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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 14 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.83% 3.93% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.05% 23.53% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £389 £379 -
25th Percentile £399 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £425 £338
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +25.93% -
75th Percentile £444 £475 £344
90th Percentile £448 £715 -
East of England median daily rate £478 £438 £400
% change year-on-year +9.14% +9.38% -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% -

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 93 68 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 25.41% 16.71% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 40
10th Percentile £379 £225 £272
25th Percentile £443 £284 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £605 £566 £551
90th Percentile £625 £604 £614
East of England median daily rate £538 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.63% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 78
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 -
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.30 £13.41
Median hourly rate £19.44 £21.37 £17.73
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +20.53% +14.39%
75th Percentile £26.61 £27.21 £20.56
90th Percentile £33.38 £49.82 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £21.73
% change year-on-year -41.51% +97.88% +3.48%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend 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 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 -13 6 £428 +0.59% 11
Peterborough - 3 - -
Computer Science Degree
East of England

Computer Science Degree
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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (50.00%) DHCP
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
1 7 (50.00%) PuTTY
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wireless
2 2 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) webpack
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 7 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Multimedia
3 1 (7.14%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
1 7 (50.00%) Network Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Network Support
2 5 (35.71%) Network Support Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Network Support Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) React
2 2 (14.29%) Celery
2 2 (14.29%) D3.js
2 2 (14.29%) Django
2 2 (14.29%) Sass
2 2 (14.29%) Vue
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Smartphone
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Security Patching
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
2 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (14.29%) Web Development
2 2 (14.29%) Workload Management
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bourne shell
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (50.00%) CCNA
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
3 3 (21.43%) IBM
4 2 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (14.29%) Peregrine
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) Remedy