Degree Contracts in Worcestershire

Academic Degree
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Degree 10 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 15.38% 15.73% 15.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.22% 40.00% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 9
10th Percentile £478 £468 £456
25th Percentile £534 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £650
90th Percentile £591 - £658
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £499 £540
% change year-on-year -9.82% -7.59% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +278.38% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £38.50 £50.00 £23.35
% change year-on-year -23.00% +114.13% +66.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 45 35 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 69.23% 39.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 31 30
10th Percentile £524 £500 £413
25th Percentile £525 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +18.42%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £600
90th Percentile £720 £613 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £23.57 -
25th Percentile - £30.48 £17.75
Median hourly rate £82.00 £44.49 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.33% +140.46% -
75th Percentile - £60.99 £19.25
90th Percentile - £69.40 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £25.80
% change year-on-year -11.58% +31.51% +29.00%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Worcestershire

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Worcestershire

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Degree

Degree
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Malvern -6 4 £575 +4.55% 5
Worcester -2 1 £145 -73.64% 11
Degree
West Midlands

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Datadog
2 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) npm
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Gradle
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Snyk
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (10.00%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Decision-Making
3 7 (70.00%) User Experience
3 7 (70.00%) Workflow
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
5 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Usability Testing
5 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Bash
1 2 (20.00%) Go
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (20.00%) Puppet
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Podman
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Citrix
1 1 (10.00%) Nexthink
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk