Degree Contracts in the East of England

Academic Degree
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 186 175 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 9.76% 8.61% 9.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.69% 23.40% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 70 126
10th Percentile £320 £225 £201
25th Percentile £400 £380 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £428
Median % change year-on-year - +16.82% -4.89%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £538
90th Percentile £675 £750 £600
England median daily rate £511 £543 £520
% change year-on-year -5.87% +4.42% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 30 45
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.95 £57.06 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.74% +178.35% -35.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.53 £49.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £37.13
% change year-on-year -11.11% +21.21% -1.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 587 748 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.81% 36.79% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 368 365
10th Percentile £207 £224 £213
25th Percentile £348 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +6.15%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £563
90th Percentile £725 £738 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 194 204
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +7.69% -44.29%
75th Percentile £43.19 £63.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
% change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 74 £410 -13.68% 284
Hertfordshire -11 45 £488 -30.36% 185
Essex +7 36 £574 +14.70% 102
Bedfordshire +2 22 £550 +22.22% 58
Suffolk +14 5 £675 +86.21% 44
Norfolk +6 4 £208 -4.26% 60
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 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.61%) IIS
4 2 (1.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) Luigi
5 1 (0.54%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 23 (12.37%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (11.83%) Simulink
3 17 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (4.30%) Photoshop
6 5 (2.69%) Stateflow
7 3 (1.61%) Chatbot
7 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.15%) SAP SD
3 3 (1.61%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.08%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.08%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (1.08%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.08%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.54%) Magento
5 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.54%) Primavera
5 1 (0.54%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (5.38%) GCP
3 8 (4.30%) Azure
4 6 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.69%) AWS
6 2 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.54%) CloudFront
7 1 (0.54%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.15%) Internet
1 4 (2.15%) Wireless
2 3 (1.61%) LAN
2 3 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (1.61%) WAN
3 2 (1.08%) Firewall
3 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.54%) DVB
4 1 (0.54%) InfiniBand
4 1 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.54%) RS-485
4 1 (0.54%) RTMP
4 1 (0.54%) RTP
4 1 (0.54%) RTSP
4 1 (0.54%) VoIP
4 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.61%) SQL Server
1 3 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.08%) Big Data
2 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
2 2 (1.08%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.08%) MySQL
2 2 (1.08%) Power BI
2 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.08%) Tableau
3 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.54%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.54%) MS Access
3 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.30%) Git
2 6 (3.23%) Mercurial
3 2 (1.08%) JIRA
3 2 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.08%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (0.54%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.54%) CMake
General
1 74 (39.78%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.82%) Finance
3 26 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.37%) Manufacturing
4 23 (12.37%) Pharmaceutical
5 19 (10.22%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.84%) Banking
7 8 (4.30%) Electronics
7 8 (4.30%) Mandarin Language
7 8 (4.30%) Marketing
7 8 (4.30%) Military
7 8 (4.30%) Multimedia
8 7 (3.76%) Law
8 7 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.23%) Automotive
9 6 (3.23%) French Language
9 6 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.69%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.15%) Advertising
11 4 (2.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (19.89%) Analyst
2 22 (11.83%) Architect
3 17 (9.14%) FPGA Engineer
4 16 (8.60%) Design Engineer
4 16 (8.60%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 15 (8.06%) Senior
6 14 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.99%) Business Analyst
8 12 (6.45%) Service Analyst
8 12 (6.45%) Service Desk Analyst
9 10 (5.38%) Software Architect
10 9 (4.84%) Lead
10 9 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (4.84%) Technical Services Analyst
11 8 (4.30%) Consultant
11 8 (4.30%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.76%) Developer
12 7 (3.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.38%) DirectX
1 10 (5.38%) OpenGL
1 10 (5.38%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (5.38%) React
1 10 (5.38%) Vulkan
2 8 (4.30%) NumPy
3 7 (3.76%) Pandas
4 6 (3.23%) SciPy
5 5 (2.69%) CSS
5 5 (2.69%) HTML
6 3 (1.61%) .NET
6 3 (1.61%) RESTful
7 2 (1.08%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.08%) GStreamer
8 1 (0.54%) FFmpeg
8 1 (0.54%) Flask
8 1 (0.54%) Node.js
8 1 (0.54%) PySpark
8 1 (0.54%) Redux
8 1 (0.54%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.68%) FPGA
2 17 (9.14%) Verilog
2 17 (9.14%) VHDL
3 13 (6.99%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.45%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.38%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (5.38%) Ray Tracing
6 7 (3.76%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.69%) Social Media
9 4 (2.15%) Clustering
9 4 (2.15%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.61%) Analogue Electronics
10 3 (1.61%) CMDB
10 3 (1.61%) NHS
10 3 (1.61%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.52%) Windows
2 5 (2.69%) Linux
3 3 (1.61%) Windows 7
3 3 (1.61%) Windows 8
3 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) Unix
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) CentOS
5 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (23.66%) Computer Science
3 28 (15.05%) Signal Processing
4 23 (12.37%) Software Engineering
5 21 (11.29%) Project Management
5 21 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (10.75%) Agile
6 20 (10.75%) ITIL
7 17 (9.14%) FPGA Design
7 17 (9.14%) UVM
7 17 (9.14%) Validation
8 15 (8.06%) Customer Service
8 15 (8.06%) Data Science
8 15 (8.06%) Roadmaps
9 14 (7.53%) Software Architecture
10 13 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (6.99%) Business Analysis
10 13 (6.99%) Migration
11 12 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (6.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.74%) C
2 20 (10.75%) Python
3 17 (9.14%) SystemVerilog
4 15 (8.06%) Java
5 13 (6.99%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.45%) C++
6 12 (6.45%) MATLAB
7 11 (5.91%) C#
8 8 (4.30%) SQL
9 4 (2.15%) R
9 4 (2.15%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.08%) Fortran
10 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.08%) VB
11 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (17.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 28 (15.05%) Master's Degree
3 17 (9.14%) CCNA
3 17 (9.14%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (6.99%) PhD
5 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.84%) MCP
7 7 (3.76%) IIBA
7 7 (3.76%) MCSA
8 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.23%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.15%) CCNP
9 4 (2.15%) HNC
9 4 (2.15%) HND
9 4 (2.15%) MCSE
10 3 (1.61%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.61%) CISSP
10 3 (1.61%) ECDL
10 3 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) GDPR
2 7 (3.76%) Good Clinical Practice
2 7 (3.76%) GxP
3 5 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.15%) PMO
4 4 (2.15%) SLA
5 3 (1.61%) NIST
6 2 (1.08%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.54%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.54%) NCSC
7 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 17 (9.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.15%) Firmware
3 3 (1.61%) Docker
4 1 (0.54%) KVM
4 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (4.84%) SCCM
2 3 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.08%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.14%) Intel
2 17 (9.14%) Microsemi
2 17 (9.14%) Xilinx
3 14 (7.53%) SAP
4 8 (4.30%) Citrix
5 7 (3.76%) Google
6 5 (2.69%) MathWorks
7 3 (1.61%) Ariba
7 3 (1.61%) Genesys
7 3 (1.61%) Keysight
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco
8 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.08%) Siemens
9 1 (0.54%) Adobe
9 1 (0.54%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle
9 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.54%) Talend