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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 113 200 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.95% 7.16% 7.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.50% 13.41% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 114 141
10th Percentile £145 £179 £380
25th Percentile £188 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.36% -6.14% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £623
90th Percentile £649 £756 £700
England median daily rate £500 £515 £534
% change year-on-year -2.91% -3.56% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 38 42
10th Percentile £27.28 £57.82 £33.00
25th Percentile £42.63 £61.19 £46.54
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.13% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £83.31
90th Percentile £82.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £49.57
% change year-on-year -25.89% +15.69% +10.99%

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 983 1,491 1,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.76% 53.35% 53.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 967 1,179
10th Percentile £213 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +6.48%
75th Percentile £648 £663 £675
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 151 147
10th Percentile £18.51 £23.63 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £52.13 £51.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -16 34 £360 -22.16% 228
Devon +13 24 £160 -7.25% 53
Wiltshire -8 22 £625 +4.17% 38
Dorset +3 13 £550 -27.87% 36
Somerset -13 8 £633 +49.26% 56
Gloucestershire +17 7 £475 -9.52% 206
Cornwall -3 1 £500 +233.33% 6
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 17 (15.04%) Confluence
1 17 (15.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) Apache
3 3 (2.65%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.88%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 35 (30.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.42%) Windchill
4 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.88%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Primavera
2 2 (1.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.39%) Azure
2 12 (10.62%) AWS
2 12 (10.62%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.08%) GCP
4 3 (2.65%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.77%) GitHub
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.88%) Serverless
6 1 (0.88%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.93%) VPN
2 10 (8.85%) DNS
2 10 (8.85%) Unified Communications
3 7 (6.19%) BGP
3 7 (6.19%) IPsec
3 7 (6.19%) MPLS
3 7 (6.19%) Skype
4 4 (3.54%) Broadband
5 3 (2.65%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.65%) Power BI
1 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (16.81%) JIRA
2 4 (3.54%) GitLab
3 3 (2.65%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.77%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.88%) Git
General
1 62 (54.87%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (20.35%) Public Sector
4 16 (14.16%) Finance
5 12 (10.62%) Telecoms
6 10 (8.85%) Electronics
7 9 (7.96%) Manufacturing
7 9 (7.96%) Marketing
8 5 (4.42%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.77%) Law
10 2 (1.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.88%) Games
11 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.88%) Military
11 1 (0.88%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (13.27%) Support Engineer
2 11 (9.73%) Developer
3 9 (7.96%) Desktop Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Applications Support
4 8 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Desktop Support
4 8 (7.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Lead
5 7 (6.19%) Applications Developer
5 7 (6.19%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Applications Support Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Coordinator
5 7 (6.19%) Network Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Senior
6 6 (5.31%) Azure Developer
6 6 (5.31%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (5.31%) C# Developer
6 6 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.96%) CSS
1 9 (7.96%) HTML
2 8 (7.08%) .NET
3 7 (6.19%) NETCONF
3 7 (6.19%) RESTCONF
4 6 (5.31%) Flash
5 3 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.65%) REST
6 1 (0.88%) Django
6 1 (0.88%) Node.js
6 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.88%) React
6 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.16%) Management Information System
2 14 (12.39%) PKI
3 8 (7.08%) Educational Technology
4 6 (5.31%) Clustering
5 4 (3.54%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (3.54%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.65%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.65%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.77%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.50%) Windows
2 7 (6.19%) Windows 10
2 7 (6.19%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.59%) Computer Science
2 29 (25.66%) Critical Thinking
2 29 (25.66%) Service Management
3 27 (23.89%) Collaborative Working
4 22 (19.47%) Agile
5 20 (17.70%) System Testing
6 18 (15.93%) ITIL
6 18 (15.93%) NsoIT
6 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.04%) Waterfall
8 15 (13.27%) Service Delivery
8 15 (13.27%) Software Engineering
8 15 (13.27%) Validation
9 13 (11.50%) Network Virtualisation
9 13 (11.50%) Project Management
10 12 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (10.62%) CI/CD
10 12 (10.62%) User Experience
11 10 (8.85%) Decision-Making
11 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.16%) Python
2 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
3 10 (8.85%) JavaScript
3 10 (8.85%) SQL
4 8 (7.08%) C#
5 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.88%) Java
5 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (36.28%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (18.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (11.50%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (10.62%) DV Cleared
6 11 (9.73%) Master's Degree
7 10 (8.85%) Azure Certification
8 7 (6.19%) CCNP
8 7 (6.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (5.31%) CCNA
9 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (5.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (4.42%) MCSE
11 3 (2.65%) CESG Certified Professional
11 3 (2.65%) CISA
11 3 (2.65%) CISSP
11 3 (2.65%) HND
12 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.77%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.54%) QA
3 3 (2.65%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.65%) JSP 440
3 3 (2.65%) NCSC
3 3 (2.65%) NIST
3 3 (2.65%) P3O
3 3 (2.65%) RMADS
4 1 (0.88%) GAAP
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) HAZOP
4 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.88%) IFRS
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.88%) PMBOK
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (15.04%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.50%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (11.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.31%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Ansible
2 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.19%) WSUS
3 6 (5.31%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.54%) Terraform
5 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.88%) OPNET
6 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.27%) Atlassian
3 13 (11.50%) Cisco
3 13 (11.50%) VMware
4 10 (8.85%) SAP
5 8 (7.08%) Google
5 8 (7.08%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.19%) Citrix
7 3 (2.65%) PTC
7 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.65%) Veeam
8 2 (1.77%) Databricks
8 2 (1.77%) Oracle
9 1 (0.88%) Adobe
9 1 (0.88%) Dell
9 1 (0.88%) IBM
9 1 (0.88%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.88%) Lotus
9 1 (0.88%) NEC