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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,115 2,606 3,614
As % of all contract jobs in London 16.54% 21.28% 20.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.63% 23.05% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,112 1,813 2,663
10th Percentile £363 £388 £400
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £725
90th Percentile £750 £838 £850
England median daily rate £514 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -3.66% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 24
10th Percentile £51.50 £30.15 £25.50
25th Percentile £54.55 £39.04 £31.71
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +5.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £97.50 £85.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.00% -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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -4 348 £565 -5.83% 206
West London -1 72 £550 +25.34% 37
South London +4 60 £500 -19.61% 7
East London -1 23 £545 -6.84% 33
North London +1 3 £650 +18.18% 6
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
1 272 (8.73%) Confluence
2 81 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 62 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 45 (1.44%) CMS
5 27 (0.87%) Apache
6 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 14 (0.45%) Camunda
8 13 (0.42%) IIS
8 13 (0.42%) SAS
9 9 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.22%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.19%) Appian
11 6 (0.19%) JBoss
11 6 (0.19%) Kentico
11 6 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 94 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
3 56 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
5 32 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.22%) Notion
7 7 (0.22%) Sketch
8 6 (0.19%) Trello
8 6 (0.19%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.064%) InVision
9 2 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.064%) Windchill
9 2 (0.064%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.032%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 34 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) Findur
4 11 (0.35%) Temenos T24
5 10 (0.32%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
7 8 (0.26%) Shopify
8 7 (0.22%) Endur
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.13%) Actimize
10 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.13%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 792 (25.43%) Azure
2 643 (20.64%) AWS
3 260 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
4 241 (7.74%) Power Platform
5 218 (7.00%) GitHub
6 175 (5.62%) GCP
7 152 (4.88%) Serverless
8 127 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
9 117 (3.76%) Amazon S3
10 108 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
12 73 (2.34%) SaaS
13 72 (2.31%) Snowflake
14 71 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 66 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
17 58 (1.86%) Power Automate
18 56 (1.80%) PowerApps
19 52 (1.67%) Figma
19 52 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.77%) Firewall
2 29 (0.93%) WAN
3 22 (0.71%) Network Security
4 21 (0.67%) VPN
5 16 (0.51%) HTTP
5 16 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.48%) DNS
6 15 (0.48%) Internet
7 11 (0.35%) LAN
8 9 (0.29%) Unified Communications
9 7 (0.22%) DMZ
9 7 (0.22%) SMS
9 7 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.22%) Wireless
10 6 (0.19%) BGP
10 6 (0.19%) MPLS
10 6 (0.19%) OSPF
11 5 (0.16%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.16%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (5.97%) Power BI
2 121 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 119 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 108 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 96 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 82 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 69 (2.22%) Tableau
8 68 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
9 64 (2.05%) Data Lake
10 55 (1.77%) Metadata
11 50 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 47 (1.51%) Big Data
13 42 (1.35%) DynamoDB
14 40 (1.28%) BigQuery
15 33 (1.06%) Delta Lake
16 32 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
17 25 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
18 23 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
19 21 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 18 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 517 (16.60%) JIRA
2 264 (8.48%) Git
3 174 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 100 (3.21%) GitLab
5 59 (1.89%) JUnit
6 46 (1.48%) Postman
6 46 (1.48%) Selenium
7 34 (1.09%) Mockito
8 33 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 28 (0.90%) Gradle
11 27 (0.87%) Bitbucket
12 25 (0.80%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.61%) JMeter
14 17 (0.55%) SpecFlow
15 15 (0.48%) CircleCI
15 15 (0.48%) Liquibase
15 15 (0.48%) Maven
16 13 (0.42%) Visual Studio
17 11 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,084 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 1,075 (34.51%) Finance
3 451 (14.48%) Public Sector
4 429 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
5 394 (12.65%) Banking
6 158 (5.07%) Front Office
7 155 (4.98%) Retail
8 113 (3.63%) Marketing
9 91 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 88 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
11 84 (2.70%) Investment Banking
12 83 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 80 (2.57%) Legal
14 68 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
15 53 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 41 (1.32%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.16%) Law
18 29 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 27 (0.87%) Manufacturing
20 26 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 548 (17.59%) Developer
2 459 (14.74%) Senior
3 452 (14.51%) Analyst
4 324 (10.40%) Business Analyst
5 301 (9.66%) Lead
6 276 (8.86%) Project Manager
7 214 (6.87%) Architect
8 152 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 140 (4.49%) Data Engineer
