Degree Contracts

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

6 months to
29 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,496 3,780 5,446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.15% 6.73% 6.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.22% 24.71% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,336 3,348
10th Percentile £222 £262 £275
25th Percentile £379 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £625
90th Percentile £750 £790 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £486 £450
% change year-on-year +0.31% +8.00% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 200 271
10th Percentile £14.21 £16.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.13 £22.21 £20.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £49.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.65% +42.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £50.89
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.25 £64.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.66 £48.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.52% +37.51% -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 12,842 15,296 19,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.93% 27.24% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,004 10,201 12,637
10th Percentile £310 £338 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £738 £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 1,092 756 774
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.91 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +24.36% +22.71%
75th Percentile £62.13 £68.75 £57.94
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.47 £66.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.02% +50.00% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 2,996 £500 -9.09% 7,408
UK excluding London +10 1,738 £488 +0.31% 5,271
London +7 1,403 £525 -8.70% 2,382
Work from Home +15 1,170 £525 - 3,022
South East +11 493 £500 - 1,232
North of England +21 353 £500 +5.26% 1,250
South West +4 247 £525 -4.55% 702
Midlands +6 230 £410 -13.68% 978
North West +5 210 £510 +4.94% 726
Scotland +15 189 £450 +5.88% 398
East of England +11 172 £488 -2.50% 705
West Midlands +8 148 £475 - 601
Yorkshire +30 102 £463 -13.95% 366
East Midlands +9 81 £255 -46.88% 377
North East +25 39 £513 +83.04% 175
Wales +8 39 £514 -2.14% 132
Northern Ireland +9 25 £456 +14.06% 61

