Developer Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Developer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Developer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £420, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 13 23
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 37 41 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.93% 7.71% 8.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.13% 9.28% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 48
10th Percentile £363 £414 £321
25th Percentile £388 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £488 £513 £538
90th Percentile £500 £565 £609
East of England median daily rate £420 £475 £492
% change year-on-year -11.58% -3.46% +9.33%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 455 442 751
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.21% 83.08% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 276 415
10th Percentile £220 £205 £200
25th Percentile £341 £313 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £531 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
East of England median daily rate £440 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.47% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 82 190
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.47% +3.45% +7.41%
75th Percentile £28.13 £20.56 £15.75
90th Percentile £62.55 £26.63 £21.86
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £41.80 £17.50
% change year-on-year +2.87% +138.86% +9.38%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Cambridgeshire

Developer
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 Developer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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 28 £420 -6.67% 26
Huntingdon -1 1 £250 -47.37%
Developer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 14 (37.84%) Power Platform
1 14 (37.84%) PowerApps
2 11 (29.73%) SQL
3 10 (27.03%) SharePoint
3 10 (27.03%) Power Automate
3 10 (27.03%) REST
4 8 (21.62%) Git
4 8 (21.62%) RESTful
4 8 (21.62%) Workflow
5 7 (18.92%) C#
5 7 (18.92%) HTML
5 7 (18.92%) Java
5 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 7 (18.92%) JUnit
5 7 (18.92%) CSS
5 7 (18.92%) TDD
5 7 (18.92%) Spring
5 7 (18.92%) Decision Table
5 7 (18.92%) Web Development
5 7 (18.92%) Drools
5 7 (18.92%) Mockito
5 7 (18.92%) NoSQL
5 7 (18.92%) Docker
5 7 (18.92%) Microservices
5 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
5 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
5 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
5 7 (18.92%) Quarkus
6 6 (16.22%) Data Encryption
6 6 (16.22%) HTML5 Canvas

Developer 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 10 (27.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Shopify
2 3 (8.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 3 (8.11%) SAP FI-AP
3 2 (5.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Power Platform
1 14 (37.84%) PowerApps
2 10 (27.03%) Power Automate
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (8.11%) Stripe
5 1 (2.70%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) JUnit
2 7 (18.92%) Mockito
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.70%) Xcode
4 1 (2.70%) XCTest
General
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
2 4 (10.81%) Retail
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) REST
2 8 (21.62%) RESTful
3 7 (18.92%) CSS
3 7 (18.92%) Drools
3 7 (18.92%) HTML
3 7 (18.92%) Quarkus
3 7 (18.92%) Spring
3 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
4 6 (16.22%) .NET
4 6 (16.22%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (8.11%) EDI
5 3 (8.11%) IDoc
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.41%) SAP Business Workflow
7 1 (2.70%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (2.70%) NumPy
7 1 (2.70%) Pandas
7 1 (2.70%) SciPy
7 1 (2.70%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Workflow
2 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
2 7 (18.92%) Decision Table
2 7 (18.92%) Microservices
2 7 (18.92%) TDD
2 7 (18.92%) Web Development
3 6 (16.22%) Data Encryption
3 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (16.22%) Migration
4 4 (10.81%) E-Commerce
5 3 (8.11%) Accounts Payable
5 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.41%) Analytics
6 2 (5.41%) B2C
6 2 (5.41%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.41%) Inventory Management
6 2 (5.41%) Invoice Processing
6 2 (5.41%) OCR
6 2 (5.41%) Process Improvement
6 2 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) C#
2 7 (18.92%) Java
2 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.22%) C
4 3 (8.11%) ABAP
4 3 (8.11%) Python
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.70%) Swift
5 1 (2.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.70%) PhD
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) OpenText
2 3 (8.11%) SAP