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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 125 144 194
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.76% 12.68% 11.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 43.11% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 102
10th Percentile £345 £121 £275
25th Percentile £420 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £605 £538 £600
90th Percentile £696 £675 £736
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 34 35
10th Percentile £8.25 £26.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £13.50 £30.05 £20.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £77.50 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -45.81% +98.97% -28.96%
75th Percentile £43.75 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.43 £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £37.58 £46.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -18.62% -7.64% +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 500 334 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.06% 29.40% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 130 284
10th Percentile £203 £181 £261
25th Percentile £363 £294 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £523
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.48% +4.50%
75th Percentile £595 £586 £675
90th Percentile £688 £675 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 78 137
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.05 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.79 £61.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.79% +104.17% +42.86%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £55.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £93.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £52.05
% change year-on-year -46.77% -9.24% +15.67%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -9 54 £563 -10.00% 153
Cambridgeshire -16 22 £405 -8.73% 137
Norfolk -6 20 - - 27
Bedfordshire -14 16 £500 +111.64% 45
Essex +7 11 £500 +207.13% 83
Suffolk -13 2 £550 +22.22% 34
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 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (8.00%) FrameMaker
2 9 (7.20%) Simulink
3 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.40%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.80%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.80%) Maximo
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.80%) Primavera
3 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.80%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.00%) Azure
2 17 (13.60%) AWS
3 10 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.40%) GCP
5 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.00%) Serverless
6 4 (3.20%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.40%) OCI
7 3 (2.40%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.40%) SaaS
7 3 (2.40%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.60%) dbt
8 2 (1.60%) GitHub
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) LAN
1 9 (7.20%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.60%) Firewall
3 6 (4.80%) Ethernet
4 5 (4.00%) VPN
5 4 (3.20%) RS-232
5 4 (3.20%) WAN
6 3 (2.40%) SpaceWire
7 2 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.60%) Network Security
7 2 (1.60%) VLAN
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.80%) DHCP
8 1 (0.80%) DNS
8 1 (0.80%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.80%) Modbus
8 1 (0.80%) Profibus
8 1 (0.80%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.80%) Wireless
8 1 (0.80%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.60%) Oracle Database
3 5 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.40%) Big Data
4 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.40%) Power BI
5 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.80%) DataStage
6 1 (0.80%) GIS
6 1 (0.80%) MS Access
6 1 (0.80%) MySQL
6 1 (0.80%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.60%) Git
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) Selenium
3 1 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 63 (50.40%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.20%) Finance
4 12 (9.60%) Aerospace
5 11 (8.80%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (8.00%) Publishing
7 8 (6.40%) Electronics
7 8 (6.40%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.60%) Law
9 6 (4.80%) Automotive
9 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
10 5 (4.00%) Games
10 5 (4.00%) Military
11 4 (3.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.40%) Aviation
12 3 (2.40%) Banking
12 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.40%) Multimedia
12 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (22.40%) Analyst
2 20 (16.00%) Support Analyst
3 15 (12.00%) Technical Analyst
3 15 (12.00%) Technical Support
3 15 (12.00%) Technical Support Analyst
4 12 (9.60%) Security Engineer
5 10 (8.00%) Author
5 10 (8.00%) Technical Author
6 9 (7.20%) Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Developer
8 7 (5.60%) IT Support
8 7 (5.60%) Lead
9 6 (4.80%) Asset Management Analyst
9 6 (4.80%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.80%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (4.80%) Senior
9 6 (4.80%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Firmware Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Design Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.80%) XML
2 10 (8.00%) SGML
3 5 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.20%) REST
5 3 (2.40%) JSON
5 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.40%) React
5 3 (2.40%) SOAP
6 2 (1.60%) Node.js
6 2 (1.60%) RESTful
6 2 (1.60%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.80%) Celery
7 1 (0.80%) D3.js
7 1 (0.80%) Express.js
7 1 (0.80%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.80%) NumPy
7 1 (0.80%) Pandas
7 1 (0.80%) Sass
7 1 (0.80%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) NHS
2 11 (8.80%) FPGA
3 10 (8.00%) Verilog
4 9 (7.20%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.80%) CMDB
5 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.80%) VHDL
6 5 (4.00%) PCIe
7 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.40%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (2.40%) CAN bus
8 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.40%) Life Science
8 3 (2.40%) Robotics
8 3 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.40%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.60%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Linux
2 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (2.40%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.40%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (22.40%) Computer Science
3 16 (12.80%) Agile
4 15 (12.00%) ITIL
5 14 (11.20%) Machine Learning
6 13 (10.40%) AI
7 12 (9.60%) ITSM
8 11 (8.80%) Project Management
8 11 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (8.00%) Desktop Publishing
9 10 (8.00%) PRINCE2
10 9 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.20%) DevOps
10 9 (7.20%) Project Delivery
10 9 (7.20%) Software Engineering
10 9 (7.20%) UVM
11 8 (6.40%) Analytics
11 8 (6.40%) Configuration Management
11 8 (6.40%) Migration
11 8 (6.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.40%) Python
2 11 (8.80%) SQL
3 9 (7.20%) SystemVerilog
4 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.80%) MATLAB
4 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.00%) C
5 5 (4.00%) Tcl
6 4 (3.20%) C++
7 3 (2.40%) Java
7 3 (2.40%) R
8 2 (1.60%) C#
9 1 (0.80%) Bash
9 1 (0.80%) Bourne shell
9 1 (0.80%) Perl
9 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.80%) Ruby
9 1 (0.80%) Scala
9 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 26 (20.80%) HND
4 25 (20.00%) HNC
5 18 (14.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (11.20%) Master's Degree
6 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (8.80%) MCP
8 10 (8.00%) MCSE
9 5 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (3.20%) PhD
11 3 (2.40%) CISSP
11 3 (2.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.60%) CCNA
12 2 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.60%) CISM
12 2 (1.60%) MBA
12 2 (1.60%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) NIST
2 5 (4.00%) DO-254
2 5 (4.00%) JSP 440
2 5 (4.00%) NCSC
2 5 (4.00%) NIST 800
2 5 (4.00%) PMO
2 5 (4.00%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.40%) GDPR
4 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.60%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.80%) GxP
6 1 (0.80%) HL7
6 1 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.80%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.80%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 10 (8.00%) Firmware
2 8 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.80%) Docker
5 1 (0.80%) GPFS
5 1 (0.80%) Lustre
5 1 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.60%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) Ansible
3 1 (0.80%) Consul
3 1 (0.80%) Control-M
3 1 (0.80%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.80%) Puppet
3 1 (0.80%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.00%) Oracle
3 9 (7.20%) Intel
3 9 (7.20%) Microsemi
3 9 (7.20%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.20%) Xilinx
4 8 (6.40%) SAP
5 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.00%) Actel
6 5 (4.00%) Altera
6 5 (4.00%) Citrix
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco
7 3 (2.40%) Google
7 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.40%) Splunk
7 3 (2.40%) VMware
8 2 (1.60%) Ariba
8 2 (1.60%) Databricks
8 2 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.60%) Pega