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 21 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +11
Contract jobs citing Degree 16 39 62
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.37% 12.38% 14.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.18% 60.00% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 35
10th Percentile £300 £407 £275
25th Percentile £347 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £444 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -1.39% -10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £508 £575
90th Percentile £584 £638 £711
East of England median daily rate £528 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +17.22% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 18
10th Percentile £41.35 £22.54 -
25th Percentile £41.50 £23.03 £14.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.75 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.99% +80.70% -44.16%
75th Percentile £44.50 £28.38 £35.74
90th Percentile £44.65 £28.93 £45.47
East of England median hourly rate £41.50 £80.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year -48.13% +123.31% -31.76%

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 88 65 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.04% 20.63% 36.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 56
10th Percentile £257 £248 £275
25th Percentile £400 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -14.74% +2.38%
75th Percentile £613 £597 £656
90th Percentile £625 £646 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 77
10th Percentile £16.40 £17.58 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +51.55% -16.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.89 £21.00
90th Percentile £34.83 £28.06 £33.86
East of England median hourly rate £22.79 £63.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -63.83% +110.00% +42.86%

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 21 January 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
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 21 January 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 -18 15 £405 -16.49% 74
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 (6.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (6.25%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (6.25%) Google Ads
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) InfiniBand
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) MS Access
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
1 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
1 3 (18.75%) Multimedia
1 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Electronics
2 1 (6.25%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Audio Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Coordinator
3 1 (6.25%) Data Coordinator
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (6.25%) Robotics Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 2 (12.50%) React
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Celery
2 1 (6.25%) D3.js
2 1 (6.25%) Django
2 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
2 1 (6.25%) Sass
2 1 (6.25%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Vue
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Augmented Reality
1 3 (18.75%) Robotics
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Acoustics
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Grid Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Data Collection
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
3 3 (18.75%) Time Management
4 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (12.50%) Case Management
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 2 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Motion Capture
4 2 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 2 (12.50%) Robotic Control
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 2 (12.50%) SOAR
4 2 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) C++
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Bourne shell
5 1 (6.25%) C
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) MCP
3 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) EU AI Act
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) GPFS
1 1 (6.25%) Lustre
1 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Consul
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Puppet
1 1 (6.25%) Salt
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Cadence
3 1 (6.25%) Foundry
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SAP