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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 136 129 225
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.94% 13.23% 11.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.99% 37.07% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 49 108
10th Percentile £219 £195 £293
25th Percentile £350 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £622 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 - £683
England median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.75% +1.37% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 36 59
10th Percentile £7.50 £27.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £31.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate £22.50 £77.50 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year -70.97% +115.01% -35.43%
75th Percentile £42.25 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £95.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £46.98 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -10.51% +31.25% -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 567 348 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.93% 35.69% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 151 269
10th Percentile £193 £190 £245
25th Percentile £335 £284 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £675 £739
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 101 173
10th Percentile £16.00 £21.00 £14.03
25th Percentile £17.87 £30.78 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.63 £63.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -64.08% +193.57% +2.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £74.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £38.85
% change year-on-year -30.00% +28.70% -22.30%

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 26 March 2026.

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 26 March 2026.

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 26 March 2026. 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 -16 51 £600 -7.69% 44
Bedfordshire -4 29 £550 -5.17% 16
Cambridgeshire -1 25 £345 -21.14% 75
Norfolk -6 23 £246 -3.53% 10
Essex -1 7 £500 - 48
Suffolk -15 1 - - 18
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 3 (2.21%) Confluence
1 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.74%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.62%) Simulink
3 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (4.41%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.47%) Trello
6 1 (0.74%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.44%) Azure
2 10 (7.35%) AWS
3 9 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.41%) Azure AKS
5 5 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (3.68%) GCP
6 4 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.21%) SaaS
7 3 (2.21%) Serverless
8 2 (1.47%) Asana
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.47%) OCI
8 2 (1.47%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.74%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.44%) TCP/IP
2 17 (12.50%) Ethernet
3 12 (8.82%) LAN
4 10 (7.35%) WAN
5 6 (4.41%) DNS
6 4 (2.94%) Firewall
7 3 (2.21%) RS-232
7 3 (2.21%) VPN
7 3 (2.21%) X.400
8 1 (0.74%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.74%) Modbus
8 1 (0.74%) Profibus
8 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.74%) Skype
8 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.74%) SSL
8 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.21%) Metadata
2 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.21%) Power BI
3 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.47%) MySQL
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.74%) Big Data
4 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.74%) DataStage
4 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.74%) MS Access
4 1 (0.74%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (4.41%) JIRA
2 2 (1.47%) Git
2 2 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (12.50%) Finance
2 17 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (6.62%) Electronics
6 9 (6.62%) Law
7 6 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Games
9 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Banking
10 2 (1.47%) Local Government
10 2 (1.47%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.47%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (22.06%) Analyst
2 18 (13.24%) Systems Engineer
3 14 (10.29%) Technical Analyst
4 12 (8.82%) Support Analyst
4 12 (8.82%) Technical Engineer
4 12 (8.82%) Technical Support
4 12 (8.82%) Technical Support Analyst
5 11 (8.09%) Project Manager
6 10 (7.35%) Lead
7 8 (5.88%) Architect
8 7 (5.15%) IT Support
9 6 (4.41%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.41%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (3.68%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (3.68%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (3.68%) 3rd Line Technical Support
10 5 (3.68%) Developer
10 5 (3.68%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.68%) Spring
1 5 (3.68%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.21%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.21%) REST
3 2 (1.47%) Kafka
3 2 (1.47%) RESTful
3 2 (1.47%) SOAP
3 2 (1.47%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.74%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (0.74%) Flash
4 1 (0.74%) JSON
4 1 (0.74%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (0.74%) Node.js
4 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.74%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (0.74%) SGML
4 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.50%) Robotics
2 14 (10.29%) NHS
3 12 (8.82%) Industry 4.0
4 11 (8.09%) FPGA
5 9 (6.62%) Algorithms
5 9 (6.62%) Verilog
6 7 (5.15%) VHDL
7 6 (4.41%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.68%) Augmented Reality
8 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.68%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.68%) Virtual Reality
9 4 (2.94%) Acoustics
9 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.94%) PCIe
10 3 (2.21%) CMDB
10 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.47%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.71%) Windows
2 10 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.88%) Linux
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (3.68%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.21%) Android
6 3 (2.21%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.47%) AIX
7 2 (1.47%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (21.32%) Computer Science
3 20 (14.71%) Decision-Making
4 19 (13.97%) Customer Service
5 18 (13.24%) Agile
5 18 (13.24%) ITIL
6 16 (11.76%) AI
6 16 (11.76%) ITSM
7 15 (11.03%) Project Management
8 13 (9.56%) Machine Learning
8 13 (9.56%) Risk Assessment
8 13 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (8.82%) Creative Thinking
9 12 (8.82%) Fault Analysis
9 12 (8.82%) Mechatronics
9 12 (8.82%) Software Engineering
10 11 (8.09%) DevOps
10 11 (8.09%) PRINCE2
11 10 (7.35%) Data Collection
11 10 (7.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.38%) Python
2 9 (6.62%) SystemVerilog
3 8 (5.88%) Java
4 6 (4.41%) C
4 6 (4.41%) MATLAB
4 6 (4.41%) SQL
5 4 (2.94%) C++
5 4 (2.94%) Tcl
6 3 (2.21%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.47%) C#
7 2 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.74%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) Perl
8 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.74%) R
8 1 (0.74%) Ruby
8 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.56%) HND
5 12 (8.82%) HNC
6 11 (8.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 9 (6.62%) Master's Degree
8 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (5.15%) MCSE
10 4 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (2.21%) ACCA
11 3 (2.21%) CIMA
11 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.47%) ISEB
12 2 (1.47%) PMP
13 1 (0.74%) APMG
13 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.68%) GDPR
1 5 (3.68%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) DO-254
3 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) PMO
3 2 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.74%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (10.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.15%) Firmware
3 3 (2.21%) Docker
4 2 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.74%) GPFS
5 1 (0.74%) Lustre
5 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.47%) Ansible
3 2 (1.47%) Terraform
4 1 (0.74%) Consul
4 1 (0.74%) Control-M
4 1 (0.74%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.74%) Nessus
4 1 (0.74%) Puppet
4 1 (0.74%) Salt
4 1 (0.74%) SCCM
4 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.56%) Siemens
3 9 (6.62%) Intel
3 9 (6.62%) Microsemi
3 9 (6.62%) Oracle
3 9 (6.62%) SAP
3 9 (6.62%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.62%) Xilinx
4 5 (3.68%) Google
5 4 (2.94%) Actel
5 4 (2.94%) Altera
5 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.47%) Ariba
6 2 (1.47%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.47%) Cisco
6 2 (1.47%) Citrix
6 2 (1.47%) EMC
6 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.47%) Pega
6 2 (1.47%) Talend