Degree Contracts in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 28 29
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,062 3,129 4,511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.23% 6.65% 6.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.92% 24.32% 29.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 1,946 2,818
10th Percentile £234 £305 £282
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £682 £631
90th Percentile £750 £823 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 175 247
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.00 £22.75 £20.95
Median hourly rate £40.00 £48.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.35% +39.97% -7.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £73.50 £80.82 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -7.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,375 12,864 15,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 27.33% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,027 8,605 10,322
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 655 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.43
25th Percentile £18.72 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +35.80% +15.71%
75th Percentile £63.88 £69.38 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in England

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England 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
London +8 1,420 £514 -9.91% 2,331
South East +12 501 £500 - 1,205
North of England +20 387 £507 +4.32% 1,116
South West +2 244 £525 -8.70% 694
Midlands +7 242 £425 -10.99% 906
North West +11 234 £525 +8.02% 651
East of England +8 175 £475 -5.00% 641
West Midlands +9 155 £475 - 551
Yorkshire +32 111 £475 -13.64% 336
East Midlands +11 86 £255 -46.81% 356
North East +26 40 £575 +105.36% 146
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 105 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 100 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 88 (2.87%) Confluence
4 19 (0.62%) SAS
5 18 (0.59%) Apache
6 17 (0.56%) CMS
7 16 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.33%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.26%) IIS
11 7 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
12 6 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.20%) Skype for Business
13 4 (0.13%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
13 4 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.098%) Documentum
14 3 (0.098%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.098%) Gunicorn
14 3 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 349 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
2 254 (8.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 141 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 128 (4.18%) Chatbot
5 86 (2.81%) MS Visio
6 63 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
7 38 (1.24%) Simulink
8 28 (0.91%) Photoshop
8 28 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
10 11 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 11 (0.36%) Sketch
10 11 (0.36%) Stateflow
11 8 (0.26%) AutoCAD
12 7 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
13 6 (0.20%) InDesign
14 5 (0.16%) Acrobat
14 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
14 5 (0.16%) Maya
14 5 (0.16%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 41 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.39%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 9 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.26%) Endur
7 8 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 7 (0.23%) ION MarketView
9 6 (0.20%) ENOVIA
9 6 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.16%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.16%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.16%) Shopify
11 4 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.13%) SAP MDG
11 4 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 536 (17.50%) Azure
2 277 (9.05%) AWS
3 183 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
4 163 (5.32%) Power Platform
5 121 (3.95%) GCP
6 105 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (2.58%) SaaS
8 69 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
9 63 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 53 (1.73%) PaaS
11 50 (1.63%) PowerApps
12 46 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
13 45 (1.47%) GitHub
14 40 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 39 (1.27%) Serverless
16 38 (1.24%) Snowflake
17 36 (1.18%) IaaS
18 28 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
19 26 (0.85%) Azure Storage
20 25 (0.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.15%) Firewall
2 100 (3.27%) DNS
3 81 (2.65%) DHCP
4 78 (2.55%) LAN
5 77 (2.51%) WAN
6 56 (1.83%) VPN
7 47 (1.53%) SAN
7 47 (1.53%) SSL
8 44 (1.44%) Ethernet
8 44 (1.44%) TCP/IP
9 39 (1.27%) Network Security
10 38 (1.24%) VoIP
10 38 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (1.01%) Internet
12 26 (0.85%) Wireless
13 21 (0.69%) 5G
13 21 (0.69%) VLAN
14 18 (0.59%) MPLS
14 18 (0.59%) Wireshark
15 17 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 136 (4.44%) Power BI
3 76 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 73 (2.38%) Tableau
5 58 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (1.80%) Big Data
7 54 (1.76%) Data Lake
7 54 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.40%) MySQL
10 28 (0.91%) Metadata
11 21 (0.69%) MongoDB
12 20 (0.65%) Data Mining
13 18 (0.59%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.59%) GIS
13 18 (0.59%) Hadoop
13 18 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 17 (0.56%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
15 16 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 177 (5.78%) JIRA
2 138 (4.51%) Git
3 57 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
5 35 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.05%) GitLab
7 22 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.49%) Gradle
8 15 (0.49%) TeamCity
9 14 (0.46%) Subversion
10 12 (0.39%) Selenium
10 12 (0.39%) webpack
11 10 (0.33%) JUnit
11 10 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.26%) CircleCI
13 8 (0.26%) Maven
14 7 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.23%) ERwin
14 7 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 1,343 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 680 (22.21%) Finance
3 622 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 186 (6.07%) Telecoms
6 173 (5.65%) Banking
7 166 (5.42%) Marketing
8 126 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
9 116 (3.79%) Legal
10 107 (3.49%) Manufacturing
11 100 (3.27%) Retail
12 90 (2.94%) Electronics
13 87 (2.84%) Front Office
13 87 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
14 67 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
15 64 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
16 49 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 46 (1.50%) Aerospace
18 40 (1.31%) Investment Banking
19 39 (1.27%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 404 (13.19%) Analyst
2 392 (12.80%) Developer
3 320 (10.45%) Architect
4 248 (8.10%) Senior
5 170 (5.55%) Business Analyst
5 170 (5.55%) Lead
6 162 (5.29%) Project Manager
7 145 (4.74%) Consultant
8 128 (4.18%) Software Developer
9 105 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
10 103 (3.36%) Software Engineer
11 78 (2.55%) Designer
12 75 (2.45%) Support Engineer
13 53 (1.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 53 (1.73%) Network Engineer
14 51 (1.67%) Data Analyst
15 50 (1.63%) DevOps Engineer
15 50 (1.63%) Systems Engineer
16 49 (1.60%) Java Developer
17 47 (1.53%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (6.92%) HTML
2 107 (3.49%) .NET
3 103 (3.36%) CSS
4 82 (2.68%) REST
5 78 (2.55%) React
6 72 (2.35%) Web Services
7 62 (2.02%) AngularJS
8 49 (1.60%) XML
9 45 (1.47%) Kafka
10 38 (1.24%) Spring
11 37 (1.21%) .NET Framework
11 37 (1.21%) RESTful
12 33 (1.08%) JSON
13 25 (0.82%) ASP.NET
14 23 (0.75%) ARM Templates
14 23 (0.75%) NumPy
15 22 (0.72%) Middleware
16 21 (0.69%) Pandas
17 20 (0.65%) .NET Core
17 20 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 240 (7.84%) Management Information System
2 182 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
3 101 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 100 (3.27%) Algorithms
5 89 (2.91%) PKI
6 68 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 65 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 58 (1.89%) Derivative
9 55 (1.80%) FPGA
10 53 (1.73%) VHDL
10 53 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 51 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
12 39 (1.27%) Fixed Income
12 39 (1.27%) Onboarding
13 36 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
14 33 (1.08%) CPLD
15 32 (1.05%) Clustering
15 32 (1.05%) Social Media
16 30 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 30 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 339 (11.07%) Windows
2 195 (6.37%) Linux
3 110 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 108 (3.53%) Unix
5 79 (2.58%) Windows 10
6 50 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 49 (1.60%) Android
8 45 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
10 28 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 22 (0.72%) Apple iOS
12 19 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.46%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.39%) Solaris
15 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 9 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
16 9 (0.29%) VMS
17 8 (0.26%) zOS
18 7 (0.23%) Windows 8
19 6 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,067 (34.85%) Computer Science
2 808 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
3 682 (22.27%) Agile
4 448 (14.63%) Project Management
5 368 (12.02%) Software Engineering
6 298 (9.73%) DevOps
7 292 (9.54%) Analytics
8 278 (9.08%) ITIL
9 231 (7.54%) Decision-Making
10 228 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 227 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 217 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence
13 205 (6.69%) Migration
14 198 (6.47%) Business Intelligence
15 185 (6.04%) Roadmaps
16 177 (5.78%) CI/CD
17 173 (5.65%) Project Delivery
18 171 (5.58%) Mathematics
19 168 (5.49%) Scrum
20 167 (5.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 522 (17.05%) SQL
2 471 (15.38%) Python
3 290 (9.47%) JavaScript
4 278 (9.08%) C#
5 201 (6.56%) Java
6 162 (5.29%) PowerShell
7 109 (3.56%) C++
8 76 (2.48%) C
9 48 (1.57%) Bash
9 48 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 41 (1.34%) R
11 40 (1.31%) MATLAB
12 31 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 30 (0.98%) VBScript
14 28 (0.91%) VBA
15 26 (0.85%) VB
16 25 (0.82%) Bicep
16 25 (0.82%) Perl
17 24 (0.78%) PL/SQL
18 22 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 697 (22.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 446 (14.57%) Security Cleared
3 377 (12.31%) Master's Degree
4 306 (9.99%) SC Cleared
5 172 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 113 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
7 104 (3.40%) PMI Certification
8 95 (3.10%) PMP
9 78 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 76 (2.48%) CCNA
11 70 (2.29%) PhD
12 66 (2.16%) CISSP
13 62 (2.02%) Azure Certification
14 57 (1.86%) CCNP
15 51 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
16 48 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
17 42 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
18 35 (1.14%) HND
19 31 (1.01%) CISM
19 31 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (5.42%) QA
2 92 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 60 (1.96%) SLA
4 58 (1.89%) GDPR
5 56 (1.83%) PMO
6 41 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 41 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.11%) NIST
8 28 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.42%) GxP
10 12 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
10 12 (0.39%) GRC
10 12 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.36%) MiFID
12 10 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
13 9 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.29%) P3O
13 9 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.26%) HIPAA
System Software
1 243 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 107 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (2.61%) Docker
4 56 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (1.18%) Firmware
5 36 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 29 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.91%) vSphere
8 20 (0.65%) VMware NSX
9 15 (0.49%) KVM
10 12 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.16%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 4 (0.13%) vCloud
13 4 (0.13%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.065%) HDFS
14 2 (0.065%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 111 (3.63%) Kubernetes
2 106 (3.46%) SCCM
3 79 (2.58%) Terraform
4 63 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.44%) WSUS
6 41 (1.34%) SCOM
7 37 (1.21%) Ansible
8 27 (0.88%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.85%) NetBackup
10 23 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.36%) Nagios
13 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
14 9 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.29%) Nessus
15 8 (0.26%) Grafana
15 8 (0.26%) Kibana
15 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 639 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 165 (5.39%) SAP
3 159 (5.19%) Oracle
4 123 (4.02%) VMware
5 113 (3.69%) Cisco
6 110 (3.59%) PayPal
7 107 (3.49%) ServiceNow
8 104 (3.40%) Google
9 69 (2.25%) Salesforce
10 60 (1.96%) Adobe
11 54 (1.76%) EMC
12 37 (1.21%) Juniper
13 36 (1.18%) HP
13 36 (1.18%) IBM
14 33 (1.08%) Atlassian
14 33 (1.08%) Citrix
14 33 (1.08%) Databricks
15 26 (0.85%) Alteryx
15 26 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.75%) Apple