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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 90 78 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.64% 7.78% 5.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.86% 26.26% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 46
10th Percentile £167 £223 £170
25th Percentile £200 £391 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% +11.76% +14.09%
75th Percentile £396 £531 £488
90th Percentile £528 £690 £500
England median daily rate £500 £546 £520
% change year-on-year -8.42% +5.00% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 7
10th Percentile £23.62 - £14.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £16.25 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.25 £18.06 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.47% -16.02% +34.38%
75th Percentile £40.19 £21.95 £36.39
90th Percentile £51.25 £29.33 £46.67
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.08
% change year-on-year -11.11% +24.72% -1.15%

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 251 297 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 32.47% 29.61% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 216 163
10th Percentile £168 £231 £182
25th Percentile £252 £384 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +21.21% +11.49%
75th Percentile £570 £625 £500
90th Percentile £659 £708 £624
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £9.60 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.72 £11.80 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.02 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -11.56% +22.86%
75th Percentile £37.88 £40.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.93
% change year-on-year -23.81% +28.28% +8.71%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +25 27 £675 +202.69% 84
Derbyshire +8 27 £223 -53.65% 63
Leicestershire +15 15 £256 -44.73% 80
Northamptonshire -4 12 £400 -1.23% 110
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 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
Applications
1 34 (37.78%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (23.33%) Chatbot
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.22%) CATIA
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.67%) AWS
2 5 (5.56%) Azure
3 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.22%) GCP
4 2 (2.22%) Google Workspace
4 2 (2.22%) IaaS
4 2 (2.22%) PaaS
4 2 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.11%) OCI
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) LAN
2 3 (3.33%) WAN
3 2 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.22%) DHCP
3 2 (2.22%) DNS
3 2 (2.22%) Ethereal
3 2 (2.22%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.22%) VPN
3 2 (2.22%) Wireless
3 2 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.44%) Power BI
3 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.22%) Big Data
3 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 49 (54.44%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.67%) Finance
4 4 (4.44%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Electronics
5 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Automotive
7 1 (1.11%) Back Office
7 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Developer
2 23 (25.56%) Software Developer
3 12 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Lead
5 7 (7.78%) Team Leader
6 6 (6.67%) Analyst
6 6 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.56%) DBA
7 5 (5.56%) Quality Inspector
8 4 (4.44%) Designer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior
8 4 (4.44%) SQL DBA
9 3 (3.33%) SQL Server DBA
9 3 (3.33%) Validation Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Verification Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) IT Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Network Support Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) HTML
2 2 (2.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.22%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.22%) CSS
2 2 (2.22%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.22%) jQuery
2 2 (2.22%) React
2 2 (2.22%) RESTful
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.11%) Kafka
3 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (37.78%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
1 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.56%) Conflict Management
1 32 (35.56%) Time Management
2 22 (24.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (24.44%) Code Quality
3 21 (23.33%) Conversational UI
4 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 13 (14.44%) Computer Science
6 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.89%) Data Modelling
8 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (6.67%) Project Management
10 5 (5.56%) Analytics
10 5 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (5.56%) High Availability
10 5 (5.56%) Validation
11 4 (4.44%) Agile
11 4 (4.44%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) SQL
2 17 (18.89%) Python
3 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.56%) C#
5 2 (2.22%) Java
5 2 (2.22%) Scala
6 1 (1.11%) C
6 1 (1.11%) C++
6 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.11%) R
6 1 (1.11%) Rust
6 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) NVQ Level 3
2 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) MCITP
3 5 (5.56%) MCTS
4 4 (4.44%) HNC
4 4 (4.44%) HND
5 3 (3.33%) APMP
5 3 (3.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (3.33%) ISEB
6 2 (2.22%) CBAP
6 2 (2.22%) CCNA
6 2 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.22%) PMP
6 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) OpenView
Vendors
1 21 (23.33%) PayPal
2 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
4 3 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Cisco
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Sage