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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 18 36 70
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.83% 11.76% 15.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.00% 53.73% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 40
10th Percentile £307 £407 £275
25th Percentile £359 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +4.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £531 £508 £550
90th Percentile £578 £638 £702
East of England median daily rate £503 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.65% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile £20.19 £24.85 -
25th Percentile £25.73 £25.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £26.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.01% +32.50% -21.63%
75th Percentile £44.00 £34.63 £36.53
90th Percentile £44.45 £39.35 £66.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £80.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year -71.88% +121.94% -34.04%

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 90 67 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.13% 21.90% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 60
10th Percentile £229 £251 £275
25th Percentile £397 £411 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -6.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £650
90th Percentile £625 £639 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 79
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.13 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +51.55% -8.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £21.46
90th Percentile £42.18 £26.38 £35.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £63.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -64.29% +106.73% +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 31 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 31 January 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 31 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 -15 16 £440 -9.28% 61
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 (5.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.56%) ChatGPT
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (5.56%) Google Ads
4 1 (5.56%) Google Gemini
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) MS Access
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 3 (16.67%) Multimedia
2 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Audio Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Coordinator
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Business Change Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Change Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Coordinator
3 1 (5.56%) Designer
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Robotics Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Augmented Reality
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Reality
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Robotics
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Acoustics
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
4 1 (5.56%) Life Science
4 1 (5.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Robot Operating System
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) AI
1 5 (27.78%) Data Collection
1 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
1 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) Time Management
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.11%) Robotic Control
4 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
4 2 (11.11%) SOAR
4 2 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) C++
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) Bourne shell
5 1 (5.56%) C
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) GPFS
1 1 (5.56%) Lustre
1 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Consul
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Puppet
1 1 (5.56%) Salt
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Cadence
4 1 (5.56%) Foundry
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) SAP