Ethernet Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

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East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Ethernet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.53% - 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.64% - 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £88 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.46%
75th Percentile £256 - -
90th Percentile £552 - -
East of England median daily rate £344 - £200
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £83.75 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £91.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

Ethernet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 44 70 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.20% 26.02% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 35 21
10th Percentile £202 £363 £200
25th Percentile £356 £415 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £475
90th Percentile £667 £588 £538
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £408
% change year-on-year -5.26% +16.56% -14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 44
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.39 £15.44 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -18.02% +21.52%
75th Percentile £19.34 £21.46 £21.39
90th Percentile £62.49 £21.54 £63.75
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% +22.22% +8.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ethernet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Ethernet job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ethernet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ethernet

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ethernet in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ethernet in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ethernet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Ethernet

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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 Ethernet within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 - 5 £88 - 2
Peterborough - 1 - - 1
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East of England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Verification Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) PCIe
2 4 (66.67%) FPGA
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 1 (16.67%) Adaptive Web Design
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Code Coverage
2 1 (16.67%) Data Discovery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) UVM
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Altera
2 1 (16.67%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Kepware
2 1 (16.67%) Rockwell
2 1 (16.67%) Siemens