Degree Contracts in the Midlands

Academic Degree
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 22 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Degree 249 251 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.17% 7.47% 4.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.36% 26.67% 22.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 147 145
10th Percentile £188 £223 £188
25th Percentile £255 £388 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £575
90th Percentile £648 £680 £688
England median daily rate £510 £543 £520
% change year-on-year -6.08% +4.42% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 12
10th Percentile £22.33 £12.51 £13.23
25th Percentile £25.50 £16.25 £15.09
Median hourly rate £37.50 £16.83 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +122.82% -17.94% +28.19%
75th Percentile £56.25 £23.32 £23.59
90th Percentile £58.75 £43.77 £44.61
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -4.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 878 941 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.33% 28.02% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 598 662
10th Percentile £230 £255 £201
25th Percentile £325 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £550
90th Percentile £681 £699 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 67 35
10th Percentile £13.20 £10.94 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £13.51 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.74% -5.00% +20.19%
75th Percentile £42.50 £27.94 £24.63
90th Percentile £56.75 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +4.50%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +10 157 £488 +2.63% 588
East Midlands +9 91 £255 -46.32% 360
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.20%) Apache
2 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (19.28%) Chatbot
2 47 (18.88%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (3.61%) MS Visio
6 7 (2.81%) Simulink
7 6 (2.41%) Stateflow
8 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (2.01%) TargetLink
9 3 (1.20%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.80%) CATIA
10 2 (0.80%) Maya
10 2 (0.80%) NUKE
10 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.40%) InDesign
11 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Odoo
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.44%) Azure
2 10 (4.02%) Power Platform
3 9 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.81%) SaaS
5 6 (2.41%) AWS
5 6 (2.41%) IaaS
5 6 (2.41%) PaaS
6 5 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (2.01%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.61%) Serverless
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.20%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.80%) GCP
9 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.82%) Firewall
1 12 (4.82%) LAN
2 11 (4.42%) WAN
3 9 (3.61%) VPN
4 6 (2.41%) DHCP
4 6 (2.41%) DNS
4 6 (2.41%) Wireless
5 5 (2.01%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (2.01%) Ethereal
5 5 (2.01%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.01%) Wireshark
6 4 (1.61%) Network Security
6 4 (1.61%) VoIP
7 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.20%) VLAN
8 2 (0.80%) Broadband
8 2 (0.80%) SAN
8 2 (0.80%) Skype
9 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.21%) Power BI
2 6 (2.41%) Data Mining
2 6 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.20%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.80%) Big Data
6 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Git
2 6 (2.41%) JIRA
3 5 (2.01%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.01%) Subversion
4 3 (1.20%) GitLab
4 3 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.80%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) NUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 119 (47.79%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.43%) Finance
4 14 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.82%) Automotive
6 10 (4.02%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.21%) German Language
8 8 (3.21%) Legal
9 7 (2.81%) Electronics
10 6 (2.41%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.01%) Marketing
12 4 (1.61%) Banking
12 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.61%) Law
12 4 (1.61%) Retail
13 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (23.69%) Developer
2 48 (19.28%) Software Developer
3 20 (8.03%) Analyst
4 18 (7.23%) Lead
5 17 (6.83%) Architect
6 12 (4.82%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.82%) Test Engineer
7 10 (4.02%) Senior
7 10 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.61%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.21%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Business Analyst
10 7 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.81%) Team Leader
11 6 (2.41%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.41%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.41%) Designer
11 6 (2.41%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.01%) DBA
12 5 (2.01%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.04%) HTML
2 6 (2.41%) Spring
3 5 (2.01%) Middleware
4 4 (1.61%) Kafka
5 3 (1.20%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.20%) React
5 3 (1.20%) SAP Business Workflow
6 2 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.80%) Unreal Engine
6 2 (0.80%) V-Ray
7 1 (0.40%) Guice
7 1 (0.40%) Keras
7 1 (0.40%) NumPy
7 1 (0.40%) Pandas
7 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.40%) REST
7 1 (0.40%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.40%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.40%) Vue
7 1 (0.40%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.28%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (10.04%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.82%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.21%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.41%) SCADA
7 5 (2.01%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (2.01%) IoT
7 5 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.20%) Clustering
9 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.80%) CCTV
10 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.83%) Windows
2 9 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.81%) Unix
4 5 (2.01%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.01%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 59 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (21.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 51 (20.48%) Code Quality
5 48 (19.28%) Conversational UI
5 48 (19.28%) Software Engineering
6 37 (14.86%) Time Management
7 34 (13.65%) Agile
8 32 (12.85%) Conflict Management
9 27 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (8.84%) Project Management
11 20 (8.03%) Decision-Making
11 20 (8.03%) DevOps
12 16 (6.43%) Analytics
12 16 (6.43%) Validation
13 15 (6.02%) Migration
14 14 (5.62%) Analytical Thinking
14 14 (5.62%) Cybersecurity
15 13 (5.22%) Mentoring
16 12 (4.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (16.87%) SQL
2 38 (15.26%) Python
3 28 (11.24%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.44%) C#
5 10 (4.02%) Java
6 9 (3.61%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.81%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.41%) C
9 3 (1.20%) C++
9 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.20%) Scala
10 2 (0.80%) Perl
11 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.40%) PHP
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) Rust
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (20.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 28 (11.24%) NVQ Level 3
2 28 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.83%) Master's Degree
4 15 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.61%) CISSP
8 8 (3.21%) CCNA
9 7 (2.81%) PMI Certification
9 7 (2.81%) PMP
10 6 (2.41%) APMP
10 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.01%) HND
11 5 (2.01%) MCITP
11 5 (2.01%) MCTS
12 4 (1.61%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.62%) QA
2 5 (2.01%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (2.01%) ISO 26262
2 5 (2.01%) MISRA
2 5 (2.01%) MISRA C
3 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.20%) GRC
3 3 (1.20%) ITGC
3 3 (1.20%) NIST
3 3 (1.20%) SLA
4 2 (0.80%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.40%) P3O
System Software
1 14 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.20%) Docker
4 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.80%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.01%) OpenView
1 5 (2.01%) SCCM
2 4 (1.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.20%) Autotask
3 3 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.20%) SysTrack
4 2 (0.80%) Kibana
4 2 (0.80%) logstash
4 2 (0.80%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (19.28%) PayPal
2 41 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.63%) SAP
4 10 (4.02%) Oracle
5 7 (2.81%) Cisco
6 6 (2.41%) Google
6 6 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.41%) VMware
7 5 (2.01%) Apple
7 5 (2.01%) BMC
8 3 (1.20%) Citrix
8 3 (1.20%) Datto
8 3 (1.20%) New Relic
8 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.80%) Adobe
9 2 (0.80%) Confluent
9 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.80%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) Informatica