Degree Contracts in the South East

Academic Degree
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 501 398 718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 8.80% 7.04% 9.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.69% 19.43% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 231 415
10th Percentile £205 £231 £209
25th Percentile £363 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £563
90th Percentile £638 £773 £650
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 42 41
10th Percentile £17.80 £16.67 £14.51
25th Percentile £23.93 £40.63 £19.52
Median hourly rate £57.35 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.44% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.99 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.25 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £48.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.35% +39.97% -7.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,544 2,048 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.67% 36.22% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 1,312 1,575
10th Percentile £350 £300 £309
25th Percentile £450 £415 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
England median daily rate £536 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 131 91
10th Percentile £17.80 £20.47 £17.00
25th Percentile £28.75 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.59 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £76.99 £68.75
England median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -27.05% +35.80% +15.71%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the South East

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the South East

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley +10 249 £500 -1.96% 494
Berkshire +2 201 £575 +9.52% 208
Hampshire +7 107 £625 +59.44% 190
Surrey +7 81 £500 - 141
West Sussex +34 42 £475 +65.22% 64
Buckinghamshire +28 31 £465 -8.83% 123
Oxfordshire +5 17 £218 -54.09% 165
Kent +4 7 £275 -33.33% 86
Middlesex - 7 £275 - 4
East Sussex +4 2 £375 -60.53% 37
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
Sussex - 1 £350 - 3
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 34 (6.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.39%) Confluence
3 9 (1.80%) SAS
4 8 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.40%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) Moodle
7 1 (0.20%) MTS
7 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 72 (14.37%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.20%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.00%) Simulink
7 2 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.40%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.20%) Blender
8 1 (0.20%) Stata
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 120 (23.95%) Azure
2 61 (12.18%) AWS
3 32 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (5.99%) Entra ID
5 20 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (3.99%) Azure Storage
6 18 (3.59%) Snowflake
7 17 (3.39%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.99%) OCI
9 8 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.20%) GitHub
11 6 (1.20%) IaaS
11 6 (1.20%) SaaS
12 5 (1.00%) GCP
12 5 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.00%) Smartsheet
13 4 (0.80%) PaaS
13 4 (0.80%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 55 (10.98%) DNS
1 55 (10.98%) Firewall
2 48 (9.58%) DHCP
3 45 (8.98%) SSL
4 36 (7.19%) Ethernet
5 29 (5.79%) SAN
6 20 (3.99%) LAN
7 17 (3.39%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.80%) VPN
8 9 (1.80%) WAN
8 9 (1.80%) Wireless
9 8 (1.60%) 4G
9 8 (1.60%) 5G
10 7 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (1.40%) NAS
10 7 (1.40%) Network Security
10 7 (1.40%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (1.20%) Diameter Protocol
11 6 (1.20%) LTE
11 6 (1.20%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.79%) Tableau
2 15 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.79%) Power BI
4 9 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.40%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (1.20%) Big Data
7 5 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (0.80%) MS Access
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.60%) Couchbase
9 3 (0.60%) EDMS
9 3 (0.60%) Metadata
9 3 (0.60%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 33 (6.59%) JIRA
2 23 (4.59%) Git
3 15 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (1.40%) Subversion
6 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.80%) TestRail
8 3 (0.60%) GitLab
8 3 (0.60%) JUnit
9 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.40%) Gradle
9 2 (0.40%) JMeter
9 2 (0.40%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.40%) Selenium
9 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.20%) TestNG
10 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 200 (39.92%) Social Skills
2 84 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (15.37%) Finance
4 54 (10.78%) Telecoms
5 49 (9.78%) Electronics
6 46 (9.18%) Legal
7 40 (7.98%) Presentation Skills
8 36 (7.19%) Marketing
9 26 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (3.59%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.79%) Aerospace
11 14 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.79%) Retail
12 13 (2.59%) Mandarin Language
13 11 (2.20%) Automotive
13 11 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.40%) Law
15 6 (1.20%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 63 (12.57%) Analyst
2 58 (11.58%) Architect
3 38 (7.58%) Senior
4 33 (6.59%) Designer
4 33 (6.59%) Digital Designer
4 33 (6.59%) FPGA Designer
4 33 (6.59%) Project Manager
4 33 (6.59%) VHDL Designer
5 32 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (5.59%) Lead
7 20 (3.99%) Active Directory Support
8 19 (3.79%) Software Engineer
9 16 (3.19%) Developer
9 16 (3.19%) Support Specialist
10 14 (2.79%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (2.79%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (2.79%) Network Engineer
10 14 (2.79%) Storage Engineer
10 14 (2.79%) Support Engineer
10 14 (2.79%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.38%) Web Services
2 21 (4.19%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.20%) .NET
3 11 (2.20%) XML
4 10 (2.00%) HTML
5 7 (1.40%) CSS
5 7 (1.40%) RESTful
6 6 (1.20%) JSON
6 6 (1.20%) Kafka
6 6 (1.20%) REST
7 5 (1.00%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.00%) DirectX
7 5 (1.00%) OpenGL
7 5 (1.00%) OpenGL ES
7 5 (1.00%) Vulkan
8 4 (0.80%) ADO
8 4 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.80%) SOAP
8 4 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 68 (13.57%) PKI
2 42 (8.38%) Management Information System
3 40 (7.98%) Self-Motivation
4 34 (6.79%) VHDL
5 33 (6.59%) CPLD
5 33 (6.59%) FPGA
6 30 (5.99%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.59%) Life Science
8 12 (2.40%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.20%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.00%) Credit Risk
11 9 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.60%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.40%) CMDB
13 7 (1.40%) PMI
14 5 (1.00%) Robotics
15 4 (0.80%) Device Driver
15 4 (0.80%) e-Health
15 4 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 104 (20.76%) Windows
2 93 (18.56%) Linux
3 49 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 40 (7.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 37 (7.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (7.19%) Unix
7 31 (6.19%) Windows 10
8 17 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.79%) Windows XP
10 13 (2.59%) Windows 7
11 10 (2.00%) Android
12 7 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.60%) Solaris
14 3 (0.60%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.20%) CentOS
15 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (29.54%) Problem-Solving
2 115 (22.95%) Computer Science
3 102 (20.36%) Agile
4 91 (18.16%) Project Management
5 83 (16.57%) ITIL
6 61 (12.18%) Analytics
7 49 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (9.78%) Customer Service
8 45 (8.98%) DevOps
9 38 (7.58%) Cryptography
9 38 (7.58%) Key Management
10 36 (7.19%) Decision-Making
11 35 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (6.79%) Roadmaps
13 33 (6.59%) Schematic Capture
14 32 (6.39%) Software Testing
15 31 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (5.79%) CI/CD
16 29 (5.79%) Service Management
16 29 (5.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.98%) PowerShell
2 44 (8.78%) Python
2 44 (8.78%) SQL
3 35 (6.99%) C#
4 24 (4.79%) VBScript
5 22 (4.39%) VB
6 21 (4.19%) C++
7 20 (3.99%) Bicep
8 15 (2.99%) Java
9 12 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.20%) C
11 10 (2.00%) JavaScript
11 10 (2.00%) MATLAB
12 8 (1.60%) Bash
13 6 (1.20%) Go
13 6 (1.20%) Perl
14 4 (0.80%) F#
14 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.80%) R
14 4 (0.80%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 139 (27.74%) Security Cleared
2 93 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 78 (15.57%) DV Cleared
4 74 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (10.98%) Master's Degree
6 30 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (4.59%) CCNA
7 23 (4.59%) CCNP
8 21 (4.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (2.40%) PMI Certification
10 11 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.80%) PhD
12 9 (1.80%) PMP
13 8 (1.60%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.60%) ISTQB
14 7 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (1.00%) CIPD
15 5 (1.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.39%) QA
2 16 (3.19%) SLA
3 13 (2.59%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.80%) PMO
5 7 (1.40%) GDPR
6 6 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.20%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.80%) JTAG
7 4 (0.80%) PMBOK
8 3 (0.60%) HL7
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.20%) COBIT
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 102 (20.36%) Active Directory
2 36 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (4.39%) Firmware
5 20 (3.99%) Hyper-V
5 20 (3.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (3.59%) vSphere
7 15 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (2.79%) Docker
9 5 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.80%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.80%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.40%) KVM
12 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.20%) NFS
12 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (9.98%) SCCM
2 38 (7.58%) WSUS
3 35 (6.99%) Kubernetes
4 34 (6.79%) SCOM
5 21 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (3.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (3.59%) NetBackup
8 16 (3.19%) vCenter Server
9 14 (2.79%) EMC NetWorker
10 9 (1.80%) Ansible
11 6 (1.20%) Terraform
12 3 (0.60%) yum
13 2 (0.40%) Netcool
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle ZFS
13 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.40%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.40%) SELinux
13 2 (0.40%) vRealize
13 2 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (24.95%) Microsoft
2 51 (10.18%) EMC
3 40 (7.98%) VMware
4 34 (6.79%) Oracle
5 29 (5.79%) HP
6 28 (5.59%) Cisco
7 20 (3.99%) Alteryx
7 20 (3.99%) Juniper
7 20 (3.99%) SAP
8 17 (3.39%) Palo Alto
9 15 (2.99%) 3PAR
9 15 (2.99%) Veeam
10 14 (2.79%) Dell
10 14 (2.79%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (2.79%) ServiceNow
10 14 (2.79%) Symantec
11 7 (1.40%) IFS
11 7 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.20%) Adobe
12 6 (1.20%) Empirix