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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 137 108 175
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.22% 10.74% 8.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.34% 31.03% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 33 66
10th Percentile £159 £195 £233
25th Percentile £199 £379 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £518 £625 £575
90th Percentile £639 £675 £651
England median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 28 57
10th Percentile £20.80 £26.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.69 £26.42
Median hourly rate £31.18 £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +31.82% -4.03%
75th Percentile £69.38 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £53.75 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.50% +25.00% -18.35%

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 587 348 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.63% 34.59% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 150 220
10th Percentile £183 £195 £219
25th Percentile £388 £305 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% - -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £590
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £536
% change year-on-year - -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 97 223
10th Percentile £17.06 £15.19 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.65 £24.66 £16.65
Median hourly rate £47.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +37.50% +90.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £72.60
England median hourly rate £48.61 £32.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year +51.91% -20.57% -26.75%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 54 £450 -30.77% 48
Bedfordshire -1 33 £566 -2.37% 15
Cambridgeshire +7 27 £280 +40.00% 98
Norfolk -8 14 £246 +113.91% 8
Essex -18 6 £488 - 28
Suffolk -14 3 £505 +1.61% 14
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 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.92%) Confluence
3 2 (1.46%) Apache
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (16.06%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.57%) Simulink
3 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.46%) Trello
7 1 (0.73%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.73%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.46%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.60%) Azure
2 9 (6.57%) AWS
2 9 (6.57%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.11%) Azure AKS
3 7 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (4.38%) Cohesity
5 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.65%) GCP
5 5 (3.65%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.92%) Serverless
7 3 (2.19%) Azure Functions
7 3 (2.19%) Miro
8 2 (1.46%) Asana
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.60%) TCP/IP
2 16 (11.68%) Ethernet
3 11 (8.03%) DNS
4 8 (5.84%) LAN
5 6 (4.38%) Skype
5 6 (4.38%) WAN
6 4 (2.92%) Firewall
7 2 (1.46%) Network Security
7 2 (1.46%) RS-232
7 2 (1.46%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (1.46%) X.400
8 1 (0.73%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.73%) Modbus
8 1 (0.73%) Profibus
8 1 (0.73%) SSL
8 1 (0.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) Power BI
2 4 (2.92%) Metadata
3 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.46%) Big Data
4 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.46%) MySQL
4 2 (1.46%) Power Query
4 2 (1.46%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.73%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.65%) JIRA
2 3 (2.19%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.46%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) GitLab
3 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.73%) LabVIEW
General
1 61 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.95%) Presentation Skills
3 14 (10.22%) Finance
4 13 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.76%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.57%) Electronics
6 9 (6.57%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.84%) Aerospace
8 7 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.92%) Law
11 3 (2.19%) Local Government
12 2 (1.46%) Automotive
12 2 (1.46%) Games
12 2 (1.46%) Marketing
12 2 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (15.33%) Analyst
2 20 (14.60%) Systems Engineer
3 16 (11.68%) Technical Support
4 15 (10.95%) Project Manager
5 13 (9.49%) Technical Engineer
6 9 (6.57%) Architect
6 9 (6.57%) Lead
6 9 (6.57%) Technical Analyst
7 8 (5.84%) Support Specialist
7 8 (5.84%) Technical Specialist
7 8 (5.84%) Technical Support Specialist
8 7 (5.11%) FPGA Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Technical Support Analyst
9 6 (4.38%) Design Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) FPGA Design Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (3.65%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (3.65%) 3rd Line Technical Support
10 5 (3.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.57%) ONVIF
2 5 (3.65%) Spring
2 5 (3.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.46%) .NET
3 2 (1.46%) Kafka
4 1 (0.73%) Express.js
4 1 (0.73%) Flash
4 1 (0.73%) MERN Stack
4 1 (0.73%) Node.js
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.73%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.73%) React
4 1 (0.73%) REST
4 1 (0.73%) RESTful
4 1 (0.73%) SGML
4 1 (0.73%) SOAP
4 1 (0.73%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Robotics
2 12 (8.76%) Industry 4.0
3 10 (7.30%) FPGA
4 9 (6.57%) Video\Live Streaming
5 8 (5.84%) Algorithms
5 8 (5.84%) NHS
6 7 (5.11%) Verilog
6 7 (5.11%) VHDL
7 6 (4.38%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.38%) Smartcard
7 6 (4.38%) YubiKey
8 3 (2.19%) Acoustics
8 3 (2.19%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.19%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.19%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (1.46%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.41%) Windows
2 13 (9.49%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.11%) Linux
4 3 (2.19%) Android
5 2 (1.46%) AIX
5 2 (1.46%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (1.46%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.46%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.04%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (18.98%) Agile
2 26 (18.98%) Computer Science
3 20 (14.60%) Decision-Making
4 17 (12.41%) DevOps
5 15 (10.95%) Project Management
6 14 (10.22%) AI
6 14 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (9.49%) Customer Service
7 13 (9.49%) Risk Assessment
8 12 (8.76%) Creative Thinking
8 12 (8.76%) Fault Analysis
8 12 (8.76%) Mechatronics
8 12 (8.76%) Software Engineering
8 12 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (8.03%) CI/CD
9 11 (8.03%) CRM
10 10 (7.30%) ITIL
10 10 (7.30%) PRINCE2
10 10 (7.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.79%) Python
2 10 (7.30%) SQL
3 9 (6.57%) SystemVerilog
4 7 (5.11%) Java
5 6 (4.38%) C
6 5 (3.65%) MATLAB
7 4 (2.92%) Bash
7 4 (2.92%) C#
8 3 (2.19%) C++
8 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.46%) Tcl
9 2 (1.46%) X++
10 1 (0.73%) Perl
10 1 (0.73%) R
10 1 (0.73%) Ruby
10 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (8.03%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (7.30%) CCNA
6 9 (6.57%) A+ Certification
6 9 (6.57%) MCSA
7 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.11%) Master's Degree
8 6 (4.38%) HND
8 6 (4.38%) PMI Certification
9 5 (3.65%) HNC
9 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (3.65%) PMP
10 3 (2.19%) ACCA
10 3 (2.19%) CIMA
11 2 (1.46%) CISM
11 2 (1.46%) ISEB
11 2 (1.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) GDPR
2 3 (2.19%) PMO
2 3 (2.19%) QA
3 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.46%) DO-254
3 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.46%) NIST
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.73%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.73%) ISA99
4 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (8.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.38%) Firmware
2 6 (4.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.19%) Docker
4 1 (0.73%) GPFS
4 1 (0.73%) Lustre
4 1 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.38%) Nessus
1 6 (4.38%) SCCM
1 6 (4.38%) WSUS
2 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.92%) Ansible
3 4 (2.92%) Terraform
4 3 (2.19%) Puppet
5 1 (0.73%) Consul
5 1 (0.73%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.73%) Salt
5 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.22%) Siemens
3 10 (7.30%) Xilinx
4 9 (6.57%) Intel
4 9 (6.57%) Microsemi
5 6 (4.38%) Oracle
5 6 (4.38%) SAP
5 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.38%) Tenable
6 4 (2.92%) EMC
6 4 (2.92%) Google
7 3 (2.19%) Altera
7 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.46%) Actel
8 2 (1.46%) Ariba
8 2 (1.46%) Cadence
8 2 (1.46%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.46%) Citrix
9 1 (0.73%) Mitel
9 1 (0.73%) VMware