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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Agile 35 32 16
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.19% 12.17% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.40% 13.28% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 10
10th Percentile £356 £394 £375
25th Percentile £359 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £597
90th Percentile £622 £700 £640
East of England median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.02
25th Percentile - - £37.94
Median hourly rate - - £51.34
75th Percentile - - £65.36
90th Percentile - - £72.64
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 307 241 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.58% 91.63% 84.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 135 154
10th Percentile £210 £289 £235
25th Percentile £335 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £478
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -1.15% +6.22%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £645 £684
East of England median daily rate £475 £497 £475
% change year-on-year -4.47% +4.68% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 177
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.39 £16.74 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +11.60% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.53 £21.46
90th Percentile £37.35 £50.00 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £54.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -59.26% +41.66% +34.94%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -1 27 £475 -15.56% 16
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
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Weka
2 1 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) Azure AKS
3 8 (22.86%) GitHub
3 8 (22.86%) GitHub Copilot
3 8 (22.86%) PaaS
4 7 (20.00%) AWS
4 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Serverless
5 6 (17.14%) Azure Functions
5 6 (17.14%) GCP
6 5 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.57%) Mimecast
7 3 (8.57%) Nutanix
7 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
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 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) MSTest
2 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Senior
2 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Lead
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%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Test Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
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 Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) .NET
2 9 (25.71%) RESTful
3 8 (22.86%) A2A Protocol
3 8 (22.86%) Model Context Protocol
3 8 (22.86%) PyTorch
3 8 (22.86%) Semantic Kernel
3 8 (22.86%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.71%) Node.js
4 2 (5.71%) React
5 1 (2.86%) ADO
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) Pandas
5 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (22.86%) Algorithms
3 5 (14.29%) Grid Computing
3 5 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) AI
2 14 (40.00%) DevOps
2 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 13 (37.14%) LLM
3 13 (37.14%) Machine Learning
3 13 (37.14%) Prompt Engineering
4 12 (34.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 11 (31.43%) Data Privacy
6 10 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 9 (25.71%) API Management
8 8 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (20.00%) API Design
9 7 (20.00%) Deep Learning
9 7 (20.00%) Scrum
9 7 (20.00%) Validation
10 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
10 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (17.14%) Software Testing
11 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) C#
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) C++
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) Perl
4 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (34.29%) EU AI Act
2 11 (31.43%) NIST
3 5 (14.29%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) 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 7 (20.00%) 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 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) 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%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) Siemens
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.86%) IFS
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) SAP