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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Degree 52 60 62
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.83% 9.36% 8.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.13% 41.38% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 42 26
10th Percentile £273 £144 £313
25th Percentile £468 £174 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £434
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +12.46% +7.04%
75th Percentile £578 £573 £600
90th Percentile £869 £762 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £500 £583
% change year-on-year +4.00% -14.16% +32.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year - +243.88% +32.79%
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £23.60 £20.30
% change year-on-year -40.68% +16.26% +15.18%

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 199 145 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.15% 22.62% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 96 124
10th Percentile £204 £163 £265
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +13.12% -10.48%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £619 £744 £654
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% +3.80% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £16.23 £23.54 £20.13
25th Percentile £17.58 £27.28 £55.00
Median hourly rate £18.40 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.20% -23.08% +283.76%
75th Percentile £18.87 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £20.36 £54.40 £68.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year -34.93% -16.55% +78.21%

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 11 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 (19.23%) Confluence
2 9 (17.31%) nginx
3 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
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 22 (42.31%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) GCP
2 15 (28.85%) Serverless
3 12 (23.08%) AWS KMS
4 11 (21.15%) Azure
5 9 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 8 (15.38%) Route 53
6 8 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) DNS
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
1 8 (15.38%) FTP
1 8 (15.38%) HTTP
1 8 (15.38%) IMAP
1 8 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (15.38%) SMTP
1 8 (15.38%) SSH
2 3 (5.77%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (26.92%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (26.92%) NoSQL
3 8 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) EDMS
4 1 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (40.38%) Jenkins
2 13 (25.00%) GitLab
3 11 (21.15%) JIRA
4 10 (19.23%) Liquibase
5 8 (15.38%) Git
5 8 (15.38%) Vagrant
General
1 41 (78.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 10 (19.23%) Banking
5 10 (19.23%) Financial Institution
6 8 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.77%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.92%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
3 12 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (21.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (19.23%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (17.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
7 8 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 8 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (15.38%) Senior
8 7 (13.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (13.46%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (11.54%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 5 (9.62%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (9.62%) Project Manager
11 4 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (53.85%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (30.77%) REST
3 15 (28.85%) RESTful
4 8 (15.38%) LDAP
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 17 (32.69%) Management Information System
2 14 (26.92%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (26.92%) Public Cloud
3 12 (23.08%) Cloud Native
4 8 (15.38%) Replication
5 3 (5.77%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.77%) Educational Technology
5 3 (5.77%) Handset
5 3 (5.77%) Learning Management System
5 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.92%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.92%) SCORM
7 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (69.23%) Linux
2 14 (26.92%) Unix
3 8 (15.38%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (15.38%) Ubuntu
3 8 (15.38%) VMS
3 8 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (76.92%) DevOps
2 30 (57.69%) Change Management
2 30 (57.69%) Computer Science
2 30 (57.69%) Containerisation
3 24 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 20 (38.46%) Agile
5 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (28.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (28.85%) Migration
6 15 (28.85%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (26.92%) Cryptography
7 14 (26.92%) Incident Response
7 14 (26.92%) Validation
8 13 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
8 13 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 13 (25.00%) Microservices
8 13 (25.00%) Observability
8 13 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
8 13 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 13 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (71.15%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) Go
3 13 (25.00%) Bash
3 13 (25.00%) SQL
4 8 (15.38%) Groovy
4 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (26.92%) Master's Degree
3 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
5 10 (19.23%) AWS Certification
6 8 (15.38%) Azure Certification
7 4 (7.69%) PMI Certification
7 4 (7.69%) PMP
8 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) GDPR
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (65.38%) Docker
2 8 (15.38%) DFS Replication
2 8 (15.38%) Dovecot
2 8 (15.38%) Postfix
2 8 (15.38%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (55.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (51.92%) Ansible
3 24 (46.15%) Terraform
4 22 (42.31%) Grafana
4 22 (42.31%) Prometheus
5 14 (26.92%) Kibana
6 13 (25.00%) Puppet
7 8 (15.38%) Nessus
7 8 (15.38%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.92%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Splunk
2 8 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 7 (13.46%) Google
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.77%) Progress
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Intapp
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) Pega