Degree Contracts in the East Midlands

Academic Degree
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 21 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 82 71 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.10% 7.13% 5.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.80% 25.09% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 55
10th Percentile £167 £293 £169
25th Percentile £200 £400 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +12.94% +14.86%
75th Percentile £400 £675 £488
90th Percentile £520 £710 £500
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.86% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £23.24 £19.98 £14.41
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.45 £16.36
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.37 £20.58
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +18.40% +11.26%
75th Percentile £42.50 £33.61 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.00 £46.44 £24.43
England median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% +35.71% -7.04%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 250 283 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.79% 28.41% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 211 175
10th Percentile £172 £313 £183
25th Percentile £254 £405 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +25.00% +13.13%
75th Percentile £564 £638 £500
90th Percentile £670 £715 £623
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £9.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.29 £11.80 £17.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.67 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% +0.79% +11.69%
75th Percentile £38.31 £47.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £36.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the East Midlands

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Derbyshire +11 25 £223 -53.65% 53
Nottinghamshire +20 20 £494 +121.41% 58
Leicestershire +14 15 £256 -44.73% 83
Northamptonshire -5 13 £400 -9.09% 101
Lincolnshire -1 5 £487 -25.08% 42
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (42.68%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (14.63%) Chatbot
3 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.44%) CATIA
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.22%) InVision
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.22%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.54%) Azure
2 6 (7.32%) AWS
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.44%) Google Workspace
4 2 (2.44%) IaaS
4 2 (2.44%) PaaS
4 2 (2.44%) SaaS
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.22%) Figma
5 1 (1.22%) GCP
5 1 (1.22%) OCI
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) WAN
2 3 (3.66%) DHCP
2 3 (3.66%) DNS
2 3 (3.66%) LAN
3 2 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.44%) Ethereal
3 2 (2.44%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.44%) Firewall
3 2 (2.44%) VPN
3 2 (2.44%) Wireless
3 2 (2.44%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.22%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.22%) SAN
4 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.66%) Power BI
3 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.22%) Big Data
3 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.22%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 47 (57.32%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.32%) Finance
4 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.66%) Banking
5 3 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.22%) Automotive
7 1 (1.22%) Back Office
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Local Government
7 1 (1.22%) Marketing
7 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (18.29%) Developer
2 14 (17.07%) Software Developer
3 12 (14.63%) Test Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Lead
5 7 (8.54%) Analyst
5 7 (8.54%) Team Leader
6 6 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 5 (6.10%) DBA
7 5 (6.10%) Designer
7 5 (6.10%) Quality Inspector
8 4 (4.88%) SQL DBA
9 3 (3.66%) Architect
9 3 (3.66%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.66%) Senior
9 3 (3.66%) SQL Server DBA
10 2 (2.44%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Network Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Power BI Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Senior Manager
10 2 (2.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) HTML
2 2 (2.44%) .NET
2 2 (2.44%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.44%) CSS
2 2 (2.44%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.44%) jQuery
2 2 (2.44%) React
2 2 (2.44%) RESTful
3 1 (1.22%) Kafka
3 1 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (41.46%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (8.54%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.22%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.22%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
1 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.24%) Time Management
2 32 (39.02%) Conflict Management
3 14 (17.07%) Software Engineering
4 13 (15.85%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (15.85%) Code Quality
5 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
5 12 (14.63%) Conversational UI
6 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.76%) Mentoring
7 8 (9.76%) Project Management
8 7 (8.54%) Data Modelling
9 6 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (6.10%) Analytics
10 5 (6.10%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (6.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (6.10%) High Availability
11 4 (4.88%) PRINCE2
11 4 (4.88%) Vulnerability Management
12 3 (3.66%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) SQL
2 16 (19.51%) Python
3 15 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 14 (17.07%) C#
5 1 (1.22%) C
5 1 (1.22%) C++
5 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.22%) Java
5 1 (1.22%) R
5 1 (1.22%) Rust
5 1 (1.22%) Scala
5 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (34.15%) NVQ Level 3
2 7 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.10%) MCITP
4 5 (6.10%) MCTS
5 4 (4.88%) HNC
5 4 (4.88%) HND
6 3 (3.66%) APMP
6 3 (3.66%) ISEB
7 2 (2.44%) CBAP
7 2 (2.44%) CCNA
7 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.44%) CISSP
7 2 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.44%) PMP
7 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.44%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) NIST
3 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) OpenView
2 1 (1.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.63%) PayPal
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle
4 3 (3.66%) Google
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco
5 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Adobe
6 1 (1.22%) Citrix
6 1 (1.22%) Sage
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.22%) VMware