Degree Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Academic Degree
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 27 31
Rank change year-on-year -24 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 73 96 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.66% 6.43% 5.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.95% 31.27% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 58 76
10th Percentile £129 £159 £327
25th Percentile £268 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +1.21% +9.78%
75th Percentile £584 £572 £581
90th Percentile £693 £602 £600
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £23.95 £30.01
25th Percentile - £36.25 £30.01
Median hourly rate £30.29 £40.00 £30.05
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +33.11% +54.98%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £40.04
90th Percentile - - £46.02
England median hourly rate £35.25 £57.35 £48.00
% change year-on-year -38.54% +19.48% +6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 366 307 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.39% 20.55% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 210 270
10th Percentile £281 £274 £304
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 7
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.83 £19.31
25th Percentile £23.16 £20.88 £24.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +33.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £54.38 £37.04
90th Percentile - £63.75 £46.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.55% -1.24% +19.26%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Yorkshire

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Yorkshire

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Degree

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
South Yorkshire -11 37 £450 -14.29% 50
West Yorkshire -21 26 £350 -26.32% 152
North Yorkshire +2 5 £305 -39.00% 47
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.37%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.37%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.37%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) AWS
1 17 (23.29%) GCP
2 13 (17.81%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (17.81%) Serverless
3 4 (5.48%) Azure
4 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.11%) Smartsheet
5 2 (2.74%) Asana
5 2 (2.74%) npm
6 1 (1.37%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.37%) GitHub
6 1 (1.37%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.37%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) VPN
2 4 (5.48%) DNS
2 4 (5.48%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) NAS
2 4 (5.48%) SAN
3 1 (1.37%) Broadband
3 1 (1.37%) Network Security
3 1 (1.37%) SSH
3 1 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.55%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.37%) GIS
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Power Query
4 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (27.40%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.03%) GitLab
3 15 (20.55%) Liquibase
4 11 (15.07%) JIRA
5 7 (9.59%) Git
6 2 (2.74%) Babel
6 2 (2.74%) Postman
6 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.74%) webpack
7 1 (1.37%) Gradle
7 1 (1.37%) JUnit
General
1 53 (72.60%) Social Skills
2 30 (41.10%) Finance
3 26 (35.62%) Banking
4 13 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.07%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 2 (2.74%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Billing
8 1 (1.37%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (17.81%) Analyst
1 13 (17.81%) Software Engineer
2 10 (13.70%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) 1st Line Support
4 7 (9.59%) IT Support
4 7 (9.59%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Desktop Support
5 6 (8.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Developer
5 6 (8.22%) Lead
5 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.85%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) IT Manager
7 4 (5.48%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (4.11%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) REST
2 14 (19.18%) RESTful
3 13 (17.81%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.48%) Middleware
5 2 (2.74%) .NET
5 2 (2.74%) Anaconda
5 2 (2.74%) Bootstrap
5 2 (2.74%) CSS
5 2 (2.74%) CSS3
5 2 (2.74%) DOM
5 2 (2.74%) HTML
5 2 (2.74%) HTML5
5 2 (2.74%) Jest
5 2 (2.74%) lodash
5 2 (2.74%) React
5 2 (2.74%) Redux
6 1 (1.37%) Dagger
6 1 (1.37%) Retrofit
6 1 (1.37%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.37%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.55%) Cloud Native
1 15 (20.55%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (16.44%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.74%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.29%) Linux
2 11 (15.07%) Windows
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.74%) Android
4 2 (2.74%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (58.90%) Computer Science
2 32 (43.84%) Agile
3 23 (31.51%) Software Engineering
4 21 (28.77%) Change Management
5 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
5 18 (24.66%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (24.66%) DevOps
5 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (21.92%) Containerisation
6 16 (21.92%) Cost Optimisation
6 16 (21.92%) Microservices
7 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (19.18%) Customer Service
8 14 (19.18%) Data Security
9 13 (17.81%) Cryptography
10 12 (16.44%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (15.07%) High Availability
11 11 (15.07%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.88%) Python
2 15 (20.55%) Go
3 9 (12.33%) Java
3 9 (12.33%) SQL
4 5 (6.85%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) C#
7 1 (1.37%) C++
7 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 36 (49.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (28.77%) Master's Degree
3 11 (15.07%) AWS Certification
4 9 (12.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (4.11%) CISM
6 3 (4.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.74%) CISA
7 2 (2.74%) CISSP
7 2 (2.74%) MBA
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.74%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.37%) PhD
8 1 (1.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) GRC
3 1 (1.37%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) Docker
2 11 (15.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.48%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.48%) vSphere
4 1 (1.37%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) Ansible
2 15 (20.55%) Terraform
3 14 (19.18%) Kubernetes
4 13 (17.81%) Grafana
4 13 (17.81%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.48%) vCenter Server
6 4 (5.48%) vRealize
7 1 (1.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.18%) Splunk
3 13 (17.81%) Google
4 9 (12.33%) ServiceNow
5 6 (8.22%) Citrix
6 4 (5.48%) VMware
7 3 (4.11%) SAP
8 2 (2.74%) F5
8 2 (2.74%) Workday
8 2 (2.74%) Wrike
9 1 (1.37%) Ariba
9 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.37%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.37%) Darktrace
9 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.37%) Okta
9 1 (1.37%) Oracle
9 1 (1.37%) PayPal
9 1 (1.37%) Progress