Degree Contracts in the East of England

Academic Degree
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 190 182 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.02% 8.76% 9.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.59% 23.48% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 72 123
10th Percentile £300 £223 £195
25th Percentile £400 £369 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £428
Median % change year-on-year - +16.82% -4.89%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £535
90th Percentile £675 £750 £598
England median daily rate £512 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 31 48
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.38 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.95 £57.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +192.31% -39.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £85.00 - £49.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -5.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 583 775 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.75% 37.31% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 381 363
10th Percentile £208 £213 £215
25th Percentile £345 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £559
90th Percentile £725 £738 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 198 209
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £31.80 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.43% +7.69% -49.19%
75th Percentile £43.38 £63.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Cambridgeshire +3 73 £425 -10.53% 258
Hertfordshire -8 48 £488 -30.36% 190
Essex +7 38 £550 +10.00% 92
Bedfordshire +5 22 £550 +22.22% 57
Suffolk +12 5 £675 +86.21% 32
Norfolk +7 4 £208 -4.26% 48
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.58%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) Luigi
5 1 (0.53%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (12.11%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (11.58%) Simulink
3 17 (8.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (4.21%) Photoshop
6 6 (3.16%) Chatbot
7 5 (2.63%) Stateflow
8 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.11%) SAP SD
3 3 (1.58%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.05%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.05%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.05%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.05%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.53%) Magento
5 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.53%) Primavera
5 1 (0.53%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (6.32%) GCP
3 8 (4.21%) AWS
3 8 (4.21%) Azure
4 6 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.58%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.05%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.05%) Serverless
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.53%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.53%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) Internet
1 4 (2.11%) LAN
1 4 (2.11%) WAN
1 4 (2.11%) Wireless
2 3 (1.58%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (1.05%) Firewall
3 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.53%) DVB
4 1 (0.53%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.53%) RTMP
4 1 (0.53%) RTP
4 1 (0.53%) RTSP
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) VoIP
4 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.11%) SQL Server
1 4 (2.11%) Tableau
2 3 (1.58%) Big Data
2 3 (1.58%) Hadoop
2 3 (1.58%) Power BI
2 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.05%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.05%) MySQL
3 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.53%) MS Access
4 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Git
2 6 (3.16%) Mercurial
3 2 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.05%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (0.53%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.53%) CMake
4 1 (0.53%) JIRA
General
1 74 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.42%) Finance
3 28 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 22 (11.58%) Manufacturing
6 21 (11.05%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.74%) Banking
8 8 (4.21%) Mandarin Language
8 8 (4.21%) Military
8 8 (4.21%) Multimedia
9 7 (3.68%) Electronics
9 7 (3.68%) Law
9 7 (3.68%) Marketing
9 7 (3.68%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.16%) Automotive
10 6 (3.16%) French Language
10 6 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.63%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.11%) Advertising
12 4 (2.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (20.00%) Analyst
2 22 (11.58%) Architect
3 17 (8.95%) FPGA Engineer
4 16 (8.42%) Design Engineer
4 16 (8.42%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 14 (7.37%) Business Analyst
5 14 (7.37%) Senior
6 13 (6.84%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Service Analyst
7 12 (6.32%) Service Desk Analyst
8 11 (5.79%) Consultant
9 10 (5.26%) Software Architect
10 9 (4.74%) Lead
10 9 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.74%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (4.74%) Technical Services Analyst
11 8 (4.21%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.68%) Developer
12 7 (3.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 7 (3.68%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.26%) DirectX
1 10 (5.26%) OpenGL
1 10 (5.26%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (5.26%) React
1 10 (5.26%) Vulkan
2 8 (4.21%) NumPy
3 7 (3.68%) Pandas
4 6 (3.16%) SciPy
5 5 (2.63%) CSS
5 5 (2.63%) HTML
5 5 (2.63%) RESTful
6 3 (1.58%) .NET
7 2 (1.05%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.05%) GStreamer
8 1 (0.53%) FFmpeg
8 1 (0.53%) Flask
8 1 (0.53%) Kafka
8 1 (0.53%) Node.js
8 1 (0.53%) Redux
8 1 (0.53%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.95%) FPGA
1 17 (8.95%) Verilog
1 17 (8.95%) VHDL
2 13 (6.84%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.32%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.26%) 3D Graphics
4 10 (5.26%) Ray Tracing
5 7 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.63%) Social Media
8 4 (2.11%) Clustering
8 4 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.11%) IVR
8 4 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.58%) Analogue Electronics
9 3 (1.58%) CMDB
9 3 (1.58%) NHS
9 3 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.21%) Windows
2 4 (2.11%) Linux
3 3 (1.58%) Windows 7
3 3 (1.58%) Windows 8
3 3 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.05%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) CentOS
5 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (24.21%) Computer Science
3 28 (14.74%) Signal Processing
4 22 (11.58%) Software Engineering
5 21 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (10.53%) ITIL
6 20 (10.53%) Project Management
7 19 (10.00%) Agile
8 18 (9.47%) Validation
9 17 (8.95%) FPGA Design
9 17 (8.95%) UVM
10 16 (8.42%) Data Science
10 16 (8.42%) Roadmaps
11 15 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (7.89%) Customer Service
12 14 (7.37%) Business Analysis
12 14 (7.37%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (7.37%) Software Architecture
13 13 (6.84%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (6.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.37%) C
2 20 (10.53%) Python
3 17 (8.95%) SystemVerilog
4 15 (7.89%) Java
5 13 (6.84%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.32%) C++
6 12 (6.32%) MATLAB
7 10 (5.26%) C#
8 9 (4.74%) SQL
9 4 (2.11%) R
9 4 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.05%) Fortran
10 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.05%) VB
11 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (16.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 27 (14.21%) Master's Degree
3 17 (8.95%) CCNA
3 17 (8.95%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (6.32%) PhD
5 9 (4.74%) MCP
6 7 (3.68%) IIBA
6 7 (3.68%) MCSA
7 6 (3.16%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.16%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.11%) CCNP
8 4 (2.11%) HNC
8 4 (2.11%) HND
8 4 (2.11%) MCSE
9 3 (1.58%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.58%) CISSP
9 3 (1.58%) ECDL
9 3 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.58%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.26%) GDPR
2 7 (3.68%) Good Clinical Practice
2 7 (3.68%) GxP
3 6 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.11%) PMO
4 4 (2.11%) SLA
5 3 (1.58%) NIST
6 2 (1.05%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 17 (8.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.11%) Firmware
3 3 (1.58%) Docker
4 1 (0.53%) KVM
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (4.74%) SCCM
2 3 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.95%) Intel
2 17 (8.95%) Microsemi
2 17 (8.95%) Xilinx
3 13 (6.84%) SAP
4 8 (4.21%) Citrix
5 7 (3.68%) Google
6 6 (3.16%) Genesys
7 5 (2.63%) MathWorks
8 3 (1.58%) Ariba
8 3 (1.58%) Keysight
9 2 (1.05%) Avaya
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle
9 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.05%) Siemens
10 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.53%) Hortonworks
10 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.53%) Talend