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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,002 2,487 3,448
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.72% 19.05% 18.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.80% 20.93% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,058 1,706 2,501
10th Percentile £363 £400 £406
25th Percentile £446 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 18
10th Percentile £46.50 - £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £31.78
Median hourly rate £64.75 £39.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.03% -22.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £71.72 £48.83 £66.75
90th Percentile £82.23 £76.50 £82.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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% 207
South London +10 73 £513 +6.22% 61
West London -2 53 £475 +21.17% 87
East London 0 28 £525 -2.33% 86
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
1 265 (8.83%) Confluence
2 61 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 60 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.03%) CMS
6 30 (1.00%) Apache
7 19 (0.63%) nginx
8 15 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.30%) Camunda
12 9 (0.30%) IIS
12 9 (0.30%) SAS
13 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
14 4 (0.13%) JBoss
14 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 106 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 45 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
6 26 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.40%) Trello
8 11 (0.37%) Sketch
9 10 (0.33%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.100%) InVision
13 2 (0.067%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.067%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.067%) InDesign
13 2 (0.067%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 49 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.70%) Endur
4 20 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 13 (0.43%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 9 (0.30%) Shopify
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.23%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
13 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 736 (24.52%) Azure
2 589 (19.62%) AWS
3 250 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 224 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 216 (7.20%) GitHub
6 206 (6.86%) GCP
7 142 (4.73%) Serverless
8 103 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
9 95 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 94 (3.13%) SaaS
11 82 (2.73%) Amazon S3
11 82 (2.73%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
14 63 (2.10%) Figma
15 60 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 53 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
17 45 (1.50%) Azure AKS
17 45 (1.50%) PowerApps
18 44 (1.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.67%) Firewall
2 29 (0.97%) WAN
3 24 (0.80%) Network Security
4 21 (0.70%) HTTP
5 20 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 19 (0.63%) VPN
7 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.40%) Internet
9 11 (0.37%) DNS
10 10 (0.33%) LAN
11 8 (0.27%) BGP
12 7 (0.23%) 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
1 161 (5.36%) Power BI
2 126 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 118 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
4 112 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 101 (3.36%) SQL Server
6 80 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 63 (2.10%) Tableau
8 55 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 49 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 48 (1.60%) Data Lake
11 43 (1.43%) Big Data
11 43 (1.43%) Metadata
12 40 (1.33%) BigQuery
13 39 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 28 (0.93%) Delta Lake
15 26 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
16 25 (0.83%) Oracle Database
17 24 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
18 23 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 21 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 517 (17.22%) JIRA
2 288 (9.59%) Git
3 168 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 102 (3.40%) GitLab
5 59 (1.97%) JUnit
6 58 (1.93%) Selenium
7 46 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 43 (1.43%) Postman
9 39 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 32 (1.07%) SpecFlow
12 22 (0.73%) Mockito
13 21 (0.70%) REST Assured
14 20 (0.67%) JMeter
15 17 (0.57%) Maven
16 13 (0.43%) SonarQube
17 12 (0.40%) ERwin
17 12 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
18 11 (0.37%) TestRail
19 10 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1,137 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 996 (33.18%) Finance
3 476 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 384 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 364 (12.13%) Banking
6 161 (5.36%) Front Office
7 94 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 88 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 86 (2.86%) Retail
10 82 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 79 (2.63%) Marketing
12 78 (2.60%) Legal
13 76 (2.53%) Investment Banking
14 65 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 39 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 32 (1.07%) Manufacturing
19 29 (0.97%) Back Office
20 27 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 529 (17.62%) Developer
2 465 (15.49%) Analyst
3 450 (14.99%) Senior
4 363 (12.09%) Business Analyst
5 272 (9.06%) Lead
6 246 (8.19%) Project Manager
7 197 (6.56%) Architect
8 152 (5.06%) Software Engineer
9 127 (4.23%) Data Engineer
10 100 (3.33%) Java Developer
11 95 (3.16%) Consultant
12 89 (2.96%) Designer
13 88 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
14 86 (2.86%) Senior Manager
15 78 (2.60%) Senior Developer
16 77 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
17 73 (2.43%) Product Manager
18 68 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
19 65 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
20 62 (2.07%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (8.26%) React
2 209 (6.96%) REST
3 193 (6.43%) Node.js
4 174 (5.80%) Kafka
5 145 (4.83%) RESTful
6 141 (4.70%) .NET
7 136 (4.53%) AngularJS
8 122 (4.06%) HTML
9 111 (3.70%) CSS
10 104 (3.46%) Playwright
10 104 (3.46%) Spring
11 88 (2.93%) Spring Boot
12 83 (2.76%) PySpark
13 79 (2.63%) GraphQL
14 73 (2.43%) JSON
15 68 (2.27%) SOAP
16 65 (2.17%) Middleware
17 61 (2.03%) Web Services
17 61 (2.03%) XML
18 57 (1.90%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 299 (9.96%) Product Ownership
2 203 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 83 (2.76%) Fixed Income
4 73 (2.43%) Derivative
5 70 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 63 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 60 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 53 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 52 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 49 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 46 (1.53%) Equities
12 42 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 40 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
13 40 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 40 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 38 (1.27%) Virtual Team
15 36 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 36 (1.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 140 (4.66%) Linux
2 84 (2.80%) Windows
3 81 (2.70%) Unix
4 31 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 30 (1.00%) Android
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) VMS
8 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.13%) zOS
11 3 (0.100%) AIX
12 1 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.033%) Solaris
12 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (24.85%) DevOps
2 678 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 667 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 623 (20.75%) Scrum
5 608 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
6 443 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 380 (12.66%) AI
8 347 (11.56%) Test Automation
9 341 (11.36%) Project Management
10 331 (11.03%) Data Modelling
11 327 (10.89%) Analytics
12 324 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 321 (10.69%) Software Engineering
14 300 (9.99%) Roadmaps
15 298 (9.93%) Migration
16 285 (9.49%) Waterfall
17 277 (9.23%) Decision-Making
18 276 (9.19%) Microservices
18 276 (9.19%) User Stories
19 275 (9.16%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 587 (19.55%) SQL
2 566 (18.85%) Python
3 369 (12.29%) Java
4 333 (11.09%) JavaScript
5 279 (9.29%) TypeScript
6 214 (7.13%) C#
7 71 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.83%) Go
8 55 (1.83%) Scala
9 49 (1.63%) C++
10 34 (1.13%) Bash
11 31 (1.03%) Ruby
12 29 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 25 (0.83%) Bicep
13 25 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 20 (0.67%) Apex Code
15 20 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.63%) R
17 18 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 615 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 548 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 317 (10.56%) Degree
4 134 (4.46%) PMI Certification
5 123 (4.10%) PMP
6 91 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 52 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.43%) CBAP
11 41 (1.37%) DV Cleared
12 36 (1.20%) ISTQB
13 32 (1.07%) CISSP
14 29 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 29 (0.97%) CISM
15 27 (0.90%) IIBA
16 14 (0.47%) ISEB
16 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 12 (0.40%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (9.73%) QA
2 159 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 150 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 125 (4.16%) GDPR
5 92 (3.06%) PMO
6 44 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.43%) WCAG
8 37 (1.23%) NIST
9 34 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.60%) GRC
12 16 (0.53%) SLA
13 15 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 15 (0.50%) MiFID
14 14 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.40%) NCSC
16 11 (0.37%) PSD2
17 10 (0.33%) Basel III
17 10 (0.33%) PERC
18 8 (0.27%) EMIR
System Software
1 321 (10.69%) Docker
2 37 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.067%) RACF
7 2 (0.067%) 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%) Postfix
8 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.033%) Squid
Systems Management
1 318 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 199 (6.63%) Terraform
3 56 (1.87%) Ansible
4 41 (1.37%) Grafana
5 28 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.53%) Argo
8 14 (0.47%) Packer
9 12 (0.40%) Consul
9 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.30%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.30%) Puppet
11 8 (0.27%) Rancher
12 7 (0.23%) SCCM
13 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.17%) Control-M
15 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.13%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.100%) Kibana
16 3 (0.100%) WSUS
Vendors
1 371 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 191 (6.36%) Oracle
3 136 (4.53%) Databricks
4 129 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 120 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 90 (3.00%) SAP
7 66 (2.20%) Google
8 46 (1.53%) Adobe
9 37 (1.23%) Splunk
10 28 (0.93%) Workday
11 26 (0.87%) Atlassian
12 25 (0.83%) Cisco
13 23 (0.77%) Informatica
14 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg
15 20 (0.67%) VMware
16 19 (0.63%) MuleSoft
17 18 (0.60%) Foundry
17 18 (0.60%) IBM
18 17 (0.57%) Murex
19 16 (0.53%) Planview