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 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing Degree 36 34 61
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.98% 6.46% 8.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.57% 25.00% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 21
10th Percentile £258 - £190
25th Percentile £425 £148 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £200 £450
Median % change year-on-year +162.50% -55.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £656 £550 £550
90th Percentile £850 £600 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £300 £525
% change year-on-year +64.50% -42.86% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £22.33
25th Percentile - £47.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +92.31% +40.54%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £28.18 £39.92
% change year-on-year -50.32% -29.41% +64.62%

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 184 136 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.33% 25.86% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 101 128
10th Percentile £259 £148 £263
25th Percentile £408 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +27.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £611
West Midlands median daily rate £482 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -3.60% +8.11% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £14.28 £21.66 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.09 £26.38 £16.08
Median hourly rate £18.40 £39.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.42% +51.92% +40.54%
75th Percentile £19.34 £54.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.15 £57.05 £55.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.46 £28.18 £28.50
% change year-on-year -9.65% -1.12% +42.50%

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 April 2026.

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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
1 2 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
1 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.78%) PaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
3 1 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
1 2 (5.56%) JMeter
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Liquibase
General
1 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Automotive
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Legal
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Site Engineer
1 8 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 8 (22.22%) Splunk Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Designer
3 5 (13.89%) Project Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Trainee
3 5 (13.89%) Web Designer
3 5 (13.89%) Website Designer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Field Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Telephony Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.33%) ADO
3 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.78%) Loki
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.33%) Handset
2 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.78%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.78%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Change Management
1 16 (44.44%) DevOps
2 13 (36.11%) Computer Science
3 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
4 10 (27.78%) Incident Response
5 9 (25.00%) Migration
5 9 (25.00%) Observability
5 9 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (25.00%) Validation
6 8 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
6 8 (22.22%) Data Ingestion
6 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 8 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
7 7 (19.44%) Agile
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (16.67%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Bash
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.56%) VB
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (19.44%) Master's Degree
3 5 (13.89%) PMI Certification
4 4 (11.11%) PMP
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
6 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) PMO
1 2 (5.56%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) P3O
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (30.56%) Ansible
3 10 (27.78%) Kibana
4 8 (22.22%) Puppet
5 4 (11.11%) Terraform
6 2 (5.56%) Grafana
6 2 (5.56%) HP ALM
6 2 (5.56%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (5.56%) logstash
6 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.78%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (25.00%) Splunk
2 6 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) HP
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) New Relic