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 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 22 45 47
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.71% 13.76% 11.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.91% 65.22% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 24
10th Percentile £321 £407 £275
25th Percentile £383 £413 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £444 £471
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -5.84% -3.33%
75th Percentile £450 £508 £563
90th Percentile £564 £638 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile £20.65 £22.54 -
25th Percentile £28.38 £23.03 £14.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.75 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.05% +80.70% -52.50%
75th Percentile £44.25 £28.38 £18.69
90th Percentile £44.55 £28.93 £23.14
East of England median hourly rate £42.00 £75.00 £38.95
% change year-on-year -44.00% +92.55% -29.18%

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 92 69 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.90% 21.10% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 40
10th Percentile £335 £247 £273
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £503
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.58% -2.99%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £613
90th Percentile £625 £650 £653
East of England median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 62
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 - £13.56
Median hourly rate £23.05 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +51.55% -16.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.20 £20.56
90th Percentile - £28.27 £21.45
East of England median hourly rate £22.79 £58.75 £30.48
% change year-on-year -61.21% +92.78% +45.12%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 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 -16 20 £428 -11.86% 121
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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.64%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.55%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.55%) Google Ads
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) InfiniBand
2 1 (4.55%) PuTTY
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) MS Access
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Selenium
1 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Multimedia
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
1 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Analyst
2 2 (9.09%) Audio Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Coordinator
3 1 (4.55%) Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Designer
3 1 (4.55%) Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Network Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Network Support
3 1 (4.55%) Network Support Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 2 (9.09%) React
1 2 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Celery
2 1 (4.55%) D3.js
2 1 (4.55%) Django
2 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) Sass
2 1 (4.55%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.55%) Vue
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Augmented Reality
1 3 (13.64%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
1 3 (13.64%) Robotics
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Acoustics
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Life Science
3 1 (4.55%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.55%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (9.09%) Windows
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 5 (22.73%) Data Collection
2 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
2 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) AI
4 3 (13.64%) Case Management
4 3 (13.64%) Cyber Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Data Enrichment
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Security Operations
4 3 (13.64%) SIEM
4 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
4 3 (13.64%) Time Management
4 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) C++
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Bourne shell
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Master's Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.55%) MBA
3 1 (4.55%) MCP
3 1 (4.55%) PhD
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) GPFS
1 1 (4.55%) Lustre
1 1 (4.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Consul
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Cadence
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Foundry
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Vertica