Developer Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Developer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Developer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 23 47 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.65% 7.91% 7.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.39% 9.14% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 40
10th Percentile £363 - £315
25th Percentile £366 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £541 £538
90th Percentile £500 £574 £550
East of England median daily rate £430 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -9.47% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £87.13 - -
25th Percentile £88.44 - -
Median hourly rate £91.25 - -
75th Percentile £93.44 - -
90th Percentile £94.38 - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% +27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 427 514 757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.26% 86.53% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 310 394
10th Percentile £206 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £276 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.22%
75th Percentile £563 £534 £525
90th Percentile £650 £600 £588
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 101 206
10th Percentile - £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +13.47% +1.19%
75th Percentile £27.50 £20.25 £15.75
90th Percentile £59.63 £26.67 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
% change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -11.68%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
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 Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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 -6 16 £450 -10.00% 32
Developer
East of England

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Developer 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Workflow
3 7 (30.43%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) TDD
3 7 (30.43%) Spring
3 7 (30.43%) Decision Table
3 7 (30.43%) JUnit
3 7 (30.43%) Drools
3 7 (30.43%) RESTful
3 7 (30.43%) Mockito
3 7 (30.43%) Git
3 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
3 7 (30.43%) Docker
3 7 (30.43%) Microservices
3 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
3 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) Quarkus
4 6 (26.09%) Web Development
5 5 (21.74%) C
5 5 (21.74%) C#
6 4 (17.39%) .NET
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
6 4 (17.39%) REST
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (17.39%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
6 4 (17.39%) PowerApps
6 4 (17.39%) Power Automate

Developer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 3 (13.04%) SAP FI-AP
2 2 (8.70%) Shopify
3 1 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (17.39%) Power Automate
1 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
1 4 (17.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
1 7 (30.43%) JUnit
1 7 (30.43%) Mockito
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (4.35%) Xcode
3 1 (4.35%) XCTest
General
1 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Drools
1 7 (30.43%) Quarkus
1 7 (30.43%) RESTful
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
1 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) REST
3 3 (13.04%) EDI
3 3 (13.04%) IDoc
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Business Workflow
5 1 (4.35%) Django
5 1 (4.35%) FFmpeg
5 1 (4.35%) NumPy
5 1 (4.35%) Pandas
5 1 (4.35%) React
5 1 (4.35%) SciPy
5 1 (4.35%) UIKit
5 1 (4.35%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Workflow
2 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
2 7 (30.43%) Decision Table
2 7 (30.43%) Microservices
2 7 (30.43%) TDD
3 6 (26.09%) Web Development
4 3 (13.04%) Accounts Payable
5 2 (8.70%) Analytics
5 2 (8.70%) B2C
5 2 (8.70%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.70%) Invoice Processing
5 2 (8.70%) OCR
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.35%) iOS Development
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Kernel Development
6 1 (4.35%) Multithreading
6 1 (4.35%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) C
3 5 (21.74%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) ABAP
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) C++
6 1 (4.35%) Objective-C
6 1 (4.35%) Swift
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) OpenText
1 3 (13.04%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft