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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 17 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Degree 53 61 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.95% 8.56% 5.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.18% 40.13% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 25
10th Percentile £156 £149 £262
25th Percentile £331 £409 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £569 £609 £575
90th Percentile £648 £753 £623
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +26.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £31.66 £25.90 £13.95
25th Percentile £33.72 £34.00 £14.33
Median hourly rate £37.15 £50.00 £16.52
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +202.66% -
75th Percentile £40.57 £51.25 £22.83
90th Percentile £42.63 £52.00 £30.18
West Midlands median hourly rate £38.50 £50.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -23.00% +170.27% +32.14%

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 195 152 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.94% 21.32% 28.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 85 123
10th Percentile £150 £209 £263
25th Percentile £283 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £619
90th Percentile £638 £759 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.37% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 13
10th Percentile £18.61 £20.88 £13.87
25th Percentile - £22.33 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% -41.44% +225.00%
75th Percentile - £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £46.55 £54.88 £68.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.09 £38.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.93% +40.91% +37.50%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Degree 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 16 September 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 11 (20.75%) Confluence
2 10 (18.87%) nginx
3 2 (3.77%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) CMS
4 1 (1.89%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.89%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.89%) Navisworks
3 1 (1.89%) Revit
3 1 (1.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.19%) AWS
2 13 (24.53%) Azure
3 10 (18.87%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (18.87%) Amazon S3
3 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (16.98%) Amazon ELB
4 9 (16.98%) AWS KMS
4 9 (16.98%) Route 53
4 9 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (9.43%) GCP
5 5 (9.43%) Serverless
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.89%) Asana
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.89%) SaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.75%) Firewall
2 10 (18.87%) DNS
3 9 (16.98%) FTP
3 9 (16.98%) HTTP
3 9 (16.98%) IMAP
3 9 (16.98%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (16.98%) SMTP
3 9 (16.98%) SSH
4 3 (5.66%) Network Security
5 1 (1.89%) BGP
5 1 (1.89%) Broadband
5 1 (1.89%) DHCP
5 1 (1.89%) DMZ
5 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.89%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.89%) OSPF
5 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.89%) VLAN
5 1 (1.89%) VoIP
5 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.98%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) Tableau
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.89%) EDMS
6 1 (1.89%) Power BI
6 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) JIRA
2 12 (22.64%) Jenkins
3 10 (18.87%) Git
4 9 (16.98%) Vagrant
5 4 (7.55%) GitLab
5 4 (7.55%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.89%) JMeter
6 1 (1.89%) Postman
6 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.89%) Selenium
6 1 (1.89%) TestNG
6 1 (1.89%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (71.70%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.19%) Public Sector
3 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Finance
5 4 (7.55%) Legal
6 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.77%) Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.89%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) AWS DevOps
3 9 (16.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 7 (13.21%) Analyst
5 7 (13.21%) Senior
6 5 (9.43%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Site Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Lead
8 3 (5.66%) Splunk Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) LDAP
2 7 (13.21%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.43%) REST
3 5 (9.43%) RESTful
4 3 (5.66%) HTML
5 2 (3.77%) .NET
5 2 (3.77%) Middleware
5 2 (3.77%) OAuth
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.77%) Web Services
6 1 (1.89%) JSON
6 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.89%) OLE
6 1 (1.89%) OpenID
6 1 (1.89%) SAML
6 1 (1.89%) SOAP
6 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Management Information System
1 9 (16.98%) Replication
2 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Educational Technology
3 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.66%) Learning Management System
4 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.89%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.89%) SCORM
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.08%) Linux
2 10 (18.87%) Windows
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (16.98%) Ubuntu
3 9 (16.98%) VMS
4 4 (7.55%) Unix
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (39.62%) DevOps
3 19 (35.85%) Change Management
4 17 (32.08%) Computer Science
5 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
6 13 (24.53%) Agile
6 13 (24.53%) Cloud Security
7 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
7 11 (20.75%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (16.98%) Configuration Management
8 9 (16.98%) Patch Management
8 9 (16.98%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (16.98%) Project Management
9 8 (15.09%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (13.21%) Migration
11 6 (11.32%) Incident Response
12 5 (9.43%) PRINCE2
12 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Python
2 14 (26.42%) SQL
3 11 (20.75%) PowerShell
4 9 (16.98%) Groovy
5 6 (11.32%) Bash
6 4 (7.55%) Go
7 3 (5.66%) Java
7 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.77%) C#
9 1 (1.89%) Perl
9 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) AWS Certification
3 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
4 9 (16.98%) Azure Certification
5 5 (9.43%) PMI Certification
5 5 (9.43%) PMP
6 3 (5.66%) CISSP
6 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.77%) CCNA
7 2 (3.77%) CEH
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.77%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (1.89%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) CISA
8 1 (1.89%) CISM
8 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.89%) OCP
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) NIST
2 2 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.77%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (37.74%) Docker
2 9 (16.98%) DFS Replication
2 9 (16.98%) Dovecot
2 9 (16.98%) Postfix
2 9 (16.98%) Squid
3 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Terraform
2 15 (28.30%) Grafana
3 13 (24.53%) Prometheus
4 12 (22.64%) Kubernetes
5 9 (16.98%) Ansible
5 9 (16.98%) Nessus
5 9 (16.98%) Proxmox
6 4 (7.55%) Kibana
7 3 (5.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (16.98%) ServiceNow
2 7 (13.21%) Splunk
3 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.66%) Progress
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) BT
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) Intapp
6 1 (1.89%) Juniper
6 1 (1.89%) NEC
6 1 (1.89%) PayPal
6 1 (1.89%) Pega
6 1 (1.89%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.89%) VMware