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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,248 2,734 3,678
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.95% 21.47% 20.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.05% 23.23% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,210 1,913 2,706
10th Percentile £374 £380 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 21
10th Percentile £51.50 £30.15 £26.68
25th Percentile £55.81 £39.04 £31.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +12.00% - -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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -4 352 £564 -6.04% 124
West London 0 78 £600 +33.33% 25
South London +3 61 £510 -15.49% 11
East London -2 21 £565 -3.42% 28
North London +2 4 £550 - 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
1 284 (8.74%) Confluence
2 84 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.45%) CMS
5 45 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.89%) Apache
7 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.46%) IIS
9 14 (0.43%) Camunda
10 13 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.40%) SAS
11 7 (0.22%) Appian
11 7 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.22%) Hyperledger
11 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.18%) JBoss
12 6 (0.18%) Kentico
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 58 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.22%) Notion
8 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Sketch
8 6 (0.18%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.15%) Trello
10 3 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.062%) Windchill
12 1 (0.031%) InVision
12 1 (0.031%) Mingle
12 1 (0.031%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.031%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 32 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.86%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Findur
4 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.31%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 8 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.25%) Shopify
7 7 (0.22%) Endur
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.18%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Magento
9 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.12%) Actimize
10 4 (0.12%) HFM
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 839 (25.83%) Azure
2 685 (21.09%) AWS
3 281 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
4 250 (7.70%) Power Platform
5 223 (6.87%) GitHub
6 193 (5.94%) GCP
7 171 (5.26%) Serverless
8 132 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
9 126 (3.88%) Amazon S3
10 118 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
12 78 (2.40%) Snowflake
13 73 (2.25%) SaaS
14 69 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 62 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (1.82%) Power Automate
18 57 (1.75%) PowerApps
19 56 (1.72%) Entra ID
19 56 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.69%) Firewall
2 29 (0.89%) WAN
3 28 (0.86%) Network Security
4 23 (0.71%) VPN
5 20 (0.62%) Internet
6 16 (0.49%) DNS
6 16 (0.49%) HTTP
6 16 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.34%) LAN
9 10 (0.31%) Unified Communications
10 8 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.22%) DMZ
11 7 (0.22%) Wireless
12 6 (0.18%) BGP
12 6 (0.18%) MPLS
12 6 (0.18%) OSPF
12 6 (0.18%) SMS
12 6 (0.18%) VoIP
13 5 (0.15%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (6.10%) Power BI
2 129 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 117 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 103 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 89 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 69 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 69 (2.12%) Tableau
8 65 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 60 (1.85%) Metadata
10 55 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 48 (1.48%) Big Data
12 47 (1.45%) DynamoDB
13 38 (1.17%) BigQuery
14 36 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 35 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
15 35 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 545 (16.78%) JIRA
2 270 (8.31%) Git
3 198 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.26%) GitLab
5 60 (1.85%) JUnit
6 45 (1.39%) Postman
6 45 (1.39%) Selenium
7 36 (1.11%) Mockito
8 31 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 30 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 30 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.92%) Gradle
10 26 (0.80%) REST Assured
11 18 (0.55%) JMeter
12 17 (0.52%) SpecFlow
13 16 (0.49%) Maven
14 15 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 15 (0.46%) Liquibase
14 15 (0.46%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.40%) Gatling
General
1 1,152 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 1,102 (33.93%) Finance
3 483 (14.87%) Public Sector
4 452 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 421 (12.96%) Banking
6 184 (5.67%) Retail
7 171 (5.26%) Front Office
8 118 (3.63%) Marketing
9 97 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 97 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 94 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
11 87 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
12 81 (2.49%) Legal
13 64 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
14 55 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 39 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 37 (1.14%) Law
17 34 (1.05%) Manufacturing
18 31 (0.95%) Local Government
19 30 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 577 (17.76%) Developer
2 475 (14.62%) Senior
3 453 (13.95%) Analyst
4 329 (10.13%) Lead
5 318 (9.79%) Business Analyst
6 281 (8.65%) Project Manager
7 236 (7.27%) Architect
8 173 (5.33%) Software Engineer
9 147 (4.53%) Data Engineer
10 121 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
11 117 (3.60%) Java Developer
12 104 (3.20%) Designer
13 103 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
14 102 (3.14%) Senior Manager
15 97 (2.99%) Senior Developer
16 74 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (2.19%) Product Owner
18 70 (2.16%) Python Developer
19 68 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
20 64 (1.97%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (7.82%) React
2 231 (7.11%) REST
3 172 (5.30%) Kafka
4 171 (5.26%) .NET
5 161 (4.96%) RESTful
6 159 (4.90%) Spring
7 145 (4.46%) Node.js
8 136 (4.19%) Spring Boot
9 134 (4.13%) AngularJS
10 116 (3.57%) HTML
11 101 (3.11%) CSS
12 88 (2.71%) PySpark
13 78 (2.40%) SOAP
14 74 (2.28%) Middleware
14 74 (2.28%) Redux
15 66 (2.03%) Playwright
16 64 (1.97%) GraphQL
17 58 (1.79%) JSON
18 51 (1.57%) .NET Framework
19 47 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 378 (11.64%) Product Ownership
2 250 (7.70%) Cloud Native
3 114 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 97 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 91 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 91 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 67 (2.06%) Derivative
7 64 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
7 64 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 53 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 53 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 51 (1.57%) NHS
11 48 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 45 (1.39%) Data Structures
14 43 (1.32%) Equities
15 39 (1.20%) Mobile App
16 38 (1.17%) AI Agents
17 37 (1.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 109 (3.36%) Linux
2 79 (2.43%) Windows
3 51 (1.57%) Unix
4 32 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.83%) Android
6 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.12%) VMS
10 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.062%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.062%) zOS
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.031%) Rocky
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) SUSE
12 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (26.69%) DevOps
2 829 (25.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 820 (25.25%) CI/CD
4 704 (21.67%) Scrum
5 544 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 539 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 471 (14.50%) AI
8 400 (12.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 366 (11.27%) Data Modelling
10 362 (11.15%) Analytics
11 356 (10.96%) Software Engineering
12 350 (10.78%) Roadmaps
13 348 (10.71%) Decision-Making
13 348 (10.71%) Project Management
14 345 (10.62%) Test Automation
15 332 (10.22%) Migration
16 321 (9.88%) Microservices
17 313 (9.64%) User Stories
18 299 (9.21%) Waterfall
19 261 (8.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 595 (18.32%) SQL
2 581 (17.89%) Python
3 411 (12.65%) Java
4 308 (9.48%) JavaScript
5 253 (7.79%) TypeScript
6 220 (6.77%) C#
7 59 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.60%) Go
9 42 (1.29%) Apex Code
10 41 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 38 (1.17%) Scala
11 38 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 30 (0.92%) Bash
13 28 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.58%) Bicep
16 19 (0.58%) R
16 19 (0.58%) Ruby
17 18 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 710 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 619 (19.06%) SC Cleared
3 279 (8.59%) Degree
4 119 (3.66%) PMP
5 109 (3.36%) PMI Certification
6 80 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 77 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.45%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 37 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 31 (0.95%) CISSP
13 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (0.77%) ISTQB
15 23 (0.71%) CBAP
16 22 (0.68%) CISM
17 20 (0.62%) IIBA
18 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (0.40%) CCNP
20 11 (0.34%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (9.21%) QA
2 205 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 151 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 122 (3.76%) GDPR
5 115 (3.54%) PMO
6 54 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.32%) WCAG
8 39 (1.20%) NIST
9 34 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (0.95%) GRC
11 28 (0.86%) SLA
12 21 (0.65%) NCSC
12 21 (0.65%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.25%) PSD2
16 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.22%) GxP
16 7 (0.22%) HL7
16 7 (0.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 269 (8.28%) Docker
2 44 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.12%) IAG
7 3 (0.092%) Postfix
8 2 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.062%) RACF
9 1 (0.031%) HDFS
9 1 (0.031%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.031%) Squid
Systems Management
1 312 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 245 (7.54%) Terraform
3 66 (2.03%) Ansible
4 44 (1.35%) Grafana
5 39 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.34%) Kibana
7 11 (0.34%) Packer
7 11 (0.34%) SCCM
8 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.25%) WSUS
10 7 (0.22%) Control-M
11 6 (0.18%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.15%) Consul
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.12%) Puppet
13 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 384 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 184 (5.67%) Oracle
3 183 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 142 (4.37%) ServiceNow
5 104 (3.20%) Databricks
6 99 (3.05%) SAP
7 71 (2.19%) Google
8 37 (1.14%) Adobe
9 35 (1.08%) Workday
10 31 (0.95%) Splunk
11 29 (0.89%) Informatica
11 29 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 27 (0.83%) Bloomberg
12 27 (0.83%) IBM
13 25 (0.77%) Cisco
14 21 (0.65%) VMware
15 19 (0.58%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.58%) Murex
16 18 (0.55%) Okta
16 18 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud