DSP Engineer Contracts in Cambridgeshire

DSP Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median DSP Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 54 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DSP Engineer 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.85% 0.21% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 0.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 278 399 457
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.54% 83.13% 81.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 144 273
10th Percentile £250 £220 £205
25th Percentile £379 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £688 £621 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 147 89
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.74 £21.37 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +37.87% +6.90%
75th Percentile £31.31 £28.13 £20.56
90th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £27.75
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £43.90 £43.63
% change year-on-year -3.19% +0.62% +123.74%

DSP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings that featured DSP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for DSP Engineer in Cambridgeshire

DSP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for DSP Engineer in Cambridgeshire

DSP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DSP Engineer in Cambridgeshire

DSP Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DSP Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DSP Engineer in Cambridgeshire

DSP Engineer
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 DSP Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 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 +9 6 £550 - 5
DSP Engineer
East of England

DSP Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, DSP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring DSP Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
1 6 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
1 6 (100.00%) NB-IoT
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter

DSP Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
1 6 (100.00%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter