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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 137 123 134
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.69% 8.87% 9.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.42% 27.15% 31.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 36 43
10th Percentile £153 £369 £121
25th Percentile £190 £403 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £515 £620 £500
90th Percentile £576 £750 £550
England median daily rate £510 £503 £500
% change year-on-year +1.39% +0.60% -6.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 20
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.50 £24.30
25th Percentile £23.01 £25.23 £29.10
Median hourly rate £60.81 £42.50 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -7.10% -16.82%
75th Percentile £78.75 £44.25 £87.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £88.00 £100.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% -31.02% +3.86%

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 671 453 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.89% 32.66% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 183 170
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £411 £391 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% +6.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £580 £575
90th Percentile £769 £660 £600
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 155 100
10th Percentile £21.13 £15.66 £21.23
25th Percentile £36.43 £18.87 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +91.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.79 £73.30
England median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +89.03% -52.10% -2.17%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -1 53 £200 -65.22% 33
Cambridgeshire +9 40 £550 +28.28% 85
Bedfordshire -6 22 £533 +6.50% 14
Essex -22 8 £425 -6.85% 24
Suffolk -7 7 £438 -20.45% 3
Norfolk -10 7 £264 - 8
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%) Confluence
1 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.19%) CMS
3 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) SAS
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Windchill
2 8 (5.84%) Simulink
3 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (3.65%) MS Visio
6 4 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (2.19%) OrCAD
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (1.46%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.73%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.73%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.46%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (1.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.98%) Azure
2 16 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.38%) AWS
4 5 (3.65%) Cohesity
4 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.65%) Power Automate
4 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.92%) GCP
5 4 (2.92%) Miro
6 3 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.46%) GitHub
7 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.46%) SaaS
8 1 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.73%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) DNS
2 7 (5.11%) VPN
3 6 (4.38%) Skype
4 5 (3.65%) Ethernet
5 4 (2.92%) HTTP
5 4 (2.92%) Wireless
6 3 (2.19%) 5G
6 3 (2.19%) RS-232
6 3 (2.19%) RS-485
6 3 (2.19%) SSH
6 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.46%) 4G
7 2 (1.46%) Firewall
8 1 (0.73%) DHCP
8 1 (0.73%) DMZ
8 1 (0.73%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.73%) LAN
8 1 (0.73%) Modbus
8 1 (0.73%) TETRA
8 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.92%) MySQL
2 3 (2.19%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.19%) Redis
3 2 (1.46%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.46%) Metadata
3 2 (1.46%) Power BI
3 2 (1.46%) Power Query
3 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.73%) DTS
4 1 (0.73%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.76%) Git
2 7 (5.11%) JIRA
2 7 (5.11%) Visual Studio
3 6 (4.38%) LabVIEW
3 6 (4.38%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (2.92%) GitLab
4 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.46%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.46%) MSTest
6 2 (1.46%) Ranorex
6 2 (1.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.73%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (44.53%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.25%) Electronics
3 22 (16.06%) Manufacturing
4 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (13.14%) Telecoms
6 17 (12.41%) Aerospace
7 12 (8.76%) Military
8 11 (8.03%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (7.30%) Finance
10 8 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.92%) Marketing
12 3 (2.19%) Hebrew Language
12 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.19%) Law
12 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.46%) Automotive
13 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.73%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (11.68%) Lead
2 14 (10.22%) Technical Support
3 12 (8.76%) Support Specialist
3 12 (8.76%) Technical Specialist
3 12 (8.76%) Technical Support Specialist
