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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Degree 59 62 52
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.99% 8.79% 6.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.34% 40.79% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 29
10th Percentile £273 £145 £304
25th Percentile £424 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £556 £619 £575
90th Percentile £669 £757 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -9.09% +28.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £31.66 £25.90 £13.78
25th Percentile £33.72 £34.00 £13.91
Median hourly rate £37.15 £50.00 £14.12
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +254.11% -
75th Percentile £40.57 £51.25 £14.33
90th Percentile £42.63 £52.00 £14.46
West Midlands median hourly rate £37.98 £42.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -10.64% +136.11% -25.77%

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 224 152 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.15% 21.56% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 87 127
10th Percentile £250 £165 £217
25th Percentile £363 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £609
90th Percentile £616 £765 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -5.93% +1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 12
10th Percentile £16.30 £20.88 £17.34
25th Percentile - £22.33 £57.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% -41.44% -
75th Percentile - £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.03 £54.88 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +10.55%

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 October 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 (16.95%) Confluence
1 10 (16.95%) nginx
2 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.69%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.69%) Navisworks
3 1 (1.69%) Revit
3 1 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) AWS
2 14 (23.73%) GCP
2 14 (23.73%) Serverless
3 13 (22.03%) AWS KMS
3 13 (22.03%) Azure
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
4 10 (16.95%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (15.25%) Route 53
5 9 (15.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) DNS
1 10 (16.95%) Firewall
2 9 (15.25%) FTP
2 9 (15.25%) HTTP
2 9 (15.25%) IMAP
2 9 (15.25%) OpenLDAP
2 9 (15.25%) SMTP
2 9 (15.25%) SSH
3 2 (3.39%) Network Security
3 2 (3.39%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.69%) BGP
4 1 (1.69%) Broadband
4 1 (1.69%) DHCP
4 1 (1.69%) DMZ
4 1 (1.69%) OSPF
4 1 (1.69%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.69%) VLAN
4 1 (1.69%) VoIP
4 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.20%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (25.42%) NoSQL
3 10 (16.95%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (15.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (13.56%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.39%) Tableau
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.69%) EDMS
8 1 (1.69%) Power BI
8 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (35.59%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.03%) GitLab
2 13 (22.03%) JIRA
3 9 (15.25%) Git
3 9 (15.25%) Liquibase
3 9 (15.25%) Vagrant
General
1 44 (74.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Finance
2 16 (27.12%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (16.95%) Financial Institution
5 9 (15.25%) Banking
5 9 (15.25%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) AWS DevOps
4 9 (15.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Senior
5 8 (13.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Analyst
7 6 (10.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Site Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Splunk Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Project Manager
9 4 (6.78%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (25.42%) REST
3 14 (23.73%) RESTful
4 9 (15.25%) LDAP
5 3 (5.08%) HTML
6 2 (3.39%) .NET
6 2 (3.39%) Middleware
6 2 (3.39%) Web Services
7 1 (1.69%) JSON
7 1 (1.69%) OAuth
7 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.69%) OLE
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.69%) SOAP
7 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (22.03%) Public Cloud
3 11 (18.64%) Management Information System
4 10 (16.95%) Cloud Native
5 9 (15.25%) Replication
6 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (6.78%) Educational Technology
7 3 (5.08%) Learning Management System
7 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
8 2 (3.39%) Handset
8 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.69%) SCORM
9 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (49.15%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Windows
3 9 (15.25%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (15.25%) Ubuntu
3 9 (15.25%) VMS
4 7 (11.86%) Unix
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) DevOps
2 25 (42.37%) Change Management
2 25 (42.37%) Computer Science
3 24 (40.68%) CI/CD
4 22 (37.29%) Containerisation
5 21 (35.59%) Agile
6 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (27.12%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (22.03%) Cryptography
10 12 (20.34%) Microservices
11 11 (18.64%) Cloud Security
11 11 (18.64%) High Availability
11 11 (18.64%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (16.95%) Cost Optimisation
12 10 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (16.95%) Migration
13 9 (15.25%) Configuration Management
13 9 (15.25%) Non-Functional Testing
13 9 (15.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (52.54%) Python
2 15 (25.42%) SQL
3 14 (23.73%) Go
4 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
5 9 (15.25%) Groovy
6 6 (10.17%) Bash
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.39%) C#
8 2 (3.39%) Java
9 1 (1.69%) Perl
9 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (38.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Master's Degree
4 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
5 11 (18.64%) AWS Certification
6 9 (15.25%) Azure Certification
7 5 (8.47%) PMI Certification
7 5 (8.47%) PMP
8 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.39%) CCNA
9 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.39%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (1.69%) CBAP
10 1 (1.69%) CCNP
10 1 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.69%) CISSP
10 1 (1.69%) CPIM
10 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.69%) PhD
10 1 (1.69%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) QA
1 2 (3.39%) SLA
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (45.76%) Docker
2 9 (15.25%) DFS Replication
2 9 (15.25%) Dovecot
2 9 (15.25%) Postfix
2 9 (15.25%) Squid
3 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (40.68%) Grafana
1 24 (40.68%) Terraform
2 22 (37.29%) Prometheus
3 21 (35.59%) Kubernetes
4 18 (30.51%) Ansible
5 9 (15.25%) Nessus
5 9 (15.25%) Proxmox
6 6 (10.17%) Kibana
6 6 (10.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Splunk
2 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.25%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (15.25%) ServiceNow
4 7 (11.86%) Google
5 3 (5.08%) Progress
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Intapp
6 1 (1.69%) Juniper
6 1 (1.69%) NEC
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) PayPal
6 1 (1.69%) Pega
6 1 (1.69%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.69%) VMware