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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 137 116 117
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.86% 9.01% 7.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.87% 28.16% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 34 35
10th Percentile £153 £195 £121
25th Percentile £173 £384 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +14.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £515 £614 £550
90th Percentile £580 £726 £575
England median daily rate £510 £500 £508
% change year-on-year +2.00% -1.48% -4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 30 23
10th Percentile £15.00 £21.95 £23.32
25th Percentile £24.26 £32.56 £32.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £42.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.24% -28.57% +5.78%
75th Percentile £80.88 £57.63 £85.00
90th Percentile £88.24 £88.08 £99.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £38.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +0.57% -32.87% +19.13%

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 599 412 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.64% 32.01% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 161 151
10th Percentile £189 £198 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% +5.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £588
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 139 134
10th Percentile £18.04 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £40.75 £18.87 £23.51
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -30.23% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% -1.42%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +2 60 £265 -51.82% 155
Cambridgeshire +6 40 £296 -27.30% 509
Bedfordshire +2 19 £533 +6.50% 75
Suffolk -4 8 £450 -18.18% 29
Norfolk -14 5 £495 - 38
Essex -22 5 £289 -36.77% 132
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 8 (5.84%) Confluence
2 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.19%) CMS
3 3 (2.19%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.11%) Simulink
3 7 (5.11%) Windchill
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.73%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.46%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.71%) Azure
2 16 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.57%) AWS
4 7 (5.11%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.38%) GCP
5 6 (4.38%) Miro
5 6 (4.38%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.65%) Cohesity
6 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.46%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.46%) GitHub
9 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.46%) SaaS
9 2 (1.46%) Serverless
10 1 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) DNS
2 7 (5.11%) VPN
3 6 (4.38%) Skype
4 4 (2.92%) HTTP
4 4 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.92%) Wireless
5 3 (2.19%) 5G
5 3 (2.19%) Firewall
5 3 (2.19%) RS-232
5 3 (2.19%) RS-485
5 3 (2.19%) SSH
6 2 (1.46%) 4G
6 2 (1.46%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.46%) Network Security
7 1 (0.73%) DHCP
7 1 (0.73%) DMZ
7 1 (0.73%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.73%) LAN
7 1 (0.73%) TETRA
7 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.65%) Metadata
2 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.92%) MySQL
2 4 (2.92%) Power BI
3 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.19%) Power Query
3 3 (2.19%) Redis
4 2 (1.46%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.46%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.73%) Big Data
5 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.73%) DTS
5 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.73%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) Git
2 10 (7.30%) JIRA
3 5 (3.65%) GitLab
3 5 (3.65%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (3.65%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.46%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.46%) MSTest
6 2 (1.46%) Ranorex
6 2 (1.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.73%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.73%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (13.87%) Telecoms
3 14 (10.22%) Aerospace
3 14 (10.22%) Electronics
4 13 (9.49%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (9.49%) Manufacturing
5 12 (8.76%) Finance
6 11 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (6.57%) Military
8 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Automotive
9 3 (2.19%) Law
9 3 (2.19%) Marketing
9 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.73%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.73%) Aviation
11 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 15 (10.95%) Technical Support
2 13 (9.49%) Lead
3 12 (8.76%) Support Specialist
3 12 (8.76%) Technical Specialist
3 12 (8.76%) Technical Support Specialist
4 10 (7.30%) Project Manager
4 10 (7.30%) Senior
5 9 (6.57%) Developer
6 8 (5.84%) Analyst
7 7 (5.11%) Architect
7 7 (5.11%) Design Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) FPGA Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) FPGA Design Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Electrical Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Security Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.92%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.49%) ONVIF
2 7 (5.11%) REST
3 6 (4.38%) .NET
4 5 (3.65%) RESTful
5 4 (2.92%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.92%) Terraform
5 4 (2.92%) XML
6 3 (2.19%) CSS
6 3 (2.19%) Flask
6 3 (2.19%) HTML
6 3 (2.19%) Jinja
6 3 (2.19%) JSP
6 3 (2.19%) Pandas
6 3 (2.19%) Web Services
7 2 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.46%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.46%) Kafka
7 2 (1.46%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 2 (1.46%) pytest
7 2 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Management Information System
1 13 (9.49%) Video\Live Streaming
2 11 (8.03%) FPGA
3 8 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.11%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.11%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.38%) Analogue Electronics
5 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.38%) Verilog
5 6 (4.38%) VHDL
6 5 (3.65%) Smartcard
6 5 (3.65%) YubiKey
7 4 (2.92%) Acoustics
7 4 (2.92%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.92%) Robotics
8 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.19%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.49%) Windows
2 11 (8.03%) Linux
3 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.50%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (27.01%) Computer Science
3 36 (26.28%) Agile
4 27 (19.71%) DevOps
5 22 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (13.87%) Scrum
8 18 (13.14%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (11.68%) CI/CD
10 15 (10.95%) CRM
10 15 (10.95%) Validation
11 14 (10.22%) Project Management
12 13 (9.49%) ITIL
12 13 (9.49%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.49%) Time Management
13 12 (8.76%) Analytics
13 12 (8.76%) Integration Testing
13 12 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (8.03%) AI
14 11 (8.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.90%) Python
2 16 (11.68%) SQL
3 9 (6.57%) Bash
3 9 (6.57%) C
4 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.11%) C#
5 7 (5.11%) SystemVerilog
6 6 (4.38%) Java
7 5 (3.65%) C++
8 4 (2.92%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.46%) Perl
10 2 (1.46%) R
10 2 (1.46%) X++
10 2 (1.46%) XAML
11 1 (0.73%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.73%) Ruby
11 1 (0.73%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 32 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (12.41%) A+ Certification
5 16 (11.68%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (11.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (10.95%) CCNA
7 13 (9.49%) Master's Degree
7 13 (9.49%) MCSA
8 9 (6.57%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.38%) HNC
9 6 (4.38%) HND
9 6 (4.38%) PhD
10 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.92%) ISACA
11 4 (2.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (2.19%) CISSP
12 3 (2.19%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.65%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) NCSC
3 4 (2.92%) PMO
3 4 (2.92%) SLA
4 3 (2.19%) IEC 61508
4 3 (2.19%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) DO-254
6 1 (0.73%) GDPR
6 1 (0.73%) GxP
6 1 (0.73%) ISA99
6 1 (0.73%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (8.03%) Firmware
2 7 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.38%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.65%) Docker
5 3 (2.19%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.73%) GPFS
7 1 (0.73%) Lustre
7 1 (0.73%) NFS
7 1 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.65%) Ansible
1 5 (3.65%) Nessus
1 5 (3.65%) SCCM
1 5 (3.65%) WSUS
2 4 (2.92%) Puppet
3 3 (2.19%) Functional Safety
3 3 (2.19%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.46%) Grafana
4 2 (1.46%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.46%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.73%) Consul
5 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.73%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.84%) EMC
2 8 (5.84%) ServiceNow
2 8 (5.84%) Xilinx
3 7 (5.11%) Intel
3 7 (5.11%) Microsemi
4 6 (4.38%) SAP
5 5 (3.65%) Tenable
6 3 (2.19%) HP
6 3 (2.19%) PTC
6 3 (2.19%) Siemens
6 3 (2.19%) VMware
7 2 (1.46%) Altera
7 2 (1.46%) Ariba
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco
7 2 (1.46%) Google
7 2 (1.46%) IBM
7 2 (1.46%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.73%) Actel