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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing Agile 35 42 24
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.80% 13.59% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.95% 15.61% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 13
10th Percentile £356 £406 £383
25th Percentile £358 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £526 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +5.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £603 £613
90th Percentile £622 £704 £623
East of England median daily rate £526 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.13% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.54 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £23.41 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.79% +310.96%
75th Percentile - £26.60 £77.50
90th Percentile - £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 293 269 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.07% 87.06% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 124 145
10th Percentile £211 £316 £221
25th Percentile £335 £411 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £591 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £646 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 54 170
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £16.09
90th Percentile £34.09 £28.27 £29.38
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 -5 29 £475 -5.00% 27
Huntingdon - 5 £363 - 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 6 (17.14%) Apache
2 5 (14.29%) IIS
2 5 (14.29%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Weka
2 1 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (74.29%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) Azure AKS
3 10 (28.57%) GitHub
3 10 (28.57%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (28.57%) PaaS
4 9 (25.71%) Serverless
5 8 (22.86%) AWS
5 8 (22.86%) Azure Functions
6 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (17.14%) GCP
8 5 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
9 3 (8.57%) Mimecast
9 3 (8.57%) Nutanix
10 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Firewall
1 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 3 (8.57%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) JMeter
2 2 (5.71%) MSTest
2 2 (5.71%) Postman
2 2 (5.71%) Selenium
2 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.86%) MLflow
General
1 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (2.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Senior
2 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.71%) Network Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Network Support
6 2 (5.71%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) QA Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) .NET
2 11 (31.43%) PyTorch
2 11 (31.43%) RESTful
3 10 (28.57%) Semantic Kernel
3 10 (28.57%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.71%) Pandas
4 2 (5.71%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) Node.js
5 1 (2.86%) NumPy
5 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (28.57%) Algorithms
3 6 (17.14%) Private Cloud
3 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
4 5 (14.29%) Grid Computing
4 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.86%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) AI
2 17 (48.57%) Machine Learning
2 17 (48.57%) Test Automation
3 16 (45.71%) LLM
3 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (45.71%) Prompt Engineering
4 15 (42.86%) DevOps
4 15 (42.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 13 (37.14%) Data Privacy
6 11 (31.43%) API Management
6 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
7 9 (25.71%) API Design
7 9 (25.71%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (25.71%) Deep Learning
7 9 (25.71%) Scrum
7 9 (25.71%) Validation
8 8 (22.86%) Data Science
9 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (20.00%) Software Testing
10 6 (17.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) Perl
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) MCP
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (42.86%) EU AI Act
2 14 (40.00%) NIST
3 6 (17.14%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) GRC
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) GPFS
2 5 (14.29%) Lustre
2 5 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) HP ALM
3 2 (5.71%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.86%) Consul
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (2.86%) Salt
4 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) Foundry
3 5 (14.29%) Cisco
3 5 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 5 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.71%) HP
4 2 (5.71%) Siemens
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow