Physics Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Physics
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Physics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Physics 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.49% 2.65% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 2.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Physics 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 188 170 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 92.16% 89.95% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 80 93
10th Percentile £363 £285 £203
25th Percentile £413 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -4.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £553 £550
90th Percentile £700 £626 £590
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £496 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +9.27% -4.42% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 25
10th Percentile £22.25 £17.13 £17.01
25th Percentile £25.06 £20.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.36% +37.50% -54.55%
75th Percentile £64.59 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Physics job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Physics
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Physics

Physics
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Physics

Physics
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) SciPy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python