Degree Contracts in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,960 3,056 3,214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.39% 8.20% 6.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.90% 26.89% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 1,671 2,009
10th Percentile £250 £235 £306
25th Percentile £378 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £635 £675
90th Percentile £765 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 351 171
10th Percentile £20.05 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £27.34 £25.50 £26.37
Median hourly rate £44.00 £41.50 £48.99
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -15.29% +34.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £61.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.32 £74.00 £83.31
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £40.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +36.99%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,202 11,364 13,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.93% 30.49% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,173 7,050 8,689
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.81% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 986 641
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +34.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £77.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.53 £40.97 £55.25
% change year-on-year -32.80% -25.85% +24.16%

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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
London -4 1,025 £550 +4.76% 13,342
North of England -9 241 £450 -11.96% 2,787
South East -12 226 £478 -4.50% 3,085
Midlands -7 177 £381 -14.80% 1,935
North West -12 146 £456 -13.24% 1,651
South West -4 127 £475 -9.52% 1,366
West Midlands -2 126 £419 -11.84% 1,176
East of England 0 117 £500 +17.65% 1,687
Yorkshire -6 76 £447 -9.70% 894
East Midlands -9 51 £356 +34.34% 744
North East -11 19 £195 -61.95% 252
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 85 (4.34%) Confluence
1 85 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 73 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 17 (0.87%) CMS
5 12 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.46%) Apache
7 8 (0.41%) GemFire
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle Coherence
7 8 (0.41%) SAS
8 7 (0.36%) IIS
8 7 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.26%) Camunda
9 5 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.20%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.20%) Moodle
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 212 (10.82%) Microsoft Office
2 176 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 101 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (4.39%) Microsoft Project
5 56 (2.86%) MS Visio
6 17 (0.87%) Simulink
7 15 (0.77%) Trello
8 11 (0.56%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.41%) Windchill
10 6 (0.31%) Adobe Captivate
10 6 (0.31%) Maya
10 6 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
11 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.20%) Revit
13 3 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Camtasia
13 3 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 3 (0.15%) Stateflow
14 2 (0.10%) CATIA
14 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 43 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
4 14 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
5 9 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.41%) Endur
7 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.36%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.31%) Primavera
8 6 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 6 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.26%) Maximo
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 343 (17.50%) Azure
2 257 (13.11%) AWS
3 137 (6.99%) Power Platform
4 115 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
5 99 (5.05%) GCP
6 69 (3.52%) SaaS
7 53 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 43 (2.19%) GitHub
10 40 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
11 33 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (1.68%) Serverless
12 32 (1.63%) Amazon S3
13 27 (1.38%) PaaS
14 24 (1.22%) OCI
15 23 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (1.12%) OneDrive
16 22 (1.12%) Snowflake
17 21 (1.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (5.66%) Firewall
2 98 (5.00%) VPN
3 81 (4.13%) DNS
4 61 (3.11%) Network Security
5 41 (2.09%) DHCP
5 41 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 40 (2.04%) WAN
7 37 (1.89%) Wireless
8 34 (1.73%) LAN
9 29 (1.48%) BGP
10 26 (1.33%) MPLS
11 22 (1.12%) OSPF
12 21 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (1.02%) Internet
14 19 (0.97%) IPsec
14 19 (0.97%) Unified Communications
15 17 (0.87%) Skype
16 16 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
17 15 (0.77%) WLAN
18 14 (0.71%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.87%) Power BI
2 73 (3.72%) SQL Server
3 63 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (3.16%) Tableau
5 59 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (3.01%) Relational Database
6 52 (2.65%) Big Data
7 37 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 36 (1.84%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 23 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (1.17%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.07%) MySQL
12 20 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
13 19 (0.97%) Redis
14 17 (0.87%) Metadata
15 15 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (0.77%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.56%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 189 (9.64%) JIRA
2 76 (3.88%) Git
3 67 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.53%) GitLab
5 20 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 20 (1.02%) Selenium
6 14 (0.71%) JUnit
7 9 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.46%) ERwin
7 9 (0.46%) Gradle
7 9 (0.46%) MLflow
7 9 (0.46%) Postman
8 8 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.41%) Subversion
8 8 (0.41%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.31%) Maven
10 6 (0.31%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,023 (52.19%) Social Skills
2 635 (32.40%) Finance
3 518 (26.43%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (9.64%) Banking
5 107 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 97 (4.95%) Marketing
7 95 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
8 77 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 74 (3.78%) Manufacturing
