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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,006 2,465 3,449
As % of all contract jobs in London 18.62% 19.04% 18.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.72% 20.91% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,055 1,694 2,501
10th Percentile £363 £396 £406
25th Percentile £447 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +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 19 14 18
10th Percentile £49.18 £35.00 £22.54
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.25 £31.78
Median hourly rate £66.00 £39.02 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.14% -21.96% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73.13 £52.29 £66.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.75 £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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £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 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 0 373 £550 -5.58% 319
South London +12 73 £513 +5.13% 36
West London -1 52 £475 +21.17% 58
East London +1 28 £525 +1.20% 50
North London 0 1 £700 +71.36% 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
1 274 (9.12%) Confluence
2 61 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 60 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.10%) CMS
5 29 (0.96%) Apache
6 19 (0.63%) nginx
7 16 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.33%) Camunda
10 10 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.30%) IIS
11 9 (0.30%) SAS
12 7 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.17%) JBoss
14 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 104 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 45 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
6 26 (0.86%) 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
3 21 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.33%) Shopify
7 9 (0.30%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 736 (24.48%) Azure
2 590 (19.63%) AWS
3 253 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
4 221 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 218 (7.25%) GitHub
6 197 (6.55%) GCP
7 146 (4.86%) Serverless
8 102 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
9 95 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 92 (3.06%) SaaS
11 86 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 81 (2.69%) Snowflake
13 79 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
14 71 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
15 64 (2.13%) Figma
16 61 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 53 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
18 45 (1.50%) Azure AKS
19 44 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
19 44 (1.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.63%) Firewall
2 28 (0.93%) WAN
3 24 (0.80%) Network Security
4 20 (0.67%) HTTP
4 20 (0.67%) SD-WAN
5 17 (0.57%) VPN
6 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.40%) Internet
8 11 (0.37%) DNS
9 9 (0.30%) LAN
10 7 (0.23%) BGP
11 6 (0.20%) OSPF
12 5 (0.17%) Broadband
12 5 (0.17%) MPLS
12 5 (0.17%) SMS
12 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.13%) DHCP
13 4 (0.13%) DMZ
13 4 (0.13%) FTP
13 4 (0.13%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (5.26%) Power BI
2 127 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 101 (3.36%) SQL Server
6 80 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 63 (2.10%) Tableau
8 56 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
9 49 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 47 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 45 (1.50%) Metadata
12 43 (1.43%) Big Data
13 40 (1.33%) BigQuery
14 38 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (0.93%) Delta Lake
16 25 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
17 24 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (0.80%) Oracle Database
18 23 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 21 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 521 (17.33%) JIRA
2 295 (9.81%) Git
3 167 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 101 (3.36%) GitLab
5 60 (2.00%) JUnit
6 59 (1.96%) Selenium
7 47 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 44 (1.46%) Postman
9 40 (1.33%) Cypress.io
10 38 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 33 (1.10%) SpecFlow
12 23 (0.77%) Mockito
13 21 (0.70%) JMeter
13 21 (0.70%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.57%) Maven
15 13 (0.43%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.37%) ERwin
16 11 (0.37%) TestRail
16 11 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,144 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 996 (33.13%) Finance
3 483 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 384 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 371 (12.34%) Banking
6 161 (5.36%) Front Office
7 96 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 90 (2.99%) Retail
9 87 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 82 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
11 79 (2.63%) Legal
11 79 (2.63%) Marketing
12 76 (2.53%) Investment Banking
13 67 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
14 47 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 42 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 32 (1.06%) Manufacturing
18 29 (0.96%) Back Office
19 27 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 535 (17.80%) Developer
2 462 (15.37%) Analyst
3 446 (14.84%) Senior
4 362 (12.04%) Business Analyst
5 269 (8.95%) Lead
6 247 (8.22%) Project Manager
7 204 (6.79%) Architect
8 147 (4.89%) Software Engineer
9 128 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 100 (3.33%) Java Developer
11 96 (3.19%) Consultant
12 91 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
13 87 (2.89%) Designer
14 86 (2.86%) Senior Manager
15 78 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
15 78 (2.59%) Senior Developer
16 73 (2.43%) Product Manager
17 68 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
18 67 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
19 62 (2.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (8.25%) React
2 213 (7.09%) REST
3 188 (6.25%) Node.js
4 174 (5.79%) Kafka
5 146 (4.86%) RESTful
6 145 (4.82%) .NET
7 136 (4.52%) AngularJS
8 120 (3.99%) HTML
9 110 (3.66%) CSS
10 109 (3.63%) Spring
11 102 (3.39%) Playwright
12 90 (2.99%) Spring Boot
13 84 (2.79%) PySpark
14 78 (2.59%) GraphQL
15 73 (2.43%) JSON
16 67 (2.23%) Middleware
16 67 (2.23%) SOAP
17 61 (2.03%) XML
18 60 (2.00%) Web Services
19 57 (1.90%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 299 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 204 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 81 (2.69%) Fixed Income
4 74 (2.46%) Derivative
5 71 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 61 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 61 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 54 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 51 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 51 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 46 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 44 (1.46%) Equities
12 42 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 41 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 39 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 39 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 38 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 36 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (1.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 134 (4.46%) Linux
2 83 (2.76%) Windows
3 79 (2.63%) Unix
4 30 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 29 (0.96%) Android
6 16 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) VMS
8 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
1 749 (24.92%) DevOps
2 683 (22.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 671 (22.32%) CI/CD
4 625 (20.79%) Scrum
5 606 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
6 447 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 389 (12.94%) AI
8 348 (11.58%) Test Automation
9 339 (11.28%) Project Management
10 334 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 326 (10.84%) Analytics
11 326 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 317 (10.55%) Software Engineering
13 304 (10.11%) Migration
14 298 (9.91%) Roadmaps
15 283 (9.41%) Waterfall
16 281 (9.35%) Decision-Making
17 280 (9.31%) Microservices
18 278 (9.25%) User Stories
19 272 (9.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 593 (19.73%) SQL
2 566 (18.83%) Python
3 375 (12.48%) Java
4 334 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 277 (9.21%) TypeScript
6 217 (7.22%) C#
7 71 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 55 (1.83%) Scala
9 53 (1.76%) Go
10 45 (1.50%) C++
11 32 (1.06%) Ruby
12 30 (1.00%) Bash
13 29 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 24 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 24 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 22 (0.73%) Bicep
16 21 (0.70%) Apex Code
17 20 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.63%) R
19 18 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 620 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 553 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 314 (10.45%) Degree
4 132 (4.39%) PMI Certification
5 121 (4.03%) PMP
6 95 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 57 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 43 (1.43%) CBAP
11 41 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 38 (1.26%) ISTQB
13 33 (1.10%) CISSP
14 30 (1.00%) AWS Certification
15 29 (0.96%) CISM
16 27 (0.90%) IIBA
17 14 (0.47%) ISEB
17 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
19 12 (0.40%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (9.81%) QA
2 159 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 149 (4.96%) Accessibility
4 126 (4.19%) GDPR
5 89 (2.96%) PMO
6 46 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.43%) WCAG
8 39 (1.30%) NIST
9 34 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.63%) GRC
10 19 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.63%) SLA
11 15 (0.50%) MiFID
12 13 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.40%) NCSC
14 10 (0.33%) Basel III
14 10 (0.33%) PERC
15 9 (0.30%) PSD2
16 8 (0.27%) EMIR
System Software
1 318 (10.58%) Docker
2 33 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.20%) 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
1 316 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 201 (6.69%) Terraform
3 55 (1.83%) Ansible
4 39 (1.30%) Grafana
5 27 (0.90%) 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%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.100%) CASB
16 3 (0.100%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.100%) WSUS
Vendors
1 376 (12.51%) Microsoft
2 188 (6.25%) Oracle
3 136 (4.52%) Databricks
4 129 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 121 (4.03%) Salesforce
6 94 (3.13%) SAP
7 64 (2.13%) Google
8 49 (1.63%) Adobe
9 37 (1.23%) Splunk
10 29 (0.96%) Workday
11 26 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 24 (0.80%) Cisco
13 23 (0.77%) Informatica
14 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg
15 20 (0.67%) IBM
15 20 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.63%) Foundry
16 19 (0.63%) VMware
17 17 (0.57%) CyberArk
17 17 (0.57%) Murex