Agile Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Agile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing Agile 18 32 20
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.29% 9.73% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 10.92% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 8
10th Percentile £460 £356 £439
25th Percentile £513 £413 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% +20.22%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £621
90th Percentile - - £741
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £22.69 -
25th Percentile - £23.64 £22.54
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.71 £23.41
Median % change year-on-year +87.20% +14.10% -
75th Percentile - £30.21 £26.60
90th Percentile - £31.42 £28.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 296 293 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.06% 89.06% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 121 111
10th Percentile £168 £213 £220
25th Percentile £372 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £668 £688 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 69 147
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +0.43% +11.93%
75th Percentile £19.25 £24.15 £21.37
90th Percentile £37.90 £47.00 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +26.67% -12.79% +117.06%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Agile job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Agile
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Agile

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cambridgeshire

Agile
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Agile

Agile
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Cambridge -9 13 £563 -6.25% 64
Peterborough +10 1 - - 7
Huntingdon -7 1 £625 +63.40% 2
Agile
East of England

Agile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Ranorex
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Electronics
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Lead
1 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Scrum Master
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Cutover Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) AI
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Validation
5 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 3 (16.67%) ERP
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) CBAP
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) vSphere
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Firmware
2 1 (5.56%) GPFS
2 1 (5.56%) Lustre
2 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Puppet
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Consul
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) EMC
4 1 (5.56%) IFS
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce