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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,547 3,819 5,369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.33% 6.71% 6.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.67% 24.68% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,903 2,352 3,299
10th Percentile £218 £260 £287
25th Percentile £388 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £630 £670 £625
90th Percentile £750 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 216 272
10th Percentile £14.06 £16.12 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.33 £21.24 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.18% +0.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £50.84
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.50 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.78% +28.57% -3.45%

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 12,818 15,477 18,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.10% 27.18% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 10,343 12,521
10th Percentile £308 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 768 763
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.00 £19.82
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
England +9 3,042 £500 -9.09% 7,997
UK excluding London +11 1,780 £500 +4.17% 5,694
London +8 1,403 £525 -8.70% 2,856
Work from Home +18 1,244 £525 - 3,222
South East +16 495 £500 - 1,577
North of England +21 381 £500 +5.26% 1,270
South West +1 253 £530 -3.64% 696
Midlands +10 238 £418 -12.00% 997
North West +6 221 £505 +12.22% 714
Scotland +18 193 £475 +12.76% 363
East of England +9 175 £488 -2.50% 776
West Midlands +7 150 £475 - 624
Yorkshire +25 114 £463 -11.90% 417
East Midlands +11 87 £255 -46.32% 372
North East +30 44 £513 +83.04% 158
Wales +4 33 £515 -1.90% 153
Northern Ireland +8 23 £400 -11.11% 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 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 122 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 101 (2.85%) Confluence
4 25 (0.70%) CMS
5 20 (0.56%) Apache
5 20 (0.56%) SAS
6 19 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (0.31%) IIS
9 10 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
9 10 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 6 (0.17%) Drupal
10 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.17%) WordPress
11 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 398 (11.22%) Microsoft Office
2 312 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 204 (5.75%) Chatbot
4 173 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 96 (2.71%) MS Visio
6 78 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.04%) Simulink
8 28 (0.79%) Photoshop
9 26 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.45%) Acrobat
12 13 (0.37%) Sketch
13 12 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 11 (0.31%) Stateflow
15 8 (0.23%) AutoCAD
15 8 (0.23%) Trello
16 7 (0.20%) Revit
16 7 (0.20%) SPSS
17 6 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
17 6 (0.17%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 50 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 12 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 12 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 11 (0.31%) Endur
8 9 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
8 9 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 8 (0.23%) ION MarketView
9 8 (0.23%) Magento
9 8 (0.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 8 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
11 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 585 (16.49%) Azure
2 316 (8.91%) AWS
3 226 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
4 166 (4.68%) Power Platform
5 145 (4.09%) GCP
6 120 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (2.31%) SaaS
8 75 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
9 63 (1.78%) Entra ID
10 61 (1.72%) GitHub
11 57 (1.61%) PowerApps
12 51 (1.44%) PaaS
13 49 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
14 48 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.18%) Serverless
16 39 (1.10%) OCI
17 37 (1.04%) IaaS
18 29 (0.82%) Snowflake
19 28 (0.79%) Amazon S3
20 26 (0.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 159 (4.48%) Firewall
2 108 (3.04%) DNS
3 95 (2.68%) LAN
4 88 (2.48%) WAN
5 83 (2.34%) DHCP
6 62 (1.75%) VPN
7 55 (1.55%) SSL
7 55 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 53 (1.49%) Network Security
9 47 (1.33%) SAN
10 46 (1.30%) Internet
11 45 (1.27%) VoIP
12 44 (1.24%) Ethernet
13 36 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
14 28 (0.79%) Wireless
15 27 (0.76%) VLAN
16 20 (0.56%) MPLS
17 19 (0.54%) SD-WAN
17 19 (0.54%) Skype
18 18 (0.51%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 126 (3.55%) Power BI
3 72 (2.03%) Tableau
4 69 (1.95%) Relational Database
5 66 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (1.55%) Big Data
8 53 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 46 (1.30%) MySQL
10 45 (1.27%) Metadata
11 40 (1.13%) NoSQL
12 28 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.62%) Data Mining
13 22 (0.62%) MongoDB
14 20 (0.56%) BigQuery
14 20 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
15 18 (0.51%) Hadoop
16 17 (0.48%) GIS
17 15 (0.42%) Couchbase
18 14 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 216 (6.09%) JIRA
2 145 (4.09%) Git
3 67 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 46 (1.30%) GitLab
5 38 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
6 29 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 21 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 20 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 18 (0.51%) Selenium
10 16 (0.45%) Subversion
11 15 (0.42%) Gradle
12 13 (0.37%) webpack
13 12 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.34%) JUnit
14 11 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
14 11 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
15 9 (0.25%) Maven
15 9 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (0.20%) Artifactory
General
1 1,574 (44.38%) Social Skills
2 759 (21.40%) Finance
3 731 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
4 302 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 202 (5.69%) Telecoms
6 189 (5.33%) Marketing
7 184 (5.19%) Banking
8 153 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
9 142 (4.00%) Legal
10 122 (3.44%) Manufacturing
11 115 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 103 (2.90%) Retail
13 98 (2.76%) Electronics
14 97 (2.73%) Front Office
15 71 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
16 67 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
17 51 (1.44%) Law
18 50 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
19 49 (1.38%) Aerospace
20 48 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 498 (14.04%) Developer
2 456 (12.86%) Analyst
3 369 (10.40%) Architect
4 309 (8.71%) Senior
5 208 (5.86%) Business Analyst
6 203 (5.72%) Software Developer
7 202 (5.69%) Project Manager
8 185 (5.22%) Lead
9 165 (4.65%) Consultant
10 126 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
11 105 (2.96%) Software Engineer
12 81 (2.28%) Support Engineer
13 76 (2.14%) Designer
14 60 (1.69%) Network Engineer
15 58 (1.64%) Java Developer
16 56 (1.58%) DevOps Engineer
17 54 (1.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 52 (1.47%) Administrator
19 51 (1.44%) Data Analyst
20 50 (1.41%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (6.15%) HTML
2 112 (3.16%) .NET
3 99 (2.79%) CSS
4 92 (2.59%) React
5 84 (2.37%) Web Services
6 80 (2.26%) REST
7 60 (1.69%) XML
8 57 (1.61%) AngularJS
9 43 (1.21%) Kafka
10 42 (1.18%) RESTful
11 40 (1.13%) Spring
12 37 (1.04%) JSON
13 34 (0.96%) .NET Framework
14 31 (0.87%) Middleware
15 29 (0.82%) Node.js
16 28 (0.79%) Pandas
17 27 (0.76%) ASP.NET
18 24 (0.68%) NumPy
19 22 (0.62%) .NET Core
19 22 (0.62%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 272 (7.67%) Management Information System
2 194 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
3 114 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 110 (3.10%) Algorithms
5 99 (2.79%) PKI
6 80 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 65 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 62 (1.75%) Derivative
9 59 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 55 (1.55%) FPGA
11 53 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 52 (1.47%) VHDL
13 42 (1.18%) Fixed Income
13 42 (1.18%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
15 36 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
15 36 (1.01%) Life Science
15 36 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 35 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
16 35 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 370 (10.43%) Windows
2 198 (5.58%) Linux
3 120 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 111 (3.13%) Unix
5 92 (2.59%) Windows 10
6 51 (1.44%) Android
7 44 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 40 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 39 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 34 (0.96%) Windows 7
11 22 (0.62%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.51%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.39%) Windows XP
14 13 (0.37%) Solaris
15 9 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.25%) VMS
16 8 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 7 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,170 (32.99%) Computer Science
2 961 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
3 783 (22.07%) Agile
4 537 (15.14%) Project Management
5 394 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 335 (9.44%) DevOps
7 317 (8.94%) Analytics
8 298 (8.40%) ITIL
9 294 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence
10 280 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 266 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 258 (7.27%) Decision-Making
13 247 (6.96%) Code Quality
14 240 (6.77%) Migration
15 223 (6.29%) Roadmaps
16 214 (6.03%) Project Delivery
17 204 (5.75%) Conversational UI
18 199 (5.61%) Customer Service
19 196 (5.53%) Risk Management
20 195 (5.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 555 (15.65%) SQL
2 511 (14.41%) Python
3 308 (8.68%) JavaScript
4 295 (8.32%) C#
5 238 (6.71%) Java
6 175 (4.93%) PowerShell
7 112 (3.16%) C++
8 68 (1.92%) C
9 56 (1.58%) Bash
10 54 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 44 (1.24%) R
12 42 (1.18%) MATLAB
13 37 (1.04%) Perl
14 36 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 30 (0.85%) VBA
16 28 (0.79%) Go
16 28 (0.79%) Shell Script
17 26 (0.73%) Scala
18 24 (0.68%) VB
18 24 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 799 (22.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 529 (14.91%) Security Cleared
3 415 (11.70%) Master's Degree
4 368 (10.37%) SC Cleared
5 183 (5.16%) DV Cleared
6 136 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 119 (3.35%) PMI Certification
8 111 (3.13%) PMP
9 101 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 98 (2.76%) CISSP
11 87 (2.45%) CCNA
12 81 (2.28%) PhD
13 73 (2.06%) Azure Certification
14 64 (1.80%) CCNP
15 55 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
16 53 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
17 50 (1.41%) CISM
18 48 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
19 38 (1.07%) HND
20 33 (0.93%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (5.58%) QA
2 100 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.11%) GDPR
4 70 (1.97%) PMO
5 67 (1.89%) SLA
6 48 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 45 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 41 (1.16%) NIST
9 37 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 21 (0.59%) GRC
11 17 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 16 (0.45%) GxP
13 15 (0.42%) HIPAA
14 14 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 13 (0.37%) MiFID
16 12 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
16 12 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 11 (0.31%) COBIT
17 11 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
17 11 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 280 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 115 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (2.14%) Docker
4 53 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 40 (1.13%) Firmware
7 31 (0.87%) vSphere
8 30 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
9 27 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (0.70%) VMware NSX
11 16 (0.45%) KVM
12 15 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
13 12 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.11%) vCloud
15 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.056%) NFS
16 2 (0.056%) XenApp
17 1 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 124 (3.50%) SCCM
2 112 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 85 (2.40%) Terraform
4 56 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.27%) SCOM
6 42 (1.18%) Ansible
7 41 (1.16%) WSUS
8 33 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 28 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.73%) NetBackup
11 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
13 13 (0.37%) Grafana
13 13 (0.37%) Nagios
14 11 (0.31%) Kibana
14 11 (0.31%) PingFederate
15 10 (0.28%) logstash
16 9 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
17 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
18 7 (0.20%) Argo
Vendors
1 742 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 206 (5.81%) Oracle
3 190 (5.36%) SAP
4 181 (5.10%) PayPal
5 134 (3.78%) Cisco
6 133 (3.75%) VMware
7 123 (3.47%) Google
8 96 (2.71%) ServiceNow
9 74 (2.09%) Adobe
10 60 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 57 (1.61%) EMC
12 47 (1.33%) Atlassian
13 44 (1.24%) HP
14 40 (1.13%) Juniper
15 37 (1.04%) Citrix
15 37 (1.04%) IBM
16 34 (0.96%) Databricks
17 30 (0.85%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.73%) Apple
19 25 (0.70%) Alteryx