10 122 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
11 105 (3.37%) Java Developer
12 103 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 99 (3.18%) Designer
14 98 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
15 91 (2.92%) Senior Developer
16 71 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
17 68 (2.18%) Full-Stack Developer
18 67 (2.15%) Python Developer
19 65 (2.09%) Product Owner
19 65 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (7.51%) React
2 215 (6.90%) REST
3 161 (5.17%) Kafka
4 157 (5.04%) .NET
5 153 (4.91%) RESTful
6 146 (4.69%) Spring
7 136 (4.37%) Node.js
8 134 (4.30%) AngularJS
9 129 (4.14%) Spring Boot
10 120 (3.85%) HTML
11 106 (3.40%) CSS
12 81 (2.60%) PySpark
13 70 (2.25%) Middleware
14 67 (2.15%) Redux
15 66 (2.12%) SOAP
16 63 (2.02%) Playwright
17 52 (1.67%) JSON
18 51 (1.64%) GraphQL
19 49 (1.57%) Web Services
20 44 (1.41%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 349 (11.20%) Product Ownership
2 234 (7.51%) Cloud Native
3 104 (3.34%) Onboarding
4 84 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 82 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 81 (2.60%) Fixed Income
7 68 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
8 65 (2.09%) Derivative
9 60 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 52 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 51 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 51 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 48 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 41 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 41 (1.32%) Equities
14 39 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 38 (1.22%) NHS
16 36 (1.16%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 107 (3.43%) Linux
2 80 (2.57%) Windows
3 51 (1.64%) Unix
4 31 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 26 (0.83%) Android
6 11 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.16%) VMS
9 5 (0.16%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.096%) zOS
11 2 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.032%) AIX
12 1 (0.032%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Rocky
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) SUSE
12 1 (0.032%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (25.78%) DevOps
2 780 (25.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 744 (23.88%) CI/CD
4 684 (21.96%) Scrum
5 521 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
6 515 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 431 (13.84%) AI
8 360 (11.56%) Data Modelling
9 351 (11.27%) Project Management
10 350 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 337 (10.82%) Roadmaps
12 336 (10.79%) Analytics
13 330 (10.59%) Test Automation
14 328 (10.53%) Migration
15 327 (10.50%) Decision-Making
16 322 (10.34%) Software Engineering
17 314 (10.08%) User Stories
18 300 (9.63%) Microservices
19 293 (9.41%) Waterfall
20 262 (8.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 571 (18.33%) SQL
2 552 (17.72%) Python
3 388 (12.46%) Java
4 301 (9.66%) JavaScript
5 231 (7.42%) TypeScript
6 212 (6.81%) C#
7 58 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 49 (1.57%) Go
9 42 (1.35%) Scala
10 40 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 36 (1.16%) Apex Code
12 34 (1.09%) T-SQL
13 28 (0.90%) Bash
14 26 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 25 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.74%) Ruby
17 20 (0.64%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.61%) C++
18 19 (0.61%) R
19 17 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 679 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 590 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 268 (8.60%) Degree
4 115 (3.69%) PMP
5 108 (3.47%) PMI Certification
6 71 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 62 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 40 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 30 (0.96%) CISSP
12 29 (0.93%) CBAP
13 26 (0.83%) ISTQB
14 23 (0.74%) IIBA
15 22 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 22 (0.71%) CISM
16 16 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (0.39%) CCNP
18 10 (0.32%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.41%) QA
2 198 (6.36%) Data Quality
3 142 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 121 (3.88%) GDPR
5 110 (3.53%) PMO
6 54 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (1.38%) WCAG
8 41 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 39 (1.25%) NIST
10 32 (1.03%) GRC
11 26 (0.83%) SLA
12 21 (0.67%) NCSC
13 20 (0.64%) PCI DSS
14 15 (0.48%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
16 9 (0.29%) IFRS
17 8 (0.26%) PSD2
18 7 (0.22%) Basel III
18 7 (0.22%) HL7
19 6 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 259 (8.31%) Docker
2 42 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.096%) IAG
6 3 (0.096%) Postfix
7 2 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.064%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.064%) RACF
7 2 (0.064%) Squid
8 1 (0.032%) HDFS
8 1 (0.032%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 292 (9.37%) Kubernetes
2 227 (7.29%) Terraform
3 64 (2.05%) Ansible
4 42 (1.35%) Grafana
5 38 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.35%) Kibana
8 10 (0.32%) Packer
8 10 (0.32%) SCCM
9 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.26%) WSUS
11 7 (0.22%) Control-M
11 7 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.16%) Consul
12 5 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.13%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.096%) Puppet
Vendors
1 364 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 186 (5.97%) Oracle
3 165 (5.30%) Salesforce
4 135 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 102 (3.27%) Databricks
6 98 (3.15%) SAP
7 59 (1.89%) Google
8 41 (1.32%) Adobe
9 35 (1.12%) Workday
10 29 (0.93%) Splunk
11 28 (0.90%) Informatica
12 25 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 24 (0.77%) MuleSoft
14 23 (0.74%) Cisco
14 23 (0.74%) IBM
15 20 (0.64%) VMware
16 18 (0.58%) Okta
17 17 (0.55%) CyberArk
18 16 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
19 15 (0.48%) Dynatrace