Degree Contracts in Hertfordshire

Academic Degree
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 29 23
Rank change year-on-year +21 -6 -13
Contract jobs citing Degree 44 47 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.79% 5.60% 7.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.35% 15.99% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 24
10th Percentile £450 £356 £466
25th Percentile £559 £391 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £488 £700
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.36% +75.00%
75th Percentile £675 £506 £750
90th Percentile - £541 £851
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 15
10th Percentile £49.77 £35.00 £53.31
25th Percentile £68.75 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +32.65%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £86.00 - £69.20
East of England median hourly rate £72.50 £38.95 £57.06
% change year-on-year +86.14% -31.74% +178.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 136 294 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 42.63% 35.00% 46.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 116 204
10th Percentile £401 £206 £273
25th Percentile £479 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -8.05% +20.83%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £719 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 88 84
10th Percentile £39.30 £38.64 £49.00
25th Percentile £53.13 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.79% -31.20% +11.61%
75th Percentile £81.73 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £74.28
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Hertfordshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Hertfordshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Hertfordshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Hertfordshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Hertfordshire

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Stevenage +27 27 £490 +30.67% 53
Harpenden - 2 - -
Letchworth - 2 - - 1
Watford +7 1 £425 +6.25% 35
Degree
East of England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 12 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Simulink
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.55%) OrCAD
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (4.55%) Cohesity
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) SpaceWire
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) Skype
3 1 (2.27%) Firewall
3 1 (2.27%) Internet
3 1 (2.27%) RS-232
3 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Big Data
2 12 (27.27%) Hadoop
2 12 (27.27%) Tableau
3 4 (9.09%) Data Mining
3 4 (9.09%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 16 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.82%) Electronics
3 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Local Government
4 2 (4.55%) Military
4 2 (4.55%) Police
4 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.27%) Aviation
5 1 (2.27%) Avionics
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Design Engineer
1 13 (29.55%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 13 (29.55%) FPGA Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Data Science Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior
3 10 (22.73%) Senior Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Electrical Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Principal Advisor
6 2 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Communications Officer
7 1 (2.27%) Designer
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle Programme Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.27%) Matplotlib
1 12 (27.27%) NumPy
1 12 (27.27%) Pandas
1 12 (27.27%) PyTorch
1 12 (27.27%) scikit-learn
1 12 (27.27%) Seaborn
1 12 (27.27%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) FPGA
1 13 (29.55%) Verilog
1 13 (29.55%) VHDL
2 12 (27.27%) Algorithms
3 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (9.09%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.55%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (4.55%) Smartcard
5 2 (4.55%) YubiKey
6 1 (2.27%) CAN bus
6 1 (2.27%) IoT
6 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Computer Science
1 16 (36.36%) Data Science
1 16 (36.36%) Visualisation
2 13 (29.55%) FPGA Design
2 13 (29.55%) UVM
3 12 (27.27%) Analytics
3 12 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 12 (27.27%) Data Analytics
3 12 (27.27%) Data Munging
3 12 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 12 (27.27%) Feature Engineering
3 12 (27.27%) Generative AI
3 12 (27.27%) LLM
3 12 (27.27%) Machine Learning
3 12 (27.27%) Predictive Analytics
3 12 (27.27%) Reinforcement Learning
3 12 (27.27%) Statistical Modelling
3 12 (27.27%) Time Series Forecasting
4 11 (25.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) C
2 15 (34.09%) Python
3 13 (29.55%) SystemVerilog
4 12 (27.27%) R
5 4 (9.09%) SQL
6 3 (6.82%) Bash
6 3 (6.82%) Java
6 3 (6.82%) Tcl
6 3 (6.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Master's Degree
2 12 (27.27%) PhD
3 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
4 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) DO-160
2 2 (4.55%) DO-254
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) ITGC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Nessus
1 2 (4.55%) SCCM
1 2 (4.55%) WSUS
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Intel
1 13 (29.55%) Microsemi
1 13 (29.55%) Xilinx
2 3 (6.82%) EMC
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) Tenable
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Twitter