Degree Contracts in the East Midlands

Academic Degree
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 18 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing Degree 88 93 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.49% 8.91% 5.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.65% 28.35% 27.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 42
10th Percentile £167 £223 £164
25th Percentile £191 £339 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £248 £463 £398
Median % change year-on-year -46.49% +16.35% +2.58%
75th Percentile £336 £500 £484
90th Percentile £569 £689 £500
England median daily rate £512 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 6
10th Percentile £23.62 - £16.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £16.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £28.25 £16.83 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -26.41% +42.94%
75th Percentile £40.19 £19.29 £41.53
90th Percentile £51.25 £22.13 £46.67
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -5.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 254 328 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 33.16% 31.42% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 228 163
10th Percentile £167 £229 £178
25th Percentile £250 £363 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £484 £420
Median % change year-on-year -25.06% +15.18% +12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £529
90th Percentile £662 £700 £607
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 49 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.90 £13.20
25th Percentile £14.72 £16.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £16.83 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% -21.72% +11.69%
75th Percentile £35.56 £26.48 £26.12
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +24 31 £718 +221.75% 83
Derbyshire +3 29 £245 -44.32% 70
Leicestershire +15 14 £256 -41.57% 71
Northamptonshire -6 6 £410 -6.82% 54
Lincolnshire -1 5 £154 -76.31% 30
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (2.27%) Apache
1 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 34 (38.64%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (27.27%) Chatbot
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.41%) CATIA
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.41%) AWS
1 3 (3.41%) Azure
1 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.27%) GCP
2 2 (2.27%) Google Workspace
2 2 (2.27%) IaaS
2 2 (2.27%) PaaS
2 2 (2.27%) SaaS
3 1 (1.14%) OCI
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) LAN
2 3 (3.41%) WAN
3 2 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.27%) DHCP
3 2 (2.27%) DNS
3 2 (2.27%) Ethereal
3 2 (2.27%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.27%) VPN
3 2 (2.27%) Wireless
3 2 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) Power BI
1 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.14%) Big Data
3 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.14%) MySQL
3 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 49 (55.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.82%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Finance
4 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.55%) Electronics
6 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.27%) Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Automotive
8 1 (1.14%) Back Office
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Developer
2 24 (27.27%) Software Developer
3 12 (13.64%) Test Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Lead
5 7 (7.95%) Team Leader
6 6 (6.82%) Analyst
6 6 (6.82%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Quality Inspector
8 4 (4.55%) Senior
8 4 (4.55%) Validation Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Verification Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.27%) Data Architect
10 2 (2.27%) Field Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Network Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Network Support
10 2 (2.27%) Network Support Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Quality Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.64%) HTML
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Beam
2 1 (1.14%) Kafka
2 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (40.91%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.36%) Conflict Management
1 32 (36.36%) Time Management
2 24 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 24 (27.27%) Code Quality
2 24 (27.27%) Conversational UI
3 19 (21.59%) Software Engineering
4 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.91%) Computer Science
6 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (7.95%) Project Management
8 6 (6.82%) Validation
9 5 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (5.68%) Creative Thinking
9 5 (5.68%) Data Modelling
9 5 (5.68%) Systems Engineering
10 4 (4.55%) Analytics
10 4 (4.55%) Change Management
10 4 (4.55%) Software Testing
10 4 (4.55%) Verification and Validation
11 3 (3.41%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.32%) SQL
2 16 (18.18%) Python
3 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.64%) C#
5 2 (2.27%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (1.14%) C
6 1 (1.14%) C++
6 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.14%) R
6 1 (1.14%) Rust
6 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (31.82%) NVQ Level 3
2 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (4.55%) HNC
5 4 (4.55%) HND
6 3 (3.41%) APMP
6 3 (3.41%) ISEB
7 2 (2.27%) CBAP
7 2 (2.27%) CCNA
7 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.27%) PMP
8 1 (1.14%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.14%) MCP
8 1 (1.14%) MCSE
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) OpenView
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) PayPal
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.41%) Google
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) Cisco
4 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.27%) SAP
4 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.14%) Siemens