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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 15 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 52 58 74
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.41% 8.99% 9.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.80% 35.58% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 41 24
10th Percentile £413 £143 £223
25th Percentile £468 £165 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £426 £434
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -1.73% +15.60%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £586
90th Percentile £854 £738 £626
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +13.51% -15.91% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £25.90 £19.99
25th Percentile - £34.00 £22.33
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +92.31% +126.09%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £27.42
90th Percentile - - £28.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £21.00 £25.33
% change year-on-year -33.33% -17.08% +4.43%

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 194 163 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.92% 25.27% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 112 130
10th Percentile £231 £161 £257
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £546 £434
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% +25.86% -10.39%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £559
90th Percentile £634 £700 £657
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -0.87% +8.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 20
10th Percentile £15.29 £23.03 £21.55
25th Percentile £16.30 £26.42 £25.50
Median hourly rate £18.40 £39.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.42% -21.00% +185.71%
75th Percentile £18.87 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.36 £54.88 £67.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £24.86 £28.50
% change year-on-year -24.10% -12.76% +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 31 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 8 (15.38%) Confluence
2 7 (13.46%) nginx
3 2 (3.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) GCP
2 15 (28.85%) Serverless
3 10 (19.23%) AWS KMS
4 9 (17.31%) Azure
5 7 (13.46%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 6 (11.54%) Route 53
6 6 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) DNS
1 6 (11.54%) Firewall
1 6 (11.54%) FTP
1 6 (11.54%) HTTP
1 6 (11.54%) IMAP
1 6 (11.54%) OpenLDAP
1 6 (11.54%) SMTP
1 6 (11.54%) SSH
2 3 (5.77%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (28.85%) NoSQL
2 15 (28.85%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.92%) EDMS
5 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (36.54%) Jenkins
2 13 (25.00%) GitLab
3 10 (19.23%) Liquibase
4 9 (17.31%) JIRA
5 6 (11.54%) Git
5 6 (11.54%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.92%) JMeter
General
1 41 (78.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.69%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (30.77%) Finance
4 10 (19.23%) Banking
4 10 (19.23%) Financial Institution
5 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
6 6 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.92%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.92%) Law
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Site Engineer
1 14 (26.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 14 (26.92%) Splunk Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
5 8 (15.38%) Senior
6 7 (13.46%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (13.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (57.69%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (30.77%) REST
3 15 (28.85%) RESTful
4 6 (11.54%) LDAP
5 1 (1.92%) ADO
5 1 (1.92%) HTML
5 1 (1.92%) JSON
5 1 (1.92%) Middleware
5 1 (1.92%) OAuth
5 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.92%) SOAP
5 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) Management Information System
2 14 (26.92%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (26.92%) Public Cloud
3 12 (23.08%) Cloud Native
4 6 (11.54%) Replication
5 3 (5.77%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.77%) Handset
5 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.92%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.92%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.92%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (65.38%) Linux
2 14 (26.92%) Unix
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (11.54%) Ubuntu
3 6 (11.54%) VMS
3 6 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (80.77%) DevOps
2 33 (63.46%) Computer Science
3 31 (59.62%) Containerisation
4 29 (55.77%) Change Management
5 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
6 19 (36.54%) Agile
7 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (30.77%) Incident Response
8 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (30.77%) Migration
9 15 (28.85%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (28.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 15 (28.85%) Validation
10 14 (26.92%) Cryptography
10 14 (26.92%) Dashboard Development
10 14 (26.92%) Data Ingestion
10 14 (26.92%) Microservices
10 14 (26.92%) Observability
10 14 (26.92%) Performance Metrics
10 14 (26.92%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (69.23%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) Go
3 14 (26.92%) Bash
4 12 (23.08%) SQL
5 6 (11.54%) Groovy
5 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.77%) Java
7 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (63.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (30.77%) Master's Degree
3 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
4 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
5 8 (15.38%) AWS Certification
6 6 (11.54%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.85%) PMP
8 2 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) GDPR
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (63.46%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) DFS Replication
2 6 (11.54%) Dovecot
2 6 (11.54%) Postfix
2 6 (11.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (59.62%) Kubernetes
2 29 (55.77%) Ansible
3 23 (44.23%) Terraform
4 20 (38.46%) Grafana
4 20 (38.46%) Prometheus
5 16 (30.77%) Kibana
6 14 (26.92%) Puppet
7 6 (11.54%) Nessus
7 6 (11.54%) Proxmox
8 2 (3.85%) logstash
9 1 (1.92%) HP ALM
9 1 (1.92%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 28 (53.85%) Splunk
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.46%) Google
4 6 (11.54%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.92%) HP
6 1 (1.92%) Intapp
6 1 (1.92%) Pega
6 1 (1.92%) Progress
6 1 (1.92%) SAP