Degree Contracts in the South West

Academic Degree
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 127 242 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 7.00% 7.38% 7.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.27% 13.76% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 117 154
10th Percentile £145 £159 £400
25th Percentile £235 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £650
90th Percentile £660 £730 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 64 36
10th Percentile £28.77 £36.25 £35.40
25th Percentile £55.94 £40.00 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £64.57
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +1.05% +15.64%
75th Percentile £70.63 £72.50 £83.31
90th Percentile £80.13 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £45.15 £41.50 £48.99
% change year-on-year +8.80% -15.29% +34.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 957 1,759 1,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 52.73% 53.63% 53.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 1,130 1,305
10th Percentile £213 £369 £400
25th Percentile £413 £466 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year - -5.01% +10.29%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 198 146
10th Percentile £18.51 £25.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £19.94 £40.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £30.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.46% - +6.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £78.60 £85.63
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.99%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the South West

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the South West

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Bristol -17 30 £370 -18.90% 541
Devon +11 29 £160 -5.88% 205
Wiltshire +6 29 £588 +9.30% 137
Somerset -7 14 £616 +37.71% 305
Dorset +5 13 £550 -27.87% 142
Gloucestershire +18 7 £475 -19.15% 399
Cornwall -2 1 £500 +233.33% 21
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (18.11%) Confluence
2 20 (15.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (6.30%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.94%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 41 (32.28%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.94%) Windchill
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.79%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Primavera
2 3 (2.36%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (10.24%) Azure
3 12 (9.45%) AWS
4 8 (6.30%) GCP
5 3 (2.36%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.57%) GitHub
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.79%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
7 1 (0.79%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.17%) VPN
2 13 (10.24%) DNS
3 12 (9.45%) Unified Communications
4 10 (7.87%) Skype
5 7 (5.51%) BGP
5 7 (5.51%) IPsec
5 7 (5.51%) MPLS
6 6 (4.72%) DHCP
7 4 (3.15%) Broadband
8 1 (0.79%) Firewall
8 1 (0.79%) LAN
8 1 (0.79%) SMTP
8 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.36%) Power BI
1 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.79%) MySQL
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (18.90%) JIRA
2 5 (3.94%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.57%) Git
3 2 (1.57%) GitLab
3 2 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 70 (55.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.98%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (22.83%) Public Sector
4 19 (14.96%) Finance
5 12 (9.45%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.87%) Electronics
7 9 (7.09%) Manufacturing
7 9 (7.09%) Marketing
8 4 (3.15%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Legal
9 3 (2.36%) Military
9 3 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.57%) Law
10 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Police
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (11.81%) Support Engineer
2 10 (7.87%) Developer
3 9 (7.09%) Desktop Engineer
3 9 (7.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 8 (6.30%) Applications Support
4 8 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (6.30%) Desktop Support
4 8 (6.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 8 (6.30%) Lead
5 7 (5.51%) Applications Developer
5 7 (5.51%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Applications Support Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Coordinator
5 7 (5.51%) Network Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Senior
6 6 (4.72%) Azure Developer
6 6 (4.72%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (4.72%) C# Developer
6 6 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) CSS
1 9 (7.09%) Flash
1 9 (7.09%) HTML
2 8 (6.30%) .NET
3 7 (5.51%) NETCONF
3 7 (5.51%) RESTCONF
4 2 (1.57%) REST
5 1 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.79%) Node.js
5 1 (0.79%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.79%) React
5 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.39%) PKI
2 15 (11.81%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.09%) Clustering
4 8 (6.30%) Educational Technology
5 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.15%) Fibre Optics
6 3 (2.36%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.36%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.36%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.57%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.60%) Windows
2 12 (9.45%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.87%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (3.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.01%) Computer Science
2 35 (27.56%) Critical Thinking
2 35 (27.56%) Service Management
3 27 (21.26%) Agile
3 27 (21.26%) Collaborative Working
4 25 (19.69%) System Testing
5 22 (17.32%) ITIL
5 22 (17.32%) NsoIT
6 21 (16.54%) Validation
7 20 (15.75%) Project Management
7 20 (15.75%) Waterfall
8 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.60%) Network Virtualisation
9 16 (12.60%) Service Delivery
10 15 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (9.45%) Software Engineering
12 10 (7.87%) Change Management
12 10 (7.87%) TDD
12 10 (7.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.02%) Python
2 13 (10.24%) SQL
3 12 (9.45%) PowerShell
4 10 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.30%) C#
6 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.79%) Java
6 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (40.94%) Security Cleared
2 42 (33.07%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.96%) Master's Degree
4 17 (13.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (12.60%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (11.81%) DV Cleared
7 11 (8.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (7.87%) Azure Certification
9 9 (7.09%) CCNA
10 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (5.51%) CCNP
11 7 (5.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (4.72%) MCSE
13 3 (2.36%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (2.36%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (2.36%) CISA
13 3 (2.36%) CISSP
13 3 (2.36%) HNC
13 3 (2.36%) HND
14 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.36%) Def Stans
2 3 (2.36%) JSP 440
2 3 (2.36%) NCSC
2 3 (2.36%) P3O
2 3 (2.36%) QA
2 3 (2.36%) RMADS
3 2 (1.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) GAAP
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) HAZOP
4 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.79%) IFRS
4 1 (0.79%) PMBOK
4 1 (0.79%) PMO
4 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (15.75%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.60%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (7.09%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (4.72%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (3.94%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (7.87%) vCenter Server
2 9 (7.09%) Ansible
2 9 (7.09%) WSUS
3 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.36%) Terraform
5 2 (1.57%) SCCM
6 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.79%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.79%) OPNET
6 1 (0.79%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.54%) Atlassian
3 19 (14.96%) VMware
4 18 (14.17%) Cisco
5 10 (7.87%) SAP
6 8 (6.30%) Google
6 8 (6.30%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.51%) Citrix
8 6 (4.72%) Veeam
9 5 (3.94%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.15%) Oracle
11 3 (2.36%) PTC
12 2 (1.57%) Databricks
13 1 (0.79%) Jaspersoft
13 1 (0.79%) Liquidlogic
13 1 (0.79%) Lotus
13 1 (0.79%) NEC
13 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.79%) Remedy
13 1 (0.79%) Salesforce