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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Agile 3,099 2,978 4,116
As % of all contract jobs in London 21.68% 19.09% 21.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.64% 21.25% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,148 1,986 2,961
10th Percentile £360 £381 £413
25th Percentile £436 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £675 £723 £706
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £522 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -7.20% -0.44% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 18
10th Percentile £27.13 - £43.61
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.00 £68.05
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -45.63% +13.42%
75th Percentile £69.36 £41.91 £76.88
90th Percentile £99.86 £63.45 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 0 434 £550 -5.98% 177
West London -1 62 £425 +8.97% 37
South London -1 44 £525 -6.50% 24
East London -2 30 £525 +10.53% 25
North London +4 4 £550 +35.97% 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
1 299 (9.65%) Confluence
2 68 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (2.16%) Apache
4 45 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 43 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 35 (1.13%) CMS
7 27 (0.87%) nginx
8 16 (0.52%) IIS
9 10 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.19%) Camunda
12 6 (0.19%) SAS
12 6 (0.19%) WordPress
13 5 (0.16%) Appian
13 5 (0.16%) CICS
13 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 98 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 58 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 27 (0.87%) Chatbot
5 20 (0.65%) Trello
6 12 (0.39%) Sketch
7 10 (0.32%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.16%) Notion
8 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.065%) InDesign
11 2 (0.065%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.032%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.032%) MadCap Flare
12 1 (0.032%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 53 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 44 (1.42%) Endur
4 25 (0.81%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 13 (0.42%) Temenos T24
6 12 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 9 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.26%) Shopify
10 7 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
11 6 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.16%) Loan IQ
12 5 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 5 (0.16%) SAP GTS
12 5 (0.16%) SAP IBP
13 4 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 686 (22.14%) Azure
2 587 (18.94%) AWS
3 260 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
4 228 (7.36%) Power Platform
5 219 (7.07%) GCP
6 206 (6.65%) GitHub
7 152 (4.90%) Serverless
8 111 (3.58%) SaaS
9 100 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 96 (3.10%) Snowflake
11 74 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
12 72 (2.32%) Amazon S3
13 71 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
15 69 (2.23%) PowerApps
16 68 (2.19%) Power Automate
17 65 (2.10%) dbt
18 64 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
19 56 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
20 54 (1.74%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.58%) Firewall
2 24 (0.77%) VPN
3 22 (0.71%) HTTP
4 21 (0.68%) Network Security
5 20 (0.65%) DNS
6 19 (0.61%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.55%) Internet
8 16 (0.52%) WAN
9 15 (0.48%) SSL
10 12 (0.39%) BGP
11 11 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.29%) OSPF
13 7 (0.23%) MPLS
14 6 (0.19%) DHCP
15 5 (0.16%) 5G
15 5 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.16%) SMS
15 5 (0.16%) Wireless
16 4 (0.13%) IPsec
16 4 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
1 159 (5.13%) Power BI
2 109 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 105 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 104 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 90 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 67 (2.16%) Tableau
7 63 (2.03%) Data Lake
8 62 (2.00%) MongoDB
9 52 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 52 (1.68%) Big Data
10 43 (1.39%) Apache Arrow
10 43 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
10 43 (1.39%) Dremio
10 43 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 42 (1.36%) Metadata
12 34 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
12 34 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 29 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 555 (17.91%) JIRA
2 296 (9.55%) Git
3 191 (6.16%) Jenkins
4 90 (2.90%) GitLab
5 64 (2.07%) Selenium
6 62 (2.00%) JUnit
7 49 (1.58%) Postman
8 46 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 44 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 43 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 33 (1.06%) SpecFlow
12 24 (0.77%) Maven
12 24 (0.77%) Mockito
13 22 (0.71%) SonarQube
14 19 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.58%) webpack
16 17 (0.55%) ERwin
17 16 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (0.52%) JMeter
18 14 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 1,220 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 1,025 (33.08%) Finance
3 466 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 406 (13.10%) Banking
5 342 (11.04%) Public Sector
6 174 (5.61%) Front Office
7 124 (4.00%) Investment Banking
8 93 (3.00%) Marketing
8 93 (3.00%) Retail
9 78 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 76 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 74 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
12 66 (2.13%) Back Office
13 63 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
14 59 (1.90%) Legal
15 58 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 56 (1.81%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.55%) Financial Institution
18 39 (1.26%) Manufacturing
19 31 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 597 (19.26%) Developer
2 467 (15.07%) Analyst
3 464 (14.97%) Senior
4 364 (11.75%) Business Analyst
5 265 (8.55%) Lead
6 217 (7.00%) Project Manager
7 196 (6.32%) Architect
8 166 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 127 (4.10%) Java Developer
10 110 (3.55%) Consultant
11 102 (3.29%) Senior Developer
