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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,551 2,968 3,460
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.62% 22.23% 21.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.84% 24.01% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 2,049 2,440
10th Percentile £390 £363 £385
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £640 £695 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 18
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.17 £29.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.38 £33.55
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +23.53% -37.77%
75th Percentile £73.75 £76.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £88.75 £97.43 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 17,900 12,362 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.61% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,695 8,173 9,697
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 255 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.09 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -4 380 £550 -4.35% 324
West London -2 100 £650 +52.94% 144
South London +2 60 £525 -12.77% 33
East London -2 17 £590 +9.26% 40
North London +6 11 £550 - 1
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
1 300 (8.45%) Confluence
2 91 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 67 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 58 (1.63%) CMS
6 52 (1.46%) Apache
7 32 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.48%) Camunda
9 15 (0.42%) IIS
10 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.34%) SAS
11 10 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.25%) Appian
13 8 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.14%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.59%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.34%) Trello
8 9 (0.25%) Notion
9 8 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
11 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) Sketch
12 2 (0.056%) Mingle
12 2 (0.056%) Windchill
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.028%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.028%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 56 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
5 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 11 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 9 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 8 (0.23%) Endur
8 8 (0.23%) Magento
8 8 (0.23%) Shopify
8 8 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 7 (0.20%) Findur
9 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 924 (26.02%) Azure
2 706 (19.88%) AWS
3 344 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
4 310 (8.73%) Power Platform
5 302 (8.50%) GitHub
6 231 (6.51%) GCP
7 190 (5.35%) Serverless
8 164 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
9 131 (3.69%) Amazon S3
9 131 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 105 (2.96%) Snowflake
12 97 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
13 93 (2.62%) PowerApps
14 90 (2.53%) Power Automate
15 79 (2.22%) dbt
16 76 (2.14%) SaaS
17 66 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
17 66 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
18 65 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.35%) Firewall
2 25 (0.70%) Network Security
3 24 (0.68%) VPN
4 21 (0.59%) DNS
4 21 (0.59%) WAN
5 17 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.45%) HTTP
6 16 (0.45%) Internet
7 12 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.31%) Wireless
9 10 (0.28%) DMZ
10 9 (0.25%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.20%) 4G
11 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.20%) VoIP
12 6 (0.17%) Intranet
12 6 (0.17%) LAN
12 6 (0.17%) SMS
12 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (6.62%) Power BI
2 161 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
3 136 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 124 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 106 (2.99%) Metadata
6 105 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 103 (2.90%) Relational Database
8 76 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 69 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 61 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
11 52 (1.46%) Tableau
12 45 (1.27%) Delta Lake
12 45 (1.27%) DynamoDB
13 40 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
14 39 (1.10%) BigQuery
15 37 (1.04%) Oracle Database
16 36 (1.01%) Big Data
17 29 (0.82%) MySQL
18 24 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 576 (16.22%) JIRA
2 335 (9.43%) Git
3 258 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 135 (3.80%) GitLab
5 67 (1.89%) Selenium
6 56 (1.58%) JUnit
7 50 (1.41%) Gradle
8 38 (1.07%) Postman
9 37 (1.04%) Cypress.io
10 35 (0.99%) Maven
11 34 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 34 (0.96%) Mockito
12 29 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 29 (0.82%) REST Assured
13 27 (0.76%) Visual Studio
14 21 (0.59%) JMeter
14 21 (0.59%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.45%) Liquibase
16 15 (0.42%) Gatling
16 15 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 1,407 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 1,160 (32.67%) Finance
3 568 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 555 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 492 (13.86%) Banking
6 223 (6.28%) Retail
7 148 (4.17%) Marketing
8 134 (3.77%) Front Office
9 117 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 115 (3.24%) Investment Banking
11 101 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 80 (2.25%) Legal
13 65 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
14 64 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 63 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (1.38%) Local Government
17 44 (1.24%) Telecoms
18 43 (1.21%) Law
18 43 (1.21%) Retail Banking
19 40 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 607 (17.09%) Developer
2 548 (15.43%) Senior
3 465 (13.09%) Analyst
4 360 (10.14%) Lead
5 327 (9.21%) Business Analyst
6 296 (8.34%) Project Manager
7 263 (7.41%) Architect
8 165 (4.65%) Data Engineer
9 137 (3.86%) Software Engineer
10 133 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
11 119 (3.35%) Java Developer
12 117 (3.29%) Designer
13 113 (3.18%) Senior Developer
