Computer Science Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 38 42
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 18 20 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.54% 4.10% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 4.90% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £370 £329
25th Percentile - £391 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile - £479 £466
90th Percentile - £481 £494
East of England median daily rate £650 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +23.81% +1.94% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £28.53 - -
25th Percentile £28.71 £52.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £31.62 £64.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £31.98 £66.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +21.82% -12.00% +27.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Computer Science 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 286 408 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.00% 83.61% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 134 248
10th Percentile £250 £220 £213
25th Percentile £364 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £581 £538 £538
90th Percentile £684 £634 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 175 171
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.89 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.41 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £24.15 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £27.50
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £21.22
% change year-on-year -8.13% +88.50% +7.12%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science
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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 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 -3 9 £450 - 129
Peterborough +11 4 - - 5
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
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 5 (27.78%) OpenStack
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) CANalyzer
2 1 (5.56%) Simulink
2 1 (5.56%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) DNS
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (38.89%) DHCP
2 7 (38.89%) PuTTY
3 4 (22.22%) iSCSI
3 4 (22.22%) SAN
4 2 (11.11%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) Wireless
4 2 (11.11%) WLAN
5 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) JIRA
2 6 (33.33%) GitLab
3 5 (27.78%) TeamCity
4 2 (11.11%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.56%) CANoe
5 1 (5.56%) Git
5 1 (5.56%) Selenium
5 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 7 (38.89%) Manufacturing
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
1 7 (38.89%) Network Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Administrator
2 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Network Support
2 5 (27.78%) Network Support Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Network Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Design Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Celery
1 1 (5.56%) D3.js
1 1 (5.56%) Django
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) Sass
1 1 (5.56%) Vue
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) CentOS
2 4 (22.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (27.78%) ITSM
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.11%) Data Science
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (11.11%) Workload Management
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) MATLAB
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Degree
2 12 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (38.89%) CCNA
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
1 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) ServiceNow
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco
4 5 (27.78%) VMware
5 3 (16.67%) IBM
6 2 (11.11%) Google
6 2 (11.11%) Peregrine
6 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (11.11%) Remedy