Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 20 30 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,580 5,192 5,326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.98% 6.76% 5.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.01% 27.63% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 3,091 3,259
10th Percentile £220 £310 £275
25th Percentile £400 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +6.34% +13.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £613
90th Percentile £749 £800 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 264 267
10th Percentile £17.68 £16.00 £14.18
25th Percentile £26.91 £19.15 £19.52
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.75 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% +5.70% +9.72%
75th Percentile £68.63 £62.87 £51.69
90th Percentile £81.02 £67.50 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £41.77 £39.50
% change year-on-year +19.70% +5.75% +17.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,255 18,792 18,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.53% 24.48% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,370 12,639 11,916
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £608
90th Percentile £725 £740 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +2.38% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 740 810 723
10th Percentile £17.72 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £27.50 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £31.60
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +42.41% -21.00%
75th Percentile £67.61 £65.75 £53.73
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.89 £45.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.31% +63.64% -18.52%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +10 3,048 £525 -4.55% 7,551
UK excluding London +12 1,795 £500 +4.17% 5,155
London +5 1,442 £550 -5.17% 2,927
Work from Home +16 1,299 £525 -2.51% 3,820
South East +10 476 £500 - 1,622
North of England +18 392 £444 -7.40% 1,045
North West +21 235 £452 -2.90% 601
Scotland +18 232 £467 +16.75% 341
Midlands +8 218 £550 +22.22% 768
South West +4 210 £550 +4.76% 586
East of England +6 198 £500 - 790
West Midlands +19 152 £575 +27.78% 507
Yorkshire +16 137 £430 -14.00% 331
East Midlands +5 63 £575 +23.82% 257
Wales +5 59 £225 -57.94% 116
Northern Ireland +12 22 £450 -14.29% 60
North East +38 20 £415 -17.00% 139

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
1 163 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 95 (2.65%) Confluence
3 56 (1.56%) MS Exchange
4 38 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.89%) Apache
5 32 (0.89%) CMS
5 32 (0.89%) IIS
6 24 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (0.61%) SAS
8 21 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 14 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.28%) Skype for Business
11 6 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
11 6 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.17%) Appian
11 6 (0.17%) nginx
11 6 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.14%) IBM Domino
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 421 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 300 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 185 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 133 (3.72%) Chatbot
5 100 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
6 89 (2.49%) MS Visio
7 24 (0.67%) Simulink
8 22 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
9 15 (0.42%) AutoCAD
10 12 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 12 (0.34%) Trello
11 11 (0.31%) Siemens NX
11 11 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
12 10 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 10 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
13 9 (0.25%) Sketch
14 8 (0.22%) CATIA
14 8 (0.22%) Revit
15 6 (0.17%) SPSS
15 6 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 47 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 46 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 17 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
4 17 (0.47%) Primavera
5 16 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 14 (0.39%) SAP CO
6 14 (0.39%) SAP WM
7 13 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
8 12 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
8 12 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 9 (0.25%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.20%) CA PPM
10 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.20%) Shopify
10 7 (0.20%) Workfront
11 6 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.17%) SAP EWM
11 6 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 564 (15.75%) Azure
2 306 (8.55%) AWS
3 268 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
4 236 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 125 (3.49%) GCP
6 88 (2.46%) SaaS
7 87 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
9 67 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
