Degree Contracts in the East of England

Academic Degree
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 175 158 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 9.25% 8.02% 9.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.76% 22.70% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 62 125
10th Percentile £330 £225 £213
25th Percentile £375 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £586 £631 £538
90th Percentile £675 £771 £609
England median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 26 42
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 -
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.17 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.02 £54.75 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.25% +146.07% -30.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £49.44
90th Percentile £85.00 - £49.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.16
% change year-on-year -11.11% +24.45% -0.93%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 569 696 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.09% 35.35% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 342 356
10th Percentile £216 £225 £213
25th Percentile £350 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £575
90th Percentile £720 £700 £669
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 175 202
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +7.69% -38.10%
75th Percentile £44.13 £61.88 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.93 £41.36
% change year-on-year -24.42% +27.98% +10.28%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the East of England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Cambridgeshire +1 74 £410 -13.68% 304
Hertfordshire -16 40 £444 -34.26% 194
Essex +12 34 £550 +10.00% 113
Bedfordshire +1 18 £500 +11.11% 65
Suffolk +13 5 £675 +35.00% 47
Norfolk +7 4 £208 -4.26% 51
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.71%) IIS
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 23 (13.14%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (12.57%) Simulink
3 16 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (4.57%) Photoshop
6 5 (2.86%) Stateflow
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.29%) SAP SD
3 2 (1.14%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.14%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.14%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.14%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.14%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.57%) Magento
4 1 (0.57%) Primavera
4 1 (0.57%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.57%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (4.57%) GCP
3 6 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (2.86%) Azure
5 2 (1.14%) AWS
5 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.57%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Einstein
6 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) Internet
1 4 (2.29%) Wireless
2 3 (1.71%) LAN
2 3 (1.71%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (1.71%) WAN
3 2 (1.14%) Firewall
3 2 (1.14%) RS-485
3 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.57%) DVB
4 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.57%) RTMP
4 1 (0.57%) RTP
4 1 (0.57%) RTSP
4 1 (0.57%) VoIP
4 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
1 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.14%) MySQL
2 2 (1.14%) Power BI
2 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.14%) Tableau
3 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.57%) Big Data
3 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.57%) Metadata
3 1 (0.57%) QlikView
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Git
2 4 (2.29%) Mercurial
3 2 (1.14%) JIRA
3 2 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.14%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (0.57%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.57%) CMake
4 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (37.71%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.29%) Finance
3 23 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.14%) Manufacturing
4 21 (12.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 17 (9.71%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.14%) Banking
6 9 (5.14%) Electronics
7 8 (4.57%) Mandarin Language
7 8 (4.57%) Marketing
7 8 (4.57%) Military
8 7 (4.00%) Law
9 6 (3.43%) Automotive
9 6 (3.43%) French Language
9 6 (3.43%) Multimedia
9 6 (3.43%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.29%) Advertising
11 4 (2.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (20.57%) Analyst
2 22 (12.57%) Architect
3 17 (9.71%) FPGA Engineer
3 17 (9.71%) Senior
4 16 (9.14%) Design Engineer
4 16 (9.14%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 13 (7.43%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.43%) Software Engineer
6 12 (6.86%) Service Analyst
6 12 (6.86%) Service Desk Analyst
7 10 (5.71%) Software Architect
7 10 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.14%) Technical Analyst
8 9 (5.14%) Technical Services Analyst
9 7 (4.00%) Developer
9 7 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
9 7 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 7 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (4.00%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.71%) DirectX
1 10 (5.71%) OpenGL
1 10 (5.71%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (5.71%) Vulkan
2 8 (4.57%) React
3 5 (2.86%) CSS
3 5 (2.86%) HTML
3 5 (2.86%) NumPy
4 4 (2.29%) .NET
4 4 (2.29%) Pandas
4 4 (2.29%) SciPy
5 2 (1.14%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.14%) GStreamer
5 2 (1.14%) RESTful
6 1 (0.57%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.57%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.57%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (0.57%) Next.js
6 1 (0.57%) Node.js
6 1 (0.57%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.86%) FPGA
2 17 (9.71%) Verilog
2 17 (9.71%) VHDL
3 14 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.43%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.71%) 3D Graphics
5 10 (5.71%) Ray Tracing
6 8 (4.57%) Data Structures
7 7 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.43%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.29%) Clustering
9 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.29%) Social Media
10 3 (1.71%) Analogue Electronics
10 3 (1.71%) CMDB
10 3 (1.71%) NHS
10 3 (1.71%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.14%) IoT
11 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.86%) Windows
2 6 (3.43%) Linux
3 3 (1.71%) Windows 7
3 3 (1.71%) Windows 8
3 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
5 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (22.86%) Computer Science
3 26 (14.86%) Signal Processing
4 23 (13.14%) Software Engineering
5 21 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (11.43%) Agile
7 19 (10.86%) ITIL
7 19 (10.86%) Project Management
8 17 (9.71%) FPGA Design
8 17 (9.71%) UVM
8 17 (9.71%) Validation
9 15 (8.57%) Customer Service
9 15 (8.57%) Roadmaps
10 14 (8.00%) Software Architecture
11 13 (7.43%) Data Science
12 12 (6.86%) Business Analysis
13 11 (6.29%) Migration
13 11 (6.29%) Requirements Gathering
14 10 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (5.71%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.86%) C
2 17 (9.71%) Python
2 17 (9.71%) SystemVerilog
3 15 (8.57%) Java
4 12 (6.86%) C++
4 12 (6.86%) MATLAB
5 11 (6.29%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.71%) C#
7 6 (3.43%) SQL
8 4 (2.29%) R
8 4 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.14%) Fortran
9 2 (1.14%) Rust
9 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.14%) VB
10 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.57%) XAML
Qualifications
1 31 (17.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 30 (17.14%) Master's Degree
3 17 (9.71%) CCNA
3 17 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (8.57%) PhD
5 12 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.14%) MCP
7 7 (4.00%) IIBA
7 7 (4.00%) MCSA
8 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.43%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.29%) CCNP
9 4 (2.29%) HNC
9 4 (2.29%) HND
9 4 (2.29%) MCSE
10 3 (1.71%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.71%) ECDL
10 3 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.71%) SAP Certification
11 2 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.29%) GDPR
2 7 (4.00%) Good Clinical Practice
2 7 (4.00%) GxP
3 4 (2.29%) PMO
3 4 (2.29%) SLA
4 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (9.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.29%) Firmware
3 2 (1.14%) Docker
4 1 (0.57%) KVM
4 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (5.14%) SCCM
2 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Ansible
3 1 (0.57%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.71%) Intel
2 17 (9.71%) Microsemi
2 17 (9.71%) Xilinx
3 11 (6.29%) SAP
4 8 (4.57%) Citrix
5 7 (4.00%) Google
6 5 (2.86%) MathWorks
7 3 (1.71%) Keysight
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.14%) Siemens
9 1 (0.57%) Adobe
9 1 (0.57%) Ariba
9 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.57%) Genesys
9 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.57%) VMware
9 1 (0.57%) Workday