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 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 38 49 51
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.18% 8.32% 7.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.45% 27.22% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 36
10th Percentile £222 £148 £143
25th Percentile £388 £256 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -7.69% +14.71%
75th Percentile £594 £539 £609
90th Percentile £850 £600 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £466 £450 £487
% change year-on-year +3.44% -7.50% -9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £23.91 £31.66 £28.60
25th Percentile £25.11 £33.72 £40.75
Median hourly rate £27.11 £37.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% -25.71% +170.27%
75th Percentile £29.10 £40.57 £53.44
90th Percentile £30.30 £42.63 £55.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £38.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.71% -23.00% +126.24%

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 206 180 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.66% 30.56% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 122 80
10th Percentile £212 £150 £208
25th Percentile £390 £277 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £647
90th Percentile £705 £617 £728
West Midlands median daily rate £473 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.40% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 9
10th Percentile £14.73 - £13.85
25th Percentile £25.11 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -27.77% -52.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £21.73 £52.50
90th Percentile - £48.25 £56.45
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +75.00% -11.58% +23.38%

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 29 August 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 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.89%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.63%) VLAN
1 1 (2.63%) VoIP
1 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.63%) Metadata
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Designer
2 8 (21.05%) Trainee
2 8 (21.05%) Web Designer
2 8 (21.05%) Website Designer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Project Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Cisco Voice Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Digital Product Manager
6 3 (7.89%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Product Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Transformation Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Voice Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) ADO
3 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.63%) Loki
3 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.63%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Acoustics
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (21.05%) Analytics
3 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (18.42%) Change Management
5 6 (15.79%) Project Management
5 6 (15.79%) Waterfall
6 5 (13.16%) AI
7 4 (10.53%) Backlog Refinement
7 4 (10.53%) DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) ERP
7 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.53%) Service Management
8 3 (7.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 3 (7.89%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (7.89%) ITIL
8 3 (7.89%) Product Backlog
8 3 (7.89%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (7.89%) Product Vision
8 3 (7.89%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Bicep
2 1 (2.63%) C#
2 1 (2.63%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (2.63%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
1 4 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (7.89%) PMP
3 2 (5.26%) APMG
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) GCIH
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.63%) SANS
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) PMO
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) P3O
2 1 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.63%) Argo
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Splunk
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 3 (7.89%) Ribbon
3 3 (7.89%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) New Relic
4 1 (2.63%) Nexthink
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Remedy
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow