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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 9 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Agile 24 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 14.46% 10.24% 10.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% 11.18% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 18
10th Percentile £448 £428 £384
25th Percentile £500 £511 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £458
Median % change year-on-year - +20.22% -8.50%
75th Percentile £700 £566 £508
90th Percentile £758 £650 £543
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £515 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -6.36% +22.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.41 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £26.71 £23.41 -
% change year-on-year +14.10% - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 152 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.57% 91.57% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 68 131
10th Percentile £308 £260 £201
25th Percentile £416 £340 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £420 £463
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -9.19% -7.50%
75th Percentile £644 £553 £550
90th Percentile £700 £641 £588
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £494 £433 £450
% change year-on-year +14.16% -3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 18
10th Percentile £17.34 £22.50 £16.70
25th Percentile £19.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £61.63
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Agile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cambridge over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cambridge

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Agile.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Agile

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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Datadog
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) npm
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
1 2 (8.33%) VSAN
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Programme Manager
4 3 (12.50%) IFS Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.17%) Deployment Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.17%) Express.js
1 1 (4.17%) NgRx
1 1 (4.17%) NumPy
1 1 (4.17%) Pandas
1 1 (4.17%) Playwright
1 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
1 1 (4.17%) RxJS
1 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Genomics
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Change Management
1 10 (41.67%) Waterfall
2 9 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (29.17%) Project Management
3 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) ITSM
6 4 (16.67%) AIOps
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Observability
6 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Time Management
6 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
7 3 (12.50%) Proactive Management
7 3 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 3 (12.50%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) Perl
3 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) APMG
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) VCAP
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) vSphere
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
2 4 (16.67%) VxRail
3 2 (8.33%) Avamar
3 2 (8.33%) PowerCLI
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Dell
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
1 4 (16.67%) VMware
2 3 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) IBM
2 3 (12.50%) IFS
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds