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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,260 2,749 3,657
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.92% 21.43% 20.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.03% 23.21% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,217 1,921 2,685
10th Percentile £375 £380 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £730
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 21
10th Percentile £51.78 £27.90 £26.68
25th Percentile £54.87 £35.62 £31.71
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile £87.87 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £97.25 £84.50 -
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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -5 348 £565 -5.83% 117
West London -1 79 £600 +50.00% 31
South London +4 61 £510 -15.49% 9
East London -2 20 £565 -3.42% 27
North London +2 4 £550 - 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
1 285 (8.74%) Confluence
2 85 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.44%) CMS
5 45 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.89%) Apache
7 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.46%) IIS
9 14 (0.43%) Camunda
10 13 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 13 (0.40%) SAS
11 7 (0.21%) Appian
11 7 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.21%) Hyperledger
11 7 (0.21%) JBoss
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.18%) Kentico
12 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 6 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 58 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.21%) Notion
8 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.18%) Sketch
8 6 (0.18%) UserZoom
9 5 (0.15%) Trello
10 3 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.061%) Windchill
12 1 (0.031%) InVision
12 1 (0.031%) Mingle
12 1 (0.031%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.031%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 32 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 23 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.34%) Findur
4 11 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.31%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.31%) Temenos T24
6 8 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
6 8 (0.25%) Shopify
7 7 (0.21%) Endur
7 7 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.18%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.15%) Magento
9 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.12%) Actimize
10 4 (0.12%) HFM
10 4 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 842 (25.83%) Azure
2 685 (21.01%) AWS
3 282 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
4 254 (7.79%) Power Platform
5 225 (6.90%) GitHub
6 192 (5.89%) GCP
7 172 (5.28%) Serverless
8 133 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
9 126 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 118 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 85 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
12 77 (2.36%) Snowflake
13 75 (2.30%) SaaS
14 69 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 64 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (1.81%) Power Automate
18 58 (1.78%) PowerApps
19 56 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 56 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.69%) Firewall
2 28 (0.86%) Network Security
2 28 (0.86%) WAN
3 23 (0.71%) VPN
4 20 (0.61%) Internet
5 16 (0.49%) HTTP
5 16 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.46%) DNS
7 14 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.31%) LAN
8 10 (0.31%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.21%) DMZ
9 7 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.21%) Wireless
10 6 (0.18%) BGP
10 6 (0.18%) MPLS
10 6 (0.18%) OSPF
10 6 (0.18%) SMS
10 6 (0.18%) VoIP
11 5 (0.15%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (6.13%) Power BI
2 129 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
3 125 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 116 (3.56%) SQL Server
5 104 (3.19%) NoSQL
6 89 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 69 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 69 (2.12%) Tableau
8 65 (1.99%) Data Lake
9 60 (1.84%) Metadata
10 55 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 47 (1.44%) Big Data
11 47 (1.44%) DynamoDB
12 38 (1.17%) BigQuery
13 36 (1.10%) Delta Lake
14 35 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
14 35 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 548 (16.81%) JIRA
2 273 (8.37%) Git
3 199 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 106 (3.25%) GitLab
5 62 (1.90%) JUnit
6 46 (1.41%) Postman
6 46 (1.41%) Selenium
7 36 (1.10%) Mockito
8 31 (0.95%) Cucumber
8 31 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 30 (0.92%) Gradle
10 29 (0.89%) Bitbucket
11 27 (0.83%) REST Assured
12 18 (0.55%) JMeter
13 17 (0.52%) Maven
14 16 (0.49%) SpecFlow
15 15 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.46%) Liquibase
15 15 (0.46%) Visual Studio
16 13 (0.40%) Gatling
General
1 1,158 (35.52%) Social Skills
2 1,103 (33.83%) Finance
3 484 (14.85%) Public Sector
4 457 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 419 (12.85%) Banking
6 184 (5.64%) Retail
7 172 (5.28%) Front Office
8 120 (3.68%) Marketing
9 98 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
10 97 (2.98%) Investment Banking
11 96 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
12 86 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
13 81 (2.48%) Legal
14 66 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
15 55 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 38 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.13%) Law
18 35 (1.07%) Manufacturing
19 30 (0.92%) Local Government
19 30 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 578 (17.73%) Developer
2 478 (14.66%) Senior
3 457 (14.02%) Analyst
4 332 (10.18%) Lead
5 322 (9.88%) Business Analyst
6 281 (8.62%) Project Manager
7 237 (7.27%) Architect
8 173 (5.31%) Software Engineer
9 147 (4.51%) Data Engineer
10 120 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
11 118 (3.62%) Java Developer
12 105 (3.22%) Designer
13 103 (3.16%) Senior Manager
13 103 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
14 98 (3.01%) Senior Developer
15 74 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
16 71 (2.18%) Product Owner
17 70 (2.15%) Python Developer
18 69 (2.12%) Full-Stack Developer
19 65 (1.99%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (7.76%) React
2 234 (7.18%) REST
3 174 (5.34%) .NET
4 172 (5.28%) Kafka
5 163 (5.00%) RESTful
6 160 (4.91%) Spring
7 144 (4.42%) Node.js
8 137 (4.20%) Spring Boot
9 135 (4.14%) AngularJS
10 117 (3.59%) HTML
11 102 (3.13%) CSS
12 88 (2.70%) PySpark
13 78 (2.39%) SOAP
14 74 (2.27%) Redux
15 73 (2.24%) Middleware
16 66 (2.02%) Playwright
17 65 (1.99%) GraphQL
18 59 (1.81%) JSON
19 51 (1.56%) .NET Framework
20 47 (1.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 379 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 252 (7.73%) Cloud Native
3 115 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 97 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
5 93 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 91 (2.79%) Fixed Income
7 67 (2.06%) Derivative
8 64 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
8 64 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 53 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 53 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 53 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 51 (1.56%) NHS
11 48 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 43 (1.32%) Equities
15 40 (1.23%) AI Agents
15 40 (1.23%) Mobile App
16 37 (1.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 108 (3.31%) Linux
2 79 (2.42%) Windows
3 50 (1.53%) Unix
4 32 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 28 (0.86%) Android
6 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.25%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.12%) VMS
10 3 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.061%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.061%) zOS
12 1 (0.031%) AIX
12 1 (0.031%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.031%) Rocky
12 1 (0.031%) Solaris
12 1 (0.031%) SUSE
12 1 (0.031%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (26.72%) DevOps
2 835 (25.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 825 (25.31%) CI/CD
4 713 (21.87%) Scrum
5 548 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
6 543 (16.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 476 (14.60%) AI
8 403 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 367 (11.26%) Analytics
9 367 (11.26%) Data Modelling
10 355 (10.89%) Roadmaps
10 355 (10.89%) Software Engineering
11 352 (10.80%) Decision-Making
12 348 (10.67%) Project Management
13 347 (10.64%) Test Automation
14 334 (10.25%) Migration
15 322 (9.88%) Microservices
16 317 (9.72%) User Stories
17 299 (9.17%) Waterfall
18 262 (8.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 595 (18.25%) SQL
2 581 (17.82%) Python
3 413 (12.67%) Java
4 306 (9.39%) JavaScript
5 254 (7.79%) TypeScript
6 219 (6.72%) C#
7 59 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 52 (1.60%) Go
9 42 (1.29%) Apex Code
10 41 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 38 (1.17%) Scala
11 38 (1.17%) T-SQL
12 30 (0.92%) Bash
13 29 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 21 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 20 (0.61%) Ruby
17 19 (0.58%) Bicep
17 19 (0.58%) R
18 18 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 716 (21.96%) Security Cleared
2 625 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 281 (8.62%) Degree
4 119 (3.65%) PMP
5 108 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 80 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 79 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 69 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 47 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 44 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 37 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 31 (0.95%) CISSP
13 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (0.77%) ISTQB
15 22 (0.67%) CBAP
15 22 (0.67%) CISM
16 21 (0.64%) IIBA
17 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
18 13 (0.40%) CCNP
19 11 (0.34%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (9.23%) QA
2 205 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 151 (4.63%) Accessibility
4 121 (3.71%) GDPR
5 115 (3.53%) PMO
6 52 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.32%) WCAG
8 37 (1.13%) NIST
9 33 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (0.95%) GRC
11 28 (0.86%) SLA
12 21 (0.64%) NCSC
12 21 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.25%) PSD2
16 7 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.21%) GxP
16 7 (0.21%) HL7
16 7 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 270 (8.28%) Docker
2 44 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.15%) IAG
5 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.092%) Postfix
7 2 (0.061%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.061%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.061%) RACF
8 1 (0.031%) HDFS
8 1 (0.031%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.031%) Squid
Systems Management
1 312 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 247 (7.58%) Terraform
3 66 (2.02%) Ansible
4 44 (1.35%) Grafana
5 39 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 22 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.34%) Kibana
7 11 (0.34%) Packer
7 11 (0.34%) SCCM
8 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.25%) Control-M
9 8 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.25%) WSUS
10 5 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (0.15%) Consul
10 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.12%) Puppet
11 4 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 386 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 185 (5.67%) Oracle
3 184 (5.64%) Salesforce
4 142 (4.36%) ServiceNow
5 103 (3.16%) Databricks
5 103 (3.16%) SAP
6 70 (2.15%) Google
7 37 (1.13%) Adobe
8 35 (1.07%) Workday
9 32 (0.98%) Splunk
10 29 (0.89%) Informatica
10 29 (0.89%) MuleSoft
11 28 (0.86%) IBM
12 27 (0.83%) Bloomberg
13 25 (0.77%) Cisco
14 20 (0.61%) VMware
15 19 (0.58%) Dynatrace
15 19 (0.58%) Murex
16 18 (0.55%) Okta
16 18 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud