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 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 41 37 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 4 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.15% 2.33% 1.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.26% 13.51% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £405 - £272
25th Percentile £413 - £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £438 - £494
90th Percentile £445 - £520
East of England median daily rate £505 £350 £488
% change year-on-year +44.29% -28.21% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £27.23
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.54 £27.94
Median hourly rate £16.00 £25.54 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.35% -16.94% -12.14%
75th Percentile £16.50 £28.93 £33.44
90th Percentile - - £34.08
East of England median hourly rate £50.50 £27.67 £65.00
% change year-on-year +82.51% -57.43% +85.71%

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 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%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Master's Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Master's Degree 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
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 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 -5 4 £425 - 19
Master's Degree
East of England

Master's 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Pentaho
General
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Resource Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) MBA
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) Vertica