Degree Contracts in the South West

Academic Degree
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 23 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -15
Contract jobs citing Degree 252 273 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.96% 7.50% 5.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.04% 14.26% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 177 144
10th Percentile £160 £396 £259
25th Percentile £450 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +12.82% +10.22%
75th Percentile £688 £651 £575
90th Percentile £713 £725 £675
England median daily rate £512 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 35 25
10th Percentile £35.78 £43.33 £45.08
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.75 £48.48
Median hourly rate £57.33 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £72.50 £83.31 £69.05
90th Percentile £78.09 £83.40 £73.43
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -5.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,795 1,915 1,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.68% 52.60% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,408 1,075
10th Percentile £353 £382 £321
25th Percentile £465 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +11.01% +9.47%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £618
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 162 94
10th Percentile £21.00 £39.55 £35.18
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.25 £51.27
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.58
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.56% +36.83%
75th Percentile £72.50 £79.94 £68.23
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.61 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the South West

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the South West

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South West 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
Bristol +18 106 £530 +0.95% 230
Wiltshire -21 60 £550 -4.35% 68
Gloucestershire -7 22 £588 +12.44% 72
Somerset +17 20 £566 +183.00% 109
Devon 0 16 £166 -69.82% 81
Dorset +9 15 £763 +37.08% 47
Cornwall +5 13 £150 - 6
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (7.94%) Confluence
2 13 (5.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.38%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 24 (9.52%) Chatbot
2 21 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.59%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.40%) InVision
8 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.19%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (1.19%) SAP PLM
2 3 (1.19%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.79%) Magento
3 2 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.40%) Primavera
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.40%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.71%) Azure
2 13 (5.16%) AWS
3 9 (3.57%) PaaS
3 9 (3.57%) SaaS
4 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.98%) Azure Stack
5 5 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.59%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.79%) IaaS
8 2 (0.79%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.79%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.40%) GCP
9 1 (0.40%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.40%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.54%) WAN
2 15 (5.95%) LAN
3 14 (5.56%) DNS
4 12 (4.76%) DHCP
5 9 (3.57%) VSAN
5 9 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (3.17%) Firewall
6 8 (3.17%) MPLS
6 8 (3.17%) SAN
7 7 (2.78%) PBX
7 7 (2.78%) VoIP
8 5 (1.98%) BGP
9 4 (1.59%) Junos
9 4 (1.59%) SDH
9 4 (1.59%) Skype
9 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.79%) HTTP
10 2 (0.79%) RTP
10 2 (0.79%) SMTP
10 2 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.59%) MySQL
3 3 (1.19%) Power BI
4 2 (0.79%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.79%) Metadata
4 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.79%) SQLite
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.40%) Flink
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (9.52%) JIRA
2 19 (7.54%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.59%) Git
4 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.79%) Checkstyle
5 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.40%) GoCD
6 1 (0.40%) Maven
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 92 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.27%) Telecoms
4 39 (15.48%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.94%) Aerospace
6 16 (6.35%) Finance
7 12 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.57%) Military
9 7 (2.78%) Digital Economy
10 6 (2.38%) Electronics
10 6 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.59%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.59%) Marketing
12 4 (1.59%) Multimedia
12 4 (1.59%) Publishing
13 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 59 (23.41%) Architect
2 32 (12.70%) Analyst
2 32 (12.70%) Developer
3 27 (10.71%) Software Developer
4 25 (9.92%) Lead
5 24 (9.52%) Systems Architect
6 20 (7.94%) Network Architect
7 19 (7.54%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (6.75%) Lead Architect
9 16 (6.35%) SOC Analyst
10 14 (5.56%) Senior
11 10 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.97%) IT Analyst
11 10 (3.97%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.17%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (3.17%) SOC Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.75%) HTML
2 6 (2.38%) Flash
3 5 (1.98%) .NET
3 5 (1.98%) .NET Framework
3 5 (1.98%) CSS
4 4 (1.59%) Middleware
4 4 (1.59%) REST
5 3 (1.19%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.19%) JSON
5 3 (1.19%) XML
6 2 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.79%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.79%) PySpark
6 2 (0.79%) React
7 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.40%) CSS3
7 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.40%) OSGi
7 1 (0.40%) pytest
7 1 (0.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.13%) CSOC
2 22 (8.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 21 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (5.56%) Clustering
5 12 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.97%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.17%) Client/Server
8 7 (2.78%) Blackberry
8 7 (2.78%) PKI
8 7 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (2.38%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.98%) Animation
10 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.59%) Life Science
12 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.79%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.40%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 41 (16.27%) Windows
2 14 (5.56%) Linux
3 10 (3.97%) Unix
4 8 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.59%) SafeRTOS
5 4 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.79%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Android
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (21.43%) Computer Science
2 49 (19.44%) Agile
3 48 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (16.27%) ITIL
5 40 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (15.87%) Project Management
6 33 (13.10%) Network Management
7 32 (12.70%) Analytics
7 32 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (12.30%) Decision-Making
9 27 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 27 (10.71%) Code Quality
10 26 (10.32%) SIEM
10 26 (10.32%) Time Management
11 24 (9.52%) Conversational UI
11 24 (9.52%) Incident Response
11 24 (9.52%) Security Operations
11 24 (9.52%) Software Engineering
11 24 (9.52%) TOGAF
11 24 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.11%) SQL
2 21 (8.33%) Python
3 18 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.95%) C#
6 6 (2.38%) Java
7 5 (1.98%) C
8 3 (1.19%) R
9 2 (0.79%) PHP
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) C++
10 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (50.79%) Security Cleared
2 80 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 67 (26.59%) DV Cleared
4 28 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (9.52%) Master's Degree
5 24 (9.52%) SANS
6 19 (7.54%) HND
7 18 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (3.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (3.17%) CCNP
11 7 (2.78%) CCNA
12 6 (2.38%) CISSP
12 6 (2.38%) HNC
13 5 (1.98%) CISM
14 4 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (1.59%) JNCIA
15 3 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
15 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.16%) QA
1 13 (5.16%) SLA
2 6 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.98%) Government Security Classifications
3 5 (1.98%) NIST
4 3 (1.19%) GMP
4 3 (1.19%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.19%) RMADS
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) NCSC
5 2 (0.79%) PMO
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) ISA99
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (12.30%) Active Directory
2 25 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 10 (3.97%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (3.17%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.40%) Docker
8 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 23 (9.13%) SCCM
2 9 (3.57%) SCOM
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (3.17%) Nagios
3 8 (3.17%) NetBackup
3 8 (3.17%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.59%) Ansible
5 3 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.19%) OPNET
5 3 (1.19%) Terraform
6 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.79%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.79%) WSUS
7 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.71%) VMware
3 24 (9.52%) PayPal
4 19 (7.54%) Cisco
5 18 (7.14%) Atlassian
6 17 (6.75%) SAP
7 13 (5.16%) IBM
8 12 (4.76%) Adobe
9 11 (4.37%) Juniper
9 11 (4.37%) Nokia
10 9 (3.57%) Google
11 8 (3.17%) Hitachi
11 8 (3.17%) NetApp
12 7 (2.78%) Avaya
12 7 (2.78%) Ericsson
12 7 (2.78%) Ribbon
13 6 (2.38%) Sparx
14 4 (1.59%) Ciena
14 4 (1.59%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.59%) SolarWinds