Degree Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Academic Degree
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 56 62 58
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.71% 8.99% 7.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.05% 40.52% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 27
10th Percentile £305 £148 £315
25th Percentile £453 £200 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +16.41% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £775 £754 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +30.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year - +243.88% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% +102.70% -23.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 215 153 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.61% 22.17% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 104 130
10th Percentile £213 £165 £262
25th Percentile £334 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £448
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +17.12% -10.35%
75th Percentile £545 £656 £593
90th Percentile £619 £734 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £16.16 £23.54 £20.13
25th Percentile £17.15 £27.28 £55.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% +283.76%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.72 £54.40 £68.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year -32.64% +0.72% +73.75%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Degree job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Degree

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (19.64%) Confluence
2 10 (17.86%) nginx
3 1 (1.79%) CMS
3 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.79%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) AWS
2 15 (26.79%) GCP
2 15 (26.79%) Serverless
3 13 (23.21%) AWS KMS
3 13 (23.21%) Azure
4 10 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (17.86%) Amazon S3
4 10 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (16.07%) Route 53
5 9 (16.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) DNS
1 9 (16.07%) Firewall
1 9 (16.07%) FTP
1 9 (16.07%) HTTP
1 9 (16.07%) IMAP
1 9 (16.07%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (16.07%) SMTP
1 9 (16.07%) SSH
2 3 (5.36%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.79%) BGP
3 1 (1.79%) Broadband
3 1 (1.79%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) OSPF
3 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.79%) VoIP
3 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.93%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 11 (19.64%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.79%) EDMS
6 1 (1.79%) Power BI
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.00%) GitLab
2 14 (25.00%) JIRA
3 10 (17.86%) Liquibase
4 9 (16.07%) Git
4 9 (16.07%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Finance
3 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
4 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (17.86%) Banking
5 10 (17.86%) Financial Institution
6 9 (16.07%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Legal
8 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.79%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.79%) Law
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (17.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Site Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Splunk Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Software Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Senior
6 7 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Project Manager
8 5 (8.93%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (44.64%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (28.57%) REST
3 15 (26.79%) RESTful
4 9 (16.07%) LDAP
5 1 (1.79%) HTML
5 1 (1.79%) JSON
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.79%) SOAP
5 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 14 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 12 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 9 (16.07%) Replication
4 4 (7.14%) Educational Technology
5 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.36%) Handset
5 3 (5.36%) Learning Management System
5 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.79%) SCORM
7 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (60.71%) Linux
2 11 (19.64%) Unix
3 10 (17.86%) Windows
4 9 (16.07%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (16.07%) Ubuntu
4 9 (16.07%) VMS
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (71.43%) DevOps
2 28 (50.00%) Change Management
2 28 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 28 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 25 (44.64%) CI/CD
4 21 (37.50%) Agile
5 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (26.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (25.00%) Cryptography
8 14 (25.00%) Migration
9 13 (23.21%) Microservices
10 12 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (19.64%) Cloud Security
11 11 (19.64%) Cost Optimisation
11 11 (19.64%) High Availability
11 11 (19.64%) Incident Response
11 11 (19.64%) Validation
12 10 (17.86%) Knowledge Transfer
12 10 (17.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 35 (62.50%) Python
2 15 (26.79%) Go
3 14 (25.00%) SQL
4 10 (17.86%) Bash
5 9 (16.07%) Groovy
5 9 (16.07%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) Java
7 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (23.21%) SC Cleared
4 12 (21.43%) AWS Certification
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Certification
6 6 (10.71%) PMI Certification
6 6 (10.71%) PMP
7 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.79%) CCNA
9 1 (1.79%) CCNP
9 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.79%) CPIM
9 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) PMO
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 32 (57.14%) Docker
2 9 (16.07%) DFS Replication
2 9 (16.07%) Dovecot
2 9 (16.07%) Postfix
2 9 (16.07%) Squid
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (46.43%) Kubernetes
1 26 (46.43%) Terraform
2 24 (42.86%) Ansible
3 23 (41.07%) Grafana
3 23 (41.07%) Prometheus
4 11 (19.64%) Kibana
5 10 (17.86%) Puppet
6 9 (16.07%) Nessus
6 9 (16.07%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.79%) logstash
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Splunk
2 9 (16.07%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (16.07%) ServiceNow
3 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.50%) Google
5 3 (5.36%) Progress
6 1 (1.79%) Databricks
6 1 (1.79%) IBM
6 1 (1.79%) Intapp
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) Pega
6 1 (1.79%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.79%) VMware