Senior Contracts in Cambridge

Senior
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Senior daily rate in Cambridge is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 10 36 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.21% 12.12% 10.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.68% 13.04% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 17
10th Percentile £284 £313 £343
25th Percentile £337 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £502 £581 £538
90th Percentile £675 £650 £550
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.42 £17.72 -
Median hourly rate £27.67 £35.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% - -
75th Percentile £28.93 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £36.00 £35.11 £31.85
% change year-on-year +2.53% +10.24% +42.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridge with a recognized job title 176 276 302
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 92.93% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 188 190
10th Percentile £235 £185 £313
25th Percentile £350 £309 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -2.37% +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £529
90th Percentile £644 £600 £588
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 17
10th Percentile £19.70 £16.49 £14.99
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £20.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +156.10% -19.61% +14.20%
75th Percentile £66.50 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 - £69.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% +14.81% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cambridge

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Senior in Cambridge

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cambridge over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cambridge

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Cambridge

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Red Team
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Team
2 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (20.00%) Product Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Video Editing
2 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Social Media

Senior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Social Media
2 2 (20.00%) Video Editing
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) CRM
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (20.00%) Product Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (20.00%) SIEM
2 2 (20.00%) Social Media Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk