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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 132 122 116
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.99% 9.64% 7.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.35% 29.54% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 33 31
10th Percentile £153 £195 £170
25th Percentile £168 £379 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £515 £580 £550
90th Percentile £615 £675 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 37 29
10th Percentile £15.00 £21.63 £25.31
25th Percentile £23.24 £31.25 £26.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -28.57% +6.13%
75th Percentile £72.50 £76.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.00 £98.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -0.69% -26.77% +16.38%

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 542 413 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.61% 32.62% 28.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 156 166
10th Percentile £183 £198 £209
25th Percentile £400 £350 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +6.10% -
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £644 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 143 154
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £26.25 £18.87 £21.39
Median hourly rate £63.00 £31.64 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.12% -26.42% +104.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £85.60 £72.28
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £47.67
% change year-on-year +110.74% -47.24% -13.34%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +2 59 £265 -50.00% 104
Cambridgeshire +8 38 £296 -26.63% 318
Bedfordshire -9 17 £533 -8.19% 52
Suffolk -9 8 £450 -18.18% 20
Norfolk -12 5 £495 - 28
Essex -23 5 £289 -26.26% 95
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 8 (6.06%) Confluence
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.27%) CMS
3 3 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.30%) Simulink
4 5 (3.79%) Windchill
5 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (1.52%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.52%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.18%) Azure
2 15 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.30%) AWS
5 6 (4.55%) Cohesity
5 6 (4.55%) Miro
5 6 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.79%) GCP
7 4 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.52%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.52%) GitHub
9 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.52%) Serverless
10 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.76%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) DNS
2 7 (5.30%) Skype
3 6 (4.55%) VPN
4 4 (3.03%) Firewall
4 4 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.03%) Wireless
5 3 (2.27%) 5G
5 3 (2.27%) HTTP
5 3 (2.27%) RS-232
5 3 (2.27%) RS-485
5 3 (2.27%) SSH
6 2 (1.52%) 4G
6 2 (1.52%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.52%) LAN
6 2 (1.52%) Network Security
6 2 (1.52%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.76%) DMZ
7 1 (0.76%) SSL
7 1 (0.76%) TETRA
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.79%) Metadata
1 5 (3.79%) Power BI
2 4 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.03%) MySQL
3 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.27%) Power Query
3 3 (2.27%) Redis
4 2 (1.52%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.52%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.76%) Big Data
5 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.76%) DTS
5 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) Git
2 9 (6.82%) JIRA
3 5 (3.79%) GitLab
3 5 (3.79%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (3.79%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.76%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.76%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.76%) MSTest
7 1 (0.76%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (14.39%) Telecoms
3 14 (10.61%) Finance
4 12 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 12 (9.09%) Electronics
4 12 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 11 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.79%) Military
7 4 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.27%) Automotive
8 3 (2.27%) Law
8 3 (2.27%) Marketing
8 3 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (11.36%) Technical Support
2 12 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 12 (9.09%) Support Specialist
2 12 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
2 12 (9.09%) Technical Support Specialist
3 11 (8.33%) Lead
4 9 (6.82%) Analyst
4 9 (6.82%) Developer
5 8 (6.06%) Architect
5 8 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) FPGA Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) Senior
7 6 (4.55%) Design Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) FPGA Design Engineer
9 4 (3.03%) Junior
9 4 (3.03%) Software Developer
10 3 (2.27%) Business Analyst
10 3 (2.27%) Embedded Software Developer
10 3 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.85%) ONVIF
2 6 (4.55%) REST
3 5 (3.79%) .NET
3 5 (3.79%) RESTful
4 4 (3.03%) FastAPI
4 4 (3.03%) Terraform
5 3 (2.27%) CSS
5 3 (2.27%) Flask
5 3 (2.27%) HTML
5 3 (2.27%) Jinja
5 3 (2.27%) Pandas
6 2 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.52%) JSP
6 2 (1.52%) Middleware
6 2 (1.52%) pytest
6 2 (1.52%) Silverlight
6 2 (1.52%) WCF
6 2 (1.52%) Web Services
6 2 (1.52%) WPF
6 2 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) Video\Live Streaming
2 10 (7.58%) FPGA
3 9 (6.82%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.55%) Smartcard
6 6 (4.55%) Verilog
6 6 (4.55%) VHDL
6 6 (4.55%) YubiKey
7 5 (3.79%) Robotics
8 4 (3.03%) Acoustics
8 4 (3.03%) Analogue Electronics
8 4 (3.03%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.27%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.27%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.52%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Windows
2 10 (7.58%) Linux
3 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.27%) Android
5 1 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.61%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (26.52%) Agile
2 35 (26.52%) Computer Science
3 25 (18.94%) DevOps
4 20 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (12.88%) Scrum
7 16 (12.12%) Project Management
7 16 (12.12%) Validation
8 15 (11.36%) CRM
9 14 (10.61%) CI/CD
9 14 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (10.61%) Software Engineering
10 13 (9.85%) Time Management
11 11 (8.33%) Analytics
11 11 (8.33%) Change Management
11 11 (8.33%) ITIL
12 10 (7.58%) ERP
12 10 (7.58%) Integration Testing
12 10 (7.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.21%) Python
2 16 (12.12%) SQL
3 9 (6.82%) C
4 8 (6.06%) Bash
5 7 (5.30%) SystemVerilog
6 6 (4.55%) C#
7 5 (3.79%) C++
7 5 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.03%) Java
8 4 (3.03%) MATLAB
8 4 (3.03%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.52%) X++
10 2 (1.52%) XAML
11 1 (0.76%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) Ruby
11 1 (0.76%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 25 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.88%) A+ Certification
3 17 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (11.36%) CCNA
6 13 (9.85%) MCSA
7 12 (9.09%) Master's Degree
8 7 (5.30%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.79%) HNC
9 5 (3.79%) HND
9 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (3.79%) PhD
10 4 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (2.27%) CISM
11 3 (2.27%) CISSP
11 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) PMO
2 4 (3.03%) SLA
3 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.52%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.76%) DO-254
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) GxP
4 1 (0.76%) ISA99
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (6.06%) Firmware
2 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.79%) Docker
5 3 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.76%) GPFS
7 1 (0.76%) Lustre
7 1 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.55%) Nessus
1 6 (4.55%) SCCM
1 6 (4.55%) WSUS
2 5 (3.79%) Ansible
3 4 (3.03%) Puppet
4 2 (1.52%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.52%) Grafana
4 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.76%) Consul
5 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.76%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.76%) Salt
5 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.06%) SAP
2 8 (6.06%) Xilinx
3 7 (5.30%) Intel
3 7 (5.30%) Microsemi
3 7 (5.30%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.55%) EMC
4 6 (4.55%) Tenable
5 3 (2.27%) Ariba
5 3 (2.27%) VMware
6 2 (1.52%) Altera
6 2 (1.52%) Cadence
6 2 (1.52%) Cisco
6 2 (1.52%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.52%) PTC
6 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) Siemens
7 1 (0.76%) Actel
7 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.76%) Veeam
615 Degree jobs in the East of England