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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Degree 134 148 230
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.21% 14.16% 11.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.14% 41.69% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 53 116
10th Percentile £306 £172 £288
25th Percentile £441 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £725 £675 £728
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 32 59
10th Percentile £7.50 £29.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £13.50 £35.82 £21.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £80.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year -71.88% +121.94% -37.11%
75th Percentile £33.54 £85.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £53.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -25.47% +32.50% -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 555 355 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.87% 33.97% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 149 287
10th Percentile £193 £178 £248
25th Percentile £348 £260 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.15%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
England median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.60% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 88 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £33.95 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.63 £65.25 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +169.07% +15.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £81.28 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.90 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.44 £50.00 £40.13
% change year-on-year -49.12% +24.61% -18.53%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -17 52 £600 -7.69% 93
Bedfordshire -4 29 £500 - 55
Norfolk -8 26 £246 -3.53% 34
Cambridgeshire -15 18 £405 -6.09% 110
Essex +3 8 £500 - 79
Suffolk -14 1 - - 40
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 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.46%) Simulink
3 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (2.24%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.49%) Trello
7 1 (0.75%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.75%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.40%) Azure
2 13 (9.70%) AWS
3 8 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.22%) GCP
5 6 (4.48%) Azure AKS
6 5 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.99%) Serverless
8 3 (2.24%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.24%) OCI
8 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.24%) SaaS
9 2 (1.49%) Asana
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 23 (17.16%) TCP/IP
2 18 (13.43%) Ethernet
3 12 (8.96%) LAN
4 10 (7.46%) WAN
5 7 (5.22%) Firewall
6 6 (4.48%) DNS
7 5 (3.73%) VPN
8 3 (2.24%) RS-232
8 3 (2.24%) X.400
9 2 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.49%) Network Security
9 2 (1.49%) VLAN
10 1 (0.75%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.75%) Modbus
10 1 (0.75%) Profibus
10 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.75%) Skype
10 1 (0.75%) SSL
10 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.24%) Power BI
3 2 (1.49%) MySQL
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.75%) Big Data
4 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.75%) DataStage
4 1 (0.75%) GIS
4 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.75%) Metadata
4 1 (0.75%) MS Access
4 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.75%) Parquet
4 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.73%) JIRA
2 2 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
General
1 73 (54.48%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (11.19%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (10.45%) Finance
6 9 (6.72%) Electronics
6 9 (6.72%) Law
6 9 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Games
7 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.24%) Local Government
8 3 (2.24%) Marketing
8 3 (2.24%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.49%) Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.49%) Military
9 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (23.88%) Analyst
2 17 (12.69%) Technical Analyst
3 15 (11.19%) Support Analyst
3 15 (11.19%) Technical Support
3 15 (11.19%) Technical Support Analyst
4 14 (10.45%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (8.96%) Technical Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) Architect
6 11 (8.21%) Lead
7 8 (5.97%) Project Manager
8 7 (5.22%) IT Support
9 6 (4.48%) Asset Management Analyst
9 6 (4.48%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.48%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (4.48%) Senior
9 6 (4.48%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Developer
10 5 (3.73%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.73%) Spring
2 5 (3.73%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.24%) PyTorch
3 3 (2.24%) REST
3 3 (2.24%) RESTful
4 2 (1.49%) Kafka
4 2 (1.49%) SOAP
4 2 (1.49%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.75%) .NET
5 1 (0.75%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (0.75%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.75%) Flash
5 1 (0.75%) JSON
5 1 (0.75%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.75%) Node.js
5 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.75%) React
5 1 (0.75%) SGML
5 1 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.19%) NHS
1 15 (11.19%) Robotics
2 12 (8.96%) FPGA
2 12 (8.96%) Industry 4.0
3 10 (7.46%) Verilog
4 8 (5.97%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.22%) VHDL
6 6 (4.48%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.48%) CMDB
7 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.73%) PCIe
8 4 (2.99%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (2.99%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.24%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.93%) Windows
2 10 (7.46%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (5.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (4.48%) Linux
5 5 (3.73%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.24%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.49%) AIX
7 2 (1.49%) VMS
7 2 (1.49%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.75%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.57%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (22.39%) Computer Science
3 21 (15.67%) Decision-Making
4 19 (14.18%) Customer Service
5 18 (13.43%) Agile
5 18 (13.43%) AI
6 17 (12.69%) ITIL
7 15 (11.19%) Machine Learning
8 14 (10.45%) ITSM
9 13 (9.70%) Project Management
9 13 (9.70%) Risk Assessment
10 12 (8.96%) Creative Thinking
10 12 (8.96%) Fault Analysis
10 12 (8.96%) Mechatronics
10 12 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (8.21%) DevOps
11 11 (8.21%) PRINCE2
11 11 (8.21%) Project Delivery
11 11 (8.21%) Software Engineering
12 10 (7.46%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.93%) Python
2 10 (7.46%) SystemVerilog
3 8 (5.97%) Java
4 7 (5.22%) MATLAB
4 7 (5.22%) SQL
5 6 (4.48%) C
6 5 (3.73%) Tcl
7 4 (2.99%) C++
7 4 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.49%) C#
9 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.75%) Bash
10 1 (0.75%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.75%) Perl
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) R
10 1 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (14.93%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) HND
4 13 (9.70%) HNC
5 11 (8.21%) Master's Degree
6 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.22%) MCSE
9 4 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.24%) ACCA
10 3 (2.24%) CIMA
10 3 (2.24%) PhD
10 3 (2.24%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.49%) ISEB
11 2 (1.49%) PMP
11 2 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.75%) APMG
12 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) DO-254
1 5 (3.73%) GDPR
1 5 (3.73%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.24%) PMO
4 2 (1.49%) NIST
4 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.75%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.75%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.75%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (10.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.48%) Firmware
3 4 (2.99%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.24%) Docker
5 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.75%) GPFS
6 1 (0.75%) Lustre
6 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.49%) Ansible
3 2 (1.49%) Terraform
4 1 (0.75%) Consul
4 1 (0.75%) Control-M
4 1 (0.75%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.75%) Nessus
4 1 (0.75%) Puppet
4 1 (0.75%) Salt
4 1 (0.75%) SCCM
4 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.70%) Oracle
2 13 (9.70%) Siemens
3 10 (7.46%) Intel
3 10 (7.46%) Microsemi
3 10 (7.46%) Xilinx
4 8 (5.97%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.22%) SAP
6 6 (4.48%) Google
7 5 (3.73%) Actel
7 5 (3.73%) Altera
8 4 (2.99%) VMware
9 2 (1.49%) Cisco
9 2 (1.49%) Citrix
9 2 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.49%) Pega
9 2 (1.49%) Splunk
9 2 (1.49%) Talend