DSP Engineer Contracts in Cambridge

DSP Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median DSP Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 30 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DSP Engineer 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.45% 0.50% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.90% 0.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 154 179 231
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.51% 89.50% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 85 152
10th Percentile £250 £225 £185
25th Percentile £424 £333 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £536
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £494 £423 £450
% change year-on-year +16.86% -6.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 17
10th Percentile £15.45 £20.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £28.35 £25.00 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +35.87% +159.59% -68.91%
75th Percentile £66.88 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.63 £61.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.74 £21.37 £15.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% +37.87% +6.90%

DSP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for DSP Engineer in Cambridge

DSP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for DSP Engineer in Cambridge

DSP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for DSP Engineer in Cambridge

DSP Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DSP Engineer in Cambridge over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DSP Engineer in Cambridge

DSP Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 21 July 2025, DSP Engineer 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 DSP Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
1 6 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
1 6 (100.00%) NB-IoT
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter

DSP Engineer 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
1 6 (100.00%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter