AI Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

AI
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 35 46
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing AI 32 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.74% 2.62% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.73% 3.17% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 1
10th Percentile £359 £383 -
25th Percentile £413 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £650 £475 £538
90th Percentile £863 £521 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £452 £525
% change year-on-year +21.68% -13.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.25 £16.72 -
Median hourly rate £43.50 £17.47 -
Median % change year-on-year +149.00% - -
75th Percentile £44.75 £18.22 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £17.47 £72.50
% change year-on-year +272.07% -75.90% +38.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

AI 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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 329 347 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.89% 82.62% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 121 174
10th Percentile £259 £247 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.64% -4.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £552
90th Percentile £700 £638 £613
East of England median daily rate £501 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.22% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 118 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £17.71 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £49.88 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £30.11 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.31% +50.53% -4.76%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

AI job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

AI
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing AI

AI
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing AI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing AI

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +16 29 £550 +21.68% 67
AI
East of England

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 8 (25.00%) PaaS
3 8 (25.00%) Serverless
4 7 (21.88%) Azure Functions
4 7 (21.88%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Slack
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.13%) GCP
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) 802.11
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
1 1 (3.13%) WAN
1 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) MS Access
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) JMeter
1 2 (6.25%) Postman
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) MLflow
2 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (15.63%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Scientist
4 3 (9.38%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Programme Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) .NET
2 10 (31.25%) PyTorch
3 9 (28.13%) RESTful
3 9 (28.13%) TensorFlow
4 7 (21.88%) Semantic Kernel
5 4 (12.50%) scikit-learn
6 3 (9.38%) Pandas
7 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
7 1 (3.13%) CSS
7 1 (3.13%) HTML
7 1 (3.13%) NumPy
7 1 (3.13%) pytest
7 1 (3.13%) React
7 1 (3.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (40.63%) Cloud Native
2 8 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.38%) Life Science
4 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.13%) Digital Signage
5 1 (3.13%) Genomics
5 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.13%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Machine Learning
2 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 14 (43.75%) LLM
2 14 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (43.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 11 (34.38%) Data Privacy
4 11 (34.38%) Prompt Engineering
5 8 (25.00%) API Management
5 8 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (25.00%) Data Science
5 8 (25.00%) DevOps
5 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 7 (21.88%) Deep Learning
6 7 (21.88%) Observability
6 7 (21.88%) Scrum
6 7 (21.88%) Validation
7 6 (18.75%) API Design
7 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (3.13%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) MCP
2 4 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CCIE
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) EU AI Act
2 9 (28.13%) NIST
3 3 (9.38%) QA
4 1 (3.13%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Grafana
3 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Foundry
3 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Meraki
4 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto