Degree Contracts in West Yorkshire

Academic Degree
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 54 34
Rank change year-on-year +31 -20 -5
Contract jobs citing Degree 59 51 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.09% 3.37% 5.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.33% 25.25% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 57
10th Percentile £312 £373 £209
25th Percentile £338 £467 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £597 £550
90th Percentile £615 £676 £560
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -11.63% +26.47% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £33.13 £18.83
25th Percentile - £37.81 £20.06
Median hourly rate £12.53 £46.25 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -72.91% +103.30% +5.81%
75th Percentile £15.09 £55.31 £26.06
90th Percentile £19.68 £60.38 £27.68
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £46.25 £17.75
% change year-on-year -70.81% +160.56% -17.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 167 202 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 17.23% 13.33% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 151 215
10th Percentile £312 £363 £182
25th Percentile £425 £478 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £548 £696 £550
90th Percentile £600 £743 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £12.53 £33.13 £16.32
25th Percentile £12.64 £37.81 £17.73
Median hourly rate £15.00 £46.25 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -67.57% +103.30% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £55.31 £30.44
90th Percentile £15.17 £60.38 £32.46
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.09 £26.26 £18.38
% change year-on-year -42.54% +42.88% -18.33%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in West Yorkshire

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in West Yorkshire

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in West Yorkshire

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in West Yorkshire

Degree
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leeds +33 50 £475 -13.64% 109
Bradford +2 5 £375 -31.82% 25
Wakefield -3 2 £320 -8.57% 13
Degree
Yorkshire

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (5.08%) Apache
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Chatbot
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.69%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (13.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.78%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.69%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.69%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.17%) Azure
2 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.08%) AWS
3 3 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
3 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) LAN
1 2 (3.39%) WAN
2 1 (1.69%) DHCP
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.08%) MySQL
1 3 (5.08%) Power BI
2 2 (3.39%) Informix
3 1 (1.69%) GIS
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) Dreamweaver
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Advertising
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.69%) Local Government
5 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.69%) Retail
5 1 (1.69%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Analyst
3 11 (18.64%) Software Developer
4 9 (15.25%) Business Analyst
5 7 (11.86%) Architect
5 7 (11.86%) Senior
6 6 (10.17%) Project Manager
7 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.78%) SAP Analyst
8 4 (6.78%) SAP Business Analyst
9 3 (5.08%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Designer
9 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Designer
9 3 (5.08%) Service Analyst
9 3 (5.08%) Service Desk Analyst
10 2 (3.39%) DBA
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) HTML
2 3 (5.08%) .NET
2 3 (5.08%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.39%) XML
3 2 (3.39%) XSLT
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) NHS
2 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Unix
2 4 (6.78%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Linux
4 2 (3.39%) HPUX
4 2 (3.39%) Solaris
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.39%) zOS
5 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Computer Science
2 18 (30.51%) Agile
3 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (22.03%) Software Engineering
5 12 (20.34%) Migration
6 11 (18.64%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (18.64%) Code Quality
6 11 (18.64%) Conversational UI
6 11 (18.64%) DevOps
7 9 (15.25%) User Stories
8 7 (11.86%) Data Management
8 7 (11.86%) ITIL
8 7 (11.86%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (10.17%) Architectural Design
9 6 (10.17%) Incident Management
9 6 (10.17%) Service Design
10 5 (8.47%) Project Delivery
10 5 (8.47%) SDLC
10 5 (8.47%) User Experience
10 5 (8.47%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) SQL
2 17 (28.81%) Python
3 14 (23.73%) C#
3 14 (23.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.08%) Bash
4 3 (5.08%) MATLAB
4 3 (5.08%) VB.NET
4 3 (5.08%) VBA
5 2 (3.39%) Java
6 1 (1.69%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.78%) CBAP
3 3 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.69%) CCNA
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) KVM
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) PayPal
2 9 (15.25%) SAP
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.08%) Informatica
4 3 (5.08%) Kofax
5 2 (3.39%) IBM
5 2 (3.39%) Sun
6 1 (1.69%) ESRI
6 1 (1.69%) VMware