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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 120 125 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 9.20% 8.13% 8.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.85% 28.54% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 67
10th Percentile £229 £121 £254
25th Percentile £400 £229 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £547 £638
90th Percentile £730 £575 £753
England median daily rate £500 £513 £530
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 31
10th Percentile £16.60 £26.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £26.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £59.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +8.18% +57.14%
75th Percentile £62.25 £85.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £99.50 £70.26
England median hourly rate £37.46 £57.35 £48.14
% change year-on-year -34.68% +19.13% +6.98%

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 416 438 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.90% 28.50% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 156 300
10th Percentile £200 £193 £272
25th Percentile £372 £306 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £676 £588 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 131 159
10th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £32.50 £15.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +86.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -53.43% - +20.00%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +8 35 £550 +59.42% 134
Cambridgeshire -3 32 £408 -4.12% 163
Bedfordshire -2 29 £500 +11.11% 61
Essex +3 15 £456 +38.26% 123
Norfolk -6 8 - - 35
Suffolk 0 1 £550 - 30
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 8 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.17%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (2.50%) SAS
7 2 (1.67%) Confluence
8 1 (0.83%) CMS
8 1 (0.83%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (8.33%) FrameMaker
2 10 (8.33%) Simulink
3 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.67%) Stateflow
7 1 (0.83%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Maximo
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.83%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.00%) AWS
1 24 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.83%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (5.83%) Serverless
4 6 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.00%) GCP
4 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.17%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.17%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.33%) dbt
7 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.83%) GitHub
9 1 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.83%) DNS
2 9 (7.50%) Ethernet
3 7 (5.83%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (5.83%) DHCP
3 7 (5.83%) LAN
3 7 (5.83%) PuTTY
3 7 (5.83%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.00%) Firewall
5 4 (3.33%) iSCSI
5 4 (3.33%) RS-232
5 4 (3.33%) SAN
5 4 (3.33%) SpaceWire
6 2 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.67%) Network Security
6 2 (1.67%) VLAN
6 2 (1.67%) VPN
6 2 (1.67%) WAN
6 2 (1.67%) Wireless
6 2 (1.67%) WLAN
7 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.50%) Oracle Database
2 8 (6.67%) Big Data
2 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.83%) Hadoop
4 6 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.17%) Tableau
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.67%) Power BI
8 2 (1.67%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.83%) GIS
9 1 (0.83%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) JIRA
2 6 (5.00%) GitLab
3 5 (4.17%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.67%) CANoe
4 2 (1.67%) Git
4 2 (1.67%) Selenium
4 2 (1.67%) webpack
General
1 49 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.83%) Aerospace
4 12 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 10 (8.33%) Electronics
5 10 (8.33%) Publishing
6 9 (7.50%) Finance
6 9 (7.50%) Military
7 8 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (5.83%) Automotive
8 7 (5.83%) Games
9 5 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.50%) Aviation
11 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.67%) Agriculture
12 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.67%) Retail
13 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (15.83%) Security Engineer
2 17 (14.17%) Analyst
3 12 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 10 (8.33%) Architect
4 10 (8.33%) Author
4 10 (8.33%) Developer
4 10 (8.33%) Technical Author
5 7 (5.83%) Administrator
5 7 (5.83%) Design Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Lead
5 7 (5.83%) Network Analyst
5 7 (5.83%) Senior
5 7 (5.83%) Support Analyst
5 7 (5.83%) Technical Analyst
5 7 (5.83%) Technical Support Analyst
6 6 (5.00%) Firmware Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 5 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Technical Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.17%) XML
2 10 (8.33%) SGML
3 6 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (4.17%) Matplotlib
4 5 (4.17%) PyTorch
4 5 (4.17%) scikit-learn
4 5 (4.17%) Seaborn
4 5 (4.17%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.33%) NumPy
5 4 (3.33%) Pandas
6 3 (2.50%) React
7 2 (1.67%) Celery
7 2 (1.67%) D3.js
7 2 (1.67%) Django
7 2 (1.67%) JSON
7 2 (1.67%) Sass
7 2 (1.67%) Vue
7 2 (1.67%) Web Services
8 1 (0.83%) EDI
8 1 (0.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Algorithms
2 9 (7.50%) FPGA
2 9 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.67%) PCIe
3 8 (6.67%) Verilog
4 5 (4.17%) NHS
4 5 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.33%) CAN bus
5 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.33%) Life Science
5 4 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.50%) CMDB
6 3 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.67%) CCTV
7 2 (1.67%) IoT
7 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.17%) Windows
2 10 (8.33%) Linux
3 7 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.33%) CentOS
4 4 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.50%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.33%) Computer Science
2 34 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (13.33%) Agile
4 15 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 14 (11.67%) Machine Learning
6 12 (10.00%) Data Science
6 12 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
7 11 (9.17%) Project Management
8 10 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 10 (8.33%) Desktop Publishing
8 10 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 10 (8.33%) Visualisation
9 9 (7.50%) Analytics
9 9 (7.50%) Task Automation
10 8 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (6.67%) Migration
10 8 (6.67%) Physics
10 8 (6.67%) UVM
11 7 (5.83%) Change Management
11 7 (5.83%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) Python
2 12 (10.00%) MATLAB
2 12 (10.00%) SQL
3 9 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.67%) Java
4 8 (6.67%) SystemVerilog
4 8 (6.67%) Tcl
5 7 (5.83%) R
6 5 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.50%) Bash
7 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.67%) Perl
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (21.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (19.17%) HNC
4 23 (19.17%) HND
5 14 (11.67%) Master's Degree
6 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (8.33%) PhD
8 7 (5.83%) CCNA
8 7 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (4.17%) CISSP
9 5 (4.17%) MCP
9 5 (4.17%) MCSE
10 3 (2.50%) DBS Check
10 3 (2.50%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.67%) CCNP
11 2 (1.67%) CISM
11 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.50%) NIST
2 9 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.50%) JSP 440
2 9 (7.50%) NCSC
3 8 (6.67%) NIST 800
4 7 (5.83%) DO-254
4 7 (5.83%) GDPR
4 7 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (5.00%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.17%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.50%) PMO
8 2 (1.67%) SLA
9 1 (0.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.83%) GxP
9 1 (0.83%) HL7
9 1 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.83%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.83%) ITGC
9 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.33%) Firmware
2 11 (9.17%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.83%) Ansible
2 4 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) Nessus
3 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.83%) Puppet
3 1 (0.83%) Salt
3 1 (0.83%) SCCM
3 1 (0.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.33%) Oracle
3 10 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.83%) Actel
4 7 (5.83%) Altera
4 7 (5.83%) Cisco
4 7 (5.83%) Intel
4 7 (5.83%) Microsemi
4 7 (5.83%) SAP
4 7 (5.83%) VMware
4 7 (5.83%) Xilinx
5 5 (4.17%) Citrix
5 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.33%) Google
6 4 (3.33%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.50%) IBM
7 3 (2.50%) Twitter
8 2 (1.67%) Ariba
8 2 (1.67%) Remedy
8 2 (1.67%) Splunk