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 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 24 39
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +18
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.55% 4.23% 1.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.33% 20.31% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £353
25th Percentile £383 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £428 £650 £498
90th Percentile - £785 £520
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +22.22% +20.00% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.50
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
75th Percentile - - £51.38
90th Percentile - - £60.30
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £38.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +6.94% -

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 86 64 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.63% 20.85% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 51
10th Percentile £321 £247 £275
25th Percentile £400 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £663
90th Percentile £625 £650 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.46% -7.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 75
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.58 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +51.55% -16.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.89 £20.56
90th Percentile - £28.06 £21.78
East of England median hourly rate £22.27 £63.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year -64.66% +154.55% +17.86%

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 January 2026. 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 -19 2 £405 -19.00% 14
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (50.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Celery
2 1 (50.00%) D3.js
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Inertial Measurement
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bourne shell
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree