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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 43 12
Rank change year-on-year +31 -31 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile 33 15 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.54% 2.94% 9.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.96% 3.55% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 39
10th Percentile £363 £452 £403
25th Percentile £404 £548 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £634 £574 £550
90th Percentile £700 £666 £640
East of England median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22.69 - -
25th Percentile £23.64 £26.42 -
Median hourly rate £26.71 £27.67 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% - -
75th Percentile £30.21 £28.93 -
90th Percentile £31.42 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.44%

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 276 423 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.18% 82.94% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 143 251
10th Percentile £250 £209 £225
25th Percentile £369 £319 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £545 £536
90th Percentile £684 £635 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +16.96% -14.41% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 179 169
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.88 £25.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £54.50 £23.05
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% +90.48% +7.69%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +9 22 £563 +2.27% 163
Peterborough - 4 £375 - 61
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 7
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Drupal
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Simulink
1 2 (6.06%) Stateflow
2 1 (3.03%) CANalyzer
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
1 4 (12.12%) Datadog
1 4 (12.12%) GitHub
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
2 3 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) npm
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Firewall
2 4 (12.12%) Network Security
2 4 (12.12%) VSAN
3 3 (9.09%) DNS
4 2 (6.06%) HTTP
5 1 (3.03%) DHCP
5 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 3 (9.09%) Git
3 2 (6.06%) CANoe
3 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.06%) Automotive
3 2 (6.06%) Electronics
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Developer
2 6 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Programme Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Angular Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) IFS Developer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.06%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) RESTful
2 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.06%) Express.js
2 2 (6.06%) NgRx
2 2 (6.06%) Playwright
2 2 (6.06%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) RxJS
3 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Waterfall
2 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (30.30%) Project Delivery
3 9 (27.27%) Change Management
3 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.18%) ITSM
5 6 (18.18%) Project Management
5 6 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) AIOps
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (12.12%) Observability
7 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.12%) Time Management
8 3 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) Perl
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) MATLAB
4 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) Degree
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) VCAP
5 3 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (6.06%) APMG
6 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) VMware NSX
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.12%) vSphere
3 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 6 (18.18%) VxRail
4 4 (12.12%) Grafana
4 4 (12.12%) PowerCLI
4 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.06%) Avamar
5 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Dell
1 6 (18.18%) VMware
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) Google
3 3 (9.09%) IBM
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.06%) IFS
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco
5 1 (3.03%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto