Degree Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Academic Degree
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 37 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -24
Contract jobs citing Degree 24 31 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.04% 4.30% 3.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.31% 18.34% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 20
10th Percentile - £155 £378
25th Percentile £235 £384 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -11.63% +9.14%
75th Percentile £484 £538 £600
90th Percentile £643 £572 £643
West Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -26.32% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £37.50 £30.03
% change year-on-year - +24.90% +66.81%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 195 169 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 32.83% 23.44% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 132 144
10th Percentile £343 £351 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -15.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £545 £678
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +6.38% -15.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £38.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +29.17% +66.67%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Leeds

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Leeds

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Degree

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.17%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Asana
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) Smartsheet
3 1 (4.17%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power Query
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Gradle
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
General
1 18 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
1 6 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 3 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Android Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) HR Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Mortgage Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
1 1 (4.17%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (4.17%) Dagger
1 1 (4.17%) J2EE
1 1 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (4.17%) JPA
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
1 1 (4.17%) Retrofit
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 8 (33.33%) ITIL
2 8 (33.33%) ITSM
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) Case Management
4 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.50%) Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) Change Management
6 3 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) C++
3 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.33%) MBA
4 2 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (4.17%) CBAP
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (4.17%) GCIH
5 1 (4.17%) IIBA
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.17%) PMP
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 9 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (8.33%) Workday
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.17%) Darktrace
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Okta
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Progress
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Wrike