Degree Contracts in the Thames Valley

Academic Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 248 220 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.45% 7.74% 9.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.51% 22.59% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 114 186
10th Percentile £205 £318 £250
25th Percentile £265 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +17.65% -10.05%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £518
90th Percentile - £725 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 10
10th Percentile £15.90 £15.28 £14.03
25th Percentile £20.11 £20.56 £19.32
Median hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +90.48% -42.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £62.97 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £73.41 £64.07
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £45.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +27.44% +3.65% +2.15%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,055 974 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.22% 34.25% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 636 708
10th Percentile £234 £319 £274
25th Percentile £416 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £678 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 46 28
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.50 £32.35 £18.32
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.39 £74.95 £53.50
90th Percentile £87.00 £80.25 £80.81
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the Thames Valley

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire +6 207 £513 -2.38% 239
Buckinghamshire +20 30 £465 -2.62% 132
Oxfordshire +2 11 £425 -10.53% 172
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 29 (11.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.23%) SAS
3 7 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.42%) Confluence
5 2 (0.81%) Apache
5 2 (0.81%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Moodle
Applications
1 61 (24.60%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (14.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (7.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (4.84%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.81%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.81%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.40%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.40%) Blender
7 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.19%) Azure
2 26 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (7.66%) Entra ID
4 18 (7.26%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (7.26%) Azure Storage
5 17 (6.85%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.65%) OCI
7 13 (5.24%) AWS
8 10 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.23%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.02%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.61%) PaaS
11 4 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.21%) Azure Stack
12 3 (1.21%) dbt
12 3 (1.21%) IaaS
12 3 (1.21%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.21%) Veeva
13 2 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (19.35%) DNS
2 41 (16.53%) DHCP
3 40 (16.13%) Firewall
4 21 (8.47%) LAN
5 15 (6.05%) SAN
6 9 (3.63%) SSL
7 8 (3.23%) 4G
8 7 (2.82%) 3G
8 7 (2.82%) 5G
8 7 (2.82%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (2.82%) VoLTE
8 7 (2.82%) WAN
9 6 (2.42%) Diameter Protocol
9 6 (2.42%) GGSN
9 6 (2.42%) LTE
9 6 (2.42%) RANAP
9 6 (2.42%) SGSN
9 6 (2.42%) Wireshark
10 5 (2.02%) VPN
10 5 (2.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.66%) Tableau
2 8 (3.23%) Power BI
3 7 (2.82%) Crystal Reports
3 7 (2.82%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.42%) Big Data
5 5 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.21%) EDMS
7 3 (1.21%) Metadata
7 3 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.81%) Power Query
8 2 (0.81%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.40%) Looker
9 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.66%) JIRA
2 7 (2.82%) Git
3 4 (1.61%) Subversion
4 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.40%) CMake
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.40%) Maven
5 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (56.85%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.37%) Telecoms
3 44 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.73%) Finance
5 27 (10.89%) Legal
6 24 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (8.06%) Marketing
9 14 (5.65%) Public Sector
10 13 (5.24%) Mandarin Language
11 9 (3.63%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.42%) Law
13 6 (2.42%) Multimedia
14 5 (2.02%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.61%) Electronics
16 3 (1.21%) Automotive
16 3 (1.21%) General Ledger
16 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (14.52%) Analyst
2 22 (8.87%) Lead
3 21 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (7.26%) Active Directory Support
4 18 (7.26%) Support Specialist
5 15 (6.05%) Architect
5 15 (6.05%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.65%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (5.65%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (5.65%) Hardware Engineer
7 10 (4.03%) Developer
7 10 (4.03%) Storage Engineer
8 9 (3.63%) Business Analyst
8 9 (3.63%) Support Engineer
9 8 (3.23%) Communications Manager
9 8 (3.23%) Development Manager
9 8 (3.23%) Internal Communications Manager
9 8 (3.23%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.82%) IFS Developer
10 7 (2.82%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.66%) ARM Templates
2 9 (3.63%) Web Services
3 3 (1.21%) HTML
3 3 (1.21%) Snowpark
3 3 (1.21%) XML
4 2 (0.81%) CSS
4 2 (0.81%) Flash
4 2 (0.81%) YAML
5 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.40%) CNTK
5 1 (0.40%) jQuery
5 1 (0.40%) JSON
5 1 (0.40%) Node.js
5 1 (0.40%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.40%) React
5 1 (0.40%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.71%) PKI
2 28 (11.29%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (8.47%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.65%) Driving Licence
5 11 (4.44%) Life Science
5 11 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.03%) Credit Risk
7 9 (3.63%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.61%) Device Driver
11 3 (1.21%) PMI
11 3 (1.21%) Social Media
11 3 (1.21%) Solar Power
12 2 (0.81%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.81%) NHS
12 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.02%) Windows
2 45 (18.15%) Linux
3 39 (15.73%) Windows Server
4 35 (14.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (13.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (12.90%) Windows 10
7 15 (6.05%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (5.65%) Windows 7
8 14 (5.65%) Windows XP
9 3 (1.21%) Unix
10 1 (0.40%) Android
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.08%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (23.79%) ITIL
3 58 (23.39%) Project Management
4 55 (22.18%) Agile
5 54 (21.77%) Analytics
6 37 (14.92%) Computer Science
7 31 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 31 (12.50%) DevOps
8 28 (11.29%) Customer Service
9 24 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (9.27%) Release Management
11 22 (8.87%) CI/CD
12 21 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (8.06%) Service Delivery
14 19 (7.66%) Actionable Insight
14 19 (7.66%) Data Protection
14 19 (7.66%) RBAC
14 19 (7.66%) Service Management
15 18 (7.26%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.73%) PowerShell
2 22 (8.87%) C#
3 20 (8.06%) SQL
4 18 (7.26%) Bicep
4 18 (7.26%) Python
4 18 (7.26%) VB
4 18 (7.26%) VBScript
5 5 (2.02%) C++
5 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.61%) Assembly Language
6 4 (1.61%) C
6 4 (1.61%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.21%) F#
7 3 (1.21%) Java
7 3 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.81%) R
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (33.47%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.60%) DV Cleared
3 43 (17.34%) SC Cleared
4 24 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (7.66%) CCNP
7 18 (7.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 18 (7.26%) Master's Degree
8 17 (6.85%) CCNA
9 5 (2.02%) CIPD
9 5 (2.02%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.61%) PhD
11 3 (1.21%) ACCA
11 3 (1.21%) CIMA
11 3 (1.21%) CISSP
12 2 (0.81%) CCDP
12 2 (0.81%) CISA
12 2 (0.81%) CISM
12 2 (0.81%) HNC
12 2 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.84%) QA
2 7 (2.82%) SLA
3 6 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.02%) GDPR
5 4 (1.61%) JTAG
5 4 (1.61%) PMO
6 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.81%) COBIT
7 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.81%) GRC
7 2 (0.81%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) HL7
System Software
1 55 (22.18%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.26%) Firmware
2 18 (7.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 18 (7.26%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (6.05%) Hyper-V
3 15 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.61%) Docker
5 4 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) NFS
6 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (20.56%) SCCM
2 33 (13.31%) SCOM
3 32 (12.90%) WSUS
4 22 (8.87%) Kubernetes
5 18 (7.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (6.05%) EMC NetWorker
6 15 (6.05%) NetBackup
7 14 (5.65%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.82%) Ansible
9 4 (1.61%) Terraform
10 2 (0.81%) Netcool
10 2 (0.81%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.40%) CFEngine
11 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 96 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.31%) HP
3 20 (8.06%) Oracle
4 19 (7.66%) Cisco
5 18 (7.26%) Juniper
6 16 (6.45%) Alteryx
6 16 (6.45%) Palo Alto
6 16 (6.45%) VMware
7 15 (6.05%) 3PAR
7 15 (6.05%) EMC
8 14 (5.65%) Dell
8 14 (5.65%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (5.65%) Symantec
8 14 (5.65%) Veeam
9 10 (4.03%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.82%) IFS
11 6 (2.42%) Empirix
11 6 (2.42%) NetScout
12 5 (2.02%) Reuters
12 5 (2.02%) Workday