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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Degree 3,019 3,265 4,414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.29% 6.74% 6.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.01% 24.46% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 2,025 2,734
10th Percentile £225 £305 £286
25th Percentile £378 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £630
90th Percentile £769 £823 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 189 258
10th Percentile £14.15 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.94 £21.24 £20.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +26.48% -3.84%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.94
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £66.13
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.16
% change year-on-year -11.11% +24.45% -0.93%

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 11,179 13,347 15,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.71% 27.54% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,938 8,950 10,232
10th Percentile £313 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 675 686
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £19.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £40.93
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +30.35% +9.14%
75th Percentile £62.28 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
London +7 1,405 £525 -8.70% 2,979
South East +13 495 £500 - 1,636
North of England +19 365 £500 +5.26% 1,291
South West +2 250 £530 -3.64% 715
Midlands +7 231 £425 -10.53% 999
North West +5 215 £500 +11.11% 740
East of England +8 174 £488 -2.50% 792
West Midlands +6 146 £475 - 627
Yorkshire +27 107 £475 -9.52% 412
East Midlands +13 84 £255 -46.32% 371
North East +30 41 £513 +83.04% 157
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
1 106 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 102 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 82 (2.72%) Confluence
4 16 (0.53%) Apache
4 16 (0.53%) SAS
5 15 (0.50%) CMS
6 13 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.33%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.26%) IIS
9 7 (0.23%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.13%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
12 3 (0.099%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.099%) Gunicorn
12 3 (0.099%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 3 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.099%) WebSphere
Applications
1 362 (11.99%) Microsoft Office
2 255 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 154 (5.10%) Chatbot
4 149 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 88 (2.91%) MS Visio
6 65 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
7 37 (1.23%) Simulink
8 27 (0.89%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
11 11 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 11 (0.36%) Stateflow
12 9 (0.30%) AutoCAD
12 9 (0.30%) Sketch
13 7 (0.23%) Revit
14 6 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
14 6 (0.20%) InDesign
15 5 (0.17%) Acrobat
15 5 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
15 5 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 44 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 11 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
7 9 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.26%) ION MarketView
9 7 (0.23%) Endur
9 7 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.20%) ENOVIA
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.20%) SAP CO
10 6 (0.20%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 497 (16.46%) Azure
2 257 (8.51%) AWS
3 184 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 135 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 114 (3.78%) GCP
6 103 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (2.29%) SaaS
8 65 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 48 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 46 (1.52%) PaaS
12 44 (1.46%) GitHub
13 42 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
14 41 (1.36%) Power Automate
15 39 (1.29%) Serverless
16 37 (1.23%) IaaS
17 29 (0.96%) OCI
18 28 (0.93%) Snowflake
19 25 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
20 24 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.21%) Firewall
2 98 (3.25%) DNS
3 88 (2.91%) LAN
4 82 (2.72%) WAN
5 79 (2.62%) DHCP
6 53 (1.76%) VPN
7 49 (1.62%) SSL
8 46 (1.52%) SAN
8 46 (1.52%) TCP/IP
9 44 (1.46%) Ethernet
10 37 (1.23%) Network Security
10 37 (1.23%) VoIP
11 35 (1.16%) Internet
12 34 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (0.83%) Wireless
14 21 (0.70%) VLAN
15 20 (0.66%) MPLS
16 17 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.56%) SD-WAN
17 16 (0.53%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 110 (3.64%) Power BI
3 64 (2.12%) Tableau
4 57 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 54 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 49 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (1.59%) Big Data
8 36 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 34 (1.13%) MySQL
10 28 (0.93%) Metadata
11 20 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 20 (0.66%) Data Mining
11 20 (0.66%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.56%) GIS
12 17 (0.56%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.50%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.46%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 172 (5.70%) JIRA
2 123 (4.07%) Git
3 58 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.26%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (1.06%) GitLab
6 26 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 19 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.50%) Gradle
10 14 (0.46%) Subversion
11 13 (0.43%) webpack
12 11 (0.36%) Selenium
13 10 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
14 9 (0.30%) JUnit
15 8 (0.26%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.26%) Maven
15 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.23%) Postman
16 7 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,335 (44.22%) Social Skills
2 652 (21.60%) Finance
3 594 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 179 (5.93%) Telecoms
6 164 (5.43%) Banking
7 161 (5.33%) Marketing
8 132 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
9 117 (3.88%) Legal
10 104 (3.44%) Manufacturing
11 95 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
12 94 (3.11%) Front Office
12 94 (3.11%) Retail
13 85 (2.82%) Electronics
14 71 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 62 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
16 49 (1.62%) Aerospace
17 44 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
18 39 (1.29%) Investment Banking
19 38 (1.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 408 (13.51%) Developer
2 392 (12.98%) Analyst
3 318 (10.53%) Architect
4 253 (8.38%) Senior
5 175 (5.80%) Business Analyst
6 166 (5.50%) Lead
7 158 (5.23%) Project Manager
8 157 (5.20%) Software Developer
9 141 (4.67%) Consultant
10 104 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
11 92 (3.05%) Software Engineer
12 73 (2.42%) Support Engineer
13 71 (2.35%) Designer
14 53 (1.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 53 (1.76%) Network Engineer
15 50 (1.66%) Java Developer
16 49 (1.62%) Systems Engineer
17 45 (1.49%) Data Analyst
18 44 (1.46%) Senior Analyst
19 43 (1.42%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (6.29%) HTML
2 96 (3.18%) .NET
3 81 (2.68%) CSS
4 76 (2.52%) REST
5 75 (2.48%) React
6 71 (2.35%) Web Services
7 49 (1.62%) AngularJS
8 47 (1.56%) XML
9 39 (1.29%) Kafka
10 38 (1.26%) RESTful
11 34 (1.13%) Spring
12 31 (1.03%) JSON
13 28 (0.93%) .NET Framework
14 23 (0.76%) NumPy
15 22 (0.73%) ASP.NET
16 21 (0.70%) ARM Templates
16 21 (0.70%) Pandas
17 20 (0.66%) Middleware
17 20 (0.66%) Node.js
18 18 (0.60%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 229 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 176 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
3 105 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 103 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 90 (2.98%) PKI
6 67 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 61 (2.02%) Derivative
9 54 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 53 (1.76%) FPGA
11 52 (1.72%) VHDL
11 52 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 42 (1.39%) Fixed Income
13 39 (1.29%) Onboarding
14 36 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
15 33 (1.09%) Clustering
15 33 (1.09%) CPLD
16 32 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 31 (1.03%) Life Science
18 30 (0.99%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 336 (11.13%) Windows
2 180 (5.96%) Linux
3 109 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 102 (3.38%) Unix
5 89 (2.95%) Windows 10
6 48 (1.59%) Android
7 44 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 39 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 33 (1.09%) Windows 7
11 21 (0.70%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.60%) Mac OS
13 14 (0.46%) Windows XP
14 12 (0.40%) Solaris
15 9 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
15 9 (0.30%) VMS
16 7 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
18 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,005 (33.29%) Computer Science
2 787 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
3 643 (21.30%) Agile
4 437 (14.47%) Project Management
5 358 (11.86%) Software Engineering
6 287 (9.51%) DevOps
7 276 (9.14%) ITIL
8 266 (8.81%) Analytics
9 239 (7.92%) Artificial Intelligence
10 225 (7.45%) Decision-Making
11 224 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 223 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 199 (6.59%) Migration
14 193 (6.39%) Code Quality
15 184 (6.09%) Roadmaps
16 179 (5.93%) Customer Service
17 175 (5.80%) Project Delivery
18 173 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
19 169 (5.60%) CI/CD
20 160 (5.30%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 495 (16.40%) SQL
2 453 (15.00%) Python
3 275 (9.11%) C#
4 272 (9.01%) JavaScript
5 209 (6.92%) Java
6 155 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 106 (3.51%) C++
8 67 (2.22%) C
9 52 (1.72%) TypeScript
10 47 (1.56%) Bash
11 41 (1.36%) MATLAB
12 36 (1.19%) R
13 27 (0.89%) VBA
14 24 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 24 (0.79%) VB
14 24 (0.79%) VBScript
15 23 (0.76%) Go
16 22 (0.73%) Bicep
16 22 (0.73%) Perl
17 21 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 665 (22.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 452 (14.97%) Security Cleared
3 360 (11.92%) Master's Degree
4 303 (10.04%) SC Cleared
5 178 (5.90%) DV Cleared
6 121 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
7 92 (3.05%) PMI Certification
8 82 (2.72%) PMP
9 79 (2.62%) CCNA
9 79 (2.62%) PhD
10 78 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 74 (2.45%) CISSP
12 58 (1.92%) CCNP
13 57 (1.89%) Azure Certification
14 48 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 46 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
16 44 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
17 40 (1.32%) CISM
18 32 (1.06%) HND
19 30 (0.99%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (5.53%) QA
2 87 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.09%) SLA
4 59 (1.95%) GDPR
4 59 (1.95%) PMO
5 40 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 36 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.16%) NIST
8 16 (0.53%) GRC
9 14 (0.46%) GxP
10 13 (0.43%) MiFID
11 12 (0.40%) Good Clinical Practice
11 12 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
13 10 (0.33%) P3O
14 9 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.30%) COBIT
14 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 252 (8.35%) Active Directory
2 107 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 74 (2.45%) Docker
4 50 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.26%) Firmware
6 36 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 30 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (0.89%) vSphere
9 26 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (0.70%) VMware NSX
11 16 (0.53%) KVM
12 15 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 12 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.13%) vCloud
15 4 (0.13%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.066%) NFS
16 2 (0.066%) XenApp
17 1 (0.033%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 117 (3.88%) SCCM
2 102 (3.38%) Kubernetes
3 74 (2.45%) Terraform
4 59 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (1.49%) SCOM
6 41 (1.36%) WSUS
7 35 (1.16%) Ansible
8 27 (0.89%) vCenter Server
9 26 (0.86%) NetBackup
10 22 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
11 16 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.36%) Nagios
12 11 (0.36%) PingFederate
13 9 (0.30%) Grafana
13 9 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.26%) Kibana
14 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
15 7 (0.23%) logstash
16 6 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 634 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 164 (5.43%) SAP
3 162 (5.37%) Oracle
4 137 (4.54%) PayPal
5 124 (4.11%) VMware
6 116 (3.84%) Cisco
7 99 (3.28%) Google
8 93 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 55 (1.82%) Adobe
10 55 (1.82%) EMC
11 41 (1.36%) HP
12 38 (1.26%) Juniper
13 35 (1.16%) Citrix
14 34 (1.13%) IBM
15 30 (0.99%) Databricks
16 27 (0.89%) Palo Alto
17 25 (0.83%) Atlassian
18 24 (0.79%) Alteryx
19 21 (0.70%) Bloomberg