Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science Degree
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 +9
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 13 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.72% 2.58% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.46% 14.86% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £368 -
25th Percentile - £384 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £338
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +25.93% -
75th Percentile - £456 £344
90th Percentile - £468 -
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -4.50% +25.00% -28.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% -23.08% +32.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 79 74 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 22.64% 17.33% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 41
10th Percentile £209 £225 £226
25th Percentile £395 £291 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £550
90th Percentile £629 £588 £575
East of England median daily rate £529 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.80% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 79
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.77 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +27.81%
75th Percentile £24.65 - £20.56
90th Percentile £31.00 £28.46 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £28.77 £43.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -33.10% +104.76% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
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 Computer Science Degree within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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 -6 5 £450 +5.88% 19
Peterborough - 3 - - 1
Computer Science Degree
East of England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (53.85%) DHCP
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
1 7 (53.85%) PuTTY
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wireless
2 2 (15.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
1 2 (15.38%) webpack
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 7 (53.85%) Manufacturing
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
1 7 (53.85%) Network Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Network Support
2 5 (38.46%) Network Support Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Network Support Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Celery
1 2 (15.38%) D3.js
1 2 (15.38%) Django
1 2 (15.38%) React
1 2 (15.38%) Sass
1 2 (15.38%) Vue
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Team
2 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Change Management
2 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Security Patching
2 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
2 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (15.38%) Web Development
2 2 (15.38%) Workload Management
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (53.85%) CCNA
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) Google
4 2 (15.38%) Peregrine
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) Remedy