Degree Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 34 64 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.51% 8.28% 5.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.64% 28.70% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 23
10th Percentile - £190 £193
25th Percentile £148 £359 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £503
90th Percentile £600 £596 £580
West Midlands median daily rate £292 £519 £475
% change year-on-year -43.71% +9.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - £22.33 £10.96
25th Percentile £47.50 £25.50 £11.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.00 £16.10
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% +61.49% -36.34%
75th Percentile £52.50 £28.75 £29.12
90th Percentile - £56.25 £53.80
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £39.92 £18.50
% change year-on-year -29.41% +115.78% +7.06%

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 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Birmingham

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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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) IIS
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.82%) Trello
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.94%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) Asana
1 3 (8.82%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) OCI
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) BGP
2 1 (2.94%) DHCP
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) Internet
2 1 (2.94%) LAN
2 1 (2.94%) OSPF
2 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.94%) VLAN
2 1 (2.94%) WAN
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless
2 1 (2.94%) Wireless Security
2 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Tableau
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Postman
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) GitLab
3 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) JMeter
3 2 (5.88%) REST Assured
3 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 2 (5.88%) TestNG
3 2 (5.88%) Travis CI
4 1 (2.94%) Ant
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) Gradle
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Maven
4 1 (2.94%) Mockito
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Legal
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Developer
2 3 (8.82%) Analyst
2 3 (8.82%) Coordinator
2 3 (8.82%) Lead
2 3 (8.82%) Project Coordinator
2 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
2 3 (8.82%) SAP Developer
3 2 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (5.88%) Senior
3 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Site Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Tester
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Commercial Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Web Services
2 3 (8.82%) HTML
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) BAPI
3 2 (5.88%) IDoc
3 2 (5.88%) Middleware
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) SAP Smart Forms
3 2 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.94%) CSS
4 1 (2.94%) CSS3
4 1 (2.94%) J2EE
4 1 (2.94%) OpenID
4 1 (2.94%) SAML
4 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.94%) SAPUI5
4 1 (2.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Mac OS X
2 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (41.18%) Computer Science
3 10 (29.41%) Project Management
4 6 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (17.65%) SIEM
5 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
7 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.82%) Customer Service
7 3 (8.82%) Deadline-Driven
7 3 (8.82%) DevOps
7 3 (8.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (8.82%) Functional Testing
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
7 3 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
7 3 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) ABAP
3 3 (8.82%) COBOL
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (14.71%) CISSP
3 4 (11.76%) CEH
3 4 (11.76%) PMI Certification
3 4 (11.76%) PMP
3 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) CISM
5 2 (5.88%) A+ Certification
5 2 (5.88%) CISA
5 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
5 2 (5.88%) MCP
5 2 (5.88%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (2.94%) ACCA
6 1 (2.94%) CBAP
6 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) ICAEW
6 1 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.94%) MRICS
6 1 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.82%) NIST
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.94%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (2.94%) GRC
3 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Terraform
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Adobe
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Juniper
5 1 (2.94%) BT
5 1 (2.94%) Civica
5 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.94%) Sybase
5 1 (2.94%) Zscaler