10 73 (3.72%) Telecoms
11 69 (3.52%) Legal
12 59 (3.01%) Front Office
13 54 (2.76%) Investment Banking
14 52 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
15 49 (2.50%) Financial Institution
16 44 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
17 41 (2.09%) Electronics
18 37 (1.89%) Retail
19 35 (1.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 253 (12.91%) Analyst
2 226 (11.53%) Developer
3 217 (11.07%) Senior
4 137 (6.99%) Architect
5 134 (6.84%) Business Analyst
6 108 (5.51%) Lead
7 97 (4.95%) Project Manager
8 78 (3.98%) Support Engineer
9 76 (3.88%) Consultant
10 63 (3.21%) Network Engineer
11 49 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (2.35%) Java Developer
13 42 (2.14%) Senior Developer
14 40 (2.04%) Software Engineer
15 37 (1.89%) Data Engineer
15 37 (1.89%) Desktop Support
15 37 (1.89%) Security Engineer
16 33 (1.68%) Desktop Engineer
17 32 (1.63%) IT Manager
18 30 (1.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (4.03%) HTML
2 66 (3.37%) .NET
3 62 (3.16%) CSS
4 59 (3.01%) REST
5 52 (2.65%) Kafka
6 45 (2.30%) Web Services
7 40 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 37 (1.89%) React
9 33 (1.68%) TensorFlow
10 32 (1.63%) Middleware
11 28 (1.43%) Pandas
11 28 (1.43%) PyTorch
12 26 (1.33%) Spring
13 21 (1.07%) RESTful
13 21 (1.07%) SOAP
14 19 (0.97%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (0.97%) Node.js
15 18 (0.92%) NumPy
15 18 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
15 18 (0.92%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 169 (8.62%) Management Information System
2 89 (4.54%) Product Ownership
3 65 (3.32%) Algorithms
4 48 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 45 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 44 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 42 (2.14%) Derivative
8 41 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 38 (1.94%) PKI
9 38 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 36 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 33 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 32 (1.63%) Cloud Native
13 30 (1.53%) PMI
14 25 (1.28%) CMDB
14 25 (1.28%) Life Science
15 24 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
15 24 (1.22%) Fixed Income
16 23 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 154 (7.86%) Windows
2 112 (5.71%) Linux
3 49 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.17%) Unix
6 17 (0.87%) Android
7 16 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.20%) AIX
11 4 (0.20%) CentOS
11 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (41.48%) Computer Science
2 636 (32.45%) Problem-Solving
3 540 (27.55%) Agile
4 345 (17.60%) Project Management
5 229 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 222 (11.33%) DevOps
7 210 (10.71%) Analytics
8 180 (9.18%) ITIL
9 169 (8.62%) CI/CD
10 166 (8.47%) Decision-Making
11 157 (8.01%) Migration
12 155 (7.91%) Software Engineering
13 153 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
14 151 (7.70%) Change Management
14 151 (7.70%) Risk Management
15 150 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 146 (7.45%) Scrum
17 141 (7.19%) Artificial Intelligence
18 138 (7.04%) Data Analysis
19 136 (6.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 367 (18.72%) Python
2 302 (15.41%) SQL
3 212 (10.82%) Java
4 101 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.39%) PowerShell
6 82 (4.18%) C++
7 70 (3.57%) C#
8 44 (2.24%) Bash
9 41 (2.09%) R
10 27 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 25 (1.28%) C
12 19 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.92%) Perl
14 17 (0.87%) Go
15 16 (0.82%) MATLAB
15 16 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 15 (0.77%) PHP
17 13 (0.66%) Apex Code
18 12 (0.61%) Ruby
18 12 (0.61%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 516 (26.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 256 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 241 (12.30%) Master's Degree
4 196 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 119 (6.07%) PMI Certification
6 104 (5.31%) PMP
7 91 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 72 (3.67%) CISSP
10 68 (3.47%) PhD
11 61 (3.11%) CCNA
12 57 (2.91%) CCNP
13 48 (2.45%) DV Cleared
14 47 (2.40%) Numerate Degree
15 45 (2.30%) Azure Certification
16 44 (2.24%) AWS Certification
17 40 (2.04%) CISM
18 29 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
19 26 (1.33%) CBAP
20 23 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.10%) QA
2 94 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (3.06%) NIST
5 57 (2.91%) GDPR
6 43 (2.19%) PMO
7 34 (1.73%) Accessibility
8 20 (1.02%) SLA
9 17 (0.87%) HIPAA
9 17 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.71%) GRC
11 13 (0.66%) COBIT
11 13 (0.66%) NCSC
11 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.61%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 10 (0.51%) MiFID
15 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.41%) WCAG
16 7 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 127 (6.48%) Active Directory
2 80 (4.08%) Docker
3 43 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 25 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (0.92%) BitLocker
7 16 (0.82%) Firmware
8 12 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
9 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.46%) Terminal Services
11 8 (0.41%) GridGain
12 7 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.20%) vSphere
15 2 (0.10%) iptables
15 2 (0.10%) XenApp
16 1 (0.051%) OpenAM
16 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 99 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.93%) Ansible
3 67 (3.42%) Terraform
4 40 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.17%) SCCM
6 21 (1.07%) vCenter Server
7 17 (0.87%) Puppet
8 16 (0.82%) Grafana
9 14 (0.71%) WSUS
10 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.46%) Nagios
11 9 (0.46%) vMotion
12 8 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.20%) CASB
13 4 (0.20%) Nessus
13 4 (0.20%) SCOM
14 3 (0.15%) Control-M
14 3 (0.15%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 392 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 126 (6.43%) Oracle
3 123 (6.28%) SAP
4 115 (5.87%) ServiceNow
5 104 (5.31%) Cisco
6 88 (4.49%) Google
7 66 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 51 (2.60%) VMware
9 37 (1.89%) Citrix
10 32 (1.63%) Atlassian
11 30 (1.53%) Databricks
12 29 (1.48%) Adobe
13 23 (1.17%) IBM
13 23 (1.17%) Splunk
13 23 (1.17%) Workday
14 21 (1.07%) Apple
15 19 (0.97%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.92%) F5
16 18 (0.92%) Fortinet
17 17 (0.87%) HP