Degree Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Academic Degree
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Degree 7 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 5.65% 12.90% 5.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 44.44% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - £269 £218
25th Percentile £538 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +45.45% -32.93%
75th Percentile £613 £425 £406
90th Percentile - - £513
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £499 £540
% change year-on-year -9.82% -7.59% +23.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £38.50 £50.00 £22.10
% change year-on-year -23.00% +126.24% +57.86%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 28 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 22.58% 29.03% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 18
10th Percentile £169 £275 £250
25th Percentile £209 £375 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £271 £550 £444
Median % change year-on-year -50.68% +23.94% +10.94%
75th Percentile £541 £625 £547
90th Percentile £623 £675 £621
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £32.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.69% +16.91% +37.50%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Coventry

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Degree

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) SAP HR
1 3 (42.86%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Technical Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
1 3 (42.86%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (42.86%) SAP PI
1 3 (42.86%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Sequence Diagram
2 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (42.86%) Use Case
2 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Apex Code
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds