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 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 41 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 12 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.21% 1.13% 2.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.34% 4.94% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 -
East of England median daily rate £400 £505 £350
% change year-on-year -20.79% +44.29% -28.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £15.50 £22.54
Median hourly rate £37.50 £16.00 £25.54
Median % change year-on-year +134.38% -37.35% -16.94%
75th Percentile £38.75 £16.50 £28.93
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.50 £27.67
% change year-on-year -25.74% +82.51% -57.43%

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 116 81 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 31.02% 22.82% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 25 12
10th Percentile £183 £258 £225
25th Percentile £345 £400 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +11.43% -7.89%
75th Percentile £605 £604 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £586
East of England median daily rate £507 £529 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +5.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 29
10th Percentile £15.00 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.99 £16.30
Median hourly rate £41.25 £16.30 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +153.07% -23.72% +7.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £25.15 -
90th Percentile - £31.00 £28.93
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +166.40% -41.51% +86.96%

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
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 19 September 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 +10 12 - - 98
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 2 (16.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) RS-232
1 3 (25.00%) RS-485
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Electronics
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 4 (33.33%) C# WPF Developer
2 4 (33.33%) WPF Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Embedded Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Embedded Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Firmware Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Content Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Content Marketing Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 4 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 4 (33.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
1 4 (33.33%) Silverlight
1 4 (33.33%) WCF
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
1 4 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) Blog
2 2 (16.67%) Genomics
2 2 (16.67%) Omics
2 2 (16.67%) Social Media
3 1 (8.33%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
1 7 (58.33%) Integration Testing
1 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Change Control
2 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 4 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 4 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
2 4 (33.33%) MVVM
2 4 (33.33%) Physics
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
2 4 (33.33%) UML
2 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Market Research
4 2 (16.67%) Online Marketing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) C++
1 4 (33.33%) XAML
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) R
4 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (50.00%) PhD
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (25.00%) Firmware