Degree Contracts in Northampton

Academic Degree
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 17 19 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 +16
Contract jobs citing Degree 8 2 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 6.50% 1.57% 14.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.36% 20.00% 51.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 18
10th Percentile £356 £414 £292
25th Percentile £357 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £430 £440
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% -2.27% -4.86%
75th Percentile £407 £440 £500
90th Percentile £452 £446 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £410 £440
% change year-on-year -12.68% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.64
Median hourly rate - - £19.28
75th Percentile - - £19.92
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £48.00 £19.28
% change year-on-year - +148.96% -10.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 22 10 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 17.89% 7.87% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 36
10th Percentile £356 £366 £195
25th Percentile £363 £393 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £475 £480 £475
90th Percentile £600 £506 £500
Northamptonshire median daily rate £431 £450 £428
% change year-on-year -4.33% +5.26% -8.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.64
Median hourly rate - - £19.28
Median % change year-on-year - - +59.14%
75th Percentile - - £19.92
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £48.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year - +156.00% +36.56%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Northampton

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Northampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (12.50%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Google App Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) BASE24 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Visualforce
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) APACS
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (37.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Business Process Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Data Security
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Product Management
4 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) User Stories
4 3 (37.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) Scala
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) COBOL
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce