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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,069 3,241 4,363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.42% 6.74% 6.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.28% 24.48% 28.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,621 2,010 2,702
10th Percentile £225 £305 £275
25th Percentile £380 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £546 £520
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +5.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £628
90th Percentile £769 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 190 256
10th Percentile £14.06 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £21.24 £20.48
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.08
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +24.72% -1.15%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 £66.38
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.16
% change year-on-year -11.11% +24.45% -0.93%

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 11,248 13,239 15,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.86% 27.51% 21.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,953 8,888 10,129
10th Percentile £313 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 677 680
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.47 £19.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.93
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +28.28% +8.71%
75th Percentile £61.60 £67.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.10 £68.35
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £43.95
% change year-on-year -26.31% +23.50% +17.20%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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
London +8 1,406 £525 -8.70% 2,854
South East +15 495 £500 - 1,567
North of England +20 396 £500 +5.26% 1,248
South West +2 256 £530 -3.64% 689
Midlands +12 244 £418 -12.00% 998
North West +7 227 £505 +12.22% 701
East of England +9 175 £488 -2.50% 775
West Midlands +9 153 £475 - 631
Yorkshire +25 120 £463 -11.90% 406
East Midlands +10 90 £255 -46.32% 366
North East +32 47 £513 +83.04% 162
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
1 106 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 103 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 82 (2.67%) Confluence
4 16 (0.52%) Apache
4 16 (0.52%) SAS
5 15 (0.49%) CMS
6 13 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.26%) IIS
9 7 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
12 3 (0.098%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.098%) Gunicorn
12 3 (0.098%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 3 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 363 (11.83%) Microsoft Office
2 255 (8.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 208 (6.78%) Chatbot
4 149 (4.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 88 (2.87%) MS Visio
6 65 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.21%) Simulink
8 27 (0.88%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 11 (0.36%) Stateflow
12 9 (0.29%) Sketch
13 8 (0.26%) AutoCAD
14 7 (0.23%) Revit
15 6 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
15 6 (0.20%) InDesign
16 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
16 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 45 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.39%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
7 9 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
7 9 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.26%) ION MarketView
9 7 (0.23%) Endur
10 6 (0.20%) ENOVIA
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.20%) SAP CO
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.16%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 493 (16.06%) Azure
2 257 (8.37%) AWS
3 184 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (4.37%) Power Platform
5 113 (3.68%) GCP
6 102 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (2.25%) SaaS
8 65 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (1.89%) Entra ID
10 48 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 45 (1.47%) PaaS
12 43 (1.40%) GitHub
13 41 (1.34%) Power Automate
14 40 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
15 39 (1.27%) Serverless
16 36 (1.17%) IaaS
17 31 (1.01%) OCI
18 28 (0.91%) Snowflake
19 25 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
20 24 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.14%) Firewall
2 98 (3.19%) DNS
3 88 (2.87%) LAN
4 82 (2.67%) WAN
5 79 (2.57%) DHCP
6 53 (1.73%) VPN
7 49 (1.60%) SSL
8 46 (1.50%) SAN
8 46 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 44 (1.43%) Ethernet
10 37 (1.21%) Network Security
10 37 (1.21%) VoIP
11 35 (1.14%) Internet
12 34 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.81%) Wireless
14 21 (0.68%) VLAN
15 20 (0.65%) MPLS
16 17 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.55%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.52%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (4.33%) SQL Server
2 109 (3.55%) Power BI
3 63 (2.05%) Tableau
4 57 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 54 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.60%) Data Lake
6 49 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (1.56%) Big Data
8 36 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 34 (1.11%) MySQL
10 28 (0.91%) Metadata
11 20 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 20 (0.65%) Data Mining
11 20 (0.65%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.55%) GIS
12 17 (0.55%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.49%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.46%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 172 (5.60%) JIRA
2 124 (4.04%) Git
3 57 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
5 31 (1.01%) GitLab
6 26 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 19 (0.62%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.59%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.46%) Subversion
10 13 (0.42%) Gradle
10 13 (0.42%) webpack
11 11 (0.36%) Selenium
12 10 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.26%) JUnit
13 8 (0.26%) Maven
13 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.23%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.23%) ERwin
14 7 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 1,334 (43.47%) Social Skills
2 653 (21.28%) Finance
3 591 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 221 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 180 (5.87%) Telecoms
6 163 (5.31%) Banking
6 163 (5.31%) Marketing
7 132 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
8 117 (3.81%) Legal
9 105 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 95 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
11 94 (3.06%) Front Office
11 94 (3.06%) Retail
12 85 (2.77%) Electronics
13 70 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 62 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
15 49 (1.60%) Aerospace
16 44 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
