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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 17 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -26
Contract jobs citing Agile 23 26 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.79% 9.42% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.08% 10.61% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 7
10th Percentile - £376 £368
25th Percentile £356 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% +4.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £447 £555 £550
90th Percentile £488 £674 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £28.41 £26.42
Median hourly rate - £30.32 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year - +9.58% -
75th Percentile - £32.23 £28.93
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -0.38%

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 325 245 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.86% 88.77% 82.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 130 149
10th Percentile £168 £296 £200
25th Percentile £280 £402 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £680
East of England median daily rate £492 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -1.60% +9.89% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 53 193
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £20.43 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% +8.20% +3.45%
75th Percentile £29.56 £18.85 £21.46
90th Percentile £39.50 £26.00 £48.60
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.43% - +81.82%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -5 16 £413 -24.14% 23
Huntingdon 0 5 £363 -5.23% 5
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 (26.09%) Apache
2 5 (21.74%) IIS
3 3 (13.04%) OpenStack
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Weka
2 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
5 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
6 3 (13.04%) Mimecast
6 3 (13.04%) Nutanix
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) DHCP
2 3 (13.04%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) MSTest
2 2 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Switch Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Network Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Network Support
3 2 (8.70%) Network Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Scrum Master
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Project Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) ADO
1 2 (8.70%) Node.js
1 2 (8.70%) React
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.04%) Grid Computing
2 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) NHS
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Analytics
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL
3 6 (26.09%) PRINCE2
4 5 (21.74%) Code Quality
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Server Building
5 4 (17.39%) AI
5 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.04%) Defect Management
6 3 (13.04%) ETL
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) Test Management
6 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) C++
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
1 3 (13.04%) GPFS
1 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
1 3 (13.04%) Lustre
1 3 (13.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Puppet
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) HP ALM
3 2 (8.70%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (4.35%) Consul
4 1 (4.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Cisco
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
1 5 (21.74%) Palo Alto
1 5 (21.74%) SolarWinds
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.70%) HP
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.70%) Siemens
3 1 (4.35%) IFS
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) SAP