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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Agile 36 40 28
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 9.33% 12.38% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.98% 14.34% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 14
10th Percentile £356 £406 £386
25th Percentile £395 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -4.19% +2.38%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £613
90th Percentile £674 £708 £634
East of England median daily rate £497 £444 £500
% change year-on-year +11.89% -11.25% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.54 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £23.41 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -68.79% +181.69%
75th Percentile - £26.60 £77.50
90th Percentile - £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 328 279 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.97% 86.38% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 132
10th Percentile £224 £306 £202
25th Percentile £355 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £614 £562 £571
90th Percentile £676 £644 £650
East of England median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 66 177
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.61 £21.46 £16.50
90th Percentile £43.69 £28.93 £21.37
East of England median hourly rate £20.88 £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -30.42% +40.78% -3.14%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 -3 33 £513 +5.13% 23
Huntingdon - 2 £363 - 1
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 5 (13.89%) OpenStack
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) IIS
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Weka
2 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) Azure
2 11 (30.56%) Azure AKS
3 10 (27.78%) GitHub
3 10 (27.78%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (27.78%) PaaS
4 9 (25.00%) Serverless
5 8 (22.22%) AWS
5 8 (22.22%) Azure Functions
6 6 (16.67%) GCP
7 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (13.89%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.56%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.56%) Nutanix
8 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) DHCP
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
1 2 (5.56%) JMeter
1 2 (5.56%) Postman
1 2 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (2.78%) MLflow
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Developer
1 7 (19.44%) Senior
2 6 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.33%) IFS Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) QA Leader
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) .NET
2 11 (30.56%) PyTorch
2 11 (30.56%) RESTful
3 10 (27.78%) Semantic Kernel
3 10 (27.78%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.56%) Pandas
4 2 (5.56%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.78%) CSS
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) NumPy
5 1 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (27.78%) Algorithms
3 6 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 6 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 5 (13.89%) Grid Computing
5 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.78%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) AI
2 17 (47.22%) Machine Learning
2 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (44.44%) LLM
3 16 (44.44%) Prompt Engineering
4 15 (41.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 15 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 13 (36.11%) Data Privacy
5 13 (36.11%) DevOps
6 11 (30.56%) API Management
6 11 (30.56%) Scrum
6 11 (30.56%) Software Engineering
7 9 (25.00%) API Design
7 9 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (25.00%) Deep Learning
7 9 (25.00%) Validation
8 8 (22.22%) Data Science
9 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Rapid Prototyping
10 5 (13.89%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) Bash
4 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) Perl
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Ruby
5 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) MCP
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (41.67%) EU AI Act
2 14 (38.89%) NIST
3 4 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) GRC
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) GPFS
2 5 (13.89%) Lustre
2 5 (13.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Consul
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) Salt
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Foundry
3 3 (8.33%) IFS
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow