Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Onboarding
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 14 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 6.93% - 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.73% - 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £360 - £233
25th Percentile £419 - £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £634 - £338
90th Percentile £690 - £368
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £513 - £325
% change year-on-year - - +12.34%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 102 67 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 50.50% 33.67% 48.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 54
10th Percentile £360 £330 £194
25th Percentile £409 £450 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +18.28% -7.00%
75th Percentile £651 £638 £523
90th Percentile £735 £650 £571
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £531 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -1.16% +13.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £18.30 £22.44 £53.75
25th Percentile £23.00 £38.75 £56.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% -14.81% +315.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £69.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.83% -4.17% +116.22%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Onboarding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Cambridge over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Cambridge

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Onboarding.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (35.71%) Slack
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.14%) OCI
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.14%) Designer
3 1 (7.14%) HR Assistant
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Support Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Designer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.14%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Framer.js
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) XML
1 1 (7.14%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Migration
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
3 6 (42.86%) Observability
3 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) RBAC
4 5 (35.71%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
7 2 (14.29%) AI
7 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 2 (14.29%) SIEM
7 2 (14.29%) SOAR
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 6 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Dynatrace
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Virgin Media
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle