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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing Data Science 7 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.02% 0.48% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 0.59% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £330
25th Percentile £250 £475 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £436 £525 -
90th Percentile £482 - £503
East of England median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -27.42%

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 307 340 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.47% 80.76% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 109 210
10th Percentile £250 £220 £225
25th Percentile £400 £333 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £442 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.78% -1.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £547
90th Percentile £700 £638 £596
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 141 191
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £19.00 £18.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £27.50
East of England median hourly rate £26.34 £39.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -33.32% +99.39% -2.17%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 0 7 £408 -18.50% 10
Data Science
East of England

Data 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 2 (28.57%) OpenStack
1 2 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
2 2 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) TeamCity
3 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
1 4 (57.14%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Information Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) NumPy
1 1 (14.29%) Pandas
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (28.57%) Life Science
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Economics
2 2 (28.57%) Health Informatics
2 2 (28.57%) Informatics
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Ontologies
2 2 (28.57%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Visual Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (14.29%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Salt
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) VMware