Senior Contracts in Cambridge

Senior
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Senior daily rate in Cambridge is £488, 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 11 22 5
Rank change year-on-year +11 -17 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 9 10 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.89% 5.15% 12.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.28% 5.62% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 24
10th Percentile - £284 £313
25th Percentile £379 £337 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% -30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £502 £581
90th Percentile £565 £675 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £408 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -22.38% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.42 £17.72
Median hourly rate - £27.67 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year - -21.19% -
75th Percentile - £28.93 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £36.00 £35.11
% change year-on-year - +2.53% +10.24%

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%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cambridge

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Cambridge

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cambridge

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Cambridge

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

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

1 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Avamar
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (22.22%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (22.22%) Health Informatics
2 2 (22.22%) Data Science
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) VxRail
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
2 2 (22.22%) Ontologies
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
2 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
2 2 (22.22%) Informatics
2 2 (22.22%) Life Science
2 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Text Mining
2 2 (22.22%) Economics
2 2 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft

Senior 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 (22.22%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
1 2 (22.22%) Text Mining
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Benchmarking
2 2 (22.22%) Data Science
2 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) Economics
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (22.22%) Health Informatics
2 2 (22.22%) Informatics
2 2 (22.22%) Ontologies
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) MATLAB
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) PhD
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) GCFE
3 1 (11.11%) GCIH
3 1 (11.11%) GIAC
3 1 (11.11%) GREM
3 1 (11.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) KVM
2 1 (11.11%) QEMU
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Avamar
1 2 (22.22%) VxRail
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dell
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
322 Senior jobs in Cambridgeshire