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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 3 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,926 2,561 3,600
As % of all contract jobs in London 19.80% 18.42% 19.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.75% 20.37% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,982 1,680 2,617
10th Percentile £363 £400 £406
25th Percentile £431 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £515 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.65% +3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 17
10th Percentile £42.78 - £21.72
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £61.75 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -27.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68.65 £41.19 £72.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £59.47 £59.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.58% -9.04% -

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 13,453 12,575 16,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.47% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,910 7,994 11,570
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 156 322
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.60 £79.38 £72.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +1 386 £550 -5.17% 201
West London 0 69 £500 +28.21% 48
South London +6 47 £525 +10.24% 32
East London -1 29 £540 +10.20% 32
North London +2 1 £700 +71.36% 3
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 (9.06%) Confluence
2 54 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 54 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 41 (1.40%) Apache
3 41 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (1.09%) CMS
5 22 (0.75%) nginx
6 15 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 14 (0.48%) IIS
8 11 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.31%) Camunda
11 6 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.21%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.17%) Appian
12 5 (0.17%) SAS
13 4 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 105 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
3 60 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 52 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.92%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.48%) Trello
8 9 (0.31%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.27%) Sketch
10 5 (0.17%) Notion
11 4 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
11 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.10%) InVision
13 2 (0.068%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.068%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.068%) InDesign
13 2 (0.068%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.068%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 52 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.92%) Aladdin
3 27 (0.92%) Endur
4 15 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.31%) Shopify
7 8 (0.27%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.27%) Temenos T24
8 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.17%) SAP IBP
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 4 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 707 (24.16%) Azure
2 516 (17.63%) AWS
3 258 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 206 (7.04%) GitHub
6 193 (6.60%) GCP
7 143 (4.89%) Serverless
8 108 (3.69%) SaaS
9 96 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 95 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
11 84 (2.87%) Snowflake
12 75 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
13 73 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
14 68 (2.32%) Amazon S3
15 64 (2.19%) Power Automate
15 64 (2.19%) PowerApps
16 57 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
17 53 (1.81%) Figma
18 50 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
19 48 (1.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.67%) Firewall
2 24 (0.82%) HTTP
2 24 (0.82%) Network Security
3 22 (0.75%) VPN
4 21 (0.72%) WAN
5 16 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.48%) DNS
8 12 (0.41%) Internet
9 7 (0.24%) BGP
10 6 (0.21%) 5G
10 6 (0.21%) Broadband
10 6 (0.21%) LAN
10 6 (0.21%) SMS
11 5 (0.17%) OSPF
12 4 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
12 4 (0.14%) DHCP
12 4 (0.14%) DMZ
12 4 (0.14%) IPsec
12 4 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.74%) Power BI
2 120 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (3.83%) NoSQL
4 105 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 99 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 79 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 58 (1.98%) Tableau
8 55 (1.88%) MongoDB
9 51 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 46 (1.57%) Metadata
11 42 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
12 40 (1.37%) Big Data
13 38 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (1.09%) BigQuery
15 31 (1.06%) Oracle Database
16 27 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (0.82%) Data Vault
17 24 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (0.72%) Hadoop
18 21 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 529 (18.08%) JIRA
2 274 (9.36%) Git
3 165 (5.64%) Jenkins
4 97 (3.32%) GitLab
5 63 (2.15%) Selenium
6 54 (1.85%) JUnit
7 49 (1.67%) Postman
8 43 (1.47%) Cypress.io
9 42 (1.44%) Cucumber
10 36 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 31 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 23 (0.79%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.65%) ERwin
14 18 (0.62%) Maven
14 18 (0.62%) Mockito
14 18 (0.62%) SonarQube
15 17 (0.58%) JMeter
16 12 (0.41%) ER Studio
16 12 (0.41%) Gradle
16 12 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 1,179 (40.29%) Social Skills
2 959 (32.78%) Finance
3 463 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 376 (12.85%) Banking
5 336 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 124 (4.24%) Front Office
7 88 (3.01%) Investment Banking
7 88 (3.01%) Retail
8 86 (2.94%) Marketing
9 85 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 84 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
11 76 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 68 (2.32%) Legal
13 65 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 52 (1.78%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.57%) Financial Institution
16 42 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 40 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 38 (1.30%) Back Office
19 30 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 522 (17.84%) Developer
2 461 (15.76%) Analyst
3 430 (14.70%) Senior
4 359 (12.27%) Business Analyst
5 245 (8.37%) Lead
6 211 (7.21%) Project Manager
7 183 (6.25%) Architect
8 113 (3.86%) Software Engineer
9 109 (3.73%) Data Engineer
10 102 (3.49%) Consultant
11 96 (3.28%) Java Developer
12 79 (2.70%) Senior Developer
13 75 (2.56%) Product Manager
14 72 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
15 70 (2.39%) Senior Manager
16 67 (2.29%) Designer
17 66 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
18 65 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
19 61 (2.08%) Tester
20 60 (2.05%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (7.59%) REST
2 212 (7.25%) React
3 159 (5.43%) RESTful
4 158 (5.40%) Node.js
5 155 (5.30%) Kafka
6 140 (4.78%) .NET
7 117 (4.00%) AngularJS
8 116 (3.96%) HTML
9 112 (3.83%) CSS
10 109 (3.73%) Spring
11 99 (3.38%) Playwright
12 97 (3.32%) Spring Boot
13 81 (2.77%) SOAP
14 78 (2.67%) JSON
15 73 (2.49%) PySpark
16 67 (2.29%) XML
17 62 (2.12%) Web Services
18 60 (2.05%) GraphQL
19 54 (1.85%) Middleware
20 41 (1.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 310 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 204 (6.97%) Cloud Native
3 66 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 63 (2.15%) Data Structures
4 63 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 61 (2.08%) Derivative
6 57 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 57 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 56 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 52 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 50 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 49 (1.67%) Mobile App
12 47 (1.61%) AI Agents
13 46 (1.57%) Onboarding
14 45 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 45 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.54%) PMI
15 43 (1.47%) Fixed Income
16 40 (1.37%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 156 (5.33%) Linux
2 85 (2.90%) Windows
3 82 (2.80%) Unix
4 31 (1.06%) Android
5 29 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.34%) VMS
8 6 (0.21%) zOS
9 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.068%) AIX
10 2 (0.068%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.034%) Solaris
11 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 744 (25.43%) DevOps
2 679 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
3 654 (22.35%) CI/CD
4 625 (21.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 620 (21.19%) Scrum
6 386 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 354 (12.10%) Test Automation
8 348 (11.89%) AI
9 327 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 326 (11.14%) Project Management
11 315 (10.77%) Analytics
12 300 (10.25%) Data Modelling
13 293 (10.01%) Roadmaps
14 284 (9.71%) Software Engineering
15 283 (9.67%) Microservices
16 280 (9.57%) Migration
17 278 (9.50%) User Stories
18 266 (9.09%) Project Delivery
19 262 (8.95%) Waterfall
20 253 (8.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 583 (19.92%) SQL
2 538 (18.39%) Python
3 354 (12.10%) Java
4 294 (10.05%) JavaScript
5 240 (8.20%) TypeScript
6 208 (7.11%) C#
7 84 (2.87%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.98%) C++
9 54 (1.85%) Scala
10 44 (1.50%) Bash
11 31 (1.06%) Go
12 30 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 27 (0.92%) Ruby
14 26 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 25 (0.85%) Bicep
16 22 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.68%) R
18 18 (0.62%) Apex Code
19 17 (0.58%) T-SQL
20 16 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 569 (19.45%) Security Cleared
2 495 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 354 (12.10%) Degree
4 137 (4.68%) PMI Certification
5 109 (3.73%) PMP
6 99 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 65 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 56 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 49 (1.67%) CBAP
10 46 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 44 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 36 (1.23%) ISTQB
13 27 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 27 (0.92%) CISSP
14 25 (0.85%) IIBA
15 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.51%) CISM
17 13 (0.44%) ISEB
18 11 (0.38%) CSPO
18 11 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (10.12%) QA
2 141 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 136 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 127 (4.34%) GDPR
5 86 (2.94%) PMO
6 39 (1.33%) WCAG
7 32 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 26 (0.89%) NIST
10 16 (0.55%) GRC
10 16 (0.55%) MiFID
11 12 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.38%) Basel III
12 11 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.34%) PERC
13 10 (0.34%) PSD2
13 10 (0.34%) SLA
14 9 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.31%) EMIR
System Software
1 337 (11.52%) Docker
2 39 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.068%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.034%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.034%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.034%) etcd
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) IAG
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Postfix
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 320 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 197 (6.73%) Terraform
3 55 (1.88%) Ansible
4 43 (1.47%) Grafana
5 28 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 18 (0.62%) Argo
7 16 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.44%) Packer
9 12 (0.41%) Consul
10 10 (0.34%) SCCM
11 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.27%) Puppet
12 8 (0.27%) Rancher
13 7 (0.24%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.17%) Control-M
15 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.14%) Kibana
15 4 (0.14%) Nessus
16 3 (0.10%) CA Endevor
16 3 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 384 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 202 (6.90%) Oracle
3 135 (4.61%) Databricks
4 129 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 110 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 106 (3.62%) SAP
7 84 (2.87%) Google
8 44 (1.50%) Adobe
9 43 (1.47%) Splunk
10 33 (1.13%) Workday
11 26 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 25 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 21 (0.72%) Cisco
13 21 (0.72%) Informatica
14 20 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 19 (0.65%) Bloomberg
16 16 (0.55%) Planview
16 16 (0.55%) VMware
17 15 (0.51%) Dynatrace
17 15 (0.51%) Murex