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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 131 149 201
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.47% 12.00% 11.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.41% 41.05% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 42 97
10th Percentile £335 £121 £270
25th Percentile £409 £254 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £519 £600
90th Percentile £700 £661 £708
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 31 38
10th Percentile £9.00 £26.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £29.50 £23.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £36.20
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +79.58% -32.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £95.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.45 - -
England median hourly rate £37.48 £42.69 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.20% -14.62% +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 478 363 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.90% 29.23% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 136 308
10th Percentile £187 £183 £271
25th Percentile £363 £306 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -9.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £675
90th Percentile £691 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 87 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.78 £15.33
Median hourly rate £22.79 £62.50 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -63.54% +105.09% +45.12%
75th Percentile £56.00 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £89.00 £72.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.78 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.44% -7.09% +16.67%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 50 £550 -12.00% 157
Cambridgeshire -12 28 £450 +1.41% 134
Bedfordshire -8 24 £463 +277.55% 44
Norfolk -6 19 - - 21
Essex -1 8 £456 +180.25% 82
Suffolk -9 2 £550 +22.22% 22
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 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.63%) FrameMaker
3 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (6.11%) Simulink
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.76%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) Maximo
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.76%) Primavera
2 1 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.76%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.14%) Azure
2 20 (15.27%) AWS
3 12 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.11%) GCP
5 7 (5.34%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (5.34%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.58%) Serverless
7 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.05%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.29%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.29%) SaaS
9 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.53%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.53%) dbt
10 2 (1.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.11%) LAN
3 6 (4.58%) Ethernet
3 6 (4.58%) Firewall
4 5 (3.82%) DNS
5 4 (3.05%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (3.05%) DHCP
5 4 (3.05%) PuTTY
5 4 (3.05%) RS-232
5 4 (3.05%) VPN
6 3 (2.29%) SpaceWire
6 3 (2.29%) WAN
7 2 (1.53%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.53%) Network Security
7 2 (1.53%) VLAN
8 1 (0.76%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.76%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.76%) SAN
8 1 (0.76%) Wireless
8 1 (0.76%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.34%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.05%) Big Data
3 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.29%) Power BI
5 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.53%) Tableau
6 1 (0.76%) DataStage
6 1 (0.76%) GIS
6 1 (0.76%) MS Access
6 1 (0.76%) MySQL
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) JIRA
2 3 (2.29%) Git
3 2 (1.53%) GitLab
3 2 (1.53%) Selenium
3 2 (1.53%) webpack
4 1 (0.76%) CANoe
4 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (52.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.92%) Aerospace
4 12 (9.16%) Finance
5 10 (7.63%) Electronics
5 10 (7.63%) Manufacturing
5 10 (7.63%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (7.63%) Publishing
6 9 (6.87%) Military
7 7 (5.34%) Automotive
7 7 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (5.34%) Law
8 6 (4.58%) Games
8 6 (4.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.29%) Aviation
9 3 (2.29%) Banking
9 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.29%) Multimedia
9 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (22.90%) Analyst
2 19 (14.50%) Security Engineer
2 19 (14.50%) Support Analyst
3 15 (11.45%) Technical Analyst
3 15 (11.45%) Technical Support
3 15 (11.45%) Technical Support Analyst
4 10 (7.63%) Architect
4 10 (7.63%) Author
4 10 (7.63%) Technical Author
5 9 (6.87%) Lead
6 8 (6.11%) Developer
7 7 (5.34%) Senior
8 6 (4.58%) Asset Management Analyst
8 6 (4.58%) Design Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) IT Support
9 5 (3.82%) Consultant
9 5 (3.82%) Firmware Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) IT Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) IT Support Analyst
9 5 (3.82%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.40%) XML
2 10 (7.63%) SGML
3 5 (3.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.05%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.05%) React
4 4 (3.05%) REST
5 3 (2.29%) JSON
5 3 (2.29%) SOAP
5 3 (2.29%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.53%) Celery
6 2 (1.53%) D3.js
6 2 (1.53%) Django
6 2 (1.53%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.53%) Node.js
6 2 (1.53%) RESTful
6 2 (1.53%) Sass
6 2 (1.53%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.53%) Seaborn
6 2 (1.53%) Vue
6 2 (1.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Algorithms
1 12 (9.16%) NHS
2 10 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.87%) FPGA
3 9 (6.87%) Verilog
4 6 (4.58%) CMDB
4 6 (4.58%) PCIe
5 4 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.29%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (2.29%) CAN bus
6 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.29%) VHDL
6 3 (2.29%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.53%) CCTV
7 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Life Science
7 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) Windows
2 9 (6.87%) Linux
3 8 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.29%) VMS
6 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.76%) CentOS
7 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (25.19%) Computer Science
3 20 (15.27%) Agile
4 16 (12.21%) AI
4 16 (12.21%) Machine Learning
5 13 (9.92%) ITIL
6 12 (9.16%) Project Management
7 11 (8.40%) GAP Analysis
7 11 (8.40%) ITSM
7 11 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (7.63%) Desktop Publishing
8 10 (7.63%) Project Delivery
9 9 (6.87%) DevOps
9 9 (6.87%) Knowledge Transfer
9 9 (6.87%) PRINCE2
10 8 (6.11%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (6.11%) Migration
10 8 (6.11%) Physics
10 8 (6.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.32%) Python
2 11 (8.40%) SQL
3 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.11%) MATLAB
5 7 (5.34%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.34%) SystemVerilog
6 6 (4.58%) Tcl
7 4 (3.05%) R
8 3 (2.29%) Java
9 2 (1.53%) C
9 2 (1.53%) C++
9 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) Bash
10 1 (0.76%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) Ruby
10 1 (0.76%) Scala
10 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.61%) HND
4 26 (19.85%) HNC
5 22 (16.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (12.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (11.45%) Master's Degree
8 11 (8.40%) MCP
9 10 (7.63%) MCSE
10 5 (3.82%) CISSP
10 5 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (3.82%) PhD
11 4 (3.05%) CCNA
11 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (2.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (1.53%) CISM
13 2 (1.53%) MBA
13 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) NIST
2 9 (6.87%) JSP 440
2 9 (6.87%) NCSC
3 8 (6.11%) NIST 800
4 6 (4.58%) DO-254
4 6 (4.58%) GDPR
4 6 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.82%) HIPAA
5 5 (3.82%) QA
6 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.05%) PMO
7 2 (1.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.76%) GxP
8 1 (0.76%) HL7
8 1 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (10.69%) Firmware
2 11 (8.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.76%) Docker
6 1 (0.76%) GPFS
6 1 (0.76%) Lustre
6 1 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Ansible
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.53%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) Consul
2 1 (0.76%) Control-M
2 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) Puppet
2 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 30 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.45%) Oracle
3 12 (9.16%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.87%) SAP
5 7 (5.34%) Intel
5 7 (5.34%) Microsemi
5 7 (5.34%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.34%) Xilinx
6 6 (4.58%) Actel
6 6 (4.58%) Altera
7 5 (3.82%) Cisco
7 5 (3.82%) Citrix
8 4 (3.05%) VMware
9 3 (2.29%) Google
9 3 (2.29%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.29%) Splunk
10 2 (1.53%) Ariba
10 2 (1.53%) Databricks
10 2 (1.53%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.53%) Pega