Computer Science Degree Contracts in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 3 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.63% 3.61% 2.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.54% 11.11% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £442 £445
25th Percentile - £444 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £509 £569
90th Percentile - £525 £595
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - £465 £500
% change year-on-year - -7.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 26 63 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 22.81% 32.47% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 23
10th Percentile £347 £350 £226
25th Percentile £392 £396 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £556
90th Percentile £633 £800 £594
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £15.50 £17.49
25th Percentile - £18.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £17.80 £45.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.52% +28.81% +75.00%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - £56.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.87 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -2.64% +5.16% +6.90%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Security Patching
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Workload Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Market Research
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat