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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Degree 37 37 52
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.03% 7.27% 7.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.11% 25.00% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 21
10th Percentile £339 £148 £190
25th Percentile £425 £174 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £544 £550
90th Percentile £850 £600 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +42.14% -26.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £44.35 £22.33
25th Percentile - £44.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +80.77% +61.49%
75th Percentile - £50.38 £28.75
90th Percentile - £51.65 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.00 £28.18 £39.92
% change year-on-year +13.54% -29.41% +115.78%

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 184 148 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.04% 29.08% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 104 110
10th Percentile £235 £148 £263
25th Percentile £394 £262 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £512 £431
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +18.72% -16.87%
75th Percentile £559 £642 £550
90th Percentile £634 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £495 £454
% change year-on-year -5.05% +9.09% -15.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 14
10th Percentile £14.95 £26.16 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.70 £37.63 £15.81
Median hourly rate £18.40 £47.00 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year -60.85% +85.59% +51.19%
75th Percentile £22.17 £54.13 £28.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £57.05 £48.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £28.18 £27.25
% change year-on-year +86.30% +3.41% +39.74%

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 22 May 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 (5.41%) Confluence
1 2 (5.41%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Azure
1 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.70%) IaaS
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.70%) PaaS
3 1 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
1 2 (5.41%) JMeter
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Automotive
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Designer
2 8 (21.62%) Site Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Splunk Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Trainee
2 8 (21.62%) Web Designer
2 8 (21.62%) Website Designer
3 5 (13.51%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (5.41%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
6 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.03%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.11%) ADO
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) Loki
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.70%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) PMI
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
1 8 (21.62%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Change Management
1 15 (40.54%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) Computer Science
3 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
3 10 (27.03%) Incident Response
4 9 (24.32%) Migration
4 9 (24.32%) Observability
4 9 (24.32%) Performance Metrics
4 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (24.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (24.32%) Validation
5 8 (21.62%) Dashboard Development
5 8 (21.62%) Data Ingestion
5 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
5 8 (21.62%) Knowledge Transfer
5 8 (21.62%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (18.92%) Agile
6 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (16.22%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Bash
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) Java
3 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.41%) VB
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (16.22%) Master's Degree
3 5 (13.51%) PMI Certification
4 4 (10.81%) PMP
5 3 (8.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
6 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) PMO
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) P3O
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.03%) Ansible
2 10 (27.03%) Kibana
3 8 (21.62%) Puppet
4 3 (8.11%) Terraform
5 2 (5.41%) HP ALM
5 2 (5.41%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (5.41%) logstash
6 1 (2.70%) Argo
6 1 (2.70%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Splunk
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.22%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) HP
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) New Relic