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 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 13 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Degree 54 64 52
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.85% 8.95% 6.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.22% 40.51% 22.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 27
10th Percentile £298 £145 £340
25th Percentile £450 £281 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +16.41% -14.10%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £600
90th Percentile £792 £757 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £590
% change year-on-year - -15.25% +31.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £31.66 £25.90 -
25th Percentile £33.72 £34.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.15 £50.00 £14.54
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +243.88% -
75th Percentile £40.57 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £42.63 £52.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.23 £38.22 £18.50
% change year-on-year -5.19% +106.57% -23.71%

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 223 158 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.41% 22.10% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 93 134
10th Percentile £243 £165 £259
25th Percentile £353 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £599
90th Percentile £624 £762 £696
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% +1.43% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £20.95 £43.75
25th Percentile - £23.41 £60.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.93% -55.38% -
75th Percentile - £51.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £44.00 £54.40 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £34.47 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -1.53% +44.33%

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 16 November 2025.

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 (18.52%) Confluence
1 10 (18.52%) nginx
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.85%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.85%) Navisworks
3 1 (1.85%) Revit
3 1 (1.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) AWS
2 15 (27.78%) GCP
2 15 (27.78%) Serverless
3 13 (24.07%) AWS KMS
3 13 (24.07%) Azure
4 10 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (18.52%) Amazon S3
4 10 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (16.67%) Route 53
5 9 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.52%) Firewall
2 9 (16.67%) DNS
2 9 (16.67%) FTP
2 9 (16.67%) HTTP
2 9 (16.67%) IMAP
2 9 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
2 9 (16.67%) SMTP
2 9 (16.67%) SSH
3 3 (5.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.85%) BGP
4 1 (1.85%) Broadband
4 1 (1.85%) DMZ
4 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.85%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.85%) Network Security
4 1 (1.85%) OSPF
4 1 (1.85%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.85%) VoIP
4 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (25.93%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.85%) EDMS
6 1 (1.85%) Power BI
6 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.93%) GitLab
3 13 (24.07%) JIRA
4 10 (18.52%) Liquibase
5 9 (16.67%) Git
5 9 (16.67%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.78%) Finance
3 14 (25.93%) Public Sector
4 10 (18.52%) Banking
4 10 (18.52%) Financial Institution
5 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.85%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Marketing
7 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (18.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Site Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Splunk Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Project Manager
9 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.04%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (29.63%) REST
3 15 (27.78%) RESTful
4 9 (16.67%) LDAP
5 1 (1.85%) HTML
5 1 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.85%) SOAP
5 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (25.93%) Public Cloud
2 11 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (20.37%) Management Information System
3 9 (16.67%) Replication
4 4 (7.41%) Educational Technology
5 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.56%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.56%) Handset
5 3 (5.56%) Learning Management System
5 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.85%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.85%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 30 (55.56%) Linux
2 10 (18.52%) Windows
3 9 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 9 (16.67%) VMS
4 7 (12.96%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (62.96%) DevOps
2 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 24 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 23 (42.59%) Change Management
4 23 (42.59%) Containerisation
5 20 (37.04%) Agile
6 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (25.93%) Cryptography
9 13 (24.07%) Microservices
10 11 (20.37%) Cloud Security
10 11 (20.37%) Cost Optimisation
10 11 (20.37%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (20.37%) High Availability
11 10 (18.52%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
12 9 (16.67%) Configuration Management
12 9 (16.67%) Data Security
12 9 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Go
3 14 (25.93%) SQL
4 9 (16.67%) Groovy
4 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (11.11%) Bash
6 2 (3.70%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 14 (25.93%) Master's Degree
4 13 (24.07%) SC Cleared
5 12 (22.22%) AWS Certification
6 9 (16.67%) Azure Certification
7 5 (9.26%) PMI Certification
7 5 (9.26%) PMP
8 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) CCNA
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.85%) CCNP
10 1 (1.85%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.85%) CISSP
10 1 (1.85%) PhD
10 1 (1.85%) RIBA
10 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) PMO
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 28 (51.85%) Docker
2 9 (16.67%) DFS Replication
2 9 (16.67%) Dovecot
2 9 (16.67%) Postfix
2 9 (16.67%) Squid
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (46.30%) Terraform
2 23 (42.59%) Grafana
2 23 (42.59%) Prometheus
3 20 (37.04%) Kubernetes
4 19 (35.19%) Ansible
5 9 (16.67%) Nessus
5 9 (16.67%) Proxmox
6 6 (11.11%) Kibana
6 6 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (37.04%) Splunk
2 9 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.96%) Google
5 3 (5.56%) Progress
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) IBM
6 1 (1.85%) Intapp
6 1 (1.85%) NEC
6 1 (1.85%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) PayPal
6 1 (1.85%) Pega
6 1 (1.85%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.85%) VMware