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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 54 59 66
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.92% 9.37% 9.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.27% 42.14% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 42 23
10th Percentile £289 £144 £353
25th Percentile £468 £174 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +11.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £854 £762 £647
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £25.90 £15.64
25th Percentile - £34.00 £17.28
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £20.27
Median % change year-on-year - +146.67% +85.11%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £23.51
90th Percentile - - £25.30
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £22.30 £22.10
% change year-on-year -37.22% +0.90% -8.87%

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 198 140 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.38% 22.22% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 95 120
10th Percentile £209 £162 £269
25th Percentile £380 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +12.68% -10.13%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £619 £745 £658
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 14
10th Percentile £15.62 £23.03 £17.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £26.42 £45.63
Median hourly rate £18.40 £39.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.42% -39.23% +283.76%
75th Percentile £18.87 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.00 £54.88 £68.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £27.56 £34.50
% change year-on-year -31.54% -20.11% +72.50%

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 17 January 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 10 (18.52%) Confluence
2 9 (16.67%) nginx
3 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) AWS
2 15 (27.78%) GCP
2 15 (27.78%) Serverless
3 12 (22.22%) AWS KMS
4 11 (20.37%) Azure
5 9 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
6 8 (14.81%) Route 53
6 8 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) DNS
1 8 (14.81%) Firewall
1 8 (14.81%) FTP
1 8 (14.81%) HTTP
1 8 (14.81%) IMAP
1 8 (14.81%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (14.81%) SMTP
1 8 (14.81%) SSH
2 3 (5.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (27.78%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.85%) EDMS
4 1 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.07%) GitLab
3 11 (20.37%) JIRA
4 10 (18.52%) Liquibase
5 8 (14.81%) Git
5 8 (14.81%) Vagrant
General
1 43 (79.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.63%) Finance
3 15 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 10 (18.52%) Banking
5 10 (18.52%) Financial Institution
6 8 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.85%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) AWS Engineer
1 14 (25.93%) Site Engineer
1 14 (25.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 14 (25.93%) Splunk Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (20.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Senior
7 7 (12.96%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (9.26%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (9.26%) Project Manager
10 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (53.70%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (29.63%) REST
3 15 (27.78%) RESTful
4 8 (14.81%) LDAP
5 1 (1.85%) HTML
5 1 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) Middleware
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.85%) SOAP
5 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 14 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (25.93%) Public Cloud
3 12 (22.22%) Cloud Native
4 8 (14.81%) Replication
5 3 (5.56%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.56%) Educational Technology
5 3 (5.56%) Handset
5 3 (5.56%) Learning Management System
5 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.85%) SCORM
7 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (68.52%) Linux
2 15 (27.78%) Unix
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (14.81%) Ubuntu
3 8 (14.81%) VMS
3 8 (14.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (77.78%) DevOps
2 32 (59.26%) Computer Science
3 31 (57.41%) Change Management
3 31 (57.41%) Containerisation
4 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
5 20 (37.04%) Agile
6 19 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (29.63%) Migration
8 15 (27.78%) Incident Response
8 15 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (27.78%) Validation
9 14 (25.93%) Dashboard Development
9 14 (25.93%) Data Ingestion
9 14 (25.93%) Knowledge Transfer
9 14 (25.93%) Microservices
9 14 (25.93%) Observability
9 14 (25.93%) Performance Metrics
9 14 (25.93%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (70.37%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Go
3 14 (25.93%) Bash
3 14 (25.93%) SQL
4 8 (14.81%) Groovy
4 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.70%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (59.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (27.78%) Master's Degree
3 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
5 10 (18.52%) AWS Certification
6 8 (14.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (7.41%) PMI Certification
7 4 (7.41%) PMP
8 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) GDPR
1 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (64.81%) Docker
2 8 (14.81%) DFS Replication
2 8 (14.81%) Dovecot
2 8 (14.81%) Postfix
2 8 (14.81%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 28 (51.85%) Ansible
3 24 (44.44%) Terraform
4 22 (40.74%) Grafana
4 22 (40.74%) Prometheus
5 15 (27.78%) Kibana
6 14 (25.93%) Puppet
7 8 (14.81%) Nessus
7 8 (14.81%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) Splunk
2 8 (14.81%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (14.81%) ServiceNow
3 7 (12.96%) Google
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Progress
5 1 (1.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.85%) Intapp
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Pega