Degree Contracts in the North of England

Academic Degree
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 16 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 236 408 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.16% 8.56% 4.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.06% 32.90% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 148 172
10th Percentile £233 £158 £251
25th Percentile £325 £304 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -2.96% +9.12%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £575
90th Percentile £696 £689 £638
England median daily rate £520 £513 £542
% change year-on-year +1.46% -5.36% +4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 49 18
10th Percentile £20.00 £11.77 £17.30
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £31.52 £24.19 £40.30
Median % change year-on-year +30.30% -39.97% +27.17%
75th Percentile £33.75 £34.32 £52.11
90th Percentile - £62.50 £59.38
England median hourly rate £53.50 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.75% -11.11% +24.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,070 1,240 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.47% 26.01% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 684 1,063
10th Percentile £230 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -2.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £652 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 165 70
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £12.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +15.62%
75th Percentile £59.24 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.59 £61.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the North of England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West -6 141 £459 +2.06% 1,530
Yorkshire -8 72 £414 -8.00% 1,172
North East -13 22 £463 -7.50% 418
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 21 (8.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.97%) Confluence
4 5 (2.12%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) CICS
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 42 (17.80%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (10.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (8.90%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (5.08%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.42%) InVision
7 1 (0.42%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 23 (9.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.85%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.42%) Maximo
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.42%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.83%) Azure
2 21 (8.90%) AWS
3 20 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.20%) GCP
5 13 (5.51%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.12%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.27%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.27%) Serverless
10 2 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.85%) GitHub
10 2 (0.85%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.85%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.47%) VPN
2 12 (5.08%) DNS
3 11 (4.66%) Intranet
3 11 (4.66%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.81%) Network Security
4 9 (3.81%) Skype
4 9 (3.81%) WAN
5 8 (3.39%) Firewall
5 8 (3.39%) LAN
6 7 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.54%) BGP
7 6 (2.54%) DHCP
7 6 (2.54%) OSPF
7 6 (2.54%) Wireless
8 5 (2.12%) WLAN
9 4 (1.69%) VLAN
10 3 (1.27%) DWDM
10 3 (1.27%) EIGRP
10 3 (1.27%) MPLS
10 3 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.08%) Power BI
2 8 (3.39%) Data Lake
2 8 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.97%) Tableau
4 6 (2.54%) Metadata
5 5 (2.12%) MySQL
5 5 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.27%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.27%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.85%) Big Data
8 2 (0.85%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.85%) GIS
8 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (7.63%) JIRA
2 6 (2.54%) Git
3 3 (1.27%) ERwin
3 3 (1.27%) GitLab
3 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.42%) Postman
General
1 133 (56.36%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (18.22%) Finance
4 19 (8.05%) Local Government
4 19 (8.05%) Manufacturing
4 19 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.20%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (5.08%) Banking
8 12 (5.08%) Legal
9 11 (4.66%) Public Speaking
10 10 (4.24%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.81%) Marketing
12 8 (3.39%) Automotive
13 7 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.69%) French Language
14 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.69%) Retail
15 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (17.37%) Analyst
2 27 (11.44%) Architect
3 21 (8.90%) Business Analyst
4 20 (8.47%) Project Manager
5 15 (6.36%) Support Engineer
6 14 (5.93%) Senior
7 13 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.66%) Communications Officer
8 11 (4.66%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.24%) Desktop Support
10 9 (3.81%) Desktop Engineer
10 9 (3.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 8 (3.39%) Developer
11 8 (3.39%) Lead
11 8 (3.39%) Service Analyst
12 7 (2.97%) Service Desk Analyst
13 6 (2.54%) Consultant
13 6 (2.54%) Designer
13 6 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 5 (2.12%) Facilities Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.54%) HTML
1 6 (2.54%) Middleware
1 6 (2.54%) React
2 5 (2.12%) AngularJS
2 5 (2.12%) CSS
3 3 (1.27%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.27%) REST
3 3 (1.27%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.85%) .NET
4 2 (0.85%) ADO
4 2 (0.85%) Kafka
4 2 (0.85%) Node.js
4 2 (0.85%) RESTful
4 2 (0.85%) Spring
4 2 (0.85%) Web Services
5 1 (0.42%) JPA
5 1 (0.42%) jQuery
5 1 (0.42%) JSON
5 1 (0.42%) LDAP
5 1 (0.42%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.83%) Management Information System
2 11 (4.66%) CMDB
2 11 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (3.81%) PMI
4 7 (2.97%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.54%) Industry 4.0
5 6 (2.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 6 (2.54%) NHS
5 6 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.69%) Life Science
7 4 (1.69%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Blog
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.47%) Windows
2 6 (2.54%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.27%) Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (31.36%) Computer Science
3 54 (22.88%) Project Management
4 44 (18.64%) Agile
5 29 (12.29%) Decision-Making
5 29 (12.29%) ITIL
6 28 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (11.44%) Change Management
7 27 (11.44%) ITSM
8 22 (9.32%) Roadmaps
9 20 (8.47%) Data Modelling
10 19 (8.05%) Analytics
10 19 (8.05%) Customer Service
11 18 (7.63%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (7.63%) PRINCE2
11 18 (7.63%) Process Improvement
12 17 (7.20%) Mentoring
13 16 (6.78%) Business Analysis
13 16 (6.78%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.63%) Python
2 14 (5.93%) SQL
3 12 (5.08%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.39%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.12%) Java
6 3 (1.27%) R
7 2 (0.85%) PHP
7 2 (0.85%) Ruby
7 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.85%) VB
7 2 (0.85%) VBScript
8 1 (0.42%) Bash
8 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.42%) JCL
8 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.42%) Perl
8 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (24.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.47%) Master's Degree
4 19 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (6.78%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.51%) PMI Certification
8 10 (4.24%) CCNA
9 8 (3.39%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.39%) CCNP
10 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.54%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (2.12%) HNC
12 5 (2.12%) PMP
13 4 (1.69%) CBAP
13 4 (1.69%) CISSP
13 4 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.08%) QA
2 9 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.39%) PMO
4 7 (2.97%) GDPR
5 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.69%) NIST
5 4 (1.69%) SLA
6 3 (1.27%) NCSC
7 2 (0.85%) GRC
7 2 (0.85%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.42%) COBIT
8 1 (0.42%) GMP
8 1 (0.42%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.42%) PSD2
8 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.69%) Docker
3 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.42%) HDFS
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.42%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (2.97%) Ansible
2 6 (2.54%) MOM
3 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.12%) Terraform
4 4 (1.69%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.27%) SCCM
6 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.85%) vRealize
7 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.42%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.42%) Grafana
7 1 (0.42%) Nessus
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 60 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.29%) SAP
3 19 (8.05%) Cisco
4 14 (5.93%) Google
4 14 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.97%) Citrix
5 7 (2.97%) Oracle
5 7 (2.97%) Siemens
6 6 (2.54%) Ariba
6 6 (2.54%) Rockwell
7 5 (2.12%) Remedy
8 3 (1.27%) Arista
8 3 (1.27%) Databricks
8 3 (1.27%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.27%) VMware
8 3 (1.27%) Workday
9 2 (0.85%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.85%) Facebook
9 2 (0.85%) Meraki