Degree Contracts in the Thames Valley

Academic Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 25 14
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 248 222 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.36% 7.80% 9.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.20% 22.68% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 115 188
10th Percentile £194 £315 £246
25th Percentile £232 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +12.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £525
90th Percentile - £704 £601
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 9
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.28 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.49 £20.56 £18.76
Median hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +90.48% -50.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.97 -
90th Percentile - £73.41 £58.48
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £45.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +27.44% +13.92% -7.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,069 979 1,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.34% 34.39% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 656 676
10th Percentile £215 £317 £263
25th Percentile £415 £410 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +3.57% +1.63%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £591
90th Percentile £688 £685 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +7.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 45 30
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.90 £16.75
25th Percentile £41.75 £27.00 £19.20
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.61% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.07 £74.79 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.37 £80.25 £80.54
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £58.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -1.34% +30.63% +11.25%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire +9 209 £500 - 215
Buckinghamshire +14 27 £465 -2.07% 118
Oxfordshire +3 12 £525 +10.53% 181
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 30 (12.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.82%) SAS
3 6 (2.42%) Confluence
3 6 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) CMS
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Moodle
Applications
1 63 (25.40%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (13.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (7.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (4.84%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.81%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.40%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.40%) Blender
7 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.81%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 58 (23.39%) Azure
2 28 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (6.85%) Entra ID
3 17 (6.85%) Snowflake
4 16 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (6.45%) Azure Storage
5 14 (5.65%) OCI
6 13 (5.24%) AWS
7 10 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.02%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.61%) PaaS
10 4 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.21%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.21%) IaaS
11 3 (1.21%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.21%) Veeva
12 2 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.55%) DNS
2 40 (16.13%) Firewall
3 39 (15.73%) DHCP
4 25 (10.08%) LAN
5 17 (6.85%) SAN
6 11 (4.44%) WAN
7 9 (3.63%) SSL
8 8 (3.23%) 4G
9 7 (2.82%) 3G
9 7 (2.82%) 5G
9 7 (2.82%) Radio Access Network
9 7 (2.82%) VoLTE
9 7 (2.82%) Wireless
10 6 (2.42%) Diameter Protocol
10 6 (2.42%) GGSN
10 6 (2.42%) LTE
10 6 (2.42%) RANAP
10 6 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (2.42%) SGSN
10 6 (2.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.85%) Tableau
2 7 (2.82%) Crystal Reports
3 6 (2.42%) Power BI
3 6 (2.42%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.61%) Big Data
4 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.21%) EDMS
5 3 (1.21%) Metadata
5 3 (1.21%) MySQL
6 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.81%) Power Query
6 2 (0.81%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.40%) DTS
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.66%) JIRA
2 7 (2.82%) Git
3 4 (1.61%) Subversion
4 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.40%) CMake
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
5 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 142 (57.26%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.37%) Telecoms
3 40 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.32%) Finance
5 27 (10.89%) Legal
6 25 (10.08%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (9.27%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (7.66%) Marketing
9 15 (6.05%) Public Sector
10 13 (5.24%) Mandarin Language
11 9 (3.63%) Manufacturing
12 8 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.42%) Law
13 6 (2.42%) Multimedia
14 5 (2.02%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.61%) Electronics
16 3 (1.21%) Automotive
