Senior Software Developer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Senior Software Developer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Senior Software Developer daily rate in Cambridge is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Developer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.98% - 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £560 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - £479
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £580 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £570 - £479
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 179 183 206
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 91.50% 92.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 92 114
10th Percentile £250 £227 £168
25th Percentile £400 £330 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £423 £465
Median % change year-on-year +20.41% -9.14% -4.62%
75th Percentile £623 £562 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 25
10th Percentile £26.53 £22.09 £17.01
25th Percentile £38.75 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £49.10 £53.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +203.33% -59.73%
75th Percentile £69.38 £62.19 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £17.72
% change year-on-year -30.12% +29.20% +14.32%

Senior Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Software Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Senior Software Developer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Senior Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Software Developer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Software Developer job vacancies in Cambridge

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Senior Software Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Senior Software Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless

Senior Software Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) EU AI Act
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
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