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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 139 124 118
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.36% 9.79% 7.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.41% 29.25% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 35 32
10th Percentile £153 £195 £176
25th Percentile £168 £369 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £515 £580 £550
90th Percentile £623 £663 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 36 31
10th Percentile £15.00 £21.53 £26.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £30.69 £28.79
Median hourly rate £42.07 £42.75 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -28.15% +3.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.19 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.00 £97.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +10.59% -25.89% +15.69%

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 547 424 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.01% 33.46% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 161 165
10th Percentile £183 £195 £213
25th Percentile £402 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 147 168
10th Percentile £17.30 £16.30 £16.14
25th Percentile £25.34 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £62.50 £34.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.82% -20.93% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £64.44
90th Percentile £81.73 £86.65 £75.28
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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% 87
Cambridgeshire +6 37 £296 -1.25% 185
Bedfordshire 0 26 £533 -8.19% 29
Suffolk -9 8 £450 -18.18% 16
Norfolk -12 5 £725 - 23
Essex -25 5 £289 -26.26% 69
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 7 (5.04%) Confluence
2 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.16%) CMS
3 3 (2.16%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (11.51%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (5.04%) Simulink
4 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.88%) Windchill
5 3 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.44%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.72%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.44%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.27%) Azure
2 14 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.76%) AWS
3 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.32%) Cohesity
4 6 (4.32%) Miro
4 6 (4.32%) Power Automate
5 5 (3.60%) GCP
6 4 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.16%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.16%) Serverless
8 2 (1.44%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.44%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.44%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.35%) TCP/IP
2 10 (7.19%) Ethernet
3 9 (6.47%) DNS
4 7 (5.04%) Skype
5 6 (4.32%) VPN
6 4 (2.88%) Firewall
6 4 (2.88%) RS-232
6 4 (2.88%) Wireless
7 3 (2.16%) 5G
7 3 (2.16%) HTTP
7 3 (2.16%) LAN
7 3 (2.16%) RS-485
7 3 (2.16%) SSH
8 2 (1.44%) 4G
8 2 (1.44%) Network Security
8 2 (1.44%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.72%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.72%) Modbus
9 1 (0.72%) Profibus
9 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.60%) Metadata
1 5 (3.60%) Power BI
2 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.88%) MySQL
3 3 (2.16%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.16%) Power Query
3 3 (2.16%) Redis
4 2 (1.44%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.44%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) Big Data
5 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.72%) DTS
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Git
2 8 (5.76%) JIRA
3 5 (3.60%) GitLab
3 5 (3.60%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.88%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.72%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.72%) MSTest
7 1 (0.72%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (45.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.67%) Telecoms
3 18 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.35%) Finance
5 12 (8.63%) Manufacturing
6 11 (7.91%) Electronics
6 11 (7.91%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (7.19%) Aerospace
7 10 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.19%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.88%) Military
9 3 (2.16%) Automotive
9 3 (2.16%) Law
9 3 (2.16%) Marketing
9 3 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.44%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.72%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 16 (11.51%) Systems Engineer
2 15 (10.79%) Technical Support
3 12 (8.63%) Lead
3 12 (8.63%) Support Specialist
3 12 (8.63%) Technical Specialist
3 12 (8.63%) Technical Support Specialist
4 11 (7.91%) Analyst
4 11 (7.91%) Project Manager
5 9 (6.47%) Developer
5 9 (6.47%) Technical Engineer
6 8 (5.76%) Architect
7 7 (5.04%) FPGA Engineer
7 7 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.04%) Senior
8 6 (4.32%) Design Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) FPGA Design Engineer
10 4 (2.88%) Junior
10 4 (2.88%) Software Developer
11 3 (2.16%) Service Analyst
11 3 (2.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.35%) ONVIF
2 5 (3.60%) .NET
2 5 (3.60%) RESTful
3 4 (2.88%) FastAPI
3 4 (2.88%) REST
4 3 (2.16%) CSS
4 3 (2.16%) Flask
4 3 (2.16%) HTML
4 3 (2.16%) Jinja
4 3 (2.16%) Pandas
5 2 (1.44%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.44%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.44%) JSP
5 2 (1.44%) Kafka
5 2 (1.44%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 2 (1.44%) Middleware
5 2 (1.44%) pytest
5 2 (1.44%) Web Services
5 2 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Robotics
1 13 (9.35%) Video\Live Streaming
2 9 (6.47%) FPGA
3 8 (5.76%) Industry 4.0
3 8 (5.76%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.04%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.32%) Smartcard
5 6 (4.32%) Verilog
5 6 (4.32%) VHDL
5 6 (4.32%) YubiKey
6 4 (2.88%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.16%) Acoustics
7 3 (2.16%) Analogue Electronics
7 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.16%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.35%) Windows
2 10 (7.19%) Linux
3 8 (5.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.16%) Android
5 1 (0.72%) AIX
5 1 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.57%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (25.18%) Computer Science
3 33 (23.74%) Agile
4 26 (18.71%) DevOps
5 21 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (10.79%) CRM
7 15 (10.79%) Decision-Making
7 15 (10.79%) Project Management
7 15 (10.79%) Scrum
7 15 (10.79%) Software Engineering
7 15 (10.79%) Validation
8 14 (10.07%) CI/CD
8 14 (10.07%) Customer Service
8 14 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (9.35%) Time Management
10 11 (7.91%) Analytics
10 11 (7.91%) ITIL
11 10 (7.19%) Change Management
11 10 (7.19%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.42%) Python
2 16 (11.51%) SQL
3 8 (5.76%) Bash
3 8 (5.76%) C
4 7 (5.04%) SystemVerilog
5 6 (4.32%) C#
6 5 (3.60%) Java
7 4 (2.88%) C++
7 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.16%) MATLAB
8 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.44%) X++
9 2 (1.44%) XAML
10 1 (0.72%) Perl
10 1 (0.72%) R
10 1 (0.72%) Ruby
10 1 (0.72%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 23 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (13.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (12.23%) A+ Certification
4 17 (12.23%) SC Cleared
5 16 (11.51%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (10.79%) CCNA
7 13 (9.35%) MCSA
8 11 (7.91%) Master's Degree
9 7 (5.04%) DV Cleared
9 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (3.60%) HNC
10 5 (3.60%) HND
10 5 (3.60%) PhD
11 4 (2.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (2.16%) CISM
12 3 (2.16%) CISSP
12 3 (2.16%) MCSE
12 3 (2.16%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) QA
2 4 (2.88%) PMO
2 4 (2.88%) SLA
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%) DO-254
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) GxP
4 1 (0.72%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.72%) ISA99
4 1 (0.72%) NCSC
4 1 (0.72%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (5.76%) Firmware
2 7 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.88%) Docker
5 3 (2.16%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.72%) GPFS
7 1 (0.72%) Lustre
7 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 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%) Ansible
3 4 (2.88%) Puppet
3 4 (2.88%) Terraform
4 2 (1.44%) Grafana
4 2 (1.44%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.72%) Consul
5 1 (0.72%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.72%) Salt
5 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.19%) Siemens
3 8 (5.76%) SAP
3 8 (5.76%) Xilinx
4 7 (5.04%) Intel
4 7 (5.04%) Microsemi
4 7 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.32%) Tenable
6 5 (3.60%) EMC
7 3 (2.16%) Ariba
7 3 (2.16%) VMware
8 2 (1.44%) Altera
8 2 (1.44%) Cadence
8 2 (1.44%) Cisco
8 2 (1.44%) Oracle
8 2 (1.44%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.44%) PTC
8 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.72%) Actel
9 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds