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 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 139 113 175
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.24% 11.54% 9.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.64% 33.14% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 38 67
10th Percentile £168 £195 £330
25th Percentile £230 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £572 £675 £586
90th Percentile £650 - £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 60
10th Percentile £19.58 £27.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.78 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.88 £72.50 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -57.41% +72.53% -19.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £88.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.06 £53.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.99% +33.75% -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 588 341 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.42% 34.83% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 153 216
10th Percentile £190 £195 £216
25th Percentile £361 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £638 £575 £600
90th Percentile £738 £638 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 94 217
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.09 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £26.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.60% +73.57% +66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £79.06 £44.13
90th Percentile £73.67 £85.00 £72.00
England median hourly rate £50.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.33% -0.85% -23.81%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -9 57 £450 -30.77% 71
Bedfordshire -1 30 £550 -5.17% 15
Cambridgeshire +10 26 £265 +32.50% 95
Norfolk -6 15 £246 +113.91% 10
Essex -13 8 £500 - 31
Suffolk -17 3 £578 +16.20% 15
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 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.44%) Apache
3 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (16.55%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (7.91%) Simulink
3 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (2.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (1.44%) Trello
8 1 (0.72%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.72%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.72%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.55%) Azure
2 10 (7.19%) AWS
3 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.04%) Azure AKS
4 7 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (4.32%) Cohesity
6 5 (3.60%) GCP
6 5 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.60%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.88%) Serverless
8 3 (2.16%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.16%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.16%) Miro
9 2 (1.44%) Asana
9 2 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.44%) SaaS
10 1 (0.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.39%) TCP/IP
2 16 (11.51%) Ethernet
3 11 (7.91%) DNS
4 10 (7.19%) LAN
5 8 (5.76%) WAN
6 6 (4.32%) Skype
7 4 (2.88%) Firewall
8 3 (2.16%) VPN
9 2 (1.44%) Network Security
9 2 (1.44%) RS-232
9 2 (1.44%) X.400
10 1 (0.72%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.72%) Modbus
10 1 (0.72%) Profibus
10 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.32%) Power BI
2 4 (2.88%) Metadata
3 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.44%) Big Data
4 2 (1.44%) Power Query
4 2 (1.44%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.72%) DataStage
5 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.72%) MySQL
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.04%) JIRA
2 3 (2.16%) Git
2 3 (2.16%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.44%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (44.60%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.95%) Finance
3 16 (11.51%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.07%) Public Sector
6 13 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.76%) Telecoms
9 7 (5.04%) Electronics
9 7 (5.04%) Manufacturing
10 6 (4.32%) Law
11 5 (3.60%) Aerospace
11 5 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.16%) Automotive
12 3 (2.16%) Games
12 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.16%) Local Government
13 2 (1.44%) Banking
13 2 (1.44%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (16.55%) Analyst
2 19 (13.67%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (9.35%) Project Manager
3 13 (9.35%) Technical Engineer
4 12 (8.63%) Technical Support
5 9 (6.47%) Architect
5 9 (6.47%) Lead
5 9 (6.47%) Technical Analyst
6 8 (5.76%) FPGA Engineer
7 7 (5.04%) Senior
7 7 (5.04%) Technical Support Analyst
8 6 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (3.60%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 5 (3.60%) 3rd Line Technical Support
9 5 (3.60%) Design Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Developer
9 5 (3.60%) FPGA Design Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Technical Leader
10 4 (2.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.60%) ONVIF
1 5 (3.60%) Spring
1 5 (3.60%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.44%) Kafka
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.44%) REST
2 2 (1.44%) SOAP
3 1 (0.72%) .NET
3 1 (0.72%) Express.js
3 1 (0.72%) Flash
3 1 (0.72%) MERN Stack
3 1 (0.72%) Node.js
3 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.72%) React
3 1 (0.72%) RESTful
3 1 (0.72%) SGML
3 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.67%) Robotics
2 12 (8.63%) Industry 4.0
3 11 (7.91%) FPGA
4 9 (6.47%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.47%) Verilog
5 8 (5.76%) NHS
5 8 (5.76%) VHDL
6 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.32%) Smartcard
6 6 (4.32%) YubiKey
7 5 (3.60%) Video\Live Streaming
8 3 (2.16%) Acoustics
8 3 (2.16%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.16%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.16%) PCIe
8 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.16%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.67%) Windows
2 13 (9.35%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.04%) Linux
4 4 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.16%) Android
6 2 (1.44%) AIX
6 2 (1.44%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (1.44%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (20.14%) Computer Science
3 25 (17.99%) Agile
4 21 (15.11%) Decision-Making
5 18 (12.95%) DevOps
6 16 (11.51%) Project Management
7 15 (10.79%) Customer Service
8 14 (10.07%) AI
9 13 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (9.35%) Risk Assessment
9 13 (9.35%) Software Engineering
10 12 (8.63%) CI/CD
10 12 (8.63%) Creative Thinking
10 12 (8.63%) Fault Analysis
10 12 (8.63%) Mechatronics
10 12 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (7.91%) ITIL
11 11 (7.91%) Mentoring
11 11 (7.91%) UVM
12 10 (7.19%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.27%) Python
2 11 (7.91%) SystemVerilog
3 10 (7.19%) SQL
4 8 (5.76%) C
4 8 (5.76%) Java
5 4 (2.88%) Bash
5 4 (2.88%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.16%) C#
6 3 (2.16%) C++
6 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.16%) Tcl
7 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) Perl
8 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.72%) R
8 1 (0.72%) Ruby
8 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (15.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.04%) HND
5 7 (5.04%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.32%) CCNA
6 6 (4.32%) HNC
7 5 (3.60%) A+ Certification
7 5 (3.60%) MCSA
7 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (3.60%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.88%) PMP
9 3 (2.16%) ACCA
9 3 (2.16%) CIMA
10 2 (1.44%) CISM
10 2 (1.44%) CISSP
10 2 (1.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.60%) GDPR
2 3 (2.16%) DO-254
2 3 (2.16%) PMO
2 3 (2.16%) QA
3 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.44%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.72%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.72%) ISA99
4 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.72%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (10.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.32%) Firmware
2 6 (4.32%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.16%) Docker
4 1 (0.72%) GPFS
4 1 (0.72%) Lustre
4 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.32%) Nessus
1 6 (4.32%) SCCM
1 6 (4.32%) WSUS
2 5 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.88%) Ansible
3 4 (2.88%) Terraform
4 3 (2.16%) Puppet
5 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.72%) Consul
6 1 (0.72%) Control-M
6 1 (0.72%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.72%) Salt
6 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.35%) Siemens
3 11 (7.91%) Intel
3 11 (7.91%) Microsemi
3 11 (7.91%) Xilinx
4 9 (6.47%) SAP
5 8 (5.76%) Oracle
5 8 (5.76%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.32%) Tenable
7 4 (2.88%) Google
7 4 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.16%) Actel
8 3 (2.16%) Altera
8 3 (2.16%) EMC
9 2 (1.44%) Ariba
9 2 (1.44%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.44%) Citrix
9 2 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.44%) Pega
9 2 (1.44%) Talend