17 39 (1.27%) Investment Banking
17 39 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 463 (15.09%) Developer
2 394 (12.84%) Analyst
3 319 (10.39%) Architect
4 250 (8.15%) Senior
5 211 (6.88%) Software Developer
6 174 (5.67%) Business Analyst
7 167 (5.44%) Lead
8 157 (5.12%) Project Manager
9 139 (4.53%) Consultant
10 105 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 92 (3.00%) Software Engineer
12 73 (2.38%) Support Engineer
13 71 (2.31%) Designer
14 53 (1.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (1.73%) Network Engineer
15 50 (1.63%) Java Developer
15 50 (1.63%) Systems Engineer
16 44 (1.43%) Senior Analyst
17 43 (1.40%) Data Analyst
17 43 (1.40%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (6.22%) HTML
2 96 (3.13%) .NET
3 82 (2.67%) CSS
4 76 (2.48%) React
5 75 (2.44%) REST
6 71 (2.31%) Web Services
7 50 (1.63%) AngularJS
8 47 (1.53%) XML
9 39 (1.27%) Kafka
10 38 (1.24%) RESTful
11 34 (1.11%) Spring
12 31 (1.01%) JSON
13 28 (0.91%) .NET Framework
14 23 (0.75%) NumPy
15 22 (0.72%) ASP.NET
16 21 (0.68%) ARM Templates
16 21 (0.68%) Middleware
16 21 (0.68%) Pandas
17 20 (0.65%) Node.js
18 18 (0.59%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 228 (7.43%) Management Information System
2 175 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 103 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 90 (2.93%) PKI
6 67 (2.18%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.02%) Data Structures
8 61 (1.99%) Derivative
9 54 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.73%) FPGA
11 52 (1.69%) VHDL
12 51 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 42 (1.37%) Fixed Income
14 40 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 36 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
16 33 (1.08%) Clustering
16 33 (1.08%) CPLD
16 33 (1.08%) Life Science
17 32 (1.04%) Mobile App
18 30 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 335 (10.92%) Windows
2 181 (5.90%) Linux
3 109 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 102 (3.32%) Unix
5 89 (2.90%) Windows 10
6 46 (1.50%) Android
7 44 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 39 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 33 (1.08%) Windows 7
11 20 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.59%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.46%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.39%) Solaris
15 9 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.29%) VMS
16 7 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
18 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 995 (32.42%) Computer Science
2 784 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
3 642 (20.92%) Agile
4 437 (14.24%) Project Management
5 359 (11.70%) Software Engineering
6 293 (9.55%) Artificial Intelligence
7 285 (9.29%) DevOps
8 277 (9.03%) ITIL
9 267 (8.70%) Analytics
10 247 (8.05%) Code Quality
11 225 (7.33%) Decision-Making
12 224 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 223 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 208 (6.78%) Conversational UI
15 198 (6.45%) Migration
16 183 (5.96%) Roadmaps
17 181 (5.90%) Customer Service
18 175 (5.70%) Project Delivery
19 172 (5.60%) Business Intelligence
20 167 (5.44%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 491 (16.00%) SQL
2 449 (14.63%) Python
3 275 (8.96%) C#
4 273 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 206 (6.71%) Java
6 154 (5.02%) PowerShell
7 106 (3.45%) C++
8 67 (2.18%) C
9 52 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 47 (1.53%) Bash
11 41 (1.34%) MATLAB
12 36 (1.17%) R
13 27 (0.88%) VBA
14 24 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 24 (0.78%) VB
14 24 (0.78%) VBScript
15 23 (0.75%) Go
16 22 (0.72%) Bicep
16 22 (0.72%) Perl
17 21 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 659 (21.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 454 (14.79%) Security Cleared
3 360 (11.73%) Master's Degree
4 305 (9.94%) SC Cleared
5 178 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 121 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
7 91 (2.97%) PMI Certification
8 81 (2.64%) PMP
9 80 (2.61%) CCNA
10 79 (2.57%) PhD
11 78 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 73 (2.38%) CISSP
13 58 (1.89%) CCNP
14 54 (1.76%) Azure Certification
15 48 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
16 46 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
17 43 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
18 39 (1.27%) CISM
19 34 (1.11%) HND
20 29 (0.94%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (5.41%) QA
2 86 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.05%) SLA
4 59 (1.92%) GDPR
4 59 (1.92%) PMO
5 40 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 39 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 36 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.14%) NIST
9 16 (0.52%) GRC
10 14 (0.46%) GxP
11 13 (0.42%) MiFID
12 12 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
12 12 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
14 9 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.29%) COBIT
14 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.29%) P3O
14 9 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 253 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 106 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (2.38%) Docker
4 49 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.24%) Firmware
6 36 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 26 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 26 (0.85%) vSphere
9 20 (0.65%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.52%) KVM
11 15 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 12 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.13%) vCloud
14 4 (0.13%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.065%) NFS
15 2 (0.065%) XenApp
16 1 (0.033%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 118 (3.84%) SCCM
2 102 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 73 (2.38%) Terraform
4 56 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.47%) SCOM
6 41 (1.34%) WSUS
7 35 (1.14%) Ansible
8 26 (0.85%) NetBackup
8 26 (0.85%) vCenter Server
9 22 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
10 16 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.36%) Nagios
11 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
12 9 (0.29%) Grafana
12 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.26%) Kibana
13 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.23%) logstash
15 6 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 631 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 191 (6.22%) PayPal
3 165 (5.38%) SAP
4 164 (5.34%) Oracle
5 123 (4.01%) VMware
6 116 (3.78%) Cisco
7 98 (3.19%) Google
8 93 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 55 (1.79%) Adobe
9 55 (1.79%) EMC
10 54 (1.76%) Salesforce
11 41 (1.34%) HP
12 38 (1.24%) Juniper
13 36 (1.17%) Citrix
14 34 (1.11%) IBM
15 30 (0.98%) Databricks
16 27 (0.88%) Palo Alto
17 25 (0.81%) Atlassian
18 24 (0.78%) Alteryx
19 21 (0.68%) Bloomberg