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
1 136 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 124 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 99 (2.83%) Confluence
4 25 (0.72%) CMS
5 22 (0.63%) SAS
6 18 (0.51%) Apache
6 18 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.34%) 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 (11.18%) Microsoft Office
2 314 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 168 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (4.12%) Chatbot
5 96 (2.75%) MS Visio
6 74 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.06%) Simulink
8 30 (0.86%) 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 (0.31%) AutoCAD
14 11 (0.31%) Stateflow
15 9 (0.26%) SPSS
15 9 (0.26%) Trello
16 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
16 7 (0.20%) Revit
17 6 (0.17%) InVision
Business Applications
1 47 (1.34%) 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 (0.31%) 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
1 613 (17.53%) Azure
2 322 (9.21%) AWS
3 220 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 173 (4.95%) Power Platform
5 155 (4.43%) GCP
6 121 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (2.46%) SaaS
8 73 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 62 (1.77%) GitHub
11 59 (1.69%) PaaS
12 57 (1.63%) PowerApps
13 54 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
14 47 (1.34%) Power Automate
15 43 (1.23%) Serverless
16 39 (1.12%) IaaS
17 35 (1.00%) OCI
18 34 (0.97%) Snowflake
19 29 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
20 28 (0.80%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 161 (4.61%) Firewall
2 106 (3.03%) DNS
3 88 (2.52%) LAN
4 85 (2.43%) WAN
5 84 (2.40%) DHCP
6 65 (1.86%) VPN
7 54 (1.54%) Network Security
7 54 (1.54%) SSL
8 50 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 48 (1.37%) SAN
10 46 (1.32%) VoIP
11 43 (1.23%) Ethernet
12 42 (1.20%) Internet
13 35 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
14 27 (0.77%) Wireless
15 26 (0.74%) VLAN
16 19 (0.54%) MPLS
17 18 (0.51%) 5G
17 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
18 17 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 135 (3.86%) Power BI
3 79 (2.26%) Tableau
4 72 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 67 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (1.72%) Big Data
7 59 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 46 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 45 (1.29%) MySQL
11 44 (1.26%) Metadata
12 28 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.66%) Data Mining
14 22 (0.63%) MongoDB
15 20 (0.57%) Hadoop
16 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.51%) GIS
18 16 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
18 16 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 211 (6.04%) JIRA
2 157 (4.49%) Git
3 69 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 49 (1.40%) GitLab
5 37 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.86%) 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 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
13 11 (0.31%) 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%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,568 (44.85%) Social Skills
2 748 (21.40%) Analytical Skills
3 747 (21.37%) Finance
4 307 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 199 (5.69%) Telecoms
6 189 (5.41%) Banking
7 182 (5.21%) Marketing
8 153 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
9 145 (4.15%) Legal
10 120 (3.43%) Manufacturing
11 111 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
12 105 (3.00%) Retail
13 94 (2.69%) Electronics
14 93 (2.66%) Front Office
15 70 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
16 69 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
17 50 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 46 (1.32%) Aerospace
18 46 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 459 (13.13%) Analyst
2 441 (12.61%) Developer
3 369 (10.55%) Architect
4 301 (8.61%) Senior
5 203 (5.81%) Project Manager
6 201 (5.75%) Business Analyst
7 180 (5.15%) Lead
8 167 (4.78%) Consultant
9 142 (4.06%) Software Developer
10 125 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 106 (3.03%) Software Engineer
12 80 (2.29%) Support Engineer
13 78 (2.23%) Designer
14 66 (1.89%) DevOps Engineer
15 59 (1.69%) Data Analyst
15 59 (1.69%) Java Developer
16 58 (1.66%) Network Engineer
17 54 (1.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 52 (1.49%) Senior Analyst
19 50 (1.43%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (6.26%) HTML
2 111 (3.18%) .NET
3 98 (2.80%) CSS
4 93 (2.66%) React
5 86 (2.46%) Web Services
6 83 (2.37%) REST
7 59 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 59 (1.69%) XML
8 47 (1.34%) Kafka
9 44 (1.26%) Spring
10 42 (1.20%) RESTful
11 37 (1.06%) JSON
12 36 (1.03%) .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 25 (0.72%) ARM Templates
17 24 (0.69%) NumPy
18 22 (0.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 278 (7.95%) Management Information System
2 205 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
3 114 (3.26%) Data Centre
4 105 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 101 (2.89%) PKI
6 81 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 65 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 61 (1.74%) Derivative
9 58 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 55 (1.57%) FPGA
11 54 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 52 (1.49%) VHDL
13 40 (1.14%) 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%) Renewable Energy
17 33 (0.94%) CPLD
Operating Systems
1 372 (10.64%) Windows
2 207 (5.92%) Linux
3 126 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 112 (3.20%) Unix
5 83 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 49 (1.40%) Android
6 49 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 45 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 40 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 29 (0.83%) Windows 7
10 20 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.40%) Windows XP
13 13 (0.37%) Solaris
14 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.26%) VMS
16 8 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 7 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,203 (34.41%) Computer Science
2 969 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
3 798 (22.83%) Agile
4 536 (15.33%) Project Management
5 397 (11.36%) Software Engineering
6 350 (10.01%) DevOps
7 332 (9.50%) Analytics
8 298 (8.52%) ITIL
9 277 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 266 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 264 (7.55%) Decision-Making
12 246 (7.04%) Migration
13 237 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence
14 216 (6.18%) Roadmaps
15 208 (5.95%) Project Delivery
16 204 (5.84%) CI/CD
17 202 (5.78%) Business Intelligence
18 189 (5.41%) Scrum
19 188 (5.38%) Code Quality
20 186 (5.32%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 566 (16.19%) SQL
2 532 (15.22%) Python
3 308 (8.81%) JavaScript
4 292 (8.35%) C#
5 235 (6.72%) Java
6 187 (5.35%) PowerShell
7 113 (3.23%) C++
8 70 (2.00%) C
9 61 (1.74%) Bash
10 55 (1.57%) R
11 52 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 40 (1.14%) MATLAB
12 40 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 39 (1.12%) Perl
14 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 30 (0.86%) VBA
16 29 (0.83%) Go
16 29 (0.83%) VBScript
17 27 (0.77%) VB
18 25 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 813 (23.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 519 (14.85%) Security Cleared
3 426 (12.19%) Master's Degree
4 368 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 180 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 125 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
7 116 (3.32%) PMI Certification
8 108 (3.09%) PMP
9 98 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 94 (2.69%) CISSP
11 83 (2.37%) CCNA
12 80 (2.29%) PhD
13 77 (2.20%) Azure Certification
14 62 (1.77%) CCNP
15 55 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
16 53 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 51 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
18 45 (1.29%) CISM
19 36 (1.03%) HND
20 34 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.66%) QA
2 103 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.17%) GDPR
4 68 (1.95%) PMO
5 65 (1.86%) SLA
6 49 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 46 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 37 (1.06%) NIST
9 31 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
10 17 (0.49%) GRC
11 16 (0.46%) GxP
12 15 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
14 12 (0.34%) MiFID
14 12 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 10 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 279 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 118 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (2.32%) Docker
4 59 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 38 (1.09%) Firmware
7 32 (0.92%) vSphere
8 31 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 30 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 27 (0.77%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.43%) KVM
12 14 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) vCloud
15 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.057%) HDFS
17 2 (0.057%) NFS
17 2 (0.057%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 125 (3.58%) Kubernetes
2 118 (3.38%) SCCM
3 93 (2.66%) Terraform
4 63 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.29%) Ansible
6 44 (1.26%) SCOM
6 44 (1.26%) WSUS
7 34 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 29 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.74%) NetBackup
10 25 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (0.40%) Grafana
12 12 (0.34%) Nagios
13 11 (0.31%) Kibana
13 11 (0.31%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.29%) logstash
15 9 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.26%) Nessus
16 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 747 (21.37%) Microsoft
2 202 (5.78%) Oracle
3 184 (5.26%) SAP
4 134 (3.83%) VMware
5 131 (3.75%) Cisco
6 129 (3.69%) Google
7 121 (3.46%) PayPal
8 89 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 75 (2.15%) Adobe
10 65 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 56 (1.60%) EMC
12 47 (1.34%) Atlassian
13 42 (1.20%) HP
14 38 (1.09%) IBM
14 38 (1.09%) Juniper
15 36 (1.03%) Citrix
15 36 (1.03%) Databricks
16 30 (0.86%) Palo Alto
17 27 (0.77%) Alteryx
18 26 (0.74%) Splunk
8,554 Degree jobs Nationwide