AI Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

AI
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 24 29
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing AI 29 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 14.65% 4.93% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.02% 5.46% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 1
10th Percentile £359 £374 -
25th Percentile £413 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £452 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.68% -13.90% -
75th Percentile £650 £480 £538
90th Percentile £863 £534 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.25 £16.72 -
Median hourly rate £43.50 £17.47 -
Median % change year-on-year +149.00% - -
75th Percentile £44.75 £18.22 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £43.50 £17.47 -
% change year-on-year +149.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

AI 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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 183 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.41% 90.15% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 87 101
10th Percentile £350 £255 £201
25th Percentile £413 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £568 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £588
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +15.64% -4.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 22
10th Percentile £19.00 £19.80 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +162.50% -61.90%
75th Percentile £61.68 £63.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.50 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

AI job vacancy trend in Cambridge

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Cambridge over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Cambridge

AI
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing AI

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) Azure AKS
3 8 (27.59%) PaaS
3 8 (27.59%) Serverless
4 7 (24.14%) Azure Functions
4 7 (24.14%) GitHub
4 7 (24.14%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.90%) Slack
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) 802.11
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.45%) VPN
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
1 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) MS Access
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) JMeter
1 2 (6.90%) Postman
1 2 (6.90%) Selenium
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) MLflow
2 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (13.79%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Scientist
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Programme Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Programme Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) .NET
2 10 (34.48%) PyTorch
3 9 (31.03%) RESTful
3 9 (31.03%) TensorFlow
4 7 (24.14%) Semantic Kernel
5 4 (13.79%) scikit-learn
6 3 (10.34%) Pandas
7 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
7 1 (3.45%) CSS
7 1 (3.45%) HTML
7 1 (3.45%) NumPy
7 1 (3.45%) pytest
7 1 (3.45%) React
7 1 (3.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Cloud Native
2 8 (27.59%) Algorithms
3 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.34%) Life Science
4 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.45%) Genomics
5 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Machine Learning
2 14 (48.28%) LLM
2 14 (48.28%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (41.38%) Agile
4 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
4 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
5 11 (37.93%) Prompt Engineering
6 10 (34.48%) Data Privacy
7 8 (27.59%) API Management
7 8 (27.59%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (27.59%) Data Science
7 8 (27.59%) DevOps
7 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
8 7 (24.14%) Deep Learning
8 7 (24.14%) Observability
8 7 (24.14%) Scrum
9 6 (20.69%) API Design
9 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (20.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 1 (3.45%) Java
2 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) MCP
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) CCIE
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) EU AI Act
2 9 (31.03%) NIST
3 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Foundry
3 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Meraki
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto