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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,565 3,729 5,533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.23% 6.69% 6.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.52% 24.76% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,930 2,303 3,429
10th Percentile £225 £263 £300
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £622 £673 £625
90th Percentile £738 £797 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +0.51% +8.33% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 199 266
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.76 £22.50 £20.29
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 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +61.29% -18.95%

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 12,955 15,058 19,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.92% 27.03% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 10,026 12,795
10th Percentile £310 £340 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 747 782
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.18 £21.29 £19.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +30.87%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £59.22
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.41 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.90% +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 8 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 8 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 8 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 3,062 £500 -9.09% 6,932
UK excluding London +10 1,794 £490 +0.51% 4,938
London +8 1,420 £514 -9.07% 2,231
Work from Home +14 1,187 £520 -0.95% 2,963
South East +12 501 £500 - 1,189
North of England +20 387 £507 +4.32% 1,119
South West +4 244 £525 -8.70% 695
Midlands +7 242 £425 -10.99% 916
North West +10 234 £525 +8.02% 643
Scotland +13 185 £450 +5.88% 371
East of England +10 175 £475 -5.00% 636
West Midlands +8 155 £475 - 556
Yorkshire +33 111 £475 -13.64% 344
East Midlands +11 86 £255 -46.81% 361
Wales +9 44 £508 -3.33% 123
North East +25 40 £575 +105.36% 149
Northern Ireland +5 27 £400 +3.23% 52

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
1 132 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 120 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 105 (2.95%) Confluence
4 26 (0.73%) CMS
5 25 (0.70%) SAS
6 22 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 21 (0.59%) Apache
8 11 (0.31%) 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
12 5 (0.14%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.14%) WordPress
13 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 386 (10.83%) Microsoft Office
2 307 (8.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 159 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (4.04%) Chatbot
5 94 (2.64%) MS Visio
6 72 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
7 38 (1.07%) Simulink
8 29 (0.81%) Photoshop
8 29 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
10 15 (0.42%) Acrobat
11 14 (0.39%) Sketch
12 12 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 11 (0.31%) Stateflow
14 9 (0.25%) Trello
15 8 (0.22%) Adobe XD
15 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
15 8 (0.22%) SPSS
16 7 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
16 7 (0.20%) InVision
Business Applications
1 47 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.81%) 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 9 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 8 (0.22%) Magento
7 8 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 7 (0.20%) ION MarketView
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.17%) ENOVIA
10 5 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 5 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.14%) SAP PM
10 5 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 633 (17.76%) Azure
2 336 (9.42%) AWS
3 219 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
4 190 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 152 (4.26%) GCP
6 122 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (2.64%) SaaS
8 80 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
9 69 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 63 (1.77%) GitHub
11 60 (1.68%) PaaS
12 59 (1.65%) PowerApps
13 56 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
14 47 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 42 (1.18%) Serverless
16 39 (1.09%) Snowflake
17 37 (1.04%) IaaS
18 33 (0.93%) OCI
19 28 (0.79%) Amazon S3
19 28 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 158 (4.43%) Firewall
2 106 (2.97%) DNS
3 85 (2.38%) DHCP
3 85 (2.38%) LAN
4 83 (2.33%) WAN
5 65 (1.82%) VPN
6 53 (1.49%) Network Security
7 52 (1.46%) SSL
8 50 (1.40%) TCP/IP
9 47 (1.32%) SAN
10 46 (1.29%) VoIP
11 44 (1.23%) Ethernet
12 43 (1.21%) Internet
13 39 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (0.81%) Wireless
15 26 (0.73%) VLAN
16 23 (0.65%) 5G
17 19 (0.53%) Wireshark
18 18 (0.50%) MPLS
18 18 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 150 (4.21%) Power BI
3 88 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 81 (2.27%) Tableau
5 70 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 62 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (1.71%) Big Data
8 57 (1.60%) Data Lake
9 56 (1.57%) MySQL
10 49 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 44 (1.23%) Metadata
12 28 (0.79%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.65%) Hadoop
13 23 (0.65%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.62%) Data Mining
15 20 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 18 (0.50%) BigQuery
16 18 (0.50%) GIS
17 17 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
18 16 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 214 (6.00%) JIRA
2 166 (4.66%) Git
3 68 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 48 (1.35%) GitLab
5 38 (1.07%) Bitbucket
5 38 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 20 (0.56%) Selenium
8 18 (0.50%) Gradle
9 17 (0.48%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.45%) Subversion
11 15 (0.42%) JUnit
12 12 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.34%) webpack
13 11 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
13 11 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.28%) Maven
14 10 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.22%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.22%) CircleCI
General
1 1,585 (44.46%) Social Skills
2 785 (22.02%) Finance
3 767 (21.51%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 205 (5.75%) Telecoms
6 193 (5.41%) Banking
7 188 (5.27%) Marketing
8 147 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
9 146 (4.10%) Legal
10 125 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 114 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
12 108 (3.03%) Retail
13 102 (2.86%) Electronics
14 90 (2.52%) Front Office
15 72 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
16 65 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 55 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
18 50 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 49 (1.37%) Law
20 46 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 464 (13.02%) Analyst
2 451 (12.65%) Developer
3 370 (10.38%) Architect
4 308 (8.64%) Senior
5 207 (5.81%) Project Manager
6 196 (5.50%) Business Analyst
7 186 (5.22%) Lead
8 170 (4.77%) Consultant
9 141 (3.96%) Software Developer
10 126 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 115 (3.23%) Software Engineer
12 83 (2.33%) Designer
13 79 (2.22%) Support Engineer
14 65 (1.82%) DevOps Engineer
15 61 (1.71%) Data Analyst
16 60 (1.68%) Network Engineer
17 58 (1.63%) Java Developer
18 54 (1.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 53 (1.49%) Senior Analyst
20 51 (1.43%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (6.76%) HTML
2 121 (3.39%) .NET
3 119 (3.34%) CSS
4 94 (2.64%) React
5 88 (2.47%) Web Services
6 87 (2.44%) REST
7 70 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 61 (1.71%) XML
9 49 (1.37%) Kafka
10 45 (1.26%) Spring
11 43 (1.21%) .NET Framework
12 41 (1.15%) RESTful
13 39 (1.09%) JSON
14 34 (0.95%) 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
1 286 (8.02%) Management Information System
2 201 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
3 113 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 105 (2.95%) Algorithms
5 96 (2.69%) PKI
6 80 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 68 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 59 (1.65%) Derivative
9 58 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 57 (1.60%) FPGA
11 55 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 53 (1.49%) VHDL
13 40 (1.12%) Onboarding
14 39 (1.09%) Fixed Income
14 39 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
15 38 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
15 38 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
16 37 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
17 35 (0.98%) Security Posture
18 33 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 379 (10.63%) Windows
2 211 (5.92%) Linux
3 124 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 117 (3.28%) Unix
5 83 (2.33%) Windows 10
6 51 (1.43%) Android
7 50 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 46 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 40 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 29 (0.81%) Windows 7
11 23 (0.65%) Apple iOS
12 19 (0.53%) 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 1,246 (34.95%) Computer Science
2 994 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
3 814 (22.83%) Agile
4 548 (15.37%) Project Management
5 405 (11.36%) Software Engineering
6 349 (9.79%) DevOps
7 342 (9.59%) Analytics
8 307 (8.61%) ITIL
9 287 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 268 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 264 (7.41%) Decision-Making
12 252 (7.07%) Migration
13 237 (6.65%) Artificial Intelligence
14 218 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
15 216 (6.06%) Roadmaps
16 211 (5.92%) Project Delivery
17 206 (5.78%) Scrum
18 201 (5.64%) CI/CD
19 195 (5.47%) Cybersecurity
20 191 (5.36%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 587 (16.47%) SQL
2 540 (15.15%) Python
3 325 (9.12%) JavaScript
4 298 (8.36%) C#
5 233 (6.54%) Java
6 185 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 115 (3.23%) C++
8 77 (2.16%) C
9 58 (1.63%) Bash
10 55 (1.54%) R
11 49 (1.37%) TypeScript
12 42 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 41 (1.15%) MATLAB
14 40 (1.12%) Perl
15 35 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 31 (0.87%) VBA
17 30 (0.84%) VBScript
18 27 (0.76%) Go
18 27 (0.76%) Scala
19 26 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 840 (23.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 519 (14.56%) Security Cleared
3 433 (12.15%) Master's Degree
4 368 (10.32%) SC Cleared
5 178 (4.99%) DV Cleared
6 131 (3.67%) PMI Certification
7 125 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
7 125 (3.51%) PMP
8 98 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 89 (2.50%) CISSP
10 83 (2.33%) CCNA
11 80 (2.24%) Azure Certification
12 76 (2.13%) PhD
13 61 (1.71%) CCNP
14 58 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
15 55 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 49 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
17 41 (1.15%) CISM
17 41 (1.15%) HND
18 35 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (5.47%) QA
2 105 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.10%) GDPR
4 69 (1.94%) SLA
5 65 (1.82%) PMO
6 50 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 47 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 41 (1.15%) NIST
9 30 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 17 (0.48%) GRC
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 9 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 276 (7.74%) Active Directory
2 116 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (2.36%) Docker
4 60 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 38 (1.07%) Firmware
7 33 (0.93%) vSphere
8 30 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (0.70%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.42%) KVM
12 12 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) HDFS
15 4 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
15 4 (0.11%) vCloud
15 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.056%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 122 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 112 (3.14%) SCCM
3 92 (2.58%) Terraform
4 64 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (1.23%) Ansible
5 44 (1.23%) WSUS
6 41 (1.15%) SCOM
7 32 (0.90%) 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
1 749 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 202 (5.67%) Oracle
3 188 (5.27%) SAP
4 133 (3.73%) VMware
5 129 (3.62%) Google
6 128 (3.59%) Cisco
7 121 (3.39%) PayPal
8 111 (3.11%) ServiceNow
9 77 (2.16%) Adobe
10 76 (2.13%) Salesforce
11 56 (1.57%) EMC
12 54 (1.51%) Atlassian
13 40 (1.12%) 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%) Alteryx
18 29 (0.81%) Palo Alto
18 29 (0.81%) Splunk