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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Agile 42 40 41
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.48% 9.83% 7.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.77% 11.94% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 25
10th Percentile £367 £386 £413
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £743 £613
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £22.69 - -
25th Percentile £23.64 £22.54 £72.50
Median hourly rate £26.71 £23.41 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% -68.79% +181.69%
75th Percentile £30.21 £26.60 £77.50
90th Percentile £31.42 £28.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Process and 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 329 335 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.89% 82.31% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 176
10th Percentile £259 £249 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -4.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £557 £554
90th Percentile £700 £619 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.17% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 109 199
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.97 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.22 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £52.75 £23.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.64 £29.17 £19.81
% change year-on-year -25.81% +47.25% -5.67%

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 13 October 2025.

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 13 October 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
Cambridge -3 35 £570 +8.57% 42
Peterborough +3 2 - - 17
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 6
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 4 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) IIS
3 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Simulink
1 2 (4.76%) Stateflow
1 2 (4.76%) Weka
2 1 (2.38%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) Azure AKS
3 8 (19.05%) Azure Functions
3 8 (19.05%) GitHub
3 8 (19.05%) GitHub Copilot
3 8 (19.05%) PaaS
3 8 (19.05%) Serverless
4 7 (16.67%) AWS
5 6 (14.29%) GCP
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) Datadog
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.38%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.38%) npm
8 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.38%) Power BI
1 1 (2.38%) SAP HANA
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) JIRA
2 3 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.76%) CANoe
3 2 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) JMeter
3 2 (4.76%) Postman
3 2 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 3 (7.14%) Finance
2 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.76%) Automotive
3 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Electronics
3 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Programme Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) IFS Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) QA Leader
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) .NET
2 10 (23.81%) RESTful
3 9 (21.43%) PyTorch
4 8 (19.05%) Semantic Kernel
4 8 (19.05%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.76%) Pandas
5 2 (4.76%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.38%) Express.js
6 1 (2.38%) NgRx
6 1 (2.38%) NumPy
6 1 (2.38%) Playwright
6 1 (2.38%) REST
6 1 (2.38%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.43%) Algorithms
3 6 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.14%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Grid Computing
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.38%) Genomics
6 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) AI
1 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (30.95%) Machine Learning
3 12 (28.57%) LLM
3 12 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
3 12 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 12 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 11 (26.19%) Change Management
4 11 (26.19%) DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Scrum
5 10 (23.81%) Data Privacy
5 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
5 10 (23.81%) Validation
6 9 (21.43%) API Management
7 8 (19.05%) Project Management
7 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
8 7 (16.67%) API Design
8 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (16.67%) Deep Learning
8 7 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) Bash
2 5 (11.90%) SQL
3 4 (9.52%) Perl
4 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.76%) Java
5 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) Ruby
6 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Degree
2 8 (19.05%) MCP
3 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) APMG
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (28.57%) EU AI Act
2 11 (26.19%) NIST
3 3 (7.14%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) GRC
4 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) GPFS
2 2 (4.76%) Lustre
2 2 (4.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.90%) Ansible
3 4 (9.52%) Grafana
3 4 (9.52%) Terraform
4 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) Consul
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Foundry
3 4 (9.52%) Splunk
4 3 (7.14%) Google
4 3 (7.14%) IBM
4 3 (7.14%) IFS
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds