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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 32 44 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.17% 10.23% 8.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.11% 59.46% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 14
10th Percentile £195 £214 £226
25th Percentile £287 £356 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £443 £475 £488
90th Percentile £450 £575 £523
East of England median daily rate £488 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +14.71% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 12
10th Percentile £18.12 - -
25th Percentile £22.05 £22.54 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.54 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% +21.62% -24.32%
75th Percentile £31.00 £28.93 £31.05
90th Percentile £31.74 - £34.39
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £59.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +8.18% +57.14%

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 76 74 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.78% 17.21% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 37
10th Percentile £206 £225 £226
25th Percentile £384 £323 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -7.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £586 £575
East of England median daily rate £528 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 77
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £16.30 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +27.81%
75th Percentile £24.90 - £20.56
90th Percentile £31.00 £28.93 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £28.77 £43.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -33.10% +95.45% +4.76%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -7 19 £408 -4.12% 97
Peterborough +6 7 £200 +11.11% 31
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%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.25%) Simulink
3 2 (6.25%) Stateflow
4 1 (3.13%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
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 3 (9.38%) Firewall
5 2 (6.25%) LAN
5 2 (6.25%) WAN
5 2 (6.25%) Wireless
5 2 (6.25%) WLAN
6 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.25%) Text Mining
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) Pentaho
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 5 (15.63%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.25%) CANoe
4 2 (6.25%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 9 (28.13%) Manufacturing
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Automotive
4 2 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
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%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Information Scientist
6 2 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Design Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Embedded Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Celery
1 2 (6.25%) D3.js
1 2 (6.25%) Django
1 2 (6.25%) React
1 2 (6.25%) Sass
1 2 (6.25%) Vue
1 2 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) CMDB
3 2 (6.25%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) CentOS
2 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Computer Science
2 7 (21.88%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) ITSM
3 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 5 (15.63%) Change Management
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) Data Science
5 4 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 3 (9.38%) Analytics
6 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Migration
6 3 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (9.38%) Process Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) Project Management
6 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Task Automation
6 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (6.25%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) Shell Script
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) MATLAB
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (21.88%) CCNA
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.25%) CCNP
5 2 (6.25%) PhD
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.13%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) PCI DSS
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 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (31.25%) ServiceNow
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 3 (9.38%) Google
5 3 (9.38%) IBM
5 3 (9.38%) SAP
6 2 (6.25%) Peregrine
6 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.25%) Remedy
7 1 (3.13%) Cloudera
7 1 (3.13%) Databricks
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle
7 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (3.13%) Vertica