Degree Contracts in East Sussex

Academic Degree
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Degree 7 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 6.31% - 6.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.28% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £523 - £500
25th Percentile £556 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.53%
75th Percentile £681 - £894
90th Percentile £708 - £975
South East median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.60% - +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Sussex

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in East Sussex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 57 4 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 51.35% 5.06% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 22
10th Percentile £263 £190 £450
25th Percentile £334 £261 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £588
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -34.04% +22.08%
75th Percentile £575 £503 £700
90th Percentile £638 £509 £770
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £28.25
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £32.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +29.14%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in East Sussex

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in East Sussex

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in East Sussex over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in East Sussex

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in East Sussex

Degree
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
Brighton - 5 £625 - 50
Eastbourne - 1 - - 22
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DSL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Graduate
2 1 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Graduate Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (14.29%) ISSEP
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) VMware