 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 41 (1.16%) Big Data
14 40 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 40 (1.14%) Delta Lake
15 30 (0.85%) Oracle Database
16 29 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 578 (16.41%) JIRA
2 321 (9.11%) Git
3 246 (6.98%) Jenkins
4 126 (3.58%) GitLab
5 63 (1.79%) Selenium
6 51 (1.45%) JUnit
7 40 (1.14%) Gradle
7 40 (1.14%) Postman
8 37 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 35 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 34 (0.97%) Mockito
11 27 (0.77%) Visual Studio
12 24 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 24 (0.68%) Maven
13 23 (0.65%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.60%) JMeter
15 18 (0.51%) Zephyr
16 17 (0.48%) Liquibase
17 16 (0.45%) CircleCI
18 15 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,341 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 1,174 (33.32%) Finance
3 568 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 543 (15.41%) Public Sector
5 480 (13.62%) Banking
6 218 (6.19%) Retail
7 152 (4.31%) Front Office
8 149 (4.23%) Marketing
9 112 (3.18%) Investment Banking
10 107 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
11 101 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 80 (2.27%) Legal
13 68 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 64 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 60 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (1.25%) Local Government
17 43 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.19%) Retail Banking
19 40 (1.14%) Law
19 40 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 640 (18.17%) Developer
2 512 (14.53%) Senior
3 454 (12.89%) Analyst
4 361 (10.25%) Lead
5 318 (9.03%) Business Analyst
6 294 (8.35%) Project Manager
7 256 (7.27%) Architect
8 167 (4.74%) Data Engineer
9 161 (4.57%) Software Engineer
10 133 (3.78%) Delivery Manager
11 123 (3.49%) Java Developer
12 117 (3.32%) Designer
13 107 (3.04%) Senior Developer
13 107 (3.04%) Senior Manager
14 106 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
15 92 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
16 88 (2.50%) Product Manager
17 87 (2.47%) Product Owner
18 79 (2.24%) Full-Stack Developer
19 75 (2.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (8.54%) REST
2 280 (7.95%) Terraform
3 259 (7.35%) React
4 220 (6.24%) .NET
5 180 (5.11%) RESTful
6 173 (4.91%) Kafka
7 170 (4.83%) Spring
8 146 (4.14%) Spring Boot
9 132 (3.75%) Node.js
10 131 (3.72%) AngularJS
11 126 (3.58%) HTML
12 107 (3.04%) CSS
13 95 (2.70%) PySpark
14 84 (2.38%) SOAP
15 76 (2.16%) JSON
16 66 (1.87%) Web Services
17 63 (1.79%) Redux
18 62 (1.76%) Middleware
18 62 (1.76%) Playwright
19 61 (1.73%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 491 (13.94%) Product Ownership
2 285 (8.09%) Cloud Native
3 135 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 123 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 102 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 83 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 71 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 69 (1.96%) Fixed Income
9 67 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 61 (1.73%) NHS
11 60 (1.70%) AI Agents
12 58 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 57 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
14 53 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 52 (1.48%) Derivative
16 49 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 49 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
17 44 (1.25%) Data Centre
17 44 (1.25%) Management Information System
17 44 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.52%) Linux
2 75 (2.13%) Windows
3 50 (1.42%) Unix
4 35 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 33 (0.94%) Android
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.20%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.057%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.057%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.028%) AIX
11 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.028%) Solaris
11 1 (0.028%) SUSE
11 1 (0.028%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (29.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,007 (28.58%) DevOps
3 962 (27.31%) CI/CD
4 775 (22.00%) Scrum
5 669 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 650 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
7 611 (17.34%) AI
8 515 (14.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 439 (12.46%) Analytics
10 431 (12.23%) Roadmaps
11 390 (11.07%) Software Engineering
12 385 (10.93%) Test Automation
13 381 (10.81%) Data Modelling
14 378 (10.73%) Project Management
15 375 (10.64%) User Stories
16 374 (10.62%) Decision-Making
17 367 (10.42%) Migration
18 340 (9.65%) Microservices
19 324 (9.20%) Waterfall
20 292 (8.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 666 (18.90%) SQL
2 620 (17.60%) Python
3 451 (12.80%) Java
4 307 (8.71%) JavaScript
5 239 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 237 (6.73%) C#
7 73 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 57 (1.62%) PL/SQL
9 51 (1.45%) Apex Code
10 49 (1.39%) Bash
11 43 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 40 (1.14%) Scala
12 40 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 35 (0.99%) Go
14 30 (0.85%) Korn
15 25 (0.71%) Groovy
16 21 (0.60%) Bicep
16 21 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 19 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 826 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 717 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 268 (7.61%) Degree
4 145 (4.12%) PMP
5 135 (3.83%) PMI Certification
6 101 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 91 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 74 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (1.53%) Azure Certification
10 49 (1.39%) AWS Certification
11 37 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 27 (0.77%) ISTQB
13 26 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (0.65%) CISSP
15 21 (0.60%) IIBA
16 16 (0.45%) CBAP
17 13 (0.37%) CCNP
17 13 (0.37%) CISM
17 13 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (9.91%) QA
2 247 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 141 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 119 (3.38%) PMO
5 104 (2.95%) GDPR
6 48 (1.36%) WCAG
7 41 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.02%) GRC
9 33 (0.94%) NIST
10 28 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.62%) SLA
12 19 (0.54%) NCSC
13 17 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 14 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.23%) P3O
16 8 (0.23%) SEPA
17 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 290 (8.23%) Docker
2 56 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.26%) IAG
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.085%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.085%) Postfix
6 2 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.057%) RACF
7 1 (0.028%) Ceph
7 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.028%) Squid
7 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 332 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 80 (2.27%) Ansible
3 66 (1.87%) Grafana
4 59 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.57%) Control-M
7 13 (0.37%) Kibana
7 13 (0.37%) Packer
8 10 (0.28%) Puppet
9 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.26%) SCCM
10 7 (0.20%) WSUS
11 5 (0.14%) Argo
11 5 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.085%) Istio
13 3 (0.085%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.085%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 479 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 186 (5.28%) Salesforce
3 181 (5.14%) Oracle
4 143 (4.06%) ServiceNow
5 123 (3.49%) Databricks
6 115 (3.26%) Google
7 100 (2.84%) SAP
8 61 (1.73%) Splunk
9 52 (1.48%) Adobe
10 40 (1.14%) IBM
11 32 (0.91%) Informatica
12 29 (0.82%) Workday
13 27 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 26 (0.74%) Cisco
15 25 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.65%) VMware
17 22 (0.62%) Bloomberg
17 22 (0.62%) Okta
18 19 (0.54%) Pega
19 18 (0.51%) Atlassian