Degree Contracts in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Degree 2,995 3,209 4,491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.11% 6.72% 6.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.54% 24.40% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 2,003 2,799
10th Percentile £232 £305 £271
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.86% +4.90%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £630
90th Percentile £766 £813 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 172 242
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.88 £22.50 £20.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £48.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +37.84% -7.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £50.59
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.75 £66.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -7.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,283 13,151 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.55% 27.54% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,990 8,833 10,320
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 654 675
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +6 1,404 £525 -8.70% 2,750
South East +13 495 £500 - 1,380
North of England +22 357 £500 +2.88% 1,180
South West +1 243 £525 -4.55% 651
Midlands +9 229 £411 -13.47% 906
North West +11 211 £510 +4.94% 668
East of England +9 173 £488 -2.50% 652
West Midlands +5 146 £475 - 564
Yorkshire +34 104 £475 -11.63% 363
East Midlands +11 82 £255 -46.88% 342
North East +27 40 £513 +83.04% 166
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 108 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 103 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 80 (2.67%) Confluence
4 18 (0.60%) SAS
5 16 (0.53%) Apache
5 16 (0.53%) CMS
6 14 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.27%) IIS
9 8 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.13%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.10%) Documentum
13 3 (0.10%) Gunicorn
13 3 (0.10%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 3 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 350 (11.69%) Microsoft Office
2 256 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 144 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 129 (4.31%) Chatbot
5 88 (2.94%) MS Visio
6 63 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.24%) Simulink
8 29 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
9 27 (0.90%) Photoshop
10 17 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 11 (0.37%) Stateflow
12 10 (0.33%) Sketch
13 8 (0.27%) AutoCAD
14 6 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
14 6 (0.20%) InDesign
15 5 (0.17%) Acrobat
15 5 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
15 5 (0.17%) Maya
15 5 (0.17%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 42 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 9 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.27%) ION MarketView
8 7 (0.23%) Endur
9 6 (0.20%) ENOVIA
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.20%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.17%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.17%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 522 (17.43%) Azure
2 263 (8.78%) AWS
3 183 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 125 (4.17%) GCP
6 105 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (2.40%) SaaS
8 64 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 61 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 53 (1.77%) PaaS
11 48 (1.60%) PowerApps
12 44 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
13 42 (1.40%) GitHub
14 40 (1.34%) Power Automate
15 39 (1.30%) Serverless
16 37 (1.24%) IaaS
17 34 (1.14%) Snowflake
18 28 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
19 26 (0.87%) OCI
20 25 (0.83%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 132 (4.41%) Firewall
2 100 (3.34%) DNS
3 82 (2.74%) LAN
4 81 (2.70%) DHCP
5 80 (2.67%) WAN
6 55 (1.84%) VPN
7 48 (1.60%) SAN
8 47 (1.57%) SSL
9 45 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 42 (1.40%) Ethernet
11 40 (1.34%) Network Security
12 38 (1.27%) VoIP
13 36 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (1.00%) Internet
15 24 (0.80%) Wireless
16 21 (0.70%) VLAN
17 19 (0.63%) MPLS
18 18 (0.60%) 5G
19 17 (0.57%) SD-WAN
20 16 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 128 (4.27%) Power BI
3 72 (2.40%) Tableau
4 66 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 57 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (1.80%) Big Data
6 54 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 51 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (1.40%) NoSQL
9 36 (1.20%) MySQL
10 28 (0.93%) Metadata
11 20 (0.67%) Data Mining
11 20 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 19 (0.63%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.60%) GIS
14 17 (0.57%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.57%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.47%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 171 (5.71%) JIRA
2 134 (4.47%) Git
3 58 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (1.07%) GitLab
6 27 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 20 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 16 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.50%) Gradle
10 14 (0.47%) Subversion
11 13 (0.43%) webpack
12 11 (0.37%) Selenium
13 10 (0.33%) JUnit
13 10 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.27%) CircleCI
16 7 (0.23%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.23%) Postman
16 7 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 1,328 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 641 (21.40%) Finance
3 603 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 181 (6.04%) Telecoms
6 164 (5.48%) Banking
7 158 (5.28%) Marketing
8 129 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
9 116 (3.87%) Legal
10 105 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 99 (3.31%) Retail
12 89 (2.97%) Front Office
13 86 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
14 83 (2.77%) Electronics
15 66 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 61 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
17 46 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 42 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
19 39 (1.30%) Investment Banking
20 38 (1.27%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 403 (13.46%) Analyst
2 386 (12.89%) Developer
3 317 (10.58%) Architect
4 243 (8.11%) Senior
5 171 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 164 (5.48%) Lead
7 159 (5.31%) Project Manager
8 141 (4.71%) Consultant
9 129 (4.31%) Software Developer
10 103 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
11 95 (3.17%) Software Engineer
12 75 (2.50%) Designer
13 74 (2.47%) Support Engineer
14 53 (1.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 51 (1.70%) Data Analyst
16 50 (1.67%) Network Engineer
17 49 (1.64%) DevOps Engineer
17 49 (1.64%) Java Developer
18 48 (1.60%) Systems Engineer
19 47 (1.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (6.58%) HTML
2 97 (3.24%) .NET
3 89 (2.97%) CSS
4 77 (2.57%) REST
5 75 (2.50%) React
6 72 (2.40%) Web Services
7 54 (1.80%) AngularJS
8 47 (1.57%) XML
9 44 (1.47%) Kafka
10 37 (1.24%) RESTful
10 37 (1.24%) Spring
11 30 (1.00%) .NET Framework
11 30 (1.00%) JSON
12 23 (0.77%) ARM Templates
12 23 (0.77%) NumPy
13 22 (0.73%) ASP.NET
14 21 (0.70%) Pandas
15 20 (0.67%) Node.js
16 19 (0.63%) Middleware
17 18 (0.60%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 235 (7.85%) Management Information System
2 183 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
3 99 (3.31%) Algorithms
3 99 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 92 (3.07%) PKI
5 67 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 62 (2.07%) Data Structures
7 60 (2.00%) Derivative
8 54 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 53 (1.77%) FPGA
10 52 (1.74%) VHDL
11 51 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
12 39 (1.30%) Onboarding
13 38 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 36 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
15 33 (1.10%) Clustering
15 33 (1.10%) CPLD
16 31 (1.04%) Social Media
17 30 (1.00%) Mobile App
18 29 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 329 (10.98%) Windows
2 190 (6.34%) Linux
3 111 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 102 (3.41%) Unix
5 80 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 49 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 46 (1.54%) Android
8 44 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 28 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 19 (0.63%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.60%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.47%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.40%) Solaris
15 9 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.30%) VMS
16 7 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
18 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (34.22%) Computer Science
2 785 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
3 661 (22.07%) Agile
4 439 (14.66%) Project Management
5 361 (12.05%) Software Engineering
6 295 (9.85%) DevOps
7 286 (9.55%) Analytics
8 273 (9.12%) ITIL
9 228 (7.61%) Decision-Making
10 222 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 221 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 218 (7.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 202 (6.74%) Migration
14 188 (6.28%) Business Intelligence
15 180 (6.01%) Roadmaps
16 177 (5.91%) CI/CD
17 172 (5.74%) Project Delivery
18 166 (5.54%) Code Quality
18 166 (5.54%) Mathematics
19 165 (5.51%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 508 (16.96%) SQL
2 470 (15.69%) Python
3 279 (9.32%) JavaScript
4 271 (9.05%) C#
5 202 (6.74%) Java
6 162 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 109 (3.64%) C++
8 71 (2.37%) C
9 50 (1.67%) TypeScript
10 49 (1.64%) Bash
11 44 (1.47%) R
12 39 (1.30%) MATLAB
13 30 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 30 (1.00%) VBScript
14 27 (0.90%) VB
14 27 (0.90%) VBA
15 25 (0.83%) Bicep
16 24 (0.80%) Go
16 24 (0.80%) Perl
17 23 (0.77%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 674 (22.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 444 (14.82%) Security Cleared
3 368 (12.29%) Master's Degree
4 305 (10.18%) SC Cleared
5 171 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 113 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 95 (3.17%) PMI Certification
8 86 (2.87%) PMP
9 77 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 76 (2.54%) CCNA
11 73 (2.44%) PhD
12 69 (2.30%) CISSP
13 59 (1.97%) Azure Certification
14 58 (1.94%) CCNP
15 49 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
16 47 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
17 43 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
18 33 (1.10%) CISM
18 33 (1.10%) HND
19 31 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (5.58%) QA
2 92 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 60 (2.00%) SLA
4 59 (1.97%) GDPR
5 57 (1.90%) PMO
6 41 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 40 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 30 (1.00%) NIST
9 28 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 13 (0.43%) GxP
11 12 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
11 12 (0.40%) GRC
11 12 (0.40%) MiFID
12 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 10 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
13 10 (0.33%) P3O
14 9 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 245 (8.18%) Active Directory
2 109 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (2.50%) Docker
4 55 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (1.20%) Firmware
5 36 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 30 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 27 (0.90%) vSphere
9 21 (0.70%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.50%) KVM
11 14 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.13%) vCloud
14 4 (0.13%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.067%) HDFS
16 2 (0.067%) XenApp
17 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 113 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 111 (3.71%) SCCM
3 79 (2.64%) Terraform
4 62 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.47%) WSUS
6 43 (1.44%) SCOM
7 37 (1.24%) Ansible
8 27 (0.90%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.87%) NetBackup
10 25 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.37%) Nagios
13 11 (0.37%) PingFederate
14 9 (0.30%) Grafana
14 9 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.27%) Kibana
15 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Clustering
15 8 (0.27%) Nessus
16 7 (0.23%) OPNET
Vendors
1 632 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 162 (5.41%) SAP
3 158 (5.28%) Oracle
4 122 (4.07%) VMware
5 114 (3.81%) Cisco
6 110 (3.67%) PayPal
7 107 (3.57%) Google
8 92 (3.07%) ServiceNow
9 63 (2.10%) Salesforce
10 56 (1.87%) Adobe
11 54 (1.80%) EMC
12 38 (1.27%) HP
13 37 (1.24%) Juniper
14 35 (1.17%) IBM
15 34 (1.14%) Citrix
16 32 (1.07%) Databricks
17 27 (0.90%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.87%) Alteryx
19 25 (0.83%) Atlassian
20 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg