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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 2,967 2,549 3,486
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.60% 20.57% 19.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.80% 22.29% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,000 1,781 2,554
10th Percentile £363 £390 £400
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £750 £725
90th Percentile £750 £850 £838
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 23
10th Percentile £32.47 £35.00 £25.34
25th Percentile £54.55 £35.75 £31.86
Median hourly rate £63.50 £42.02 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.12% -19.96% -21.64%
75th Percentile £73.38 £65.00 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.25 £71.25
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 15,783 11,435 15,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.26% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,560 7,742 11,125
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 176 311
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -28.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -3 330 £569 -2.82% 270
South London +7 72 £510 -12.67% 11
West London -1 71 £521 +30.31% 27
East London -2 24 £533 -5.33% 25
North London +1 2 - - 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
1 275 (9.27%) Confluence
2 77 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 70 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.21%) CMS
6 27 (0.91%) Apache
7 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 11 (0.37%) Camunda
9 11 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (0.34%) IIS
11 9 (0.30%) SAS
12 7 (0.24%) Ethereum
12 7 (0.24%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.20%) JBoss
14 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.13%) Appian
16 3 (0.10%) nginx
16 3 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 110 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
3 63 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.30%) Trello
8 7 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 6 (0.20%) Notion
10 4 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.067%) InVision
11 2 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.067%) Windchill
11 2 (0.067%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.034%) InDesign
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 40 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 13 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 11 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.34%) Endur
7 9 (0.30%) Shopify
8 8 (0.27%) Findur
8 8 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 750 (25.28%) Azure
2 582 (19.62%) AWS
3 249 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 205 (6.91%) GitHub
6 167 (5.63%) GCP
7 137 (4.62%) Serverless
8 114 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
9 102 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 87 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 81 (2.73%) SaaS
13 73 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
14 67 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
15 64 (2.16%) Snowflake
16 63 (2.12%) Power Automate
17 59 (1.99%) PowerApps
18 55 (1.85%) Figma
19 53 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
20 48 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.69%) Firewall
2 26 (0.88%) WAN
3 23 (0.78%) Network Security
4 17 (0.57%) HTTP
4 17 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.51%) VPN
6 11 (0.37%) DNS
6 11 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.34%) Internet
8 9 (0.30%) LAN
9 7 (0.24%) Wireless
10 6 (0.20%) BGP
10 6 (0.20%) FTP
10 6 (0.20%) MPLS
10 6 (0.20%) OSPF
10 6 (0.20%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.17%) DMZ
11 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.13%) PSTN
12 4 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (5.66%) Power BI
2 118 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 101 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 95 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 71 (2.39%) Tableau
7 68 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 58 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 56 (1.89%) Big Data
10 51 (1.72%) Metadata
11 50 (1.69%) Data Lake
12 48 (1.62%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.35%) BigQuery
14 38 (1.28%) Delta Lake
15 29 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (0.98%) DynamoDB
16 26 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (0.67%) Oracle Database
17 20 (0.67%) Spark SQL
18 18 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 516 (17.39%) JIRA
2 247 (8.32%) Git
3 175 (5.90%) Jenkins
4 92 (3.10%) GitLab
5 54 (1.82%) JUnit
6 50 (1.69%) Selenium
7 46 (1.55%) Postman
8 32 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 30 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 30 (1.01%) Mockito
10 27 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.81%) SpecFlow
12 20 (0.67%) Gradle
12 20 (0.67%) JMeter
13 18 (0.61%) REST Assured
14 13 (0.44%) Maven
15 12 (0.40%) Zephyr
16 11 (0.37%) Liquibase
17 10 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,042 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 1,041 (35.09%) Finance
3 437 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 401 (13.52%) Public Sector
5 376 (12.67%) Banking
6 150 (5.06%) Front Office
7 114 (3.84%) Retail
8 107 (3.61%) Marketing
9 94 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 84 (2.83%) Legal
11 79 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 75 (2.53%) Investment Banking
13 74 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
14 67 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
15 47 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (1.48%) Financial Institution
17 35 (1.18%) Telecoms
18 30 (1.01%) Law
19 27 (0.91%) Manufacturing
20 24 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 522 (17.59%) Developer
2 450 (15.17%) Analyst
3 440 (14.83%) Senior
4 328 (11.05%) Business Analyst
5 263 (8.86%) Lead
6 260 (8.76%) Project Manager
