Information Scientist Contracts in Cambridge

Information Scientist
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Information Scientist daily rate in Cambridge is £408, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Information Scientist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.75% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £379 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 - -
75th Percentile £436 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £408 - -

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 97 178 274
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.09% 91.75% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 106 187
10th Percentile £389 £235 £185
25th Percentile £425 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% -3.23% -2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £663 £644 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 29 16
10th Percentile £16.68 £21.10 £16.49
25th Percentile £20.40 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +156.10% -19.61%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +5.16% +13.47%

Information Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Scientist in Cambridge

Information Scientist Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Information Scientist 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 Information Scientist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) PhD
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
1 2 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (100.00%) Text Mining
1 2 (100.00%) Economics
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Life Science
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Health Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making

Information Scientist 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Text Mining
General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Economics
1 2 (100.00%) Health Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Informatics
1 2 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP