Agile Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Agile Software Development
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 44 14
Rank change year-on-year +24 -30 -9
Contract jobs citing Agile 25 11 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.06% 2.22% 9.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.25% 2.68% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 37
10th Percentile £376 £413 £410
25th Percentile £423 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £538
90th Percentile £674 - £627
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.67 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year - -0.38% +17.04%

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 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Cambridgeshire

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Cambridgeshire

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Cambridgeshire

Agile
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Agile in Cambridgeshire

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 1 May 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 +16 14 £544 +3.57% 176
Peterborough +17 5 £445 - 87
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 1
Agile
East of England

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Drupal
2 1 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.00%) npm
5 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 4 (16.00%) VSAN
3 3 (12.00%) DNS
4 1 (4.00%) DHCP
4 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Coordinator
5 1 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Release Manager
5 1 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) RESTful
2 2 (8.00%) Node.js
2 2 (8.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) Express.js
3 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) NgRx
3 1 (4.00%) Playwright
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Waterfall
2 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (24.00%) Zero Trust
5 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (12.00%) Change Management
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.00%) DevOps
7 3 (12.00%) ERP
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) VCAP
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (8.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (8.00%) PMP
5 1 (4.00%) GCFE
5 1 (4.00%) GCIH
5 1 (4.00%) GIAC
5 1 (4.00%) GREM
5 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PMO
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) vSphere
3 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Terraform
3 6 (24.00%) VxRail
4 4 (16.00%) PowerCLI
4 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (8.00%) Avamar
6 1 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Dell
1 6 (24.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) IBM
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) Ariba
5 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.00%) Planview
5 1 (4.00%) SAP