Degree Contracts in Birmingham

Academic Degree
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing Degree 63 47 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.22% 5.20% 4.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.64% 22.93% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 42
10th Percentile £190 £193 £313
25th Percentile £357 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £503 £548
90th Percentile £598 £580 £637
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 1
10th Percentile £22.33 £10.96 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £11.75 £24.35
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.10 £25.29
Median % change year-on-year +61.49% -36.34% +58.06%
75th Percentile £28.75 £29.12 £26.24
90th Percentile £56.25 £53.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £39.92 £18.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +115.78% +7.06% +11.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 220 205 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.72% 22.68% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 100 161
10th Percentile £262 £303 £200
25th Percentile £325 £388 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £638 £550
90th Percentile £604 £700 £636
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £528 £469
% change year-on-year -14.69% +12.53% +15.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 4
10th Percentile £13.48 £11.70 -
25th Percentile £16.08 £12.70 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.75 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.22% -19.28% +22.06%
75th Percentile £28.75 £20.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £55.88 £29.51 £25.04
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +50.00% +1.33% +17.19%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Birmingham

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Birmingham over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (38.10%) Chatbot
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
3 3 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (4.76%) Google Workspace
3 3 (4.76%) IaaS
3 3 (4.76%) PaaS
3 3 (4.76%) SaaS
3 3 (4.76%) Serverless
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.17%) AWS
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) Firewall
1 6 (9.52%) LAN
1 6 (9.52%) WAN
2 5 (7.94%) VPN
3 3 (4.76%) VLAN
3 3 (4.76%) VoIP
3 3 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (3.17%) Broadband
4 2 (3.17%) Skype
4 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.59%) DHCP
5 1 (1.59%) DNS
5 1 (1.59%) Ethereal
5 1 (1.59%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.59%) Wireless
5 1 (1.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.59%) Flink
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Git
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Finance
4 7 (11.11%) German Language
5 5 (7.94%) Legal
6 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (49.21%) Developer
2 24 (38.10%) Software Developer
3 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (1.59%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) HTML
2 6 (9.52%) Spring
3 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.76%) React
4 1 (1.59%) Guice
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.35%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (6.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.76%) Clustering
4 3 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Mac OS
2 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.17%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 24 (38.10%) Code Quality
2 24 (38.10%) Conversational UI
3 22 (34.92%) Computer Science
4 16 (25.40%) Agile
4 16 (25.40%) Software Engineering
5 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.11%) DevOps
7 6 (9.52%) Analytical Thinking
7 6 (9.52%) CAFM
7 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (9.52%) Data Architecture
8 5 (7.94%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.94%) Data Science
8 5 (7.94%) Migration
8 5 (7.94%) Project Delivery
8 5 (7.94%) Scrum
9 4 (6.35%) Architectural Design
9 4 (6.35%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (6.35%) Digital Enablement
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) SQL
2 14 (22.22%) Python
3 13 (20.63%) C#
4 12 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.52%) Java
5 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.35%) PMI Certification
3 4 (6.35%) PMP
4 3 (4.76%) APMP
4 3 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.17%) CCNA
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Autotask
1 3 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.76%) SCCM
1 3 (4.76%) SysTrack
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) OpenView
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (38.10%) PayPal
2 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.11%) SAP
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle
5 3 (4.76%) Apple
5 3 (4.76%) Citrix
5 3 (4.76%) Datto
5 3 (4.76%) Google
5 3 (4.76%) New Relic
5 3 (4.76%) OpenAI
5 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.76%) VMware
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco
6 1 (1.59%) Informatica