14 112 (3.15%) Senior Manager
15 109 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
16 103 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
17 93 (2.62%) Product Manager
18 88 (2.48%) Product Owner
19 76 (2.14%) Full-Stack Developer
20 73 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (8.81%) REST
2 291 (8.19%) Terraform
3 245 (6.90%) React
4 210 (5.91%) .NET
5 185 (5.21%) RESTful
6 176 (4.96%) Kafka
7 174 (4.90%) Spring
8 158 (4.45%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.66%) HTML
10 121 (3.41%) CSS
11 112 (3.15%) AngularJS
12 110 (3.10%) Node.js
13 93 (2.62%) PySpark
14 82 (2.31%) SOAP
15 79 (2.22%) JSON
16 68 (1.91%) Web Services
17 66 (1.86%) Django
18 61 (1.72%) Playwright
19 58 (1.63%) Middleware
20 55 (1.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 520 (14.64%) Product Ownership
2 288 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 140 (3.94%) Onboarding
4 121 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 93 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 72 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 68 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 59 (1.66%) NHS
11 57 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 56 (1.58%) Virtual Team
13 53 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 53 (1.49%) Management Information System
14 47 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 44 (1.24%) Mobile App
16 43 (1.21%) Fixed Income
17 39 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
18 38 (1.07%) Data Centre
18 38 (1.07%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 130 (3.66%) Linux
2 78 (2.20%) Windows
3 52 (1.46%) Unix
4 34 (0.96%) Android
5 33 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.17%) VMS
10 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.084%) zOS
12 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.028%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.028%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.028%) Solaris
13 1 (0.028%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,132 (31.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,007 (28.36%) DevOps
3 970 (27.32%) CI/CD
4 799 (22.50%) Scrum
5 688 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
6 676 (19.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 637 (17.94%) AI
8 524 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 456 (12.84%) Roadmaps
10 441 (12.42%) Analytics
11 401 (11.29%) Test Automation
12 400 (11.26%) Decision-Making
13 397 (11.18%) User Stories
14 388 (10.93%) Software Engineering
15 380 (10.70%) Project Management
16 374 (10.53%) Data Modelling
17 365 (10.28%) Migration
18 345 (9.72%) Microservices
19 338 (9.52%) Waterfall
20 312 (8.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 660 (18.59%) SQL
2 629 (17.71%) Python
3 432 (12.17%) Java
4 287 (8.08%) JavaScript
5 223 (6.28%) TypeScript
6 216 (6.08%) C#
7 78 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 68 (1.91%) Bash
9 56 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 47 (1.32%) Scala
11 46 (1.30%) Apex Code
12 45 (1.27%) Kotlin
13 39 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 31 (0.87%) Korn
15 28 (0.79%) Groovy
16 24 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 21 (0.59%) Bicep
17 21 (0.59%) Go
18 19 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 15 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 859 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 739 (20.81%) SC Cleared
3 289 (8.14%) Degree
4 152 (4.28%) PMP
5 147 (4.14%) PMI Certification
6 113 (3.18%) DV Cleared
7 107 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 81 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 55 (1.55%) AWS Certification
11 38 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 20 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (0.54%) IIBA
16 18 (0.51%) CISSP
17 16 (0.45%) CBAP
18 14 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 13 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
19 13 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 367 (10.34%) QA
2 262 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 138 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 126 (3.55%) PMO
5 97 (2.73%) GDPR
6 53 (1.49%) WCAG
7 37 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.93%) GRC
9 30 (0.84%) NIST
10 26 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 16 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 15 (0.42%) SLA
14 14 (0.39%) NCSC
14 14 (0.39%) PCI DSS
15 10 (0.28%) SEPA
16 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
17 8 (0.23%) IFRS
18 7 (0.20%) P3O
19 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 311 (8.76%) Docker
2 58 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.25%) IAG
4 9 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.084%) Postfix
7 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.056%) RACF
7 2 (0.056%) Squid
7 2 (0.056%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.028%) Ceph
8 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.028%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 336 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 78 (2.20%) Grafana
3 75 (2.11%) Ansible
4 65 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.56%) Control-M
6 19 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.45%) Kibana
8 12 (0.34%) Packer
9 10 (0.28%) SCCM
10 9 (0.25%) Puppet
11 7 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.20%) WSUS
12 6 (0.17%) Argo
12 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.084%) Consul
14 3 (0.084%) RSA Archer
15 2 (0.056%) Bosun
15 2 (0.056%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.056%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 497 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 190 (5.35%) Oracle
3 179 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 143 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 135 (3.80%) Databricks
6 123 (3.46%) Google
7 98 (2.76%) SAP
8 72 (2.03%) Splunk
9 54 (1.52%) Adobe
10 45 (1.27%) IBM
11 36 (1.01%) Informatica
12 30 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 28 (0.79%) Workday
14 24 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.65%) Cisco
15 23 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.65%) VMware
16 21 (0.59%) Bloomberg
17 19 (0.54%) Atlassian
18 18 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud