Degree Contracts in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,853 1,625 2,108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.05% 6.96% 6.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.55% 21.16% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 948 1,236
10th Percentile £185 £210 £195
25th Percentile £329 £375 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +6.28% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £595 £550
90th Percentile £675 £712 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.41% +3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 170 174
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +26.76% -7.79%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £50.95
90th Percentile £72.75 £74.33 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +26.76% -5.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,549 7,681 7,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.88% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,133 5,181
10th Percentile £270 £288 £256
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £708 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 632 526
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.03 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £49.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +42.68% -
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £56.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.38% +14.25%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +14 504 £500 - 1,286
North of England +21 414 £475 - 1,214
South West +3 261 £528 -4.09% 695
Midlands +10 249 £411 -13.58% 950
North West +7 236 £505 +10.68% 703
Scotland +18 198 £475 +12.76% 326
East of England +6 179 £500 - 723
West Midlands +6 157 £488 +2.63% 589
Yorkshire +31 128 £450 -14.29% 376
East Midlands +10 91 £255 -46.32% 360
North East +32 48 £513 +83.04% 155
Wales +7 35 £530 +0.95% 147
Northern Ireland +10 24 £400 - 67
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 87 (4.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 70 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 54 (2.91%) Confluence
4 12 (0.65%) Apache
5 10 (0.54%) SAS
5 10 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.38%) CMS
7 5 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.054%) JBoss
11 1 (0.054%) MTS
Applications
1 264 (14.25%) Microsoft Office
2 219 (11.82%) Chatbot
3 160 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 78 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
6 35 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 35 (1.89%) Simulink
7 19 (1.03%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.86%) Acrobat
9 15 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.59%) Stateflow
11 10 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.27%) Maya
12 5 (0.27%) TargetLink
13 4 (0.22%) Blender
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
14 3 (0.16%) InVision
14 3 (0.16%) MicroStation
14 3 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 31 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.22%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.16%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.16%) Primavera
7 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 235 (12.68%) Azure
2 115 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (6.04%) AWS
4 62 (3.35%) Power Platform
5 34 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (1.78%) Entra ID
7 31 (1.67%) SaaS
8 29 (1.57%) GCP
9 26 (1.40%) PaaS
10 22 (1.19%) Snowflake
11 21 (1.13%) IaaS
12 20 (1.08%) OCI
13 19 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (0.92%) GitHub
15 16 (0.86%) Azure Storage
15 16 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (0.65%) Power Automate
18 10 (0.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.13%) Firewall
2 81 (4.37%) DNS
3 70 (3.78%) DHCP
3 70 (3.78%) LAN
4 56 (3.02%) WAN
5 51 (2.75%) SSL
6 44 (2.37%) SAN
7 43 (2.32%) Ethernet
8 38 (2.05%) TCP/IP
9 33 (1.78%) VPN
10 28 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.30%) Wireless
12 20 (1.08%) VoIP
13 19 (1.03%) Internet
14 16 (0.86%) Wireshark
15 15 (0.81%) MPLS
15 15 (0.81%) Network Security
15 15 (0.81%) VLAN
16 12 (0.65%) BGP
16 12 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (2.48%) SQL Server
2 44 (2.37%) Power BI
3 31 (1.67%) Tableau
4 27 (1.46%) Metadata
5 25 (1.35%) MySQL
6 20 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 16 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 15 (0.81%) Big Data
8 15 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (0.76%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.59%) Data Mining
11 9 (0.49%) Crystal Reports
12 8 (0.43%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.38%) PowerPivot
14 6 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.32%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 105 (5.67%) JIRA
2 54 (2.91%) Git
3 36 (1.94%) Rational DOORS
4 22 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 15 (0.81%) Subversion
7 10 (0.54%) GitLab
7 10 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
8 7 (0.38%) JUnit
9 6 (0.32%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.27%) Selenium
10 5 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.22%) Gradle
11 4 (0.22%) JMeter
11 4 (0.22%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.22%) TestRail
12 3 (0.16%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.16%) Travis CI
General
1 703 (37.94%) Social Skills
2 308 (16.62%) Analytical Skills
3 247 (13.33%) Finance
4 169 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 140 (7.56%) Telecoms
6 84 (4.53%) Manufacturing
7 79 (4.26%) Legal
8 78 (4.21%) Electronics
9 76 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 74 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (3.67%) Marketing
12 48 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 45 (2.43%) Aerospace
14 44 (2.37%) Banking
15 37 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.83%) Mandarin Language
17 29 (1.57%) Automotive
18 28 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (1.46%) Retail
20 26 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 280 (15.11%) Developer
2 223 (12.03%) Analyst
3 222 (11.98%) Software Developer
4 205 (11.06%) Architect
5 134 (7.23%) Senior
6 126 (6.80%) Project Manager
7 99 (5.34%) Lead
8 78 (4.21%) Business Analyst
9 63 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (2.75%) Support Engineer
11 50 (2.70%) Software Engineer
12 47 (2.54%) Designer
13 46 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (2.16%) Systems Engineer
15 38 (2.05%) Network Engineer
16 34 (1.83%) Consultant
16 34 (1.83%) Digital Designer
17 33 (1.78%) FPGA Designer
17 33 (1.78%) VHDL Designer
18 31 (1.67%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (7.56%) HTML
2 49 (2.64%) Web Services
3 30 (1.62%) CSS
4 26 (1.40%) .NET
5 18 (0.97%) XML
6 17 (0.92%) ARM Templates
7 16 (0.86%) React
8 15 (0.81%) DirectX
8 15 (0.81%) OpenGL
8 15 (0.81%) OpenGL ES
8 15 (0.81%) REST
8 15 (0.81%) Spring
8 15 (0.81%) Vulkan
9 14 (0.76%) Kafka
10 12 (0.65%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.65%) Middleware
10 12 (0.65%) RESTful
11 11 (0.59%) .NET Framework
11 11 (0.59%) Flash
12 8 (0.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 133 (7.18%) Management Information System
2 131 (7.07%) Self-Motivation
3 85 (4.59%) PKI
4 72 (3.89%) Data Centre
5 55 (2.97%) FPGA
6 52 (2.81%) VHDL
7 41 (2.21%) Algorithms
8 34 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 33 (1.78%) CPLD
10 30 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
11 28 (1.51%) Driving Licence
12 25 (1.35%) Clustering
13 23 (1.24%) CSOC
13 23 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.13%) Life Science
15 19 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
16 17 (0.92%) Verilog
17 16 (0.86%) Data Structures
17 16 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 254 (13.71%) Windows
2 134 (7.23%) Linux
3 89 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 72 (3.89%) Windows 10
5 67 (3.62%) Unix
6 43 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 33 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 27 (1.46%) Windows 7
10 20 (1.08%) Android
11 14 (0.76%) Windows XP
12 13 (0.70%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
14 8 (0.43%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 6 (0.32%) Solaris
16 5 (0.27%) Apple iOS
17 4 (0.22%) SafeRTOS
18 3 (0.16%) CentOS
18 3 (0.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
2 407 (21.96%) Computer Science
3 315 (17.00%) Agile
4 266 (14.36%) Project Management
5 245 (13.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 230 (12.41%) Code Quality
7 219 (11.82%) Conversational UI
8 215 (11.60%) ITIL
9 211 (11.39%) Software Engineering
10 166 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 143 (7.72%) Decision-Making
13 133 (7.18%) Analytics
14 125 (6.75%) Customer Service
15 122 (6.58%) DevOps
16 119 (6.42%) Migration
17 113 (6.10%) Roadmaps
18 108 (5.83%) Project Delivery
19 104 (5.61%) Time Management
20 99 (5.34%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 233 (12.57%) SQL
2 217 (11.71%) Python
3 161 (8.69%) C#
4 157 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 105 (5.67%) PowerShell
6 57 (3.08%) Java
7 52 (2.81%) C
8 40 (2.16%) C++
9 35 (1.89%) MATLAB
10 18 (0.97%) VB
11 17 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
12 16 (0.86%) Bicep
12 16 (0.86%) VBScript
13 15 (0.81%) R
14 14 (0.76%) Perl
14 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.70%) Bash
15 13 (0.70%) PHP
16 12 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 379 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 268 (14.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 240 (12.95%) SC Cleared
4 168 (9.07%) DV Cleared
5 161 (8.69%) Master's Degree
6 86 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (3.40%) CCNA
8 54 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 53 (2.86%) PMI Certification
10 49 (2.64%) PMP
11 43 (2.32%) CCNP
12 37 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 36 (1.94%) HND
14 31 (1.67%) CISSP
15 29 (1.57%) PhD
16 28 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
16 28 (1.51%) NVQ Level 3
17 27 (1.46%) MCSE
18 24 (1.30%) HNC
18 24 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (3.89%) QA
2 47 (2.54%) SLA
3 45 (2.43%) GDPR
4 34 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 30 (1.62%) PMO
6 20 (1.08%) NIST
7 19 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
9 16 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.65%) Good Clinical Practice
10 12 (0.65%) GxP
11 8 (0.43%) GRC
12 6 (0.32%) COBIT
12 6 (0.32%) MISRA
12 6 (0.32%) MISRA C
13 5 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
13 5 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.27%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 217 (11.71%) Active Directory
2 91 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.05%) Hyper-V
4 37 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (1.89%) Firmware
6 28 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.35%) Docker
7 25 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (1.35%) vSphere
8 20 (1.08%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
10 9 (0.49%) KVM
11 5 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.22%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.11%) NFS
15 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.054%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 105 (5.67%) SCCM
2 43 (2.32%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.21%) SCOM
4 37 (2.00%) WSUS
5 32 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 29 (1.57%) vCenter Server
8 26 (1.40%) NetBackup
9 18 (0.97%) Ansible
10 16 (0.86%) EMC NetWorker
11 15 (0.81%) Terraform
12 9 (0.49%) Argo
12 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
12 9 (0.49%) Nagios
13 8 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.32%) Autotask
15 6 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.32%) OpenView
16 4 (0.22%) OPNET
Vendors
1 370 (19.97%) Microsoft
2 216 (11.66%) PayPal
3 109 (5.88%) SAP
4 106 (5.72%) VMware
5 76 (4.10%) Oracle
6 72 (3.89%) Cisco
7 54 (2.91%) EMC
8 49 (2.64%) ServiceNow
9 43 (2.32%) Atlassian
9 43 (2.32%) HP
10 37 (2.00%) Adobe
11 36 (1.94%) Google
12 32 (1.73%) Juniper
13 23 (1.24%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.19%) IBM
15 21 (1.13%) Alteryx
16 19 (1.03%) Dell
17 18 (0.97%) Veeam
17 18 (0.97%) Xilinx
18 17 (0.92%) Intel