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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,511 2,953 3,469
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.50% 21.90% 21.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.65% 23.68% 23.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,336 2,057 2,491
10th Percentile £392 £368 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £731
90th Percentile £742 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 15
10th Percentile £50.50 £26.94 £28.01
25th Percentile £52.50 £34.48 £32.65
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £94.00 £91.25 -
England median hourly rate £67.89 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.84% -5.77% -

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 17,870 12,469 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 92.49% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,292 9,981
10th Percentile £360 £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 287 258 190
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -14.89% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -4 373 £550 -8.33% 194
West London 0 97 £604 +51.00% 106
South London +4 60 £525 -15.80% 7
East London -5 12 £568 +5.09% 33
North London +3 8 £550 - 6
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
1 297 (8.46%) Confluence
2 95 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 59 (1.68%) CMS
6 49 (1.40%) Apache
7 30 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.43%) IIS
9 14 (0.40%) Camunda
10 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 9 (0.26%) Appian
12 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 6 (0.17%) JBoss
13 6 (0.17%) Kentico
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
14 5 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 101 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.63%) 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 54 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 22 (0.63%) 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
8 6 (0.17%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 947 (26.97%) Azure
2 696 (19.82%) AWS
3 356 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
4 305 (8.69%) Power Platform
5 294 (8.37%) GitHub
6 235 (6.69%) GCP
7 181 (5.16%) Serverless
8 158 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 117 (3.33%) Amazon S3
11 108 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
12 100 (2.85%) Snowflake
13 89 (2.53%) PowerApps
14 88 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
15 87 (2.48%) Power Automate
16 73 (2.08%) SaaS
17 71 (2.02%) dbt
17 71 (2.02%) Entra ID
18 65 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
19 62 (1.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.51%) Firewall
2 26 (0.74%) Network Security
3 25 (0.71%) WAN
4 24 (0.68%) VPN
5 20 (0.57%) DNS
6 18 (0.51%) Internet
7 15 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.37%) 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
12 8 (0.23%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.20%) LAN
14 6 (0.17%) Intranet
14 6 (0.17%) SMS
14 6 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (6.61%) Power BI
2 157 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
3 130 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 121 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 113 (3.22%) NoSQL
6 96 (2.73%) Metadata
6 96 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 69 (1.97%) Data Lake
8 66 (1.88%) MongoDB
9 58 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (1.62%) Tableau
11 46 (1.31%) DynamoDB
12 41 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 41 (1.17%) Big Data
13 40 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 39 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 30 (0.85%) Oracle Database
16 29 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
17 23 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
18 21 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 576 (16.41%) JIRA
2 321 (9.14%) Git
3 247 (7.04%) Jenkins
4 125 (3.56%) 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 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 34 (0.97%) Mockito
11 27 (0.77%) Visual Studio
12 24 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 24 (0.68%) Maven
13 23 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.60%) JMeter
15 18 (0.51%) Zephyr
16 17 (0.48%) Liquibase
17 16 (0.46%) CircleCI
18 15 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,339 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 1,165 (33.18%) Finance
3 568 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 538 (15.32%) Public Sector
5 483 (13.76%) Banking
6 219 (6.24%) Retail
7 149 (4.24%) Marketing
8 140 (3.99%) Front Office
9 113 (3.22%) Investment Banking
10 106 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
11 100 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 79 (2.25%) Legal
13 67 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 63 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
15 61 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (1.25%) Local Government
17 43 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 42 (1.20%) Retail Banking
19 40 (1.14%) Law
19 40 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 633 (18.03%) Developer
2 513 (14.61%) Senior
3 453 (12.90%) Analyst
4 356 (10.14%) Lead
5 317 (9.03%) Business Analyst
6 290 (8.26%) Project Manager
7 257 (7.32%) Architect
8 166 (4.73%) Data Engineer
9 150 (4.27%) Software Engineer
10 128 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
11 121 (3.45%) Java Developer
12 116 (3.30%) Designer
13 108 (3.08%) Senior Developer
14 106 (3.02%) Senior Manager
15 105 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
16 93 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
17 87 (2.48%) Product Manager
17 87 (2.48%) Product Owner
18 79 (2.25%) Full-Stack Developer
19 75 (2.14%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (8.69%) REST
2 279 (7.95%) Terraform
3 249 (7.09%) React
4 224 (6.38%) .NET
5 181 (5.16%) RESTful
6 170 (4.84%) Spring
7 166 (4.73%) Kafka
8 146 (4.16%) Spring Boot
9 131 (3.73%) AngularJS
10 129 (3.67%) HTML
11 121 (3.45%) Node.js
12 110 (3.13%) CSS
13 95 (2.71%) PySpark
14 84 (2.39%) SOAP
15 78 (2.22%) JSON
16 66 (1.88%) Web Services
17 62 (1.77%) Playwright
18 61 (1.74%) Django
18 61 (1.74%) Middleware
19 56 (1.59%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 491 (13.98%) Product Ownership
2 285 (8.12%) Cloud Native
3 135 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 124 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
5 101 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 72 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 68 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 61 (1.74%) AI Agents
9 61 (1.74%) NHS
10 57 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 57 (1.62%) Fixed Income
11 56 (1.59%) Virtual Team
12 54 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 49 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 48 (1.37%) Derivative
15 45 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 45 (1.28%) Management Information System
16 44 (1.25%) Data Centre
16 44 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 124 (3.53%) Linux
2 76 (2.16%) Windows
3 49 (1.40%) Unix
4 35 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 33 (0.94%) Android
6 15 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.31%) 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 1,055 (30.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,010 (28.77%) DevOps
3 967 (27.54%) CI/CD
4 780 (22.22%) Scrum
5 668 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 655 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 611 (17.40%) AI
8 508 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 439 (12.50%) Analytics
10 426 (12.13%) Roadmaps
11 388 (11.05%) Test Automation
12 379 (10.79%) Data Modelling
13 376 (10.71%) Project Management
13 376 (10.71%) Software Engineering
14 374 (10.65%) User Stories
15 373 (10.62%) Decision-Making
16 369 (10.51%) Migration
17 342 (9.74%) Microservices
18 322 (9.17%) Waterfall
19 294 (8.37%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 670 (19.08%) SQL
2 613 (17.46%) Python
3 442 (12.59%) Java
4 298 (8.49%) JavaScript
5 238 (6.78%) C#
6 227 (6.47%) TypeScript
7 75 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 57 (1.62%) PL/SQL
9 51 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 51 (1.45%) Bash
10 43 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 40 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 39 (1.11%) Scala
13 31 (0.88%) Korn
14 27 (0.77%) Go
15 25 (0.71%) Groovy
16 22 (0.63%) Bicep
17 21 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 19 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 825 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 716 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 268 (7.63%) Degree
4 142 (4.04%) PMP
5 133 (3.79%) PMI Certification
6 101 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 90 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 76 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 55 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 49 (1.40%) AWS Certification
11 38 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 27 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.60%) CISSP
14 21 (0.60%) IIBA
15 16 (0.46%) CBAP
16 13 (0.37%) CCNP
16 13 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 12 (0.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 350 (9.97%) QA
2 247 (7.04%) Data Quality
3 141 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 116 (3.30%) PMO
5 103 (2.93%) GDPR
6 48 (1.37%) WCAG
7 40 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.03%) GRC
9 33 (0.94%) NIST
10 28 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.66%) SLA
12 19 (0.54%) NCSC
13 17 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 15 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.23%) IFRS
16 8 (0.23%) P3O
16 8 (0.23%) SEPA
17 7 (0.20%) GxP
17 7 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 292 (8.32%) 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
1 335 (9.54%) Kubernetes
2 80 (2.28%) Ansible
3 67 (1.91%) Grafana
4 59 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.57%) Control-M
5 20 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.37%) Kibana
6 13 (0.37%) Packer
7 10 (0.28%) Puppet
8 9 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.26%) SCCM
9 7 (0.20%) WSUS
10 6 (0.17%) Argo
10 6 (0.17%) 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
1 482 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 187 (5.33%) Salesforce
3 180 (5.13%) Oracle
4 144 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 126 (3.59%) Databricks
6 115 (3.28%) Google
7 99 (2.82%) SAP
8 62 (1.77%) Splunk
9 52 (1.48%) Adobe
10 40 (1.14%) IBM
11 32 (0.91%) Informatica
12 29 (0.83%) Workday
13 27 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 26 (0.74%) Cisco
15 25 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.66%) VMware
17 22 (0.63%) Bloomberg
18 21 (0.60%) Okta
19 19 (0.54%) Atlassian
19 19 (0.54%) Pega