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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Agile 16 42 40
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.15% 11.38% 9.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 12.65% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 17
10th Percentile £530 £367 £386
25th Percentile £556 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £600
90th Percentile £620 £700 £743
East of England median daily rate £491 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.68% +10.00% -9.09%
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% -68.79%
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 324 332 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 83.94% 89.97% 82.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 121 115
10th Percentile £185 £260 £248
25th Percentile £405 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £454
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +13.44% -4.42%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £558
90th Percentile £638 £700 £620
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 99 108
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £14.95
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.89 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £29.86 £21.50 £18.06
90th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £49.88
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.00 £29.17
% change year-on-year +126.19% -28.01% +45.85%

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
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 14 October 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 12 £525 -7.89% 97
Peterborough +2 1 - - 6
Huntingdon -13 1 £625 +63.40% 4
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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) InfiniBand
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Ranorex
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
2 2 (12.50%) AI Agents
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Grid Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) AI
4 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (18.75%) Change Management
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
5 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
5 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) LLM
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Workflow
6 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Bash
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Clojure
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) CBAP
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) GPFS
2 1 (6.25%) Lustre
2 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Consul
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) EMC
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) SAP