12 95 (3.07%) Data Engineer
13 78 (2.52%) Product Manager
13 78 (2.52%) Product Owner
14 69 (2.23%) AWS Engineer
15 67 (2.16%) Python Engineer
16 64 (2.07%) Senior Manager
16 64 (2.07%) Senior Software Engineer
17 63 (2.03%) Full-Stack Developer
18 61 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (8.49%) React
2 249 (8.03%) REST
3 196 (6.32%) Kafka
4 185 (5.97%) Node.js
5 172 (5.55%) .NET
6 170 (5.49%) RESTful
7 145 (4.68%) HTML
8 135 (4.36%) AngularJS
9 131 (4.23%) CSS
10 126 (4.07%) Spring
11 108 (3.48%) SOAP
12 105 (3.39%) JSON
13 98 (3.16%) Spring Boot
14 88 (2.84%) Playwright
15 78 (2.52%) GraphQL
16 71 (2.29%) Web Services
17 70 (2.26%) XML
18 60 (1.94%) HTML5
19 55 (1.77%) Pandas
20 53 (1.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 342 (11.04%) Product Ownership
2 202 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 107 (3.45%) Fixed Income
4 101 (3.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 90 (2.90%) Derivative
6 81 (2.61%) Equities
7 68 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 68 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 65 (2.10%) Mobile App
9 63 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 61 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 60 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 59 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
12 59 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
13 57 (1.84%) Onboarding
14 54 (1.74%) Virtual Team
15 46 (1.48%) Reinsurance
16 45 (1.45%) Hedge funds
17 42 (1.36%) AI Agents
18 41 (1.32%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 168 (5.42%) Linux
2 87 (2.81%) Unix
3 82 (2.65%) Windows
4 45 (1.45%) Android
5 42 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.29%) VMS
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.19%) zOS
10 3 (0.097%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.065%) AIX
11 2 (0.065%) CentOS
11 2 (0.065%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.032%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.032%) Solaris
12 1 (0.032%) tvOS
12 1 (0.032%) watchOS
12 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (24.88%) DevOps
2 702 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
3 687 (22.17%) CI/CD
4 667 (21.52%) Scrum
5 562 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 362 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 358 (11.55%) Software Engineering
8 353 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 353 (11.39%) Test Automation
9 342 (11.04%) Microservices
10 318 (10.26%) Project Management
11 315 (10.16%) Roadmaps
12 313 (10.10%) AI
13 298 (9.62%) Analytics
14 281 (9.07%) User Stories
15 269 (8.68%) Data Modelling
16 266 (8.58%) Migration
17 255 (8.23%) SDLC
18 249 (8.03%) Waterfall
19 235 (7.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 584 (18.84%) Python
1 584 (18.84%) SQL
2 464 (14.97%) Java
3 380 (12.26%) JavaScript
4 277 (8.94%) TypeScript
5 227 (7.32%) C#
6 80 (2.58%) PowerShell
7 68 (2.19%) C++
8 54 (1.74%) Go
9 51 (1.65%) Bash
10 50 (1.61%) Scala
11 37 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 31 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 30 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.81%) Bicep
14 25 (0.81%) Ruby
15 24 (0.77%) Apex Code
16 20 (0.65%) Groovy
17 19 (0.61%) T-SQL
18 17 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 566 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 492 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 370 (11.94%) Degree
4 126 (4.07%) PMI Certification
5 111 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (3.26%) PMP
7 58 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 52 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 50 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 45 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 31 (1.00%) CBAP
13 27 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.81%) CISSP
15 15 (0.48%) CSPO
16 13 (0.42%) CISM
17 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
18 11 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.35%) MCP
19 10 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (9.84%) QA
2 134 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 117 (3.78%) Data Quality
4 105 (3.39%) GDPR
5 83 (2.68%) PMO
6 31 (1.00%) WCAG
7 29 (0.94%) MiFID
8 20 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.52%) GRC
10 15 (0.48%) EMIR
10 15 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.42%) NIST
12 10 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.32%) SLA
13 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.29%) PERC
14 8 (0.26%) Basel III
14 8 (0.26%) PSD2
14 8 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 337 (10.87%) Docker
2 43 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.065%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 2 (0.065%) Squid
7 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.032%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.032%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.032%) etcd
8 1 (0.032%) GPFS
8 1 (0.032%) KVM
8 1 (0.032%) Lustre
8 1 (0.032%) Postfix
8 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.032%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 303 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 207 (6.68%) Terraform
3 60 (1.94%) Ansible
4 44 (1.42%) Grafana
5 28 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.58%) Packer
8 17 (0.55%) Argo
8 17 (0.55%) Consul
9 14 (0.45%) Puppet
10 10 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.29%) Kibana
12 8 (0.26%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.26%) Rancher
13 7 (0.23%) SCCM
14 4 (0.13%) CA Endevor
14 4 (0.13%) Control-M
14 4 (0.13%) Nessus
14 4 (0.13%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.097%) Nagios
Vendors
1 376 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 211 (6.81%) Oracle
3 134 (4.32%) Salesforce
4 115 (3.71%) ServiceNow
5 112 (3.61%) SAP
6 110 (3.55%) Databricks
7 109 (3.52%) Google
8 46 (1.48%) Splunk
9 40 (1.29%) Adobe
10 33 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 31 (1.00%) Workday
12 29 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.71%) HP
14 21 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 20 (0.65%) Cisco
15 20 (0.65%) Murex
15 20 (0.65%) OpenLink
16 19 (0.61%) Foundry
16 19 (0.61%) Sybase
17 18 (0.58%) Dynatrace