7 204 (6.88%) Architect
8 146 (4.92%) Data Engineer
9 143 (4.82%) Software Engineer
10 105 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
11 100 (3.37%) Designer
12 99 (3.34%) Java Developer
13 95 (3.20%) Senior Manager
14 91 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
15 82 (2.76%) Senior Developer
16 72 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
17 71 (2.39%) Full-Stack Developer
18 68 (2.29%) Consultant
19 65 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
19 65 (2.19%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (7.41%) React
2 183 (6.17%) REST
3 159 (5.36%) Kafka
4 147 (4.95%) .NET
5 146 (4.92%) Node.js
6 144 (4.85%) RESTful
7 127 (4.28%) AngularJS
8 126 (4.25%) Spring
9 119 (4.01%) HTML
10 110 (3.71%) Spring Boot
11 101 (3.40%) CSS
12 92 (3.10%) PySpark
13 77 (2.60%) Playwright
14 71 (2.39%) Middleware
15 61 (2.06%) SOAP
16 60 (2.02%) GraphQL
17 59 (1.99%) Redux
18 45 (1.52%) JSON
18 45 (1.52%) XML
19 43 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 330 (11.12%) Product Ownership
2 229 (7.72%) Cloud Native
3 91 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 77 (2.60%) Fixed Income
5 73 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 72 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (2.02%) Derivative
9 54 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 53 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
11 50 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 43 (1.45%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 39 (1.31%) Equities
16 38 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 38 (1.28%) Management Information System
17 37 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
18 35 (1.18%) NHS
19 31 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 100 (3.37%) Linux
2 72 (2.43%) Windows
3 51 (1.72%) Unix
4 30 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 27 (0.91%) Android
6 14 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.20%) VMS
9 5 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.17%) zOS
10 4 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.067%) AIX
12 1 (0.034%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
12 1 (0.034%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (25.88%) DevOps
2 711 (23.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 700 (23.59%) CI/CD
4 637 (21.47%) Scrum
5 528 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
6 485 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 380 (12.81%) AI
8 365 (12.30%) Project Management
9 347 (11.70%) Data Modelling
10 327 (11.02%) Test Automation
11 325 (10.95%) Analytics
12 316 (10.65%) Migration
13 312 (10.52%) Roadmaps
14 309 (10.41%) Decision-Making
15 307 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 301 (10.14%) Software Engineering
17 296 (9.98%) User Stories
18 281 (9.47%) Microservices
18 281 (9.47%) Waterfall
19 254 (8.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 553 (18.64%) SQL
2 533 (17.96%) Python
3 370 (12.47%) Java
4 295 (9.94%) JavaScript
5 239 (8.06%) TypeScript
6 207 (6.98%) C#
7 54 (1.82%) Scala
8 51 (1.72%) Go
9 49 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.31%) PL/SQL
11 33 (1.11%) Apex Code
11 33 (1.11%) T-SQL
12 26 (0.88%) Bash
12 26 (0.88%) C++
13 24 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.78%) Ruby
15 22 (0.74%) R
16 21 (0.71%) Bicep
16 21 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 21 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 633 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 553 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 278 (9.37%) Degree
4 114 (3.84%) PMP
5 108 (3.64%) PMI Certification
6 82 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 42 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 38 (1.28%) CBAP
11 31 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 27 (0.91%) IIBA
13 26 (0.88%) AWS Certification
13 26 (0.88%) CISSP
14 21 (0.71%) CISM
15 18 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.44%) CSPO
18 12 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (9.37%) QA
2 186 (6.27%) Data Quality
3 135 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 126 (4.25%) GDPR
5 109 (3.67%) PMO
6 52 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 42 (1.42%) WCAG
8 38 (1.28%) NIST
9 22 (0.74%) SLA
10 19 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.61%) GRC
12 17 (0.57%) NCSC
13 15 (0.51%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.30%) Basel III
15 9 (0.30%) HL7
15 9 (0.30%) IFRS
16 7 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 259 (8.73%) Docker
2 33 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.10%) IAG
5 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.067%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.067%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.067%) Postfix
6 2 (0.067%) RACF
7 1 (0.034%) HDFS
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.034%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.034%) Squid
7 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 284 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 211 (7.11%) Terraform
3 59 (1.99%) Ansible
4 46 (1.55%) Grafana
5 39 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.30%) Kibana
8 8 (0.27%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.24%) SCCM
10 6 (0.20%) Argo
10 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.20%) Packer
11 5 (0.17%) Control-M
11 5 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.17%) Rancher
11 5 (0.17%) WSUS
12 4 (0.13%) Consul
12 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 371 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 189 (6.37%) Oracle
3 153 (5.16%) Salesforce
4 127 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 113 (3.81%) Databricks
6 98 (3.30%) SAP
7 48 (1.62%) Google
8 42 (1.42%) Adobe
9 41 (1.38%) Workday
10 36 (1.21%) Splunk
11 24 (0.81%) IBM
12 23 (0.78%) Informatica
13 22 (0.74%) Bloomberg
14 21 (0.71%) MuleSoft
15 19 (0.64%) Cisco
15 19 (0.64%) CyberArk
16 17 (0.57%) Atlassian
16 17 (0.57%) Murex
16 17 (0.57%) Okta
17 15 (0.51%) VMware