Degree Contracts

Academic Degree
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 26 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,144 3,770 5,779
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.83% 6.94% 6.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.21% 25.82% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,820 2,340 3,543
10th Percentile £232 £270 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £775 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £465
% change year-on-year +2.88% +4.52% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 200 247
10th Percentile £18.13 £16.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £25.50 £26.96 £21.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £53.19 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +31.32% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £69.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 £50.00 £42.02
% change year-on-year +14.70% +18.99% +15.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,997 14,602 19,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 26.87% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,614 9,575 13,257
10th Percentile £313 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 912 705 758
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.19 £26.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £56.49 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.88% +25.53% +60.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £80.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £54.77 £44.00
% change year-on-year -21.49% +24.48% +69.23%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England +7 2,691 £520 -0.95% 3,214
UK excluding London +6 1,456 £500 +2.88% 2,857
London +7 1,360 £525 -4.55% 889
Work from Home +7 993 £524 -0.15% 1,406
South East +13 450 £500 - 757
North of England +6 277 £525 +10.53% 617
South West 0 213 £513 -6.82% 416
Midlands +5 187 £475 -0.52% 509
North West +1 169 £533 +12.21% 406
West Midlands +7 138 £519 -0.24% 303
Scotland +3 134 £438 -2.67% 144
East of England +4 125 £450 -10.00% 318
Yorkshire +13 84 £500 +2.56% 149
Wales +13 56 £400 -23.81% 93
East Midlands -2 49 £400 -15.79% 202
Northern Ireland +4 24 £400 - 140
North East +12 20 £575 +17.95% 72

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 117 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 103 (3.28%) Confluence
3 90 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 32 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 28 (0.89%) Apache
6 27 (0.86%) SAS
7 21 (0.67%) CMS
8 11 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.22%) Drupal
11 6 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.16%) WordPress
13 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.095%) Documentum
14 3 (0.095%) GemFire
14 3 (0.095%) JBoss
Applications
1 303 (9.64%) Microsoft Office
2 231 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 119 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 75 (2.39%) MS Visio
5 67 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
6 32 (1.02%) Simulink
7 22 (0.70%) Photoshop
7 22 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 18 (0.57%) Chatbot
9 15 (0.48%) Sketch
9 15 (0.48%) Trello
10 13 (0.41%) Acrobat
11 12 (0.38%) Adobe XD
12 10 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
12 10 (0.32%) Stateflow
13 8 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
14 7 (0.22%) InVision
14 7 (0.22%) SPSS
15 6 (0.19%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 41 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.54%) Endur
4 15 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
5 10 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
6 8 (0.25%) Magento
6 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.16%) Aligne
8 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.13%) Primavera
9 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.13%) SAP HCM
9 4 (0.13%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 634 (20.17%) Azure
2 350 (11.13%) AWS
3 197 (6.27%) Power Platform
4 191 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
5 171 (5.44%) GCP
6 96 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
8 86 (2.74%) SaaS
9 69 (2.19%) GitHub
10 66 (2.10%) Entra ID
11 62 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
12 54 (1.72%) PowerApps
13 47 (1.49%) PaaS
14 43 (1.37%) Serverless
15 35 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 32 (1.02%) Snowflake
17 28 (0.89%) Azure Storage
17 28 (0.89%) Figma
17 28 (0.89%) OneDrive
18 27 (0.86%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 156 (4.96%) Firewall
