Degree Contracts in the Midlands

Academic Degree
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 22 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Degree 249 268 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.13% 7.79% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.98% 27.52% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 155 152
10th Percentile £187 £223 £207
25th Percentile £255 £384 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £540 £575
90th Percentile £654 £675 £688
England median daily rate £512 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 31 14
10th Percentile £22.33 £13.70 £11.49
25th Percentile £25.50 £16.25 £13.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £16.83 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +122.82% -17.94% +28.19%
75th Percentile £56.25 £20.46 £25.27
90th Percentile £58.75 £35.08 £40.54
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
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 890 974 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.62% 28.31% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 620 672
10th Percentile £225 £250 £210
25th Percentile £325 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £509 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% +13.06% +11.80%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 75 37
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.32 £11.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.75 £13.73
Median hourly rate £24.65 £18.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.47% -6.25% +20.19%
75th Percentile £43.13 £26.81 £24.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £37.50
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +11 159 £525 +10.53% 501
East Midlands +9 88 £248 -46.49% 308
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 48 (19.28%) Chatbot
2 47 (18.88%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (3.61%) MS Visio
6 7 (2.81%) Simulink
7 6 (2.41%) Stateflow
8 5 (2.01%) TargetLink
9 3 (1.20%) CATIA
9 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (1.20%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.80%) Maya
10 2 (0.80%) NUKE
11 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.40%) InDesign
11 1 (0.40%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.40%) Sketch
11 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.80%) Primavera
3 1 (0.40%) Odoo
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (12.05%) Azure
2 12 (4.82%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.21%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (2.81%) SaaS
6 6 (2.41%) IaaS
6 6 (2.41%) PaaS
7 5 (2.01%) AWS
7 5 (2.01%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.20%) Serverless
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.80%) GCP
9 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.62%) Firewall
2 12 (4.82%) LAN
3 11 (4.42%) WAN
4 9 (3.61%) VPN
5 6 (2.41%) DHCP
5 6 (2.41%) DNS
5 6 (2.41%) Network Security
6 5 (2.01%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (2.01%) Ethereal
6 5 (2.01%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.01%) Wireless
6 5 (2.01%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.61%) VoIP
8 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.20%) VLAN
9 2 (0.80%) Broadband
9 2 (0.80%) SAN
9 2 (0.80%) Skype
10 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.21%) Power BI
2 6 (2.41%) Data Mining
3 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.01%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.20%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) Flink
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Git
2 7 (2.81%) JIRA
3 5 (2.01%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.01%) Subversion
4 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.80%) GitLab
7 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.40%) NUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 120 (48.19%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.63%) Finance
4 13 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.82%) Automotive
5 12 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.21%) German Language
6 8 (3.21%) Legal
6 8 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.81%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.81%) Electronics
7 7 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Law
8 4 (1.61%) Marketing
8 4 (1.61%) Retail
9 3 (1.20%) Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Games
10 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (23.29%) Developer
2 48 (19.28%) Software Developer
3 22 (8.84%) Analyst
4 20 (8.03%) Lead
5 19 (7.63%) Architect
6 12 (4.82%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.82%) Test Engineer
7 11 (4.42%) Senior
8 10 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (3.61%) Business Analyst
9 9 (3.61%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.81%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.81%) Team Leader
12 6 (2.41%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.41%) Java Developer
13 5 (2.01%) Control Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.01%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (2.01%) Quality Inspector
13 5 (2.01%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.04%) HTML
2 6 (2.41%) Spring
3 5 (2.01%) Middleware
4 3 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.20%) Kafka
4 3 (1.20%) React
4 3 (1.20%) SAP Business Workflow
5 2 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.80%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (0.80%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.40%) Guice
6 1 (0.40%) Keras
6 1 (0.40%) NumPy
6 1 (0.40%) Pandas
6 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.40%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.40%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.40%) Vue
6 1 (0.40%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.08%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (10.44%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.82%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (4.02%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.61%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.41%) SCADA
8 5 (2.01%) Industry 4.0
8 5 (2.01%) IoT
9 4 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.20%) Clustering
10 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.62%) Windows
2 7 (2.81%) Unix
2 7 (2.81%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.01%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.73%) Computer Science
2 69 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (20.88%) Artificial Intelligence
4 49 (19.68%) Code Quality
5 48 (19.28%) Conversational UI
6 46 (18.47%) Software Engineering
7 36 (14.46%) Time Management
8 34 (13.65%) Agile
9 33 (13.25%) Conflict Management
10 26 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (10.44%) Project Management
11 21 (8.43%) Analytics
11 21 (8.43%) Decision-Making
12 20 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (6.43%) DevOps
13 16 (6.43%) Validation
14 14 (5.62%) ITIL
14 14 (5.62%) Migration
15 13 (5.22%) Service Management
15 13 (5.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.06%) SQL
2 36 (14.46%) Python
3 27 (10.84%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.44%) C#
5 9 (3.61%) Java
5 9 (3.61%) MATLAB
6 7 (2.81%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.41%) C
7 6 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.20%) C++
8 3 (1.20%) Scala
9 2 (0.80%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.40%) PHP
10 1 (0.40%) R
10 1 (0.40%) Rust
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (20.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 30 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.24%) NVQ Level 3
4 19 (7.63%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.43%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.62%) CISSP
7 11 (4.42%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (4.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (3.61%) Azure Certification
10 8 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.81%) CCNA
11 7 (2.81%) PMI Certification
11 7 (2.81%) PMP
12 6 (2.41%) APMP
13 5 (2.01%) HND
14 4 (1.61%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (1.61%) HNC
15 3 (1.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.22%) QA
2 5 (2.01%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.01%) ISO 26262
2 5 (2.01%) MISRA
2 5 (2.01%) MISRA C
3 3 (1.20%) GRC
3 3 (1.20%) ITGC
3 3 (1.20%) NIST
3 3 (1.20%) SLA
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) HAZOP
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Docker
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.80%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.01%) OpenView
2 5 (2.01%) SCCM
3 3 (1.20%) Autotask
3 3 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.20%) SysTrack
4 2 (0.80%) Kibana
4 2 (0.80%) logstash
4 2 (0.80%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (19.28%) PayPal
2 38 (15.26%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.63%) SAP
4 11 (4.42%) Oracle
5 7 (2.81%) Cisco
6 6 (2.41%) Google
6 6 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.41%) VMware
7 5 (2.01%) Apple
7 5 (2.01%) BMC
8 4 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.61%) Splunk
9 3 (1.20%) Citrix
9 3 (1.20%) Datto
9 3 (1.20%) New Relic
9 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe
11 1 (0.40%) IBM
11 1 (0.40%) Informatica
11 1 (0.40%) Siemens