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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 18 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 38 55 60
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.18% 9.18% 8.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.84% 27.78% 39.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 43
10th Percentile £210 £148 £147
25th Percentile £305 £304 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £587
90th Percentile £850 £643 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £23.91 £31.66 £25.90
25th Percentile £25.11 £33.72 £34.00
Median hourly rate £27.11 £37.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% -25.71% +202.66%
75th Percentile £29.10 £40.57 £51.25
90th Percentile £30.30 £42.63 £52.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £38.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.71% -23.00% +146.31%

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 213 198 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.41% 33.06% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 133 86
10th Percentile £210 £150 £209
25th Percentile £405 £275 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £636
90th Percentile £700 £638 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £474 £500 £534
% change year-on-year -5.30% -6.41% -1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 6
10th Percentile £14.99 - £20.88
25th Percentile £21.23 - £22.33
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £38.06
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -50.42% -30.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £51.88
90th Percentile - £47.40 £54.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -29.41% +54.55%

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 12 September 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 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.89%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.63%) VLAN
1 1 (2.63%) VoIP
1 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.63%) Metadata
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 13 (34.21%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Designer
2 8 (21.05%) Trainee
2 8 (21.05%) Web Designer
2 8 (21.05%) Website Designer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Cisco Voice Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Desktop Support
6 3 (7.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Product Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) ADO
3 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.63%) Loki
3 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Acoustics
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (21.05%) Analytics
3 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (18.42%) Change Management
5 6 (15.79%) Waterfall
6 5 (13.16%) AI
6 5 (13.16%) Project Management
6 5 (13.16%) Service Management
7 4 (10.53%) Backlog Refinement
7 4 (10.53%) DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) ERP
7 4 (10.53%) ITIL
8 3 (7.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 3 (7.89%) Patch Management
8 3 (7.89%) Product Backlog
8 3 (7.89%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (7.89%) Product Vision
8 3 (7.89%) User Experience
8 3 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Bicep
2 1 (2.63%) C#
2 1 (2.63%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.63%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
2 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.89%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.89%) PMP
3 2 (5.26%) APMG
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) GCIH
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.63%) SANS
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) P3O
2 1 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.63%) Argo
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Splunk
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 3 (7.89%) Ribbon
3 3 (7.89%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) New Relic
4 1 (2.63%) Nexthink
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Remedy
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow