Degree Contracts in the West Midlands

Academic Degree
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 27 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Degree 159 173 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.26% 7.27% 4.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.24% 27.07% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 93 105
10th Percentile £243 £250 £301
25th Percentile £372 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £623 £550 £619
90th Percentile £688 £635 £700
England median daily rate £512 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 8
10th Percentile £22.33 £10.97 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.50 £12.00 £12.81
Median hourly rate £39.92 £18.50 £15.64
Median % change year-on-year +115.78% +18.29% +0.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £35.08 £20.51
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 £22.23
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -5.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 630 639 709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.73% 26.85% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 395 493
10th Percentile £263 £308 £297
25th Percentile £358 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% +14.20%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 26 16
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £13.41 £13.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £18.02
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +5.47% +12.59%
75th Percentile £49.38 £25.64 £20.13
90th Percentile £58.75 £61.75 £21.38
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the West Midlands

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham +17 63 £450 +9.09% 145
Warwickshire -2 34 £463 -11.90% 79
Worcestershire +12 9 £525 +26.51% 50
Solihull -7 8 £775 +47.62% 15
Coventry +8 7 £550 +109.52% 53
Staffordshire +7 7 £800 +68.42% 66
Shropshire +18 2 £117 -78.33% 15
Wolverhampton +4 1 - - 24
Herefordshire -8 1 £400 -39.62% 9
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Chatbot
2 13 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (4.40%) MS Visio
5 7 (4.40%) Simulink
6 6 (3.77%) Stateflow
7 5 (3.14%) TargetLink
8 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (1.89%) Photoshop
9 2 (1.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (1.26%) Maya
9 2 (1.26%) NUKE
10 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.63%) InDesign
10 1 (0.63%) Sketch
10 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.26%) Primavera
3 1 (0.63%) Odoo
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.35%) Azure
2 10 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (5.03%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.14%) SaaS
5 4 (2.52%) IaaS
5 4 (2.52%) PaaS
6 3 (1.89%) Azure Functions
6 3 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.89%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.89%) Serverless
7 2 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.26%) AWS
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.26%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.81%) Firewall
2 8 (5.03%) LAN
2 8 (5.03%) WAN
3 7 (4.40%) VPN
4 6 (3.77%) Network Security
5 5 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (2.52%) DHCP
6 4 (2.52%) DNS
6 4 (2.52%) VoIP
7 3 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.89%) Ethereal
7 3 (1.89%) Ethernet
7 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.89%) VLAN
7 3 (1.89%) Wireless
7 3 (1.89%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.26%) Broadband
8 2 (1.26%) SAN
8 2 (1.26%) Skype
9 1 (0.63%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.77%) Data Mining
2 5 (3.14%) Power BI
3 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.89%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.63%) Flink
5 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.29%) Git
2 7 (4.40%) JIRA
3 5 (3.14%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.14%) Subversion
4 4 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.26%) GitLab
6 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.63%) NUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 46 (28.93%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.81%) Finance
4 11 (6.92%) Automotive
5 8 (5.03%) German Language
6 6 (3.77%) Legal
6 6 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.52%) Law
8 4 (2.52%) Marketing
8 4 (2.52%) Retail
8 4 (2.52%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.89%) Electronics
9 3 (1.89%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.26%) Games
10 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (20.75%) Developer
2 24 (15.09%) Software Developer
3 16 (10.06%) Analyst
4 15 (9.43%) Architect
5 11 (6.92%) Lead
6 10 (6.29%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (4.40%) Senior
7 7 (4.40%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.77%) Data Architect
8 6 (3.77%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.77%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.14%) Control Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Network Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) SOC Engineer
10 4 (2.52%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.52%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) HTML
2 6 (3.77%) Spring
3 5 (3.14%) Middleware
4 3 (1.89%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.89%) React
4 3 (1.89%) SAP Business Workflow
5 2 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.26%) Kafka
5 2 (1.26%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (1.26%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.63%) .NET
6 1 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.63%) CSS
6 1 (0.63%) Dask
6 1 (0.63%) Guice
6 1 (0.63%) Keras
6 1 (0.63%) PySpark
6 1 (0.63%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.63%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.58%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.81%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.55%) Data Centre
4 11 (6.92%) Algorithms
5 10 (6.29%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (5.66%) Security Posture
7 8 (5.03%) Virtual Team
8 6 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.77%) SCADA
9 5 (3.14%) Industry 4.0
9 5 (3.14%) IoT
10 4 (2.52%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.52%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.89%) Clustering
11 3 (1.89%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.26%) CCTV
12 2 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.18%) Windows
2 7 (4.40%) Unix
3 6 (3.77%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.14%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (44.03%) Computer Science
2 52 (32.70%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (19.50%) Agile
4 28 (17.61%) Artificial Intelligence
5 27 (16.98%) Software Engineering
6 25 (15.72%) Code Quality
7 24 (15.09%) Conversational UI
8 19 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (11.32%) Decision-Making
9 18 (11.32%) Project Management
10 17 (10.69%) Analytics
11 16 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (9.43%) DevOps
13 13 (8.18%) Migration
14 12 (7.55%) Analytical Thinking
14 12 (7.55%) Incident Response
14 12 (7.55%) Security Operations
14 12 (7.55%) SIEM
15 11 (6.92%) ITIL
16 10 (6.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.47%) SQL
2 20 (12.58%) Python
3 14 (8.81%) C#
3 14 (8.81%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.66%) MATLAB
5 7 (4.40%) Java
5 7 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (3.14%) C
8 2 (1.26%) C++
8 2 (1.26%) Perl
9 1 (0.63%) PHP
9 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (28.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 23 (14.47%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.43%) Master's Degree
5 14 (8.81%) CISSP
6 10 (6.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (5.66%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.77%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.14%) CCNA
9 5 (3.14%) PMI Certification
9 5 (3.14%) PMP
10 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.89%) APMP
11 3 (1.89%) CEH
11 3 (1.89%) PhD
11 3 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.26%) CCNP
12 2 (1.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) QA
2 5 (3.14%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.14%) ISO 26262
2 5 (3.14%) MISRA
2 5 (3.14%) MISRA C
3 3 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.89%) GRC
3 3 (1.89%) ITGC
4 2 (1.26%) NIST
4 2 (1.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 10 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.26%) Docker
5 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (3.14%) SCCM
2 3 (1.89%) Autotask
2 3 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) OpenView
2 3 (1.89%) SysTrack
3 2 (1.26%) Kibana
3 2 (1.26%) logstash
3 2 (1.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.09%) PayPal
3 17 (10.69%) SAP
4 8 (5.03%) Oracle
5 6 (3.77%) VMware
6 5 (3.14%) Apple
6 5 (3.14%) BMC
6 5 (3.14%) Cisco
7 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.52%) Splunk
8 3 (1.89%) Citrix
8 3 (1.89%) Datto
8 3 (1.89%) Google
8 3 (1.89%) New Relic
8 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.26%) Adobe
9 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.63%) Confluent
10 1 (0.63%) IBM
10 1 (0.63%) Informatica