10 59 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 57 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 51 (1.42%) Serverless
13 49 (1.37%) GitHub
14 39 (1.09%) Power Automate
15 33 (0.92%) PaaS
15 33 (0.92%) WhatsApp
16 31 (0.87%) Amazon S3
17 27 (0.75%) IaaS
18 26 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
18 26 (0.73%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 136 (3.80%) Firewall
2 111 (3.10%) LAN
3 109 (3.04%) TCP/IP
4 99 (2.77%) DNS
5 81 (2.26%) WAN
6 71 (1.98%) Network Security
7 62 (1.73%) DHCP
8 56 (1.56%) VPN
9 52 (1.45%) SAN
10 46 (1.28%) Wireless
11 45 (1.26%) Internet
12 38 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
13 37 (1.03%) BGP
13 37 (1.03%) SSL
14 36 (1.01%) OSPF
15 34 (0.95%) Skype
16 33 (0.92%) VLAN
17 30 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
18 29 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
19 28 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (5.36%) Power BI
2 170 (4.75%) SQL Server
3 97 (2.71%) Tableau
4 92 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
5 76 (2.12%) Big Data
6 71 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 61 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (1.54%) MySQL
9 44 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 41 (1.15%) Metadata
11 38 (1.06%) NoSQL
12 32 (0.89%) MongoDB
13 27 (0.75%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 21 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
15 21 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 20 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (0.56%) Power Query
17 19 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
17 19 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 241 (6.73%) JIRA
2 129 (3.60%) Git
3 74 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 52 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
5 36 (1.01%) Visual Studio
6 28 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 28 (0.78%) GitLab
7 23 (0.64%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.47%) Subversion
9 15 (0.42%) Selenium
10 13 (0.36%) Maven
10 13 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (0.28%) MLflow
13 9 (0.25%) JUnit
13 9 (0.25%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.22%) Balsamiq
15 7 (0.20%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.20%) JMeter
General
1 1,514 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 830 (23.18%) Finance
3 739 (20.64%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 270 (7.54%) Banking
6 198 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
7 154 (4.30%) Marketing
8 135 (3.77%) Manufacturing
9 132 (3.69%) Legal
10 121 (3.38%) Telecoms
11 120 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
12 89 (2.49%) Electronics
13 87 (2.43%) Retail
14 83 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
15 73 (2.04%) Law
16 68 (1.90%) Investment Banking
17 64 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
18 58 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
19 57 (1.59%) Front Office
20 56 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 595 (16.62%) Analyst
2 437 (12.21%) Developer
3 325 (9.08%) Senior
4 293 (8.18%) Architect
5 256 (7.15%) Business Analyst
6 221 (6.17%) Project Manager
7 182 (5.08%) Lead
8 160 (4.47%) Consultant
9 153 (4.27%) Software Developer
10 104 (2.91%) Support Engineer
11 100 (2.79%) Software Engineer
12 78 (2.18%) Data Analyst
13 77 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
14 73 (2.04%) Data Engineer
15 66 (1.84%) Administrator
15 66 (1.84%) Security Architect
16 64 (1.79%) IT Manager
17 60 (1.68%) Service Analyst
18 57 (1.59%) Systems Engineer
19 53 (1.48%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (3.55%) .NET
2 101 (2.82%) HTML
3 72 (2.01%) REST
4 68 (1.90%) CSS
5 59 (1.65%) TensorFlow
6 56 (1.56%) React
6 56 (1.56%) XML
7 54 (1.51%) PyTorch
8 49 (1.37%) RESTful
8 49 (1.37%) Web Services
9 48 (1.34%) JSON
10 43 (1.20%) .NET Framework
11 40 (1.12%) Middleware
12 39 (1.09%) AngularJS
13 38 (1.06%) Node.js
14 37 (1.03%) Pandas
15 35 (0.98%) .NET Core
16 34 (0.95%) Kafka
17 32 (0.89%) LDAP
18 31 (0.87%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 303 (8.46%) Management Information System
2 115 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 113 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 108 (3.02%) Algorithms
5 85 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 57 (1.59%) PKI
7 54 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 46 (1.28%) IoT
9 45 (1.26%) Derivative
10 41 (1.15%) Driving Licence
10 41 (1.15%) Mobile App
11 40 (1.12%) Market Risk
12 38 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.03%) Data Structures
13 37 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 36 (1.01%) Fixed Income
15 35 (0.98%) Life Science
16 34 (0.95%) PMI
17 33 (0.92%) NHS
18 31 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 433 (12.09%) Windows
2 236 (6.59%) Linux
3 131 (3.66%) Windows 10
4 128 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 68 (1.90%) Unix
6 56 (1.56%) Android
7 43 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 43 (1.20%) Windows 7
8 32 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 29 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.53%) Ubuntu
13 17 (0.47%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.31%) CentOS
15 10 (0.28%) Mac OS X
16 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
17 8 (0.22%) VxWorks
18 4 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,087 (30.36%) Computer Science
2 967 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
3 758 (21.17%) Agile
4 562 (15.70%) Project Management
5 347 (9.69%) ITIL
6 314 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 307 (8.58%) DevOps
8 294 (8.21%) Analytics
9 287 (8.02%) Risk Management
10 278 (7.77%) Software Engineering
11 274 (7.65%) Customer Service
12 267 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence
13 257 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
14 249 (6.96%) Project Delivery
15 240 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 238 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
17 231 (6.45%) Decision-Making
18 228 (6.37%) Mathematics
19 220 (6.15%) Data Modelling
20 215 (6.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 487 (13.60%) Python
2 456 (12.74%) SQL
3 206 (5.75%) Java
4 174 (4.86%) C#
5 159 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 145 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 135 (3.77%) C++
8 80 (2.23%) C
9 63 (1.76%) R
10 59 (1.65%) Bash
11 45 (1.26%) TypeScript
12 41 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 40 (1.12%) Scala
14 36 (1.01%) Perl
14 36 (1.01%) T-SQL
15 34 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 32 (0.89%) MATLAB
17 31 (0.87%) Go
18 19 (0.53%) PHP
19 17 (0.47%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 711 (19.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 579 (16.17%) Security Cleared
3 407 (11.37%) Master's Degree
4 388 (10.84%) SC Cleared
5 188 (5.25%) CISSP
6 179 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 157 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
8 133 (3.72%) CISM
9 107 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 93 (2.60%) PMI Certification
11 89 (2.49%) Azure Certification
12 77 (2.15%) PMP
13 76 (2.12%) PhD
14 72 (2.01%) CESG Certified Professional
15 71 (1.98%) CCNA
16 70 (1.96%) CCNP
17 53 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
18 48 (1.34%) Chartered Engineer
19 45 (1.26%) AWS Certification
19 45 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.39%) QA
2 139 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 136 (3.80%) NIST
4 101 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 87 (2.43%) PMO
6 80 (2.23%) SLA
7 70 (1.96%) NCSC
8 61 (1.70%) GDPR
9 55 (1.54%) RMADS
10 43 (1.20%) JSP 440
11 32 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 28 (0.78%) PCI DSS
13 26 (0.73%) Accessibility
14 22 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
15 21 (0.59%) GRC
16 20 (0.56%) NIST 800
17 16 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
18 12 (0.34%) COBIT
18 12 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 11 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 324 (9.05%) Active Directory
2 131 (3.66%) Docker
3 88 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.82%) Firmware
5 49 (1.37%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 30 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.39%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.28%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.22%) vSphere
12 7 (0.20%) KVM
12 7 (0.20%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.17%) Postfix
14 5 (0.14%) NFS
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.084%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 3 (0.084%) Apache Flume
16 3 (0.084%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 137 (3.83%) SCCM
2 136 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 93 (2.60%) Terraform
4 59 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 58 (1.62%) Ansible
6 30 (0.84%) SCOM
7 27 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.56%) EMC NetWorker
9 19 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (0.50%) Puppet
11 16 (0.45%) Grafana
12 15 (0.42%) Argo
13 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
14 12 (0.34%) Nessus
15 11 (0.31%) PowerCLI
15 11 (0.31%) vCenter Server
16 10 (0.28%) Kubeflow
16 10 (0.28%) NetBackup
16 10 (0.28%) Prometheus
16 10 (0.28%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 757 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 235 (6.56%) SAP
3 174 (4.86%) Oracle
4 152 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 144 (4.02%) VMware
6 120 (3.35%) PayPal
7 112 (3.13%) Cisco
8 81 (2.26%) HP
9 74 (2.07%) Google
10 68 (1.90%) Citrix
11 50 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 42 (1.17%) EMC
13 37 (1.03%) Atlassian
14 33 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 31 (0.87%) Adobe
15 31 (0.87%) IBM
16 27 (0.75%) Apple
17 26 (0.73%) Dell
18 23 (0.64%) Splunk
19 22 (0.61%) Remedy