Degree Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Academic Degree
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Degree 130 134 210
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.66% 10.58% 11.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.60% 37.64% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 42 104
10th Percentile £363 £121 £266
25th Percentile £450 £243 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £502 £609
90th Percentile £700 £638 £734
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 37
10th Percentile £10.50 £24.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £30.00 £26.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +66.88% -27.30%
75th Percentile £43.75 £95.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.65 £100.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.25 £42.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -17.79% -14.24% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 471 356 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.38% 28.10% 35.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 139 336
10th Percentile £193 £200 £273
25th Percentile £377 £306 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £485 £536
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -9.56% +4.63%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £675
90th Percentile £688 £638 £747
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 81 151
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.75 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.46% +116.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £56.00 £67.50 £59.38
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.63 £53.50
% change year-on-year -50.32% -5.37% +18.89%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Degree job vacancy trend in the East of England

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 November 2025. 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
Hertfordshire -4 45 £550 +47.65% 164
Cambridgeshire -6 34 £450 - 167
Bedfordshire -4 26 £500 +308.16% 39
Norfolk -7 18 - - 19
Essex -2 6 £456 +180.25% 49
Suffolk -9 1 £550 +22.22% 16
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.08%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.77%) CMS
6 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.69%) FrameMaker
3 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (6.15%) Simulink
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.77%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.77%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.77%) Maximo
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.77%) Primavera
2 1 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.77%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.54%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) AWS
3 12 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.15%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (6.15%) GCP
5 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (4.62%) Serverless
7 5 (3.85%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.54%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.54%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.54%) dbt
10 2 (1.54%) OCI
10 2 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.46%) DNS
2 9 (6.92%) LAN
2 9 (6.92%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.15%) Firewall
4 7 (5.38%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (5.38%) DHCP
4 7 (5.38%) Ethernet
4 7 (5.38%) PuTTY
5 4 (3.08%) RS-232
5 4 (3.08%) WAN
6 3 (2.31%) iSCSI
6 3 (2.31%) SAN
6 3 (2.31%) SpaceWire
6 3 (2.31%) VPN
6 3 (2.31%) Wireless
7 2 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.54%) Network Security
7 2 (1.54%) VLAN
7 2 (1.54%) WLAN
8 1 (0.77%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.38%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.08%) Big Data
3 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.31%) Power BI
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.54%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.54%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.54%) Tableau
6 1 (0.77%) GIS
6 1 (0.77%) MS Access
6 1 (0.77%) MySQL
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) JIRA
2 4 (3.08%) GitLab
3 3 (2.31%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.54%) Git
4 2 (1.54%) Selenium
4 2 (1.54%) webpack
5 1 (0.77%) CANoe
General
1 68 (52.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 13 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 11 (8.46%) Electronics
5 10 (7.69%) Publishing
6 9 (6.92%) Finance
6 9 (6.92%) Military
7 8 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.62%) Automotive
8 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.62%) Games
8 6 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.85%) Law
9 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.31%) Aviation
10 3 (2.31%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.54%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (22.31%) Analyst
2 20 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 18 (13.85%) Support Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) Technical Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) Technical Support
4 15 (11.54%) Technical Support Analyst
5 10 (7.69%) Architect
5 10 (7.69%) Author
5 10 (7.69%) Technical Author
6 9 (6.92%) Lead
7 7 (5.38%) Design Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Developer
7 7 (5.38%) Network Analyst
8 6 (4.62%) Asset Management Analyst
8 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Senior
9 5 (3.85%) Network Support
9 5 (3.85%) Network Support Analyst
9 5 (3.85%) Network Support Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.46%) XML
2 10 (7.69%) SGML
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.08%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.08%) React
5 3 (2.31%) JSON
5 3 (2.31%) REST
5 3 (2.31%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.54%) Celery
6 2 (1.54%) D3.js
6 2 (1.54%) Django
6 2 (1.54%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.54%) Node.js
6 2 (1.54%) RESTful
6 2 (1.54%) Sass
6 2 (1.54%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.54%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.54%) SOAP
6 2 (1.54%) Vue
6 2 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.23%) Algorithms
1 12 (9.23%) NHS
2 10 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.92%) FPGA
4 8 (6.15%) Verilog
5 7 (5.38%) PCIe
6 6 (4.62%) CMDB
7 5 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.31%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (2.31%) CAN bus
9 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.31%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.46%) Windows
2 11 (8.46%) Linux
3 9 (6.92%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.31%) CentOS
5 3 (2.31%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.77%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.23%) Computer Science
1 38 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (12.31%) AI
2 16 (12.31%) Machine Learning
3 15 (11.54%) Agile
4 12 (9.23%) GAP Analysis
4 12 (9.23%) ITIL
4 12 (9.23%) ITSM
4 12 (9.23%) Project Management
5 10 (7.69%) Desktop Publishing
5 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (6.92%) Physics
7 8 (6.15%) Change Management
7 8 (6.15%) Configuration Management
7 8 (6.15%) Knowledge Transfer
7 8 (6.15%) Migration
7 8 (6.15%) PRINCE2
7 8 (6.15%) Project Delivery
7 8 (6.15%) Security Operations
8 7 (5.38%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.23%) Python
2 10 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.69%) SQL
3 9 (6.92%) MATLAB
4 6 (4.62%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.62%) SystemVerilog
4 6 (4.62%) Tcl
5 4 (3.08%) R
5 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.54%) C++
6 2 (1.54%) Java
7 1 (0.77%) Bash
7 1 (0.77%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.77%) C
7 1 (0.77%) Perl
7 1 (0.77%) Ruby
7 1 (0.77%) Scala
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.85%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.77%) HNC
3 27 (20.77%) HND
4 25 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (13.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (10.77%) Master's Degree
7 11 (8.46%) MCP
8 10 (7.69%) MCSE
9 7 (5.38%) CCNA
9 7 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.85%) CISSP
10 5 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (3.85%) PhD
11 3 (2.31%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.54%) CCNP
12 2 (1.54%) CISM
12 2 (1.54%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.31%) NIST
2 9 (6.92%) JSP 440
2 9 (6.92%) NCSC
3 8 (6.15%) NIST 800
4 7 (5.38%) GDPR
4 7 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (4.62%) DO-254
5 6 (4.62%) HIPAA
6 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.08%) QA
7 3 (2.31%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.31%) PMO
8 2 (1.54%) SLA
9 1 (0.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.77%) GxP
9 1 (0.77%) HL7
9 1 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.77%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (10.77%) Active Directory
1 14 (10.77%) Firmware
2 7 (5.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.77%) Docker
5 1 (0.77%) GPFS
5 1 (0.77%) Lustre
5 1 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Ansible
2 2 (1.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.77%) Consul
3 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.77%) Nessus
3 1 (0.77%) Puppet
3 1 (0.77%) Salt
3 1 (0.77%) SCCM
3 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.77%) Oracle
3 13 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.15%) Cisco
5 6 (4.62%) Actel
5 6 (4.62%) Altera
5 6 (4.62%) Intel
5 6 (4.62%) Microsemi
5 6 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.62%) SAP
5 6 (4.62%) VMware
5 6 (4.62%) Xilinx
6 5 (3.85%) Citrix
7 3 (2.31%) Google
7 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.31%) Splunk
8 2 (1.54%) Ariba
8 2 (1.54%) Databricks
8 2 (1.54%) Peregrine
8 2 (1.54%) Remedy