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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Degree 148 117 162
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.51% 10.14% 8.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.43% 30.63% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 38 54
10th Percentile £153 £188 £187
25th Percentile £190 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £549 £580 £550
90th Percentile £663 £675 £635
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 48
10th Percentile £15.45 £21.42 £20.65
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £33.93
Median hourly rate £30.88 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.35% -22.73% -6.38%
75th Percentile £66.88 £80.00 £81.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £44.50 £43.25 £41.50
% change year-on-year +2.89% +4.22% -15.29%

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 582 382 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.58% 33.10% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 164 210
10th Percentile £168 £178 £219
25th Percentile £382 £249 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £605 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 108 209
10th Percentile £17.37 £15.48 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.94 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.37 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.51% -17.75% +104.76%
75th Percentile £73.46 £72.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.53 £75.00
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +88.08% -33.69% -22.73%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 0 56 £275 -50.00% 61
Bedfordshire -1 37 £566 +4.86% 18
Cambridgeshire +5 34 £296 +48.13% 94
Norfolk -6 14 £262 +127.61% 18
Suffolk -13 4 £528 +1.64% 18
Essex -21 3 £289 -23.07% 47
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 (4.05%) Confluence
1 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.35%) Apache
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.41%) Simulink
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.68%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.68%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.35%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.22%) Azure
2 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.08%) AWS
3 9 (6.08%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.73%) Azure AKS
4 7 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (4.05%) Cohesity
6 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.38%) GCP
6 5 (3.38%) Miro
6 5 (3.38%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.70%) Serverless
8 3 (2.03%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.35%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.68%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.51%) TCP/IP
2 15 (10.14%) Ethernet
3 11 (7.43%) DNS
4 9 (6.08%) LAN
5 6 (4.05%) Skype
5 6 (4.05%) WAN
6 4 (2.70%) VPN
7 3 (2.03%) Firewall
7 3 (2.03%) Wireless
8 2 (1.35%) Network Security
8 2 (1.35%) RS-232
8 2 (1.35%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.35%) X.400
9 1 (0.68%) DMZ
9 1 (0.68%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.68%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.68%) Modbus
9 1 (0.68%) Profibus
9 1 (0.68%) SSL
9 1 (0.68%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.05%) Power BI
2 4 (2.70%) Metadata
3 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.35%) Big Data
4 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.35%) MySQL
4 2 (1.35%) Power Query
4 2 (1.35%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) DTS
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.73%) JIRA
2 4 (2.70%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.03%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.35%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.68%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.68%) MSTest
5 1 (0.68%) Ranorex
General
1 66 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.81%) Finance
4 15 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (10.14%) Telecoms
5 13 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.08%) Electronics
6 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.41%) Aerospace
7 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Law
9 4 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.35%) Automotive
10 2 (1.35%) Games
10 2 (1.35%) Marketing
10 2 (1.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (14.19%) Analyst
2 20 (13.51%) Systems Engineer
2 20 (13.51%) Technical Support
3 14 (9.46%) Lead
4 13 (8.78%) Technical Engineer
5 12 (8.11%) Support Specialist
5 12 (8.11%) Technical Specialist
5 12 (8.11%) Technical Support Specialist
6 11 (7.43%) Project Manager
7 10 (6.76%) Architect
8 9 (6.08%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Technical Support Analyst
10 6 (4.05%) FPGA Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Senior
11 5 (3.38%) 3rd Line Support
11 5 (3.38%) 3rd Line Technical Support
11 5 (3.38%) Design Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) FPGA Design Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) ONVIF
2 5 (3.38%) .NET
2 5 (3.38%) Spring
2 5 (3.38%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.03%) RESTful
4 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.35%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.35%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.35%) Kafka
4 2 (1.35%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (1.35%) Silverlight
4 2 (1.35%) WCF
4 2 (1.35%) Web Services
4 2 (1.35%) WPF
5 1 (0.68%) Flash
5 1 (0.68%) Middleware
5 1 (0.68%) SGML
5 1 (0.68%) SOAP
5 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.49%) Robotics
2 13 (8.78%) Video\Live Streaming
3 12 (8.11%) Industry 4.0
4 9 (6.08%) FPGA
5 8 (5.41%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.41%) NHS
6 7 (4.73%) Verilog
7 6 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.05%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.05%) Smartcard
7 6 (4.05%) VHDL
7 6 (4.05%) YubiKey
8 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.03%) Acoustics
9 3 (2.03%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (2.03%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.84%) Windows
2 13 (8.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.73%) Linux
4 3 (2.03%) Android
5 2 (1.35%) AIX
5 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.35%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.51%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (20.95%) Agile
3 30 (20.27%) Computer Science
4 21 (14.19%) DevOps
5 18 (12.16%) Decision-Making
6 16 (10.81%) AI
6 16 (10.81%) Customer Service
7 15 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (10.14%) CRM
7 15 (10.14%) Project Management
8 14 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (8.78%) Risk Assessment
9 13 (8.78%) Time Management
10 12 (8.11%) Creative Thinking
10 12 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (8.11%) Fault Analysis
10 12 (8.11%) Mechatronics
10 12 (8.11%) Scrum
10 12 (8.11%) Software Engineering
11 11 (7.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.86%) Python
2 10 (6.76%) SQL
3 8 (5.41%) SystemVerilog
4 7 (4.73%) Java
5 5 (3.38%) C
5 5 (3.38%) C#
6 4 (2.70%) Bash
6 4 (2.70%) MATLAB
7 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.35%) Tcl
8 2 (1.35%) X++
8 2 (1.35%) XAML
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) R
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 20 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (12.84%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.81%) A+ Certification
5 14 (9.46%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (8.78%) CCNA
6 13 (8.78%) MCSA
6 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
7 9 (6.08%) Master's Degree
8 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (4.73%) DV Cleared
10 6 (4.05%) HNC
10 6 (4.05%) HND
11 4 (2.70%) PhD
11 4 (2.70%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.03%) ACCA
12 3 (2.03%) CIMA
12 3 (2.03%) PMP
13 2 (1.35%) CISSP
13 2 (1.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) GDPR
1 5 (3.38%) QA
2 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.35%) DO-254
3 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.35%) NIST
3 2 (1.35%) PMO
3 2 (1.35%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.68%) GxP
4 1 (0.68%) ISA99
4 1 (0.68%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.05%) Firmware
2 6 (4.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.03%) Docker
4 1 (0.68%) GPFS
4 1 (0.68%) Lustre
4 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.05%) Nessus
1 6 (4.05%) SCCM
1 6 (4.05%) WSUS
2 5 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.70%) Ansible
3 4 (2.70%) Terraform
4 3 (2.03%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Consul
5 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.68%) Salt
5 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.46%) Siemens
3 10 (6.76%) SAP
4 9 (6.08%) Xilinx
5 8 (5.41%) Intel
5 8 (5.41%) Microsemi
6 6 (4.05%) Oracle
6 6 (4.05%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.05%) Tenable
7 4 (2.70%) Ariba
7 4 (2.70%) EMC
7 4 (2.70%) Google
8 3 (2.03%) Altera
8 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.35%) Actel
9 2 (1.35%) Cadence
9 2 (1.35%) Citrix
10 1 (0.68%) HP
10 1 (0.68%) Mentor Graphics
10 1 (0.68%) VMware