Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,490 3,791 5,484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.15% 6.74% 6.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.27% 24.77% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,902 2,341 3,369
10th Percentile £221 £260 £275
25th Percentile £378 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £625 £664 £625
90th Percentile £750 £794 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £450
% change year-on-year -2.16% +7.89% +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 202 275
10th Percentile £14.17 £16.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.33 £22.18 £20.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £49.28 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +40.80% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £50.89
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £47.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% +36.61% -11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,799 15,303 19,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.20% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,005 10,207 12,715
10th Percentile £310 £335 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £740 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,083 749 783
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.56 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +23.47%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.56 £58.17
90th Percentile £75.24 £79.80 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +7.69%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +9 2,992 £500 -9.09% 7,579
UK excluding London +10 1,732 £475 -2.16% 5,359
London +7 1,401 £525 -8.70% 2,474
Work from Home +13 1,168 £525 - 3,056
South East +14 494 £500 - 1,255
North of England +20 353 £488 +2.63% 1,252
South West +4 248 £525 -4.55% 718
Midlands +7 225 £400 -15.79% 996
North West +7 210 £510 +8.80% 743
Scotland +18 188 £450 +5.88% 407
East of England +11 173 £488 -2.50% 718
West Midlands +6 146 £475 - 608
Yorkshire +25 102 £450 -14.29% 365
East Midlands +12 78 £255 -46.88% 388
North East +27 39 £513 +83.04% 161
Wales +6 37 £515 -1.90% 134
Northern Ireland +8 24 £456 +14.06% 66

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 135 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 98 (2.81%) Confluence
4 26 (0.74%) CMS
5 22 (0.63%) SAS
6 18 (0.52%) Apache
6 18 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.29%) IIS
9 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 6 (0.17%) Drupal
11 6 (0.17%) WordPress
12 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
13 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 391 (11.20%) Microsoft Office
2 310 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 168 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 143 (4.10%) Chatbot
5 96 (2.75%) MS Visio
6 73 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.06%) Simulink
8 29 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
9 28 (0.80%) Photoshop
10 17 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.46%) Acrobat
12 13 (0.37%) Sketch
13 12 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 11 (0.32%) AutoCAD
14 11 (0.32%) Stateflow
15 9 (0.26%) SPSS
16 8 (0.23%) Trello
17 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
17 7 (0.20%) Revit
18 6 (0.17%) InVision
Business Applications
1 47 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 12 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 11 (0.32%) Endur
8 10 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 8 (0.23%) ION MarketView
10 8 (0.23%) Magento
10 8 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.17%) ENOVIA
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 609 (17.45%) Azure
2 320 (9.17%) AWS
3 219 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
4 173 (4.96%) Power Platform
5 153 (4.38%) GCP
6 120 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (2.49%) SaaS
8 73 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
9 66 (1.89%) Entra ID
10 62 (1.78%) GitHub
11 58 (1.66%) PaaS
12 56 (1.60%) PowerApps
13 54 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
14 47 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 43 (1.23%) Serverless
16 39 (1.12%) IaaS
17 35 (1.00%) OCI
18 34 (0.97%) Snowflake
19 28 (0.80%) Amazon S3
19 28 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.58%) Firewall
2 105 (3.01%) DNS
3 91 (2.61%) LAN
4 87 (2.49%) WAN
5 83 (2.38%) DHCP
6 64 (1.83%) VPN
7 54 (1.55%) Network Security
7 54 (1.55%) SSL
8 51 (1.46%) TCP/IP
9 47 (1.35%) SAN
10 46 (1.32%) VoIP
11 43 (1.23%) Ethernet
12 42 (1.20%) Internet
13 36 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
14 28 (0.80%) Wireless
15 26 (0.74%) VLAN
16 20 (0.57%) MPLS
17 18 (0.52%) 5G
17 18 (0.52%) SD-WAN
18 17 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 134 (3.84%) Power BI
3 80 (2.29%) Tableau
4 71 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 67 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (1.72%) Big Data
7 59 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 46 (1.32%) MySQL
9 46 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 44 (1.26%) Metadata
11 28 (0.80%) Oracle Database
12 23 (0.66%) Data Mining
13 22 (0.63%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.57%) Hadoop
15 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.52%) GIS
17 16 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
17 16 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 209 (5.99%) JIRA
2 157 (4.50%) Git
3 69 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.40%) GitLab
5 37 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 22 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 19 (0.54%) Gradle
8 19 (0.54%) Selenium
8 19 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.46%) Subversion
10 15 (0.43%) JUnit
11 13 (0.37%) webpack
12 12 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
13 11 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.29%) Maven
14 10 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.23%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 1,566 (44.87%) Social Skills
2 748 (21.43%) Finance
3 743 (21.29%) Analytical Skills
4 305 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 199 (5.70%) Telecoms
6 190 (5.44%) Banking
7 182 (5.21%) Marketing
8 152 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
9 143 (4.10%) Legal
10 120 (3.44%) Manufacturing
11 111 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
12 105 (3.01%) Retail
13 94 (2.69%) Electronics
13 94 (2.69%) Front Office
14 70 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
15 69 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
16 50 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 49 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
18 46 (1.32%) Aerospace
18 46 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 457 (13.09%) Analyst
2 440 (12.61%) Developer
3 369 (10.57%) Architect
4 304 (8.71%) Senior
5 202 (5.79%) Business Analyst
5 202 (5.79%) Project Manager
6 181 (5.19%) Lead
7 164 (4.70%) Consultant
8 143 (4.10%) Software Developer
9 128 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
10 105 (3.01%) Software Engineer
11 79 (2.26%) Support Engineer
12 76 (2.18%) Designer
13 63 (1.81%) DevOps Engineer
14 59 (1.69%) Java Developer
14 59 (1.69%) Network Engineer
15 57 (1.63%) Data Analyst
16 54 (1.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (1.49%) Senior Analyst
18 50 (1.43%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.25%) HTML
2 111 (3.18%) .NET
3 97 (2.78%) CSS
4 93 (2.66%) React
5 85 (2.44%) Web Services
6 81 (2.32%) REST
7 59 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 59 (1.69%) XML
8 48 (1.38%) Kafka
9 44 (1.26%) Spring
10 42 (1.20%) RESTful
11 37 (1.06%) JSON
12 35 (1.00%) .NET Framework
13 30 (0.86%) Node.js
14 29 (0.83%) Middleware
14 29 (0.83%) Pandas
15 27 (0.77%) ASP.NET
16 24 (0.69%) ARM Templates
16 24 (0.69%) NumPy
17 22 (0.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 278 (7.97%) Management Information System
2 204 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
3 115 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 107 (3.07%) Algorithms
5 99 (2.84%) PKI
6 80 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 65 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 61 (1.75%) Derivative
9 58 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 55 (1.58%) FPGA
11 54 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 52 (1.49%) VHDL
13 40 (1.15%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.12%) Fixed Income
14 39 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
15 36 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
15 36 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
16 34 (0.97%) Clustering
16 34 (0.97%) Life Science
16 34 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 371 (10.63%) Windows
2 205 (5.87%) Linux
3 122 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 113 (3.24%) Unix
5 86 (2.46%) Windows 10
6 49 (1.40%) Android
7 48 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 44 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 40 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 31 (0.89%) Windows 7
11 20 (0.57%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.52%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.40%) Windows XP
14 13 (0.37%) Solaris
15 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 9 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
16 9 (0.26%) VMS
17 8 (0.23%) Windows 8
18 7 (0.20%) Mac OS X
19 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (34.38%) Computer Science
2 963 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 795 (22.78%) Agile
4 535 (15.33%) Project Management
5 394 (11.29%) Software Engineering
6 346 (9.91%) DevOps
7 332 (9.51%) Analytics
8 296 (8.48%) ITIL
9 275 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 262 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 261 (7.48%) Decision-Making
12 247 (7.08%) Migration
13 237 (6.79%) Artificial Intelligence
14 219 (6.28%) Roadmaps
15 208 (5.96%) Project Delivery
16 202 (5.79%) Business Intelligence
16 202 (5.79%) CI/CD
17 191 (5.47%) Scrum
18 188 (5.39%) Code Quality
19 187 (5.36%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 566 (16.22%) SQL
2 535 (15.33%) Python
3 306 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 294 (8.42%) C#
5 238 (6.82%) Java
6 184 (5.27%) PowerShell
7 116 (3.32%) C++
8 71 (2.03%) C
9 60 (1.72%) Bash
10 55 (1.58%) R
11 52 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 42 (1.20%) MATLAB
13 40 (1.15%) Perl
13 40 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 30 (0.86%) VBA
16 29 (0.83%) Go
17 27 (0.77%) VBScript
18 26 (0.74%) VB
19 24 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 807 (23.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 520 (14.90%) Security Cleared
3 424 (12.15%) Master's Degree
4 368 (10.54%) SC Cleared
5 180 (5.16%) DV Cleared
6 127 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
7 117 (3.35%) PMI Certification
8 109 (3.12%) PMP
9 98 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 92 (2.64%) CISSP
11 84 (2.41%) CCNA
12 83 (2.38%) PhD
13 77 (2.21%) Azure Certification
14 62 (1.78%) CCNP
15 55 (1.58%) Numerate Degree
16 53 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 50 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
18 46 (1.32%) CISM
19 36 (1.03%) HND
20 32 (0.92%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (5.64%) QA
2 104 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.15%) GDPR
4 68 (1.95%) PMO
5 66 (1.89%) SLA
6 49 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 45 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 36 (1.03%) NIST
9 31 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
10 17 (0.49%) GRC
10 17 (0.49%) GxP
11 15 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
13 12 (0.34%) MiFID
13 12 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 276 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 117 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (2.29%) Docker
4 59 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 44 (1.26%) Hyper-V
6 39 (1.12%) Firmware
7 32 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (0.92%) vSphere
8 28 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (0.77%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.46%) KVM
11 14 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
12 12 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.11%) vCloud
14 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.057%) HDFS
16 2 (0.057%) NFS
16 2 (0.057%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 124 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 119 (3.41%) SCCM
3 92 (2.64%) Terraform
4 62 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.26%) Ansible
6 43 (1.23%) WSUS
7 42 (1.20%) SCOM
8 33 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 30 (0.86%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.74%) NetBackup
11 25 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (0.40%) Grafana
13 12 (0.34%) Nagios
14 11 (0.32%) Kibana
14 11 (0.32%) PingFederate
15 10 (0.29%) logstash
16 9 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.26%) Nessus
17 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 745 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 202 (5.79%) Oracle
3 185 (5.30%) SAP
4 134 (3.84%) VMware
5 132 (3.78%) Cisco
6 128 (3.67%) Google
7 121 (3.47%) PayPal
8 90 (2.58%) ServiceNow
9 75 (2.15%) Adobe
10 65 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 56 (1.60%) EMC
12 46 (1.32%) Atlassian
13 43 (1.23%) HP
14 38 (1.09%) IBM
14 38 (1.09%) Juniper
15 36 (1.03%) Databricks
16 35 (1.00%) Citrix
17 30 (0.86%) Palo Alto
18 27 (0.77%) Alteryx
19 26 (0.74%) Apple