Master's Degree Contracts 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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 38 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 4 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.37% 2.85% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.13% 7.53% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £550 £528
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.22% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.50 £26.42 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.67 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% - -
75th Percentile £25.50 £28.93 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £25.00 £17.46 £65.00
% change year-on-year +43.18% -73.14% -3.70%

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 78 186 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.62% 37.88% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 58 60
10th Percentile £184 £319 £224
25th Percentile £260 £405 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £589
90th Percentile £623 £731 £643
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 93 112
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £14.19
Median hourly rate £21.46 £15.65 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.12% +0.97% +14.81%
75th Percentile - £21.46 £21.25
90th Percentile £26.38 £30.69 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.25 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +171.88% +14.29% +35.48%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Master's Degree in Cambridgeshire

Master's Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master's Degree in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 March 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 -6 3 £260 -52.73% 37
Peterborough - 1 - - 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (25.00%) C# WPF Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) PhD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree