IC Design Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Integrated Circuit Design (IC Design)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring IC Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IC Design 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

IC Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 308 226 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.63% 90.40% 83.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 126 156
10th Percentile £200 £273 £222
25th Percentile £335 £400 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -1.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £563
90th Percentile £675 £650 £681
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 40 183
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.98 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.73 £44.00 £39.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.08 £55.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -59.86% +44.28% +49.37%

IC Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

IC Design job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

IC Design
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing IC Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing IC Design

IC Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing IC Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing IC Design

IC Design
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) OrCAD
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence