Degree Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 32 70 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.22% 13.73% 9.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.55% 49.30% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 16
10th Percentile £188 - £226
25th Percentile £195 £350 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £410 £463
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% -11.35% -2.63%
75th Percentile £263 £475 £494
90th Percentile £436 £575 £555
East of England median daily rate £500 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £16.88 £26.42 -
25th Percentile £19.93 £26.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.05 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.77% +39.98% +66.13%
75th Percentile £31.62 £57.13 £29.88
90th Percentile £36.34 £66.25 £37.30
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -22.73% -6.38% +117.59%

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 83 142 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.52% 27.84% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 26 46
10th Percentile £195 £288 £257
25th Percentile £200 £352 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -13.68% -
75th Percentile £550 £481 £560
90th Percentile £609 £688 £616
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 75 81
10th Percentile - £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.99 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.15 £21.37 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.43% +37.87% -
75th Percentile £18.60 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £31.00 £36.54 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.00 £42.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +103.57% +5.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Cambridgeshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Cambridgeshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Cambridgeshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Cambridgeshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 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 -13 14 £408 -0.61% 259
Peterborough +11 12 £200 +11.11% 41
Degree
East of England

Degree
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 (15.63%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) SAS
3 1 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (9.38%) Simulink
3 3 (9.38%) Stateflow
4 1 (3.13%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (9.38%) Azure
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) DNS
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (21.88%) DHCP
2 7 (21.88%) PuTTY
3 4 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 4 (12.50%) SAN
4 2 (6.25%) Firewall
4 2 (6.25%) LAN
4 2 (6.25%) WAN
4 2 (6.25%) Wireless
4 2 (6.25%) WLAN
5 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
1 2 (6.25%) Text Mining
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) GitLab
2 5 (15.63%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.25%) CANoe
3 2 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
4 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
2 7 (21.88%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (9.38%) Automotive
5 2 (6.25%) Electronics
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Network Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Administrator
3 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Network Support
3 5 (15.63%) Network Support Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Network Support Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Information Scientist
6 2 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Coordinator
7 1 (3.13%) Embedded Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Design Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Celery
1 1 (3.13%) D3.js
1 1 (3.13%) Django
1 1 (3.13%) React
1 1 (3.13%) Sass
1 1 (3.13%) Vue
1 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) CMDB
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Life Science
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Robotics
4 1 (3.13%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) CentOS
2 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Computer Science
2 12 (37.50%) ITSM
3 6 (18.75%) Agile
3 6 (18.75%) Asset Management
3 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
3 6 (18.75%) Data Entry
3 6 (18.75%) Inventory Management
3 6 (18.75%) IT Asset Management
3 6 (18.75%) Service Management
3 6 (18.75%) Time Management
4 5 (15.63%) Change Management
4 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
5 4 (12.50%) Data Science
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Analytics
6 3 (9.38%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (9.38%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) MATLAB
2 5 (15.63%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (21.88%) CCNA
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) CCNP
4 2 (6.25%) PhD
5 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.13%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
1 5 (15.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (31.25%) ServiceNow
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) IBM
5 2 (6.25%) Peregrine
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) Remedy
5 2 (6.25%) SAP