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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Agile 27 26 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.74% 6.09% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 7.51% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 27
10th Percentile £379 £356 £413
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £538
90th Percentile - £738 £598
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
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 307 346 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.97% 81.03% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 114 205
10th Percentile £250 £225 £226
25th Percentile £400 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £559 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £592
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 140 195
10th Percentile £14.29 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £18.97 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £38.18 £26.05
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%

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
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 September 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 September 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 0 21 £590 +12.38% 32
Peterborough +1 2 - - 28
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 6
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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
2 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Simulink
1 2 (7.41%) Stateflow
2 1 (3.70%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Datadog
2 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.70%) npm
3 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Artifactory
3 2 (7.41%) CANoe
3 2 (7.41%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.41%) Automotive
3 2 (7.41%) Electronics
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Project Manager
2 6 (22.22%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 4 (14.81%) Programme Manager
5 3 (11.11%) IFS Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
6 2 (7.41%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Deployment Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Embedded Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Scrum Master
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.70%) Express.js
1 1 (3.70%) NgRx
1 1 (3.70%) NumPy
1 1 (3.70%) Pandas
1 1 (3.70%) Playwright
1 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.70%) REST
1 1 (3.70%) RESTful
1 1 (3.70%) RxJS
1 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Genomics
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Change Management
2 8 (29.63%) Project Management
2 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
2 8 (29.63%) Waterfall
3 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) AIOps
6 4 (14.81%) ITSM
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Observability
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Time Management
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (11.11%) ERP
7 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 3 (11.11%) Scrum
7 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) Perl
3 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.41%) MATLAB
4 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) APMG
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.70%) VCAP
4 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
1 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
1 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Grafana
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Splunk
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) IBM
2 3 (11.11%) IFS
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Dell
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.70%) VMware