Degree Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Degree 117 164 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.24% 8.61% 7.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.03% 28.67% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 55 60
10th Percentile £188 £166 £225
25th Percentile £366 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £649
90th Percentile £675 £630 £778
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 49 25
10th Percentile £21.42 £21.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +122.22%
75th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £68.16
England median hourly rate £44.00 £41.50 £48.99
% change year-on-year +6.02% -15.29% +34.85%

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 377 572 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.98% 30.03% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 213 342
10th Percentile £178 £214 £260
25th Percentile £247 £325 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £603 £671 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 211 162
10th Percentile £15.47 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.37 £43.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% +104.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.88 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +34.38%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the East of England

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the East of England

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 5 July 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 5 July 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
Cambridgeshire 0 32 £200 -51.22% 641
Bedfordshire +8 31 £540 +8.00% 183
Hertfordshire +23 30 £550 +57.14% 338
Essex -6 12 £375 -21.05% 322
Suffolk 0 10 £519 -5.64% 81
Norfolk -4 2 £115 -78.10% 111
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 10 (8.55%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.13%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.27%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (2.56%) Confluence
7 2 (1.71%) CMS
7 2 (1.71%) MS Project Server
7 2 (1.71%) SAS
8 1 (0.85%) Apache
8 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (10.26%) Simulink
3 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (5.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (5.13%) Chatbot
6 3 (2.56%) Stateflow
7 2 (1.71%) CANalyzer
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.85%) Maximo
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.51%) Azure
2 21 (17.95%) AWS
3 11 (9.40%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.98%) Snowflake
6 5 (4.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (4.27%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.27%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.42%) Serverless
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.56%) Cohesity
8 3 (2.56%) dbt
8 3 (2.56%) GCP
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.85%) GitHub
9 1 (0.85%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.82%) DNS
2 9 (7.69%) Ethernet
3 7 (5.98%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (5.98%) DHCP
3 7 (5.98%) PuTTY
4 5 (4.27%) SpaceWire
5 4 (3.42%) iSCSI
5 4 (3.42%) SAN
6 3 (2.56%) LAN
6 3 (2.56%) RS-232
6 3 (2.56%) Skype
6 3 (2.56%) Wireless
7 2 (1.71%) Firewall
7 2 (1.71%) Internet
7 2 (1.71%) WAN
7 2 (1.71%) WLAN
8 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) Big Data
1 12 (10.26%) Hadoop
2 11 (9.40%) Tableau
3 10 (8.55%) Power BI
4 8 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.42%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.71%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.71%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.84%) JIRA
2 5 (4.27%) GitLab
2 5 (4.27%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.56%) CANoe
3 3 (2.56%) Git
4 2 (1.71%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 34 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.82%) Finance
3 13 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 13 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 10 (8.55%) Electronics
5 7 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.13%) Games
6 6 (5.13%) Military
7 5 (4.27%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.27%) Automotive
8 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.56%) Aviation
10 2 (1.71%) Legal
10 2 (1.71%) Local Government
10 2 (1.71%) Police
10 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (16.24%) Developer
2 11 (9.40%) Senior
3 10 (8.55%) Analyst
3 10 (8.55%) Data Science Developer
4 9 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 8 (6.84%) Design Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) FPGA Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Network Analyst
6 7 (5.98%) Software Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Administrator
7 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Technical Support
7 6 (5.13%) Trainer
8 5 (4.27%) Implementation Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Network Support
8 5 (4.27%) Network Support Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Support Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Implementation Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.55%) Matplotlib
1 10 (8.55%) PyTorch
1 10 (8.55%) scikit-learn
1 10 (8.55%) Seaborn
1 10 (8.55%) TensorFlow
2 9 (7.69%) NumPy
2 9 (7.69%) Pandas
3 7 (5.98%) HTML
4 4 (3.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.71%) JSON
5 2 (1.71%) React
6 1 (0.85%) Django
6 1 (0.85%) EDI
6 1 (0.85%) IDoc
6 1 (0.85%) JTAPI
6 1 (0.85%) PySpark
6 1 (0.85%) SOAP
6 1 (0.85%) Vue
6 1 (0.85%) Web Services
6 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 10 (8.55%) FPGA
3 9 (7.69%) Verilog
4 8 (6.84%) Management Information System
5 7 (5.98%) Life Science
5 7 (5.98%) PCIe
6 6 (5.13%) CMDB
7 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.42%) e-Learning
7 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (3.42%) Learning Management System
7 4 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.56%) CAN bus
8 3 (2.56%) Smartcard
8 3 (2.56%) VHDL
8 3 (2.56%) YubiKey
9 2 (1.71%) IoT
9 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.53%) Windows
2 12 (10.26%) Linux
3 5 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.42%) CentOS
4 4 (3.42%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.17%) Computer Science
2 23 (19.66%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (14.53%) Agile
4 16 (13.68%) Analytics
4 16 (13.68%) Machine Learning
5 15 (12.82%) Project Management
6 14 (11.97%) Data Science
6 14 (11.97%) Visualisation
7 12 (10.26%) Decision-Making
7 12 (10.26%) ITSM
8 11 (9.40%) Data Analysis
9 10 (8.55%) Data Munging
9 10 (8.55%) Feature Engineering
9 10 (8.55%) Generative AI
9 10 (8.55%) Inventory Management
9 10 (8.55%) LLM
9 10 (8.55%) Reinforcement Learning
9 10 (8.55%) Software Engineering
9 10 (8.55%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.48%) Python
2 15 (12.82%) SQL
3 13 (11.11%) MATLAB
4 11 (9.40%) Java
5 10 (8.55%) R
6 9 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.69%) SystemVerilog
6 9 (7.69%) Tcl
7 6 (5.13%) C#
7 6 (5.13%) C++
8 5 (4.27%) Bash
8 5 (4.27%) C
8 5 (4.27%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.27%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.56%) VBA
10 2 (1.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (18.80%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.68%) Master's Degree
5 13 (11.11%) PhD
6 9 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (6.84%) HNC
7 8 (6.84%) HND
8 7 (5.98%) CCNA
8 7 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (3.42%) CISSP
10 4 (3.42%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.56%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.71%) CCNP
12 2 (1.71%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.71%) PMP
13 1 (0.85%) CISM
13 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.85%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.55%) NIST
3 9 (7.69%) GDPR
4 7 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (5.13%) DO-254
6 5 (4.27%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.27%) PCI DSS
7 4 (3.42%) JSP 440
7 4 (3.42%) NCSC
8 3 (2.56%) NIST 800
8 3 (2.56%) PMO
9 1 (0.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.85%) GxP
9 1 (0.85%) HL7
9 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.85%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.85%) ITGC
9 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.55%) Firmware
3 8 (6.84%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Ansible
2 4 (3.42%) Terraform
3 3 (2.56%) Nessus
3 3 (2.56%) SCCM
3 3 (2.56%) WSUS
4 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.85%) Puppet
4 1 (0.85%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.55%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.69%) SAP
4 8 (6.84%) Intel
4 8 (6.84%) Microsemi
4 8 (6.84%) Oracle
4 8 (6.84%) Xilinx
5 7 (5.98%) Cisco
6 6 (5.13%) Actel
6 6 (5.13%) Altera
6 6 (5.13%) PayPal
7 5 (4.27%) Ariba
7 5 (4.27%) VMware
8 3 (2.56%) StreamSets
8 3 (2.56%) Tenable
8 3 (2.56%) Twitter
9 2 (1.71%) Anaplan
9 2 (1.71%) Google
9 2 (1.71%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.71%) Peregrine