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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 138 117 211
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.61% 12.39% 11.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.04% 36.22% 37.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 43 101
10th Percentile £170 £195 £275
25th Percentile £286 £419 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £606 £669 £597
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 35 58
10th Percentile £6.00 £27.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.67 £34.38 £17.51
Median hourly rate £22.50 £75.00 £43.48
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +72.51% -23.73%
75th Percentile £38.19 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £92.20 £85.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.67% +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 574 323 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.50% 34.22% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 131 247
10th Percentile £193 £179 £225
25th Percentile £339 £238 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £625 £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 186 100 181
10th Percentile £16.17 £17.78 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.91 £30.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.68 £63.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% +193.57% +2.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £50.75 £38.95
% change year-on-year -17.36% +30.30% -24.37%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 53 £575 -11.54% 44
Bedfordshire -4 29 £550 -5.17% 16
Cambridgeshire 0 25 £280 -31.03% 75
Norfolk -7 22 £246 +32.97% 10
Essex -6 7 £500 - 48
Suffolk -15 2 £650 +36.84% 18
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 4 (2.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (13.77%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.52%) Simulink
3 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (3.62%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.45%) Trello
6 1 (0.72%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 5 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.49%) Azure
2 9 (6.52%) AWS
2 9 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.62%) Azure AKS
3 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (2.90%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.90%) GCP
5 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.17%) SaaS
6 2 (1.45%) Asana
6 2 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.45%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.45%) Cohesity
6 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.45%) OCI
6 2 (1.45%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.45%) Serverless
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.49%) TCP/IP
2 17 (12.32%) Ethernet
3 12 (8.70%) LAN
4 10 (7.25%) WAN
5 7 (5.07%) DNS
6 5 (3.62%) Firewall
7 3 (2.17%) RS-232
7 3 (2.17%) VPN
7 3 (2.17%) X.400
8 2 (1.45%) Skype
9 1 (0.72%) Modbus
9 1 (0.72%) Network Security
9 1 (0.72%) Profibus
9 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.72%) SSL
9 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.17%) Metadata
2 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.17%) Power BI
3 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.72%) Big Data
4 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.72%) DataStage
4 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.72%) MySQL
4 1 (0.72%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (5.07%) JIRA
2 3 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 71 (51.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.32%) Finance
2 17 (12.32%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.59%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.97%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (6.52%) Electronics
6 9 (6.52%) Law
7 7 (5.07%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.90%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.90%) Games
9 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Marketing
10 2 (1.45%) Banking
10 2 (1.45%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.45%) Local Government
10 2 (1.45%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (21.01%) Analyst
2 19 (13.77%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (9.42%) Project Manager
3 13 (9.42%) Technical Analyst
4 12 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Support Analyst
5 11 (7.97%) Technical Support
5 11 (7.97%) Technical Support Analyst
6 10 (7.25%) Lead
7 9 (6.52%) Architect
8 7 (5.07%) IT Support
9 6 (4.35%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.35%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (3.62%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (3.62%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (3.62%) 3rd Line Technical Support
10 5 (3.62%) Developer
10 5 (3.62%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.62%) Spring
1 5 (3.62%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.17%) REST
3 2 (1.45%) Kafka
3 2 (1.45%) SOAP
4 1 (0.72%) Flash
4 1 (0.72%) JSON
4 1 (0.72%) Node.js
4 1 (0.72%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.72%) RESTful
4 1 (0.72%) SGML
4 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.49%) Robotics
2 14 (10.14%) NHS
3 12 (8.70%) Industry 4.0
4 11 (7.97%) Algorithms
5 10 (7.25%) FPGA
6 8 (5.80%) Verilog
7 6 (4.35%) VHDL
8 5 (3.62%) Augmented Reality
8 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.62%) Management Information System
8 5 (3.62%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.62%) Virtual Reality
9 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.90%) PCIe
10 3 (2.17%) Acoustics
10 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.22%) Windows
2 11 (7.97%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.07%) Linux
3 7 (5.07%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (5.07%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.17%) Android
5 3 (2.17%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.45%) AIX
6 2 (1.45%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (22.46%) Computer Science
3 20 (14.49%) Decision-Making
4 19 (13.77%) Customer Service
4 19 (13.77%) ITIL
5 18 (13.04%) Agile
6 16 (11.59%) ITSM
6 16 (11.59%) Project Management
7 14 (10.14%) AI
7 14 (10.14%) Software Engineering
7 14 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (9.42%) Risk Assessment
9 12 (8.70%) Creative Thinking
9 12 (8.70%) Fault Analysis
9 12 (8.70%) Mechatronics
9 12 (8.70%) PRINCE2
10 11 (7.97%) DevOps
11 10 (7.25%) Machine Learning
11 10 (7.25%) Mentoring
11 10 (7.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.39%) Python
2 9 (6.52%) SystemVerilog
3 7 (5.07%) Java
4 5 (3.62%) C
4 5 (3.62%) MATLAB
4 5 (3.62%) SQL
5 4 (2.90%) Tcl
6 3 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.45%) C#
7 2 (1.45%) C++
7 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.72%) R
8 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.42%) HND
5 12 (8.70%) HNC
6 10 (7.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 8 (5.80%) Master's Degree
7 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.07%) MCSE
9 4 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.17%) ACCA
10 3 (2.17%) CIMA
10 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.17%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.45%) ISEB
11 2 (1.45%) PMP
11 2 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.72%) APMG
12 1 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.62%) GDPR
1 5 (3.62%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) DO-254
3 3 (2.17%) PMO
4 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.72%) ISA99
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.07%) Firmware
3 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.45%) Docker
4 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.45%) Nessus
3 2 (1.45%) SCCM
3 2 (1.45%) WSUS
4 1 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) Control-M
4 1 (0.72%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.72%) Terraform
4 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.42%) Siemens
3 9 (6.52%) Intel
3 9 (6.52%) Microsemi
3 9 (6.52%) Oracle
3 9 (6.52%) SAP
3 9 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.52%) Xilinx
4 5 (3.62%) Google
5 4 (2.90%) Actel
5 4 (2.90%) Altera
5 4 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.45%) Ariba
6 2 (1.45%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.45%) Cisco
6 2 (1.45%) Citrix
6 2 (1.45%) EMC
6 2 (1.45%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.45%) Pega
6 2 (1.45%) Talend