Agile Contracts in Cambridge

Agile Software Development
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 22 4
Rank change year-on-year +16 -18 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 14 10 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 12.28% 5.15% 12.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.86% 5.65% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 26
10th Percentile £472 £413 £413
25th Percentile £514 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +9.09% +1.32%
75th Percentile £634 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 - £625
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £523 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -0.48% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.67 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £27.67 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Cambridge

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Cambridge

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cambridge

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Cambridge

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
1 2 (14.29%) VSAN
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.14%) PMO Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Release Coordinator
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) Express.js
1 1 (7.14%) NgRx
1 1 (7.14%) Playwright
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Workload Management
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Security Patching
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Time Management
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) CISSP
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 2 (14.29%) PMP
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) VCAP
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (7.14%) GCFE
4 1 (7.14%) GCIH
4 1 (7.14%) GIAC
4 1 (7.14%) GREM
4 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware NSX
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) VxRail
3 2 (14.29%) Avamar
3 2 (14.29%) PowerCLI
3 2 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Dell
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Ariba
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
4 1 (7.14%) Planview
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds