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 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 15 26 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,743 1,557 2,130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.37% 6.84% 6.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.29% 20.93% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 923 1,277
10th Percentile £180 £210 £200
25th Percentile £327 £380 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +8.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £550
90th Percentile £672 £713 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 135 155
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.33 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £49.57 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +59.90% -19.48%
75th Percentile £61.40 £65.00 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.50 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -6.67%

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 7,485 7,439 8,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.94% 32.66% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,362 4,933 5,284
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £719 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 571 526
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.58 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.20
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
South East +12 495 £500 - 1,222
North of England +19 357 £500 +2.88% 1,167
South West +1 243 £525 -4.55% 652
Midlands +6 229 £411 -13.47% 890
North West +9 211 £510 +4.94% 669
Scotland +15 190 £450 +5.88% 377
East of England +9 173 £488 -2.50% 629
West Midlands +5 146 £475 - 551
Yorkshire +32 104 £475 -9.52% 354
East Midlands +10 82 £255 -46.88% 339
Wales +7 41 £513 -2.38% 128
North East +27 40 £513 +83.04% 161
Northern Ireland +7 25 £456 +14.06% 57
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 88 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.16%) Confluence
4 12 (0.69%) SAS
5 11 (0.63%) Apache
6 8 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.40%) CMS
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.057%) JBoss
12 1 (0.057%) MTS
12 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 251 (14.40%) Microsoft Office
2 164 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (6.37%) Chatbot
4 75 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (2.18%) Microsoft Project
6 37 (2.12%) MS Visio
7 35 (2.01%) Simulink
8 19 (1.09%) Photoshop
9 17 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
10 16 (0.92%) Acrobat
11 11 (0.63%) Stateflow
12 10 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 5 (0.29%) Maya
13 5 (0.29%) TargetLink
14 4 (0.23%) Blender
14 4 (0.23%) InVision
14 4 (0.23%) Sketch
15 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
15 3 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 26 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.29%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.23%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.17%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.17%) Magento
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.17%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 232 (13.31%) Azure
2 110 (6.31%) AWS
2 110 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (3.96%) Power Platform
4 39 (2.24%) Entra ID
5 32 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (1.84%) SaaS
6 29 (1.66%) GCP
7 28 (1.61%) PaaS
8 24 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (1.26%) Snowflake
10 20 (1.15%) Azure Storage
10 20 (1.15%) IaaS
10 20 (1.15%) OCI
11 19 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (0.80%) GitHub
13 12 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (0.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 98 (5.62%) Firewall
2 78 (4.48%) DNS
3 70 (4.02%) DHCP
4 62 (3.56%) LAN
5 51 (2.93%) WAN
6 50 (2.87%) SSL
7 43 (2.47%) SAN
8 42 (2.41%) Ethernet
9 34 (1.95%) VPN
10 32 (1.84%) TCP/IP
11 30 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (1.15%) VoIP
12 20 (1.15%) Wireless
13 19 (1.09%) Internet
14 16 (0.92%) Wireshark
15 15 (0.86%) 5G
15 15 (0.86%) VLAN
16 14 (0.80%) MPLS
16 14 (0.80%) Network Security
17 11 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (2.98%) SQL Server
2 49 (2.81%) Power BI
3 32 (1.84%) Tableau
4 26 (1.49%) Metadata
4 26 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.26%) MySQL
6 20 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.92%) Big Data
9 14 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 14 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.52%) Crystal Reports
10 9 (0.52%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.46%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
12 7 (0.40%) PowerPivot
12 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 102 (5.85%) JIRA
2 57 (3.27%) Git
3 33 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
4 21 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 15 (0.86%) Subversion
7 10 (0.57%) GitLab
7 10 (0.57%) Oracle APEX
8 7 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.40%) JUnit
9 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.29%) Selenium
11 4 (0.23%) Gradle
11 4 (0.23%) JMeter
11 4 (0.23%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.23%) TestRail
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) CANoe
12 3 (0.17%) Travis CI
General
1 681 (39.07%) Social Skills
2 301 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (13.65%) Finance
4 176 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 135 (7.75%) Telecoms
6 80 (4.59%) Legal
6 80 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 72 (4.13%) Electronics
8 71 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 70 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
10 67 (3.84%) Marketing
11 43 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 41 (2.35%) Aerospace
13 40 (2.29%) Banking
14 34 (1.95%) Automotive
14 34 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.95%) Mandarin Language
15 27 (1.55%) Local Government
15 27 (1.55%) Retail
16 26 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 227 (13.02%) Analyst
2 202 (11.59%) Architect
3 181 (10.38%) Developer
4 135 (7.75%) Senior
5 118 (6.77%) Project Manager
6 115 (6.60%) Software Developer
7 91 (5.22%) Lead
8 70 (4.02%) Business Analyst
9 61 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 54 (3.10%) Software Engineer
11 52 (2.98%) Support Engineer
12 51 (2.93%) Designer
13 46 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 39 (2.24%) Systems Engineer
15 34 (1.95%) Digital Designer
16 33 (1.89%) FPGA Designer
16 33 (1.89%) Network Engineer
16 33 (1.89%) VHDL Designer
17 31 (1.78%) Consultant
17 31 (1.78%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (8.26%) HTML
2 47 (2.70%) Web Services
3 32 (1.84%) CSS
4 30 (1.72%) .NET
5 21 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 18 (1.03%) React
7 16 (0.92%) AngularJS
7 16 (0.92%) REST
7 16 (0.92%) XML
8 15 (0.86%) .NET Framework
8 15 (0.86%) DirectX
8 15 (0.86%) OpenGL
8 15 (0.86%) OpenGL ES
8 15 (0.86%) Spring
8 15 (0.86%) Vulkan
9 14 (0.80%) Kafka
10 13 (0.75%) RESTful
11 12 (0.69%) Middleware
12 10 (0.57%) Flash
13 7 (0.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 133 (7.63%) Management Information System
1 133 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
2 85 (4.88%) PKI
3 71 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.16%) FPGA
5 52 (2.98%) VHDL
6 38 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 33 (1.89%) CPLD
7 33 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 27 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 26 (1.49%) Driving Licence
10 24 (1.38%) Clustering
10 24 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.32%) CSOC
12 22 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.09%) Life Science
13 19 (1.09%) NHS
14 17 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.98%) Verilog
15 16 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 242 (13.88%) Windows
2 137 (7.86%) Linux
3 97 (5.57%) Windows Server
4 67 (3.84%) Unix
5 60 (3.44%) Windows 10
6 46 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 43 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 20 (1.15%) Windows 7
10 17 (0.98%) Android
11 14 (0.80%) Windows XP
12 11 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.34%) Solaris
15 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.23%) CentOS
16 4 (0.23%) SafeRTOS
17 3 (0.17%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
2 422 (24.21%) Computer Science
3 322 (18.47%) Agile
4 262 (15.03%) Project Management
5 213 (12.22%) Software Engineering
6 210 (12.05%) ITIL
7 160 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 148 (8.49%) Decision-Making
9 143 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 139 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence
11 136 (7.80%) Analytics
12 129 (7.40%) DevOps
13 121 (6.94%) Code Quality
14 118 (6.77%) Migration
15 115 (6.60%) Customer Service
16 111 (6.37%) Conversational UI
17 109 (6.25%) Time Management
18 106 (6.08%) Project Delivery
19 105 (6.02%) Roadmaps
20 102 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 244 (14.00%) SQL
2 224 (12.85%) Python
3 165 (9.47%) C#
4 160 (9.18%) JavaScript
5 112 (6.43%) PowerShell
6 59 (3.38%) C
6 59 (3.38%) Java
7 43 (2.47%) C++
8 33 (1.89%) MATLAB
9 24 (1.38%) VB
9 24 (1.38%) VBScript
10 20 (1.15%) Bicep
11 19 (1.09%) R
12 18 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.98%) SystemVerilog
14 15 (0.86%) Bash
15 14 (0.80%) Perl
15 14 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.52%) PHP
17 7 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 358 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 277 (15.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 236 (13.54%) SC Cleared
4 167 (9.58%) Master's Degree
5 154 (8.84%) DV Cleared
6 77 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
7 58 (3.33%) CCNA
8 54 (3.10%) PMI Certification
9 52 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 52 (2.98%) PMP
10 41 (2.35%) CCNP
11 37 (2.12%) HND
12 36 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.72%) PhD
14 28 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
14 28 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 28 (1.61%) NVQ Level 3
15 27 (1.55%) CISSP
16 26 (1.49%) MCSE
17 24 (1.38%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.19%) QA
2 46 (2.64%) SLA
3 45 (2.58%) GDPR
4 31 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 31 (1.78%) PMO
5 19 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
7 16 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.86%) NIST
9 12 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
9 12 (0.69%) GxP
10 10 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.40%) MISRA
11 7 (0.40%) MISRA C
12 5 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
12 5 (0.29%) GRC
12 5 (0.29%) ISO 26262
12 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.23%) JTAG
13 4 (0.23%) PMBOK
System Software
1 209 (11.99%) Active Directory
2 92 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.78%) Firmware
6 29 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 25 (1.43%) vSphere
9 24 (1.38%) Docker
10 20 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.40%) KVM
14 5 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.23%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 1 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 1 (0.057%) Citrix Presentation Server
17 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
17 1 (0.057%) Xen
Systems Management
1 98 (5.62%) SCCM
2 50 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.35%) WSUS
4 40 (2.29%) SCOM
5 34 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 28 (1.61%) vCenter Server
8 26 (1.49%) NetBackup
9 19 (1.09%) Terraform
10 18 (1.03%) Ansible
11 14 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
12 9 (0.52%) Nagios
13 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.34%) Argo
15 6 (0.34%) Autotask
15 6 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.34%) OpenView
15 6 (0.34%) OPNET
Vendors
1 368 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.20%) PayPal
3 100 (5.74%) VMware
4 94 (5.39%) SAP
5 77 (4.42%) Oracle
6 68 (3.90%) Cisco
7 53 (3.04%) EMC
8 45 (2.58%) ServiceNow
9 40 (2.29%) Atlassian
10 39 (2.24%) Adobe
11 37 (2.12%) Google
11 37 (2.12%) HP
12 31 (1.78%) Juniper
13 23 (1.32%) IBM
14 21 (1.20%) Alteryx
14 21 (1.20%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.09%) Dell
16 18 (1.03%) Salesforce
16 18 (1.03%) Xilinx
17 17 (0.98%) Symantec