Degree Contracts in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,856 1,683 2,142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.94% 6.94% 6.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.06% 20.82% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 887 987 1,251
10th Percentile £180 £209 £185
25th Percentile £313 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £580 £540
90th Percentile £675 £700 £639
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 184 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.97
25th Percentile £22.33 £20.47 £16.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £51.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.63 £65.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -4.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,713 8,084 8,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.14% 33.35% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,457 5,424 5,306
10th Percentile £263 £273 £250
25th Percentile £425 £418 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £594
90th Percentile £719 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 690 551
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.48 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.00 £16.37
Median hourly rate £40.13 £50.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% +61.29% -10.25%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £78.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £40.93
% change year-on-year -26.31% +32.62% +6.31%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
South East +16 493 £500 +4.17% 1,248
North of England +25 411 £450 - 1,085
Midlands +11 252 £450 -4.26% 791
South West +2 244 £550 - 649
North West +13 240 £450 - 619
Scotland +15 208 £475 +16.90% 371
East of England +7 190 £500 - 669
West Midlands +12 159 £525 +10.53% 488
Yorkshire +25 123 £438 -14.63% 336
East Midlands +8 91 £255 -44.86% 301
Wales +9 47 £515 +8.42% 126
North East +40 46 £500 +80.18% 153
Northern Ireland +14 25 £400 - 85
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 84 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 48 (2.59%) Confluence
4 13 (0.70%) SAS
5 10 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 9 (0.48%) Apache
7 7 (0.38%) CMS
8 6 (0.32%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.11%) nginx
13 1 (0.054%) Drupal
13 1 (0.054%) Moodle
Applications
1 294 (15.84%) Microsoft Office
2 223 (12.02%) Chatbot
3 154 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 79 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
6 34 (1.83%) MS Visio
7 33 (1.78%) Simulink
8 17 (0.92%) Photoshop
9 16 (0.86%) Acrobat
10 14 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
11 10 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.54%) Stateflow
12 6 (0.32%) CATIA
13 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (0.27%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.22%) Siemens NX
15 3 (0.16%) InVision
15 3 (0.16%) Maya
15 3 (0.16%) MicroStation
15 3 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.59%) Primavera
3 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.22%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.16%) Magento
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 239 (12.88%) Azure
2 125 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
3 108 (5.82%) AWS
4 58 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 37 (1.99%) SaaS
6 35 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 29 (1.56%) GCP
7 29 (1.56%) PaaS
8 25 (1.35%) IaaS
9 20 (1.08%) Snowflake
10 18 (0.97%) GitHub
10 18 (0.97%) OCI
11 17 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (0.75%) Azure Storage
14 12 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.65%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.12%) Firewall
2 79 (4.26%) DNS
3 74 (3.99%) LAN
4 69 (3.72%) DHCP
5 57 (3.07%) WAN
6 51 (2.75%) SSL
7 44 (2.37%) Ethernet
8 43 (2.32%) SAN
9 38 (2.05%) TCP/IP
10 31 (1.67%) VPN
11 24 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.29%) Wireless
12 21 (1.13%) VoIP
13 19 (1.02%) Internet
14 16 (0.86%) Network Security
15 15 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
16 14 (0.75%) MPLS
17 13 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
18 12 (0.65%) Skype
18 12 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (2.37%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.16%) Power BI
3 35 (1.89%) Tableau
4 33 (1.78%) Metadata
5 24 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 22 (1.19%) MySQL
7 15 (0.81%) Big Data
7 15 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.75%) Oracle Database
9 11 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.59%) Data Mining
10 9 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
11 8 (0.43%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.38%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.32%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 103 (5.55%) JIRA
2 49 (2.64%) Git
3 34 (1.83%) Rational DOORS
4 20 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 16 (0.86%) Subversion
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
7 9 (0.48%) GitLab
8 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 6 (0.32%) JUnit
8 6 (0.32%) Mercurial
9 5 (0.27%) Selenium
9 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.22%) Gradle
11 3 (0.16%) JMeter
11 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.16%) TestRail
12 2 (0.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 730 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 325 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
3 254 (13.69%) Finance
4 167 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 130 (7.00%) Telecoms
6 85 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 81 (4.36%) Legal
7 81 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
8 74 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
9 70 (3.77%) Electronics
10 62 (3.34%) Marketing
11 50 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 49 (2.64%) Aerospace
13 46 (2.48%) Banking
14 41 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 31 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
16 27 (1.45%) Automotive
17 26 (1.40%) Retail
18 25 (1.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 282 (15.19%) Developer
2 236 (12.72%) Analyst
3 222 (11.96%) Software Developer
4 204 (10.99%) Architect
5 131 (7.06%) Project Manager
6 130 (7.00%) Senior
7 92 (4.96%) Lead
8 85 (4.58%) Business Analyst
9 65 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 49 (2.64%) Support Engineer
11 46 (2.48%) Software Engineer
12 44 (2.37%) Designer
13 41 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 38 (2.05%) Consultant
15 36 (1.94%) Network Engineer
16 35 (1.89%) Systems Engineer
17 34 (1.83%) Digital Designer
18 33 (1.78%) Coordinator
18 33 (1.78%) FPGA Designer
18 33 (1.78%) VHDL Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (7.49%) HTML
2 45 (2.42%) Web Services
3 29 (1.56%) CSS
4 25 (1.35%) .NET
5 21 (1.13%) XML
6 19 (1.02%) React
7 15 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 15 (0.81%) DirectX
7 15 (0.81%) OpenGL
7 15 (0.81%) OpenGL ES
7 15 (0.81%) REST
7 15 (0.81%) RESTful
7 15 (0.81%) Vulkan
8 14 (0.75%) Kafka
8 14 (0.75%) Middleware
9 13 (0.70%) Spring
10 11 (0.59%) AngularJS
10 11 (0.59%) JSON
11 9 (0.48%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.48%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 143 (7.70%) Management Information System
2 121 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 84 (4.53%) PKI
4 70 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.86%) FPGA
6 52 (2.80%) VHDL
7 43 (2.32%) Algorithms
8 34 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 33 (1.78%) CPLD
9 33 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
10 31 (1.67%) Driving Licence
11 25 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.29%) Clustering
13 23 (1.24%) CSOC
14 20 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.02%) Life Science
16 18 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
17 17 (0.92%) CMDB
17 17 (0.92%) Verilog
18 16 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 263 (14.17%) Windows
2 123 (6.63%) Linux
3 84 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 76 (4.09%) Windows 10
5 62 (3.34%) Unix
6 42 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 36 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (1.67%) Windows 7
9 30 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (1.08%) Android
11 13 (0.70%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.65%) Windows XP
13 10 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.38%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.32%) Solaris
16 5 (0.27%) Apple iOS
17 4 (0.22%) SafeRTOS
18 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
19 2 (0.11%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
2 400 (21.55%) Computer Science
3 316 (17.03%) Agile
4 279 (15.03%) Project Management
5 250 (13.47%) Artificial Intelligence
6 231 (12.45%) Code Quality
7 223 (12.02%) Conversational UI
8 218 (11.75%) ITIL
9 205 (11.05%) Software Engineering
10 162 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 153 (8.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (8.08%) Decision-Making
13 138 (7.44%) Analytics
14 131 (7.06%) Customer Service
15 126 (6.79%) Migration
16 114 (6.14%) Project Delivery
17 113 (6.09%) DevOps
18 108 (5.82%) Cybersecurity
18 108 (5.82%) Roadmaps
19 103 (5.55%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 230 (12.39%) SQL
2 218 (11.75%) Python
3 158 (8.51%) C#
4 157 (8.46%) JavaScript
5 104 (5.60%) PowerShell
6 54 (2.91%) Java
7 53 (2.86%) C
8 39 (2.10%) C++
9 33 (1.78%) MATLAB
10 17 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
11 16 (0.86%) VB
12 15 (0.81%) PHP
12 15 (0.81%) R
13 14 (0.75%) Bicep
13 14 (0.75%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.75%) VBScript
14 13 (0.70%) Perl
15 11 (0.59%) Bash
15 11 (0.59%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 378 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 259 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 230 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 175 (9.43%) DV Cleared
5 148 (7.97%) Master's Degree
6 82 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (3.18%) CCNA
8 53 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 52 (2.80%) PMI Certification
10 49 (2.64%) PMP
11 39 (2.10%) CCNP
12 37 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 37 (1.99%) HND
13 36 (1.94%) CISSP
14 28 (1.51%) NVQ Level 3
14 28 (1.51%) PhD
15 27 (1.45%) Azure Certification
15 27 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
16 24 (1.29%) MCSE
16 24 (1.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.20%) QA
2 49 (2.64%) SLA
3 42 (2.26%) GDPR
4 39 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.51%) PMO
6 23 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
8 18 (0.97%) NIST
9 17 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.70%) GxP
11 12 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
12 8 (0.43%) GRC
13 6 (0.32%) COBIT
14 5 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
14 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.27%) ISO 26262
14 5 (0.27%) MISRA
14 5 (0.27%) MISRA C
System Software
1 216 (11.64%) Active Directory
2 88 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (2.10%) Hyper-V
4 35 (1.89%) Firmware
5 34 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.35%) vSphere
8 21 (1.13%) Docker
9 20 (1.08%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.38%) KVM
13 5 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.22%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.11%) NFS
16 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.054%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 106 (5.71%) SCCM
2 38 (2.05%) SCOM
3 35 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 34 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.72%) WSUS
6 28 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 27 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 26 (1.40%) NetBackup
9 22 (1.19%) Ansible
10 18 (0.97%) Terraform
11 15 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
12 11 (0.59%) Argo
13 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
13 9 (0.48%) Nagios
14 7 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.32%) Autotask
15 6 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.32%) OpenView
15 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 376 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 216 (11.64%) PayPal
3 109 (5.87%) SAP
4 107 (5.77%) VMware
5 80 (4.31%) Oracle
6 69 (3.72%) Cisco
7 56 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.80%) EMC
9 46 (2.48%) HP
10 45 (2.42%) Atlassian
11 35 (1.89%) Adobe
12 34 (1.83%) Google
13 30 (1.62%) Juniper
14 23 (1.24%) Alteryx
15 22 (1.19%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.13%) IBM
17 20 (1.08%) Dell
18 18 (0.97%) Citrix
18 18 (0.97%) Xilinx
19 17 (0.92%) Veeam