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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 143 124 123
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.54% 9.96% 7.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.29% 30.32% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 38 32
10th Percentile £153 £195 £176
25th Percentile £179 £376 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% -6.00%
75th Percentile £549 £580 £575
90th Percentile £643 £675 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 31 31
10th Percentile £15.00 £21.00 £26.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £28.79
Median hourly rate £34.13 £42.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% -28.57% +3.82%
75th Percentile £75.00 £78.13 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £52.25 £42.50 £56.37
% change year-on-year +22.94% -24.61% +7.37%

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 544 409 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.86% 32.85% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 159 170
10th Percentile £174 £188 £212
25th Percentile £410 £319 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 136 177
10th Percentile £17.67 £16.18 £15.34
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £61.00 £32.62 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.02% -24.15% +86.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.50 £71.30
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -21.82%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +4 58 £265 -50.00% 64
Cambridgeshire +4 35 £296 +48.13% 123
Bedfordshire +3 35 £566 -2.37% 25
Norfolk -11 6 £725 - 15
Suffolk -11 5 £505 -8.18% 8
Essex -25 4 £289 -23.07% 45
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 6 (4.20%) Confluence
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.40%) Apache
2 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (13.99%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.90%) Simulink
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (5.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.40%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.88%) Azure
2 14 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.59%) AWS
3 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.90%) Azure AKS
4 7 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (4.20%) Cohesity
5 6 (4.20%) Miro
5 6 (4.20%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.50%) GCP
7 4 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.80%) Serverless
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.40%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.19%) TCP/IP
2 14 (9.79%) Ethernet
3 8 (5.59%) DNS
4 7 (4.90%) Skype
5 5 (3.50%) LAN
5 5 (3.50%) VPN
6 4 (2.80%) RS-232
6 4 (2.80%) Wireless
7 3 (2.10%) Firewall
7 3 (2.10%) RS-485
7 3 (2.10%) WAN
8 2 (1.40%) Network Security
8 2 (1.40%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.70%) DMZ
9 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.70%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.70%) Modbus
9 1 (0.70%) Profibus
9 1 (0.70%) SSL
9 1 (0.70%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.20%) Metadata
2 5 (3.50%) Power BI
3 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.10%) Power Query
4 2 (1.40%) Big Data
4 2 (1.40%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.40%) MySQL
4 2 (1.40%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) DTS
5 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.90%) JIRA
2 5 (3.50%) Git
3 4 (2.80%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.10%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.70%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.70%) MSTest
6 1 (0.70%) Ranorex
General
1 63 (44.06%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.19%) Finance
4 15 (10.49%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (10.49%) Telecoms
5 13 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.69%) Electronics
7 10 (6.99%) Manufacturing
8 9 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.59%) Aerospace
10 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.40%) Automotive
12 2 (1.40%) Law
12 2 (1.40%) Military
13 1 (0.70%) Local Government
13 1 (0.70%) Marketing
13 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (14.69%) Systems Engineer
2 17 (11.89%) Technical Support
3 16 (11.19%) Analyst
4 15 (10.49%) Lead
5 13 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Project Manager
6 12 (8.39%) Support Specialist
6 12 (8.39%) Technical Specialist
6 12 (8.39%) Technical Support Specialist
7 10 (6.99%) Architect
8 7 (4.90%) Senior
9 6 (4.20%) Developer
9 6 (4.20%) FPGA Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) FPGA Design Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (3.50%) Technical Leader
11 4 (2.80%) Systems Architect
11 4 (2.80%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.09%) ONVIF
2 5 (3.50%) .NET
2 5 (3.50%) Spring
2 5 (3.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.10%) RESTful
4 2 (1.40%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.40%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.40%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.40%) Kafka
4 2 (1.40%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (1.40%) Middleware
4 2 (1.40%) Silverlight
4 2 (1.40%) WCF
4 2 (1.40%) Web Services
4 2 (1.40%) WPF
5 1 (0.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.70%) Flash
5 1 (0.70%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Robotics
2 13 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
3 12 (8.39%) Industry 4.0
4 8 (5.59%) FPGA
4 8 (5.59%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.90%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.20%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.20%) Smartcard
6 6 (4.20%) Verilog
6 6 (4.20%) VHDL
6 6 (4.20%) YubiKey
7 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.10%) Acoustics
8 3 (2.10%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.10%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.10%) NHS
8 3 (2.10%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.79%) Windows
2 9 (6.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.20%) Linux
4 3 (2.10%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) AIX
5 1 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (39.86%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (23.78%) Computer Science
3 30 (20.98%) Agile
4 24 (16.78%) DevOps
5 19 (13.29%) Decision-Making
6 18 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (11.89%) Customer Service
8 16 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (9.79%) CRM
9 14 (9.79%) Software Engineering
10 13 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (9.09%) Project Management
10 13 (9.09%) Time Management
11 12 (8.39%) AI
11 12 (8.39%) Creative Thinking
11 12 (8.39%) Fault Analysis
11 12 (8.39%) Mechatronics
11 12 (8.39%) Risk Assessment
11 12 (8.39%) Scrum
12 11 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.08%) Python
2 14 (9.79%) SQL
3 8 (5.59%) C
4 7 (4.90%) Java
4 7 (4.90%) SystemVerilog
5 5 (3.50%) C#
6 4 (2.80%) Bash
6 4 (2.80%) C++
7 3 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.10%) MATLAB
7 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.40%) X++
8 2 (1.40%) XAML
9 1 (0.70%) Perl
9 1 (0.70%) R
9 1 (0.70%) Ruby
9 1 (0.70%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (13.99%) Microsoft Certification
1 20 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (11.89%) A+ Certification
4 15 (10.49%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (9.79%) CCNA
5 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
6 13 (9.09%) MCSA
7 10 (6.99%) Master's Degree
8 7 (4.90%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (3.50%) PhD
10 4 (2.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (2.10%) ACCA
11 3 (2.10%) CIMA
11 3 (2.10%) CISM
11 3 (2.10%) HNC
11 3 (2.10%) HND
11 3 (2.10%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) QA
2 4 (2.80%) PMO
3 3 (2.10%) SLA
4 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.70%) DO-254
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) GxP
5 1 (0.70%) ISA99
5 1 (0.70%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.59%) Firmware
3 6 (4.20%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.10%) Docker
4 3 (2.10%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.70%) GPFS
5 1 (0.70%) Lustre
5 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.20%) Nessus
1 6 (4.20%) SCCM
1 6 (4.20%) WSUS
2 5 (3.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.80%) Ansible
3 4 (2.80%) Terraform
4 3 (2.10%) Puppet
5 1 (0.70%) Consul
5 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.70%) Salt
5 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.79%) Siemens
3 11 (7.69%) SAP
4 8 (5.59%) Xilinx
5 7 (4.90%) Intel
5 7 (4.90%) Microsemi
6 6 (4.20%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.20%) Tenable
7 4 (2.80%) Ariba
7 4 (2.80%) EMC
7 4 (2.80%) Oracle
8 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.40%) Altera
9 2 (1.40%) Cadence
9 2 (1.40%) Google
9 2 (1.40%) VMware
10 1 (0.70%) Actel
10 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.70%) Talend