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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Degree 126 118 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 9.98% 7.37% 7.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.93% 25.88% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 66
10th Percentile £195 £170 £243
25th Percentile £375 £348 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £638
90th Percentile £680 £575 £756
England median daily rate £500 £513 £534
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.03% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 31 24
10th Percentile £21.53 £26.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £30.69 £28.79 £25.31
Median hourly rate £42.75 £59.50 £57.31
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +3.82% +63.75%
75th Percentile £77.19 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £97.50 £75.33
England median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £49.57
% change year-on-year -25.89% +15.69% +12.66%

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 421 456 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.33% 28.48% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 165 313
10th Percentile £195 £213 £273
25th Percentile £350 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £638 £615 £737
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 167 136
10th Percentile £16.30 £15.75 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.37 £43.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.40% +104.76% -
75th Percentile £66.88 £64.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.38 £75.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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
Cambridgeshire +2 36 £300 -33.33% 248
Bedfordshire +7 35 £580 +16.00% 49
Hertfordshire +15 34 £530 +53.62% 139
Essex 0 12 £391 +4.33% 112
Norfolk -8 5 - - 24
Suffolk -1 4 £550 - 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 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.97%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.38%) Confluence
5 2 (1.59%) MS Project Server
5 2 (1.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.79%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (11.90%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (10.32%) Simulink
3 12 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (6.35%) FrameMaker
5 6 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (1.59%) CANalyzer
7 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.59%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Maximo
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.79%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.05%) Azure
2 22 (17.46%) AWS
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.35%) Snowflake
5 6 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.97%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.97%) Serverless
7 4 (3.17%) GCP
8 3 (2.38%) dbt
9 2 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.59%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.11%) DNS
2 11 (8.73%) Ethernet
3 7 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (5.56%) DHCP
3 7 (5.56%) LAN
3 7 (5.56%) PuTTY
4 6 (4.76%) SpaceWire
5 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.17%) iSCSI
6 4 (3.17%) RS-232
6 4 (3.17%) SAN
7 3 (2.38%) Firewall
7 3 (2.38%) Wireless
8 2 (1.59%) Internet
8 2 (1.59%) Skype
8 2 (1.59%) WAN
8 2 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) Big Data
1 9 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.35%) Hadoop
2 8 (6.35%) Oracle Database
3 7 (5.56%) Power BI
4 6 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.76%) Tableau
5 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.38%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.59%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) JIRA
2 6 (4.76%) GitLab
3 5 (3.97%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.38%) CANoe
5 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.59%) Git
5 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 2 (1.59%) webpack
General
1 45 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.49%) Manufacturing
3 16 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.32%) Aerospace
4 13 (10.32%) Finance
5 12 (9.52%) Electronics
6 11 (8.73%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (7.94%) Military
8 8 (6.35%) Automotive
8 8 (6.35%) Games
8 8 (6.35%) Publishing
9 7 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (3.17%) Aviation
11 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.59%) Legal
12 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Retail
