Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Master's Degree
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 31 45
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 5 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.39% 3.27% 1.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.56% 19.70% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £405 - £458
25th Percentile £413 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £260 £503
Median % change year-on-year +63.46% -48.34% -16.13%
75th Percentile £438 - £536
90th Percentile £445 - £537
East of England median daily rate £505 £310 £488
% change year-on-year +62.90% -36.41% -16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £18.08 - £27.23
25th Percentile £21.94 £22.54 £27.94
Median hourly rate £29.25 £25.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -18.70% -12.14%
75th Percentile £36.94 £28.93 £33.44
90th Percentile £41.03 - £34.08
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.34 £49.00
% change year-on-year +61.38% -46.26% -2.49%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

Master's 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 66 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 25.07% 16.58% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 44
10th Percentile £363 £256 £275
25th Percentile £443 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% -6.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £611 £597 £575
90th Percentile £650 £624 £650
East of England median daily rate £528 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.60% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 74
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.37 -
25th Percentile £16.00 £20.10 £13.41
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.41 £15.08
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% +55.29% -2.74%
75th Percentile £28.08 £28.93 £20.56
90th Percentile £34.53 £60.27 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% +133.33% +7.14%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Master's Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Master's Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Master's Degree in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Master's Degree in Cambridgeshire

Master's 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 Master's Degree within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 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 -12 5 £425 +63.46% 50
Master's Degree
East of England

Master's 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
General
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Resource Coordinator
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (20.00%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MBA
2 1 (20.00%) PhD
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) Vertica