Data Science Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Data Science
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Data Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 39 47
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Science 12 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.36% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 0.64% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £288 - £526
25th Percentile £363 £475 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -14.89% +27.03%
75th Percentile £484 £525 £622
90th Percentile £585 - £639
East of England median daily rate £625 £395 £575
% change year-on-year +58.23% -31.30% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.52
East of England median hourly rate - - £39.01
% change year-on-year - - -29.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Data 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 319 311 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 89.36% 82.49% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 110 161
10th Percentile £313 £277 £219
25th Percentile £406 £343 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -
75th Percentile £625 £567 £563
90th Percentile £700 £626 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 88 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £22.25 £18.06 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -4.76%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Data Science job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Science

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Cambridgeshire

Data Science
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Data Science

Data 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 Data Science within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 5 November 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 +1 12 £400 -20.00% 15
Data Science
East of England

Data Science
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 1 (8.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JMeter
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Science Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 7 (58.33%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) TensorFlow
3 6 (50.00%) scikit-learn
4 3 (25.00%) Pandas
4 3 (25.00%) pytest
4 3 (25.00%) RESTful
4 3 (25.00%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (8.33%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
2 11 (91.67%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
4 8 (66.67%) Agile
4 8 (66.67%) LLM
4 8 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
4 8 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
5 7 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (58.33%) Scrum
5 7 (58.33%) Validation
6 6 (50.00%) Model Validation
7 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 4 (33.33%) Deep Learning
7 4 (33.33%) DevOps
7 4 (33.33%) Observability
7 4 (33.33%) OWASP
7 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
7 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) EU AI Act
1 7 (58.33%) NIST
2 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Foundry