Degree Contracts in Wiltshire

Academic Degree
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 34 16
Rank change year-on-year +8 -18 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 31 60 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 6.90% 6.36% 11.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.34% 8.29% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 49 115
10th Percentile £503 - £425
25th Percentile £527 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £718 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £713 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £42.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - +98.84% -68.86%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £57.39 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.27% -11.72% +18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

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 in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 332 724 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 73.94% 76.69% 69.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 560 647
10th Percentile £313 £400 £400
25th Percentile £494 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +10.29%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 16
10th Percentile £18.58 - £40.63
25th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £61.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.86% -34.73% -0.46%
75th Percentile £39.44 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 - £83.75
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Wiltshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Wiltshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Wiltshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Wiltshire

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Corsham +10 23 £588 -1.26% 1
Swindon +5 6 £725 +39.42% 31
Melksham - 1 - - 2
Degree
South West

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 16 (51.61%) Confluence
2 8 (25.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (16.13%) Skype for Business
5 1 (3.23%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 18 (58.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.23%) Primavera
2 1 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 2 (6.45%) Azure
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) DHCP
1 6 (19.35%) DNS
1 6 (19.35%) Skype
2 5 (16.13%) Unified Communications
3 2 (6.45%) iSCSI
3 2 (6.45%) SAN
3 2 (6.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.23%) Firewall
4 1 (3.23%) LAN
4 1 (3.23%) SMTP
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (51.61%) JIRA
2 5 (16.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.23%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (87.10%) Social Skills
2 20 (64.52%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (54.84%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Military
5 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Coordinator
3 2 (6.45%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 2 (6.45%) Service Owner
3 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (3.23%) Development Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) ERP Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Lead
4 1 (3.23%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Flash
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Clustering
1 8 (25.81%) PKI
2 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) CMDB
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Windows
1 10 (32.26%) Windows Server
2 5 (16.13%) Windows 10
2 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (6.45%) Linux
4 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Agile
2 16 (51.61%) Service Management
3 15 (48.39%) Computer Science
3 15 (48.39%) Critical Thinking
3 15 (48.39%) Waterfall
4 13 (41.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (41.94%) System Testing
5 11 (35.48%) NsoIT
6 9 (29.03%) Validation
7 8 (25.81%) High Availability
7 8 (25.81%) Power Management
8 7 (22.58%) ITIL
8 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (19.35%) Network Virtualisation
10 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (16.13%) Project Management
11 4 (12.90%) Change Management
11 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
12 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
12 3 (9.68%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
2 20 (64.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (35.48%) Master's Degree
4 10 (32.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
6 8 (25.81%) CCNA
6 8 (25.81%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (12.90%) MCSA
9 3 (9.68%) MCSE
10 2 (6.45%) CCNP
10 2 (6.45%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (6.45%) CISA
10 2 (6.45%) CISSP
11 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
11 1 (3.23%) IIBA
11 1 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) JSP 440
1 2 (6.45%) QA
1 2 (6.45%) RMADS
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (25.81%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (25.81%) VMware NSX
3 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (19.35%) Hyper-V
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (19.35%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) vCenter Server
2 5 (16.13%) WSUS
3 3 (9.68%) SCOM
4 2 (6.45%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
5 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.23%) OPNET
5 1 (3.23%) SCCM
5 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Atlassian
2 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
3 12 (38.71%) VMware
4 8 (25.81%) Cisco
5 6 (19.35%) Oracle
5 6 (19.35%) Veeam
6 4 (12.90%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.45%) Remedy
8 1 (3.23%) BMC
8 1 (3.23%) Google
8 1 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (3.23%) SAP
8 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow