Degree Contracts in Northamptonshire

Academic Degree
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +18
Contract jobs citing Degree 9 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.08% 2.97% 9.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.13% 40.00% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 20
10th Percentile £345 £226 £331
25th Percentile £356 £295 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £410 £440
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £387 £430 £500
90th Percentile £451 £442 -
East Midlands median daily rate £338 £245 £463
% change year-on-year +37.96% -47.03% +10.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £40.55 -
25th Percentile - £42.13 £18.64
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £19.28
Median % change year-on-year - +148.96% -10.33%
75th Percentile - £55.63 £19.92
90th Percentile - £58.25 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £28.25 £16.83
% change year-on-year -18.58% +67.86% -26.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23 15 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 15.54% 7.43% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 50
10th Percentile £356 £318 £231
25th Percentile £359 £375 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +5.26% -8.56%
75th Percentile £475 £469 £484
90th Percentile £598 £503 £500
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £358 £500
% change year-on-year +25.03% -28.50% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £40.55 -
25th Percentile - £42.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +156.00% +36.56%
75th Percentile - £55.63 £19.65
90th Percentile - £58.25 £19.81
East Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £20.00 £16.83
% change year-on-year +21.70% +18.84% -21.72%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Northamptonshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Northamptonshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Northamptonshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Northamptonshire

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northampton +5 8 £358 -16.74% 51
Degree
East Midlands

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (11.11%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Google App Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) ATM
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 1 (11.11%) BASE24 Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Visualforce
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) APACS
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Data Security
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Product Management
4 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) COBOL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) HP
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) VMware