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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,662 4,043 5,366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.46% 6.76% 6.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.60% 24.75% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,954 2,481 3,265
10th Percentile £212 £258 £263
25th Percentile £388 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.41% +7.47%
75th Percentile £629 £663 £625
90th Percentile £750 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 249 290
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.24 £20.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +26.76% -2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £50.95
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £64.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £45.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -10.56% +25.00% -5.26%

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 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 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
England +10 3,131 £512 -5.12% 6,835
UK excluding London +12 1,851 £500 +5.26% 4,807
London +7 1,432 £525 -8.70% 2,358
Work from Home +19 1,339 £525 - 2,523
South East +14 495 £500 +4.17% 1,240
North of England +21 411 £450 - 1,077
South West +3 252 £530 -3.64% 642
Midlands +10 249 £450 -5.26% 810
North West +10 239 £450 - 625
Scotland +17 201 £475 +18.75% 344
East of England +7 190 £500 - 676
West Midlands +11 159 £525 +10.53% 501
Yorkshire +27 123 £450 -12.20% 320
East Midlands +9 88 £248 -46.49% 308
North East +40 47 £500 +80.18% 155
Wales +9 42 £515 +0.49% 119
Northern Ireland +12 25 £400 - 85

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
1 134 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 130 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 97 (2.65%) Confluence
4 24 (0.66%) CMS
5 22 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.57%) Apache
7 16 (0.44%) SAS
8 12 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.33%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.30%) IIS
10 10 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.14%) Drupal
12 5 (0.14%) IBM Domino
12 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.14%) WordPress
13 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
13 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 448 (12.23%) Microsoft Office
2 312 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 263 (7.18%) Chatbot
4 173 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 96 (2.62%) MS Visio
6 86 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
7 36 (0.98%) Simulink
8 27 (0.74%) Photoshop
8 27 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
9 17 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
10 16 (0.44%) Acrobat
11 14 (0.38%) Sketch
12 12 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 11 (0.30%) Stateflow
14 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
14 8 (0.22%) Trello
15 7 (0.19%) InVision
15 7 (0.19%) Revit
16 6 (0.16%) Adobe XD
16 6 (0.16%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 53 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
4 15 (0.41%) Primavera
4 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
6 12 (0.33%) Endur
7 10 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 10 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 9 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 8 (0.22%) ION MarketView
9 8 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 577 (15.76%) Azure
2 290 (7.92%) AWS
3 246 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
4 157 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 132 (3.60%) GCP
6 125 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (2.40%) SaaS
8 73 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
9 68 (1.86%) GitHub
10 57 (1.56%) Entra ID
10 57 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 54 (1.47%) PaaS
12 50 (1.37%) Power Automate
13 42 (1.15%) IaaS
14 41 (1.12%) Serverless
15 39 (1.06%) OCI
16 38 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
17 31 (0.85%) WhatsApp
18 29 (0.79%) Figma
19 28 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 166 (4.53%) Firewall
2 111 (3.03%) DNS
3 110 (3.00%) LAN
4 101 (2.76%) WAN
5 90 (2.46%) DHCP
6 64 (1.75%) VPN
7 59 (1.61%) Network Security
7 59 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 57 (1.56%) SSL
9 52 (1.42%) SAN
10 44 (1.20%) Ethernet
11 42 (1.15%) Internet
12 35 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (0.87%) Wireless
14 31 (0.85%) VoIP
15 30 (0.82%) VLAN
16 25 (0.68%) BGP
17 22 (0.60%) OSPF
17 22 (0.60%) SD-WAN
18 20 (0.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (3.71%) SQL Server
2 120 (3.28%) Power BI
3 68 (1.86%) Tableau
4 64 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 56 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (1.50%) Big Data
8 50 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 49 (1.34%) Metadata
10 45 (1.23%) MySQL
11 35 (0.96%) NoSQL
12 28 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.63%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.60%) Data Mining
15 21 (0.57%) Hadoop
16 20 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
17 19 (0.52%) BigQuery
17 19 (0.52%) RDBMS
18 18 (0.49%) GIS
19 15 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 215 (5.87%) JIRA
2 131 (3.58%) Git
3 64 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 42 (1.15%) GitLab
5 37 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 23 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.44%) Gradle
9 16 (0.44%) Selenium
9 16 (0.44%) Subversion
10 13 (0.35%) webpack
11 12 (0.33%) JUnit
12 11 (0.30%) Maven
12 11 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
13 10 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.22%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.19%) Artifactory
General
1 1,621 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 776 (21.19%) Finance
3 751 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 307 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 196 (5.35%) Telecoms
6 193 (5.27%) Banking
7 189 (5.16%) Marketing
8 160 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
9 150 (4.10%) Legal
10 124 (3.39%) Manufacturing
11 118 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
12 99 (2.70%) Retail
13 98 (2.68%) Electronics
14 94 (2.57%) Front Office
15 73 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 69 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
17 54 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 54 (1.47%) Law
18 51 (1.39%) Aerospace
19 43 (1.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 543 (14.83%) Developer
2 470 (12.83%) Analyst
3 368 (10.05%) Architect
4 321 (8.77%) Senior
5 261 (7.13%) Software Developer
6 216 (5.90%) Project Manager
7 213 (5.82%) Business Analyst
8 187 (5.11%) Lead
9 175 (4.78%) Consultant
10 117 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
11 103 (2.81%) Software Engineer
12 81 (2.21%) Support Engineer
13 74 (2.02%) Designer
14 63 (1.72%) Network Engineer
15 56 (1.53%) Administrator
16 54 (1.47%) Java Developer
17 51 (1.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 51 (1.39%) Senior Developer
18 50 (1.37%) Data Analyst
19 49 (1.34%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (5.87%) HTML
2 99 (2.70%) .NET
3 94 (2.57%) CSS
4 82 (2.24%) React
5 80 (2.18%) REST
6 69 (1.88%) Web Services
7 58 (1.58%) XML
8 47 (1.28%) AngularJS
9 44 (1.20%) RESTful
10 40 (1.09%) JSON
11 38 (1.04%) Kafka
12 34 (0.93%) Spring
13 32 (0.87%) Pandas
14 29 (0.79%) NumPy
15 28 (0.76%) .NET Framework
16 26 (0.71%) Node.js
17 24 (0.66%) ASP.NET
18 22 (0.60%) Middleware
19 21 (0.57%) ARM Templates
20 20 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 287 (7.84%) Management Information System
2 191 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
3 112 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 110 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 99 (2.70%) PKI
6 82 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 66 (1.80%) Derivative
8 60 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 53 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 53 (1.45%) FPGA
9 53 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 52 (1.42%) VHDL
11 45 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
12 44 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 43 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
14 41 (1.12%) Fixed Income
15 37 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
16 36 (0.98%) Clustering
17 34 (0.93%) Security Posture
18 33 (0.90%) CPLD
Operating Systems
1 388 (10.60%) Windows
2 187 (5.11%) Linux
3 114 (3.11%) Windows Server
4 105 (2.87%) Windows 10
5 102 (2.79%) Unix
6 56 (1.53%) Android
7 46 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 39 (1.06%) Windows 7
8 39 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 39 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 21 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.35%) Solaris
11 13 (0.35%) Windows XP
12 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.25%) Ubuntu
15 8 (0.22%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.22%) VMS
16 7 (0.19%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,148 (31.35%) Computer Science
2 990 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 758 (20.70%) Agile
4 571 (15.59%) Project Management
5 389 (10.62%) Software Engineering
6 352 (9.61%) Artificial Intelligence
7 313 (8.55%) ITIL
8 306 (8.36%) DevOps
9 301 (8.22%) Analytics
9 301 (8.22%) Code Quality
10 279 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 278 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 268 (7.32%) Decision-Making
13 263 (7.18%) Conversational UI
14 248 (6.77%) Migration
15 232 (6.34%) Project Delivery
16 224 (6.12%) Roadmaps
17 215 (5.87%) Customer Service
18 207 (5.65%) Risk Management
19 205 (5.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 537 (14.66%) SQL
2 501 (13.68%) Python
3 302 (8.25%) JavaScript
4 287 (7.84%) C#
5 229 (6.25%) Java
6 170 (4.64%) PowerShell
7 110 (3.00%) C++
8 65 (1.77%) C
9 53 (1.45%) TypeScript
10 49 (1.34%) Bash
11 44 (1.20%) R
12 40 (1.09%) MATLAB
13 35 (0.96%) Perl
13 35 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 32 (0.87%) Scala
15 25 (0.68%) Go
15 25 (0.68%) VBA
16 23 (0.63%) PHP
17 22 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
17 22 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 768 (20.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 544 (14.86%) Security Cleared
3 397 (10.84%) Master's Degree
4 371 (10.13%) SC Cleared
5 191 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 141 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 118 (3.22%) PMI Certification
8 111 (3.03%) CISSP
9 109 (2.98%) PMP
10 93 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 88 (2.40%) CCNA
12 77 (2.10%) PhD
13 74 (2.02%) Azure Certification
14 62 (1.69%) CCNP
15 54 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
16 51 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
17 50 (1.37%) CISM
18 48 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
19 37 (1.01%) HND
20 30 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (5.30%) QA
2 102 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.08%) PMO
4 75 (2.05%) SLA
5 67 (1.83%) GDPR
6 51 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 46 (1.26%) NIST
8 45 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 36 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.63%) GRC
11 17 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 15 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 14 (0.38%) GxP
14 13 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.35%) COBIT
14 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 13 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 13 (0.35%) MiFID
15 12 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
16 11 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 290 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 116 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (1.88%) Docker
4 52 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.15%) Firmware
7 32 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (0.87%) vSphere
8 28 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
9 27 (0.74%) VMware NSX
10 16 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (0.41%) KVM
12 13 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
13 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.11%) vCloud
14 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.082%) XenApp
16 2 (0.055%) NFS
17 1 (0.027%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 129 (3.52%) SCCM
2 95 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 83 (2.27%) Terraform
4 61 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 42 (1.15%) Ansible
5 42 (1.15%) SCOM
6 37 (1.01%) WSUS
7 31 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 31 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 24 (0.66%) NetBackup
9 20 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
11 13 (0.35%) Grafana
12 12 (0.33%) Argo
12 12 (0.33%) Nagios
13 11 (0.30%) Kibana
14 10 (0.27%) logstash
15 9 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
15 9 (0.25%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 765 (20.89%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.58%) PayPal
3 210 (5.73%) Oracle
4 198 (5.41%) SAP
5 138 (3.77%) VMware
6 131 (3.58%) Cisco
7 106 (2.89%) Google
8 102 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 69 (1.88%) Adobe
10 57 (1.56%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.50%) EMC
12 53 (1.45%) Atlassian
13 47 (1.28%) HP
14 43 (1.17%) Citrix
15 42 (1.15%) Juniper
16 36 (0.98%) IBM
17 35 (0.96%) Palo Alto
18 32 (0.87%) Databricks
19 29 (0.79%) Apple
20 24 (0.66%) Splunk