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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Degree 33 36 63
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.63% 6.79% 8.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.23% 25.53% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 22
10th Percentile £420 - £190
25th Percentile £428 £148 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £200 £450
Median % change year-on-year +175.00% -55.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £656 £550 £550
90th Percentile £850 £600 £598
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £300 £525
% change year-on-year +66.67% -42.86% +10.53%
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% +61.49%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £28.75
90th Percentile - - £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.50 £28.18 £39.92
% change year-on-year -30.80% -29.41% +115.78%

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 181 141 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.89% 26.60% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 99 130
10th Percentile £263 £148 £262
25th Percentile £414 £195 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +21.95% -18.00%
75th Percentile £578 £689 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £604
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.80% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 14
10th Percentile £14.61 £21.66 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.39 £26.38 £16.08
Median hourly rate £18.40 £39.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.42% +51.92% +55.22%
75th Percentile £19.34 £54.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.01 £57.05 £55.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.64 £28.18 £28.50
% change year-on-year -5.48% -1.12% +50.00%

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 26 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 (6.06%) Confluence
1 2 (6.06%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
1 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.03%) AWS
2 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
2 1 (3.03%) IaaS
2 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.03%) PaaS
2 1 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
1 2 (6.06%) JMeter
General
1 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Automotive
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Site Engineer
1 8 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 8 (24.24%) Splunk Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Designer
3 6 (18.18%) Trainee
3 6 (18.18%) Web Designer
3 6 (18.18%) Website Designer
4 5 (15.15%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (6.06%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (9.09%) ADO
3 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) Loki
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.03%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) PMI
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
1 8 (24.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Change Management
1 15 (45.45%) DevOps
2 12 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
3 10 (30.30%) Incident Response
4 9 (27.27%) Migration
4 9 (27.27%) Observability
4 9 (27.27%) Performance Metrics
4 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (27.27%) Validation
5 8 (24.24%) Dashboard Development
5 8 (24.24%) Data Ingestion
5 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
5 8 (24.24%) Knowledge Transfer
5 8 (24.24%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (18.18%) Agile
7 6 (18.18%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Bash
1 8 (24.24%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.06%) VB
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (18.18%) Master's Degree
3 5 (15.15%) PMI Certification
4 4 (12.12%) PMP
5 3 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
6 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (6.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) PMO
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) P3O
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 10 (30.30%) Kibana
3 8 (24.24%) Puppet
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
5 2 (6.06%) HP ALM
5 2 (6.06%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (6.06%) logstash
6 1 (3.03%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) Grafana
6 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Splunk
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) HP
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.03%) New Relic