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 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 142 115 194
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.74% 12.37% 10.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.57% 35.83% 34.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 87
10th Percentile £182 £195 £290
25th Percentile £286 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +3.80% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 - £675
England median daily rate £500 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.10% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 36 58
10th Percentile £12.00 £27.47 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £35.17 £17.51
Median hourly rate £23.50 £75.00 £43.48
Median % change year-on-year -68.67% +72.51% -20.59%
75th Percentile £42.25 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £91.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 £54.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +36.25% -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 578 321 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.45% 34.52% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 127 229
10th Percentile £193 £180 £212
25th Percentile £350 £238 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £675 £725
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 102 195
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.30 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £27.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.09 £62.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.20% +141.35% +23.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £50.00 £39.44
% change year-on-year -9.08% +26.79% -23.80%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -15 55 £550 -15.38% 112
Bedfordshire -3 30 £550 -5.17% 23
Cambridgeshire +8 27 £280 +40.00% 85
Norfolk -10 19 £246 +113.91% 15
Essex -6 8 £500 - 66
Suffolk -14 3 £578 +21.58% 19
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 5 (3.52%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.41%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.34%) Simulink
3 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (3.52%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.41%) Trello
7 1 (0.70%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.61%) Azure
2 13 (9.15%) AWS
3 8 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.93%) Azure AKS
4 7 (4.93%) GCP
5 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.82%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.82%) Serverless
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.11%) Cohesity
8 3 (2.11%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.11%) SaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Asana
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.41%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.08%) TCP/IP
2 17 (11.97%) Ethernet
3 11 (7.75%) LAN
4 9 (6.34%) WAN
5 8 (5.63%) DNS
6 6 (4.23%) Firewall
7 4 (2.82%) VPN
8 3 (2.11%) Skype
9 2 (1.41%) Network Security
9 2 (1.41%) RS-232
9 2 (1.41%) X.400
10 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.70%) Modbus
10 1 (0.70%) Profibus
10 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.70%) SSL
10 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.52%) Power BI
2 4 (2.82%) Metadata
3 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.41%) Big Data
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) DataStage
5 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) Parquet
5 1 (0.70%) Power Query
5 1 (0.70%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (5.63%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Git
2 3 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 70 (49.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.97%) Finance
3 16 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.27%) Presentation Skills
3 16 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (6.34%) Electronics
6 9 (6.34%) Law
7 7 (4.93%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.82%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.82%) Games
9 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Marketing
10 2 (1.41%) Banking
10 2 (1.41%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.41%) Local Government
10 2 (1.41%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (19.01%) Analyst
2 19 (13.38%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (8.45%) Project Manager
3 12 (8.45%) Technical Engineer
4 11 (7.75%) Architect
4 11 (7.75%) Technical Analyst
5 10 (7.04%) Lead
6 9 (6.34%) Support Analyst
6 9 (6.34%) Technical Support
6 9 (6.34%) Technical Support Analyst
7 7 (4.93%) IT Support
8 6 (4.23%) IT Analyst
8 6 (4.23%) IT Support Analyst
8 6 (4.23%) Senior
9 5 (3.52%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (3.52%) 3rd Line Technical Support
9 5 (3.52%) Developer
9 5 (3.52%) FPGA Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.52%) Spring
1 5 (3.52%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.11%) REST
3 2 (1.41%) Kafka
3 2 (1.41%) Node.js
3 2 (1.41%) SOAP
4 1 (0.70%) Express.js
4 1 (0.70%) Flash
4 1 (0.70%) JSON
4 1 (0.70%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.70%) React
4 1 (0.70%) RESTful
4 1 (0.70%) SGML
4 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.08%) Robotics
2 12 (8.45%) Industry 4.0
2 12 (8.45%) NHS
3 11 (7.75%) Algorithms
4 10 (7.04%) FPGA
5 8 (5.63%) Verilog
6 6 (4.23%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.23%) VHDL
7 5 (3.52%) Augmented Reality
7 5 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.52%) Virtual Reality
8 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.82%) PCIe
9 3 (2.11%) Acoustics
9 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (2.11%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.08%) Windows
2 11 (7.75%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.34%) Linux
4 5 (3.52%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.52%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (3.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.11%) Android
5 3 (2.11%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.41%) AIX
6 2 (1.41%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (23.94%) Computer Science
3 21 (14.79%) Agile
4 20 (14.08%) Decision-Making
5 18 (12.68%) Customer Service
5 18 (12.68%) ITIL
6 16 (11.27%) AI
6 16 (11.27%) DevOps
7 15 (10.56%) ITSM
7 15 (10.56%) Project Management
7 15 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (9.86%) Software Engineering
9 13 (9.15%) Risk Assessment
10 12 (8.45%) CI/CD
10 12 (8.45%) Creative Thinking
10 12 (8.45%) Fault Analysis
10 12 (8.45%) Mechatronics
11 11 (7.75%) Machine Learning
11 11 (7.75%) PRINCE2
12 10 (7.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.72%) Python
2 9 (6.34%) SQL
2 9 (6.34%) SystemVerilog
3 8 (5.63%) Java
4 5 (3.52%) C
4 5 (3.52%) MATLAB
5 4 (2.82%) Tcl
6 3 (2.11%) Bash
6 3 (2.11%) C++
6 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.41%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) Perl
8 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.70%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (18.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (13.38%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.56%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.75%) HND
5 10 (7.04%) HNC
5 10 (7.04%) Master's Degree
6 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.52%) MCSE
9 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.11%) ACCA
10 3 (2.11%) CIMA
10 3 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.41%) CISM
11 2 (1.41%) CISSP
11 2 (1.41%) ISEB
11 2 (1.41%) PMP
11 2 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.23%) GDPR
2 5 (3.52%) QA
3 4 (2.82%) DO-254
4 3 (2.11%) PMO
5 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.41%) NIST
5 2 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.70%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.70%) ISA99
6 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (10.56%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.93%) Firmware
3 4 (2.82%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.11%) Docker
5 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.70%) GPFS
6 1 (0.70%) Lustre
6 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.11%) Ansible
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.11%) Nessus
2 3 (2.11%) SCCM
2 3 (2.11%) Terraform
2 3 (2.11%) WSUS
3 2 (1.41%) Puppet
4 1 (0.70%) Consul
4 1 (0.70%) Control-M
4 1 (0.70%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.70%) Salt
4 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.15%) Siemens
3 10 (7.04%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.34%) Intel
4 9 (6.34%) Microsemi
4 9 (6.34%) Oracle
4 9 (6.34%) SAP
4 9 (6.34%) Xilinx
5 5 (3.52%) Google
6 4 (2.82%) Actel
6 4 (2.82%) Altera
6 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.11%) Tenable
8 2 (1.41%) Cadence
8 2 (1.41%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.41%) EMC
8 2 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.41%) Pega
8 2 (1.41%) Talend
8 2 (1.41%) VMware