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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 142 127 119
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.48% 10.07% 7.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.15% 30.75% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 38 31
10th Percentile £153 £188 £225
25th Percentile £179 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £520 £579 £575
90th Percentile £643 £640 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 30
10th Percentile £15.00 £21.21 £25.65
25th Percentile £20.75 £29.00 £27.83
Median hourly rate £32.36 £42.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% -28.57% +3.82%
75th Percentile £71.25 £76.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.00 £86.25
England median hourly rate £49.25 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +15.88% -25.89% +9.24%

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 543 413 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 24.77% 32.75% 28.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 157 168
10th Percentile £169 £195 £218
25th Percentile £406 £340 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +5.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £638 £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 139 173
10th Percentile £17.18 £16.25 £15.55
25th Percentile £22.67 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £59.50 £32.74 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.76% -23.87% +104.76%
75th Percentile £74.25 £66.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.73 £84.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £54.25 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +115.71% -45.54% -16.04%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +4 57 £265 -47.52% 86
Cambridgeshire +5 36 £296 +48.13% 196
Bedfordshire +1 31 £533 -8.19% 32
Suffolk -8 8 £450 -18.18% 14
Norfolk -10 6 £725 - 18
Essex -27 4 £289 -26.26% 57
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 (4.93%) Confluence
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.11%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (4.23%) Simulink
4 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.70%) Weka
7 1 (0.70%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (5.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.41%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.90%) Azure
2 14 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.63%) AWS
3 8 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.23%) Cohesity
4 6 (4.23%) Miro
4 6 (4.23%) Power Automate
5 5 (3.52%) GCP
6 4 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.11%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.11%) Serverless
8 2 (1.41%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.41%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.68%) TCP/IP
2 13 (9.15%) Ethernet
3 10 (7.04%) DNS
4 7 (4.93%) Skype
5 6 (4.23%) VPN
6 4 (2.82%) Firewall
6 4 (2.82%) LAN
6 4 (2.82%) RS-232
6 4 (2.82%) Wireless
7 3 (2.11%) 5G
7 3 (2.11%) HTTP
7 3 (2.11%) RS-485
7 3 (2.11%) SSH
8 2 (1.41%) 4G
8 2 (1.41%) Network Security
8 2 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.41%) WAN
9 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.70%) Modbus
9 1 (0.70%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.52%) Metadata
1 5 (3.52%) Power BI
2 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.82%) MySQL
3 3 (2.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.11%) Power Query
3 3 (2.11%) Redis
4 2 (1.41%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.41%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) Big Data
5 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) DTS
5 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Git
2 8 (5.63%) JIRA
3 5 (3.52%) GitLab
3 5 (3.52%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.41%) Selenium
6 1 (0.70%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.70%) MSTest
6 1 (0.70%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (43.66%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.38%) Telecoms
3 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.27%) Finance
5 15 (10.56%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (7.75%) Manufacturing
8 10 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (6.34%) Aerospace
9 9 (6.34%) Electronics
10 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.11%) Law
11 3 (2.11%) Military
11 3 (2.11%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.41%) Automotive
13 1 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.70%) Publishing
13 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (14.08%) Systems Engineer
2 16 (11.27%) Technical Support
3 15 (10.56%) Analyst
4 13 (9.15%) Technical Engineer
5 12 (8.45%) Support Specialist
5 12 (8.45%) Technical Specialist
5 12 (8.45%) Technical Support Specialist
6 11 (7.75%) Lead
6 11 (7.75%) Project Manager
7 9 (6.34%) Developer
8 8 (5.63%) Architect
9 7 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Senior
10 6 (4.23%) Design Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) FPGA Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) FPGA Design Engineer
12 4 (2.82%) Junior
12 4 (2.82%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.82%) Technical Analyst
13 3 (2.11%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.15%) ONVIF
2 5 (3.52%) .NET
2 5 (3.52%) RESTful
3 4 (2.82%) FastAPI
3 4 (2.82%) REST
4 3 (2.11%) CSS
4 3 (2.11%) Flask
4 3 (2.11%) HTML
4 3 (2.11%) Jinja
4 3 (2.11%) Pandas
5 2 (1.41%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.41%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.41%) Kafka
5 2 (1.41%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 2 (1.41%) Middleware
5 2 (1.41%) pytest
5 2 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.41%) WCF
5 2 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) Robotics
2 13 (9.15%) Video\Live Streaming
3 12 (8.45%) Industry 4.0
4 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.93%) FPGA
5 7 (4.93%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.23%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.23%) Smartcard
6 6 (4.23%) VHDL
6 6 (4.23%) YubiKey
7 5 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.52%) Verilog
8 4 (2.82%) Operational Technology
9 3 (2.11%) Acoustics
9 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.11%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.11%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.86%) Windows
2 10 (7.04%) Linux
3 9 (6.34%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.11%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) AIX
5 1 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.44%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (23.24%) Computer Science
3 31 (21.83%) Agile
4 24 (16.90%) DevOps
5 20 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (13.38%) Decision-Making
7 18 (12.68%) Customer Service
8 16 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (10.56%) CRM
9 15 (10.56%) Project Management
9 15 (10.56%) Software Engineering
9 15 (10.56%) Validation
10 14 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (9.15%) Scrum
11 13 (9.15%) Time Management
12 12 (8.45%) Creative Thinking
12 12 (8.45%) Fault Analysis
12 12 (8.45%) ITIL
12 12 (8.45%) Mechatronics
12 12 (8.45%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.01%) Python
2 16 (11.27%) SQL
3 8 (5.63%) Bash
3 8 (5.63%) C
4 6 (4.23%) C#
4 6 (4.23%) SystemVerilog
5 4 (2.82%) C++
5 4 (2.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.11%) Java
6 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.41%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.41%) X++
7 2 (1.41%) XAML
8 1 (0.70%) Perl
8 1 (0.70%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (14.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (13.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (13.38%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.97%) A+ Certification
4 16 (11.27%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (10.56%) CCNA
6 13 (9.15%) MCSA
6 13 (9.15%) SC Cleared
7 10 (7.04%) Master's Degree
8 7 (4.93%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (3.52%) PhD
10 4 (2.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 3 (2.11%) ACCA
11 3 (2.11%) CISSP
11 3 (2.11%) HNC
11 3 (2.11%) HND
11 3 (2.11%) MCSE
11 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
11 3 (2.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) PMO
2 4 (2.82%) SLA
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) GxP
4 1 (0.70%) ISA99
4 1 (0.70%) NCSC
4 1 (0.70%) NEBOSH
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.93%) Firmware
3 6 (4.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.82%) Docker
5 3 (2.11%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.70%) GPFS
7 1 (0.70%) Lustre
7 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.23%) Nessus
1 6 (4.23%) SCCM
1 6 (4.23%) WSUS
2 5 (3.52%) Ansible
3 4 (2.82%) Puppet
3 4 (2.82%) Terraform
4 2 (1.41%) Grafana
4 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Consul
5 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.70%) Salt
5 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.86%) Siemens
3 11 (7.75%) SAP
4 7 (4.93%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.93%) Xilinx
5 6 (4.23%) Intel
5 6 (4.23%) Microsemi
5 6 (4.23%) Tenable
6 4 (2.82%) Ariba
6 4 (2.82%) EMC
7 3 (2.11%) VMware
8 2 (1.41%) Cadence
8 2 (1.41%) Cisco
8 2 (1.41%) Oracle
8 2 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.70%) IFS
9 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.70%) Pega