Developer Contracts in Cambridge

Developer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Developer daily rate in Cambridge is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 17 29 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 8.81% 9.67% 12.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.66% 10.39% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 25
10th Percentile £347 £425 £400
25th Percentile £397 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £525
90th Percentile £556 £600 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £463 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -2.63% -2.56% +14.71%
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 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £91.25 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 176 279 306
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 93.00% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 191 194
10th Percentile £235 £185 £273
25th Percentile £363 £291 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £663 £600 £616
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 16
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £16.07
Median hourly rate £46.00 £20.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +124.39% -9.89% +1.49%
75th Percentile £66.63 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 - £71.88
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +5.16% +14.81% -

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Cambridge

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Cambridge

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Cambridge over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Cambridge

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Cambridge region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 7 (41.18%) Java
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
1 7 (41.18%) JUnit
1 7 (41.18%) TDD
1 7 (41.18%) Decision Table
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) Drools
1 7 (41.18%) RESTful
1 7 (41.18%) Mockito
1 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
1 7 (41.18%) Microservices
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
1 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
1 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
1 7 (41.18%) Quarkus
2 4 (23.53%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Workflow
3 3 (17.65%) EDI
3 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 3 (17.65%) C++
3 3 (17.65%) ABAP
3 3 (17.65%) SAP FI-AP
3 3 (17.65%) OpenText
3 3 (17.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 3 (17.65%) IDoc
3 3 (17.65%) Accounts Payable
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Invoice Processing

Developer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 3 (17.65%) SAP FI-AP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) JUnit
1 7 (41.18%) Mockito
2 1 (5.88%) CMake
2 1 (5.88%) MSI
2 1 (5.88%) Xcode
2 1 (5.88%) XCTest
General
1 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Drools
1 7 (41.18%) Quarkus
1 7 (41.18%) RESTful
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
2 3 (17.65%) EDI
2 3 (17.65%) IDoc
3 2 (11.76%) SAP Business Workflow
4 1 (5.88%) Django
4 1 (5.88%) FFmpeg
4 1 (5.88%) NumPy
4 1 (5.88%) Pandas
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) SciPy
4 1 (5.88%) UIKit
4 1 (5.88%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Debian
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
1 7 (41.18%) Decision Table
1 7 (41.18%) Microservices
1 7 (41.18%) TDD
2 4 (23.53%) Workflow
3 3 (17.65%) Accounts Payable
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Invoice Processing
4 2 (11.76%) OCR
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.88%) iOS Development
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Kernel Development
5 1 (5.88%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.88%) Software Licensing
5 1 (5.88%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) ABAP
3 3 (17.65%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) C
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Objective-C
5 1 (5.88%) Swift
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) OpenText
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat