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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,664 3,964 5,394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.49% 6.71% 6.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.80% 24.59% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,949 2,427 3,299
10th Percentile £213 £258 £271
25th Percentile £385 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% +7.29%
75th Percentile £626 £667 £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 409 245 277
10th Percentile £14.04 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.47 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.45% +0.68%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.82 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £45.00 £36.46
% change year-on-year -8.33% +23.44% -4.69%

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 13,178 16,121 19,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,130 10,752 12,590
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
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 £626
90th Percentile £744 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 841 765
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.84 £20.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.72 £34.38
% change year-on-year -17.66% +44.65% -0.48%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 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
England +10 3,140 £511 -6.22% 8,432
UK excluding London +11 1,861 £500 +5.26% 5,673
London +5 1,432 £525 -8.70% 3,104
Work from Home +20 1,336 £525 +0.96% 3,081
South East +14 499 £500 - 1,467
North of England +21 417 £450 -5.26% 1,279
South West +5 256 £530 -3.64% 751
Midlands +12 252 £425 -10.53% 989
North West +12 239 £500 +11.11% 748
Scotland +14 200 £475 +18.75% 362
East of England +5 186 £500 - 788
West Midlands +10 158 £513 +7.89% 602
Yorkshire +28 128 £450 -12.20% 393
East Midlands +10 93 £255 -45.60% 385
North East +39 49 £500 +80.18% 164
Wales +9 41 £515 +0.49% 146
Northern Ireland +11 24 £400 - 83

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
1 136 (3.71%) SharePoint
2 126 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 99 (2.70%) Confluence
4 25 (0.68%) CMS
5 22 (0.60%) Apache
5 22 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.46%) SAS
7 14 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.27%) IIS
8 10 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 10 (0.27%) Skype for Business
9 6 (0.16%) Drupal
9 6 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.16%) WordPress
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.14%) IBM Domino
10 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.11%) nginx
11 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 433 (11.82%) Microsoft Office
2 313 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 258 (7.04%) Chatbot
4 174 (4.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 102 (2.78%) MS Visio
6 84 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.01%) Simulink
8 28 (0.76%) Photoshop
9 27 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.44%) Acrobat
12 13 (0.35%) Sketch
13 12 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 11 (0.30%) Stateflow
15 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
15 8 (0.22%) Trello
16 7 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
16 7 (0.19%) Revit
17 6 (0.16%) InDesign
17 6 (0.16%) Maya
Business Applications
1 54 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
4 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 14 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.35%) Primavera
7 12 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
7 12 (0.33%) Endur
7 12 (0.33%) SAP ERP
8 10 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 9 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 8 (0.22%) ION MarketView
10 8 (0.22%) Magento
10 8 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 583 (15.91%) Azure
2 294 (8.02%) AWS
3 242 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 135 (3.68%) GCP
6 121 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (2.32%) SaaS
8 77 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (1.94%) GitHub
10 59 (1.61%) Entra ID
11 56 (1.53%) PowerApps
12 50 (1.36%) PaaS
13 48 (1.31%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (1.12%) OCI
15 41 (1.12%) Serverless
16 37 (1.01%) IaaS
17 31 (0.85%) Snowflake
18 30 (0.82%) WhatsApp
19 28 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 163 (4.45%) Firewall
2 112 (3.06%) DNS
3 101 (2.76%) LAN
4 94 (2.57%) WAN
5 89 (2.43%) DHCP
6 64 (1.75%) VPN
7 58 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 56 (1.53%) Network Security
8 56 (1.53%) SSL
9 53 (1.45%) SAN
10 44 (1.20%) Ethernet
11 42 (1.15%) Internet
12 36 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (0.90%) Wireless
14 32 (0.87%) VoIP
15 29 (0.79%) VLAN
16 24 (0.66%) BGP
17 21 (0.57%) MPLS
17 21 (0.57%) OSPF
18 19 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 120 (3.28%) Power BI
3 67 (1.83%) Tableau
4 66 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 63 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (1.50%) Big Data
8 50 (1.36%) MySQL
9 49 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 48 (1.31%) Metadata
11 38 (1.04%) NoSQL
12 28 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.66%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.60%) Data Mining
15 21 (0.57%) Hadoop
15 21 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
16 19 (0.52%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.49%) RDBMS
18 17 (0.46%) GIS
19 14 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 218 (5.95%) JIRA
2 140 (3.82%) Git
3 66 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.23%) GitLab
5 40 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 22 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 22 (0.60%) Visual Studio
8 17 (0.46%) Gradle
9 16 (0.44%) Subversion
10 15 (0.41%) Selenium
11 13 (0.35%) JUnit
11 13 (0.35%) webpack
12 11 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (0.30%) Maven
12 11 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
13 10 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (0.22%) JMeter
14 8 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 8 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,631 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 777 (21.21%) Finance
3 748 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 308 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 196 (5.35%) Banking
6 195 (5.32%) Telecoms
7 193 (5.27%) Marketing
8 162 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 151 (4.12%) Legal
10 125 (3.41%) Manufacturing
11 115 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 98 (2.67%) Electronics
13 97 (2.65%) Retail
14 95 (2.59%) Front Office
15 74 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
16 70 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
17 55 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 53 (1.45%) Law
19 50 (1.36%) Aerospace
20 48 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 549 (14.98%) Developer
2 465 (12.69%) Analyst
3 364 (9.93%) Architect
4 319 (8.71%) Senior
5 262 (7.15%) Software Developer
6 218 (5.95%) Project Manager
7 216 (5.90%) Business Analyst
8 194 (5.29%) Lead
9 171 (4.67%) Consultant
10 117 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
11 108 (2.95%) Software Engineer
12 83 (2.27%) Support Engineer
13 76 (2.07%) Designer
14 66 (1.80%) Network Engineer
15 57 (1.56%) Java Developer
16 53 (1.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 52 (1.42%) Administrator
18 51 (1.39%) Senior Developer
19 50 (1.36%) Data Analyst
19 50 (1.36%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (5.92%) HTML
2 102 (2.78%) .NET
3 98 (2.67%) CSS
4 88 (2.40%) React
5 83 (2.27%) REST
6 75 (2.05%) Web Services
7 60 (1.64%) XML
8 52 (1.42%) AngularJS
9 40 (1.09%) JSON
9 40 (1.09%) RESTful
10 39 (1.06%) Kafka
11 37 (1.01%) Spring
12 31 (0.85%) Pandas
13 29 (0.79%) .NET Framework
14 28 (0.76%) Node.js
14 28 (0.76%) NumPy
15 27 (0.74%) ASP.NET
16 23 (0.63%) Middleware
17 22 (0.60%) ARM Templates
18 20 (0.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 275 (7.51%) Management Information System
2 200 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 117 (3.19%) Data Centre
4 110 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 98 (2.67%) PKI
6 82 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 65 (1.77%) Derivative
8 63 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 56 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 54 (1.47%) FPGA
11 52 (1.42%) VHDL
11 52 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 44 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 44 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
13 42 (1.15%) Fixed Income
14 40 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
15 38 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
16 35 (0.96%) Clustering
17 34 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
18 33 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 386 (10.53%) Windows
2 188 (5.13%) Linux
3 117 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 105 (2.87%) Unix
5 101 (2.76%) Windows 10
6 54 (1.47%) Android
7 48 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 41 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 36 (0.98%) Windows 7
11 22 (0.60%) Apple iOS
12 20 (0.55%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.38%) Windows XP
14 13 (0.35%) Solaris
15 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
17 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
17 8 (0.22%) VMS
18 7 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 7 (0.19%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,156 (31.55%) Computer Science
2 985 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
3 776 (21.18%) Agile
4 563 (15.37%) Project Management
5 394 (10.75%) Software Engineering
6 349 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 313 (8.54%) ITIL
8 312 (8.52%) DevOps
9 308 (8.41%) Code Quality
10 304 (8.30%) Analytics
11 282 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 274 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 262 (7.15%) Decision-Making
14 258 (7.04%) Conversational UI
15 252 (6.88%) Migration
16 227 (6.20%) Project Delivery
17 224 (6.11%) Roadmaps
18 214 (5.84%) Customer Service
19 209 (5.70%) Risk Management
19 209 (5.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 539 (14.71%) SQL
2 507 (13.84%) Python
3 308 (8.41%) JavaScript
4 291 (7.94%) C#
5 234 (6.39%) Java
6 173 (4.72%) PowerShell
7 112 (3.06%) C++
8 65 (1.77%) C
9 53 (1.45%) Bash
9 53 (1.45%) TypeScript
10 42 (1.15%) MATLAB
10 42 (1.15%) R
11 38 (1.04%) Perl
12 35 (0.96%) PL/SQL
13 31 (0.85%) Scala
14 27 (0.74%) Go
14 27 (0.74%) VBA
15 23 (0.63%) PHP
16 22 (0.60%) Rust
16 22 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 786 (21.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 550 (15.01%) Security Cleared
3 407 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 381 (10.40%) SC Cleared
5 189 (5.16%) DV Cleared
6 139 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
7 121 (3.30%) PMI Certification
8 112 (3.06%) PMP
9 105 (2.87%) CISSP
10 96 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 89 (2.43%) CCNA
12 80 (2.18%) PhD
13 69 (1.88%) Azure Certification
14 64 (1.75%) CCNP
15 54 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
16 53 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
17 48 (1.31%) CISM
18 47 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
19 38 (1.04%) HND
20 32 (0.87%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.40%) QA
2 100 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.02%) PMO
3 74 (2.02%) SLA
4 69 (1.88%) GDPR
5 51 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (1.20%) NIST
7 38 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.63%) GRC
9 17 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
10 15 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 15 (0.41%) GxP
11 13 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.35%) COBIT
11 13 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.35%) MiFID
12 12 (0.33%) Good Clinical Practice
12 12 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 290 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 114 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (1.88%) Docker
4 53 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 44 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 42 (1.15%) Firmware
7 32 (0.87%) vSphere
8 31 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
9 28 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (0.68%) VMware NSX
11 17 (0.46%) KVM
12 15 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
13 13 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.11%) vCloud
15 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.055%) NFS
16 2 (0.055%) XenApp
17 1 (0.027%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 129 (3.52%) SCCM
2 98 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 82 (2.24%) Terraform
4 59 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (1.17%) SCOM
6 39 (1.06%) WSUS
7 37 (1.01%) Ansible
8 32 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 30 (0.82%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.71%) NetBackup
11 23 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
13 14 (0.38%) Grafana
14 12 (0.33%) Argo
14 12 (0.33%) Nagios
15 11 (0.30%) Kibana
16 10 (0.27%) logstash
16 10 (0.27%) PingFederate
17 9 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 763 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.58%) PayPal
3 209 (5.70%) Oracle
4 200 (5.46%) SAP
5 135 (3.68%) VMware
6 132 (3.60%) Cisco
7 111 (3.03%) Google
8 101 (2.76%) ServiceNow
9 72 (1.97%) Adobe
10 59 (1.61%) Salesforce
11 57 (1.56%) EMC
12 54 (1.47%) Atlassian
13 49 (1.34%) HP
14 44 (1.20%) Juniper
15 39 (1.06%) Citrix
16 37 (1.01%) IBM
17 36 (0.98%) Palo Alto
18 34 (0.93%) Databricks
19 28 (0.76%) Apple
20 24 (0.66%) Splunk