Degree Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 110 189 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 11.73% 9.90% 8.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.38% 31.76% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 78 72
10th Percentile £195 £335 £223
25th Percentile £386 £401 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £579 £650
90th Percentile - £675 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £542
% change year-on-year +1.46% -5.36% +4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 61 30
10th Percentile £27.09 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £31.13 £22.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £38.95 £57.06
Median % change year-on-year +89.35% -31.74% +178.35%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.70 £85.00 £65.53
England median hourly rate £53.50 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.75% -11.11% +24.45%

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 320 595 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.12% 31.17% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 224 380
10th Percentile £189 £206 £222
25th Percentile £231 £349 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £721 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 220 195
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the East of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the East of England

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +22 44 £650 +33.33% 179
Bedfordshire +1 22 £580 +5.45% 109
Cambridgeshire -16 21 £200 -52.94% 367
Suffolk +2 14 £497 -26.37% 48
Essex -10 8 - - 138
Norfolk +1 1 £115 -44.71% 43
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.73%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.91%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (19.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (15.45%) Simulink
3 9 (8.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (6.36%) Chatbot
5 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (1.82%) CANalyzer
6 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.82%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.91%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.00%) Azure
2 16 (14.55%) AWS
3 12 (10.91%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.55%) GCP
5 4 (3.64%) Power Automate
5 4 (3.64%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.82%) Cohesity
8 1 (0.91%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.91%) GitHub
8 1 (0.91%) OCI
8 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.73%) SpaceWire
3 2 (1.82%) DNS
3 2 (1.82%) Skype
4 1 (0.91%) Firewall
4 1 (0.91%) Internet
4 1 (0.91%) RS-232
4 1 (0.91%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) Hadoop
2 13 (11.82%) Big Data
2 13 (11.82%) Tableau
3 12 (10.91%) Power BI
4 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.55%) Metadata
5 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.64%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.82%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.82%) MS Access
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.82%) Text Mining
7 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.91%) QlikView
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.91%) CANoe
3 1 (0.91%) Git
3 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Finance
4 10 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (7.27%) Automotive
6 7 (6.36%) Electronics
6 7 (6.36%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.55%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.73%) Games
9 3 (2.73%) Japanese Language
9 3 (2.73%) Legal
9 3 (2.73%) Local Government
9 3 (2.73%) Military
9 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.82%) Police
11 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (20.00%) Developer
2 15 (13.64%) FPGA Engineer
3 14 (12.73%) Senior
4 13 (11.82%) Design Engineer
4 13 (11.82%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 12 (10.91%) Data Science Developer
6 10 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Architect
8 8 (7.27%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.45%) Trainer
10 5 (4.55%) Analyst
10 5 (4.55%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.64%) Implementation Manager
11 4 (3.64%) Support Manager
11 4 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Technical Implementation Manager
11 4 (3.64%) Technical Manager
11 4 (3.64%) Technical Support
11 4 (3.64%) Technical Support Manager
11 4 (3.64%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.91%) Matplotlib
1 12 (10.91%) NumPy
1 12 (10.91%) Pandas
1 12 (10.91%) PyTorch
1 12 (10.91%) scikit-learn
1 12 (10.91%) Seaborn
1 12 (10.91%) TensorFlow
2 6 (5.45%) HTML
3 4 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.82%) Kafka
5 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.91%) JTAPI
5 1 (0.91%) PySpark
5 1 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Algorithms
1 16 (14.55%) FPGA
1 16 (14.55%) Verilog
2 13 (11.82%) VHDL
3 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.45%) CMDB
4 6 (5.45%) Life Science
5 5 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.64%) e-Learning
6 4 (3.64%) Learning Management System
6 4 (3.64%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.73%) PCIe
8 2 (1.82%) Analogue Electronics
8 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.82%) FMCG
8 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.82%) Smartcard
8 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.82%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Windows
2 6 (5.45%) Linux
3 3 (2.73%) Unix
3 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.82%) Android
4 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.55%) Computer Science
2 21 (19.09%) Artificial Intelligence
2 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (18.18%) Analytics
4 19 (17.27%) Visualisation
5 18 (16.36%) Data Science
6 16 (14.55%) Agile
6 16 (14.55%) Decision-Making
6 16 (14.55%) UVM
7 15 (13.64%) Data Analysis
7 15 (13.64%) Machine Learning
8 14 (12.73%) Project Management
9 13 (11.82%) FPGA Design
10 12 (10.91%) Data Analytics
10 12 (10.91%) Data Munging
10 12 (10.91%) Feature Engineering
10 12 (10.91%) Generative AI
10 12 (10.91%) LLM
10 12 (10.91%) Reinforcement Learning
10 12 (10.91%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.00%) Python
2 19 (17.27%) SQL
3 16 (14.55%) C
3 16 (14.55%) SystemVerilog
4 12 (10.91%) Java
4 12 (10.91%) R
5 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.36%) MATLAB
6 6 (5.45%) C#
6 6 (5.45%) C++
6 6 (5.45%) Tcl
7 5 (4.55%) Bash
8 3 (2.73%) VBA
9 2 (1.82%) Go
9 2 (1.82%) Perl
9 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.45%) Master's Degree
3 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 14 (12.73%) PhD
5 12 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (4.55%) PMI Certification
7 5 (4.55%) PMP
8 3 (2.73%) CISSP
8 3 (2.73%) HNC
8 3 (2.73%) HND
9 2 (1.82%) APMG
9 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.91%) CSPO
10 1 (0.91%) GCFE
10 1 (0.91%) GCIH
10 1 (0.91%) GREM
10 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.55%) DO-254
2 5 (4.55%) PMO
3 4 (3.64%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) DO-160
4 2 (1.82%) NIST
4 2 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.91%) ITGC
5 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.64%) Firmware
3 2 (1.82%) Docker
3 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.73%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) Ansible
2 2 (1.82%) logstash
2 2 (1.82%) Nessus
2 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.82%) SCCM
2 2 (1.82%) WSUS
3 1 (0.91%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 16 (14.55%) Intel
1 16 (14.55%) Microsemi
1 16 (14.55%) Xilinx
2 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.36%) SAP
4 6 (5.45%) Oracle
4 6 (5.45%) PayPal
5 5 (4.55%) Ariba
6 4 (3.64%) Google
7 3 (2.73%) Actel
7 3 (2.73%) Altera
7 3 (2.73%) EMC
8 2 (1.82%) Anaplan
8 2 (1.82%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.82%) IBM
8 2 (1.82%) IFS
8 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.82%) Tenable
9 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.91%) Verint