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 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 24 18 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Degree 116 258 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.88% 8.09% 7.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.54% 14.32% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 123 176
10th Percentile £145 £160 £395
25th Percentile £288 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £650
90th Percentile £735 £713 £725
England median daily rate £515 £514 £547
% change year-on-year +0.24% -6.08% +5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 64 35
10th Percentile £55.00 £36.25 £43.33
25th Percentile £59.38 £40.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.39 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% -11.72% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.31
90th Percentile £78.55 £76.75 £83.40
England median hourly rate £53.50 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.75% -11.11% +24.45%

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 925 1,802 1,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 54.90% 56.47% 52.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 1,148 1,408
10th Percentile £250 £355 £397
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 196 157
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.73
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £61.25 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.41
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +40.00%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 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
Bristol -11 32 £370 -30.19% 240
Wiltshire +11 31 £588 +6.82% 74
Devon +17 20 £160 -3.61% 131
Dorset 0 12 £550 -27.87% 80
Gloucestershire +3 10 £425 -27.66% 241
Somerset -7 9 £519 -2.49% 101
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 21 (18.10%) Confluence
2 18 (15.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (9.48%) SharePoint
4 5 (4.31%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.86%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.86%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 37 (31.90%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.45%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.59%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.72%) Primavera
1 2 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.66%) Azure
2 13 (11.21%) AWS
3 12 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.76%) GCP
5 3 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.72%) IaaS
6 2 (1.72%) PaaS
6 2 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.86%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.86%) GitHub
7 1 (0.86%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.86%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.86%) Serverless
7 1 (0.86%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) Skype
2 8 (6.90%) Unified Communications
2 8 (6.90%) VPN
3 7 (6.03%) DNS
4 6 (5.17%) DHCP
5 4 (3.45%) Broadband
5 4 (3.45%) WAN
6 3 (2.59%) ISDN
6 3 (2.59%) PBX
6 3 (2.59%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.59%) VoIP
7 2 (1.72%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.72%) SAN
8 1 (0.86%) Firewall
8 1 (0.86%) Internet
8 1 (0.86%) LAN
8 1 (0.86%) Network Security
8 1 (0.86%) SMTP
8 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.59%) Power BI
3 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.72%) MySQL
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (19.83%) JIRA
2 6 (5.17%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.59%) Git
4 2 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.86%) GitLab
5 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.86%) MLflow
General
1 64 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 36 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (28.45%) Public Sector
4 20 (17.24%) Finance
5 15 (12.93%) Telecoms
6 12 (10.34%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.90%) Electronics
7 8 (6.90%) Marketing
8 7 (6.03%) Military
9 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.45%) Legal
11 3 (2.59%) Billing
11 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.86%) Aviation
12 1 (0.86%) Avionics
12 1 (0.86%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.86%) Law
12 1 (0.86%) Local Government
12 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (10.34%) Support Engineer
1 12 (10.34%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 8 (6.90%) Applications Support
2 8 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (6.90%) Developer
3 7 (6.03%) Applications Developer
3 7 (6.03%) Applications Engineer
3 7 (6.03%) Applications Support Engineer
3 7 (6.03%) Senior
4 6 (5.17%) Azure Developer
4 6 (5.17%) C# Application Developer
4 6 (5.17%) C# Developer
4 6 (5.17%) Coordinator
4 6 (5.17%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (4.31%) Analyst
5 5 (4.31%) Desktop Support
5 5 (4.31%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (4.31%) Project Manager
5 5 (4.31%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) Flash
2 9 (7.76%) .NET
3 8 (6.90%) CSS
3 8 (6.90%) HTML
4 4 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.72%) REST
6 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.86%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.86%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.86%) Middleware
6 1 (0.86%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.86%) React
6 1 (0.86%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.66%) Management Information System
2 12 (10.34%) Clustering
2 12 (10.34%) PKI
3 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.59%) IVR
5 2 (1.72%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.86%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.86%) CMDB
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.52%) Windows
2 15 (12.93%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.48%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.59%) Linux
7 2 (1.72%) VMS
8 1 (0.86%) Android
8 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.93%) Computer Science
2 34 (29.31%) Service Management
3 32 (27.59%) Agile
4 25 (21.55%) Critical Thinking
5 22 (18.97%) ITIL
6 21 (18.10%) System Testing
7 20 (17.24%) Waterfall
8 19 (16.38%) NsoIT
8 19 (16.38%) Project Management
9 18 (15.52%) Collaborative Working
9 18 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (13.79%) Validation
11 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.07%) Service Delivery
12 12 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (10.34%) Change Management
12 12 (10.34%) High Availability
12 12 (10.34%) Power Management
12 12 (10.34%) Software Engineering
13 11 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.07%) SQL
3 8 (6.90%) C#
3 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.03%) Python
5 2 (1.72%) Bash
5 2 (1.72%) Java
6 1 (0.86%) C++
6 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.86%) Perl
6 1 (0.86%) Ruby
6 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.86%) VB
6 1 (0.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.34%) SC Cleared
3 23 (19.83%) Master's Degree
4 17 (14.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (13.79%) DV Cleared
6 15 (12.93%) CCNA
6 15 (12.93%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (12.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (9.48%) Azure Certification
10 9 (7.76%) MCSE
11 5 (4.31%) CCNP
11 5 (4.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (4.31%) MCSA
12 4 (3.45%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (1.72%) CISSP
13 2 (1.72%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.03%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.72%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.72%) PMO
4 2 (1.72%) RMADS
5 1 (0.86%) GAAP
5 1 (0.86%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.86%) IFRS
5 1 (0.86%) NCSC
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.86%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (10.34%) VMware NSX
4 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (5.17%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.72%) Docker
7 1 (0.86%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (11.21%) vCenter Server
2 9 (7.76%) WSUS
3 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.59%) SCCM
4 3 (2.59%) SCOM
4 3 (2.59%) Terraform
5 2 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.72%) Ansible
5 2 (1.72%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.86%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.86%) OPNET
6 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.38%) Atlassian
3 17 (14.66%) Cisco
3 17 (14.66%) VMware
4 10 (8.62%) SAP
5 9 (7.76%) Google
6 8 (6.90%) Oracle
7 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
8 6 (5.17%) Veeam
9 5 (4.31%) Citrix
10 4 (3.45%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.59%) PTC
12 2 (1.72%) Databricks
12 2 (1.72%) Remedy
12 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.86%) BMC
13 1 (0.86%) Lotus
13 1 (0.86%) McAfee
13 1 (0.86%) NEC
13 1 (0.86%) Symantec