Degree Contracts in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,131 3,468 4,327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.47% 6.86% 6.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.04% 24.72% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,658 2,137 2,649
10th Percentile £210 £300 £263
25th Percentile £376 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £625
90th Percentile £775 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.41% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 220 270
10th Percentile £14.02 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.08 £21.24 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -5.41%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.08
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +26.76% -2.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +7 1,432 £525 -8.70% 2,348
South East +14 495 £500 +4.17% 1,237
North of England +21 411 £450 - 1,073
South West +3 252 £530 -3.64% 645
Midlands +10 249 £450 -5.26% 807
North West +10 239 £450 - 621
East of England +7 190 £500 - 676
West Midlands +11 159 £525 +10.53% 499
Yorkshire +27 123 £450 -12.20% 320
East Midlands +9 88 £248 -46.49% 306
North East +40 47 £500 +80.18% 155
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 110 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 76 (2.43%) Confluence
4 17 (0.54%) Apache
5 15 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.45%) CMS
7 11 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.35%) SAS
8 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 9 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 8 (0.26%) IIS
11 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.16%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.096%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.096%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.096%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 400 (12.78%) Microsoft Office
2 255 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 237 (7.57%) Chatbot
4 149 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 88 (2.81%) MS Visio
6 72 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
7 36 (1.15%) Simulink
8 27 (0.86%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 11 (0.35%) Stateflow
12 10 (0.32%) Sketch
13 8 (0.26%) AutoCAD
14 7 (0.22%) Revit
15 6 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
15 6 (0.19%) InDesign
16 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
16 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 48 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
4 15 (0.48%) Primavera
4 15 (0.48%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.26%) Endur
8 8 (0.26%) ION MarketView
8 8 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.22%) SAP CO
9 7 (0.22%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.19%) ENOVIA
10 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 484 (15.46%) Azure
2 239 (7.63%) AWS
3 200 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (4.02%) Power Platform
5 106 (3.39%) GCP
6 104 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (2.27%) SaaS
8 60 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
9 54 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 48 (1.53%) PowerApps
11 45 (1.44%) GitHub
11 45 (1.44%) PaaS
12 42 (1.34%) Power Automate
13 40 (1.28%) Serverless
14 38 (1.21%) IaaS
15 34 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
16 33 (1.05%) OCI
17 30 (0.96%) WhatsApp
18 26 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
18 26 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 132 (4.22%) Firewall
2 102 (3.26%) LAN
3 101 (3.23%) DNS
4 95 (3.03%) WAN
5 85 (2.71%) DHCP
6 57 (1.82%) VPN
7 53 (1.69%) SSL
8 51 (1.63%) SAN
9 50 (1.60%) TCP/IP
10 44 (1.41%) Ethernet
11 39 (1.25%) Network Security
12 35 (1.12%) Internet
13 33 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (0.96%) VoIP
15 29 (0.93%) Wireless
16 24 (0.77%) VLAN
17 23 (0.73%) BGP
18 20 (0.64%) MPLS
18 20 (0.64%) OSPF
19 19 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 101 (3.23%) Power BI
3 58 (1.85%) Tableau
4 52 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 49 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (1.53%) Big Data
7 45 (1.44%) Data Lake
8 31 (0.99%) Metadata
8 31 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 30 (0.96%) MySQL
10 21 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 20 (0.64%) Data Mining
12 19 (0.61%) BigQuery
12 19 (0.61%) RDBMS
13 18 (0.57%) GIS
13 18 (0.57%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.54%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 166 (5.30%) JIRA
2 111 (3.55%) Git
3 53 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
5 30 (0.96%) GitLab
6 26 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 21 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 20 (0.64%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.45%) Gradle
9 14 (0.45%) Subversion
10 13 (0.42%) webpack
11 12 (0.38%) Selenium
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
13 9 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.26%) JUnit
15 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
15 7 (0.22%) ERwin
15 7 (0.22%) Mercurial
15 7 (0.22%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,366 (43.63%) Social Skills
2 673 (21.49%) Finance
3 607 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 177 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 173 (5.53%) Banking
7 162 (5.17%) Marketing
8 140 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
9 126 (4.02%) Legal
10 105 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 100 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
12 94 (3.00%) Retail
13 91 (2.91%) Front Office
14 85 (2.71%) Electronics
15 69 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 62 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
17 51 (1.63%) Aerospace
18 42 (1.34%) Law
19 41 (1.31%) Investment Banking
20 39 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 477 (15.23%) Developer
2 404 (12.90%) Analyst
3 320 (10.22%) Architect
4 260 (8.30%) Senior
5 235 (7.51%) Software Developer
6 176 (5.62%) Business Analyst
7 167 (5.33%) Lead
8 164 (5.24%) Project Manager
9 150 (4.79%) Consultant
10 98 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
11 91 (2.91%) Software Engineer
12 74 (2.36%) Support Engineer
13 69 (2.20%) Designer
14 56 (1.79%) Network Engineer
15 49 (1.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 46 (1.47%) Java Developer
17 45 (1.44%) Systems Engineer
18 43 (1.37%) Administrator
19 42 (1.34%) Data Engineer
19 42 (1.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (6.04%) HTML
2 85 (2.71%) .NET
3 78 (2.49%) CSS
4 74 (2.36%) REST
5 69 (2.20%) React
6 62 (1.98%) Web Services
7 46 (1.47%) XML
8 42 (1.34%) AngularJS
9 38 (1.21%) RESTful
10 34 (1.09%) Kafka
11 33 (1.05%) JSON
12 28 (0.89%) NumPy
12 28 (0.89%) Pandas
12 28 (0.89%) Spring
13 24 (0.77%) .NET Framework
14 21 (0.67%) ASP.NET
15 19 (0.61%) ARM Templates
16 18 (0.57%) Middleware
16 18 (0.57%) Node.js
17 16 (0.51%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 242 (7.73%) Management Information System
2 173 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
3 103 (3.29%) Algorithms
4 101 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 90 (2.87%) PKI
6 67 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 65 (2.08%) Derivative
8 57 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 52 (1.66%) VHDL
10 51 (1.63%) FPGA
10 51 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 48 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 43 (1.37%) Onboarding
13 42 (1.34%) Video Conferencing
14 41 (1.31%) Fixed Income
15 36 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
16 34 (1.09%) Clustering
17 33 (1.05%) CPLD
18 32 (1.02%) Driving Licence
19 30 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 353 (11.27%) Windows
2 170 (5.43%) Linux
3 103 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 102 (3.26%) Windows 10
5 94 (3.00%) Unix
6 50 (1.60%) Android
7 46 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (1.21%) Windows 7
8 38 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 38 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 21 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.42%) Windows XP
12 12 (0.38%) Solaris
13 10 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.26%) VMS
16 6 (0.19%) Mac OS X
16 6 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 971 (31.01%) Computer Science
2 803 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
3 620 (19.80%) Agile
4 458 (14.63%) Project Management
5 354 (11.31%) Software Engineering
6 319 (10.19%) Artificial Intelligence
7 294 (9.39%) ITIL
8 269 (8.59%) Code Quality
9 262 (8.37%) DevOps
10 256 (8.18%) Analytics
11 237 (7.57%) Conversational UI
12 233 (7.44%) Decision-Making
13 228 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 228 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 201 (6.42%) Migration
15 195 (6.23%) Customer Service
16 187 (5.97%) Project Delivery
17 185 (5.91%) Roadmaps
18 163 (5.21%) Risk Management
19 161 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 468 (14.95%) SQL
2 439 (14.02%) Python
3 269 (8.59%) JavaScript
4 267 (8.53%) C#
5 196 (6.26%) Java
6 147 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 103 (3.29%) C++
8 65 (2.08%) C
9 51 (1.63%) TypeScript
10 39 (1.25%) Bash
10 39 (1.25%) MATLAB
11 35 (1.12%) R
12 26 (0.83%) Scala
13 22 (0.70%) VBA
14 21 (0.67%) Perl
14 21 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 20 (0.64%) Go
15 20 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 20 (0.64%) VB
15 20 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 629 (20.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 467 (14.92%) Security Cleared
3 347 (11.08%) Master's Degree
4 306 (9.77%) SC Cleared
5 186 (5.94%) DV Cleared
6 126 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
7 90 (2.87%) PMI Certification
8 82 (2.62%) CISSP
9 81 (2.59%) CCNA
10 78 (2.49%) PMP
11 75 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 74 (2.36%) PhD
13 56 (1.79%) CCNP
14 52 (1.66%) Azure Certification
15 48 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
16 46 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
17 43 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
18 38 (1.21%) CISM
19 33 (1.05%) HND
20 28 (0.89%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (5.21%) QA
2 88 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.20%) SLA
4 65 (2.08%) PMO
5 53 (1.69%) GDPR
6 43 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 39 (1.25%) NIST
9 35 (1.12%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.54%) GRC
11 13 (0.42%) GxP
11 13 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 13 (0.42%) MiFID
12 12 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
13 11 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
14 10 (0.32%) COBIT
15 9 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 265 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 107 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (2.08%) Docker
4 48 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 40 (1.28%) Firmware
6 36 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (0.83%) vSphere
9 22 (0.70%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.48%) KVM
12 13 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.13%) vCloud
14 4 (0.13%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.096%) XenApp
16 2 (0.064%) NFS
17 1 (0.032%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 124 (3.96%) SCCM
2 85 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 70 (2.24%) Terraform
4 60 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (1.34%) SCOM
6 37 (1.18%) WSUS
7 34 (1.09%) Ansible
8 28 (0.89%) vCenter Server
9 24 (0.77%) NetBackup
10 20 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.32%) Nagios
14 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.29%) PingFederate
15 8 (0.26%) Grafana
15 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.22%) Kibana
16 7 (0.22%) logstash
17 6 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 638 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 218 (6.96%) PayPal
3 173 (5.53%) SAP
4 170 (5.43%) Oracle
5 127 (4.06%) VMware
6 119 (3.80%) Cisco
7 100 (3.19%) ServiceNow
8 89 (2.84%) Google
9 53 (1.69%) EMC
10 52 (1.66%) Adobe
11 50 (1.60%) Salesforce
12 45 (1.44%) HP
13 41 (1.31%) Citrix
14 40 (1.28%) Juniper
15 33 (1.05%) IBM
16 32 (1.02%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.89%) Databricks
18 23 (0.73%) Atlassian
19 22 (0.70%) Alteryx
19 22 (0.70%) Apple