Cadence Contract Job Trends in Essex

Cadence
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring knowledge or experience of Cadence products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cadence over the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cadence Design Systems.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cadence 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.92% - -
As % of the Vendors category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £535 - £560

All Vendors
Essex

Cadence falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 38 45 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 34.86% 50.00% 36.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 53
10th Percentile £185 £180 £186
25th Percentile £250 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £275 £460
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% -40.22% +2.22%
75th Percentile £488 £318 £598
90th Percentile £525 £600 £650
East of England median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 16
10th Percentile - - £12.13
25th Percentile £12.75 - £12.68
Median hourly rate £16.25 £30.00 £30.66
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% -2.14% +45.98%
75th Percentile £23.53 - £53.25
90th Percentile £36.03 - £57.78
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £21.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.22% -4.62% +4.63%

Cadence
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cadence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Cadence job vacancy trend in Essex

Cadence
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cadence within the Essex region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
Basildon - 1 £535 - 1
Cadence
East of England

Cadence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Post-Merger Integration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PgMP
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley