Degree Contracts in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,151 3,395 4,339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.50% 6.78% 6.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.20% 24.41% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,662 2,087 2,660
10th Percentile £213 £300 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £543 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +4.42% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £631
90th Percentile £769 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% +7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 216 265
10th Percentile £14.06 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.10 £21.24 £20.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.16
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +24.45% -3.57%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.25 £65.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £37.13
% change year-on-year -11.11% +21.21% +1.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,583 13,910 15,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.25% 27.76% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,132 9,319 10,084
10th Percentile £310 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 745 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +1.34%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.25 £55.82
90th Percentile £77.14 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.53%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 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
London +7 1,438 £525 -8.70% 2,408
South East +13 501 £500 - 1,252
North of England +22 417 £450 -5.26% 1,067
South West +5 258 £530 -3.64% 649
Midlands +13 252 £425 -10.53% 848
North West +10 239 £500 +11.11% 626
East of England +6 186 £500 - 674
West Midlands +11 158 £513 +7.89% 527
Yorkshire +28 128 £450 -12.20% 323
East Midlands +8 93 £255 -44.86% 319
North East +40 49 £500 +80.18% 143
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
1 108 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 107 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (2.51%) Confluence
4 19 (0.60%) Apache
5 15 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.48%) CMS
6 13 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.41%) SAS
7 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.22%) IIS
8 7 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.16%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.095%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.095%) nginx
11 3 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.095%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 389 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 257 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 233 (7.39%) Chatbot
4 150 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 94 (2.98%) MS Visio
6 71 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.17%) Simulink
8 28 (0.89%) Photoshop
9 24 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 11 (0.35%) Stateflow
12 9 (0.29%) Sketch
13 8 (0.25%) AutoCAD
14 7 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
14 7 (0.22%) Revit
15 6 (0.19%) InDesign
15 6 (0.19%) Maya
16 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
16 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 47 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
4 15 (0.48%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.41%) Primavera
7 10 (0.32%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
8 9 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 8 (0.25%) Endur
9 8 (0.25%) ION MarketView
9 8 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.22%) SAP PM
11 6 (0.19%) ENOVIA
11 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.19%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 494 (15.68%) Azure
2 242 (7.68%) AWS
3 199 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 110 (3.49%) GCP
6 102 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (2.25%) SaaS
8 67 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (1.78%) Entra ID
10 47 (1.49%) GitHub
10 47 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 44 (1.40%) PaaS
12 41 (1.30%) Power Automate
13 40 (1.27%) Serverless
14 38 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (1.14%) IaaS
16 35 (1.11%) OCI
17 29 (0.92%) Snowflake
17 29 (0.92%) WhatsApp
18 26 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 131 (4.16%) Firewall
2 101 (3.21%) DNS
3 95 (3.01%) LAN
4 89 (2.82%) WAN
5 84 (2.67%) DHCP
6 56 (1.78%) VPN
7 52 (1.65%) SAN
7 52 (1.65%) SSL
8 49 (1.56%) TCP/IP
9 44 (1.40%) Ethernet
10 38 (1.21%) Network Security
11 35 (1.11%) Internet
12 34 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (1.02%) VoIP
14 30 (0.95%) Wireless
15 23 (0.73%) VLAN
16 22 (0.70%) BGP
17 21 (0.67%) MPLS
18 19 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
18 19 (0.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 102 (3.24%) Power BI
3 58 (1.84%) Tableau
4 54 (1.71%) Relational Database
5 52 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (1.52%) Big Data
8 45 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.08%) NoSQL
10 33 (1.05%) MySQL
11 31 (0.98%) Metadata
12 22 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 20 (0.63%) Data Mining
14 19 (0.60%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.57%) Hadoop
15 18 (0.57%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.54%) GIS
16 17 (0.54%) Oracle Database
17 16 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
18 12 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 171 (5.43%) JIRA
2 120 (3.81%) Git
3 55 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (1.02%) GitLab
6 26 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 20 (0.63%) TeamCity
7 20 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.48%) Gradle
9 14 (0.44%) Subversion
10 13 (0.41%) webpack
11 10 (0.32%) Maven
11 10 (0.32%) Selenium
12 9 (0.29%) JUnit
12 9 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.22%) ERwin
13 7 (0.22%) Mercurial
13 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,384 (43.92%) Social Skills
2 679 (21.55%) Finance
3 607 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 226 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 179 (5.68%) Telecoms
6 175 (5.55%) Banking
7 166 (5.27%) Marketing
8 142 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
9 126 (4.00%) Legal
10 105 (3.33%) Manufacturing
11 98 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
12 92 (2.92%) Front Office
12 92 (2.92%) Retail
13 86 (2.73%) Electronics
14 69 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
15 63 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
16 50 (1.59%) Aerospace
17 42 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
18 41 (1.30%) Law
19 40 (1.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 485 (15.39%) Developer
2 400 (12.69%) Analyst
3 321 (10.19%) Architect
4 258 (8.19%) Senior
5 236 (7.49%) Software Developer
6 180 (5.71%) Business Analyst
7 174 (5.52%) Lead
8 165 (5.24%) Project Manager
9 145 (4.60%) Consultant
10 102 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (3.01%) Software Engineer
12 76 (2.41%) Support Engineer
13 71 (2.25%) Designer
14 59 (1.87%) Network Engineer
15 51 (1.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 49 (1.56%) Java Developer
17 48 (1.52%) Systems Engineer
18 42 (1.33%) Administrator
18 42 (1.33%) Data Engineer
18 42 (1.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (6.03%) HTML
2 86 (2.73%) .NET
3 81 (2.57%) CSS
4 77 (2.44%) REST
5 73 (2.32%) React
6 68 (2.16%) Web Services
7 48 (1.52%) XML
8 45 (1.43%) AngularJS
9 35 (1.11%) Kafka
9 35 (1.11%) RESTful
10 34 (1.08%) JSON
11 31 (0.98%) Spring
12 27 (0.86%) NumPy
13 26 (0.83%) Pandas
14 23 (0.73%) .NET Framework
15 22 (0.70%) ASP.NET
16 20 (0.63%) ARM Templates
16 20 (0.63%) Node.js
17 19 (0.60%) Middleware
18 16 (0.51%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 235 (7.46%) Management Information System
2 182 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 106 (3.36%) Data Centre
4 105 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 89 (2.82%) PKI
6 65 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 64 (2.03%) Derivative
8 61 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 52 (1.65%) FPGA
9 52 (1.65%) VHDL
10 50 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 50 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.33%) Fixed Income
11 42 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 39 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
13 35 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
14 33 (1.05%) Clustering
14 33 (1.05%) CPLD
15 31 (0.98%) Driving Licence
16 30 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 353 (11.20%) Windows
2 175 (5.55%) Linux
3 107 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 98 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 97 (3.08%) Unix
6 48 (1.52%) Android
6 48 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 35 (1.11%) Windows 7
10 20 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 20 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.44%) Windows XP
12 12 (0.38%) Solaris
13 10 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.25%) VMS
16 6 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (0.19%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (31.42%) Computer Science
2 804 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
3 637 (20.22%) Agile
4 457 (14.50%) Project Management
5 358 (11.36%) Software Engineering
6 317 (10.06%) Artificial Intelligence
7 295 (9.36%) ITIL
8 274 (8.70%) Code Quality
9 269 (8.54%) DevOps
10 258 (8.19%) Analytics
11 236 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 233 (7.39%) Conversational UI
13 228 (7.24%) Decision-Making
14 226 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 207 (6.57%) Migration
16 194 (6.16%) Customer Service
17 186 (5.90%) Roadmaps
18 184 (5.84%) Project Delivery
19 166 (5.27%) Risk Management
20 163 (5.17%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 475 (15.07%) SQL
2 444 (14.09%) Python
3 274 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 271 (8.60%) C#
5 202 (6.41%) Java
6 151 (4.79%) PowerShell
7 107 (3.40%) C++
8 65 (2.06%) C
9 51 (1.62%) TypeScript
10 44 (1.40%) Bash
11 41 (1.30%) MATLAB
12 34 (1.08%) R
13 25 (0.79%) Scala
14 24 (0.76%) VBA
15 23 (0.73%) Perl
16 22 (0.70%) Go
17 21 (0.67%) Bicep
17 21 (0.67%) Shell Script
17 21 (0.67%) VB
17 21 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 652 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 475 (15.07%) Security Cleared
3 355 (11.27%) Master's Degree
4 318 (10.09%) SC Cleared
5 185 (5.87%) DV Cleared
6 125 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
7 93 (2.95%) PMI Certification
8 82 (2.60%) CCNA
9 81 (2.57%) PMP
10 80 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 79 (2.51%) CISSP
12 77 (2.44%) PhD
13 58 (1.84%) CCNP
14 53 (1.68%) Azure Certification
15 48 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
15 48 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
16 42 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
17 37 (1.17%) CISM
18 34 (1.08%) HND
19 30 (0.95%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (5.24%) QA
2 87 (2.76%) Data Quality
3 68 (2.16%) SLA
4 64 (2.03%) PMO
5 56 (1.78%) GDPR
6 42 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 37 (1.17%) NIST
8 37 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.54%) GRC
10 14 (0.44%) GxP
11 13 (0.41%) MiFID
12 12 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
12 12 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
14 10 (0.32%) COBIT
15 9 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 266 (8.44%) Active Directory
2 105 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (2.09%) Docker
4 50 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 40 (1.27%) Firmware
6 37 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 29 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 26 (0.83%) vSphere
10 20 (0.63%) VMware NSX
11 17 (0.54%) KVM
12 15 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
13 13 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.13%) vCloud
15 4 (0.13%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.063%) NFS
16 2 (0.063%) XenApp
17 1 (0.032%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 125 (3.97%) SCCM
2 88 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 69 (2.19%) Terraform
4 58 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.40%) SCOM
6 39 (1.24%) WSUS
7 31 (0.98%) Ansible
8 27 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.83%) NetBackup
10 21 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.32%) Nagios
13 10 (0.32%) PingFederate
14 9 (0.29%) Grafana
14 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.25%) Kibana
15 8 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.22%) logstash
17 6 (0.19%) Autotask
Vendors
1 646 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 218 (6.92%) PayPal
3 173 (5.49%) SAP
4 169 (5.36%) Oracle
5 125 (3.97%) VMware
6 120 (3.81%) Cisco
7 101 (3.21%) ServiceNow
8 94 (2.98%) Google
9 56 (1.78%) EMC
10 54 (1.71%) Adobe
11 51 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 47 (1.49%) HP
13 42 (1.33%) Juniper
14 38 (1.21%) Citrix
15 34 (1.08%) IBM
16 33 (1.05%) Palo Alto
17 29 (0.92%) Databricks
18 24 (0.76%) Atlassian
19 22 (0.70%) Alteryx
20 21 (0.67%) Red Hat