4 11 (8.03%) Developer
5 10 (7.30%) Analyst
5 10 (7.30%) Design Engineer
6 9 (6.57%) Senior
7 8 (5.84%) Electrical Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) FPGA Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Electronics Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) FPGA Design Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) .NET Developer
11 4 (2.92%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.92%) C# Developer
11 4 (2.92%) Security Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.49%) ONVIF
2 8 (5.84%) .NET
3 7 (5.11%) REST
3 7 (5.11%) RESTful
4 5 (3.65%) Web Services
5 4 (2.92%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.92%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.92%) Entity Framework
5 4 (2.92%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.92%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 4 (2.92%) Silverlight
5 4 (2.92%) WCF
5 4 (2.92%) WPF
5 4 (2.92%) XML
6 3 (2.19%) CSS
6 3 (2.19%) Flask
6 3 (2.19%) HTML
6 3 (2.19%) Jinja
6 3 (2.19%) JSP
6 3 (2.19%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.95%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (10.22%) FPGA
3 13 (9.49%) Management Information System
3 13 (9.49%) Video\Live Streaming
4 11 (8.03%) Analogue Electronics
5 7 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.38%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.38%) Life Science
6 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.38%) Verilog
6 6 (4.38%) VHDL
7 5 (3.65%) Smartcard
7 5 (3.65%) YubiKey
8 3 (2.19%) 3D Printing
8 3 (2.19%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.19%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.19%) NHS
8 3 (2.19%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.19%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.22%) Windows
2 6 (4.38%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.34%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (24.09%) Computer Science
3 32 (23.36%) Agile
4 26 (18.98%) DevOps
5 23 (16.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (13.87%) Scrum
8 17 (12.41%) Validation
9 16 (11.68%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (10.95%) Integration Testing
11 14 (10.22%) CRM
11 14 (10.22%) Time Management
12 13 (9.49%) CI/CD
12 13 (9.49%) Data Analysis
12 13 (9.49%) Project Management
13 11 (8.03%) Change Management
13 11 (8.03%) Migration
13 11 (8.03%) PLM
13 11 (8.03%) Software Engineering
13 11 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.87%) Python
2 12 (8.76%) SQL
3 9 (6.57%) C
3 9 (6.57%) C#
4 8 (5.84%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.11%) Bash
5 7 (5.11%) SystemVerilog
6 5 (3.65%) Java
6 5 (3.65%) MATLAB
7 4 (2.92%) C++
7 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.92%) XAML
8 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.19%) R
9 2 (1.46%) X++
10 1 (0.73%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.73%) Perl
10 1 (0.73%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (27.74%) Security Cleared
2 30 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (12.41%) A+ Certification
5 16 (11.68%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (10.95%) CCNA
6 15 (10.95%) Master's Degree
7 13 (9.49%) MCSA
8 10 (7.30%) HND
9 9 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (6.57%) DV Cleared
9 9 (6.57%) HNC
9 9 (6.57%) PhD
10 8 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.92%) ISACA
11 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (2.19%) ISTQB
12 3 (2.19%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.19%) PMP
12 3 (2.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) QA
2 6 (4.38%) IEC 61508
2 6 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.38%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) NCSC
3 4 (2.92%) SLA
4 3 (2.19%) COSHH
4 3 (2.19%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.19%) PMO
5 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) DO-254
6 1 (0.73%) GDPR
6 1 (0.73%) GxP
6 1 (0.73%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.73%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.73%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (6.57%) Firmware
2 8 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.38%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.92%) Docker
5 3 (2.19%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.73%) NFS
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.38%) Functional Safety
2 5 (3.65%) Nessus
2 5 (3.65%) SCCM
2 5 (3.65%) WSUS
3 3 (2.19%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.46%) Grafana
4 2 (1.46%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.46%) Puppet
5 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.73%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.76%) EMC
3 8 (5.84%) Xilinx
4 7 (5.11%) Intel
4 7 (5.11%) Microsemi
5 6 (4.38%) SAP
5 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) Tenable
7 3 (2.19%) HP
7 3 (2.19%) IBM
7 3 (2.19%) PTC
7 3 (2.19%) Siemens
7 3 (2.19%) VMware
8 2 (1.46%) Altera
8 2 (1.46%) Ariba
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco
8 2 (1.46%) Google
8 2 (1.46%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.73%) MuleSoft