16 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (13.31%) Analyst
2 22 (8.87%) Lead
3 20 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (8.06%) Support Specialist
4 16 (6.45%) Active Directory Support
4 16 (6.45%) Hardware Engineer
4 16 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 15 (6.05%) Architect
6 14 (5.65%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (5.65%) Azure Specialist
7 10 (4.03%) Developer
7 10 (4.03%) Storage Engineer
8 9 (3.63%) Business Analyst
8 9 (3.63%) Technical Support
9 8 (3.23%) Communications Manager
9 8 (3.23%) Development Manager
9 8 (3.23%) Internal Communications Manager
9 8 (3.23%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.82%) IFS Developer
10 7 (2.82%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.85%) ARM Templates
2 9 (3.63%) Web Services
3 3 (1.21%) HTML
3 3 (1.21%) XML
4 2 (0.81%) CSS
4 2 (0.81%) EDI
4 2 (0.81%) Flash
4 2 (0.81%) YAML
5 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.40%) CNTK
5 1 (0.40%) jQuery
5 1 (0.40%) JSON
5 1 (0.40%) Node.js
5 1 (0.40%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.40%) React
5 1 (0.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.90%) PKI
2 27 (10.89%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (7.66%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.45%) Driving Licence
5 11 (4.44%) Life Science
5 11 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.03%) Credit Risk
7 9 (3.63%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.61%) Device Driver
11 3 (1.21%) CCTV
11 3 (1.21%) PMI
11 3 (1.21%) Solar Power
12 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.81%) NHS
12 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.81%) Social Media
13 1 (0.40%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 71 (28.63%) Windows
2 46 (18.55%) Linux
3 38 (15.32%) Windows Server
4 36 (14.52%) Windows 10
5 33 (13.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (13.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (6.45%) Windows 7
8 14 (5.65%) Windows XP
9 3 (1.21%) Android
9 3 (1.21%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.21%) Unix
10 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.08%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (24.60%) ITIL
2 61 (24.60%) Project Management
3 52 (20.97%) Agile
4 51 (20.56%) Analytics
5 34 (13.71%) Computer Science
6 32 (12.90%) Customer Service
7 30 (12.10%) Decision-Making
8 29 (11.69%) DevOps
9 22 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (8.87%) Service Delivery
10 21 (8.47%) Release Management
11 20 (8.06%) CI/CD
12 19 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (7.26%) Data Protection
13 18 (7.26%) Software Testing
14 17 (6.85%) Actionable Insight
14 17 (6.85%) RBAC
14 17 (6.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.92%) PowerShell
2 20 (8.06%) C#
3 18 (7.26%) SQL
4 16 (6.45%) Bicep
4 16 (6.45%) VB
4 16 (6.45%) VBScript
5 14 (5.65%) Python
6 5 (2.02%) C++
6 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.61%) Assembly Language
7 4 (1.61%) C
7 4 (1.61%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.21%) F#
8 3 (1.21%) Java
8 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 65 (26.21%) DV Cleared
3 41 (16.53%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (7.26%) CCNP
6 18 (7.26%) Master's Degree
7 16 (6.45%) CCNA
7 16 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 6 (2.42%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.02%) CIPD
10 4 (1.61%) CISSP
10 4 (1.61%) PhD
11 3 (1.21%) ACCA
11 3 (1.21%) CIMA
11 3 (1.21%) CISA
11 3 (1.21%) CISM
11 3 (1.21%) CISMP
11 3 (1.21%) CRISC
11 3 (1.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.84%) QA
2 9 (3.63%) SLA
3 5 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.61%) JTAG
4 4 (1.61%) PMO
5 3 (1.21%) COBIT
5 3 (1.21%) GRC
5 3 (1.21%) NIST
6 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (23.39%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.06%) Firmware
3 16 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (6.05%) Hyper-V
4 15 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.02%) Docker
7 4 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) NFS
8 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 56 (22.58%) SCCM
2 32 (12.90%) SCOM
3 30 (12.10%) WSUS
4 20 (8.06%) Kubernetes
5 18 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (6.45%) EMC NetWorker
7 15 (6.05%) NetBackup
8 14 (5.65%) vCenter Server
9 7 (2.82%) Ansible
10 4 (1.61%) Terraform
11 2 (0.81%) Netcool
11 2 (0.81%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.81%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.40%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 97 (39.11%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.73%) HP
3 21 (8.47%) Cisco
4 20 (8.06%) Oracle
5 19 (7.66%) VMware
6 18 (7.26%) Juniper
7 16 (6.45%) Alteryx
7 16 (6.45%) EMC
7 16 (6.45%) Palo Alto
7 16 (6.45%) Veeam
8 15 (6.05%) 3PAR
9 14 (5.65%) Dell
9 14 (5.65%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (5.65%) Symantec
10 13 (5.24%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.82%) IFS
12 6 (2.42%) Empirix
12 6 (2.42%) NetScout
13 5 (2.02%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.02%) Reuters