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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 140 113 188
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.26% 11.89% 9.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.29% 34.77% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 37 75
10th Percentile £168 £195 £320
25th Percentile £263 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £675 £578
90th Percentile £650 - £675
England median daily rate £500 £517 £510
% change year-on-year -3.29% +1.37% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 61
10th Percentile £18.40 £27.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.78 £22.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £72.50 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -62.07% +86.14% -31.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £87.40 £85.00
England median hourly rate £64.25 £53.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.23% +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 601 325 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.85% 34.21% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 133 223
10th Percentile £192 £191 £209
25th Percentile £350 £250 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £638 £580 £600
90th Percentile £718 £670 £723
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 97 221
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.19 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £16.30
Median hourly rate £23.83 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.29% +71.43% +66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.11 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £42.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% +6.88% -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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -13 57 £450 -30.77% 60
Bedfordshire +1 31 £550 -5.17% 22
Cambridgeshire +9 26 £280 +40.00% 70
Norfolk -12 15 £246 +113.91% 9
Essex -13 8 £500 - 29
Suffolk -12 3 £578 +16.20% 12
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 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (1.43%) Apache
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (15.71%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.43%) Simulink
3 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.43%) Trello
6 1 (0.71%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.71%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.00%) Azure
2 10 (7.14%) AWS
3 7 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.29%) Cohesity
4 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (3.57%) GCP
6 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.86%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.86%) Serverless
7 3 (2.14%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.43%) Asana
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.43%) Miro
8 2 (1.43%) OCI
8 2 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 17 (12.14%) Ethernet
3 11 (7.86%) DNS
4 10 (7.14%) LAN
5 8 (5.71%) WAN
6 6 (4.29%) Skype
7 4 (2.86%) Firewall
8 3 (2.14%) VPN
9 2 (1.43%) Network Security
9 2 (1.43%) RS-232
9 2 (1.43%) X.400
10 1 (0.71%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.71%) Modbus
10 1 (0.71%) Profibus
10 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.29%) Power BI
2 4 (2.86%) Metadata
3 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.43%) Big Data
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.43%) Power Query
4 2 (1.43%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.71%) DataStage
5 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Git
2 3 (2.14%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.14%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (5.71%) Electronics
8 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.57%) Law
10 4 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.86%) Games
11 3 (2.14%) Automotive
11 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.14%) Local Government
12 2 (1.43%) Digital Health
12 2 (1.43%) Marketing
12 2 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (15.71%) Analyst
2 19 (13.57%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (9.29%) Technical Engineer
4 12 (8.57%) Project Manager
4 12 (8.57%) Technical Support
5 11 (7.86%) Architect
6 10 (7.14%) Lead
7 9 (6.43%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (5.00%) Technical Support Analyst
9 6 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Senior
10 5 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) 3rd Line Technical Support
10 5 (3.57%) Developer
10 5 (3.57%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Technical Leader
11 4 (2.86%) Firmware Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) ONVIF
1 5 (3.57%) Spring
1 5 (3.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.43%) Kafka
3 2 (1.43%) REST
3 2 (1.43%) SOAP
4 1 (0.71%) Express.js
4 1 (0.71%) Flash
4 1 (0.71%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.71%) Node.js
4 1 (0.71%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.71%) React
4 1 (0.71%) RESTful
4 1 (0.71%) SGML
4 1 (0.71%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.29%) Robotics
2 12 (8.57%) Industry 4.0
3 11 (7.86%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.43%) FPGA
5 8 (5.71%) NHS
6 7 (5.00%) Verilog
7 6 (4.29%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.29%) Smartcard
7 6 (4.29%) YubiKey
8 5 (3.57%) VHDL
8 5 (3.57%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (2.86%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.86%) PCIe
9 4 (2.86%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (2.14%) Acoustics
10 3 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.86%) Windows
2 13 (9.29%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.71%) Linux
4 4 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.14%) Android
5 3 (2.14%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (1.43%) AIX
6 2 (1.43%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (22.14%) Computer Science
3 24 (17.14%) Agile
4 20 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 17 (12.14%) DevOps
6 16 (11.43%) AI
7 15 (10.71%) Customer Service
7 15 (10.71%) Project Management
8 13 (9.29%) CI/CD
8 13 (9.29%) Risk Assessment
8 13 (9.29%) Software Engineering
9 12 (8.57%) Creative Thinking
9 12 (8.57%) Fault Analysis
9 12 (8.57%) Mechatronics
9 12 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (7.86%) ITIL
10 11 (7.86%) Machine Learning
11 10 (7.14%) ITSM
11 10 (7.14%) PRINCE2
11 10 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.57%) Python
2 10 (7.14%) SQL
3 9 (6.43%) SystemVerilog
4 8 (5.71%) Java
5 5 (3.57%) C
5 5 (3.57%) MATLAB
6 4 (2.86%) Bash
6 4 (2.86%) Tcl
7 3 (2.14%) C++
8 2 (1.43%) C#
8 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.71%) Perl
9 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.71%) R
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (16.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (13.57%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.43%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.71%) HND
6 7 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.00%) HNC
7 6 (4.29%) CCNA
8 5 (3.57%) A+ Certification
8 5 (3.57%) MCSA
8 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (2.14%) ACCA
9 3 (2.14%) CIMA
9 3 (2.14%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.43%) CISM
10 2 (1.43%) CISSP
10 2 (1.43%) ISEB
10 2 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) GDPR
2 4 (2.86%) DO-254
2 4 (2.86%) QA
3 3 (2.14%) PMO
4 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.43%) NIST
4 2 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.71%) ISA99
5 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.00%) Firmware
3 6 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.14%) Docker
5 1 (0.71%) GPFS
5 1 (0.71%) Lustre
5 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) Nessus
1 6 (4.29%) SCCM
1 6 (4.29%) WSUS
2 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.86%) Ansible
3 4 (2.86%) Terraform
4 3 (2.14%) Puppet
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.71%) Consul
6 1 (0.71%) Control-M
6 1 (0.71%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.71%) Salt
6 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.29%) Siemens
3 9 (6.43%) Intel
3 9 (6.43%) Microsemi
3 9 (6.43%) Oracle
3 9 (6.43%) SAP
3 9 (6.43%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.43%) Xilinx
4 6 (4.29%) Tenable
5 4 (2.86%) Actel
5 4 (2.86%) Altera
5 4 (2.86%) Google
5 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.43%) Ariba
6 2 (1.43%) Cadence
6 2 (1.43%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.43%) Citrix
6 2 (1.43%) EMC
6 2 (1.43%) Pega
6 2 (1.43%) Talend