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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,573 2,984 3,310
As % of all contract jobs in London 17.57% 22.32% 20.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.78% 24.11% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 2,058 2,303
10th Percentile £390 £363 £377
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -4.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £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 22 18 17
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.06 £28.67
25th Percentile £51.75 £42.31 £33.07
Median hourly rate £59.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% +50.00% -48.76%
75th Percentile £73.56 £81.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.40 £98.64 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -8.85% -

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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -4 389 £550 -5.98% 404
West London -2 101 £680 +60.00% 148
South London +1 55 £535 -14.40% 23
East London -3 17 £590 +9.26% 24
North London +6 11 £550 - 2
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
1 301 (8.42%) Confluence
2 86 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 73 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 65 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 63 (1.76%) CMS
6 52 (1.46%) Apache
7 37 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 15 (0.42%) Camunda
9 14 (0.39%) IIS
10 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.31%) SAS
12 9 (0.25%) Appian
13 8 (0.22%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
14 7 (0.20%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.17%) Kentico
15 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.14%) Anypoint
16 5 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 54 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 32 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.34%) Trello
7 9 (0.25%) Notion
8 8 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 5 (0.14%) Sketch
11 3 (0.084%) Mingle
12 2 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.056%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.056%) Productboard
13 1 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.028%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.028%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 62 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 22 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 12 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.28%) Temenos T24
6 9 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.22%) Magento
7 8 (0.22%) Shopify
7 8 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.20%) Endur
8 7 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.14%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.11%) Findur
10 4 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
10 4 (0.11%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 932 (26.08%) Azure
2 708 (19.82%) AWS
3 340 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 320 (8.96%) Power Platform
5 303 (8.48%) GitHub
6 231 (6.47%) GCP
7 192 (5.37%) Serverless
8 166 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 138 (3.86%) Amazon S3
10 131 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
12 109 (3.05%) Snowflake
13 94 (2.63%) Power Automate
14 93 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
15 92 (2.57%) PowerApps
16 81 (2.27%) dbt
17 76 (2.13%) SaaS
18 71 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 71 (1.99%) Entra ID
19 69 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.29%) Firewall
2 28 (0.78%) Network Security
3 23 (0.64%) DNS
4 21 (0.59%) VPN
5 16 (0.45%) HTTP
5 16 (0.45%) Internet
5 16 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 16 (0.45%) WAN
6 11 (0.31%) Wireless
7 10 (0.28%) Unified Communications
8 9 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.22%) 4G
9 8 (0.22%) DMZ
9 8 (0.22%) VoIP
10 7 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.17%) DHCP
11 6 (0.17%) Intranet
11 6 (0.17%) SMS
11 6 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (6.86%) Power BI
2 168 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
3 149 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 107 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 105 (2.94%) Metadata
7 103 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 78 (2.18%) Data Lake
9 74 (2.07%) MongoDB
10 63 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 49 (1.37%) Tableau
12 45 (1.26%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.23%) DynamoDB
14 43 (1.20%) BigQuery
15 41 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (1.06%) Oracle Database
17 36 (1.01%) MySQL
18 31 (0.87%) Big Data
19 27 (0.76%) Redis
20 24 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 573 (16.04%) JIRA
2 338 (9.46%) Git
3 269 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 144 (4.03%) GitLab
5 77 (2.16%) Selenium
6 60 (1.68%) JUnit
7 50 (1.40%) Gradle
8 44 (1.23%) Postman
9 43 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.09%) Maven
11 38 (1.06%) Cypress.io
12 33 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 33 (0.92%) Mockito
13 29 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 27 (0.76%) Visual Studio
15 24 (0.67%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.64%) JMeter
17 16 (0.45%) Gatling
18 15 (0.42%) CircleCI
19 14 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,427 (39.94%) Social Skills
2 1,166 (32.63%) Finance
3 554 (15.51%) Public Sector
4 552 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
5 512 (14.33%) Banking
6 219 (6.13%) Retail
7 150 (4.20%) Marketing
8 137 (3.83%) Front Office
9 134 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
10 117 (3.27%) Investment Banking
11 100 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (2.16%) Legal
13 68 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 64 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
15 62 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
16 53 (1.48%) Local Government
17 43 (1.20%) Retail Banking
17 43 (1.20%) Telecoms
18 40 (1.12%) Law
19 39 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 594 (16.62%) Developer
2 543 (15.20%) Senior
3 453 (12.68%) Analyst
4 358 (10.02%) Lead
5 317 (8.87%) Business Analyst
6 296 (8.28%) Project Manager
7 260 (7.28%) Architect
8 171 (4.79%) Data Engineer
9 136 (3.81%) Software Engineer
10 123 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
11 122 (3.41%) Designer
12 115 (3.22%) Java Developer
13 111 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
13 111 (3.11%) Senior Developer
14 103 (2.88%) Senior Manager
15 102 (2.85%) Product Manager
16 100 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
17 92 (2.57%) Product Owner
18 77 (2.16%) Full-Stack Developer
19 75 (2.10%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (8.90%) REST
2 291 (8.14%) Terraform
3 241 (6.75%) React
4 215 (6.02%) .NET
5 186 (5.21%) RESTful
6 181 (5.07%) Kafka
7 170 (4.76%) Spring
8 155 (4.34%) Spring Boot
9 130 (3.64%) HTML
10 121 (3.39%) CSS
11 107 (2.99%) Node.js
12 104 (2.91%) AngularJS
13 91 (2.55%) PySpark
14 87 (2.43%) SOAP
15 74 (2.07%) JSON
16 73 (2.04%) Web Services
17 64 (1.79%) Django
18 63 (1.76%) Playwright
19 61 (1.71%) Middleware
20 59 (1.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 534 (14.95%) Product Ownership
2 293 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 146 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 121 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
5 96 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 96 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 76 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 69 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 59 (1.65%) NHS
10 56 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 55 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 51 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 49 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 47 (1.32%) Mobile App
15 45 (1.26%) Fixed Income
16 43 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 41 (1.15%) Data Centre
18 40 (1.12%) Derivative
19 36 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 136 (3.81%) Linux
2 75 (2.10%) Windows
3 56 (1.57%) Unix
4 35 (0.98%) Android
5 31 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.084%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.084%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.084%) zOS
11 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.028%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.028%) OpenWrt
12 1 (0.028%) SUSE
12 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (33.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,023 (28.63%) DevOps
3 1,001 (28.02%) CI/CD
4 812 (22.73%) Scrum
5 682 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 675 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
7 647 (18.11%) AI
8 527 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 470 (13.15%) Roadmaps
10 453 (12.68%) Analytics
11 423 (11.84%) Test Automation
12 405 (11.34%) User Stories
13 404 (11.31%) Decision-Making
14 392 (10.97%) Software Engineering
15 380 (10.64%) Migration
16 373 (10.44%) Data Modelling
17 368 (10.30%) Project Management
18 344 (9.63%) Microservices
19 340 (9.52%) Waterfall
20 315 (8.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 685 (19.17%) SQL
2 634 (17.74%) Python
3 440 (12.31%) Java
4 285 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 219 (6.13%) C#
5 219 (6.13%) TypeScript
6 76 (2.13%) Bash
7 74 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 58 (1.62%) Scala
9 50 (1.40%) PL/SQL
10 46 (1.29%) Kotlin
11 39 (1.09%) Apex Code
12 37 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 29 (0.81%) Korn
14 27 (0.76%) Groovy
15 26 (0.73%) Go
16 25 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 24 (0.67%) Bicep
18 21 (0.59%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 876 (24.52%) Security Cleared
2 753 (21.07%) SC Cleared
3 299 (8.37%) Degree
4 159 (4.45%) PMP
5 152 (4.25%) PMI Certification
6 116 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 113 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 84 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 57 (1.60%) AWS Certification
11 34 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 28 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 22 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.59%) CISSP
16 19 (0.53%) CBAP
16 19 (0.53%) IIBA
17 15 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
18 12 (0.34%) ISEB
18 12 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 378 (10.58%) QA
2 272 (7.61%) Data Quality
3 150 (4.20%) Accessibility
4 112 (3.13%) PMO
5 94 (2.63%) GDPR
6 52 (1.46%) WCAG
7 39 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.90%) GRC
9 30 (0.84%) NIST
10 25 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 19 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.48%) SLA
14 15 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.39%) NCSC
16 10 (0.28%) SEPA
17 9 (0.25%) IFRS
17 9 (0.25%) ISO 15022
18 7 (0.20%) P3O
19 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 330 (9.24%) Docker
2 58 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.20%) IAG
7 4 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.084%) Postfix
8 3 (0.084%) RACF
8 3 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.056%) Squid
10 1 (0.028%) Ceph
10 1 (0.028%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.028%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.028%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 345 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 92 (2.57%) Grafana
3 74 (2.07%) Ansible
4 69 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 26 (0.73%) Kibana
6 20 (0.56%) Control-M
6 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.36%) Packer
8 9 (0.25%) Puppet
9 8 (0.22%) SCCM
10 6 (0.17%) Argo
10 6 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.14%) Istio
11 5 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.11%) WSUS
13 3 (0.084%) Consul
13 3 (0.084%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.084%) Rancher
Vendors
1 512 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 176 (4.93%) Oracle
3 169 (4.73%) Salesforce
4 142 (3.97%) Databricks
5 140 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 122 (3.41%) Google
7 95 (2.66%) SAP
8 77 (2.16%) Splunk
9 60 (1.68%) Adobe
10 47 (1.32%) IBM
11 36 (1.01%) Informatica
12 30 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 26 (0.73%) Workday
14 24 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.64%) Cisco
16 22 (0.62%) UiPath
17 21 (0.59%) MuleSoft
17 21 (0.59%) VMware
18 20 (0.56%) Pega
19 18 (0.50%) Bloomberg