Agriculture Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Agriculture
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Agriculture in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agriculture over the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Agriculture 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.12% - -
As % of the General category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - -
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £700 £925 £594
% change year-on-year -24.32% +55.79% -20.83%

All General Skills
East of England

Agriculture falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 978 662 1,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 58.53% 60.46% 61.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 307 541
10th Percentile £185 £254 £213
25th Percentile £289 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £528 £545
% change year-on-year -5.21% -3.21% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 106 319
10th Percentile £13.50 - £14.00
25th Percentile £15.79 £15.62 £14.53
Median hourly rate £18.50 £25.58 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -27.68% +29.13% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.69 £50.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £29.12 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.02% +11.98% +1.13%

Agriculture
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agriculture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Agriculture job vacancy trend in the East of England

Agriculture
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Agriculture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Agriculture

Agriculture
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Agriculture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Agriculture

Agriculture
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agriculture within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 January 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
Essex - 1 £505 - 1
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Agriculture
England

Agriculture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Agrochemical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Biology
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Remote Sensing
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft