Degree Contracts

Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,497 3,789 5,456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.12% 6.76% 6.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.17% 24.84% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,899 2,344 3,375
10th Percentile £225 £263 £291
25th Percentile £377 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £625
90th Percentile £750 £793 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £486 £450
% change year-on-year +0.31% +8.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 197 257
10th Percentile £14.19 £16.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.90 £22.50 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £51.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £49.57 £31.00
% change year-on-year -18.65% +59.90% -19.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +9 2,995 £500 -9.09% 7,324
UK excluding London +11 1,743 £488 +0.31% 5,023
London +7 1,404 £525 -8.70% 2,629
Work from Home +14 1,170 £525 - 3,000
South East +12 495 £500 - 1,257
North of England +19 357 £500 +2.88% 1,141
South West +1 243 £525 -4.55% 661
Midlands +6 229 £411 -13.47% 909
North West +9 211 £510 +4.94% 666
Scotland +15 190 £450 +5.88% 376
East of England +9 173 £488 -2.50% 666
West Midlands +5 146 £475 - 557
Yorkshire +32 104 £475 -9.52% 342
East Midlands +10 82 £255 -46.88% 352
Wales +7 41 £513 -2.38% 131
North East +27 40 £513 +83.04% 150
Northern Ireland +7 25 £456 +14.06% 56

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 135 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 124 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 98 (2.80%) Confluence
4 25 (0.71%) CMS
5 23 (0.66%) SAS
6 20 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 19 (0.54%) Apache
8 11 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.29%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.29%) IIS
10 8 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
11 7 (0.20%) Skype for Business
12 6 (0.17%) Drupal
12 6 (0.17%) WordPress
13 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
14 4 (0.11%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 389 (11.12%) Microsoft Office
2 314 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 166 (4.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 145 (4.15%) Chatbot
5 98 (2.80%) MS Visio
6 74 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.06%) Simulink
8 30 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
9 28 (0.80%) Photoshop
10 17 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.46%) Acrobat
12 13 (0.37%) Sketch
13 12 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 11 (0.31%) Stateflow
15 9 (0.26%) SPSS
15 9 (0.26%) Trello
16 8 (0.23%) AutoCAD
17 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
18 6 (0.17%) InDesign
18 6 (0.17%) InVision
Business Applications
1 48 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 12 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 11 (0.31%) Endur
8 10 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 9 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 8 (0.23%) ION MarketView
10 8 (0.23%) Magento
10 8 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 8 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.17%) ENOVIA
12 6 (0.17%) SAP SD
13 5 (0.14%) NetSuite
13 5 (0.14%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 616 (17.62%) Azure
2 321 (9.18%) AWS
3 221 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 180 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 156 (4.46%) GCP
6 122 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (2.46%) SaaS
8 75 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.72%) GitHub
10 60 (1.72%) PaaS
11 57 (1.63%) PowerApps
12 54 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.34%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.20%) Serverless
15 38 (1.09%) IaaS
16 35 (1.00%) Snowflake
17 34 (0.97%) OCI
18 28 (0.80%) Amazon S3
18 28 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 164 (4.69%) Firewall
2 106 (3.03%) DNS
3 89 (2.55%) LAN
4 86 (2.46%) WAN
5 85 (2.43%) DHCP
6 64 (1.83%) VPN
7 54 (1.54%) Network Security
8 53 (1.52%) SSL
9 51 (1.46%) TCP/IP
10 48 (1.37%) SAN
11 46 (1.32%) VoIP
12 42 (1.20%) Ethernet
13 40 (1.14%) Internet
14 37 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
15 27 (0.77%) Wireless
16 26 (0.74%) VLAN
17 20 (0.57%) 5G
18 19 (0.54%) MPLS
18 19 (0.54%) SD-WAN
19 17 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 142 (4.06%) Power BI
3 80 (2.29%) Tableau
4 78 (2.23%) Relational Database
5 69 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
6 61 (1.74%) Big Data
7 59 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 57 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 49 (1.40%) MySQL
10 46 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 44 (1.26%) Metadata
12 28 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.63%) Data Mining
13 22 (0.63%) MongoDB
14 21 (0.60%) Hadoop
15 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.51%) GIS
17 17 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 16 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
19 15 (0.43%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 211 (6.03%) JIRA
2 160 (4.58%) Git
3 69 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.37%) GitLab
5 37 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 22 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 19 (0.54%) Selenium
9 18 (0.51%) Gradle
9 18 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.46%) Subversion
11 15 (0.43%) JUnit
12 13 (0.37%) webpack
13 12 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
14 11 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 9 (0.26%) Maven
17 8 (0.23%) Artifactory
17 8 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 1,570 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 745 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
2 745 (21.30%) Finance
3 308 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 199 (5.69%) Telecoms
5 186 (5.32%) Banking
6 181 (5.18%) Marketing
7 150 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 145 (4.15%) Legal
9 122 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 110 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
11 107 (3.06%) Retail
12 94 (2.69%) Electronics
13 92 (2.63%) Front Office
14 67 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
14 67 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 49 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 48 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
17 46 (1.32%) Aerospace
17 46 (1.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 464 (13.27%) Analyst
2 445 (12.73%) Developer
3 365 (10.44%) Architect
4 303 (8.66%) Senior
5 205 (5.86%) Project Manager
6 201 (5.75%) Business Analyst
7 180 (5.15%) Lead
8 166 (4.75%) Consultant
9 142 (4.06%) Software Developer
10 123 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
11 107 (3.06%) Software Engineer
12 80 (2.29%) Designer
13 79 (2.26%) Support Engineer
14 64 (1.83%) DevOps Engineer
15 61 (1.74%) Data Analyst
16 58 (1.66%) Java Developer
17 57 (1.63%) Network Engineer
18 54 (1.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 54 (1.54%) Senior Analyst
19 50 (1.43%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (6.46%) HTML
2 111 (3.17%) .NET
3 105 (3.00%) CSS
4 91 (2.60%) React
5 86 (2.46%) Web Services
6 82 (2.34%) REST
7 62 (1.77%) AngularJS
8 59 (1.69%) XML
9 48 (1.37%) Kafka
10 44 (1.26%) Spring
11 41 (1.17%) RESTful
12 36 (1.03%) .NET Framework
12 36 (1.03%) JSON
13 30 (0.86%) Node.js
14 29 (0.83%) Middleware
14 29 (0.83%) Pandas
15 27 (0.77%) ASP.NET
16 24 (0.69%) ARM Templates
16 24 (0.69%) NumPy
17 22 (0.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 280 (8.01%) Management Information System
2 202 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 103 (2.95%) Algorithms
5 100 (2.86%) PKI
6 79 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 65 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 61 (1.74%) Derivative
9 57 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 56 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 55 (1.57%) FPGA
12 52 (1.49%) VHDL
13 40 (1.14%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
15 38 (1.09%) Fixed Income
16 37 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
17 36 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
18 34 (0.97%) Clustering
19 33 (0.94%) CPLD
19 33 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 369 (10.55%) Windows
2 206 (5.89%) Linux
3 126 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 111 (3.17%) Unix
5 83 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 49 (1.40%) Android
6 49 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 45 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 40 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 29 (0.83%) Windows 7
10 20 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 18 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 14 (0.40%) Windows XP
13 13 (0.37%) Solaris
14 11 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.26%) VMS
16 8 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 7 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,202 (34.37%) Computer Science
2 968 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
3 797 (22.79%) Agile
4 540 (15.44%) Project Management
5 398 (11.38%) Software Engineering
6 346 (9.89%) DevOps
7 336 (9.61%) Analytics
8 302 (8.64%) ITIL
9 280 (8.01%) Stakeholder Management
10 264 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 262 (7.49%) Decision-Making
12 246 (7.03%) Migration
13 239 (6.83%) Artificial Intelligence
14 214 (6.12%) Roadmaps
15 212 (6.06%) Project Delivery
16 207 (5.92%) Business Intelligence
17 201 (5.75%) CI/CD
18 190 (5.43%) Scrum
19 188 (5.38%) Code Quality
19 188 (5.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 572 (16.36%) SQL
2 538 (15.38%) Python
3 314 (8.98%) JavaScript
4 291 (8.32%) C#
5 234 (6.69%) Java
6 185 (5.29%) PowerShell
7 115 (3.29%) C++
8 72 (2.06%) C
9 59 (1.69%) Bash
10 56 (1.60%) R
11 51 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 41 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 40 (1.14%) MATLAB
13 40 (1.14%) Perl
14 34 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 30 (0.86%) VBA
15 30 (0.86%) VBScript
16 29 (0.83%) Go
17 27 (0.77%) VB
18 25 (0.71%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 815 (23.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 516 (14.76%) Security Cleared
3 422 (12.07%) Master's Degree
4 366 (10.47%) SC Cleared
5 177 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 125 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 122 (3.49%) PMI Certification
8 116 (3.32%) PMP
9 98 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 93 (2.66%) CISSP
11 83 (2.37%) CCNA
12 78 (2.23%) PhD
13 77 (2.20%) Azure Certification
14 62 (1.77%) CCNP
15 55 (1.57%) Numerate Degree
16 53 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 51 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
18 44 (1.26%) CISM
19 38 (1.09%) HND
20 35 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.66%) QA
2 105 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 76 (2.17%) GDPR
4 67 (1.92%) PMO
4 67 (1.92%) SLA
5 50 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.03%) NIST
8 30 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 17 (0.49%) GRC
10 16 (0.46%) GxP
11 15 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
13 12 (0.34%) MiFID
13 12 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 10 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 278 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 118 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (2.26%) Docker
4 59 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 38 (1.09%) Firmware
7 32 (0.92%) vSphere
8 31 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 30 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 26 (0.74%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.43%) KVM
12 14 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) vCloud
15 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.086%) HDFS
16 3 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.057%) XenApp
18 1 (0.029%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 124 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 118 (3.37%) SCCM
3 92 (2.63%) Terraform
4 63 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.26%) Ansible
5 44 (1.26%) WSUS
6 43 (1.23%) SCOM
7 34 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 29 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.74%) NetBackup
10 24 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
11 14 (0.40%) Grafana
12 12 (0.34%) Nagios
13 11 (0.31%) Kibana
13 11 (0.31%) PingFederate
14 10 (0.29%) logstash
15 9 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.26%) Nessus
16 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 744 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 199 (5.69%) Oracle
3 184 (5.26%) SAP
4 132 (3.77%) Google
4 132 (3.77%) VMware
5 130 (3.72%) Cisco
6 121 (3.46%) PayPal
7 95 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 74 (2.12%) Adobe
9 69 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 56 (1.60%) EMC
11 46 (1.32%) Atlassian
12 42 (1.20%) HP
13 38 (1.09%) IBM
13 38 (1.09%) Juniper
14 36 (1.03%) Databricks
15 35 (1.00%) Citrix
16 30 (0.86%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.80%) Alteryx
18 25 (0.71%) Splunk