2 93 (2.96%) DNS
3 72 (2.29%) DHCP
4 68 (2.16%) WAN
5 64 (2.04%) LAN
6 62 (1.97%) VPN
7 51 (1.62%) Network Security
8 50 (1.59%) VoIP
9 49 (1.56%) Ethernet
10 47 (1.49%) SSL
11 45 (1.43%) TCP/IP
12 34 (1.08%) SAN
13 33 (1.05%) Wireless
14 32 (1.02%) 5G
14 32 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (0.95%) Internet
16 26 (0.83%) SD-WAN
17 24 (0.76%) CTI
18 22 (0.70%) 4G
19 21 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 149 (4.74%) Power BI
3 108 (3.44%) Relational Database
4 78 (2.48%) Tableau
5 77 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 62 (1.97%) MySQL
6 62 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (1.94%) Big Data
8 59 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 44 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 30 (0.95%) MongoDB
11 25 (0.80%) Hadoop
12 24 (0.76%) Metadata
12 24 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 21 (0.67%) BigQuery
14 21 (0.67%) Data Mining
14 21 (0.67%) RDBMS
15 20 (0.64%) GIS
15 20 (0.64%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 206 (6.55%) JIRA
2 169 (5.38%) Git
3 70 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.30%) GitLab
5 40 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 27 (0.86%) Visual Studio
7 25 (0.80%) Selenium
8 18 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
9 16 (0.51%) Gradle
9 16 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (0.45%) Postman
11 13 (0.41%) JUnit
11 13 (0.41%) Maven
12 11 (0.35%) Robot Framework
12 11 (0.35%) Subversion
13 10 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 9 (0.29%) LoadRunner
14 9 (0.29%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 1,442 (45.87%) Social Skills
2 790 (25.13%) Finance
3 701 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 194 (6.17%) Banking
6 193 (6.14%) Telecoms
7 165 (5.25%) Marketing
8 139 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 122 (3.88%) Legal
10 110 (3.50%) Electronics
11 106 (3.37%) Manufacturing
12 102 (3.24%) Retail
13 94 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
14 93 (2.96%) Front Office
15 80 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
16 53 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
17 47 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 47 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 44 (1.40%) Law
18 44 (1.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 398 (12.66%) Analyst
2 382 (12.15%) Developer
3 341 (10.85%) Architect
4 286 (9.10%) Senior
5 182 (5.79%) Project Manager
6 172 (5.47%) Business Analyst
7 168 (5.34%) Lead
8 152 (4.83%) Consultant
9 103 (3.28%) Software Engineer
10 102 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
11 93 (2.96%) Support Engineer
12 84 (2.67%) Designer
13 79 (2.51%) Java Developer
14 63 (2.00%) DevOps Engineer
15 61 (1.94%) Data Analyst
16 57 (1.81%) Senior Developer
17 53 (1.69%) Network Engineer
17 53 (1.69%) Senior Analyst
18 52 (1.65%) Data Engineer
19 51 (1.62%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (4.04%) HTML
2 123 (3.91%) CSS
3 121 (3.85%) .NET
4 93 (2.96%) Web Services
5 84 (2.67%) React
5 84 (2.67%) REST
6 69 (2.19%) AngularJS
7 60 (1.91%) XML
8 59 (1.88%) RESTful
9 56 (1.78%) .NET Framework
10 52 (1.65%) Kafka
11 49 (1.56%) Spring
12 42 (1.34%) JSON
13 33 (1.05%) Middleware
13 33 (1.05%) SOAP
14 32 (1.02%) Node.js
15 28 (0.89%) ASP.NET
16 26 (0.83%) Pandas
17 25 (0.80%) ARM Templates
18 23 (0.73%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 267 (8.49%) Management Information System
2 152 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
3 100 (3.18%) Algorithms
4 91 (2.89%) PKI
5 90 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 87 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 66 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 54 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 53 (1.69%) FPGA
9 53 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 49 (1.56%) VHDL
11 47 (1.49%) Derivative
12 42 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
13 41 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 41 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
14 40 (1.27%) Fixed Income
15 39 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 37 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 35 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
17 35 (1.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 349 (11.10%) Windows
2 201 (6.39%) Linux
3 121 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 106 (3.37%) Unix
5 75 (2.39%) Windows 10
6 48 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 48 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 44 (1.40%) Android
