Degree Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Academic Degree
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 14 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Degree 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 11.11% 6.56% -
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 10.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £388 £444 -
25th Percentile £425 £445 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £449 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.63% - -
75th Percentile £625 £468 -
90th Percentile £633 £478 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +22.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 28 38 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 44.44% 62.30% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 3
10th Percentile £220 £291 £350
25th Percentile £363 £345 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +12.64%
75th Percentile £613 £485 £513
90th Percentile £638 £500 £550
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Degree job vacancy trend in Solihull

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Solihull over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Solihull

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Degree

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (14.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DKIM
1 1 (14.29%) DMARC
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) IMAP
1 1 (14.29%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (14.29%) SMTP
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
1 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Budgeting
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) DFS Replication
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Dovecot
1 1 (14.29%) Postfix
1 1 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Proxmox
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow