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 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 15 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,780 1,588 2,100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.77% 6.90% 6.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.04% 21.10% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 931 1,247
10th Percentile £181 £211 £200
25th Percentile £326 £377 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +3.93%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £713 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 154 166
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.54 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.47 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +28.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year -11.11% +22.18% +0.90%

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 7,404 7,527 8,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.48% 32.71% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,312 5,028 5,210
10th Percentile £270 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £422 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 598 524
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.11
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 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
South East +16 495 £500 - 1,574
North of England +21 381 £500 +5.26% 1,270
South West +1 253 £530 -3.64% 698
Midlands +10 238 £418 -12.00% 999
North West +6 221 £505 +12.22% 714
Scotland +18 193 £475 +12.76% 363
East of England +9 175 £488 -2.50% 775
West Midlands +7 150 £475 - 627
Yorkshire +25 114 £463 -11.90% 417
East Midlands +11 87 £255 -46.32% 371
North East +30 44 £513 +83.04% 158
Wales +4 33 £515 -1.90% 153
Northern Ireland +8 23 £400 -11.11% 56
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 85 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.09%) Confluence
4 12 (0.67%) Apache
4 12 (0.67%) SAS
5 10 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.39%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.28%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.22%) IIS
8 4 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.056%) JBoss
11 1 (0.056%) MTS
11 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 255 (14.33%) Microsoft Office
2 164 (9.21%) Chatbot
3 159 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 77 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
6 35 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 35 (1.97%) Simulink
7 19 (1.07%) Photoshop
8 16 (0.90%) Acrobat
9 14 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
10 11 (0.62%) Stateflow
11 10 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.28%) Maya
12 5 (0.28%) TargetLink
13 4 (0.22%) Blender
14 3 (0.17%) CANalyzer
14 3 (0.17%) InVision
14 3 (0.17%) MicroStation
14 3 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 29 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.22%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.17%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.17%) Magento
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.17%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 229 (12.87%) Azure
2 111 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
3 109 (6.12%) AWS
4 65 (3.65%) Power Platform
5 34 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (1.91%) Entra ID
6 32 (1.80%) SaaS
7 27 (1.52%) GCP
8 26 (1.46%) PaaS
9 21 (1.18%) IaaS
9 21 (1.18%) Snowflake
10 20 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (1.12%) OCI
11 17 (0.96%) Azure Storage
11 17 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (0.79%) GitHub
14 13 (0.73%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (0.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (5.28%) Firewall
2 80 (4.49%) DNS
3 69 (3.88%) DHCP
4 68 (3.82%) LAN
5 53 (2.98%) WAN
6 51 (2.87%) SSL
7 44 (2.47%) Ethernet
8 42 (2.36%) SAN
9 37 (2.08%) TCP/IP
10 32 (1.80%) VPN
11 28 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (1.35%) Internet
13 21 (1.18%) Wireless
14 20 (1.12%) VoIP
15 16 (0.90%) Wireshark
16 15 (0.84%) MPLS
16 15 (0.84%) VLAN
17 14 (0.79%) Network Security
18 13 (0.73%) 5G
19 12 (0.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 44 (2.47%) Power BI
3 32 (1.80%) Tableau
4 27 (1.52%) Metadata
5 21 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.12%) MySQL
7 17 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 15 (0.84%) Big Data
9 15 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (0.79%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.56%) Data Mining
12 9 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
13 8 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.39%) PowerPivot
15 6 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
15 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 104 (5.84%) JIRA
2 53 (2.98%) Git
3 34 (1.91%) Rational DOORS
4 21 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 15 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 15 (0.84%) Subversion
6 10 (0.56%) GitLab
6 10 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
7 7 (0.39%) JUnit
8 6 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 5 (0.28%) Selenium
9 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.22%) Gradle
10 4 (0.22%) JMeter
10 4 (0.22%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.17%) CANoe
11 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 687 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 298 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
3 240 (13.48%) Finance
4 167 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 138 (7.75%) Telecoms
6 82 (4.61%) Manufacturing
7 79 (4.44%) Legal
8 78 (4.38%) Electronics
9 76 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
10 72 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (3.82%) Marketing
12 47 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 44 (2.47%) Aerospace
14 40 (2.25%) Banking
15 36 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.91%) Mandarin Language
17 32 (1.80%) Automotive
18 26 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
18 26 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 230 (12.92%) Developer
2 224 (12.58%) Analyst
