Degree Contracts in Essex

Academic Degree
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 11 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Degree 38 27 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 16.89% 11.25% 9.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.85% 36.00% 35.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 26
10th Percentile £105 £272 £369
25th Percentile £388 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.11% +14.20%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £563 £619
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £428
% change year-on-year - +16.82% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 3
10th Percentile £11.15 - £14.30
25th Percentile £20.73 £70.09 £17.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +192.40% -22.58%
75th Percentile £62.56 £70.26 £25.50
90th Percentile £64.25 - -
East of England median hourly rate £38.95 £57.06 £20.50
% change year-on-year -31.74% +178.35% -35.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 47 75 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 20.89% 31.25% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 43 71
10th Percentile £121 £120 £375
25th Percentile £363 £280 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -3.47% +15.11%
75th Percentile £625 £566 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
East of England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 6
10th Percentile £12.62 £56.63 £17.38
25th Percentile £35.65 £57.19 £22.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £27.48
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +131.99% -11.35%
75th Percentile £66.94 £69.13 £33.99
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.81 £35.10
East of England median hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% +7.69% -49.19%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Essex

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Essex

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Essex over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Essex

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Essex

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Essex over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Essex

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Essex region over the 6 months to 28 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
Basildon +7 17 £597 +19.40% 22
Chelmsford +8 5 £550 +44.36% 23
Brentwood -7 4 £350 - 1
Witham - 2 £475 -
Thurrock - 1 £550 - 2
Colchester - 1 £700 - 7
Degree
East of England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Luigi
2 1 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) GCP
2 6 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) LAN
1 3 (7.89%) WAN
2 2 (5.26%) Internet
2 2 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (5.26%) Wireless
3 1 (2.63%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) RTMP
3 1 (2.63%) RTP
3 1 (2.63%) RTSP
3 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Big Data
1 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) CMake
1 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Local Government
5 3 (7.89%) Electronics
5 3 (7.89%) Military
5 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.26%) Law
6 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Automotive
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) French Language
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Principal Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.89%) RF Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Automation Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Voice Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) React
2 1 (2.63%) CSS
2 1 (2.63%) FFmpeg
2 1 (2.63%) GStreamer
2 1 (2.63%) HTML
2 1 (2.63%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) NumPy
2 1 (2.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.53%) Clustering
3 3 (7.89%) Analogue Electronics
3 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.26%) NHS
4 2 (5.26%) Reinsurance
4 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) MPEG
5 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Windows 7
2 3 (7.89%) Windows 8
3 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.63%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (31.58%) Computer Science
3 9 (23.68%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) Data Science
4 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 8 (21.05%) TOGAF
5 7 (18.42%) Business Strategy
5 7 (18.42%) DevOps
5 7 (18.42%) Fintech
5 7 (18.42%) Identity Management
5 7 (18.42%) Migration
5 7 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (18.42%) Zachman Framework
6 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (15.79%) Systems Engineering
6 6 (15.79%) Technology Transformation
7 4 (10.53%) Image Processing
7 4 (10.53%) Model Validation
7 4 (10.53%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) Java
2 7 (18.42%) MATLAB
3 3 (7.89%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) C
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.89%) A+ Certification
4 3 (7.89%) CCNA
4 3 (7.89%) CCNP
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.89%) MCSA
4 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) CISSP
5 2 (5.26%) ECDL
5 2 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.63%) CISA
6 1 (2.63%) CISM
6 1 (2.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) Keysight
4 1 (2.63%) Cadence
4 1 (2.63%) Hortonworks
4 1 (2.63%) Informatica
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Teradata