Degree Contracts in South Yorkshire

Academic Degree
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 -8
Contract jobs citing Degree 28 38 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.51% 8.32% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.89% 46.34% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 4
10th Percentile £307 £257 £229
25th Percentile £354 £360 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +11.41% -2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £522
90th Percentile £646 £724 £561
Yorkshire median daily rate £414 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% -14.29% +23.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 72 82 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.30% 17.94% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 77
10th Percentile £220 £381 £268
25th Percentile £328 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £529 £605 £688
90th Percentile £650 £712 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.42%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in South Yorkshire

Degree
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield -11 17 £447 -20.18% 142
Degree
Yorkshire

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 10 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (35.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (3.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) GCP
2 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) Intranet
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
3 4 (14.29%) Network Security
3 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.71%) Firewall
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (7.14%) DWDM
5 2 (7.14%) LAN
5 2 (7.14%) NAS
5 2 (7.14%) SAN
5 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 2 (7.14%) WAN
6 1 (3.57%) BGP
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (3.57%) DHCP
6 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
6 1 (3.57%) OSPF
6 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Presto
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (89.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (35.71%) Local Government
2 10 (35.71%) Public Speaking
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.14%) Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Front Office
7 1 (3.57%) International Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Communications Officer
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) React Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Marketing Manager
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) React
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (3.57%) JPA
3 1 (3.57%) jQuery
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) MyBatis
3 1 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) Spring
3 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.57%) PMI
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
1 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Computer Science
2 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (35.71%) Business Continuity
3 10 (35.71%) Business Development
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (14.29%) Migration
5 4 (14.29%) Project Management
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.71%) LLM
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.71%) Network Architecture
6 3 (10.71%) Scrum
7 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis
7 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
7 2 (7.14%) Kanban
7 2 (7.14%) Risk Management
7 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) PHP
4 2 (7.14%) Ruby
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.71%) CCNA
3 3 (10.71%) CCNP
4 2 (7.14%) CISSP
4 2 (7.14%) JNCIA
4 2 (7.14%) JNCIS
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) CBAP
5 1 (3.57%) CISM
5 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 2 (7.14%) vSphere
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 2 (7.14%) vRealize
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Arista
3 2 (7.14%) Dell
3 2 (7.14%) Intel
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Aruba
4 1 (3.57%) Centrify
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.57%) Thycotic