Senior Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Senior
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £525 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 33 21 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 22 40 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.46% 6.67% 5.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.18% 7.72% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 26
10th Percentile £336 £275 £308
25th Percentile £350 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £538
90th Percentile £582 £650 £544
East of England median daily rate £542 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -9.67% +20.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £30.05 - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £17.72 -
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.11 £31.85
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +10.24% +42.63%
75th Percentile £36.57 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £36.05 £43.00 £59.31
% change year-on-year -16.17% -27.50% +155.53%

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 425 518 760
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.21% 86.33% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 310 394
10th Percentile £206 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £525
90th Percentile £650 £600 £584
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 103 208
10th Percentile - £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £27.50 £19.88 £15.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £26.44 £20.34
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -7.32%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
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 Senior within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 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 -16 10 £350 -30.00% 107
Peterborough +4 4 - - 6
Huntingdon - 4 £582 - 2
Senior
East of England

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

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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
2 6 (27.27%) CRM
3 5 (22.73%) SAP
4 4 (18.18%) Military
4 4 (18.18%) Automotive
4 4 (18.18%) SAP SD
4 4 (18.18%) Middleware
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 4 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Life Science
5 3 (13.64%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) LIMS
5 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (13.64%) Python
5 3 (13.64%) C
5 3 (13.64%) Billing
5 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 3 (13.64%) Validation
5 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.09%) Firewall
6 2 (9.09%) GAP Analysis

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Simulink
1 2 (9.09%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (18.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) dbt
1 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Automotive
2 4 (18.18%) Military
3 3 (13.64%) Billing
3 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.64%) Marketing
3 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Life Science
1 3 (13.64%) LIMS
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Social Media
2 2 (9.09%) Video Editing
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
2 6 (27.27%) CRM
2 6 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 4 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Validation
5 2 (9.09%) Battery Management
5 2 (9.09%) Blue Team
5 2 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 2 (9.09%) FMEA
5 2 (9.09%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (9.09%) Red Team
5 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) C
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) MATLAB
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) VB
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Adobe
2 2 (9.09%) MathWorks
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk