Senior Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Senior
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Senior daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £408, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +21
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior 10 25 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.03% 5.81% 6.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.58% 7.55% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 20
10th Percentile £365 £343 £354
25th Percentile £379 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £581 £578
90th Percentile £680 £680 £633
East of England median daily rate £575 £525 £594
% change year-on-year +9.52% -11.58% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.42 -
Median hourly rate - £27.67 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +56.15% -44.36%
75th Percentile - £28.93 £40.11
90th Percentile - - £53.54
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% +2.94% +6.75%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 279 331 437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.55% 76.98% 79.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 121 247
10th Percentile £209 £220 £210
25th Percentile £364 £333 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £442 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% -1.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £591
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 109 93
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.74 £21.37 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +20.60% +18.13%
75th Percentile £31.00 £28.93 £20.56
90th Percentile £57.51 £53.75 £28.50
East of England median hourly rate £41.50 £47.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year -12.63% +69.64% +41.34%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings that featured Senior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Cambridgeshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Senior
DemandTrendContract 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 Senior within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge -7 9 £408 -27.23% 96
Peterborough +4 1 - - 13
Senior
East of England

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 23 August 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Health Informatics
3 2 (20.00%) Informatics
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Ontologies
3 2 (20.00%) Life Science
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Text Mining
3 2 (20.00%) Economics
3 2 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Benchmarking
3 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (20.00%) PhD
3 2 (20.00%) SAS
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Dell

Senior Skill Set
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 2 (20.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) 802.11
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (20.00%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (10.00%) Framer.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) PCIe
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Benchmarking
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Economics
3 2 (20.00%) Health Informatics
3 2 (20.00%) Informatics
3 2 (20.00%) Ontologies
3 2 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Visual Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) PhD
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) KVM
2 1 (10.00%) QEMU
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Avamar
1 2 (20.00%) VxRail
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dell
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (10.00%) Meraki
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds