Degree Contracts in the South East

Academic Degree
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 28 16
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 495 405 712
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 9.08% 7.25% 9.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.45% 19.94% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 231 420
10th Percentile £205 £228 £231
25th Percentile £363 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £608 £630 £550
90th Percentile £638 £788 £650
England median daily rate £500 £546 £520
% change year-on-year -8.42% +5.00% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 49 40
10th Percentile £17.80 £19.63 £18.73
25th Percentile £25.70 £22.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £57.35 £45.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.44% +19.21% -11.18%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.50 £53.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.08
% change year-on-year -11.11% +24.72% -1.15%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,421 2,031 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.39% 36.37% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,334 1,563
10th Percentile £334 £300 £313
25th Percentile £449 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £522 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +4.35% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £615 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 132 83
10th Percentile £16.88 £20.62 £18.55
25th Percentile £25.70 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £59.45 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +33.60% +4.71%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £54.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £75.68 £67.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.93
% change year-on-year -23.81% +28.28% +8.71%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the South East

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the South East

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +11 247 £475 -1.04% 519
Berkshire +7 207 £506 -3.57% 222
Hampshire +12 112 £625 +47.06% 207
Surrey +6 76 £525 +5.00% 159
West Sussex +31 40 £475 +33.33% 56
Buckinghamshire +21 29 £465 -2.07% 123
Oxfordshire +2 11 £425 -10.53% 176
Kent +7 7 £319 -22.73% 84
Middlesex - 7 £275 - 3
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
East Sussex -2 1 £375 -37.50% 49
Sussex - 1 £350 - 3
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.84%) Confluence
3 9 (1.82%) SAS
4 8 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.61%) Apache
5 3 (0.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.40%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Moodle
7 1 (0.20%) MTS
7 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 75 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.63%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.01%) Simulink
7 2 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.20%) Blender
8 1 (0.20%) Stata
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 116 (23.43%) Azure
2 63 (12.73%) AWS
3 33 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (3.43%) Azure Storage
5 17 (3.43%) Snowflake
6 15 (3.03%) OCI
7 12 (2.42%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.41%) IaaS
10 6 (1.21%) GitHub
11 5 (1.01%) GCP
11 5 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.01%) PaaS
11 5 (1.01%) SaaS
11 5 (1.01%) Smartsheet
12 4 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.61%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.51%) DNS
2 51 (10.30%) Firewall
3 46 (9.29%) DHCP
3 46 (9.29%) SSL
4 37 (7.47%) Ethernet
5 28 (5.66%) LAN
5 28 (5.66%) SAN
6 20 (4.04%) TCP/IP
7 13 (2.63%) WAN
8 9 (1.82%) VPN
8 9 (1.82%) Wireless
9 8 (1.62%) 4G
10 7 (1.41%) 3G
10 7 (1.41%) 5G
10 7 (1.41%) LTE
10 7 (1.41%) NAS
10 7 (1.41%) Network Security
10 7 (1.41%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (1.41%) VoLTE
11 6 (1.21%) GGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.65%) Tableau
2 12 (2.42%) Power BI
3 8 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.62%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.41%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (1.01%) Big Data
5 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (0.81%) MS Access
6 4 (0.81%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.61%) Couchbase
7 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.61%) EDMS
7 3 (0.61%) Metadata
7 3 (0.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (7.47%) JIRA
2 21 (4.24%) Git
3 15 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (1.41%) Subversion
6 6 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.61%) GitLab
8 3 (0.61%) JUnit
8 3 (0.61%) TestRail
9 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.40%) Gradle
9 2 (0.40%) JMeter
9 2 (0.40%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.20%) CMake
10 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 200 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 79 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (14.34%) Finance
4 56 (11.31%) Telecoms
5 48 (9.70%) Electronics
6 42 (8.48%) Legal
7 41 (8.28%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (6.67%) Marketing
9 30 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.43%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.83%) Retail
12 13 (2.63%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
13 12 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.02%) Automotive
15 7 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.41%) Law
16 6 (1.21%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (11.92%) Architect
2 57 (11.52%) Analyst
3 37 (7.47%) Senior
4 35 (7.07%) Project Manager
5 33 (6.67%) Designer
5 33 (6.67%) Digital Designer
5 33 (6.67%) FPGA Designer
5 33 (6.67%) VHDL Designer
6 31 (6.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (5.86%) Lead
8 19 (3.84%) Support Specialist
9 18 (3.64%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.43%) Active Directory Support
11 16 (3.23%) Hardware Engineer
11 16 (3.23%) Network Engineer
12 14 (2.83%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (2.83%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (2.83%) Storage Engineer
12 14 (2.83%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (2.63%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.69%) Web Services
2 18 (3.64%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.62%) .NET
3 8 (1.62%) XML
4 7 (1.41%) RESTful
5 6 (1.21%) HTML
5 6 (1.21%) Kafka
5 6 (1.21%) REST
6 5 (1.01%) DirectX
6 5 (1.01%) OpenGL
6 5 (1.01%) OpenGL ES
6 5 (1.01%) Vulkan
7 4 (0.81%) PyTorch
7 4 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (0.81%) SOAP
7 4 (0.81%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.61%) CSS
8 3 (0.61%) Flash
8 3 (0.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.33%) PKI
2 39 (7.88%) Management Information System
3 35 (7.07%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (6.87%) VHDL
5 33 (6.67%) CPLD
5 33 (6.67%) FPGA
6 29 (5.86%) Data Centre
7 15 (3.03%) Driving Licence
8 13 (2.63%) Life Science
9 11 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.02%) Credit Risk
10 10 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.62%) CMDB
11 8 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.41%) PMI
13 4 (0.81%) Device Driver
13 4 (0.81%) e-Health
13 4 (0.81%) IoT
13 4 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 108 (21.82%) Windows
2 87 (17.58%) Linux
3 48 (9.70%) Windows Server
4 37 (7.47%) Windows 10
5 36 (7.27%) Unix
5 36 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 34 (6.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (3.43%) Windows 7
7 17 (3.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (2.83%) Windows XP
9 11 (2.22%) Android
10 7 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.61%) Solaris
11 3 (0.61%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (22.83%) Computer Science
3 99 (20.00%) Agile
4 89 (17.98%) Project Management
5 83 (16.77%) ITIL
6 58 (11.72%) Analytics
7 51 (10.30%) Customer Service
8 48 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (9.09%) DevOps
10 39 (7.88%) Cryptography
10 39 (7.88%) Key Management
11 37 (7.47%) Decision-Making
11 37 (7.47%) Roadmaps
12 35 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 34 (6.87%) Software Testing
14 33 (6.67%) Schematic Capture
15 32 (6.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (6.06%) Service Delivery
17 29 (5.86%) Customer Requirements
17 29 (5.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (9.70%) PowerShell
2 39 (7.88%) Python
3 36 (7.27%) SQL
4 29 (5.86%) C#
5 19 (3.84%) VB
5 19 (3.84%) VBScript
6 18 (3.64%) C++
7 17 (3.43%) Bicep
8 11 (2.22%) Java
9 10 (2.02%) MATLAB
9 10 (2.02%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.62%) Bash
10 8 (1.62%) C
11 6 (1.21%) Go
11 6 (1.21%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.21%) Perl
12 4 (0.81%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.81%) F#
12 4 (0.81%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 149 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 92 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 85 (17.17%) DV Cleared
4 74 (14.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (10.30%) Master's Degree
6 33 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (4.65%) CCNA
7 23 (4.65%) CCNP
8 18 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (2.63%) PMI Certification
10 11 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (2.02%) PMP
12 9 (1.82%) ISTQB
12 9 (1.82%) PhD
13 8 (1.62%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (1.01%) CIPD
15 5 (1.01%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.25%) QA
2 21 (4.24%) SLA
3 12 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.82%) PMO
5 7 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.41%) GDPR
6 5 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.81%) JTAG
7 4 (0.81%) PMBOK
8 3 (0.61%) COBIT
8 3 (0.61%) GRC
8 3 (0.61%) HL7
8 3 (0.61%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.61%) NIST
9 2 (0.40%) Def Stans
System Software
1 105 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (5.05%) Firmware
4 24 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (4.04%) Hyper-V
6 18 (3.64%) vSphere
7 17 (3.43%) Docker
7 17 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (1.01%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.81%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.40%) KVM
12 1 (0.20%) NFS
12 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (11.11%) SCCM
2 35 (7.07%) WSUS
3 33 (6.67%) SCOM
4 32 (6.46%) Kubernetes
5 18 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (3.64%) NetBackup
6 17 (3.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (3.23%) EMC NetWorker
8 15 (3.03%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.02%) Ansible
10 6 (1.21%) Terraform
11 2 (0.40%) Netcool
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle ZFS
11 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.40%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.40%) vRealize
11 2 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 2 (0.40%) yum
12 1 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 123 (24.85%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.51%) EMC
3 42 (8.48%) VMware
4 35 (7.07%) HP
5 34 (6.87%) Oracle
6 29 (5.86%) Cisco
7 21 (4.24%) Juniper
7 21 (4.24%) SAP
8 20 (4.04%) Alteryx
9 19 (3.84%) ServiceNow
10 17 (3.43%) Palo Alto
11 15 (3.03%) 3PAR
11 15 (3.03%) Veeam
12 14 (2.83%) Dell
12 14 (2.83%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (2.83%) Symantec
13 8 (1.62%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.41%) IFS
15 6 (1.21%) Empirix
15 6 (1.21%) NetScout