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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 23 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +31 -26
Contract jobs citing Degree 146 165 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.51% 7.34% 4.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.81% 27.68% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 94 95
10th Percentile £263 £254 £302
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £617
90th Percentile £670 £688 £695
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.86% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 4
10th Percentile £22.33 £10.97 £11.40
25th Percentile £25.50 £12.00 £12.75
Median hourly rate £39.92 £18.50 £17.26
Median % change year-on-year +115.78% +7.22% +15.03%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.08 £20.51
90th Percentile - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £48.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.09% +37.84% -7.65%

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 640 596 734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.90% 26.50% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 357 510
10th Percentile £296 £313 £268
25th Percentile £363 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £630 £572
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 10
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.18
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.31 £13.13
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +13.04% +7.81%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.75 £20.38
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
Birmingham +12 47 £450 +12.50% 164
Warwickshire -7 38 £450 -14.29% 87
Worcestershire +10 12 £538 +15.59% 46
Staffordshire +12 10 £115 -75.79% 99
Coventry +10 8 £463 +68.18% 61
Solihull -3 8 £775 +47.62% 19
Shropshire -15 2 £117 -78.33% 23
Wolverhampton +4 1 - - 25
Herefordshire -12 1 £400 -39.62% 10
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 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
3 2 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Chatbot
1 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (4.79%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.79%) Simulink
3 6 (4.11%) Stateflow
4 5 (3.42%) TargetLink
5 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.74%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (2.05%) CANalyzer
6 3 (2.05%) Photoshop
7 2 (1.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.37%) Maya
7 2 (1.37%) NUKE
8 1 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.68%) InDesign
8 1 (0.68%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Odoo
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.07%) Azure
2 9 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.79%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.42%) OneDrive
4 5 (3.42%) SaaS
5 4 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (2.74%) IaaS
5 4 (2.74%) PaaS
6 3 (2.05%) AWS
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Functions
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.05%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.05%) Serverless
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.68%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.53%) Firewall
2 8 (5.48%) LAN
2 8 (5.48%) WAN
3 7 (4.79%) VPN
4 5 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.74%) DHCP
5 4 (2.74%) DNS
5 4 (2.74%) Ethernet
5 4 (2.74%) VoIP
5 4 (2.74%) Wireless
6 3 (2.05%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.05%) Ethereal
6 3 (2.05%) Network Security
6 3 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.05%) VLAN
6 3 (2.05%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.37%) Broadband
7 2 (1.37%) SAN
7 2 (1.37%) Skype
8 1 (0.68%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.42%) Data Mining
1 5 (3.42%) Power BI
2 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.05%) SAP BW
3 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.68%) Flink
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (6.85%) Git
2 7 (4.79%) JIRA
3 5 (3.42%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.42%) Subversion
4 4 (2.74%) GitLab
5 3 (2.05%) CANoe
6 2 (1.37%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.37%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.68%) NUnit
7 1 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (48.63%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.59%) Automotive
3 14 (9.59%) Finance
4 8 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.79%) German Language
5 7 (4.79%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Marketing
7 4 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Legal
7 4 (2.74%) Retail
8 3 (2.05%) Electronics
8 3 (2.05%) Law
8 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.37%) Games
9 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 22 (15.07%) Developer
2 16 (10.96%) Analyst
3 14 (9.59%) Architect
4 12 (8.22%) Software Developer
5 11 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.85%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Lead
8 7 (4.79%) Senior
8 7 (4.79%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.11%) Network Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.42%) Control Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) 2nd Line Support
11 4 (2.74%) Consultant
11 4 (2.74%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.59%) HTML
2 6 (4.11%) Spring
3 5 (3.42%) Middleware
4 3 (2.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.05%) Kafka
4 3 (2.05%) React
4 3 (2.05%) REST
4 3 (2.05%) SAP Business Workflow
5 2 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.37%) CSS
5 2 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.37%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (1.37%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.68%) .NET
6 1 (0.68%) BREW
6 1 (0.68%) Dask
6 1 (0.68%) PySpark
6 1 (0.68%) SOAP
6 1 (0.68%) Vue
6 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.01%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.90%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (8.22%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.16%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.79%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.42%) SCADA
7 4 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.74%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.74%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (2.74%) IoT
7 4 (2.74%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.05%) Clustering
8 3 (2.05%) Infotainment
9 2 (1.37%) CCTV
9 2 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.90%) Windows
2 7 (4.79%) Unix
3 5 (3.42%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.42%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (45.89%) Computer Science
2 42 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (23.29%) Agile
4 33 (22.60%) Software Engineering
5 25 (17.12%) Decision-Making
6 24 (16.44%) DevOps
7 18 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (10.96%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (10.27%) Migration
9 15 (10.27%) Project Management
10 14 (9.59%) Code Quality
11 13 (8.90%) Change Management
11 13 (8.90%) User Experience
12 12 (8.22%) Analytical Thinking
12 12 (8.22%) Conversational UI
12 12 (8.22%) Workflow
13 11 (7.53%) Analytics
13 11 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (6.85%) ITIL
14 10 (6.85%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.12%) SQL
2 22 (15.07%) Python
3 16 (10.96%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.59%) C#
5 8 (5.48%) Java
5 8 (5.48%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.79%) MATLAB
7 5 (3.42%) C
8 2 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.37%) Perl
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) R
9 1 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (31.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (13.01%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.96%) Master's Degree
4 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.48%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.11%) CCNA
7 6 (4.11%) CISSP
8 5 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.42%) PMI Certification
8 5 (3.42%) PMP
9 3 (2.05%) APMG
9 3 (2.05%) APMP
9 3 (2.05%) CEH
9 3 (2.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 3 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.37%) CCNP
10 2 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.22%) QA
2 5 (3.42%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.42%) ISO 26262
2 5 (3.42%) MISRA
2 5 (3.42%) MISRA C
3 3 (2.05%) GRC
3 3 (2.05%) ITGC
4 2 (1.37%) GDPR
4 2 (1.37%) HAZOP
4 2 (1.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.05%) Docker
4 3 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.37%) vSphere
6 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.42%) SCCM
2 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.05%) Autotask
3 3 (2.05%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.05%) OpenView
3 3 (2.05%) SysTrack
3 3 (2.05%) Terraform
4 2 (1.37%) Ansible
4 2 (1.37%) Kibana
4 2 (1.37%) logstash
5 1 (0.68%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 30 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.90%) SAP
3 12 (8.22%) PayPal
4 7 (4.79%) Oracle
5 6 (4.11%) VMware
6 5 (3.42%) Apple
6 5 (3.42%) BMC
6 5 (3.42%) Cisco
7 4 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.05%) Citrix
8 3 (2.05%) Datto
8 3 (2.05%) Google
8 3 (2.05%) New Relic
8 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.37%) Adobe
9 2 (1.37%) Confluent
9 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.68%) Informatica
10 1 (0.68%) Sage