8 37 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 29 (0.92%) Apple iOS
10 19 (0.60%) Mac OS
11 16 (0.51%) Windows 7
12 15 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (0.41%) Solaris
14 10 (0.32%) VMS
14 10 (0.32%) Windows XP
15 9 (0.29%) zOS
16 8 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
17 7 (0.22%) CentOS
18 6 (0.19%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,210 (38.49%) Computer Science
2 907 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
3 769 (24.46%) Agile
4 536 (17.05%) Project Management
5 319 (10.15%) Analytics
6 313 (9.96%) DevOps
7 292 (9.29%) ITIL
8 274 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 251 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 246 (7.82%) Software Engineering
11 229 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
12 228 (7.25%) Decision-Making
12 228 (7.25%) Migration
13 214 (6.81%) Scrum
14 205 (6.52%) CI/CD
15 200 (6.36%) Cybersecurity
16 196 (6.23%) Data Modelling
17 190 (6.04%) Roadmaps
18 189 (6.01%) Change Management
19 180 (5.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 479 (15.24%) SQL
2 459 (14.60%) Python
3 256 (8.14%) Java
4 203 (6.46%) JavaScript
5 171 (5.44%) C#
6 145 (4.61%) PowerShell
7 120 (3.82%) C++
8 65 (2.07%) C
9 56 (1.78%) Bash
10 50 (1.59%) R
11 43 (1.37%) TypeScript
12 42 (1.34%) Perl
12 42 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 36 (1.15%) MATLAB
13 36 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 31 (0.99%) Scala
14 31 (0.99%) VBScript
15 25 (0.80%) Go
15 25 (0.80%) VB
16 24 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 814 (25.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 452 (14.38%) Security Cleared
3 420 (13.36%) Master's Degree
4 330 (10.50%) SC Cleared
5 149 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 125 (3.98%) PMI Certification
7 123 (3.91%) PMP
8 104 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
9 101 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 84 (2.67%) CISSP
11 77 (2.45%) Azure Certification
12 72 (2.29%) CCNA
12 72 (2.29%) PhD
13 71 (2.26%) Numerate Degree
14 51 (1.62%) CCNP
15 47 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 46 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
17 38 (1.21%) CISM
18 33 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 30 (0.95%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (5.60%) QA
2 90 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.00%) PMO
4 58 (1.84%) GDPR
5 55 (1.75%) SLA
6 48 (1.53%) NIST
7 44 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 40 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 39 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 14 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 14 (0.45%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.32%) GRC
13 10 (0.32%) P3O
13 10 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.22%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 244 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 99 (3.15%) Docker
3 85 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 28 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (0.73%) Firmware
9 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.48%) vSphere
11 11 (0.35%) KVM
12 7 (0.22%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 5 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.16%) VirtualBox
14 4 (0.13%) HDFS
14 4 (0.13%) vCloud
14 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 139 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 97 (3.09%) Terraform
3 94 (2.99%) SCCM
4 71 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 52 (1.65%) Ansible
6 42 (1.34%) WSUS
7 37 (1.18%) SCOM
8 28 (0.89%) vCenter Server
9 24 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (0.57%) NetBackup
12 14 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (0.45%) Grafana
13 12 (0.38%) PingFederate
14 9 (0.29%) Nessus
15 8 (0.25%) OpenView
15 8 (0.25%) Prometheus
16 7 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.22%) Kibana
17 5 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 676 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 174 (5.53%) SAP
3 165 (5.25%) Oracle
4 118 (3.75%) Google
5 116 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 111 (3.53%) Cisco
7 96 (3.05%) VMware
8 71 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 61 (1.94%) Adobe
10 56 (1.78%) EMC
11 45 (1.43%) Atlassian
12 37 (1.18%) Databricks
12 37 (1.18%) Splunk
13 36 (1.15%) HP
14 34 (1.08%) IBM
15 29 (0.92%) Palo Alto
16 28 (0.89%) Citrix
16 28 (0.89%) Genesys
17 27 (0.86%) Apple
17 27 (0.86%) Dell