Computer Science Degree Contracts 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 46 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 12 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.93% 1.91% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.46% 6.71% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £370 -
25th Percentile - £391 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile - £479 £513
90th Percentile - £481 -
East of England median daily rate - £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £42.48 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £52.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £66.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% -3.85% +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 83 149 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 27.21% 28.49% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 45
10th Percentile £195 £225 £251
25th Percentile £200 £352 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -13.68% -
75th Percentile £550 £572 £563
90th Percentile £609 £800 £619
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 79 81
10th Percentile - £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.15 £21.37 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.43% +37.87% -
75th Percentile £18.60 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £31.00 £36.51 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £35.37 £41.38 £21.00
% change year-on-year -14.54% +97.06% +5.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire

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 2 July 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 +2 4 - - 92
Peterborough +12 3 - - 20
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (58.33%) DHCP
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
1 7 (58.33%) PuTTY
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
2 2 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) webpack
General
1 7 (58.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) Network Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Network Support
2 5 (41.67%) Network Support Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Celery
1 1 (8.33%) D3.js
1 1 (8.33%) Django
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Sass
1 1 (8.33%) Vue
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Security Patching
3 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (16.67%) Workload Management
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (8.33%) Product Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (58.33%) CCNA
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Peregrine
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Remedy