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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 24 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 -25
Contract jobs citing Degree 152 161 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.69% 7.23% 4.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.35% 27.20% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 92 95
10th Percentile £263 £264 £302
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £617
90th Percentile £653 £688 £695
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
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 £48.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.35% +39.97% -7.89%

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 651 592 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.95% 26.59% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 354 510
10th Percentile £298 £313 £268
25th Percentile £363 £414 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +7.65%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £567
90th Percentile £679 £700 £650
England median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +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% +9.40%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +13 48 £450 +12.50% 156
Warwickshire -3 41 £481 -8.33% 78
Worcestershire +10 13 £550 +3.29% 46
Staffordshire +11 10 £115 -75.79% 83
Solihull -5 9 £775 +47.62% 16
Coventry +9 8 £463 +68.18% 67
Shropshire -16 2 £117 -78.33% 21
Wolverhampton +4 1 - - 20
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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.97%) Apache
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (9.87%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (7.89%) Chatbot
2 12 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.61%) MS Visio
3 7 (4.61%) Simulink
4 6 (3.95%) Stateflow
5 5 (3.29%) TargetLink
6 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (1.97%) CANalyzer
7 3 (1.97%) Photoshop
8 2 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (1.32%) Maya
8 2 (1.32%) NUKE
9 1 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.66%) InDesign
9 1 (0.66%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.13%) Azure
2 8 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.29%) OneDrive
3 5 (3.29%) SaaS
4 4 (2.63%) AWS
4 4 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (2.63%) IaaS
4 4 (2.63%) PaaS
5 3 (1.97%) Azure Functions
5 3 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (1.97%) Google Workspace
5 3 (1.97%) Serverless
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) Firewall
2 8 (5.26%) LAN
2 8 (5.26%) WAN
3 7 (4.61%) VPN
4 5 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.63%) DHCP
5 4 (2.63%) DNS
5 4 (2.63%) Ethernet
5 4 (2.63%) VoIP
5 4 (2.63%) Wireless
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.97%) Ethereal
6 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.97%) VLAN
6 3 (1.97%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.32%) Broadband
7 2 (1.32%) Network Security
7 2 (1.32%) SAN
7 2 (1.32%) Skype
8 1 (0.66%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.95%) Power BI
2 5 (3.29%) Data Mining
3 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.97%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.66%) Flink
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (6.58%) Git
2 7 (4.61%) JIRA
3 5 (3.29%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.29%) Subversion
4 4 (2.63%) GitLab
5 3 (1.97%) CANoe
6 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.32%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.66%) NUnit
7 1 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (48.03%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (11.18%) Finance
4 14 (9.21%) Automotive
5 10 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.61%) German Language
7 7 (4.61%) Marketing
7 7 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.29%) Electronics
9 5 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.29%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.63%) Law
10 4 (2.63%) Legal
10 4 (2.63%) Retail
11 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.32%) Games
11 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (14.47%) Developer
2 17 (11.18%) Analyst
3 15 (9.87%) Architect
4 12 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (7.89%) Software Developer
5 10 (6.58%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Lead
6 9 (5.92%) Senior
7 7 (4.61%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.61%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.95%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.95%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.95%) Network Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Control Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (3.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 4 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (2.63%) Technical Manager
11 3 (1.97%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.21%) HTML
2 6 (3.95%) Spring
3 5 (3.29%) Middleware
4 3 (1.97%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.97%) Kafka
4 3 (1.97%) React
4 3 (1.97%) REST
4 3 (1.97%) SAP Business Workflow
5 2 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.32%) CSS
5 2 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.32%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (1.32%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.66%) .NET
6 1 (0.66%) BREW
6 1 (0.66%) Guice
6 1 (0.66%) NumPy
6 1 (0.66%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.66%) SOAP
6 1 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.55%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.92%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.61%) Virtual Team
6 5 (3.29%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.29%) SCADA
7 4 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.63%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (2.63%) IoT
8 3 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.97%) Clustering
8 3 (1.97%) Infotainment
8 3 (1.97%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.53%) Windows
2 7 (4.61%) Unix
3 5 (3.29%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.29%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.32%) Android
6 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.37%) Computer Science
2 43 (28.29%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (22.37%) Software Engineering
4 33 (21.71%) Agile
5 26 (17.11%) Decision-Making
5 26 (17.11%) DevOps
6 18 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (9.87%) Migration
8 15 (9.87%) Project Management
9 14 (9.21%) Code Quality
9 14 (9.21%) User Experience
9 14 (9.21%) Workflow
10 13 (8.55%) Change Management
11 12 (7.89%) Analytical Thinking
11 12 (7.89%) Conversational UI
12 11 (7.24%) Analytics
13 10 (6.58%) CI/CD
13 10 (6.58%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.11%) SQL
2 23 (15.13%) Python
3 16 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.21%) C#
5 8 (5.26%) Java
5 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.61%) MATLAB
7 5 (3.29%) C
8 2 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.32%) Perl
9 1 (0.66%) PHP
9 1 (0.66%) R
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (33.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.58%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.95%) CCNA
6 6 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.29%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.29%) PMI Certification
7 5 (3.29%) PMP
7 5 (3.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.63%) CISSP
9 3 (1.97%) APMG
9 3 (1.97%) APMP
9 3 (1.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (1.32%) CCNP
10 2 (1.32%) CEH
10 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.21%) QA
2 5 (3.29%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.29%) ISO 26262
2 5 (3.29%) MISRA
2 5 (3.29%) MISRA C
3 3 (1.97%) GRC
3 3 (1.97%) ITGC
4 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) HAZOP
4 2 (1.32%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.66%) NIST
5 1 (0.66%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.97%) Docker
4 3 (1.97%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.32%) vSphere
6 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (4.61%) SCCM
2 5 (3.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.97%) Autotask
4 3 (1.97%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.97%) OpenView
4 3 (1.97%) SysTrack
4 3 (1.97%) Terraform
5 2 (1.32%) AirWatch
5 2 (1.32%) Ansible
5 2 (1.32%) Kibana
5 2 (1.32%) logstash
6 1 (0.66%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.53%) SAP
3 12 (7.89%) PayPal
4 8 (5.26%) VMware
5 7 (4.61%) Apple
5 7 (4.61%) Oracle
6 5 (3.29%) BMC
6 5 (3.29%) Cisco
7 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.97%) Citrix
8 3 (1.97%) Datto
8 3 (1.97%) Google
8 3 (1.97%) New Relic
8 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.32%) Adobe
9 2 (1.32%) Confluent
9 2 (1.32%) Informatica
9 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.32%) Samsung
9 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow