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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 26 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -21 +13
Contract jobs citing Degree 16 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 6.20% 4.13% 14.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.10% 47.37% 70.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 13
10th Percentile £320 £349 -
25th Percentile £353 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £405
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -1.23% -19.00%
75th Percentile £447 £410 £475
90th Percentile £454 £438 £500
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £400 £405
% change year-on-year -10.50% -1.23% -19.00%

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 42 19 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 16.28% 8.72% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 15 20
10th Percentile £308 £362 £370
25th Percentile £356 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £430
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.02% -10.37%
75th Percentile £474 £463 £478
90th Percentile £545 £553 £500
Northamptonshire median daily rate £405 £400 £455
% change year-on-year +1.25% -12.09% -7.14%

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

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram 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 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (6.25%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 4 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Google App Engine
5 1 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Digital Product Owner
1 5 (31.25%) Product Owner
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
4 1 (6.25%) BASE24 Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) SOAP
2 4 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (25.00%) Middleware
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) Visualforce
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) APACS
4 1 (6.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 6 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) Data Security
4 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (37.50%) User Experience
5 5 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (31.25%) Business Strategy
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
5 5 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 5 (31.25%) User Stories
6 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Apex Code
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) COBOL
4 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (31.25%) GDPR
3 4 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) VMware