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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 50 41 73
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.85% 7.17% 9.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.92% 28.08% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 26
10th Percentile £418 £160 £190
25th Percentile £468 £247 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +11.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £578 £572 £600
90th Percentile £873 £669 £622
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.95% +14.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £19.99
25th Percentile - £47.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +92.31% +126.09%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £27.42
90th Percentile - - £28.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £20.87 £28.50
% change year-on-year -32.90% -26.79% +17.53%

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 209 146 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.44% 25.52% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 101 143
10th Percentile £244 £165 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +23.53% -12.14%
75th Percentile £575 £689 £538
90th Percentile £634 £700 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 21
10th Percentile £15.62 £32.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £38.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £18.40 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.20% +11.11% +200.00%
75th Percentile £18.87 £54.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £23.58 £56.30 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.93% -17.14% +79.49%

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 21 February 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 6 (12.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) nginx
3 2 (4.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) GCP
3 14 (28.00%) Serverless
4 7 (14.00%) AWS KMS
4 7 (14.00%) Azure
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Route 53
6 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) DNS
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
1 3 (6.00%) FTP
1 3 (6.00%) HTTP
1 3 (6.00%) IMAP
1 3 (6.00%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (6.00%) SMTP
1 3 (6.00%) SSH
1 3 (6.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 12 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.00%) EDMS
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (26.00%) GitLab
3 10 (20.00%) Liquibase
4 6 (12.00%) JIRA
5 3 (6.00%) Git
5 3 (6.00%) Vagrant
6 2 (4.00%) JMeter
General
1 40 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (32.00%) Finance
4 10 (20.00%) Banking
4 10 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Automotive
6 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Site Engineer
1 14 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 14 (28.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Software Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 7 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Architect
7 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) GCP Software Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (30.00%) REST
3 14 (28.00%) RESTful
4 3 (6.00%) LDAP
5 2 (4.00%) ADO
6 1 (2.00%) Middleware
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 14 (28.00%) Public Cloud
3 13 (26.00%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (22.00%) Cloud Native
5 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
6 3 (6.00%) Handset
6 3 (6.00%) Replication
7 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
8 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
8 1 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (2.00%) Learning Management System
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (62.00%) Linux
2 14 (28.00%) Unix
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (6.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.00%) VMS
3 3 (6.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) DevOps
2 32 (64.00%) Computer Science
3 30 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 27 (54.00%) Change Management
5 19 (38.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (36.00%) Agile
7 16 (32.00%) Incident Response
7 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (32.00%) Migration
7 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (30.00%) Validation
9 14 (28.00%) Cryptography
9 14 (28.00%) Dashboard Development
9 14 (28.00%) Data Ingestion
9 14 (28.00%) Data Modelling
9 14 (28.00%) Observability
9 14 (28.00%) Performance Metrics
9 14 (28.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) Python
2 15 (30.00%) Go
3 14 (28.00%) Bash
4 10 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (6.00%) Groovy
5 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (32.00%) Master's Degree
3 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (8.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) ISTQB
8 2 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (58.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) DFS Replication
2 3 (6.00%) Dovecot
2 3 (6.00%) Postfix
2 3 (6.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Kubernetes
2 29 (58.00%) Ansible
3 20 (40.00%) Terraform
4 17 (34.00%) Grafana
4 17 (34.00%) Prometheus
5 16 (32.00%) Kibana
6 14 (28.00%) Puppet
7 3 (6.00%) Nessus
7 3 (6.00%) Proxmox
8 2 (4.00%) HP ALM
8 2 (4.00%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (4.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 28 (56.00%) Splunk
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) HP
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) Intapp