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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 40 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 -22 +27
Contract jobs citing Degree 32 18 61
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.86% 4.24% 7.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.00% 15.79% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £173 £280 £267
25th Percentile £313 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £638
90th Percentile £605 £623 £708
West Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £438 £413
% change year-on-year -5.71% +6.06% -21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £12.53
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £12.53
% change year-on-year - +119.47% -79.95%

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 200 114 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.15% 26.82% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 82 107
10th Percentile £345 £266 £317
25th Percentile £426 £384 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +4.90% -9.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £559
90th Percentile £627 £738 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.86% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £27.50 £14.25
% change year-on-year -29.97% +92.98% -77.20%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Degree job vacancy trend 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 1 April 2026.

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 & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.13%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) Azure
4 4 (12.50%) SaaS
5 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 3 (9.38%) OCI
6 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (6.25%) Internet
2 2 (6.25%) LAN
2 2 (6.25%) Unified Communications
2 2 (6.25%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.38%) DTS
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) Flyway
2 3 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (12.50%) General Ledger
6 3 (9.38%) Legal
6 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.13%) Social Science
8 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
3 8 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) DBA
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) SAP Manager
6 2 (6.25%) SAP Programme Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Management Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) AWS CDK
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Learning Management System
1 3 (9.38%) NHS
1 3 (9.38%) SCORM
2 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) PMI
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
1 16 (50.00%) Migration
2 9 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 8 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) Business Analysis
4 7 (21.88%) Data Governance
4 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
4 7 (21.88%) ITIL
4 7 (21.88%) SDLC
4 7 (21.88%) User Stories
4 7 (21.88%) Workshop Facilitation
5 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 6 (18.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 6 (18.75%) MoSCoW
5 6 (18.75%) Project Management
5 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.75%) Six Sigma
5 6 (18.75%) Traceability Matrix
6 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) Delphi
4 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) NVQ Level 4
2 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) PMO
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Foglight
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Ariba
5 1 (3.13%) Concur
5 1 (3.13%) Foundry
5 1 (3.13%) NEC
5 1 (3.13%) TOWER Software
5 1 (3.13%) VMware