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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 21 12
Rank change year-on-year -27 -9 +18
Contract jobs citing Degree 30 33 64
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.37% 6.35% 8.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.48% 25.38% 29.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 23
10th Percentile £258 £148 £190
25th Percentile £425 £157 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £242 £500
Median % change year-on-year +116.94% -51.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £591
90th Percentile £850 £600 £630
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £300 £550
% change year-on-year +66.67% -45.45% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £22.33
25th Percentile - £47.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +92.31% +40.54%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £28.18 £39.92
% change year-on-year -50.32% -29.41% +64.62%

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 182 130 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.47% 25.00% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 99 130
10th Percentile £260 £148 £262
25th Percentile £394 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £538
90th Percentile £630 £700 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £494 £450
% change year-on-year -1.82% +9.78% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 14
10th Percentile £13.94 £20.61 £13.48
25th Percentile £17.00 £23.76 £16.08
Median hourly rate £18.40 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +11.54% +40.54%
75th Percentile £19.51 £40.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.29 £47.80 £55.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £24.09 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.40% -15.47% +42.50%

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 9 April 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
2 1 (3.33%) IaaS
2 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.33%) PaaS
2 1 (3.33%) Serverless
2 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) JMeter
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Liquibase
General
1 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Automotive
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Site Engineer
1 9 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 9 (30.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Designer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Telephony Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
4 2 (6.67%) Trainee
4 2 (6.67%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Website Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.67%) ADO
3 1 (3.33%) Middleware
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (10.00%) Handset
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.33%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) PMI
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) DevOps
2 15 (50.00%) Change Management
3 14 (46.67%) Computer Science
4 11 (36.67%) Containerisation
4 11 (36.67%) Incident Response
5 10 (33.33%) Migration
5 10 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
5 10 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (33.33%) Validation
6 9 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
6 9 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
6 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 9 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 9 (30.00%) Observability
6 9 (30.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.00%) Agile
8 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.67%) VB
5 1 (3.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (13.33%) PMI Certification
4 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (10.00%) PMP
4 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
5 2 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (40.00%) Ansible
3 11 (36.67%) Kibana
4 9 (30.00%) Puppet
5 3 (10.00%) Terraform
6 2 (6.67%) HP ALM
6 2 (6.67%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (6.67%) logstash
7 1 (3.33%) Grafana
7 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Splunk
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) HP
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian