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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,565 3,761 5,523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.21% 6.73% 6.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.49% 24.78% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,935 2,326 3,416
10th Percentile £225 £263 £297
25th Percentile £377 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £625
90th Percentile £747 £794 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 199 262
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.86 £22.50 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.76 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year -19.35% +69.49% -23.38%

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 12,966 15,176 19,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 27.15% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,049 10,124 12,774
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 748 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.94 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.29 £21.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +24.36% +29.03%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.47
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.36 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.97 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% +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 6 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 6 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 6 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 3,061 £500 -9.09% 7,040
UK excluding London +11 1,785 £500 +2.56% 4,849
London +7 1,428 £515 -10.43% 2,419
Work from Home +13 1,182 £522 -0.63% 3,093
South East +14 500 £500 - 1,167
North of England +22 379 £504 +3.65% 1,082
South West +3 245 £525 -7.00% 680
Midlands +10 240 £425 -10.53% 887
North West +10 228 £525 +8.02% 630
Scotland +12 186 £450 +5.88% 379
East of England +11 177 £488 -2.50% 653
West Midlands +8 152 £475 - 533
Yorkshire +29 109 £475 -13.64% 327
East Midlands +12 87 £256 -46.74% 355
Wales +9 42 £508 -3.33% 122
North East +24 40 £575 +105.36% 139
Northern Ireland +8 27 £400 - 49

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
1 134 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 123 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 103 (2.89%) Confluence
4 26 (0.73%) CMS
5 24 (0.67%) SAS
6 21 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 20 (0.56%) Apache
8 12 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.28%) IIS
10 7 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 6 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.17%) Drupal
11 6 (0.17%) WordPress
12 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 389 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
2 307 (8.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 161 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 145 (4.07%) Chatbot
5 94 (2.64%) MS Visio
6 74 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
7 38 (1.07%) Simulink
8 30 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
9 29 (0.81%) Photoshop
10 18 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
11 16 (0.45%) Acrobat
12 14 (0.39%) Sketch
13 12 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 11 (0.31%) Stateflow
15 9 (0.25%) Trello
16 8 (0.22%) Adobe XD
16 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
16 8 (0.22%) SPSS
17 7 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
17 7 (0.20%) InVision
Business Applications
1 50 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
5 12 (0.34%) Endur
5 12 (0.34%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.31%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.22%) Magento
8 8 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 8 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 7 (0.20%) ION MarketView
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.17%) ENOVIA
10 6 (0.17%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
11 5 (0.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 629 (17.64%) Azure
2 332 (9.31%) AWS
3 219 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
4 186 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 154 (4.32%) GCP
6 123 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 93 (2.61%) SaaS
8 78 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 69 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 62 (1.74%) GitHub
10 62 (1.74%) PaaS
11 58 (1.63%) PowerApps
12 56 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 42 (1.18%) Serverless
15 39 (1.09%) IaaS
15 39 (1.09%) Snowflake
16 34 (0.95%) OCI
17 28 (0.79%) Amazon S3
17 28 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 160 (4.49%) Firewall
2 106 (2.97%) DNS
3 87 (2.44%) LAN
4 85 (2.38%) DHCP
5 84 (2.36%) WAN
6 65 (1.82%) VPN
7 54 (1.51%) Network Security
8 53 (1.49%) TCP/IP
9 52 (1.46%) SSL
10 47 (1.32%) SAN
11 46 (1.29%) VoIP
12 42 (1.18%) Ethernet
13 41 (1.15%) Internet
14 39 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
15 27 (0.76%) Wireless
16 26 (0.73%) VLAN
17 23 (0.65%) 5G
18 19 (0.53%) MPLS
19 18 (0.50%) SD-WAN
20 17 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 147 (4.12%) Power BI
3 84 (2.36%) Relational Database
4 81 (2.27%) Tableau
5 69 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 63 (1.77%) Big Data
7 61 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
8 56 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 54 (1.51%) MySQL
10 48 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 44 (1.23%) Metadata
12 28 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 22 (0.62%) Data Mining
13 22 (0.62%) Hadoop
13 22 (0.62%) MongoDB
14 19 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 18 (0.50%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.50%) GIS
16 16 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 215 (6.03%) JIRA
2 163 (4.57%) Git
3 68 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.35%) GitLab
5 38 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
6 36 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 24 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 19 (0.53%) Selenium
9 18 (0.50%) Gradle
10 17 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 16 (0.45%) Subversion
12 15 (0.42%) JUnit
13 12 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.34%) webpack
14 11 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
14 11 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 9 (0.25%) Maven
17 8 (0.22%) Artifactory
17 8 (0.22%) CircleCI
General
1 1,590 (44.60%) Social Skills
2 785 (22.02%) Finance
3 764 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 204 (5.72%) Telecoms
6 196 (5.50%) Banking
7 188 (5.27%) Marketing
8 150 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
9 146 (4.10%) Legal
10 125 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 113 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 109 (3.06%) Retail
13 102 (2.86%) Electronics
14 92 (2.58%) Front Office
15 68 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
16 65 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 53 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
18 49 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 47 (1.32%) Law
20 46 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 466 (13.07%) Analyst
2 449 (12.59%) Developer
3 376 (10.55%) Architect
4 308 (8.64%) Senior
5 210 (5.89%) Project Manager
6 200 (5.61%) Business Analyst
7 186 (5.22%) Lead
8 168 (4.71%) Consultant
9 141 (3.96%) Software Developer
10 129 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
11 114 (3.20%) Software Engineer
12 83 (2.33%) Designer
13 77 (2.16%) Support Engineer
14 65 (1.82%) DevOps Engineer
15 60 (1.68%) Data Analyst
16 58 (1.63%) Java Developer
17 57 (1.60%) Network Engineer
18 54 (1.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 54 (1.51%) Senior Analyst
19 51 (1.43%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (6.65%) HTML
2 119 (3.34%) .NET
3 115 (3.23%) CSS
4 93 (2.61%) React
5 88 (2.47%) Web Services
6 85 (2.38%) REST
7 68 (1.91%) AngularJS
8 60 (1.68%) XML
9 49 (1.37%) Kafka
10 44 (1.23%) Spring
11 42 (1.18%) .NET Framework
12 41 (1.15%) RESTful
13 38 (1.07%) JSON
14 33 (0.93%) Middleware
15 30 (0.84%) ASP.NET
15 30 (0.84%) Node.js
16 29 (0.81%) Pandas
17 24 (0.67%) .NET Core
17 24 (0.67%) ARM Templates
17 24 (0.67%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 281 (7.88%) Management Information System
2 203 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
3 110 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 103 (2.89%) Algorithms
5 98 (2.75%) PKI
6 80 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 67 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 61 (1.71%) Derivative
9 58 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 57 (1.60%) FPGA
11 56 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 53 (1.49%) VHDL
13 40 (1.12%) Fixed Income
13 40 (1.12%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
15 38 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
15 38 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
16 35 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
17 33 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
17 33 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 381 (10.69%) Windows
2 209 (5.86%) Linux
3 128 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 115 (3.23%) Unix
5 86 (2.41%) Windows 10
6 51 (1.43%) Android
7 50 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 46 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 42 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 30 (0.84%) Windows 7
11 23 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.50%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.39%) Windows XP
14 13 (0.36%) Solaris
15 12 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 9 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
16 9 (0.25%) VMS
17 8 (0.22%) Windows 8
17 8 (0.22%) zOS
18 7 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,239 (34.75%) Computer Science
2 991 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
3 821 (23.03%) Agile
4 554 (15.54%) Project Management
5 405 (11.36%) Software Engineering
6 351 (9.85%) DevOps
7 341 (9.57%) Analytics
8 310 (8.70%) ITIL
9 287 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 271 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 266 (7.46%) Decision-Making
12 254 (7.12%) Migration
13 237 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence
14 220 (6.17%) Roadmaps
15 214 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
16 211 (5.92%) Project Delivery
17 203 (5.69%) Scrum
18 201 (5.64%) CI/CD
19 192 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
20 189 (5.30%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 584 (16.38%) SQL
2 541 (15.18%) Python
3 322 (9.03%) JavaScript
4 297 (8.33%) C#
5 233 (6.54%) Java
6 187 (5.25%) PowerShell
7 116 (3.25%) C++
8 76 (2.13%) C
9 58 (1.63%) Bash
10 53 (1.49%) R
11 49 (1.37%) TypeScript
12 42 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 41 (1.15%) MATLAB
13 41 (1.15%) Perl
14 35 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 31 (0.87%) VBA
16 30 (0.84%) VBScript
17 27 (0.76%) Go
18 26 (0.73%) VB
19 25 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 838 (23.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 524 (14.70%) Security Cleared
3 435 (12.20%) Master's Degree
4 371 (10.41%) SC Cleared
5 180 (5.05%) DV Cleared
6 130 (3.65%) PMI Certification
7 124 (3.48%) PMP
8 123 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
9 97 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 89 (2.50%) CISSP
11 81 (2.27%) CCNA
12 80 (2.24%) Azure Certification
13 76 (2.13%) PhD
14 61 (1.71%) CCNP
15 59 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
16 55 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
17 49 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
18 41 (1.15%) CISM
19 39 (1.09%) HND
20 35 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (5.53%) QA
2 106 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.10%) GDPR
4 72 (2.02%) SLA
5 67 (1.88%) PMO
6 51 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 39 (1.09%) NIST
9 30 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.48%) GRC
11 16 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
11 16 (0.45%) GxP
12 15 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
13 12 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 12 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.31%) MiFID
15 10 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 279 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 118 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (2.30%) Docker
4 60 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 39 (1.09%) Firmware
7 33 (0.93%) vSphere
8 31 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
10 25 (0.70%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.42%) KVM
12 14 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
15 4 (0.11%) vCloud
15 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.084%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.084%) HDFS
16 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 123 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 118 (3.31%) SCCM
3 92 (2.58%) Terraform
4 63 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.23%) Ansible
5 44 (1.23%) WSUS
6 43 (1.21%) SCOM
7 34 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 29 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.73%) NetBackup
10 25 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (0.36%) Grafana
13 12 (0.34%) Nagios
14 11 (0.31%) Kibana
14 11 (0.31%) PingFederate
15 10 (0.28%) logstash
15 10 (0.28%) Nessus
16 9 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
17 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 751 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 202 (5.67%) Oracle
3 192 (5.39%) SAP
4 135 (3.79%) VMware
5 132 (3.70%) Google
6 128 (3.59%) Cisco
7 121 (3.39%) PayPal
8 108 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 78 (2.19%) Adobe
10 74 (2.08%) Salesforce
11 56 (1.57%) EMC
12 51 (1.43%) Atlassian
13 42 (1.18%) HP
14 39 (1.09%) IBM
15 38 (1.07%) Juniper
16 37 (1.04%) Databricks
17 34 (0.95%) Citrix
18 29 (0.81%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.81%) Splunk
19 28 (0.79%) Alteryx