Degree Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Academic Degree
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 42 32 46
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.32% 9.01% 10.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.52% 39.02% 60.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 8
10th Percentile £168 £287 £209
25th Percentile £196 £379 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £408 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% -4.12% -2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £447 £475
90th Percentile £580 £450 £505
East of England median daily rate £350 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -28.21% +14.71% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile - £18.12 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £22.05 £22.54
Median hourly rate £21.75 £30.00 £25.54
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +17.46% +21.62%
75th Percentile £35.29 £31.00 £28.93
90th Percentile £42.13 £31.74 -
East of England median hourly rate £63.00 £42.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year +48.24% -28.57% +8.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 115 82 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 31.00% 23.10% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 25 11
10th Percentile £183 £258 £225
25th Percentile £356 £400 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.15% +14.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £606 £604 £525
90th Percentile £675 £625 £588
East of England median daily rate £507 £529 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +5.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 29
10th Percentile £15.00 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.99 £16.30
Median hourly rate £41.25 £16.30 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +153.07% -23.72% +7.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £25.15 -
90th Percentile - £31.00 £28.93
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +77.87%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Cambridgeshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Cambridgeshire

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 Degree within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +8 33 £505 +23.93% 355
St Neots - 3 £185 - 9
Peterborough +5 2 - - 36
Degree
East of England

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 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.38%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.52%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) GCP
4 3 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) VPN
2 4 (9.52%) Wireless
3 3 (7.14%) RS-232
3 3 (7.14%) RS-485
4 1 (2.38%) DHCP
4 1 (2.38%) DNS
4 1 (2.38%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Metadata
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) MSTest
4 2 (4.76%) Ranorex
5 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.38%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
5 4 (9.52%) Electronics
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing
6 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) Senior
3 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (9.52%) C# Developer
4 4 (9.52%) C# WPF Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Software Developer
4 4 (9.52%) WPF Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Embedded Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Embedded Software Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Firmware Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) .NET
2 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
2 4 (9.52%) .NET Framework
2 4 (9.52%) Entity Framework
2 4 (9.52%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 4 (9.52%) RESTful
2 4 (9.52%) Silverlight
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) WCF
2 4 (9.52%) Web Services
2 4 (9.52%) WPF
3 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Acoustics
2 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.14%) Robotics
4 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.76%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (4.76%) Blog
4 2 (4.76%) BYOD
4 2 (4.76%) Genomics
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.76%) Omics
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Social Media
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (2.38%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Computer Science
2 14 (33.33%) DevOps
3 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 11 (26.19%) Integration Testing
5 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (16.67%) Data Collection
7 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 7 (16.67%) Migration
7 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (14.29%) Agile
8 6 (14.29%) AI
8 6 (14.29%) Change Control
8 6 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 6 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 6 (14.29%) Project Management
8 6 (14.29%) Scrum
8 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.90%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) C#
3 5 (11.90%) C++
4 4 (9.52%) Bash
4 4 (9.52%) C
4 4 (9.52%) XAML
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.14%) R
5 3 (7.14%) SQL
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) Perl
6 2 (4.76%) X++
7 1 (2.38%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Master's Degree
2 7 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (16.67%) PhD
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.52%) A+ Certification
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.38%) CISM
6 1 (2.38%) CISSP
6 1 (2.38%) ISACA
6 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.38%) PMP
6 1 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GxP
2 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Firmware
2 3 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.38%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) GPFS
3 1 (2.38%) Lustre
3 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) Puppet
3 2 (4.76%) HP ALM
3 2 (4.76%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.38%) Consul
4 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) HP
2 2 (4.76%) SAP
2 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.76%) Siemens
3 1 (2.38%) Ariba
3 1 (2.38%) EMC
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.38%) Zscaler