13 1 (0.79%) Back Office
13 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 15 (11.90%) Analyst
1 15 (11.90%) Security Engineer
2 10 (7.94%) Developer
2 10 (7.94%) Technical Support
3 9 (7.14%) Design Engineer
4 8 (6.35%) Author
4 8 (6.35%) Technical Author
5 7 (5.56%) Administrator
5 7 (5.56%) FPGA Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) Network Analyst
5 7 (5.56%) Senior
6 6 (4.76%) Architect
6 6 (4.76%) Data Science Developer
6 6 (4.76%) Lead
6 6 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 5 (3.97%) Data Analytics Specialist
7 5 (3.97%) Firmware Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Support Analyst
7 5 (3.97%) Technical Implementation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.14%) XML
2 8 (6.35%) SGML
3 6 (4.76%) Matplotlib
3 6 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 6 (4.76%) scikit-learn
3 6 (4.76%) Seaborn
3 6 (4.76%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.97%) NumPy
4 5 (3.97%) Pandas
5 4 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.59%) Celery
6 2 (1.59%) D3.js
6 2 (1.59%) Django
6 2 (1.59%) JSON
6 2 (1.59%) React
6 2 (1.59%) Sass
6 2 (1.59%) Vue
6 2 (1.59%) Web Services
7 1 (0.79%) IDoc
7 1 (0.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.90%) Algorithms
2 12 (9.52%) FPGA
3 11 (8.73%) Verilog
4 10 (7.94%) Management Information System
5 9 (7.14%) PCIe
6 8 (6.35%) Life Science
7 5 (3.97%) CMDB
7 5 (3.97%) NHS
7 5 (3.97%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.17%) CAN bus
8 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
8 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.38%) PMI
9 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.38%) VHDL
10 2 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.59%) IoT
10 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.59%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.87%) Windows
2 12 (9.52%) Linux
3 8 (6.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.17%) CentOS
4 4 (3.17%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 26 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (11.90%) Machine Learning
5 13 (10.32%) Agile
5 13 (10.32%) Analytics
5 13 (10.32%) Project Management
6 11 (8.73%) GAP Analysis
6 11 (8.73%) ITSM
6 11 (8.73%) UVM
7 10 (7.94%) Data Science
7 10 (7.94%) Inventory Management
7 10 (7.94%) Visualisation
8 9 (7.14%) Data Modelling
8 9 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 9 (7.14%) Physics
8 9 (7.14%) Software Engineering
9 8 (6.35%) Cryptography
9 8 (6.35%) PRINCE2
9 8 (6.35%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.81%) Python
2 14 (11.11%) MATLAB
3 11 (8.73%) SystemVerilog
3 11 (8.73%) Tcl
4 10 (7.94%) SQL
5 9 (7.14%) Java
6 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.76%) R
8 5 (3.97%) Bash
8 5 (3.97%) C
8 5 (3.97%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.38%) VBA
11 2 (1.59%) Perl
12 1 (0.79%) Scala
12 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (17.46%) HNC
4 22 (17.46%) HND
5 16 (12.70%) Master's Degree
6 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (7.14%) PhD
8 8 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (5.56%) CCNA
9 7 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (4.76%) CISSP
11 5 (3.97%) MCP
11 5 (3.97%) MCSE
11 5 (3.97%) PMI Certification
12 3 (2.38%) DBS Check
12 3 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (1.59%) CCNP
13 2 (1.59%) CISM
13 2 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.11%) NIST
2 11 (8.73%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.35%) DO-254
3 8 (6.35%) GDPR
3 8 (6.35%) JSP 440
3 8 (6.35%) NCSC
4 7 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.56%) NIST 800
5 6 (4.76%) HIPAA
6 5 (3.97%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.97%) PMO
7 3 (2.38%) SLA
8 1 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.79%) GxP
8 1 (0.79%) HL7
8 1 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.79%) ITGC
8 1 (0.79%) QA
8 1 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) Firmware
2 13 (10.32%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Ansible
2 4 (3.17%) Terraform
3 2 (1.59%) Nessus
3 2 (1.59%) SCCM
3 2 (1.59%) WSUS
4 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 34 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.32%) Oracle
3 11 (8.73%) SAP
4 10 (7.94%) Intel
4 10 (7.94%) Microsemi
4 10 (7.94%) ServiceNow
4 10 (7.94%) Xilinx
5 8 (6.35%) Actel
5 8 (6.35%) Altera
6 7 (5.56%) Cisco
7 6 (4.76%) Ariba
8 5 (3.97%) Citrix
8 5 (3.97%) VMware
9 4 (3.17%) Twitter
10 3 (2.38%) Anaplan
10 3 (2.38%) Google
10 3 (2.38%) Hyperion
10 3 (2.38%) IBM
10 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.38%) StreamSets