Degree Contracts in Oxfordshire

Academic Degree
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 7 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 15 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 14.29% 5.70% 7.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.00% 43.33% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 12
10th Percentile - £433 £265
25th Percentile £425 £463 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +35.71%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £547
90th Percentile £700 - £778
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £27.27 £29.30 £22.10
25th Percentile £30.44 £43.44 £22.25
Median hourly rate £35.80 £60.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.33% +140.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £41.09 £65.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £44.22 - £49.50
South East median hourly rate £58.38 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% +27.44% +8.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 30 30 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 28.57% 13.16% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 30
10th Percentile £390 £156 £246
25th Percentile £444 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £538 £531
90th Percentile £700 £591 £596
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 5
10th Percentile £25.74 £16.25 £22.20
25th Percentile £26.62 £30.31 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.03 £48.75 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -24.04% +73.12% +34.10%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile - - £52.80
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.32
% change year-on-year -1.05% +0.05% +27.77%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Oxfordshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Oxfordshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Oxfordshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Oxfordshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Oxfordshire

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -1 6 £700 +64.71% 64
Kidlington - 3 £450 -
Abingdon - 1 - - 17
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) CATIA
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.67%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.67%) Lucidchart
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.67%) IP Telephony
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) MPLS
1 1 (6.67%) NAS
1 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.67%) RS-232
1 1 (6.67%) SAN
1 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Skype
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (6.67%) VectorCAST
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Automotive
3 3 (20.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Electronics
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Police
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) IT Support
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) CAD Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) CAD Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) CATIA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Process Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) FPGA
3 1 (6.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Data Management
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Application Rationalisation
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
4 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (13.33%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Embedded C
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) MBA
3 1 (6.67%) MCP
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (6.67%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO 26262
2 1 (6.67%) DO-178B
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) vSphere
1 1 (6.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) Databricks
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) F5
5 1 (6.67%) Intel
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Siemens
5 1 (6.67%) VMware