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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 136 123 123
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.65% 9.19% 8.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.92% 27.77% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 35 36
10th Percentile £153 £368 £121
25th Percentile £173 £402 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £514 £622 £500
90th Percentile £568 £760 £544
England median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 34 21
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.69 £24.50
25th Percentile £23.13 £30.87 £30.00
Median hourly rate £61.91 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.66% -15.00% +6.44%
75th Percentile £78.75 £57.88 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.87 £88.00 £100.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +14.49% -34.29% +9.95%

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 650 443 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.98% 33.11% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 175 156
10th Percentile £194 £213 £200
25th Percentile £410 £400 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £580 £575
90th Percentile £750 £670 £600
England median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 152 124
10th Percentile £20.36 £16.01 £17.41
25th Percentile £40.75 £18.87 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +95.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.51 £67.85
England median hourly rate £50.74 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +101.76% -52.10% -

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -4 55 £265 -55.83% 173
Cambridgeshire +4 41 £505 +17.78% 554
Bedfordshire -5 21 £533 +6.50% 86
Suffolk -13 7 £438 -20.45% 45
Essex -23 7 £425 -6.85% 144
Norfolk -12 5 £495 - 56
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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.21%) CMS
3 3 (2.21%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.74%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Windchill
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.15%) Simulink
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.47%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.74%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.47%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.32%) Azure
2 17 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.62%) AWS
4 7 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.41%) GCP
5 6 (4.41%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.68%) Cohesity
6 5 (3.68%) Miro
7 4 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.47%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.47%) GitHub
9 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.47%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.47%) SaaS
9 2 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.62%) DNS
2 7 (5.15%) VPN
3 6 (4.41%) Skype
4 4 (2.94%) Ethernet
4 4 (2.94%) HTTP
4 4 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.94%) Wireless
5 3 (2.21%) 5G
5 3 (2.21%) RS-232
5 3 (2.21%) RS-485
5 3 (2.21%) SSH
6 2 (1.47%) 4G
6 2 (1.47%) Firewall
7 1 (0.74%) DHCP
7 1 (0.74%) DMZ
7 1 (0.74%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.74%) LAN
7 1 (0.74%) Modbus
7 1 (0.74%) TETRA
7 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 4 (2.94%) MySQL
1 4 (2.94%) Power BI
2 3 (2.21%) Metadata
2 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.21%) Power Query
2 3 (2.21%) Redis
3 2 (1.47%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.47%) PowerPivot
3 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.74%) Big Data
4 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.74%) DTS
4 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (9.56%) Git
2 8 (5.88%) JIRA
3 7 (5.15%) Visual Studio
4 5 (3.68%) GitLab
4 5 (3.68%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.94%) LabVIEW
6 3 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.47%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.47%) MSTest
7 2 (1.47%) Ranorex
7 2 (1.47%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.44%) Electronics
3 20 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.24%) Manufacturing
4 18 (13.24%) Telecoms
5 15 (11.03%) Aerospace
6 11 (8.09%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (8.09%) Military
7 10 (7.35%) Finance
8 8 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.21%) Automotive
10 3 (2.21%) Law
10 3 (2.21%) Marketing
11 2 (1.47%) Hebrew Language
11 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.74%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 15 (11.03%) Lead
1 15 (11.03%) Technical Support
2 12 (8.82%) Support Specialist
2 12 (8.82%) Technical Specialist
2 12 (8.82%) Technical Support Specialist
3 11 (8.09%) Developer
3 11 (8.09%) Senior
4 9 (6.62%) Analyst
5 8 (5.88%) Design Engineer
5 8 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.15%) Electrical Engineer
6 7 (5.15%) FPGA Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Architect
7 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) FPGA Design Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) .NET Developer
9 4 (2.94%) C# Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Security Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.56%) ONVIF
2 8 (5.88%) .NET
3 7 (5.15%) REST
3 7 (5.15%) RESTful
4 5 (3.68%) Web Services
5 4 (2.94%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.94%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.94%) Entity Framework
5 4 (2.94%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.94%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 4 (2.94%) Silverlight
5 4 (2.94%) Terraform
5 4 (2.94%) WCF
5 4 (2.94%) WPF
5 4 (2.94%) XML
6 3 (2.21%) CSS
6 3 (2.21%) Flask
6 3 (2.21%) HTML
6 3 (2.21%) Jinja
6 3 (2.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.56%) FPGA
1 13 (9.56%) Management Information System
1 13 (9.56%) Self-Motivation
1 13 (9.56%) Video\Live Streaming
2 9 (6.62%) Analogue Electronics
3 7 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.41%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.41%) Verilog
4 6 (4.41%) VHDL
5 5 (3.68%) Smartcard
5 5 (3.68%) YubiKey
6 4 (2.94%) Life Science
7 3 (2.21%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.21%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.21%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.47%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.29%) Windows
2 8 (5.88%) Linux
3 6 (4.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.44%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (27.21%) Computer Science
3 34 (25.00%) Agile
4 30 (22.06%) DevOps
5 23 (16.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (15.44%) Scrum
7 19 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 16 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (11.03%) CRM
10 14 (10.29%) Integration Testing
10 14 (10.29%) Time Management
11 13 (9.56%) Project Management
11 13 (9.56%) Software Engineering
12 12 (8.82%) AI
12 12 (8.82%) Analytics
12 12 (8.82%) Data Analysis
12 12 (8.82%) Validation
13 11 (8.09%) Change Management
13 11 (8.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.91%) Python
2 16 (11.76%) SQL
3 9 (6.62%) Bash
3 9 (6.62%) C
3 9 (6.62%) C#
4 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.15%) SystemVerilog
6 6 (4.41%) Java
7 5 (3.68%) C++
8 4 (2.94%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.94%) XAML
9 3 (2.21%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.47%) Perl
10 2 (1.47%) R
10 2 (1.47%) X++
11 1 (0.74%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.74%) Ruby
11 1 (0.74%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (12.50%) A+ Certification
5 16 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (11.76%) Master's Degree
6 15 (11.03%) CCNA
7 14 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (9.56%) MCSA
9 9 (6.62%) DV Cleared
9 9 (6.62%) PhD
10 8 (5.88%) HNC
10 8 (5.88%) HND
11 6 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (2.94%) ISACA
12 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (2.21%) ISTQB
13 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
13 3 (2.21%) PMP
13 3 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) QA
2 5 (3.68%) IEC 61508
2 5 (3.68%) NIST
3 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.94%) NCSC
3 4 (2.94%) SLA
4 3 (2.21%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.21%) PMO
5 2 (1.47%) COSHH
5 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) DO-254
6 1 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) GxP
6 1 (0.74%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (6.62%) Firmware
2 8 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.41%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.68%) Docker
5 3 (2.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.74%) GPFS
7 1 (0.74%) Lustre
7 1 (0.74%) NFS
7 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Ansible
1 5 (3.68%) Functional Safety
1 5 (3.68%) Nessus
1 5 (3.68%) SCCM
1 5 (3.68%) WSUS
2 4 (2.94%) Puppet
3 3 (2.21%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.47%) Grafana
4 2 (1.47%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.47%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.74%) Consul
5 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.74%) QRadar
5 1 (0.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.09%) EMC
3 8 (5.88%) Xilinx
4 7 (5.15%) Intel
4 7 (5.15%) Microsemi
4 7 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.41%) SAP
6 5 (3.68%) Tenable
7 3 (2.21%) HP
7 3 (2.21%) IBM
7 3 (2.21%) PTC
7 3 (2.21%) Siemens
7 3 (2.21%) VMware
8 2 (1.47%) Altera
8 2 (1.47%) Ariba
8 2 (1.47%) Cisco
8 2 (1.47%) Google
8 2 (1.47%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.74%) Actel