3 203 (11.40%) Architect
4 169 (9.49%) Software Developer
5 134 (7.53%) Senior
6 120 (6.74%) Project Manager
7 97 (5.45%) Lead
8 77 (4.33%) Business Analyst
9 64 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (2.87%) Support Engineer
11 50 (2.81%) Software Engineer
12 48 (2.70%) Designer
13 46 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (2.25%) Systems Engineer
15 35 (1.97%) Network Engineer
16 34 (1.91%) Digital Designer
17 33 (1.85%) Consultant
17 33 (1.85%) FPGA Designer
17 33 (1.85%) VHDL Designer
18 31 (1.74%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (7.87%) HTML
2 46 (2.58%) Web Services
3 30 (1.69%) CSS
4 29 (1.63%) .NET
5 18 (1.01%) ARM Templates
5 18 (1.01%) React
6 17 (0.96%) XML
7 15 (0.84%) DirectX
7 15 (0.84%) OpenGL
7 15 (0.84%) OpenGL ES
7 15 (0.84%) Spring
7 15 (0.84%) Vulkan
8 14 (0.79%) Kafka
9 13 (0.73%) .NET Framework
9 13 (0.73%) REST
9 13 (0.73%) RESTful
10 12 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.67%) Middleware
11 10 (0.56%) Flash
12 7 (0.39%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 126 (7.08%) Management Information System
1 126 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
2 84 (4.72%) PKI
3 71 (3.99%) Data Centre
4 55 (3.09%) FPGA
5 52 (2.92%) VHDL
6 41 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 33 (1.85%) CPLD
7 33 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 27 (1.52%) Driving Licence
8 27 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
9 24 (1.35%) Clustering
10 23 (1.29%) CSOC
10 23 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 22 (1.24%) Life Science
12 21 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
13 17 (0.96%) Verilog
14 16 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 248 (13.93%) Windows
2 131 (7.36%) Linux
3 90 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 68 (3.82%) Windows 10
5 67 (3.76%) Unix
6 42 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 25 (1.40%) Windows 7
10 17 (0.96%) Android
11 14 (0.79%) Windows XP
12 11 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.34%) Solaris
15 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.28%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 4 (0.22%) SafeRTOS
17 3 (0.17%) CentOS
17 3 (0.17%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
2 401 (22.53%) Computer Science
3 321 (18.03%) Agile
4 259 (14.55%) Project Management
5 210 (11.80%) Software Engineering
6 209 (11.74%) ITIL
7 190 (10.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 176 (9.89%) Code Quality
9 164 (9.21%) Conversational UI
10 159 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 146 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 145 (8.15%) Decision-Making
13 132 (7.42%) Analytics
14 125 (7.02%) DevOps
15 122 (6.85%) Customer Service
16 116 (6.52%) Migration
17 110 (6.18%) Roadmaps
18 107 (6.01%) Time Management
19 103 (5.79%) Project Delivery
20 98 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 234 (13.15%) SQL
2 216 (12.13%) Python
3 163 (9.16%) C#
4 156 (8.76%) JavaScript
5 105 (5.90%) PowerShell
6 58 (3.26%) Java
7 55 (3.09%) C
8 40 (2.25%) C++
9 35 (1.97%) MATLAB
10 21 (1.18%) VB
11 19 (1.07%) VBScript
12 17 (0.96%) Bicep
12 17 (0.96%) SystemVerilog
13 16 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.90%) R
14 14 (0.79%) Perl
15 13 (0.73%) Bash
15 13 (0.73%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.51%) PHP
17 7 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 368 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 263 (14.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 236 (13.26%) SC Cleared
4 163 (9.16%) DV Cleared
5 160 (8.99%) Master's Degree
6 84 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
7 62 (3.48%) CCNA
8 55 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 52 (2.92%) PMI Certification
10 48 (2.70%) PMP
11 42 (2.36%) CCNP
12 36 (2.02%) HND
13 35 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 30 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
14 30 (1.69%) PhD
15 29 (1.63%) MCSE
16 28 (1.57%) NVQ Level 3
17 27 (1.52%) CISSP
18 24 (1.35%) HNC
18 24 (1.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.88%) QA
2 45 (2.53%) SLA
3 44 (2.47%) GDPR
4 34 (1.91%) Data Quality
5 30 (1.69%) PMO
6 18 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
7 17 (0.96%) NIST
8 16 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
10 12 (0.67%) GxP
11 7 (0.39%) GRC
12 6 (0.34%) MISRA
12 6 (0.34%) MISRA C
13 5 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
13 5 (0.28%) COBIT
13 5 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.22%) PMBOK
System Software
1 212 (11.91%) Active Directory
2 89 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (2.08%) Hyper-V
3 37 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.85%) Firmware
5 26 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 26 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (1.40%) Docker
7 24 (1.35%) vSphere
8 19 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
11 8 (0.45%) KVM
12 5 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.22%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.11%) NFS
16 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
16 1 (0.056%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 103 (5.79%) SCCM
2 44 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.36%) SCOM
4 38 (2.13%) WSUS
5 31 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 31 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 26 (1.46%) NetBackup
8 18 (1.01%) Ansible
9 16 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (0.84%) Terraform
11 9 (0.51%) Nagios
12 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.34%) Argo
14 6 (0.34%) Autotask
14 6 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.34%) OpenView
15 4 (0.22%) OPNET
Vendors
1 363 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 162 (9.10%) PayPal
3 106 (5.96%) SAP
4 101 (5.67%) VMware
5 77 (4.33%) Oracle
6 68 (3.82%) Cisco
7 54 (3.03%) EMC
8 48 (2.70%) ServiceNow
9 40 (2.25%) Atlassian
10 39 (2.19%) HP
11 38 (2.13%) Adobe
12 34 (1.91%) Google
13 32 (1.80%) Juniper
14 22 (1.24%) IBM
15 21 (1.18%) Alteryx
15 21 (1.18%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.07%) Dell
17 18 (1.01%) Xilinx
18 17 (0.96%) Intel
18 17 (0.96%) Salesforce