Degree Contracts in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,850 1,641 2,104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.03% 7.00% 6.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.50% 21.24% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 958 1,225
10th Percentile £181 £212 £189
25th Percentile £325 £376 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +5.83% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £712 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 172 175
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.77 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.84 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +28.57% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £72.75 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,550 7,726 7,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.93% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,173 5,169
10th Percentile £270 £287 £255
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £712 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 644 522
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.94 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.52
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +56.79% -7.67%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £55.96
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +12 497 £500 - 1,229
North of England +20 413 £475 - 1,157
South West +5 261 £530 -3.64% 674
Midlands +11 249 £411 -13.58% 929
North West +10 237 £500 +11.11% 661
Scotland +15 200 £475 +15.11% 329
East of England +7 182 £500 - 708
West Midlands +8 157 £488 +2.63% 583
Yorkshire +28 126 £450 -14.29% 363
East Midlands +8 91 £255 -45.60% 345
North East +34 49 £450 +62.16% 152
Wales +9 35 £530 +3.41% 139
Northern Ireland +11 24 £400 - 70
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 86 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 54 (2.92%) Confluence
4 12 (0.65%) Apache
5 10 (0.54%) SAS
5 10 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.38%) CMS
7 5 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) Moodle
11 1 (0.054%) WordPress
Applications
1 266 (14.38%) Microsoft Office
2 219 (11.84%) Chatbot
3 161 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 79 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
6 35 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 35 (1.89%) Simulink
7 19 (1.03%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.86%) Acrobat
9 15 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.59%) Stateflow
11 10 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.27%) Maya
12 5 (0.27%) TargetLink
13 4 (0.22%) Blender
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
14 3 (0.16%) InVision
14 3 (0.16%) MicroStation
14 3 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 31 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.27%) Primavera
5 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.22%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.16%) Magento
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 230 (12.43%) Azure
2 114 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
3 107 (5.78%) AWS
4 58 (3.14%) Power Platform
5 34 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (1.78%) Entra ID
7 31 (1.68%) SaaS
8 29 (1.57%) GCP
9 26 (1.41%) PaaS
10 23 (1.24%) Snowflake
11 21 (1.14%) IaaS
12 20 (1.08%) OCI
13 19 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (0.92%) GitHub
15 16 (0.86%) Azure Storage
15 16 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (0.59%) Power Automate
18 9 (0.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 96 (5.19%) Firewall
2 81 (4.38%) DNS
3 70 (3.78%) DHCP
3 70 (3.78%) LAN
4 56 (3.03%) WAN
5 51 (2.76%) SSL
6 44 (2.38%) SAN
7 43 (2.32%) Ethernet
8 38 (2.05%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.78%) VPN
10 28 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.30%) Wireless
12 20 (1.08%) VoIP
13 19 (1.03%) Internet
14 16 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 15 (0.81%) MPLS
15 15 (0.81%) Network Security
15 15 (0.81%) VLAN
16 12 (0.65%) BGP
16 12 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.22%) Power BI
3 32 (1.73%) Tableau
4 27 (1.46%) Metadata
5 22 (1.19%) MySQL
6 17 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 15 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.76%) Big Data
8 14 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.76%) Oracle Database
9 11 (0.59%) Data Mining
10 9 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
11 8 (0.43%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.38%) PowerPivot
13 6 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.32%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 105 (5.68%) JIRA
2 55 (2.97%) Git
3 35 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
4 22 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 15 (0.81%) Subversion
7 10 (0.54%) GitLab
7 10 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
8 7 (0.38%) JUnit
9 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.27%) Mercurial
10 5 (0.27%) Selenium
10 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.22%) Gradle
11 4 (0.22%) JMeter
11 4 (0.22%) TestRail
12 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.16%) Travis CI
General
1 709 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 308 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
3 249 (13.46%) Finance
4 167 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 139 (7.51%) Telecoms
6 87 (4.70%) Manufacturing
7 79 (4.27%) Legal
8 78 (4.22%) Electronics
9 77 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
10 73 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
11 66 (3.57%) Marketing
12 51 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 45 (2.43%) Aerospace
14 44 (2.38%) Banking
15 37 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.84%) Mandarin Language
17 29 (1.57%) Automotive
18 28 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 26 (1.41%) Local Government
19 26 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 281 (15.19%) Developer
2 226 (12.22%) Analyst
3 222 (12.00%) Software Developer
4 203 (10.97%) Architect
5 132 (7.14%) Senior
6 126 (6.81%) Project Manager
7 99 (5.35%) Lead
8 80 (4.32%) Business Analyst
9 62 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (2.76%) Software Engineer
10 51 (2.76%) Support Engineer
11 47 (2.54%) Designer
12 46 (2.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (2.11%) Systems Engineer
14 38 (2.05%) Network Engineer
15 34 (1.84%) Consultant
15 34 (1.84%) Digital Designer
16 33 (1.78%) FPGA Designer
16 33 (1.78%) VHDL Designer
17 31 (1.68%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (7.46%) HTML
2 50 (2.70%) Web Services
3 28 (1.51%) CSS
4 26 (1.41%) .NET
5 20 (1.08%) XML
6 18 (0.97%) React
7 17 (0.92%) ARM Templates
8 15 (0.81%) DirectX
8 15 (0.81%) OpenGL
8 15 (0.81%) OpenGL ES
8 15 (0.81%) REST
8 15 (0.81%) Spring
8 15 (0.81%) Vulkan
9 14 (0.76%) Kafka
10 12 (0.65%) Middleware
10 12 (0.65%) RESTful
11 11 (0.59%) .NET Framework
11 11 (0.59%) Flash
12 10 (0.54%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.54%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 134 (7.24%) Management Information System
2 131 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
3 85 (4.59%) PKI
4 71 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 55 (2.97%) FPGA
6 52 (2.81%) VHDL
7 41 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 34 (1.84%) Product Ownership
9 33 (1.78%) CPLD
10 30 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
11 28 (1.51%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.35%) Clustering
13 23 (1.24%) CSOC
13 23 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.14%) Life Science
15 20 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
16 17 (0.92%) Verilog
17 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
17 16 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 255 (13.78%) Windows
2 129 (6.97%) Linux
3 89 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 72 (3.89%) Windows 10
5 61 (3.30%) Unix
6 43 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 27 (1.46%) Windows 7
10 20 (1.08%) Android
11 14 (0.76%) Windows XP
12 13 (0.70%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
14 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.32%) Solaris
16 5 (0.27%) Apple iOS
17 4 (0.22%) SafeRTOS
18 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
19 2 (0.11%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
2 402 (21.73%) Computer Science
3 318 (17.19%) Agile
4 269 (14.54%) Project Management
5 247 (13.35%) Artificial Intelligence
6 231 (12.49%) Code Quality
7 219 (11.84%) Conversational UI
8 212 (11.46%) Software Engineering
9 210 (11.35%) ITIL
10 165 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 145 (7.84%) Decision-Making
12 144 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 133 (7.19%) Analytics
14 126 (6.81%) Customer Service
15 119 (6.43%) Migration
16 117 (6.32%) DevOps
17 113 (6.11%) Roadmaps
18 108 (5.84%) Project Delivery
19 104 (5.62%) Time Management
20 100 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 230 (12.43%) SQL
2 219 (11.84%) Python
3 162 (8.76%) C#
4 157 (8.49%) JavaScript
5 105 (5.68%) PowerShell
6 57 (3.08%) Java
7 52 (2.81%) C
8 40 (2.16%) C++
9 35 (1.89%) MATLAB
10 18 (0.97%) VB
11 17 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
12 16 (0.86%) Bicep
12 16 (0.86%) VBScript
13 15 (0.81%) R
14 14 (0.76%) Perl
14 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.70%) Bash
15 13 (0.70%) PHP
16 12 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 381 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 241 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 170 (9.19%) DV Cleared
5 157 (8.49%) Master's Degree
6 86 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (3.41%) CCNA
8 53 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 50 (2.70%) PMI Certification
10 46 (2.49%) PMP
11 43 (2.32%) CCNP
12 36 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.95%) HND
13 31 (1.68%) CISSP
14 29 (1.57%) PhD
15 28 (1.51%) NVQ Level 3
16 27 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
17 26 (1.41%) MCSE
18 24 (1.30%) HNC
18 24 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.95%) QA
2 48 (2.59%) SLA
3 45 (2.43%) GDPR
4 34 (1.84%) Data Quality
5 30 (1.62%) PMO
6 20 (1.08%) NIST
7 19 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
9 15 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
10 12 (0.65%) GxP
11 8 (0.43%) GRC
12 6 (0.32%) COBIT
12 6 (0.32%) MISRA
12 6 (0.32%) MISRA C
13 5 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
13 5 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.27%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.22%) PMBOK
System Software
1 216 (11.68%) Active Directory
2 91 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.05%) Hyper-V
4 37 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (1.89%) Firmware
6 28 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (1.35%) vSphere
8 21 (1.14%) Docker
9 20 (1.08%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
11 9 (0.49%) KVM
12 5 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.22%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.11%) NFS
16 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.054%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 105 (5.68%) SCCM
2 41 (2.22%) SCOM
3 38 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 36 (1.95%) WSUS
5 32 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 29 (1.57%) vCenter Server
8 26 (1.41%) NetBackup
9 18 (0.97%) Ansible
10 16 (0.86%) EMC NetWorker
11 15 (0.81%) Terraform
12 9 (0.49%) Argo
12 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
12 9 (0.49%) Nagios
13 8 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.32%) Autotask
15 6 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.32%) OpenView
16 4 (0.22%) OPNET
Vendors
1 371 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 216 (11.68%) PayPal
3 112 (6.05%) SAP
4 106 (5.73%) VMware
5 76 (4.11%) Oracle
6 72 (3.89%) Cisco
7 54 (2.92%) EMC
8 46 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 43 (2.32%) Atlassian
9 43 (2.32%) HP
10 37 (2.00%) Adobe
11 36 (1.95%) Google
12 32 (1.73%) Juniper
13 23 (1.24%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.19%) IBM
15 21 (1.14%) Alteryx
16 19 (1.03%) Dell
17 18 (0.97%) Veeam
17 18 (0.97%) Xilinx
18 17 (0.92%) Intel