Degree Contracts in Hampshire

Academic Degree
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 34 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Degree 60 73 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.00% 4.98% 7.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.33% 7.85% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 16 63
10th Percentile £380 £346 £232
25th Percentile £463 £400 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +2.04% +3.16%
75th Percentile £584 £647 £644
90th Percentile £588 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% -3.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 48 17
10th Percentile £24.62 - £16.70
25th Percentile £41.00 £53.40 £50.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.35 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.78% -7.50% +22.68%
75th Percentile - £61.30 £75.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 £78.50
South East median hourly rate £58.38 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% -4.42% +33.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 581 930 707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 58.10% 63.48% 55.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 611 409
10th Percentile £313 £400 £270
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £582 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +10.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £615
90th Percentile £650 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 71 49
10th Percentile - £26.25 £28.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £53.40 £54.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% -7.50% +3.33%
75th Percentile £69.65 £65.00 £73.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £26.65 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -53.53% -4.42% +33.33%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Hampshire

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Hampshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Hampshire

Degree
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Farnborough +18 17 £490 +48.26% 28
Basingstoke +12 11 £575 -8.00% 20
Portsmouth -15 11 £408 - 32
Southampton +8 6 £450 -12.96% 50
Fleet - 5 £492 - 5
Fareham +1 4 £475 +26.67% 15
Winchester +6 1 £485 +38.57% 8
Eastleigh -5 1 £500 - 5
Havant - 1 - -
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Trello
3 1 (1.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.33%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 10 (16.67%) GCP
4 8 (13.33%) IaaS
4 8 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 8 (13.33%) PaaS
5 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.00%) AWS KMS
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.00%) Serverless
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.67%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.33%) Firewall
2 15 (25.00%) VPN
3 8 (13.33%) DHCP
3 8 (13.33%) DNS
3 8 (13.33%) SMTP
4 7 (11.67%) Network Security
5 3 (5.00%) SSL
6 1 (1.67%) FTP
6 1 (1.67%) Internet
6 1 (1.67%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.67%) VoIP
6 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.33%) Big Data
1 8 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.67%) Aviation
5 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.33%) Banking
8 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Electronics
8 2 (3.33%) Legal
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Automotive
9 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Architect
2 8 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Desktop Support
4 6 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) ERP Implementation Manager
5 5 (8.33%) ERP Manager
5 5 (8.33%) Implementation Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior
7 3 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Network Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Requirements Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) Web Services
2 2 (3.33%) CSS
2 2 (3.33%) HTML
2 2 (3.33%) Kafka
2 2 (3.33%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.67%) Middleware
3 1 (1.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) PKI
2 9 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (13.33%) Clustering
4 7 (11.67%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.33%) FPGA
6 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.67%) CMDB
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.67%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.67%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.67%) Life Science
7 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.67%) PMI
7 1 (1.67%) Replication
7 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Windows
2 12 (20.00%) Linux
3 8 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (31.67%) Agile
3 18 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 13 (21.67%) DevOps
4 13 (21.67%) Migration
5 12 (20.00%) Project Management
6 11 (18.33%) Validation
7 10 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (13.33%) Machine Learning
8 8 (13.33%) PRINCE2
8 8 (13.33%) Software Deployment
9 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (11.67%) ITIL
9 7 (11.67%) Network Architecture
9 7 (11.67%) Storage Management
10 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 6 (10.00%) ERP
10 6 (10.00%) Inventory Control
10 6 (10.00%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) SQL
4 2 (3.33%) Apex Code
4 2 (3.33%) Bash
4 2 (3.33%) Java
4 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.33%) Scala
5 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (28.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (23.33%) DV Cleared
5 9 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (11.67%) CCNA
6 7 (11.67%) CCNP
6 7 (11.67%) PMP
7 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (5.00%) CISSP
8 3 (5.00%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (5.00%) IIBA
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.33%) CASP
9 2 (3.33%) CCIE
9 2 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (3.33%) GCIH
9 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GDPR
1 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.00%) QA
3 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) GxP
4 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.67%) NIST
4 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.67%) PMBOK
4 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (16.67%) Docker
4 8 (13.33%) BitLocker
4 8 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 8 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (13.33%) Terminal Services
4 8 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.00%) Ansible
3 8 (13.33%) Nagios
3 8 (13.33%) Puppet
3 8 (13.33%) vCenter Server
3 8 (13.33%) vMotion
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) Citrix
2 11 (18.33%) VMware
3 8 (13.33%) Google
3 8 (13.33%) HP
3 8 (13.33%) Symantec
4 3 (5.00%) Thales
5 2 (3.33%) ArcSight
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco
5 2 (3.33%) Mentor Graphics
5 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) Cellebrite
6 1 (1.67%) Cognos
6 1 (1.67%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.67%) Niku
6 1 (1.67%) Splunk