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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 30 30 73
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 8.60% 10.14% 13.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.00% 37.50% 46.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 26
10th Percentile - £188 £288
25th Percentile £168 £195 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £271 £200 £410
Median % change year-on-year +35.63% -51.22% -11.35%
75th Percentile £484 £263 £533
90th Percentile £515 £436 £688
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £458
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.29% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.93 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.13 £23.64 £20.21
Median hourly rate £29.34 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -16.67% +39.81%
75th Percentile £33.69 £31.92 £42.28
90th Percentile £38.89 £37.37 £66.25
East of England median hourly rate £31.18 £58.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.48% +5.91% -4.35%

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 100 80 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.65% 27.03% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 28 37
10th Percentile £168 £195 £300
25th Percentile £214 £199 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £618 £550 £700
90th Percentile £675 £604 £800
East of England median daily rate £506 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 86
10th Percentile £16.01 - £14.16
25th Percentile £18.23 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £34.13 £15.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +115.06% -25.74% +37.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £18.60 £21.46
90th Percentile - £31.00 £36.50
East of England median hourly rate £48.17 £45.00 £41.27
% change year-on-year +7.04% +9.05% +70.69%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +6 20 £388 -4.91% 50
St Neots - 5 £185 - 1
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 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (3.33%) ChatGPT
5 1 (3.33%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) VPN
1 2 (6.67%) Wireless
2 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Metadata
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Publishing
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.00%) Senior
2 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (6.67%) C# WPF Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Developer
3 2 (6.67%) E-Commerce Specialist
3 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) SEO Specialist
3 2 (6.67%) WPF Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Audio Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Business Change Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Junior Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Workstream Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.67%) Entity Framework
2 2 (6.67%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 2 (6.67%) RESTful
2 2 (6.67%) Silverlight
2 2 (6.67%) WCF
2 2 (6.67%) Web Services
2 2 (6.67%) WPF
3 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 5 (16.67%) Robotics
2 4 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.00%) Acoustics
3 3 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.67%) BYOD
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Grid Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (30.00%) AI
2 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (23.33%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (23.33%) DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (20.00%) Data Collection
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 5 (16.67%) Pedagogy
5 5 (16.67%) Project Management
5 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.33%) Change Management
6 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 4 (13.33%) Integration Testing
6 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.33%) Scrum
6 4 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) C#
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) X++
4 2 (6.67%) XAML
5 1 (3.33%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) R
5 1 (3.33%) Ruby
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.00%) PhD
3 2 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMP
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) GPFS
2 1 (3.33%) Lustre
2 1 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) Puppet
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Consul
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) EMC
4 1 (3.33%) IFS
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) SAP