Degree Contracts in the West Midlands

Academic Degree
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 26 48
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Degree 158 167 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.28% 7.17% 4.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.36% 26.34% 20.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 88 101
10th Percentile £256 £246 £313
25th Percentile £347 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £623 £543 £619
90th Percentile £693 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £547 £521
% change year-on-year -6.35% +5.04% +4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 5
10th Percentile £22.33 £10.97 £11.70
25th Percentile £25.50 £12.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £39.92 £18.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +115.78% +7.06% +11.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £35.08 £20.51
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 623 634 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.65% 27.21% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 389 491
10th Percentile £275 £311 £285
25th Percentile £358 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £536 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% +12.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £13.31 £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +9.95% +5.88%
75th Percentile £43.44 £27.54 £20.26
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Birmingham +17 63 £450 +12.50% 216
Warwickshire -2 34 £450 -14.29% 114
Worcestershire +14 10 £525 +26.51% 57
Coventry +12 8 £463 +76.19% 76
Solihull -7 8 £775 +47.62% 14
Staffordshire +8 7 £800 +68.42% 88
Shropshire +10 2 £117 -78.33% 19
Wolverhampton +5 1 - - 28
Herefordshire -8 1 £400 -39.62% 11
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (15.19%) Chatbot
2 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (5.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (4.43%) MS Visio
5 7 (4.43%) Simulink
6 6 (3.80%) Stateflow
7 5 (3.16%) TargetLink
8 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (1.90%) Photoshop
10 2 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (1.27%) Maya
10 2 (1.27%) NUKE
10 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.63%) InDesign
11 1 (0.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Odoo
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.56%) Azure
2 9 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.43%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (3.16%) SaaS
5 4 (2.53%) IaaS
5 4 (2.53%) PaaS
6 3 (1.90%) Azure Functions
6 3 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.90%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.90%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.90%) Serverless
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.27%) AWS
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.59%) Firewall
2 8 (5.06%) LAN
2 8 (5.06%) WAN
3 7 (4.43%) VPN
4 5 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.53%) DHCP
5 4 (2.53%) DNS
5 4 (2.53%) Network Security
5 4 (2.53%) VoIP
5 4 (2.53%) Wireless
6 3 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.90%) Ethereal
6 3 (1.90%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.90%) VLAN
6 3 (1.90%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.27%) Broadband
7 2 (1.27%) SAN
7 2 (1.27%) Skype
8 1 (0.63%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.80%) Data Mining
2 5 (3.16%) Power BI
3 3 (1.90%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.90%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.63%) Flink
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.33%) Git
2 6 (3.80%) JIRA
3 5 (3.16%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.16%) Subversion
4 3 (1.90%) GitLab
5 2 (1.27%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.63%) NUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (45.57%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.48%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.49%) Finance
4 11 (6.96%) Automotive
5 8 (5.06%) German Language
6 6 (3.80%) Legal
6 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.16%) Marketing
7 5 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Law
8 4 (2.53%) Retail
9 3 (1.90%) Electronics
9 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.27%) Games
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (21.52%) Developer
2 24 (15.19%) Software Developer
3 15 (9.49%) Analyst
3 15 (9.49%) Architect
4 10 (6.33%) Systems Engineer
5 9 (5.70%) Lead
6 7 (4.43%) Support Engineer
7 6 (3.80%) Data Architect
7 6 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.80%) Java Developer
7 6 (3.80%) Network Engineer
7 6 (3.80%) Project Manager
7 6 (3.80%) Senior
8 5 (3.16%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.16%) Control Systems Engineer
8 5 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (3.16%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 4 (2.53%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (2.53%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (2.53%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.23%) HTML
2 6 (3.80%) Spring
3 5 (3.16%) Middleware
4 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.90%) Kafka
4 3 (1.90%) React
4 3 (1.90%) SAP Business Workflow
5 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.27%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (1.27%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.63%) .NET
6 1 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.63%) CSS
6 1 (0.63%) Dask
6 1 (0.63%) Guice
6 1 (0.63%) Keras
6 1 (0.63%) Pandas
6 1 (0.63%) PySpark
6 1 (0.63%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.63%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.03%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.86%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.59%) Data Centre
4 11 (6.96%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.43%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.43%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.80%) SCADA
6 6 (3.80%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.16%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (3.16%) IoT
8 4 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.53%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.90%) Clustering
9 3 (1.90%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.27%) CCTV
10 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.59%) Windows
2 7 (4.43%) Unix
3 5 (3.16%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.16%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (44.30%) Computer Science
2 48 (30.38%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (18.99%) Agile
4 28 (17.72%) Artificial Intelligence
4 28 (17.72%) Software Engineering
5 26 (16.46%) Code Quality
6 24 (15.19%) Conversational UI
7 18 (11.39%) Decision-Making
7 18 (11.39%) DevOps
8 17 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (10.13%) Project Management
10 15 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (8.86%) Analytics
11 14 (8.86%) Migration
12 13 (8.23%) Analytical Thinking
13 10 (6.33%) Incident Response
13 10 (6.33%) ITIL
13 10 (6.33%) Risk Management
13 10 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (6.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.56%) SQL
2 21 (13.29%) Python
3 15 (9.49%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.86%) C#
5 9 (5.70%) MATLAB
6 8 (5.06%) Java
7 7 (4.43%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.16%) C
9 3 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.27%) C++
10 2 (1.27%) Perl
11 1 (0.63%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (29.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 22 (13.92%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.13%) Master's Degree
4 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.96%) CISSP
6 7 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.80%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.80%) CCNA
7 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.16%) PMI Certification
8 5 (3.16%) PMP
9 3 (1.90%) APMP
9 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.90%) CEH
9 3 (1.90%) PhD
9 3 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.27%) CCNP
10 2 (1.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.43%) QA
2 5 (3.16%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.16%) ISO 26262
2 5 (3.16%) MISRA
2 5 (3.16%) MISRA C
3 3 (1.90%) GRC
3 3 (1.90%) ITGC
4 2 (1.27%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.63%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.90%) Docker
4 3 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.27%) vSphere
6 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.16%) SCCM
2 4 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.90%) Autotask
3 3 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.90%) OpenView
3 3 (1.90%) SysTrack
4 2 (1.27%) Kibana
4 2 (1.27%) logstash
4 2 (1.27%) Terraform
5 1 (0.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.19%) PayPal
3 17 (10.76%) SAP
4 6 (3.80%) Oracle
4 6 (3.80%) VMware
5 5 (3.16%) Apple
5 5 (3.16%) BMC
5 5 (3.16%) Cisco
6 4 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.53%) Splunk
7 3 (1.90%) Citrix
7 3 (1.90%) Datto
7 3 (1.90%) Google
7 3 (1.90%) New Relic
7 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.27%) Adobe
8 2 (1.27%) Confluent
8 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.63%) IBM
9 1 (0.63%) Informatica
673 Degree jobs in the West Midlands