Computer Science Contracts in Cambridge

Computer Science
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science 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 15 21 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 5 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.39% 5.67% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 6.21% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £269 £441
25th Percentile - £440 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -4.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £535 £547
90th Percentile - £604 £586
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - £465 £463
% change year-on-year - +0.54% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -
75th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Computer Science 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 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Cambridge

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Cambridge

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Cambridge

Computer Science
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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Data Management
1 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (40.00%) ERP
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (40.00%) Security Patching
1 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (40.00%) Workload Management
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) IFS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat